I'd be interested to know how many people who have worked in IT, have seen it from the inside and decided it sucks enough to go elsewhere. I've been a web developer for several years with a university CS degree and I still make under $20 / hour Canadian and I do boring repetitive work. I for one am trying to move into project management and then business management for my long term interests: money, security, and interesting work. IT doesn't pay crap in my city (southern Ontario).
I've read lots of posts about how most people use webmail or whatever their ISP gives them. Well.... that may be true but we all know that the really cool ninjas own their own domain so they can create unlimited email addresses, spam-traps, forwards, mail lists and all kinds of other ninja-like cool stuff. Every time I see a techie person who's using his/her cogeco or hotmail address, I just laugh.
I use the Lightening calendar extension for Thunderbird. It's ok. Nowhere near as full featured as Outlook's calendar, but it gets the job done.
I really wish it would scroll the calendar with the mouse wheel though.
But I totally agree, a solid calendar is what will really bring Thunderbird into the mainstream. You! Mozilla developers! Focus on Lightening please!:)
Not only that but it forces Canadian visitors to get lots and sends us to zip.ca. What? I'm not even allowed to look around the movielink website? Pffft. Idiots.
Wow, this strikes me as the most absurd article I've read in a long time on so many levels. I hardly know where to start.
I think that the original writer of the article is confused because it's called 'Money' or gold in the virtual game. But it really isn't. It's a digital file. Period. Maybe all the virtual games should reword 'gold' to be called something like 'Points'. Then the tax lawyers won't be confused. Then again, they might start taxing all the PacMan and Bejeweled players for all their Points earned. Hahahaaha.
What exactly are we taxing here? People's hobbies? What about:
- My 'valuable' belongings I acquired in Animal Crossing? -My upgraded weapons in Resident Evil 4? - My library of articles I've written for my website?
The theme here is that people can work all day long on something to create an item of value. But unless it's being sold in the real world for real money, then we don't tax it. And in most online games this is illegal (against the terms).
The fact that it's virtual money makes it harder to grasp, but you can boil it down to any real world example:
Suppose my Aunt likes to make scrapbooks. She pays an initial taxed cost for supplies (buying WoW in the store). She then spends hours upon hours making a beautiful scrapbook (a rich high-level character). The scrapbook has value, but if she keeps it for herself or gives it as a gift (the virtual gold stays in the virtual world) then taxation doesn't apply. But, if my aunt tries to sell the scrapbook (say she made it for someone else), then it should get taxed with a sales tax. But there are laws that you don't have to pay sales tax until you start making like $30,000 per year (in Canada). So if I just ebay a bunch of my furniture, I don't have to collect sales tax from the buyer.
If the in-game currency or items get legally sold for real money, then fine, go ahead and tax away. Otherwise, I would urge the US gov to try using money management skills to get out of their hole, rather than taxing their citizens to death.
One thing I'm confused on... is IF the ISPs were allowed to charge you a fee for your content to be downloaded faster... and suppose I'm a content provider. Does that mean I'd have to pay a fee to every ISP in the United States? Ug.
And what if I'm a content provider in another country, would I have to pay a fee to all the USA ISPs to ensure my content gets to Americans quickly?
Sounds unreasonable just on the basis of logistics. Add to that the sheer stupid unfairness of it and I don't see how politicians can even consider it.
Isn't this like airlines charging overweight people more for their tickets? Or wait... charging famous people or frequent fliers more?
Why buy HP/Dell/Gateway/Etc at all? My horrid experience with HP has scared me off of buying any of these pre-fab systems ever again. Now I have one custom built at my local computer-geeks store. Then I can choose what ever OS I want.
Oh wait... we're trying to get it out to all the non-geeks. Oh yeah.;)
"Web apps need to be written in proper code, with MVC, and templates, not as code embedded in individual pages."
No kidding? Have you ever seen a quality application written in PHP- it can do all these things and more. I've written many quality PHP applications that use a modified MVC architecture and has all the PHP code separate from the output templates. On top of that it uses OO where it makes sense to do so, it's fast and secure.
It helps to know what you're talking about before you spout off. Just because lots of people build rickety shacks out of stone, doesn't mean you can't build a solid castle out of it too.
It's this kind of generalization that pisses me off. It's not the language, it's your crappy skills.
Isn't this kind of BASIC file management one of the core purposes of an operating system? Seems like this of all things should work perfectly and blazing fast.
Makes me think of a car company making a new car with all the bells and whistles, but it's not good at turning or going in reverse. HA!
Personally I think it's all a load of BS. If they really cared about our privacy, and if all they really needed my IP addy for is to aggregate my searches to 'better serve me', then all they have to do is one-way hash my IP addy. Then they can still tie all my searches together, and my gmail and such, but they wouldn't be able to back track it. And the govn't could demand all they want... you want the IP of the user who searched this? Here it is Mr. Bush... go nuts: x867:%dsgfk435j>67&*g[fg
So forgive me if I don't get all thankful for Google's big gesture. Heh.
I must be the only one who doesn't want a cellphone combined with my PDA / mp3 player. You have to choose between a nice big and wide screen (a la the Palm TX) or a small sleek phone. I don't want to choose. I don't even have a cell phone, but I guess that makes me the only person on the planet in this group. In fact, maybe I'll be the only person left on the planet in the literal sense... when all you phone addicts die of brain cancer... mwa hahahaaa.:)
I can't be the only one using a live bookmark to view the list of slashdot stories. I'm friggin sick of the the title looking interesting and then the story actually being totally different than the title suggested.
This is news for nerds. Be precise in your gawd damned titles!! Stop the puns and the witty crap. It's starting to sound like Fox news.:
"Coming up at 10:00, are apples bad for you? Dum dum dummmm find out on the 10:00 news!..... Welcome to fox news, are apples bad for you? No! Studies show they really do keep the doctor away! Fool ya!"
I'm sick of getting fooled into clicking over to/. I'm pretty close to giving up on/. completely. The stories are of such brainless quality lately. What happened to the hardcore science and tech articles we used to get? The truly fascinating stuff? Sheesh. First HowStuffWorks and now this site.
I never understood why creationists are so anti-evolution. Is it so inconceivable that God had a hand in the evolution of humans? Sounds more realistic than 'poof' one man and one woman. All done.
I think evolution is a scientific fact and that it is just miraculous enough to possibly be god-inspired. Why do these fools have to fight about this? Oh yeah, because if you don't believe the bible was faxed to us word-for-word from heaven, then you're going straight to hell. *sigh*
BG&E is one of the best games I've played, but I never really noticed any 'race' for Jade. I guess I just assumed she was white since I am. Or that she was whatever race people are on her planet. I guess that means a non-earth race?
I think the fact that other people see her in whatever way they prefer is a testament to excellent character design. Just one of the small touches that made that game great. (still crossing my fingers for a sequel)
Oh man, Bell must be rubbing it's hands together with glee. Considering that many smaller ISPs in Canada are acutaly resellers for Bell, I wonder if this means Bell can also slow down any content that is flowing through their resellers' accounts.
The day I notice this in my day-to-day browsing is the day my ISP gets a call from a VERY pissed customer. I bet ISPs who don't do this will get a flood of people switching to them.
The report does not say that humans are the ONLY cause. Just one of the big ones.
Can someone tell me what the global-warming-is-not-happening and if-it-is-happening-it-isn't-humans-fault people are trying to accomplish? Suppose that global warming wasn't happening at all. Do these people want us to keep pumping crap into our land sea and air? As long as the world is not heating up, the acid rain, increase in lung disease, damage to ecosystems and the damn soot on my car (and in my lungs) every morning are all ok? Let's just keep going as we are? Really? What are they trying to accomplish by being against a reduction in pollutants? Sheesh.
I can almost smell out the/. comments here that were made by folks with a 'damage control' agenda against the report. All you Exxon employees go home, we don't want you here.
The report does not say that humans are the ONLY cause and that there are NO non-human causes. In fact it states that human causes are ONE major source among others. Read first and spew nonsense later.
I am still patiently waiting for a Linux version to come out that can be used by someone with ZERO sys-admin skills. I'll be the first one in line when it comes out. Come on Ubuntu or some other flavor, just polish that last 10%. *sigh* But then what about all my games? What a no-win situation this is. Guess I'll be stuck on XP forever. *sob*
I really wish that software could run independent of OS. No this isn't a vote for Java either.
I read many comments on the article to the tune that we should get 'those countries' that harbour the spammers to track them down and punish them. And what country would want these scum in their borders? etc, etc.
Ha! Don't make me laugh! Many spammers are located in countries with MUCH bigger problems like disease, famine, war, poverty etc. I'm sure that some jerks in a crummy computer lab are low on the list of priorities of the local and federal governments. Heck, I bet some of them are seen as local Robin Hoods stealing from the rich idots and bringing money home to poor families.
We'll never get them to stop by law enforcement. The only solution is to get spamming to be a waste of time. Ie- make people stop opening, clicking on, reading,and buying things from spam. Who are these idiots? Probably someone you know who is not very technically literate. Got a grandparent or relative who's just been given a new computer? Educate them. I also love it when the media publishes stories of people who got scammed. Then this will help other people learn from their mistakes. Until buying from spam stops - spam will never stop.
My family laughed at how paranoid I am about giving out my email address. My dad signed up for every darn newsletter and survey he encountered online and rolled his eyes at my warnings. Now he gets hundreds and hundreds of un-filterable spams a day to an email address he must keep for business purposes. Told him so!;)
Slashdot Mirror
a little more action.
Instead of slamming the competition, these companies need to focus on their own products. Way to sound petty Steve Ballmer.
I'd be interested to know how many people who have worked in IT, have seen it from the inside and decided it sucks enough to go elsewhere. I've been a web developer for several years with a university CS degree and I still make under $20 / hour Canadian and I do boring repetitive work. I for one am trying to move into project management and then business management for my long term interests: money, security, and interesting work. IT doesn't pay crap in my city (southern Ontario).
I've read lots of posts about how most people use webmail or whatever their ISP gives them. Well.... that may be true but we all know that the really cool ninjas own their own domain so they can create unlimited email addresses, spam-traps, forwards, mail lists and all kinds of other ninja-like cool stuff. Every time I see a techie person who's using his/her cogeco or hotmail address, I just laugh.
:)
Yes, I am a cool email ninja.
I use the Lightening calendar extension for Thunderbird. It's ok. Nowhere near as full featured as Outlook's calendar, but it gets the job done.
:)
I really wish it would scroll the calendar with the mouse wheel though.
But I totally agree, a solid calendar is what will really bring Thunderbird into the mainstream. You! Mozilla developers! Focus on Lightening please!
Not only that but it forces Canadian visitors to get lots and sends us to zip.ca. What? I'm not even allowed to look around the movielink website? Pffft. Idiots.
These TVs should come with a free Wii! *evil laugh*
I was thinking the same thing. Some people have more money than brains.
Wow, this strikes me as the most absurd article I've read in a long time on so many levels. I hardly know where to start.
I think that the original writer of the article is confused because it's called 'Money' or gold in the virtual game. But it really isn't. It's a digital file. Period. Maybe all the virtual games should reword 'gold' to be called something like 'Points'. Then the tax lawyers won't be confused. Then again, they might start taxing all the PacMan and Bejeweled players for all their Points earned. Hahahaaha.
What exactly are we taxing here? People's hobbies? What about:
- My 'valuable' belongings I acquired in Animal Crossing?
-My upgraded weapons in Resident Evil 4?
- My library of articles I've written for my website?
The theme here is that people can work all day long on something to create an item of value. But unless it's being sold in the real world for real money, then we don't tax it. And in most online games this is illegal (against the terms).
The fact that it's virtual money makes it harder to grasp, but you can boil it down to any real world example:
Suppose my Aunt likes to make scrapbooks. She pays an initial taxed cost for supplies (buying WoW in the store). She then spends hours upon hours making a beautiful scrapbook (a rich high-level character). The scrapbook has value, but if she keeps it for herself or gives it as a gift (the virtual gold stays in the virtual world) then taxation doesn't apply. But, if my aunt tries to sell the scrapbook (say she made it for someone else), then it should get taxed with a sales tax. But there are laws that you don't have to pay sales tax until you start making like $30,000 per year (in Canada). So if I just ebay a bunch of my furniture, I don't have to collect sales tax from the buyer.
If the in-game currency or items get legally sold for real money, then fine, go ahead and tax away. Otherwise, I would urge the US gov to try using money management skills to get out of their hole, rather than taxing their citizens to death.
I am amazed that people would stand for this.
amen (mod parent up).
One thing I'm confused on... is IF the ISPs were allowed to charge you a fee for your content to be downloaded faster... and suppose I'm a content provider. Does that mean I'd have to pay a fee to every ISP in the United States? Ug.
And what if I'm a content provider in another country, would I have to pay a fee to all the USA ISPs to ensure my content gets to Americans quickly?
Sounds unreasonable just on the basis of logistics. Add to that the sheer stupid unfairness of it and I don't see how politicians can even consider it.
Isn't this like airlines charging overweight people more for their tickets? Or wait... charging famous people or frequent fliers more?
Bah!
Why buy HP/Dell/Gateway/Etc at all? My horrid experience with HP has scared me off of buying any of these pre-fab systems ever again. Now I have one custom built at my local computer-geeks store. Then I can choose what ever OS I want.
;)
Oh wait... we're trying to get it out to all the non-geeks. Oh yeah.
"Web apps need to be written in proper code, with MVC, and templates, not as code embedded in individual pages."
No kidding? Have you ever seen a quality application written in PHP- it can do all these things and more. I've written many quality PHP applications that use a modified MVC architecture and has all the PHP code separate from the output templates. On top of that it uses OO where it makes sense to do so, it's fast and secure.
It helps to know what you're talking about before you spout off. Just because lots of people build rickety shacks out of stone, doesn't mean you can't build a solid castle out of it too.
It's this kind of generalization that pisses me off. It's not the language, it's your crappy skills.
Isn't this kind of BASIC file management one of the core purposes of an operating system? Seems like this of all things should work perfectly and blazing fast.
Makes me think of a car company making a new car with all the bells and whistles, but it's not good at turning or going in reverse. HA!
So pathetic. I'm sticking with XP for now.
Personally I think it's all a load of BS. If they really cared about our privacy, and if all they really needed my IP addy for is to aggregate my searches to 'better serve me', then all they have to do is one-way hash my IP addy. Then they can still tie all my searches together, and my gmail and such, but they wouldn't be able to back track it. And the govn't could demand all they want... you want the IP of the user who searched this? Here it is Mr. Bush... go nuts: x867:%dsgfk435j>67&*g[fg
So forgive me if I don't get all thankful for Google's big gesture. Heh.
I must be the only one who doesn't want a cellphone combined with my PDA / mp3 player. You have to choose between a nice big and wide screen (a la the Palm TX) or a small sleek phone. I don't want to choose. I don't even have a cell phone, but I guess that makes me the only person on the planet in this group. In fact, maybe I'll be the only person left on the planet in the literal sense... when all you phone addicts die of brain cancer... mwa hahahaaa. :)
I can't be the only one using a live bookmark to view the list of slashdot stories. I'm friggin sick of the the title looking interesting and then the story actually being totally different than the title suggested.
..... Welcome to fox news, are apples bad for you? No! Studies show they really do keep the doctor away! Fool ya!"
/. I'm pretty close to giving up on /. completely. The stories are of such brainless quality lately. What happened to the hardcore science and tech articles we used to get? The truly fascinating stuff? Sheesh. First HowStuffWorks and now this site.
This is news for nerds. Be precise in your gawd damned titles!! Stop the puns and the witty crap. It's starting to sound like Fox news.:
"Coming up at 10:00, are apples bad for you? Dum dum dummmm find out on the 10:00 news!
I'm sick of getting fooled into clicking over to
Stupid. Just Stupid.
I never understood why creationists are so anti-evolution. Is it so inconceivable that God had a hand in the evolution of humans? Sounds more realistic than 'poof' one man and one woman. All done.
I think evolution is a scientific fact and that it is just miraculous enough to possibly be god-inspired. Why do these fools have to fight about this? Oh yeah, because if you don't believe the bible was faxed to us word-for-word from heaven, then you're going straight to hell. *sigh*
BG&E is one of the best games I've played, but I never really noticed any 'race' for Jade. I guess I just assumed she was white since I am. Or that she was whatever race people are on her planet. I guess that means a non-earth race?
I think the fact that other people see her in whatever way they prefer is a testament to excellent character design. Just one of the small touches that made that game great. (still crossing my fingers for a sequel)
Yes, I believe that would work. Gmail allows you to grab up to 5 other email accounts (via pop3).
If you tried to send those back to the original account though, you might get a loop going.
I have found that Gmail's spam filters catch almost everything. And I have not experienced a false positive yet.
Oh man, Bell must be rubbing it's hands together with glee. Considering that many smaller ISPs in Canada are acutaly resellers for Bell, I wonder if this means Bell can also slow down any content that is flowing through their resellers' accounts.
The day I notice this in my day-to-day browsing is the day my ISP gets a call from a VERY pissed customer. I bet ISPs who don't do this will get a flood of people switching to them.
Amen! You said it.
Did the VHS people try to bribe studies against DVDs?
Innovate you idiots.
The report does not say that humans are the ONLY cause. Just one of the big ones.
/. comments here that were made by folks with a 'damage control' agenda against the report. All you Exxon employees go home, we don't want you here.
Can someone tell me what the global-warming-is-not-happening and if-it-is-happening-it-isn't-humans-fault people are trying to accomplish? Suppose that global warming wasn't happening at all. Do these people want us to keep pumping crap into our land sea and air? As long as the world is not heating up, the acid rain, increase in lung disease, damage to ecosystems and the damn soot on my car (and in my lungs) every morning are all ok? Let's just keep going as we are? Really? What are they trying to accomplish by being against a reduction in pollutants? Sheesh.
I can almost smell out the
The report does not say that humans are the ONLY cause and that there are NO non-human causes. In fact it states that human causes are ONE major source among others. Read first and spew nonsense later.
I am still patiently waiting for a Linux version to come out that can be used by someone with ZERO sys-admin skills. I'll be the first one in line when it comes out. Come on Ubuntu or some other flavor, just polish that last 10%.
*sigh* But then what about all my games? What a no-win situation this is. Guess I'll be stuck on XP forever. *sob*
I really wish that software could run independent of OS. No this isn't a vote for Java either.
I read many comments on the article to the tune that we should get 'those countries' that harbour the spammers to track them down and punish them. And what country would want these scum in their borders? etc, etc.
;)
Ha! Don't make me laugh! Many spammers are located in countries with MUCH bigger problems like disease, famine, war, poverty etc. I'm sure that some jerks in a crummy computer lab are low on the list of priorities of the local and federal governments. Heck, I bet some of them are seen as local Robin Hoods stealing from the rich idots and bringing money home to poor families.
We'll never get them to stop by law enforcement. The only solution is to get spamming to be a waste of time. Ie- make people stop opening, clicking on, reading,and buying things from spam. Who are these idiots? Probably someone you know who is not very technically literate. Got a grandparent or relative who's just been given a new computer? Educate them. I also love it when the media publishes stories of people who got scammed. Then this will help other people learn from their mistakes. Until buying from spam stops - spam will never stop.
My family laughed at how paranoid I am about giving out my email address. My dad signed up for every darn newsletter and survey he encountered online and rolled his eyes at my warnings. Now he gets hundreds and hundreds of un-filterable spams a day to an email address he must keep for business purposes. Told him so!