When I was in the army 1995-1999, the pay stubs were just printed on on a normal sheets of paper, and handed out to everyone once a month.
Some of the information freely available to anyone who cared to look at it was:
Your full name
Date of Birth
Social Security Number
Bank Name
Bank Account Number
The Amount of the Deposit
The Date of the Deposit
It had more information than that, but plenty enough to call my bank and transfer money to another account. I assume they've improved since then, but they should have known better even then.
I pulled this off Netcraft, and thought it was kind of interesting.
store.apple.com
11 Jan 2005, Solaris, Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3 05 Jan 2005, MacOSX, Apache/1.3.27 (Darwin) 05 Jan 2005, MacOSX, Apache/1.3.27 (Darwin) 04 Jan 2005, Solaris 8, Apache/1.3.27 (Darwin)
I wonder whether they switched before or after they got nailed today?
I personally agree with your opinion on asthetics vs functionality, but I don't think you can stretch that to a generalization.
I've worked as a technician at drag races, and the best amateur racers, with the best cars on the track, kept their cars immaculate and beautiful as well. Now, they weren't putting stickers on piece of shit imports, but the best case modding nerds out there aren't putting decals on old steel Packard Bell cases either.
Your primo case-modders are more like Paul Teutul, and I don't know many bikers who are going to ridicule the Orange County Chopper crew.
Joel wasn't refering to ASP.NET, he was referring to.NET in general. If you check the article How Microsoft Lost the API War, you will see what he meant more specifically. He actually quite likes ASP.NET.
However, ASP itself wasn't soley responsible for the problems with cut-and-copy disease. It was a problem of developers thinking at page level versus creating an application that handled page generation. The problem could be prevented with ASP, although admittedly it did encourage that style of coding.
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Some of the information freely available to anyone who cared to look at it was:
- Your full name
- Date of Birth
- Social Security Number
- Bank Name
- Bank Account Number
- The Amount of the Deposit
- The Date of the Deposit
It had more information than that, but plenty enough to call my bank and transfer money to another account. I assume they've improved since then, but they should have known better even then.store.apple.com
I wonder whether they switched before or after they got nailed today?
I personally agree with your opinion on asthetics vs functionality, but I don't think you can stretch that to a generalization.
I've worked as a technician at drag races, and the best amateur racers, with the best cars on the track, kept their cars immaculate and beautiful as well. Now, they weren't putting stickers on piece of shit imports, but the best case modding nerds out there aren't putting decals on old steel Packard Bell cases either.
Your primo case-modders are more like Paul Teutul, and I don't know many bikers who are going to ridicule the Orange County Chopper crew.
but 1 plus 1 will always equal 2. Period.
Unless you allow for extremely large values of 1.
Joel wasn't refering to ASP.NET, he was referring to .NET in general. If you check the article How Microsoft Lost the API War, you will see what he meant more specifically. He actually quite likes ASP.NET.
However, ASP itself wasn't soley responsible for the problems with cut-and-copy disease. It was a problem of developers thinking at page level versus creating an application that handled page generation. The problem could be prevented with ASP, although admittedly it did encourage that style of coding.
No, that's Slashdot that you're thinking of. :)
Microsoft.bob anyone?
What I find amazing is that the Cell is supposed to run up to a TeraFlop when it reaches production. That compared to a 64 processor Linux cluster.