They're obviously targeting morons who find that kind of sentence alluring (and need monotone sans-serif font design sexy) - worried they can just sell anal-ytics on the back of the google brand.
The tree on MSDN ("deeptree") has been using the XML object to dynamically load leafs/nodes for atleast 3/4 years, way before some beret-wearing web designer coined it "Ajax".
It shows though that they didn't have the foresight to create an internal department just for making web APIs - which is probably a side effect of having such an enormous company. Or just having the company led by its marketing/legal team rather than technology.
Possibly the worst ranking system I've seen is the World of Warcraft PVP ranking system. It basically rewards how often you play the game rather than the system which I'm use to in FPS - kills:death ratio.
The system has 14 ranks, which get progressively harder as you get higher up. The amount of damage you deal to a person decides how much 'honor' you get. Your honor is added up and your rank improves each week.
Now the problem with this is obviously the more you play, the more honor you get (much like XP).
In order to overtake ranks above you and achieve the top rank, you have to compete with their honor. With people playing all day everyday this is virtually unachievable to anyone but students or the unemployed.
Why reach the top rank? Well the rewards (weapons,armour) are within the top 3 in the game. This is the only reason I play (I don't have time to dedicate 5 hours a night to go to Molten Core or Black Wing Lair - and besides being a Paladin means I never get the decent sword as it will always go to a Warrior or Rogue. I get stuck with 'epic' armour that is meant for player-versus-environment healing).
I'm hoping they make the system a lot more intelligent in the future. Not kill:death ratio based, but make the objectives give much greater honor rewards, reward teamplay: e.g. healing,traps,saps and also honor-per-time-played used instead of the stupid grind crap at the moment.
What's with the three dots? It really f***ing bugs this shit out of me when people write "..." in a game or in IRC after you say something. Is it meant to mean you've typed something stupid or something? Is it a virtual silence? The person doing it just comes across as a giant a-hole to me.
I believe the place that Java users discuss their religion (and the evils of that new satanic cult C#/.NET that is taking our jobs and women) is comp.lang.java.advocacy
If the competition comes down to UI/useability I think Star Office and OpenOffice are a long way behind MS Office, both tending to looki like cheap shareware applications at the moment
"...use software that saves files in open formats (see pages 25 and 26).".
Following from this, it probably won't be long until government bodies follow suit in the UK, and the trend spreads from country to country.
Microsoft will then definitely be forced to support the OpenDocument standard, or someone will get very rich writing plugin to do so.
Office vs competition will then be down to features and useability rather than format tie-ins (Microsoft purposely tieing people to their products surely stems from a satanic Sales/Marketing department rather than evil developers).
If the competition comes down to UI/useability I think Star Office and OpenOffice are a long way behind MS Office, both tending to looki like cheap shareware applications at the moment. Which then leaves the doorway open for a company to take OpenOffice, pretty-fy it and sell it for a vastly reduced amount compared to Office (unless the license restricts this?)
Here's a novel idea, instead of fannying about trying to stop people copying your films (which people always will), you join the 21st century and make your films distributed on an internet download site, with a reduction of $2 on the cinema price.
It's a barmy idea that Apple and Napster tried, but it might just work!
I've read the bbc news website is the most visited website in the UK, so it's probably the best indication of what UK people use to browse the web.
I wonder how many of the IE stats are Opera however.
if Digital River are in on it, you can guarantee their system will be a big bucket of steaming dog plop. Having dealt with them when buying Symantec products online, I can vouch for the piss poor customer service and strange e-commerce system that makes re-downloading the software near on impossible and a Krypton Factor style challenge.
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Wow, I didn't realise the court case happened over IRC
Anyone notice the shift in the design of this site? From the google slightly-childish look, to big bold buzzwords displayed in a sans-serif font:
i ty.html
http://www.google.com/analytics/conversionunivers
'Learn. Explore. Profit'
They're obviously targeting morons who find that kind of sentence alluring (and need monotone sans-serif font design sexy) - worried they can just sell anal-ytics on the back of the google brand.
It's lucky they provided screenshots, I was wondering how different it would look on x86.
You're new here aren't you
The tree on MSDN ("deeptree") has been using the XML object to dynamically load leafs/nodes for atleast 3/4 years, way before some beret-wearing web designer coined it "Ajax".
It shows though that they didn't have the foresight to create an internal department just for making web APIs - which is probably a side effect of having such an enormous company. Or just having the company led by its marketing/legal team rather than technology.
Note the article doesn't use the word 'leaked' anywhere
Possibly the worst ranking system I've seen is the World of Warcraft PVP ranking system. It basically rewards how often you play the game rather than the system which I'm use to in FPS - kills:death ratio.
The system has 14 ranks, which get progressively harder as you get higher up. The amount of damage you deal to a person decides how much 'honor' you get. Your honor is added up and your rank improves each week.
Now the problem with this is obviously the more you play, the more honor you get (much like XP).
In order to overtake ranks above you and achieve the top rank, you have to compete with their honor. With people playing all day everyday this is virtually unachievable to anyone but students or the unemployed.
Why reach the top rank? Well the rewards (weapons,armour) are within the top 3 in the game. This is the only reason I play (I don't have time to dedicate 5 hours a night to go to Molten Core or Black Wing Lair - and besides being a Paladin means I never get the decent sword as it will always go to a Warrior or Rogue. I get stuck with 'epic' armour that is meant for player-versus-environment healing).
I'm hoping they make the system a lot more intelligent in the future. Not kill:death ratio based, but make the objectives give much greater honor rewards, reward teamplay: e.g. healing,traps,saps and also honor-per-time-played used instead of the stupid grind crap at the moment.
When will you hippies realise that communism doesn't work, and never will work!
From the looks of their templates, the public isn't missing much. Verdana with blocky table like templates. Maybe I'm just use to paying a designer.
sorry but it comes accross as the linguistical tool of the socially inept. Why not just say you shouldn't be using borland command liner compiler. ...
What's with the three dots? It really f***ing bugs this shit out of me when people write "..." in a game or in IRC after you say something. Is it meant to mean you've typed something stupid or something? Is it a virtual silence? The person doing it just comes across as a giant a-hole to me.
My point was would you find those definitions in Encyclopedia Britanica?
I remember a few weeks ago when Pegging appeared in the 'Did you know...' section on the front page (with a description!).
I wonder if this and others will make it into the print version?! Here's a few others that will help to educate the children
Tea bagging
Scissor sisters
Soggie biscuit
I believe the place that Java users discuss their religion (and the evils of that new satanic cult C#/.NET that is taking our jobs and women) is comp.lang.java.advocacy
If the competition comes down to UI/useability I think Star Office and OpenOffice are a long way behind MS Office, both tending to looki like cheap shareware applications at the moment
This title sounds like the start of a joke
Reading http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200510261 95537674 describes how the body responsible for advising UK schools on IT policies (BECTA) is planning to force schools to
"...use software that saves files in open formats (see pages 25 and 26).".
Following from this, it probably won't be long until government bodies follow suit in the UK, and the trend spreads from country to country.
Microsoft will then definitely be forced to support the OpenDocument standard, or someone will get very rich writing plugin to do so.
Office vs competition will then be down to features and useability rather than format tie-ins (Microsoft purposely tieing people to their products surely stems from a satanic Sales/Marketing department rather than evil developers).
If the competition comes down to UI/useability I think Star Office and OpenOffice are a long way behind MS Office, both tending to looki like cheap shareware applications at the moment. Which then leaves the doorway open for a company to take OpenOffice, pretty-fy it and sell it for a vastly reduced amount compared to Office (unless the license restricts this?)
Oh well if it's written in Wikipedia it must be factually correct
The web, powered by 10-18 year olds downloading free php/mysql/apache photo album/blogging/forum software.
We're so privileged to have such a huge information superhighway at our fingertips.
Not all PHP users are 10-18 year olds using premade scripts of course.
Here's a novel idea, instead of fannying about trying to stop people copying your films (which people always will), you join the 21st century and make your films distributed on an internet download site, with a reduction of $2 on the cinema price.
It's a barmy idea that Apple and Napster tried, but it might just work!
I've read the bbc news website is the most visited website in the UK, so it's probably the best indication of what UK people use to browse the web. I wonder how many of the IE stats are Opera however.
That looks like a feature list for SQL Server back in 1998
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/20/124322 4&from=rss
The key word there, [b]suppose[/b] to
if Digital River are in on it, you can guarantee their system will be a big bucket of steaming dog plop. Having dealt with them when buying Symantec products online, I can vouch for the piss poor customer service and strange e-commerce system that makes re-downloading the software near on impossible and a Krypton Factor style challenge.