>The most annoying thing about these latest versions of Windows is that there appears to be this new class of user with control that supersedes than the owner of the hardware.
I couldn't agree more. Beeing a mac guy since 6.05 I'm reluctantly realizing that while I haven't yet seen any evidence of a super root in OS-X 10.7 and up unless we actively turn certains functions off we're loosing control over our HW and SW there aswell. And don't come talking about protecting the end-user.
>The problem is: my employer has an IP policy that states that anything I do while under their employ is theirs, even when I'm off the clock
Maybe I misunderstand but is that claim even legal? For them to claim ownership of products of all your thoughts while you are working a normal dayjob for them? What if you were to write a song in an evening, would they own that to?
Beeing an emplyee is beeing a person who sells work during, mostly anyway, eight hours a day to an employeer. Your employer is not your owner.
And many thousands of "manufacturers" in the US and Europe appearently can't be wrong either since so much manufacturing and assembly has been moved to China already.
We have some 50+ Joomla sites set up for all kind of groups from student projects and research documentation to plain courses in web design for testing.
The framework works great for our needs. I can't think of anything we haven't been able to do, neither function wise or design wise. But yeah the very square section/categories thing is the first we skip.
The only immidiate negative thing I can think of is the stuborn use of tables even in the smallest of modules. That makes details in your design pretty locked down. Also because of this many Joomla sites will look the same.
We use mod_placehere by Eike Pierstorff extensively since with it we can have multiple content areas active thru the sites. Very useful.
If you know only the smallest of PHP and css making your own template is very easy.
I've been thru most other open CMSes aswell, drupla, Typo3, all of those. But we tend to return to Joomla as soon we just want the pages up.
Sadly many oldstyle one-html-file-per-page people seems to have a hard time getting the concept of CMSes, though that has nothing to do with Joomla per se.
There are a number of free (as in beer) and commercial addons. The commercial ones are not always the best. So if you have special needs browsing around usually pays off.
To me it's like rather easy. It's a choice between a closed service based system or an open one.
There are some open ones like datamatrix and semi open ones like QR-codes. Both already has wide usage. Maybe not in the US. Yet. But they're also bigger in size and not fancy looking like beetag or this oldnew color based one from MS.
A subscribed code is considerably smaller physically but it has shorter lifespan. It works only as long as I pay the fee to the services provider. Also, as you say, I have no knowledge where the info of hits on the codes ends up. So, the're small but we don't have complete controll over the usage and they cost us as long as we want to use them.
Open system and system that has the info within the code will work as long as they're readable. They contain the info/url so there's no interpreting middle man. If we only care we can set up the same system to save the statistics on what phones are used, when, from where etc. It's bigger but open and are 'safer' to use.
Even more important: People want it easy. The mobile phone is the obvious hw-reader but we don't want to mess with several applications for different types of code. So by NOT using systems like data matrix/QR-codes we learn the public to use other ones for instance serviced based ones. So eventually when the service based system becomes unusable or to highly priced we're faced with a "strange" open system code not the public doesn't understand or are willing to learn how to use.
QR-codes, Data Matrix, Beetagg, etc . there are alot of 2D codes around. Now MS has decided to add yet another one.
The advantage of keeping the info inside the code is you are not dependant on a serviceprovider to interpret the code. That's maybe a key feature here when involving MS (and Beetagg an a few more).
Many services uses a subscription based system where a 2D-code, only has a function as long as the subscription beeing paid. Guess what system MS in using? Real info or interpreted/serverbased?
Please stay away from those and use codes that has real info in them, just like normal barcodes.
LED emitters usually emit narrow-band spectrums of light around each color (red, blue, green, etc.). So even if you mix red, green, and blue LEDs to acheive white you would not get full spectrum light.
I would not want LEDs as main light source more than shorter time spans.
>Distressingly, my Mac Pro takes 40W when "turned off"!
Yeah, since I normally have around 5 computers in my work room I've installed a master power switch. That switch paid for itself in half a year by power savings alone.
I'd say leaks are different between platforms and subversions.
The 2.13 and 2.14 on OS-X was a bit slow and crashed maybe six hours after some heavy browsing having multi windows open. They ate memory. FF2 on XP was less slow but crashed never the less.
FF3.0 crashed all the time on 10.4 Macs. I haven't tried it for real on 10.5 yet. On FF3.1 that has all stopped.
I only have about a week of FF3 on XP/SP3 but it does indeed not seem VERY much less crash proof than FF2 but way faster on the same machine. (old 2.8GHz/P4).
FF3 is now my "production browser" with Safari and IE7 for checking rendering. There's this IE6 machine but it hasn't got powered up in a month now... I doubt it will unless some one clearly wants IE6 checked on a certain project.
I've tried using Safari for a whole day but it's so easy to get used to the Web Developer and Firebug addons so I have a hard time leaving FF.
It works fine over here. 47 results. You get images and atleast one wav-file. I must try sending an image thru my phone service (Telia) to my non-MMS phone and see how those URLs looks like. Chances are that the MMS downloading service is bought in from some company that has their system setup more or less identical for anyone using it.
The GPS used does not record average speed. It's a simple track recorder which records position x times per second. The average speed is calculated from the trackdata depending on the length of time you want to average over. This is the way many vehicle trackers work since then there's no need for GIS data, maps, in the GPS itself. You take the track data and you can calculate average speed etc over any section of the road.
An observation: since GPS-trackers are used on many thousands of vehicles this can't possibly be the first time we have GPS versus radar case. But this is a 'good' case since the GPS for once showed data in favour of the vehicle owner/driver. So, I might wrong here but I believe this is used as a cleverly placed advertise for GPS-tracking devices in general and RMT in particular.
>I don't know any web developer that uses or likes Joomla.
I do. I also been setting up systems to a number of large and small corporations and schools that are more than happy with Joomla.
Joomla maybe isn't for the the programmer type of webdevelopers themselves - they could write their own CMS if they wish/could - but for the publishers who simply want something up and running and than add/remove functions. Joomla give you that. Drupal needs someone to give it a fresh shiny, publisher friendly look exposing it's features when installed by someone who doesn't understand php at all. Look at a no-frills Drupal install w default template, it looks feature-less and plain. Joomla while rather boxy looking atleast it shows of lot's feature in matters of minutes of beeing downloaded.
Joomla is a system that's easy for a designer to do a template for. Yes it really is if you know CMSes and look into a template. Look at XOOPS , EZPublish or Typo3 - absolutely horrible. I say no to anyone asking for EZPublish.
Of course Joomla has it's flaws, the very limited fixed section/category way of organizing articles/pages, still many default modules gives you tablebased code as it looked in 1994, no support for GD built in, no built-in support for auth. against LDAP or other system, I could go on for ever.
Many other open CMSes has the similar oddities and/or misses out on the same obvious features maybe because there are no publishers involved in the development of the functions. Get them involved!
>I've been developing websites since the late 80's Eh.. no, you haven't.
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As I said, promote him for the Nobel Peace prize.
>The most annoying thing about these latest versions of Windows is that there appears to be this new class of user with control that supersedes than the owner of the hardware.
I couldn't agree more. Beeing a mac guy since 6.05 I'm reluctantly realizing that while I haven't yet seen any evidence of a super root in OS-X 10.7 and up unless we actively turn certains functions off we're loosing control over our HW and SW there aswell. And don't come talking about protecting the end-user.
Linux in the other hand ...
>The problem is: my employer has an IP policy that states that anything I do while under their employ is theirs, even when I'm off the clock
Maybe I misunderstand but is that claim even legal?
For them to claim ownership of products of all your thoughts while you are working a normal dayjob for them?
What if you were to write a song in an evening, would they own that to?
Beeing an emplyee is beeing a person who sells work during, mostly anyway, eight hours a day to an employeer. Your employer is not your owner.
And many thousands of "manufacturers" in the US and Europe appearently can't be wrong either since so much manufacturing and assembly has been moved to China already.
Heh, mod this up as both insightful and funny!
Damn ... to early in morning for me
0,056 liters per 100 km, doable.
But there's also trucks. At least the mid- and long distance tranportation should replaced by (electrical) trains.
No, Vista ME seems more proper
Yeah, otherwise the company would fold.
We have some 50+ Joomla sites set up for all kind of groups from student projects and research documentation to plain courses in web design for testing.
The framework works great for our needs. I can't think of anything we haven't been able to do, neither function wise or design wise. But yeah the very square section/categories thing is the first we skip.
The only immidiate negative thing I can think of is the stuborn use of tables even in the smallest of modules. That makes details in your design pretty locked down. Also because of this many Joomla sites will look the same.
We use mod_placehere by Eike Pierstorff extensively since with it we can have multiple content areas active thru the sites. Very useful.
If you know only the smallest of PHP and css making your own template is very easy.
I've been thru most other open CMSes aswell, drupla, Typo3, all of those. But we tend to return to Joomla as soon we just want the pages up.
Sadly many oldstyle one-html-file-per-page people seems to have a hard time getting the concept of CMSes, though that has nothing to do with Joomla per se.
There are a number of free (as in beer) and commercial addons. The commercial ones are not always the best. So if you have special needs browsing around usually pays off.
Good luck!
To me it's like rather easy. It's a choice between a closed service based system or an open one.
There are some open ones like datamatrix and semi open ones like QR-codes. Both already has wide usage. Maybe not in the US. Yet. But they're also bigger in size and not fancy looking like beetag or this oldnew color based one from MS.
A subscribed code is considerably smaller physically but it has shorter lifespan. It works only as long as I pay the fee to the services provider. Also, as you say, I have no knowledge where the info of hits on the codes ends up. So, the're small but we don't have complete controll over the usage and they cost us as long as we want to use them.
Open system and system that has the info within the code will work as long as they're readable. They contain the info/url so there's no interpreting middle man. If we only care we can set up the same system to save the statistics on what phones are used, when, from where etc. It's bigger but open and are 'safer' to use.
Even more important: People want it easy. The mobile phone is the obvious hw-reader but we don't want to mess with several applications for different types of code. So by NOT using systems like data matrix/QR-codes we learn the public to use other ones for instance serviced based ones. So eventually when the service based system becomes unusable or to highly priced we're faced with a "strange" open system code not the public doesn't understand or are willing to learn how to use.
QR-codes, Data Matrix, Beetagg, etc . there are alot of 2D codes around.
Now MS has decided to add yet another one.
The advantage of keeping the info inside the code is you are not dependant on a serviceprovider to interpret the code. That's maybe a key feature here when involving MS (and Beetagg an a few more).
Many services uses a subscription based system where a 2D-code, only has a function as long as the subscription beeing paid. Guess what system MS in using? Real info or interpreted/serverbased?
Please stay away from those and use codes that has real info in them, just like normal barcodes.
LED emitters usually emit narrow-band spectrums of light around each color (red, blue, green, etc.).
So even if you mix red, green, and blue LEDs to acheive white you would not get full spectrum light.
I would not want LEDs as main light source more than shorter time spans.
You seem informated.
Are there any example code we can see?
>Distressingly, my Mac Pro takes 40W when "turned off"!
Yeah, since I normally have around 5 computers in my work room I've installed a master power switch. That switch paid for itself in half a year by power savings alone.
ssh, Check
telnet, Check
usenet, I haven't had any need to try that but it should be doable thru a webinterface
ping, Check
traceroute, Check
I'd say leaks are different between platforms and subversions.
The 2.13 and 2.14 on OS-X was a bit slow and crashed maybe six hours after some heavy browsing having multi windows open. They ate memory. FF2 on XP was less slow but crashed never the less.
FF3.0 crashed all the time on 10.4 Macs. I haven't tried it for real on 10.5 yet. On FF3.1 that has all stopped.
I only have about a week of FF3 on XP/SP3 but it does indeed not seem VERY much less crash proof than FF2 but way faster on the same machine. (old 2.8GHz/P4).
FF3 is now my "production browser" with Safari and IE7 for checking rendering. There's this IE6 machine but it hasn't got powered up in a month now... I doubt it will unless some one clearly wants IE6 checked on a certain project.
I've tried using Safari for a whole day but it's so easy to get used to the Web Developer and Firebug addons so I have a hard time leaving FF.
It works fine over here. 47 results. You get images and atleast one wav-file.
I must try sending an image thru my phone service (Telia) to my non-MMS phone and see how those URLs looks like.
Chances are that the MMS downloading service is bought in from some company that has their system setup more or less identical for anyone using it.
The GPS used does not record average speed. It's a simple track recorder which records position x times per second. The average speed is calculated from the trackdata depending on the length of time you want to average over.
This is the way many vehicle trackers work since then there's no need for GIS data, maps, in the GPS itself. You take the track data and you can calculate average speed etc over any section of the road.
An observation: since GPS-trackers are used on many thousands of vehicles this can't possibly be the first time we have GPS versus radar case. But this is a 'good' case since the GPS for once showed data in favour of the vehicle owner/driver. So, I might wrong here but I believe this is used as a cleverly placed advertise for GPS-tracking devices in general and RMT in particular.
>Except that you are NEVER liable for *downloading*.
That depends entierly which country your in.
>Same should go for drugs
Eh, no.
I know someone who wouldn't like CUNT666 on her car
(If this is modded invisible then Slashdotters are as hyporcrit as the officials in NC)
Whoops, seems like LDAP is supported now.
>I don't know any web developer that uses or likes Joomla.
I do. I also been setting up systems to a number of large and small corporations and schools that are more than happy with Joomla.
Joomla maybe isn't for the the programmer type of webdevelopers themselves - they could write their own CMS if they wish/could - but for the publishers who simply want something up and running and than add/remove functions. Joomla give you that. Drupal needs someone to give it a fresh shiny, publisher friendly look exposing it's features when installed by someone who doesn't understand php at all. Look at a no-frills Drupal install w default template, it looks feature-less and plain. Joomla while rather boxy looking atleast it shows of lot's feature in matters of minutes of beeing downloaded.
Joomla is a system that's easy for a designer to do a template for. Yes it really is if you know CMSes and look into a template. Look at XOOPS , EZPublish or Typo3 - absolutely horrible. I say no to anyone asking for EZPublish.
Of course Joomla has it's flaws, the very limited fixed section/category way of organizing articles/pages, still many default modules gives you tablebased code as it looked in 1994, no support for GD built in, no built-in support for auth. against LDAP or other system, I could go on for ever.
Many other open CMSes has the similar oddities and/or misses out on the same obvious features maybe because there are no publishers involved in the development of the functions. Get them involved!
>I've been developing websites since the late 80's
Eh.. no, you haven't.
You get the same easy html based page/article templates with the JCE editor.
Make the looks, save it as a html snippet. Done.
>All I want for Christmas is rich text (links,
>images) in my gmail signature...
Fine, as long as they also enable me to filter out images and "rich" formatting.