Yes, it violates a social contract. And that's a VERY GOOD THING (TM).
Contracts get re-negotiated all the time. Publishers ask for higher CPMs, CPCs, etc- advertisers want more and more annoying ads at lower prices. Some consumers stop reading some sites, or install things like Adblock, pop-up blockers, etc. They start ignoring things that look like ads and don't click on them anymore.
Google and Overture/Yahoo are winning against the tired pop-ups and similarly annoying push marketing because they realigned their business model to be win-win. I installed Adblock, but I regularly click on text ads (even on sites).
Readers have said loud and clear they don't want annoying ads getting in the way of their information gathering. Companies have offered more money for text-only contextual advertising. So why on earth are publishers whining about us blocking offensive ads?
A new social contract has been proposed that could work for everyone. Publishers are proposing an alternative where they increase the amount of ads and their annoyance factor. Call me a free-loader or a parasite if you will- I know what alternative I want, and I won't cooperate in making the web a commercial advertising wasteland.
So people will always say, Bricolage is difficult to install, which I will grant is true. But there is a great deal of power to be gained from it. You can manage pretty much any website with Bricolage.
It almost sounds like he's arguing that the more features, the harder the install.
People are saying it's hard to install, maybe you should listen to them? It's so lame that so many OSS projects have this huge, unnecessary barrier to entry.
I typed in "Pizza" for my postal code, B2W 2X6, and tada! a list of the closest pizza shops. I know a few directory providers won't be too happy about this.
As soon as their underlying mapping system has data for the UK, the mobile edition should follow shortly.
I tried Ubuntu's last release some 6 months ago on my aging Dell Inspiron 8200. It didn't install cleanly. Anyone know if it will now?
Other issues I had as a linux noob (I've used it at work, just never installed it) included annoyances like lack of support for mp3's and java.
Excuse me, but if you want a distro to become mainstream and you ship it with a music player, it shouldn't just vomit out "mp3 is not a recognized format" - it should tell you exactly how to make it work and where to find out the background on why it doesn't work out of the box.
Making mp3s was simple compared to getting java and Eclipse installed, but I'd rather buy a Mac than have to go through that again.
Business rules in the UI layer? WHAT? That's a recipe for disaster. Add another layer. Spring controllers and Struts actions should *NOT* contain business logic, but call objects that do. They in turn can talk to the db.
AOL is using FUD to convince users to stay with them where they can be safe, and not at all bothered by all this scary-sounding stuff nerds talk about. They're also telling investors that they have done their homework and that this should work with a significant percentage of net users.
MySQL is the most widely used open source database, according to a Evans Data Corporation survey released in January. It accounted for 40 percent of open source database deployments, while Firebird and PostgreSQL accounted for 39 percent and 11 percent of deployments respectively.
Since Firebird is expected to hit 2.0 sometime soon, I'd expect them to give MySQL some competition. And how can anyone on/. forget PG?
Since I'm using Hibernate for most new development, there's nothing stopping me from looking at the more advanced RDBMSs out there. Given how MySQL told us we were wimps for wanting things such as triggers and FKs, I don't really trust them to keep understanding what I need as a developer.
I know fingerprints can be foiled with rubber or BREATHING, but if you combine that with voice print or retinal scan, it should be pretty secure, even today. Add in facial recognition, and
you've got a secure environment.
I added emphasis... do you really think that simply identifying people will make our environments secure? A lot of crimes are committed by people that are known, be it insider trading our spousal abuse. The current darling of media attention and the subject of moral panic, child sexual abuse, also generally obeys that rule. 80% of stock shrinkage in many retail stores is due to employee theft.
The list goes on. Point is, identification is not the same thing as securing an environment.
And here comes the cavalcade of leeches spouting "smart people don't reinvent the wheel.."
That's right: they invent a car, a motorcycle, a unicycle, bycicle, trycicle, a truck, a moped, a skateboard, an inline skate, a bus, a tractor, a cart, a wheelchair or a Segway.
If you RTFA, they also found some tissue in a hadrosaur fossil. More likely to be grown for meat than a T-Rex I would think. Also more likely to taste like chicken:)
I know that this guy existed; he was a genius whose type of talent appears only in one of ten million people
So with 1 Billion people in India, we've got 100 geniuses from there. Assuming they don't all pioneer a new area of research, at some point we'll have to be more specific than "some Indian <domain specialist>".
Almost everyone takes the side of the big corporation against the coder...
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They didn't just understand *users*, they also understood *communities of users*.
A lot of companies tried to make money in the same area, but few had the same concepts: build something for the user experience, make it easy for users to share, allow users to create their own taxonomies, open wide your API... this isn't about luck or coding smarts- although they certainly were necessary. I would describe it as a different philosophy or ethic.
Seems there's money for us enterprising geeks, if we quit creating copycat apps. It's going to take a little imagination, and probably some of the ideas that the Flickr crew used.
I know that Linux is used widely throughout the government in Brazil for their work, it seems only logical that they would load Linux on the machines they are distributing throughout their country for the poor.
Supposing their bureaucracy can be as bad as the ones I've experienced, or their HR as idiotic as many when it comes to IT, people had better learn how to use that free software if they want jobs in the administration.
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Misoginy is not necessarily a sign of psychosis is it? :)
Yes, it violates a social contract. And that's a VERY GOOD THING (TM).
Contracts get re-negotiated all the time. Publishers ask for higher CPMs, CPCs, etc- advertisers want more and more annoying ads at lower prices. Some consumers stop reading some sites, or install things like Adblock, pop-up blockers, etc. They start ignoring things that look like ads and don't click on them anymore.
Google and Overture/Yahoo are winning against the tired pop-ups and similarly annoying push marketing because they realigned their business model to be win-win. I installed Adblock, but I regularly click on text ads (even on sites).
Readers have said loud and clear they don't want annoying ads getting in the way of their information gathering. Companies have offered more money for text-only contextual advertising. So why on earth are publishers whining about us blocking offensive ads?
A new social contract has been proposed that could work for everyone. Publishers are proposing an alternative where they increase the amount of ads and their annoyance factor. Call me a free-loader or a parasite if you will- I know what alternative I want, and I won't cooperate in making the web a commercial advertising wasteland.
It almost sounds like he's arguing that the more features, the harder the install.
People are saying it's hard to install, maybe you should listen to them? It's so lame that so many OSS projects have this huge, unnecessary barrier to entry.
How many early technology adopters are women? I'd bet it's below 20 or even 10%. What percentage do you know are running a *Nix box at home?
Just another indication that FF is going mainstream. Yay!
100% increase is a doubling. 200% is a tripling.
I typed in "Pizza" for my postal code, B2W 2X6, and tada! a list of the closest pizza shops. I know a few directory providers won't be too happy about this.
As soon as their underlying mapping system has data for the UK, the mobile edition should follow shortly.
Obviously this guy was to stupid to realize that with all that money, he should hire a good lawyer.
Tried that theory the last time, but it did not work.
I tried Ubuntu's last release some 6 months ago on my aging Dell Inspiron 8200. It didn't install cleanly. Anyone know if it will now?
Other issues I had as a linux noob (I've used it at work, just never installed it) included annoyances like lack of support for mp3's and java.
Excuse me, but if you want a distro to become mainstream and you ship it with a music player, it shouldn't just vomit out "mp3 is not a recognized format" - it should tell you exactly how to make it work and where to find out the background on why it doesn't work out of the box.
Making mp3s was simple compared to getting java and Eclipse installed, but I'd rather buy a Mac than have to go through that again.
I still have that partition free though...
Business rules in the UI layer? WHAT? That's a recipe for disaster. Add another layer. Spring controllers and Struts actions should *NOT* contain business logic, but call objects that do. They in turn can talk to the db.
AOL is using FUD to convince users to stay with them where they can be safe, and not at all bothered by all this scary-sounding stuff nerds talk about. They're also telling investors that they have done their homework and that this should work with a significant percentage of net users.
That was a waste of time to RTFA... oh well.
We could do set this on /., so when you click on a discussion, it automatically pre-fetches the article!
Uhmm... actually, never mind
Since I'm using Hibernate for most new development, there's nothing stopping me from looking at the more advanced RDBMSs out there. Given how MySQL told us we were wimps for wanting things such as triggers and FKs, I don't really trust them to keep understanding what I need as a developer.
The list goes on. Point is, identification is not the same thing as securing an environment.
Hey, aren't EDITORS supposed to PROOFREAD?
If you RTFA, they also found some tissue in a hadrosaur fossil. More likely to be grown for meat than a T-Rex I would think. Also more likely to taste like chicken :)
Shouldn't another scientist be able to replicate that experiment? Source code is an integral part and they won't let you know how they did that?
That's BS, and all the more so because of the political implications of such research.
And I agree with that position- I'm just surprised at the near unanimity, even with an editor that posts an opposite opinion.
Almost everyone takes the side of the big corporation against the coder...
They didn't just understand *users*, they also understood *communities of users*.
A lot of companies tried to make money in the same area, but few had the same concepts: build something for the user experience, make it easy for users to share, allow users to create their own taxonomies, open wide your API... this isn't about luck or coding smarts- although they certainly were necessary. I would describe it as a different philosophy or ethic.
Seems there's money for us enterprising geeks, if we quit creating copycat apps. It's going to take a little imagination, and probably some of the ideas that the Flickr crew used.