Worse still, Chrome has the nasty habit of sticking UserName and Password details into ANY field with a name that sounds like username or password, regardless of whether it's on a Login page.
I noticed this after users of one of my sites started getting quietly renamed to "jason" after I had made manual changes to their accounts via the site's admin tools. Yeah, one of the text fields on that admin screen was indeed named "username", and Chrome overwrote it even though it was populated with something else. Fortunately for everybody involved, the "reset password" section on that admin screen required that the password be typed twice.
I advertise through google, and they have my Cell number on record. The last thing I want is to have everybody on the internet start "automatically" calling me on it!
I hope that this feature is not enabled by default.
For simple HTML marketing pages, you're right. It's not all that hard to get Firefox to display something close to IE.
But for application development where there will be plenty Javascript manipulation of the Document Object model, I always budget exactly 100% extra for anything that needs to work in Firefox as well as IE.
A Firefox application is a completely different thing than an IE application. It's as different as programming in C++ for Windows vs. C++ for the Macintosh. The only difference is that you generally only ship one codebase on a browser, containing those two applications intertwined.
[it costs a thousand bucks to get in the door developing for Windows, therefore...]
If you are a small indy developer, the economics of writing for Windows is almost absurd
How do you figure? More to the point, how do you make money otherwise?
There is one common theme you will see over and again in every post about why Linux is so great: "It's free! Its software is free!". Linux guys don't like paying for software. Even YOU don't like paying for software, as evidenced by your reluctance to shell out for VS.NET.
So the question comes back to this: How do you expect to make money writing software for a platform used exclusively by individuals who do refuse to pay money for software?
Say what you will about Windows and its user population, but let's at least be realistic. That's where you make your money.
Honestly I don't care it you are an "innocent victim" of an RBL. My use of RBLs is completely voluntary. If you send me mail and I don't get it I don't see how it harms you at all. I am presuming of course that your email was so great and useful that it caused me tons of money not to have read it.
One of my clients has customers paying tens of thousands of dollars per year for a service that sends them periodic emails on the state of their inventory. Worst case, missing one of those mails could cost a customer millions. More realistically, a slew of missed emails could cost a customer.
If this client ever ended up on a blacklist, even for a day, heads would roll.
You missed a small detail. Rent guy will have an extra $1100/month to throw into the market.
Grow that at a conservative 5%/year, and you can tack on ~$900k to your numbers, putting Rent guy back in front.
In the end, it's all a lifestyle choice. If you want to live in a house and mow lawns, you should buy a house. If all you want is an investment, there are better ones than houses.
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Worse still, Chrome has the nasty habit of sticking UserName and Password details into ANY field with a name that sounds like username or password, regardless of whether it's on a Login page.
I noticed this after users of one of my sites started getting quietly renamed to "jason" after I had made manual changes to their accounts via the site's admin tools. Yeah, one of the text fields on that admin screen was indeed named "username", and Chrome overwrote it even though it was populated with something else. Fortunately for everybody involved, the "reset password" section on that admin screen required that the password be typed twice.
Yikes!
I advertise through google, and they have my Cell number on record. The last thing I want is to have everybody on the internet start "automatically" calling me on it!
I hope that this feature is not enabled by default.
For simple HTML marketing pages, you're right. It's not all that hard to get Firefox to display something close to IE.
But for application development where there will be plenty Javascript manipulation of the Document Object model, I always budget exactly 100% extra for anything that needs to work in Firefox as well as IE.
A Firefox application is a completely different thing than an IE application. It's as different as programming in C++ for Windows vs. C++ for the Macintosh. The only difference is that you generally only ship one codebase on a browser, containing those two applications intertwined.
How do you figure? More to the point, how do you make money otherwise?
There is one common theme you will see over and again in every post about why Linux is so great: "It's free! Its software is free!". Linux guys don't like paying for software. Even YOU don't like paying for software, as evidenced by your reluctance to shell out for VS.NET.
So the question comes back to this: How do you expect to make money writing software for a platform used exclusively by individuals who do refuse to pay money for software?
Say what you will about Windows and its user population, but let's at least be realistic. That's where you make your money.
Jason
Honestly I don't care it you are an "innocent victim" of an RBL. My use of RBLs is completely voluntary. If you send me mail and I don't get it I don't see how it harms you at all. I am presuming of course that your email was so great and useful that it caused me tons of money not to have read it.
One of my clients has customers paying tens of thousands of dollars per year for a service that sends them periodic emails on the state of their inventory. Worst case, missing one of those mails could cost a customer millions. More realistically, a slew of missed emails could cost a customer.
If this client ever ended up on a blacklist, even for a day, heads would roll.
TCO in this case I would assume to include labor.
You missed a small detail. Rent guy will have an extra $1100/month to throw into the market.
Grow that at a conservative 5%/year, and you can tack on ~$900k to your numbers, putting Rent guy back in front.
In the end, it's all a lifestyle choice. If you want to live in a house and mow lawns, you should buy a house. If all you want is an investment, there are better ones than houses.
Jason