FYI, the whole site works on Linux, just use the User Agent Switcher plugin for Firefox and spoof yourself as IE7 on Windows. The animations portion works fine.
On a side note, this is what is extremely frustrating about this really, the fact that they didn't limit it to Windows and Mac because of technical reasons, they ARTIFICIALLY limited it. This is actually worse in my opinion.
This may be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
According to you, everyone but engineers (and especially computer scientists apparently) are "disposable employees." Furthermore, Facebook is the result of "relaxed standards" by universities.
Let me ask you, when was the last time you designed a system which serves millions of people daily, flawlessly. Which is extensible by outside developers to create their own applications inside this system. Do you even understand how complex of an enterprise that is? Do you have any clue at all? Doubt it.
One thing a good engineer should know is to check their assumptions before they come to a conclusion.
This is probably true. After all, if everybody who read this article decided to actually have a pair and start a business, it would suddenly make it much harder to actually start a business at all. Right now is a great time to do a lean and mean startup, you can literally start an internet application company with very little capital, just enough to run and connect servers.
However, what if everyone who ends up chaining themselves to their desk tomorrow instead stayed home and started dedicating themselves to some internet application that they cooked up over the weekend? Well, so many of them would fail, because many of them would be overlapping ideas, that the conventional wisdom would quickly swing the other way, and no one would want to start a business anymore.
The moral of the story? Because right now is a great time to start a business, right now is a bad time to start a business. Wait until it is a bad (in peoples' perceptions) time to start a business, and then you'll be golden.
Hey I'll have to put in my two cents on the French, and even go so far as to be specific with some anecdotal evidence about a trip that my family took to France when I was in high school.
We arrived in Paris in a rental car, in the early afternoon. After walking around quite a bit of the downtown area there, with all the sight-seeing and marvelling and whatnot, we decided to go find a hotel to stay in. This was our last stop on a drive from Rome to London, with the last leg taken on a train through the Chunnel.
Calling around from a payphone in a fairly residential district, we can find nothing. Everyone is full up, all throughout the city. My dad must have called 20 places and burned up lots of money just trying to find a room. Still calling, a man walks up to us and asks if we need help. He says that he lives right upstairs, and would we like to come and use his phone instead?
Grateful for the help we went up with him and made some more calls to local hotels, motels, places outside of the city, places 50 miles from the city, everything was full. He told us it was some music fest weekend in Paris and that there would be no where to stay most likely on a Saturday night. Then he made the suggestion that we just stay in his living room.
He and his wife lived in a very small one bedroom apartment, and here they were offering thier living room to three Americans who they had never met, and would most likely never see again. We took it gratefully and took them out to lunch the next day.
I'll have to say that it is one of the best stories from travelling that I have, and I always have to bring it up when people are ragging on the French, going on about "freedom fries" and such nonsense.
What perplexes me about this situation with Chirac/Google/M$ is hard to even explain. While Google seems to be trying to amass quite a monopoly of their own, it would seem that the logical conclusion, if one were trying to buck such a monopoly, would not be to go to the largest monopolistic company in the computer world. Wouldn't you make an effort to get smaller companies involved, maybe make up an agency that could coordinate the efforts of a whole bunch of places?
In any case, it is one of those things that just seems ridiculous. Chirac doesn't want to be negotiating from a "weak position," yet he plans to find solace in M$? WTF? Call me skeptical, but I highly doubt they will find much fair play in that direction.
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FYI, the whole site works on Linux, just use the User Agent Switcher plugin for Firefox and spoof yourself as IE7 on Windows. The animations portion works fine.
On a side note, this is what is extremely frustrating about this really, the fact that they didn't limit it to Windows and Mac because of technical reasons, they ARTIFICIALLY limited it. This is actually worse in my opinion.
Is it SO MUCH to ask that someone caches the links on coral cache before they get slashdotted? Just append .nyud.net to the hostname.
This may be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
According to you, everyone but engineers (and especially computer scientists apparently) are "disposable employees." Furthermore, Facebook is the result of "relaxed standards" by universities.
Let me ask you, when was the last time you designed a system which serves millions of people daily, flawlessly. Which is extensible by outside developers to create their own applications inside this system. Do you even understand how complex of an enterprise that is? Do you have any clue at all? Doubt it.
One thing a good engineer should know is to check their assumptions before they come to a conclusion.
Heh. I actually got a decent laugh out of that. Sorry for any unintended sexism that I may have exhibited there, though.
-decatur
This is probably true. After all, if everybody who read this article decided to actually have a pair and start a business, it would suddenly make it much harder to actually start a business at all. Right now is a great time to do a lean and mean startup, you can literally start an internet application company with very little capital, just enough to run and connect servers.
However, what if everyone who ends up chaining themselves to their desk tomorrow instead stayed home and started dedicating themselves to some internet application that they cooked up over the weekend? Well, so many of them would fail, because many of them would be overlapping ideas, that the conventional wisdom would quickly swing the other way, and no one would want to start a business anymore.
The moral of the story? Because right now is a great time to start a business, right now is a bad time to start a business. Wait until it is a bad (in peoples' perceptions) time to start a business, and then you'll be golden.
-decatur
Hey I'll have to put in my two cents on the French, and even go so far as to be specific with some anecdotal evidence about a trip that my family took to France when I was in high school.
We arrived in Paris in a rental car, in the early afternoon. After walking around quite a bit of the downtown area there, with all the sight-seeing and marvelling and whatnot, we decided to go find a hotel to stay in. This was our last stop on a drive from Rome to London, with the last leg taken on a train through the Chunnel.
Calling around from a payphone in a fairly residential district, we can find nothing. Everyone is full up, all throughout the city. My dad must have called 20 places and burned up lots of money just trying to find a room. Still calling, a man walks up to us and asks if we need help. He says that he lives right upstairs, and would we like to come and use his phone instead?
Grateful for the help we went up with him and made some more calls to local hotels, motels, places outside of the city, places 50 miles from the city, everything was full. He told us it was some music fest weekend in Paris and that there would be no where to stay most likely on a Saturday night. Then he made the suggestion that we just stay in his living room.
He and his wife lived in a very small one bedroom apartment, and here they were offering thier living room to three Americans who they had never met, and would most likely never see again. We took it gratefully and took them out to lunch the next day.
I'll have to say that it is one of the best stories from travelling that I have, and I always have to bring it up when people are ragging on the French, going on about "freedom fries" and such nonsense.
What perplexes me about this situation with Chirac/Google/M$ is hard to even explain. While Google seems to be trying to amass quite a monopoly of their own, it would seem that the logical conclusion, if one were trying to buck such a monopoly, would not be to go to the largest monopolistic company in the computer world. Wouldn't you make an effort to get smaller companies involved, maybe make up an agency that could coordinate the efforts of a whole bunch of places?
In any case, it is one of those things that just seems ridiculous. Chirac doesn't want to be negotiating from a "weak position," yet he plans to find solace in M$? WTF? Call me skeptical, but I highly doubt they will find much fair play in that direction.
Jason