"Troll"? Really? Do you people even have the slightest clue what that rating means? My comment was exactly on topic and accurate. Please LEARN HOW TO MODERATE.
Why is it that the most popular girl at the dance is usually the biggest douchebag?
If you're going to use that analogy, make it accurate. The most popular girl made it well known what dress she would be wearing to the dance, and then another girl blatantly and deliberately wears the same dress to the same dance. Popular girl seems justified in bitch-slapping the copycat.
Write your own iPhone app that acts as a calendar of events, links to the bridal registry, provides a map to the wedding and reception, allows users to digitally RSVP, share photos of the event, etc. A lot of work? Sure. But you wanted to go geek. This is how!
Happening here too; the site seems to not be compatible with Firefox or Safari. I was able to at least get to the "Sign in" form using Chrome, but after I sign in the petition still says I "must sign in to sign the petition" even though the bottom of my browser window says I am signed in. Basically, the petition website is not working properly. Perhaps you can only use it with IE? I guess Linux and Mac OS X users get less democracy than Windows users....
Yes, I fully expect to see the Stop Online Pedophiles From Raping Children bill with the SOPA language inserted. Then when (if) people complain, they'll be supporting "Pedophiles".
Not sure if you're joking or serious, but I think this actually might happen. The music/film industry is far too greedy to not try this!
Exactly. Especially if you have "lots of downtime".
Nowhere did OP say he has "lots of downtime". I think you got that from another post. OP said he did the work at home on his own computer on his own time. That's dedication. But it is up to him to feel out whether his employer will appreciate that or not. If the latter, then he should not spring this on the employer. Instead, act like the project has not even been started. Go to the boss with an "idea" of doing this and talk him into it. Then "work" on it over the coming months and introduce it to the workplace. Then in your quarterly or yearly evaluation make sure you get credit for coming up with the idea, proposing it, and implementing it. EASE the employer into it. Springing things on companies doesn't often work too well.
That's the diff between a job and career. People with careers invest their personal time because the reward is you get promoted for doing great work.
Perhaps 50 years ago. Now it's "You should be happy you even have a job, so do what we say or you'll be out of work for years in this economy. Bonus? Raise? I do not understand these words you are using."
you could straight up disable the keyboard and rely on the mouse for selecting answers.
Which doesn't help in cases of 1. answers that aren't multiple choice, or 2. having to accommodate people with mobility impairments where limitation to a mouse imposes an undue hardship.
Be fair, the restrictions on the implementation are severe: No OS mods one can kind of understand but you also can't create even a "testtaker" user account? As an OS deployment engineer I appreciate the former but I can't think of any justification for the latter.
Anyway, given these handcuffs, a multiple-choice test will just have to do I think. And believe me, you can make some pretty darn hard multiple-choice exams. Go try to get MS or Apple certified some time. 80 adaptive multiple choice questions that nobody is going to do well at unless they studied hard and/or know their stuff.
I would suggest finding some non-profit organizations and offering to develop/redevelop their websites.
Precisely what I was going to suggest. Non-profits often have really bad websites due to lack of funding. Their sites also languish--many were designed around 2000 to catch the "IT Bubble" and now they have no funding to update them, so there's not a hint of AJAX to be found. Or they chose some Flash jockey to whip something together a few years back and now their site is unreadable on the tens of millions of iDevices. Both cases would hopefully lead to them being willing to let you design them something new pro bono.
Just be completely honest up front; that you'll do it for free because you need to boost your portfolio, but in return they must allow you to use them as a reference. Be prepared for them to be demanding--for some reason I've found non-profits have the most finicky asks, possibly because they don't appreciate how much such services would usually cost (but I digress.) Make it clear that while you're willing to do the work for free, your time and resources are not unlimited so you will only be able to perform "usual" design; nothing outlandish that would take 1000 hours. You need to move on to the next project so you can build up a quantity in your portfolio; you can't spend the next year on one site.
Too little debt and that individual will be regarded a slacker
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but when I was hired by my Fortune 20 employer eight years ago I had zero debt of any kind. Perhaps hiring practices have changed in the last few years but this is the first I've heard of companies not being willing to hire debt-free applicants.
Companies do check credit ratings, but that's just as much used as an indicator of responsibility as it is of a theft risk. I do know of one applicant here who was all set to be hired on but was denied the position at the last second due to having too low of a credit rating. I think the specific fear here is that if it's too low the employee needs money so badly that they could be bribed or extorted to turn over confidential information, be it corporate secrets or customer data.
Like others, I'm having some trouble believing this is entirely true. However, in case it is it was not only a learning experience for you but a useful one. For example, you learned never to buy your niece anything ever again. I sure as hell wouldn't. I'd even go out of my way to blatantly give her absolutely nothing and if/when anyone in the family mentioned it, remind them how she treated you. Quote her word for word and say you refuse to ever reward such behavior. Saves you a few $ and is satisfying as hell.
2 years of glory, and even then Apple only managed 6% of the market share.
Incorrect. Visicalc came to its own in 1983. Assuming by "2 years" you mean 1983 through 1985, and you average Apple's market share during those years, (8.54+15.82+11.9)/3 = 12% market share. Reference: http://jeremyreimer.com/postman/node/329
That's kind of the point--that Android is so fractured that you can't really really rely upon it as a platform and it is hard for any non-techhead to understand the real differences between the phones. It's also nary impossible for any ordinary user to figure out how to keep their phones up to date with the latest OS. The fracture of the "platform" is serious and adversely affects buyers.
You honestly care if the updates are available "over the air"? This isn't something you do daily or weekly or even monthly. As such it's no real inconvenience to have to tether to update one's OS. In fact, downloading something that large should happen over a wire and stop clogging up the 3G bandwidth for the rest of us just trying to read email. Seriously. Stop grasping for tiny little advantages of Android over iOS.
There are updates for a reason. They not only bring new features but fixes for features that never worked quite right in the first place (especially on Android.) No updates on your phone is like buying a car that never runs quite right and the dealer never fixes for you.
The family has now released a statement that he died Wednesday surrounded by his loved ones. That directly contradicts the "found" portion of "found dead".
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And the point of this 'service' is what, exactly? To provoke the administration to opine about non-specific social issues?
Apparently the point of the service is to make it look like the White House is listening to the people. Look like. Not actually are.
"Troll"? Really? Do you people even have the slightest clue what that rating means? My comment was exactly on topic and accurate. Please LEARN HOW TO MODERATE.
Why is it that the most popular girl at the dance is usually the biggest douchebag?
If you're going to use that analogy, make it accurate. The most popular girl made it well known what dress she would be wearing to the dance, and then another girl blatantly and deliberately wears the same dress to the same dance. Popular girl seems justified in bitch-slapping the copycat.
Write your own iPhone app that acts as a calendar of events, links to the bridal registry, provides a map to the wedding and reception, allows users to digitally RSVP, share photos of the event, etc. A lot of work? Sure. But you wanted to go geek. This is how!
Happening here too; the site seems to not be compatible with Firefox or Safari. I was able to at least get to the "Sign in" form using Chrome, but after I sign in the petition still says I "must sign in to sign the petition" even though the bottom of my browser window says I am signed in. Basically, the petition website is not working properly. Perhaps you can only use it with IE? I guess Linux and Mac OS X users get less democracy than Windows users....
Yes, I fully expect to see the Stop Online Pedophiles From Raping Children bill with the SOPA language inserted. Then when (if) people complain, they'll be supporting "Pedophiles".
Not sure if you're joking or serious, but I think this actually might happen. The music/film industry is far too greedy to not try this!
Exactly. Especially if you have "lots of downtime".
Nowhere did OP say he has "lots of downtime". I think you got that from another post. OP said he did the work at home on his own computer on his own time. That's dedication. But it is up to him to feel out whether his employer will appreciate that or not. If the latter, then he should not spring this on the employer. Instead, act like the project has not even been started. Go to the boss with an "idea" of doing this and talk him into it. Then "work" on it over the coming months and introduce it to the workplace. Then in your quarterly or yearly evaluation make sure you get credit for coming up with the idea, proposing it, and implementing it. EASE the employer into it. Springing things on companies doesn't often work too well.
That's the diff between a job and career. People with careers invest their personal time because the reward is you get promoted for doing great work.
Perhaps 50 years ago. Now it's "You should be happy you even have a job, so do what we say or you'll be out of work for years in this economy. Bonus? Raise? I do not understand these words you are using."
you could straight up disable the keyboard and rely on the mouse for selecting answers.
Which doesn't help in cases of 1. answers that aren't multiple choice, or 2. having to accommodate people with mobility impairments where limitation to a mouse imposes an undue hardship.
Be fair, the restrictions on the implementation are severe: No OS mods one can kind of understand but you also can't create even a "testtaker" user account? As an OS deployment engineer I appreciate the former but I can't think of any justification for the latter.
Anyway, given these handcuffs, a multiple-choice test will just have to do I think. And believe me, you can make some pretty darn hard multiple-choice exams. Go try to get MS or Apple certified some time. 80 adaptive multiple choice questions that nobody is going to do well at unless they studied hard and/or know their stuff.
Well played, sir.
I would suggest finding some non-profit organizations and offering to develop/redevelop their websites.
Precisely what I was going to suggest. Non-profits often have really bad websites due to lack of funding. Their sites also languish--many were designed around 2000 to catch the "IT Bubble" and now they have no funding to update them, so there's not a hint of AJAX to be found. Or they chose some Flash jockey to whip something together a few years back and now their site is unreadable on the tens of millions of iDevices. Both cases would hopefully lead to them being willing to let you design them something new pro bono.
Just be completely honest up front; that you'll do it for free because you need to boost your portfolio, but in return they must allow you to use them as a reference. Be prepared for them to be demanding--for some reason I've found non-profits have the most finicky asks, possibly because they don't appreciate how much such services would usually cost (but I digress.) Make it clear that while you're willing to do the work for free, your time and resources are not unlimited so you will only be able to perform "usual" design; nothing outlandish that would take 1000 hours. You need to move on to the next project so you can build up a quantity in your portfolio; you can't spend the next year on one site.
Too little debt and that individual will be regarded a slacker
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but when I was hired by my Fortune 20 employer eight years ago I had zero debt of any kind. Perhaps hiring practices have changed in the last few years but this is the first I've heard of companies not being willing to hire debt-free applicants.
Companies do check credit ratings, but that's just as much used as an indicator of responsibility as it is of a theft risk. I do know of one applicant here who was all set to be hired on but was denied the position at the last second due to having too low of a credit rating. I think the specific fear here is that if it's too low the employee needs money so badly that they could be bribed or extorted to turn over confidential information, be it corporate secrets or customer data.
Like others, I'm having some trouble believing this is entirely true. However, in case it is it was not only a learning experience for you but a useful one. For example, you learned never to buy your niece anything ever again. I sure as hell wouldn't. I'd even go out of my way to blatantly give her absolutely nothing and if/when anyone in the family mentioned it, remind them how she treated you. Quote her word for word and say you refuse to ever reward such behavior. Saves you a few $ and is satisfying as hell.
Actually, Apple and other manufacturers are NOT responsible for their SUPPLIERS' mishaps.
Anyone who is able to improve things and opts not to is responsible.
Really? I felt it was the other way around: pointers on Pascal felt intuitive, while pointers in C made my programs more prone to failure.
This. Pascal pointers were straightforward and almost fun. C pointers break my brain.
2 years of glory, and even then Apple only managed 6% of the market share.
Incorrect. Visicalc came to its own in 1983. Assuming by "2 years" you mean 1983 through 1985, and you average Apple's market share during those years, (8.54+15.82+11.9)/3 = 12% market share. Reference: http://jeremyreimer.com/postman/node/329
Can you please export some Bubbas to Northern Delaware? Just long enough to bring us BBQ and shoot out some cameras. Then we'll return them.
That's kind of the point--that Android is so fractured that you can't really really rely upon it as a platform and it is hard for any non-techhead to understand the real differences between the phones. It's also nary impossible for any ordinary user to figure out how to keep their phones up to date with the latest OS. The fracture of the "platform" is serious and adversely affects buyers.
....for 10 minutes until it exhausts your battery.
You honestly care if the updates are available "over the air"? This isn't something you do daily or weekly or even monthly. As such it's no real inconvenience to have to tether to update one's OS. In fact, downloading something that large should happen over a wire and stop clogging up the 3G bandwidth for the rest of us just trying to read email. Seriously. Stop grasping for tiny little advantages of Android over iOS.
You just bought an iPod and then refer to others as "appletards"?? REALLY?
...until they try to install an app that requires a newer version of Android. Then they'll care a whole lot.
There are updates for a reason. They not only bring new features but fixes for features that never worked quite right in the first place (especially on Android.) No updates on your phone is like buying a car that never runs quite right and the dealer never fixes for you.
The family has now released a statement that he died Wednesday surrounded by his loved ones. That directly contradicts the "found" portion of "found dead".
I'm seeing nothing in any story including the CNN one linked to that says he was "found dead in his home this morning". Seems dubious.