A local CD Warehouse store (sells used CDs) that my neighbor owns uses a large cloth wheel mounted on a disc-grinder type aparatus and pink baby lotion. CDs come off looking like new and working like new every time with minimal risk of damage during the cleaning process.
I am the sole IT person for my company. I manage the servers, client machines, phone system...pretty much anything with or without wires. I also handle all of our graphic design and web sites (4 of them) that include a variety of technologies including CMS and eCommerce.
Most of the CMS is handled by 3rd party software that is integrated into the site. The eCommerce is 3rd party, also integrated.
Everything else is designed and hand-coded by me. WSYWIG destroys clean code. Plus I think it would take me longer learning how to use a WSYWIG than it would to hand-code stuff (based on trying to use MS FrontPage for like 5 minutes circa 2002 thanks to my supervisor...I still see it in my nightmares sometimes).
I think it boils down to this: if you are in a decently large corporation, you have design people and code people; smaller companies probably have a guy like me or a small staff; small companies farm it out to 'design' firms that are generally like me as well. The last time I checked there are quite a few small companies so the need to know (X)HTML and CSS is quite handy. I wouldn't have my job without it.
If it gets hacked so that anyone can track the kids carrying these, it would be a child molesters dream come true, wouldn't it? Sure you can argue that all phones technically could be tracked but how many of you think Paris Hilton would be waving one of these around? The target audience that will be holding them will be kids so the demographic work for the hacker has been taken care of.
I for one have a handful of very young siblings that I wouldn't want this to happen to. If my parents ever get one for them, I will smash them.
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A local CD Warehouse store (sells used CDs) that my neighbor owns uses a large cloth wheel mounted on a disc-grinder type aparatus and pink baby lotion. CDs come off looking like new and working like new every time with minimal risk of damage during the cleaning process.
I am the sole IT person for my company. I manage the servers, client machines, phone system...pretty much anything with or without wires. I also handle all of our graphic design and web sites (4 of them) that include a variety of technologies including CMS and eCommerce.
Most of the CMS is handled by 3rd party software that is integrated into the site.
The eCommerce is 3rd party, also integrated.
Everything else is designed and hand-coded by me. WSYWIG destroys clean code. Plus I think it would take me longer learning how to use a WSYWIG than it would to hand-code stuff (based on trying to use MS FrontPage for like 5 minutes circa 2002 thanks to my supervisor...I still see it in my nightmares sometimes).
I think it boils down to this: if you are in a decently large corporation, you have design people and code people; smaller companies probably have a guy like me or a small staff; small companies farm it out to 'design' firms that are generally like me as well. The last time I checked there are quite a few small companies so the need to know (X)HTML and CSS is quite handy. I wouldn't have my job without it.
... the real cause are the millions of pr0n sites users visit while using their PC. First post? w00t!
If it gets hacked so that anyone can track the kids carrying these, it would be a child molesters dream come true, wouldn't it? Sure you can argue that all phones technically could be tracked but how many of you think Paris Hilton would be waving one of these around? The target audience that will be holding them will be kids so the demographic work for the hacker has been taken care of.
I for one have a handful of very young siblings that I wouldn't want this to happen to. If my parents ever get one for them, I will smash them.