Um... no... Google doesn't rely on trust to make them #1, they rely on giving the best end-user experience possible.
Look, you and I count ourselves among those that feel 'hurt' or 'betrayed' when Google does something that we feel is counter to their mission statement because we're geeks, but I promise you the other 99.98% of the world doesn't give a fuck. They just want the information that is most useful to them at the time they enter their search query.
Now I can play Need For Speed Most Wanted, and Need For Speed Black Edition at the same time, on different computers using only one steering wheel! The future has arrived!!!!!
I liked everything you said, up to the last few sentences. Remember that MS's customers are not Unix geniuses... they are targeting people who want to use computers but don't know or care how they work. Just like Ford is targeting people who want to drive, but don't give a flying frick how their cars work... or how Bombardier makes planes for people who want to ride them, but not care how aerodynamics works.
My son fell off his bike and skinned his knee, so I bought him knee pads. Then he fell off his bike again and skinned his elbow, so I bought him elbow pads. He fell off and got a rock in his hand, so I bought him gloves and wrist guards. He then fell over in the park and got a goose-egg, so I bought him a helmet. Then he ran into a tree so I bought him a suit of body armor.
Now he has so much protection that he couldn't possibly hurt himself right?
What's that you say??? Give him lessons on how to ride his bike? Holy shit! I never thought of that!
To all those who say that PHP is weak because it doesn't protect the developer... I say you don't understand PHP or development very well at all.
Were I to interview a developer, I would ask to see 5 very short, but very different code samples. I would look to see that there is a consistency between all 5 of them in terms of scoping, declarations, comments, and even simple things like indentation and whether or not they consistently stick to studlyCaps or whatnot...
IMO, coding is exceptionally easy - it's all just functions, declarations, conditions, and loops. It is the ability to code CONSISTENTLY that makes one coder better than the next.
Um... at no point did I say that I was against telecommuting. I'm against flex hours. There is a difference... one is where you work from home, the other is where you're only guaranteed to be available to collaborate with your co-workers for about 3 hours per day.
As a programmer turned project manager, I can tell you this is an absolutely insane idea for any type of development environment.
Collaboration with peers and meetings are critical to making a project work. (As much as I hate meetings, they are a necessary evil wherein key decisions are made and critical information exchanged.)
The problem with flex time is that is pares down the number of hours in a day when everybody is actually AVAILABLE. People take early/late lunches, which means 11:30-1:30 is out, so that only leaves 3 hours in the day for cooperation. That's just not enough.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who pays attention. Fuck, MS just started checking MS Office installations for 'validity' and shutting them down in the Windows Update procedure, and suddenly now, 3 weeks before Vista launch, MS is coming out and saying there's a MAJOR Word flaw....
Geez... can we all stretch our brains to figure out what this is about?!
Actually, it's a perfectly good name for the attack, since the request causes a.PHP file hosted on a remote server to be included and subsequently run. Perhaps a hyphen might help those who are hung up on it: "Remote-File Inclusion".
Here's an example of an RFI attack designed to exploit a bit of sloppy coding in PHP Nuke.
Claims that the kid was 15, but in university - when I was 15, I was in grade 9
Implies strongly that the person was in a different country, but came to visit when lured in by boss - think about it... how does a 15 year old a) afford plane fare; b) get away from his parents.
This is from 2005! Her computer was a PII 75 running Windows 95. The basic problem is that it had been overrun by viruses. A one hour fix if I had taken out her hard drive, plunked it into my repair PC and done a virus scan... but she refused to allow her machine out of her house for fear that I would steal it. Rather than entrust her $50 PC to me, she instead payed me $280 in house-call fees while I sat there for 8 hours with my arms crossed, watching AVG do it's stuff.
I see a small bug in this pledge. Where is the distribution mechanism? If we had some way to say, put our $300 in an escrow account and were able to pay for a super efficient distribution center (and where to put it is another issue) then perhaps interest on the sitting cash could pay to get these things distributed, but we still have no "market based" distro system. The developing nation machines will still end up getting "lost" and end up on e-bay.
If the concept here is to show some distibutor that market demand exists, I still don't see the money, can they track any of us down to collect on this spur of the moment pledge?
I would happily put $300 in escrow if anybody can set that up, walking up to a distibutor and saying " I have $30,000,000 US that i can only spend on product X" would probably be a lot more likely to turn some heads then " we did this internet poll thing..."
I have a feeling that I'm going to be modded troll, but if you know how to program properly you can teach yourself any language without much difficulty and therefore tackle any challenge you place before yourself. Give yourself and insanely unrealistic task and then force yourself to follow through on it. If you can mentally build a road-map to making it happen, you're ok, if not, you may wish to try a new career or remedial programming courses.
For years I've been sending my child to school in the equivalent of a giant hamster ball made of thick foam. He'll never have to worry about getting hurt or getting a girl pregnant.
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Um... no... Google doesn't rely on trust to make them #1, they rely on giving the best end-user experience possible.
Look, you and I count ourselves among those that feel 'hurt' or 'betrayed' when Google does something that we feel is counter to their mission statement because we're geeks, but I promise you the other 99.98% of the world doesn't give a fuck. They just want the information that is most useful to them at the time they enter their search query.
Now I can play Need For Speed Most Wanted, and Need For Speed Black Edition at the same time, on different computers using only one steering wheel! The future has arrived!!!!!
Well... this IE only site provided me with much enjoyment...
http://drafzal.com/old/.
Can somebody clue me in? I'm not exactly sure what this is in reference to. Am I the only one who doesn't get the joke?
I liked everything you said, up to the last few sentences. Remember that MS's customers are not Unix geniuses... they are targeting people who want to use computers but don't know or care how they work. Just like Ford is targeting people who want to drive, but don't give a flying frick how their cars work... or how Bombardier makes planes for people who want to ride them, but not care how aerodynamics works.
My son fell off his bike and skinned his knee, so I bought him knee pads. Then he fell off his bike again and skinned his elbow, so I bought him elbow pads. He fell off and got a rock in his hand, so I bought him gloves and wrist guards. He then fell over in the park and got a goose-egg, so I bought him a helmet. Then he ran into a tree so I bought him a suit of body armor.
Now he has so much protection that he couldn't possibly hurt himself right?
What's that you say??? Give him lessons on how to ride his bike? Holy shit! I never thought of that!
To all those who say that PHP is weak because it doesn't protect the developer... I say you don't understand PHP or development very well at all.
Were I to interview a developer, I would ask to see 5 very short, but very different code samples. I would look to see that there is a consistency between all 5 of them in terms of scoping, declarations, comments, and even simple things like indentation and whether or not they consistently stick to studlyCaps or whatnot...
IMO, coding is exceptionally easy - it's all just functions, declarations, conditions, and loops. It is the ability to code CONSISTENTLY that makes one coder better than the next.
Um... at no point did I say that I was against telecommuting. I'm against flex hours. There is a difference... one is where you work from home, the other is where you're only guaranteed to be available to collaborate with your co-workers for about 3 hours per day.
As a programmer turned project manager, I can tell you this is an absolutely insane idea for any type of development environment.
Collaboration with peers and meetings are critical to making a project work. (As much as I hate meetings, they are a necessary evil wherein key decisions are made and critical information exchanged.)
The problem with flex time is that is pares down the number of hours in a day when everybody is actually AVAILABLE. People take early/late lunches, which means 11:30-1:30 is out, so that only leaves 3 hours in the day for cooperation. That's just not enough.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who pays attention. Fuck, MS just started checking MS Office installations for 'validity' and shutting them down in the Windows Update procedure, and suddenly now, 3 weeks before Vista launch, MS is coming out and saying there's a MAJOR Word flaw.... Geez... can we all stretch our brains to figure out what this is about?!
Please make me aware of the latest products that I can drool over...
Actually, it's a perfectly good name for the attack, since the request causes a .PHP file hosted on a remote server to be included and subsequently run. Perhaps a hyphen might help those who are hung up on it: "Remote-File Inclusion".
Here's an example of an RFI attack designed to exploit a bit of sloppy coding in PHP Nuke.
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Am I the only one who read the summary 4 times and still had no idea what information it was attempting to convey?
You'll still beat Duke Nukem' to market.
- Claims that the kid was 15, but in university - when I was 15, I was in grade 9
- Implies strongly that the person was in a different country, but came to visit when lured in by boss - think about it... how does a 15 year old a) afford plane fare; b) get away from his parents.
Good story though...This is from 2005! Her computer was a PII 75 running Windows 95. The basic problem is that it had been overrun by viruses. A one hour fix if I had taken out her hard drive, plunked it into my repair PC and done a virus scan... but she refused to allow her machine out of her house for fear that I would steal it. Rather than entrust her $50 PC to me, she instead payed me $280 in house-call fees while I sat there for 8 hours with my arms crossed, watching AVG do it's stuff.
I for one welcome the death of that used-up meme.
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I see a small bug in this pledge. Where is the distribution mechanism? If we had some way to say, put our $300 in an escrow account and were able to pay for a super efficient distribution center (and where to put it is another issue) then perhaps interest on the sitting cash could pay to get these things distributed, but we still have no "market based" distro system. The developing nation machines will still end up getting "lost" and end up on e-bay.
If the concept here is to show some distibutor that market demand exists, I still don't see the money, can they track any of us down to collect on this spur of the moment pledge?
I would happily put $300 in escrow if anybody can set that up, walking up to a distibutor and saying " I have $30,000,000 US that i can only spend on product X" would probably be a lot more likely to turn some heads then " we did this internet poll thing..."
No, you're not the only one missing the obviousness, but you are missing a few steps:
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5. Profit!
...that I feel I can waste slashdot's time rating the superhunks.
I have a feeling that I'm going to be modded troll, but if you know how to program properly you can teach yourself any language without much difficulty and therefore tackle any challenge you place before yourself. Give yourself and insanely unrealistic task and then force yourself to follow through on it. If you can mentally build a road-map to making it happen, you're ok, if not, you may wish to try a new career or remedial programming courses.
...but they can't stop the election rigging by way of gerymandering that is prevalent in Québec.
The Coke site says that you'll need to drink three cans in order to burn between 60 and 100 calories.
A male weighing about 180 pounds burns off about 60 calories with 15 minutes of mild walking activity.
Hmm... that sounds like about the time it takes to make 3 trips to the drink machine, doesn't it?
For years I've been sending my child to school in the equivalent of a giant hamster ball made of thick foam. He'll never have to worry about getting hurt or getting a girl pregnant.
See point #1.
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