Absolutely right. Done correctly, websites can degrade gracefully without a lot of intervention from the developer. And in doing so, you can create a site that's easily extensible for further development.
Do yourself a favor and get Bulletproof Web Design http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof /. It's a fantastic book and will give you a good into into how you can make changes now that pay dividends all they way back to lynx.
Where I work, I convinced the mail admin to open up a shared spam folder for certain people to contribute their spam. Every night, this folder is scanned and my spam, which actually comes from several different off-site accounts via one mail app, and beefs up the filtering for everyone. This is good, but limited.
We can't trust too many people with this, of course, because emails from our President would quickly be marked as spam.
But what about on a larger scale? Not my company, but on the Internet in general? Is there any way to accomplish something similar? A global spam folder? Or is time and energy better spent just tracking down the spammers once and for all? What does the little guy do in the meantime?
To finish, a story about the last spam that fooled me. It had the subject "Save the rainforest." Wow, that seems like a good cause! Sure! I open it:
It's also reasonable that people who want yesterday's episode will either wait a week (month, whatever) for the reduced pricing or just go back to stealing it. Bad PR and no increased profit, whichever method people choose.
If you know the price will drop in a week, you'll wait. This isn't a limited commodity where, when the price drops, people are going to buy up what's left in stock and leave you out in the cold.
I don't know that he knew pacing. Lucas didn't direct Empire or Jedi. He also had help writing those 2.
Since then, he's written and directed all 3 of the new episodes. And it shows.
It's like Risk, but without all of the random elements. Diplomacy is all about making those alliances, rivalries, and back-stabs without having to roll the dice. Your strategy works because you planned correctly, keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Or it doesn't work because someone decided to turn on you one turn before you planned on doing the same to them.
Once I played Diplomacy, I never went back to Risk.
Cringley talked about this last week. The VCs are running out of time to use the money they have, so instead of giving it back (as well as refunding the fees they charged to manage it), they're going to start putting it into everything they can.
This is both good and bad. Obviously, money is going to go into things that aren't really going to go anywhere. Money will also go into things that sorely need it and will produce something good.
The question is whether or not we remember the lessons learned just a short time ago. Will we all follow those investors and jack up the market on pie-in-the-sky dreams of hitting it big the easy way? Or will we hold back, actually research these things, and maybe play it a bit more conservatively?
Judging from the spam I get, I think more people will be into putting their life savings into the hot stocks again. Maybe the rest of us can use that to our advantage.
...for better security and anti-spyware. It's called "Longhorn".
They're really going to spin this right in front of the consumer's eyes. They distributed a buggy, hole-ridden system to some huge percentage of computers out there, and now they'll charge people to get off of it with the promise of fixes to these holes.
What I really don't get (or like) is how they'll charge for the betas when they come out. I thought that was the most ridiculous thing when I saw it for XP. Who the hell pays money to test their pre-release software? I can understand downloading and testing a beta for free for the good of the community, but to offload testing costs to the consumer (perhaps even making a profit!) is either stupidity or genius.
Actually, I guess it's genius, considering the success of the program.
I used to date a woman who did PR and marketing for MS, so you can imagine we had some in-depth and sometimes heated discussions about MS vs. Linux and Macs.
Well, one day we were going hiking, and she presented me with a really nice backback. The only issue with it was that it had the MS logo emblazoned all over it. Of course, she knew I wouldn't refuse it.
Anyway, she said to me, "Isn't that nice? See? What'd RedHat ever give you for free?"
While I agree with you that space exploration should get more funding, the $100billion+ that he wants for war doesn't go to car bombs. It goes to prevent them.
If you want fewer pictures of grisly car bombs, something has to be done about the car bombers. And it's not us.
But this is a completely different topic. Where's the pretty space pictures?!
Star Trek hasn't changed much since TNG. TNG was great TV, and I felt like DS9 was, too (once Sisco/Hawk shaved his head and became a badass), but after that...
Farscape was what did it for me. It showed me that sci-fi TV coud be smart AND funny AND fast-paced AND well-written AND imaginative AND everything else that Star Trek is not anymore and hasn't been for a long time.
I was complaining to a friend about how all ST shows had gotten so slow. They plod to each commercial break until someone reverses some polarity and makes everything better. He disagreed with me, but karma was on my side. That night, the episode of Enterprise that was on featured some sort of gooey space alien that was in a cargo hold or something, and everybody who went in got caught in it, suspended in gooey tentacles.
Slowest. Monster. Ever. Just like the ST franchise these days.
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Because 10 90-pound weaklings is still 900 pounds.
WTF? Is that possible? Did a traveling salesman just try to cross the road to change a lightbulb?!
Absolutely right. Done correctly, websites can degrade gracefully without a lot of intervention from the developer. And in doing so, you can create a site that's easily extensible for further development.
f /. It's a fantastic book and will give you a good into into how you can make changes now that pay dividends all they way back to lynx.
Do yourself a favor and get Bulletproof Web Design http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproo
One effort to help with documentation is an annotated API, like the PHP docs:
http://rails.outertrack.com/
Shoot, I meant from the President of our company, but that's funny. :)
Where I work, I convinced the mail admin to open up a shared spam folder for certain people to contribute their spam. Every night, this folder is scanned and my spam, which actually comes from several different off-site accounts via one mail app, and beefs up the filtering for everyone. This is good, but limited.
We can't trust too many people with this, of course, because emails from our President would quickly be marked as spam.
But what about on a larger scale? Not my company, but on the Internet in general? Is there any way to accomplish something similar? A global spam folder? Or is time and energy better spent just tracking down the spammers once and for all? What does the little guy do in the meantime?
To finish, a story about the last spam that fooled me. It had the subject "Save the rainforest." Wow, that seems like a good cause! Sure! I open it:
"WITH YOUR ENORMOUS FIREHOSE!"
Had to give them points for that one.
It's also reasonable that people who want yesterday's episode will either wait a week (month, whatever) for the reduced pricing or just go back to stealing it. Bad PR and no increased profit, whichever method people choose.
If you know the price will drop in a week, you'll wait. This isn't a limited commodity where, when the price drops, people are going to buy up what's left in stock and leave you out in the cold.
I don't know that he knew pacing. Lucas didn't direct Empire or Jedi. He also had help writing those 2. Since then, he's written and directed all 3 of the new episodes. And it shows.
It's like Risk, but without all of the random elements. Diplomacy is all about making those alliances, rivalries, and back-stabs without having to roll the dice. Your strategy works because you planned correctly, keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Or it doesn't work because someone decided to turn on you one turn before you planned on doing the same to them.
Once I played Diplomacy, I never went back to Risk.
I don't understand. Is this alien spam or the synopsis of a Hentai movie?
Cringley talked about this last week. The VCs are running out of time to use the money they have, so instead of giving it back (as well as refunding the fees they charged to manage it), they're going to start putting it into everything they can.
This is both good and bad. Obviously, money is going to go into things that aren't really going to go anywhere. Money will also go into things that sorely need it and will produce something good.
The question is whether or not we remember the lessons learned just a short time ago. Will we all follow those investors and jack up the market on pie-in-the-sky dreams of hitting it big the easy way? Or will we hold back, actually research these things, and maybe play it a bit more conservatively?
Judging from the spam I get, I think more people will be into putting their life savings into the hot stocks again. Maybe the rest of us can use that to our advantage.
1.21 gigawatts?!
...for better security and anti-spyware. It's called "Longhorn".
They're really going to spin this right in front of the consumer's eyes. They distributed a buggy, hole-ridden system to some huge percentage of computers out there, and now they'll charge people to get off of it with the promise of fixes to these holes.
What I really don't get (or like) is how they'll charge for the betas when they come out. I thought that was the most ridiculous thing when I saw it for XP. Who the hell pays money to test their pre-release software? I can understand downloading and testing a beta for free for the good of the community, but to offload testing costs to the consumer (perhaps even making a profit!) is either stupidity or genius.
Actually, I guess it's genius, considering the success of the program.
You might also want to wish that you're not as speedy as the star.
I used to date a woman who did PR and marketing for MS, so you can imagine we had some in-depth and sometimes heated discussions about MS vs. Linux and Macs.
Well, one day we were going hiking, and she presented me with a really nice backback. The only issue with it was that it had the MS logo emblazoned all over it. Of course, she knew I wouldn't refuse it.
Anyway, she said to me, "Isn't that nice? See? What'd RedHat ever give you for free?"
I replied, "An operating system."
That was one long, quiet hike.
While I agree with you that space exploration should get more funding, the $100billion+ that he wants for war doesn't go to car bombs. It goes to prevent them.
If you want fewer pictures of grisly car bombs, something has to be done about the car bombers. And it's not us.
But this is a completely different topic. Where's the pretty space pictures?!
Star Trek hasn't changed much since TNG. TNG was great TV, and I felt like DS9 was, too (once Sisco/Hawk shaved his head and became a badass), but after that...
Farscape was what did it for me. It showed me that sci-fi TV coud be smart AND funny AND fast-paced AND well-written AND imaginative AND everything else that Star Trek is not anymore and hasn't been for a long time.
I was complaining to a friend about how all ST shows had gotten so slow. They plod to each commercial break until someone reverses some polarity and makes everything better. He disagreed with me, but karma was on my side. That night, the episode of Enterprise that was on featured some sort of gooey space alien that was in a cargo hold or something, and everybody who went in got caught in it, suspended in gooey tentacles.
Slowest. Monster. Ever. Just like the ST franchise these days.