Even for the non-genius bar employees, is $11.91/hour starting pay for retail supposed to be shocking or what? I worked many jobs just out of high school in the 90's for $5/hour, it's been a long time since I was paid hourly but am I really that disconnected that I think 12 bucks an hour seems fair?
The internet exposes people to a disproportionate number of loud, partisan hacks. The reality is, anyone with any bit of independent thinking condemns the Obama administration as harshly (or more harshly, since we thought he would know better) as GWB. Or maybe it's just the people I keep company with. Either way, I'm done playing this game, "none of the above" will be getting my vote this fall. Electing the least bad of two terrible choices just slows our downward spiral, we're still going the wrong direction and we may be better off hitting rock bottom as soon as possible so the oblivious masses take notice, until then nothing will change.
One of the "does" may be Walt Disney, you know, for inciting nuclear war...
"It might not have seemed very dehumanizing when Walt Disney made Japanese people look silly with buck teeth and big glasses who could not pronounce their 'R's or their 'L's. But it was dehumanizing, and the purpose was to direct evil intentions against them, which ultimately resulted in the only nuclear holocaust that ever occurred in the history of humanity. I don't think Truman would have ever done that if we hadn't so dehumanized the enemy."
Thankfully, there are developers who do care about the users more than their own convenience.
The ones I buy from.
Ah, I see. That comes out of your pocket though, right? Or perhaps to be one of "the ones you buy from" I need to eat the cost of supporting obsolete software myself, you know because I care about the users?
As a developer, I really don't give a rats ass if IE is lightweight or fast. All I care is that I don't have to dedicate extra time on layout or code that works flawlessly in 4 other browsers. IE9 is damn near at that point already, with IE10 we will have finally arrived.
After looking through the list I am surprised at how few of them caught my eye. At $185k a pop I thought, wrongly, that the list would be of a bit higher quality than your typical domain name goldrush when a new tld is released, but I'm not sure there are really any on that list that I would consider registering a domain with. The only ones I wouldn't mind are.web and.tech, but I'm rather indifferent when we've always had a tld (.net) that encompasses both of those.
Many just don't sound right, like.dog, the only domain names I can come up with that don't sound ridiculous followed by "dot dog" are generic types of dogs, like sheep.dog or hunting.dog, and even then the singular doesn't make any sense, hunting.dogs sounds much better..sport is another WTF, whoever ends up with blood.sport may be content, but there's nothing after that. And.website is great for those times when you don't know if the website you're on is a website.
.sex and.porn were entirely predictable, and I have no doubt that.rocks and.sucks sites will soon plague us all, but I think.inc and.llc are maybe the biggest winners so far, as a.com alternative they should rake in big bucks, but it makes me wonder why we didn't have these 20 years ago.
I wish they whould have restricted it to 4 chars max, maybe even 3, the majority of this is more.travel and.museum tlds that will be about as successful.
My biggest surprise is that the two things I most expected to happen did not, at least not yet. I thought for sure that the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL at a minimum would be the first in line. It seems like a natural fit to have yankees.mlb, patriots.nfl, etc, it looks like.MLS is the only one so far. And that there would be some common file extensions registered like.txt,.exe,.ttf,.pdf,.zip, and seriously no.mp3 ?
And still no indication of a clownpenis.fart any time soon...
A better question is, how do so many of these projects have budgets in the several hundred million dollar range? And we're not even talking about the feds, this is at the city level, ONE CITY! And it seems this article is giving them more credit than they deserve, other articles claim they are $1 billion over budget, not the total cost mind you but that is the overrun, and another 7 to 10 years to go on top of that.
About 2 years ago I read NYC was something like $600m over budget on some timekeeping software called "City Time" (or something similar). I'm not clear if this is the same project, but it looks like this is something else, seriously WTF?
I would have to work full time for 10 years to finish a $1 million software project myself. Looking at what I produce, or any developer can produce, in a single year makes it hard to comprehend how even the most complex software ever conceived of would take someone over 10,000 years working full time to complete.
A fucking billion dollars? And then we get to listen to these same beaurocrats lecture about how critical the deficit is and responsible spending that, as they order another hundred $350 million dollar jets that will never see combat. It just makes me sick to my stomach. This is the shit we sacrifice 1/3rd of our income for.
IE7? No way, definitely not. There is no doubt that dealing with IE8 is less frustrating, but it still has issues. Once you've trained yourself to avoid common IE pitfalls you can generally hack out javascript and css that works sufficently well in IE8, but there are also many CSS3 properties that aren't supported such as border-radius, box-shadow, even for opacity you have to resort to the IE only "filter" attribute. Full support involves resorting the old hacks of yesteryear, usually involving lots of images for borders, shadows and gradients and much cursing.
IE9 can be supported with minimal effort (or none at all once you learn to avoid the few quirks), and IE10 will finally be on par with other browsers.
So IE has improved drastically from IE6, the problem is a significant number of people still use IE6, IE7, & IE8, usually unknowingly or because they don't have a choice (company policy, running XP, etc). You can generally assume that people aren't using Firefox 2 anymore unless they explicitly chose to do so, with IE many people are using browsers that are several years up to a decade out of date.
Wrong, I've licensed dozens of photos for anywhere from $2 to $90. At $500 a year, you've eliminated almost all of your potential customers, and anyone with the budget to spend that on a single photo probably already has other sources or their own photographers. You're certainly free to ask for ridiculous amounts, I just don't see who's buying unless you happen to capture some historic event or Tom Cruise picking his nose.
Asking $500 would likely result in selling zero licenses ever, for that much I could buy a nice digital camera AND a round trip ticket to Houston to take my own picture.
Not only that, a limited term license would mean that you would have to relicense or remove the image in a year, every year. I can't see why anyone would choose this. A $50 one time fee seems more reasonable to me.
Can you image if cashiers had to figure out your change without the register telling them how much money to give back to the customer
So it's hard for you to imagine someone using basic math? Did you know they do still teach math in school? Most people surely can handle basic subtraction by 3rd grade, including cashiers.
I can't figure out who is supposed to benefit from it. I hear plenty of bitching about it, much of which is my own muttering as I wade through the mostly stupid "jokes" plaguing virtually every website. Are there droves of silent users out there who just love spending the day playing "fact or fiction" on the internet?
Granted it's just one day a year, but that's not a justification. If millions of websites all switched to a pink wingdings font every June 7th for no other reason than someone else is doing it too, that it's only one day a year wouldn't explain who is supposed to be appreciating it.
After the hack job they did to windows explorer with windows 7, I can't forsee myself everever considering upgrading windows again, and what I've seen of Windows 8 just strengthens that opinion. In fact I still haven't ruled out downgrading back to XP Pro.
After over 6 months I still regret upgrading from XP every day, particularly when I try to search for a file and then proceed to bang my head against the desk to pass the time. This happens several dozen times per day at a minimum, I just really can't fathom how it happened that the fast, intuitive, customizable xp search ended up being replaced with this abortion. There were meetings where they decided the old search wasn't good enough, people had to design this, code it, test it. Managers had to demo it at board meetings and sign off on it. How the hell did every one of them say "yep this is better"?
And that's just the start, everything was dumbed down for no valid reason. Why is the "navigate up a directory" arrow gone? Why was all useful info removed from the status bar? Why can't I get rid of that library toolbar? Why can't I have the same view for every directory anymore? Why were the options for configuring how different file types are opened completely eliminated? What the fuck were they thinking or drinking when they were "improving" the control panel? Why remove the classic start menu completely?
I can't find a reason for any of this to be gone., windows 7 lost more than it gained by a long shot. And more than just being frustrating as hell, this is all productivity affecting stuff.
I really, really want an alternative because I'm fed up. Unfortunately Linux isn't the answer for me until Adobe ports their creative suite, or a viable competitor emerges on Linux. No, Gimp doesn't cut it. I've tried, but so many tools I use every day are tied to windows that it's just too much of a hassle to switch back and forth constantly.
A year ago I would say I was a fan of Microsoft, today I never plan to give them another dime. My dealings with XBox Live certainly haven't helped either, but that's another story.
It's not nearly as common in the U.S. as the comments here would seem to indicate. I wouldn't draw any conclusions about the U.S. from slashdot comment, I've never encountered a single person who didn't have at least some messaging included in their plan. The sans-messaging-planners are similar to the anti-tv-crusaders, they are virtually non-existent in the real world, but they await around every corner on slashdot, eager to tell you all about how great it is to not own a television or have text messaging or a facebook account or anything popular at all because popular things suck.
I agree that IE8 is a huge improvement over 6 & 7, but it still sucks. IE9 is like heaven, still very far from perfect, but after a decade of dealing with IE it feels damn near perfect. There are still gotchas but for the most part I can safely expect everything to work in IE9 with some minor tweaks, whereas previously I had to expect that most thing wouldn't work in IE without multiple hacks or in some cases code overhaul. It's certainly a welcome change of perspective, the problem is that we can't code for IE9 yet because IE8 is still so prevalent, which is why TFA is music to my ears.
I disagree. Spending time on IE compatibility is usually a necessary evil, but I certainly don't enjoy hacking in fixes and workarounds for "bugs" in perfectly valid code, whether I'm paid for it or not. It's unproductive time, and prevents me from using the best tools and techniques available, instead relying on ugly hacks. There's more to developing a website, for me, than plumping up the invoice with extras and upsells and cashing the check at the end. I want to feel productive, create clean and elegant code, and be proud of the result.
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Even for the non-genius bar employees, is $11.91/hour starting pay for retail supposed to be shocking or what? I worked many jobs just out of high school in the 90's for $5/hour, it's been a long time since I was paid hourly but am I really that disconnected that I think 12 bucks an hour seems fair?
The internet exposes people to a disproportionate number of loud, partisan hacks. The reality is, anyone with any bit of independent thinking condemns the Obama administration as harshly (or more harshly, since we thought he would know better) as GWB. Or maybe it's just the people I keep company with. Either way, I'm done playing this game, "none of the above" will be getting my vote this fall. Electing the least bad of two terrible choices just slows our downward spiral, we're still going the wrong direction and we may be better off hitting rock bottom as soon as possible so the oblivious masses take notice, until then nothing will change.
"It might not have seemed very dehumanizing when Walt Disney made Japanese people look silly with buck teeth and big glasses who could not pronounce their 'R's or their 'L's. But it was dehumanizing, and the purpose was to direct evil intentions against them, which ultimately resulted in the only nuclear holocaust that ever occurred in the history of humanity. I don't think Truman would have ever done that if we hadn't so dehumanized the enemy."
there are about seven cases of the Black Plague in the U.S. each year
Thankfully, there are developers who do care about the users more than their own convenience. The ones I buy from.
Ah, I see. That comes out of your pocket though, right? Or perhaps to be one of "the ones you buy from" I need to eat the cost of supporting obsolete software myself, you know because I care about the users?
As a developer, I really don't give a rats ass if IE is lightweight or fast. All I care is that I don't have to dedicate extra time on layout or code that works flawlessly in 4 other browsers. IE9 is damn near at that point already, with IE10 we will have finally arrived.
After looking through the list I am surprised at how few of them caught my eye. At $185k a pop I thought, wrongly, that the list would be of a bit higher quality than your typical domain name goldrush when a new tld is released, but I'm not sure there are really any on that list that I would consider registering a domain with. The only ones I wouldn't mind are .web and .tech, but I'm rather indifferent when we've always had a tld (.net) that encompasses both of those.
Many just don't sound right, like .dog, the only domain names I can come up with that don't sound ridiculous followed by "dot dog" are generic types of dogs, like sheep.dog or hunting.dog, and even then the singular doesn't make any sense, hunting.dogs sounds much better. .sport is another WTF, whoever ends up with blood.sport may be content, but there's nothing after that. And .website is great for those times when you don't know if the website you're on is a website.
.sex and .porn were entirely predictable, and I have no doubt that .rocks and .sucks sites will soon plague us all, but I think .inc and .llc are maybe the biggest winners so far, as a .com alternative they should rake in big bucks, but it makes me wonder why we didn't have these 20 years ago.
I wish they whould have restricted it to 4 chars max, maybe even 3, the majority of this is more .travel and .museum tlds that will be about as successful.
My biggest surprise is that the two things I most expected to happen did not, at least not yet. I thought for sure that the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL at a minimum would be the first in line. It seems like a natural fit to have yankees.mlb, patriots.nfl, etc, it looks like .MLS is the only one so far. And that there would be some common file extensions registered like .txt, .exe, .ttf, .pdf, .zip, and seriously no .mp3 ?
And still no indication of a clownpenis.fart any time soon...
"Calment smoked from the age of 21 (1896) until the age of 117, only five years before her death."
WTF?
A better question is, how do so many of these projects have budgets in the several hundred million dollar range? And we're not even talking about the feds, this is at the city level, ONE CITY! And it seems this article is giving them more credit than they deserve, other articles claim they are $1 billion over budget, not the total cost mind you but that is the overrun, and another 7 to 10 years to go on top of that.
About 2 years ago I read NYC was something like $600m over budget on some timekeeping software called "City Time" (or something similar). I'm not clear if this is the same project, but it looks like this is something else, seriously WTF?
I would have to work full time for 10 years to finish a $1 million software project myself. Looking at what I produce, or any developer can produce, in a single year makes it hard to comprehend how even the most complex software ever conceived of would take someone over 10,000 years working full time to complete.
A fucking billion dollars? And then we get to listen to these same beaurocrats lecture about how critical the deficit is and responsible spending that, as they order another hundred $350 million dollar jets that will never see combat. It just makes me sick to my stomach. This is the shit we sacrifice 1/3rd of our income for.
I wouldn't mind getting my hands on clownpenis.fart (to host my resume), however the chance of someone dropping $180k on .fart is probably low...
*Sigh* I think this will be my last post on slashdot.
Thanks for letting us know, I'm sure we would have been worried if you had just disappeared without warning.
IE7? No way, definitely not. There is no doubt that dealing with IE8 is less frustrating, but it still has issues. Once you've trained yourself to avoid common IE pitfalls you can generally hack out javascript and css that works sufficently well in IE8, but there are also many CSS3 properties that aren't supported such as border-radius, box-shadow, even for opacity you have to resort to the IE only "filter" attribute. Full support involves resorting the old hacks of yesteryear, usually involving lots of images for borders, shadows and gradients and much cursing.
IE9 can be supported with minimal effort (or none at all once you learn to avoid the few quirks), and IE10 will finally be on par with other browsers.
So IE has improved drastically from IE6, the problem is a significant number of people still use IE6, IE7, & IE8, usually unknowingly or because they don't have a choice (company policy, running XP, etc). You can generally assume that people aren't using Firefox 2 anymore unless they explicitly chose to do so, with IE many people are using browsers that are several years up to a decade out of date.
Wrong, I've licensed dozens of photos for anywhere from $2 to $90. At $500 a year, you've eliminated almost all of your potential customers, and anyone with the budget to spend that on a single photo probably already has other sources or their own photographers. You're certainly free to ask for ridiculous amounts, I just don't see who's buying unless you happen to capture some historic event or Tom Cruise picking his nose.
Asking $500 would likely result in selling zero licenses ever, for that much I could buy a nice digital camera AND a round trip ticket to Houston to take my own picture.
Not only that, a limited term license would mean that you would have to relicense or remove the image in a year, every year. I can't see why anyone would choose this. A $50 one time fee seems more reasonable to me.
Would you prefer to have every channel priced the same as HBO?
A la carte? Abso-fucking-lutely. But perhaps you enjoy paying for 300 channels you will never watch.
Yes, if only the 4 billion lazy brown people who live in poverty would put down the wine bottle and get a job...
So it's hard for you to imagine someone using basic math? Did you know they do still teach math in school? Most people surely can handle basic subtraction by 3rd grade, including cashiers.
I can't figure out who is supposed to benefit from it. I hear plenty of bitching about it, much of which is my own muttering as I wade through the mostly stupid "jokes" plaguing virtually every website. Are there droves of silent users out there who just love spending the day playing "fact or fiction" on the internet?
/. toned it down this year anyway.
Granted it's just one day a year, but that's not a justification. If millions of websites all switched to a pink wingdings font every June 7th for no other reason than someone else is doing it too, that it's only one day a year wouldn't explain who is supposed to be appreciating it.
I'm glad
In other words, don't dress like a whore if you don't want to get raped.
After the hack job they did to windows explorer with windows 7, I can't forsee myself everever considering upgrading windows again, and what I've seen of Windows 8 just strengthens that opinion. In fact I still haven't ruled out downgrading back to XP Pro.
After over 6 months I still regret upgrading from XP every day, particularly when I try to search for a file and then proceed to bang my head against the desk to pass the time. This happens several dozen times per day at a minimum, I just really can't fathom how it happened that the fast, intuitive, customizable xp search ended up being replaced with this abortion. There were meetings where they decided the old search wasn't good enough, people had to design this, code it, test it. Managers had to demo it at board meetings and sign off on it. How the hell did every one of them say "yep this is better"?
And that's just the start, everything was dumbed down for no valid reason. Why is the "navigate up a directory" arrow gone? Why was all useful info removed from the status bar? Why can't I get rid of that library toolbar? Why can't I have the same view for every directory anymore? Why were the options for configuring how different file types are opened completely eliminated? What the fuck were they thinking or drinking when they were "improving" the control panel? Why remove the classic start menu completely?
I can't find a reason for any of this to be gone., windows 7 lost more than it gained by a long shot. And more than just being frustrating as hell, this is all productivity affecting stuff.
I really, really want an alternative because I'm fed up. Unfortunately Linux isn't the answer for me until Adobe ports their creative suite, or a viable competitor emerges on Linux. No, Gimp doesn't cut it. I've tried, but so many tools I use every day are tied to windows that it's just too much of a hassle to switch back and forth constantly.
A year ago I would say I was a fan of Microsoft, today I never plan to give them another dime. My dealings with XBox Live certainly haven't helped either, but that's another story.
Adobe complaining about bloat?
If you had bothered to RTFA you'd know that much of his rant focuses on Photoshop.
It's not nearly as common in the U.S. as the comments here would seem to indicate. I wouldn't draw any conclusions about the U.S. from slashdot comment, I've never encountered a single person who didn't have at least some messaging included in their plan. The sans-messaging-planners are similar to the anti-tv-crusaders, they are virtually non-existent in the real world, but they await around every corner on slashdot, eager to tell you all about how great it is to not own a television or have text messaging or a facebook account or anything popular at all because popular things suck.
Yeah, because things people like suck. Way to tell society how it is.
I agree that IE8 is a huge improvement over 6 & 7, but it still sucks. IE9 is like heaven, still very far from perfect, but after a decade of dealing with IE it feels damn near perfect. There are still gotchas but for the most part I can safely expect everything to work in IE9 with some minor tweaks, whereas previously I had to expect that most thing wouldn't work in IE without multiple hacks or in some cases code overhaul. It's certainly a welcome change of perspective, the problem is that we can't code for IE9 yet because IE8 is still so prevalent, which is why TFA is music to my ears.
I disagree. Spending time on IE compatibility is usually a necessary evil, but I certainly don't enjoy hacking in fixes and workarounds for "bugs" in perfectly valid code, whether I'm paid for it or not. It's unproductive time, and prevents me from using the best tools and techniques available, instead relying on ugly hacks. There's more to developing a website, for me, than plumping up the invoice with extras and upsells and cashing the check at the end. I want to feel productive, create clean and elegant code, and be proud of the result.