The thing that made AJAX catch on is that a few of the very first notable web apps were very heavy on graphic design and well-thought-out layout.
So now everybody thinks that if their website can just be written with AJAX technology it will automatically come with a smooth, user-friendly and beautiful interface.
AJAX is just one technique. You still need to be highly skilled at all the other web-coding disciplines else to end up with a great web app.
The problems he noticed were not errors he got when he tried various things. It was due to the fact that OOo is 1)more difficult to use than MS Excel 2)the OOo conversion of Word docs does not convert the formatting (probably due to current design) or 3)OOo is not as capable as MS Office, thus why would anybody waste their time to learn a product that is not as capable when they are very proficient and productive in Office.
And many people don't mind paying more for a more capable product.
Unless you own your own company you will be a worker bee. You might work in a nicer hive. But you'll still be taking orders till you retire.
I don't mean to bash you, man. But I realized this my sophomore year. All of the theoretical geniuses basically have to work for a company. They are energized by science, not business or other practical things. That's when I switched my minor to Business. I'd sit in the computer lab and think about which of my theoretical genius buddies I'd like to hire someday.
Some of the brightest people I went to school with work for me now. I even had the most brilliant and respected CS college professor working for me during the summers. Don't want to be a worker bee? Then you've got to own your company. That's true freedom.
The problem with getting your code off of internet tutorial sites is that that code is crap. It is good enough to serve an illustrative purpose. I can't tell you how many times I've been working with somebody else's code and thought to myself, "Boy, that's sure a lazy approach." Or, "What an awkward way to do that." I ask the developer and they just puff out their chest, "Well I got that idea from QuickAndEasyTutorials. And those guys are smart."
Every website has different naming conventions for their code. Some have you use the IDE's designer a lot, some not at all. The resulting software is such a patchwork of Internet examples it makes me puke. And worst of all, the developer think's he's the stuff because he figured it all out without any professional training.
The best thing I ever did was to work for a couple large companies that did cutting edge software development. They had a team of real engineers with many many years of experience. They understood the value of Best Practices. They had documented development standards. They forced us developers to follow the conventions. The software I write now is very much what I learned then. I own my own software dev company now and I absolutely love writing software. People who work with my code are thrilled by the consistant patterns and well-thought-out design.
The best software is designed well by experienced engineer-minded professionals. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that you can learn much of value from Google. Google is only a basic starting point. People who cut their teeth on Google end up being self-taught hackers (as in, ugly, hacked up code). And it shows. Want to be a great developer? Work under highly-skilled and experienced professionals.
Dude, go to a different school. The one I attended had me fully equipped in 4 years. If you are already planning on spending the bucks to get a masters you'd be better off just going to a better school.
You handle your arguements well. I'm sure we probably both agree that we could go on for ever on this topic. I respect and understand your position. I consider you a level-headed friend.
I'll post one last comment and then let you have the last word.
I believe that if we mind our own business we will still get attacked. We must be proactive. Sometimes, in our zeal to be proactive, we will mess up. The US is lead by humans who have never been known for perfection (no matter the political affilliation). There also exist nations who do not care about negotiation. Israel is an amazing concept. There are several nations that have, as part of their religion, the idea that Israel is the devil itself. They know that, currently, in order to kill Israel they have to kill the US also. They want no truce. They will not "understand". There's nothing we can tell them to cause them to quit their attacks on anything associated with Israel. Not destroying Israel would be the same thing as all religious people just deciding one day that heaven and hell don't exist.
I am absolutely not a conspiracy theorist in any way shape or form. But the entire middle east terrorist problem centers around Israel. Just keep that in mind as you watch events unfold over there. You'll find it to be the central issue every time.
Meanwhile, the U.S. is flagrantly violating the treaty, increasing its nuclear stockpile I'd love to see a link to an article saying that the us in increasing it's nuke stockpile. An article that actually says we are doing it. Got one?
And let's ignore the obvious asymmetry of a situation where a cluster of $10M robots can be taken out by a $300 IED. First of all, I don't believe any of these robots cost anywhere near $10mil. Not even $1mil. But, regardless, would you rather that $300 IED blow up your friend or child or an innocent civilian?
I've never understood those who want a fair fight. The more the enemy realizes they are dead meat the less likely they will be to provoke a war. Yes, the US spends more on military than the rest of the world combined. That's pretty intimidating for anybody thinking about messing with the US. And I like it that way.
US casulties are a good thing? I'm not even going to touch that one.
What most people don't realize is that the terrorists are flocking to Iraq because they can be very effective there. People like to blame the US for that. Personally I'm glad that Bush and Rumsfeld made Iraq the target for terrorists. There have been many terrorists attacks in Iraq, UK, and many other countries in the past 5 years. But how many in the US?
You think that is an accident? You also seem to think that our recent actions in Afghanistan and Iraq are police actions. Have you already forgotten 9/11?
You everybody seems to forget that nations are soveriegn. There is no inherent immorality about invading any sovereign nation. The nation is the highest entity. The UN is nothing. It's a place where nations can cooperate if and when they feel like it.
If you're going to call me a conservative then I guess I'll call you a liberal. The problem with liberals is that they think that everybody should share everything evenly. The problem is that liberals have never had to fight for anything. They don't want to fight for their freedom. They don't want to fight to break out of the poverty level or the middle-class. The just want all of the benefits of those who have fought for what they believe in. The USA was created by people who were fed up with the status quo. We toughted it out and fought battles for our freedom. If some nation threatens our freedoms even in the tiniest way you're dang right we're going to kick their butt, occupy, and police them till we are satisfied that they don't pose a threat to us.
Don't even make us believe you've got a weapon we don't like. If you so much as even talk about nukes, guess what? You just might get one. Right up your a$$. Don't threaten our friends either (Israel, Britian, Canada, etc.). They help us. We help them. That makes us more secure. More free. If you want to mess with a friend of the US we're going to show you why that's a bad idea. We'll come over to your country, blow up your millitary installations and leave you unable to make good on your threats.
In highschool the complete obviousness of why this is totally fine is apparent. If any of my buddies got harrassed by a bully we'd all come to his defense. Sometimes that meant giving somebody a black eye. I played the, "Kill them with kindness" game for way too long in school. Many times that does zero good whatsoever. A black eye, however is extremely effective. They may hate you and not talk to you after you give them the black eye. But they don't infringe on your rights anymore.
To have a cutting-edge military we must have a cutting-edge everything else. The millitary is about more than just making guns. It, obviously, involves aerospace. It involves lots and lots of scientific research. Which requires lots of highly-paid jobs.
We are spending big dollars developing robotics to replace humans. This is great. Do you want your son sent into a conflict when a robot could be sent instead? You'd rather have the robot.
Take as many US troops off the battlefield that you can. And replace them with robots. Robots don't bleed. They don't complain. They don't face their eternal destiny when they die. They don't leave loved ones behind.
Yes this all is legitimate constutional responsibility. Seems pretty "truthy" to me.
Goodness. If you care so much about investing directly in medicine you should do it. Don't recommend that the government take everybody else's money and force them to support it. Start your own charity. Call it The LegoBurner Foundation.
National Defense is a legitimate constitutional responsibility of national government. Medical research is not.
I've found that people who really like manditory hours tend to be the type that get mega brownie points for coming in a 7am or so. Of course they "skip" lunch and then leave at 3p. These people don't want to lose their brownie points. They haven't figured out how to get points for just being productive. If the boss makes it official that he doesn't care when you get in and leave these people are left wondering how they are going to prove their worth.
The people who like ultra-flex policies are the type who fully understand that they are productive at certain times (many times it's at least after 10am). They don't want to come in at 8am and stare at their monitor with a glassy gaze. It's a waste of their time and their company's time. They'd rather work from 10a-8p.
You can get a ton of work done when everybody else has left (after 6p).
So, remind me which corporations of notable size are known to be early adopters? And even among early adopters do ANY roll out (ie "are ready") brand new OS versions as soon as they are RTM?
So the fact that companies aren't ready for Vista really isn't any different. Most companies aren't ready for a new version of any type of software when it is relased. They are wise to give it some time on the market and let the early adopters test the water first.
All they really need to do is cut a nano-width-slot in each side of those tungsten prongs (creating a two-pronged fork on each prong). Then create a nano-axel by welding a small bead to each end of the nano-tube cutter (each bead being larger than the width between the fork prongs). Slide the nano-axel between the two tungsten forks. Pinch the ends of the forks together. Bingo! The nano-cheese-cutter can bend as much as it needs to and there are no fixed points to break.
I'm surprised that nobody's asked about why there's no mention of a SECOND BRAIN? Has china already developed that one? Or are they just skipping a brain?
Just makes me think. If it's this hard to figure out what a geared mechanism does, how hard is it going to be for a hypethetical future generation discovering a computer to figure out what the heck it was for?
If we all get wiped out by a comet or something and humanity has to start from scratch would we eventually end up using silicon? Or would we come up with a biological solution (like the human brain)? It's cool to think about.
Maybe we've already dug up things that are more advanced than what we have but we're too primitive to recoginize what it is.
I'm not a mac guy. So I'm not up on the latest mac rumors. But the following it 100% real.
I was sitting in a cafe quietly eating my food and this guy was sitting at the table behind me talking with a female friend. He was saying that he tests products for mac and is waiting till early 2007 to buy the new mac phone. He said the thing is really cool for several reasons. He said it has no buttons only a touch LCD screen. When you hold it a certain way it acts like a cell phone. When you type the numbers on the lcd screen the screen shoots this pulse of warmth under your fingertip so you have this sensation of touching a real button. When you rotate it the screen changes to an iPod music player. Rotate it again and it turns into a PDA. I can't remember if the 4th side had a unique functionality to it.
I've been dying to see if anybody's heard of this device. It definately has the "wow" factor that is typical of Apple products.
I bet that if the zune never sold a single unit it wouldn't put a dent in MS's $60 billion. So keep cheering on failure of the zune. And remember that competition from the zune is part of the reason the ipod prices have dropped.
It never will become ashamed. Google always knew what they wanted. It's the slashdotters that will have the mental crisis when they realize that Google uses them and their benevolent open sourceness to build Google's mega-money-making machine.
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Yea, I'd like my free open source etching laser please.
Maybe the lasers are attached to Penguins instead. Sharks are evil, right?
The thing that made AJAX catch on is that a few of the very first notable web apps were very heavy on graphic design and well-thought-out layout.
So now everybody thinks that if their website can just be written with AJAX technology it will automatically come with a smooth, user-friendly and beautiful interface.
AJAX is just one technique. You still need to be highly skilled at all the other web-coding disciplines else to end up with a great web app.
The problems he noticed were not errors he got when he tried various things. It was due to the fact that OOo is 1)more difficult to use than MS Excel 2)the OOo conversion of Word docs does not convert the formatting (probably due to current design) or 3)OOo is not as capable as MS Office, thus why would anybody waste their time to learn a product that is not as capable when they are very proficient and productive in Office.
And many people don't mind paying more for a more capable product.
Unless you own your own company you will be a worker bee. You might work in a nicer hive. But you'll still be taking orders till you retire.
I don't mean to bash you, man. But I realized this my sophomore year. All of the theoretical geniuses basically have to work for a company. They are energized by science, not business or other practical things. That's when I switched my minor to Business. I'd sit in the computer lab and think about which of my theoretical genius buddies I'd like to hire someday.
Some of the brightest people I went to school with work for me now. I even had the most brilliant and respected CS college professor working for me during the summers. Don't want to be a worker bee? Then you've got to own your company. That's true freedom.
The problem with getting your code off of internet tutorial sites is that that code is crap. It is good enough to serve an illustrative purpose. I can't tell you how many times I've been working with somebody else's code and thought to myself, "Boy, that's sure a lazy approach." Or, "What an awkward way to do that." I ask the developer and they just puff out their chest, "Well I got that idea from QuickAndEasyTutorials. And those guys are smart."
Every website has different naming conventions for their code. Some have you use the IDE's designer a lot, some not at all. The resulting software is such a patchwork of Internet examples it makes me puke. And worst of all, the developer think's he's the stuff because he figured it all out without any professional training.
The best thing I ever did was to work for a couple large companies that did cutting edge software development. They had a team of real engineers with many many years of experience. They understood the value of Best Practices. They had documented development standards. They forced us developers to follow the conventions. The software I write now is very much what I learned then. I own my own software dev company now and I absolutely love writing software. People who work with my code are thrilled by the consistant patterns and well-thought-out design.
The best software is designed well by experienced engineer-minded professionals. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that you can learn much of value from Google. Google is only a basic starting point. People who cut their teeth on Google end up being self-taught hackers (as in, ugly, hacked up code). And it shows. Want to be a great developer? Work under highly-skilled and experienced professionals.
Dude, go to a different school. The one I attended had me fully equipped in 4 years. If you are already planning on spending the bucks to get a masters you'd be better off just going to a better school.
You handle your arguements well. I'm sure we probably both agree that we could go on for ever on this topic. I respect and understand your position. I consider you a level-headed friend.
I'll post one last comment and then let you have the last word.
I believe that if we mind our own business we will still get attacked. We must be proactive. Sometimes, in our zeal to be proactive, we will mess up. The US is lead by humans who have never been known for perfection (no matter the political affilliation). There also exist nations who do not care about negotiation. Israel is an amazing concept. There are several nations that have, as part of their religion, the idea that Israel is the devil itself. They know that, currently, in order to kill Israel they have to kill the US also. They want no truce. They will not "understand". There's nothing we can tell them to cause them to quit their attacks on anything associated with Israel. Not destroying Israel would be the same thing as all religious people just deciding one day that heaven and hell don't exist.
I am absolutely not a conspiracy theorist in any way shape or form. But the entire middle east terrorist problem centers around Israel. Just keep that in mind as you watch events unfold over there. You'll find it to be the central issue every time.
Again, it's been fun! Best wishes.
So if the shift occurs does that mean that hackers will prefer to target Google?
Meanwhile, the U.S. is flagrantly violating the treaty, increasing its nuclear stockpile
I'd love to see a link to an article saying that the us in increasing it's nuke stockpile. An article that actually says we are doing it. Got one? And let's ignore the obvious asymmetry of a situation where a cluster of $10M robots can be taken out by a $300 IED.
First of all, I don't believe any of these robots cost anywhere near $10mil. Not even $1mil. But, regardless, would you rather that $300 IED blow up your friend or child or an innocent civilian?
I've never understood those who want a fair fight. The more the enemy realizes they are dead meat the less likely they will be to provoke a war. Yes, the US spends more on military than the rest of the world combined. That's pretty intimidating for anybody thinking about messing with the US. And I like it that way.
US casulties are a good thing? I'm not even going to touch that one.
What most people don't realize is that the terrorists are flocking to Iraq because they can be very effective there. People like to blame the US for that. Personally I'm glad that Bush and Rumsfeld made Iraq the target for terrorists. There have been many terrorists attacks in Iraq, UK, and many other countries in the past 5 years. But how many in the US?
You think that is an accident? You also seem to think that our recent actions in Afghanistan and Iraq are police actions. Have you already forgotten 9/11?
BTW, the iRobot corporation has invented the remote-controlled PacBot robot that was used very effectively in urban warfare. http://defense-update.com/products/p/pacbot.htm
You everybody seems to forget that nations are soveriegn. There is no inherent immorality about invading any sovereign nation. The nation is the highest entity. The UN is nothing. It's a place where nations can cooperate if and when they feel like it.
If you're going to call me a conservative then I guess I'll call you a liberal. The problem with liberals is that they think that everybody should share everything evenly. The problem is that liberals have never had to fight for anything. They don't want to fight for their freedom. They don't want to fight to break out of the poverty level or the middle-class. The just want all of the benefits of those who have fought for what they believe in. The USA was created by people who were fed up with the status quo. We toughted it out and fought battles for our freedom. If some nation threatens our freedoms even in the tiniest way you're dang right we're going to kick their butt, occupy, and police them till we are satisfied that they don't pose a threat to us.
Don't even make us believe you've got a weapon we don't like. If you so much as even talk about nukes, guess what? You just might get one. Right up your a$$. Don't threaten our friends either (Israel, Britian, Canada, etc.). They help us. We help them. That makes us more secure. More free. If you want to mess with a friend of the US we're going to show you why that's a bad idea. We'll come over to your country, blow up your millitary installations and leave you unable to make good on your threats.
In highschool the complete obviousness of why this is totally fine is apparent. If any of my buddies got harrassed by a bully we'd all come to his defense. Sometimes that meant giving somebody a black eye. I played the, "Kill them with kindness" game for way too long in school. Many times that does zero good whatsoever. A black eye, however is extremely effective. They may hate you and not talk to you after you give them the black eye. But they don't infringe on your rights anymore.
To have a cutting-edge military we must have a cutting-edge everything else. The millitary is about more than just making guns. It, obviously, involves aerospace. It involves lots and lots of scientific research. Which requires lots of highly-paid jobs.
We are spending big dollars developing robotics to replace humans. This is great. Do you want your son sent into a conflict when a robot could be sent instead? You'd rather have the robot.
Take as many US troops off the battlefield that you can. And replace them with robots. Robots don't bleed. They don't complain. They don't face their eternal destiny when they die. They don't leave loved ones behind.
Yes this all is legitimate constutional responsibility. Seems pretty "truthy" to me.
Goodness. If you care so much about investing directly in medicine you should do it. Don't recommend that the government take everybody else's money and force them to support it. Start your own charity. Call it The LegoBurner Foundation.
National Defense is a legitimate constitutional responsibility of national government. Medical research is not.
This new policy won't last long.
The policy has already lasted over 2 years.
I've found that people who really like manditory hours tend to be the type that get mega brownie points for coming in a 7am or so. Of course they "skip" lunch and then leave at 3p. These people don't want to lose their brownie points. They haven't figured out how to get points for just being productive. If the boss makes it official that he doesn't care when you get in and leave these people are left wondering how they are going to prove their worth.
The people who like ultra-flex policies are the type who fully understand that they are productive at certain times (many times it's at least after 10am). They don't want to come in at 8am and stare at their monitor with a glassy gaze. It's a waste of their time and their company's time. They'd rather work from 10a-8p.
You can get a ton of work done when everybody else has left (after 6p).
You must be a manager.
Humanity only wins when MS is killed off forever. Anything that helps MS in any way shape or form threatens our freedom and humanity.
-- Go ahead, burn this post. I was feeling a bit chilly anyways.
So, remind me which corporations of notable size are known to be early adopters? And even among early adopters do ANY roll out (ie "are ready") brand new OS versions as soon as they are RTM?
So the fact that companies aren't ready for Vista really isn't any different. Most companies aren't ready for a new version of any type of software when it is relased. They are wise to give it some time on the market and let the early adopters test the water first.
So I guess the actual manufactured storage device would be called a "Quantum Vortex Drive"? Or mabye a "Vortex Core Array"? Any other suggestions?
All they really need to do is cut a nano-width-slot in each side of those tungsten prongs (creating a two-pronged fork on each prong). Then create a nano-axel by welding a small bead to each end of the nano-tube cutter (each bead being larger than the width between the fork prongs). Slide the nano-axel between the two tungsten forks. Pinch the ends of the forks together. Bingo! The nano-cheese-cutter can bend as much as it needs to and there are no fixed points to break.
I'm surprised that nobody's asked about why there's no mention of a SECOND BRAIN? Has china already developed that one? Or are they just skipping a brain?
Just makes me think. If it's this hard to figure out what a geared mechanism does, how hard is it going to be for a hypethetical future generation discovering a computer to figure out what the heck it was for?
If we all get wiped out by a comet or something and humanity has to start from scratch would we eventually end up using silicon? Or would we come up with a biological solution (like the human brain)? It's cool to think about.
Maybe we've already dug up things that are more advanced than what we have but we're too primitive to recoginize what it is.
Haha! Nice!
Nothing like getting kicked in the shins for asking a valid question with good intentions, huh?
I'm not a mac guy. So I'm not up on the latest mac rumors. But the following it 100% real.
I was sitting in a cafe quietly eating my food and this guy was sitting at the table behind me talking with a female friend. He was saying that he tests products for mac and is waiting till early 2007 to buy the new mac phone. He said the thing is really cool for several reasons. He said it has no buttons only a touch LCD screen. When you hold it a certain way it acts like a cell phone. When you type the numbers on the lcd screen the screen shoots this pulse of warmth under your fingertip so you have this sensation of touching a real button. When you rotate it the screen changes to an iPod music player. Rotate it again and it turns into a PDA. I can't remember if the 4th side had a unique functionality to it.
I've been dying to see if anybody's heard of this device. It definately has the "wow" factor that is typical of Apple products.
I bet that if the zune never sold a single unit it wouldn't put a dent in MS's $60 billion. So keep cheering on failure of the zune. And remember that competition from the zune is part of the reason the ipod prices have dropped.
It never will become ashamed. Google always knew what they wanted. It's the slashdotters that will have the mental crisis when they realize that Google uses them and their benevolent open sourceness to build Google's mega-money-making machine.
Go ahead. Supress my opinion.