I realize this thread is over, but for anyone following up, now Starbucks is doing it. Go to this site. Noisy, annoying.
http://www.starbuckscoffeeonthego.com/
Sometimes I fight that automatic urge to click Skip Intro just to see what that 30 sec. to 2 min. video is. It is always... always!... completely pointless. Why? Why is that cute little Flash movie at the beginning of some web pages.
I hope Mr. or Ms. Web Developer has HTML, Javascript, and server side performance down pat before wasting cycles on meaningless Flash pages or annoying videos.
Those style websites like that one or this with the large screaming letters, so-called testimonials, and long, long single page have all the class and allure of a used car salesman in a plaid blazer.
P.S. As an aside, it's unfortunate that the last, least important step-- time optimization--, is being done first. If people would just put that damned ADSL modem on a timer (mine uses as much energy in a day as my refrigerator), unplug chargers they're not using, and put the computer in hibernate mode at night, that would do far more than time-optimized smart energy.
Really? I find that very hard to believe. On average, the fridge is using about 1 kwh/day.
It's always on and always drawing some power even if the compressor isn't cooling. The DSL modem is drawing more power per day? How much? I just really find that hard to believe.
My first job involving programming in 1994 was in Pick/BASIC, Pick being a quite different and interesting database system. It was on a mainframe made by Sanyo... Sanyo/ICON.
Needless to say, it didn't translate well on a resume. "You programmed in BASIC on a mainframe on a database called 'Pick'"?
Yet those goofballs will send me a check for 6 cents. I hate these guys yet I end up being a customer (TCI Cable -> AT&T Broadband, Pacific Bell -> SBC -> AT&T).
Oh yeah, they're the ones who also charge around 30% more than my local coffee place charges, and I'm more than happy to give the nice people there the difference and then some for a tip.
Perhaps the devil's in the details, but I believe that little extra you might pay at Starbucks gets them health insurance, probably more of a bennie than a 50c tip. And as far as cost, the decent quality indie coffeehouses I frequented in the San Jose Bay Area - Coffee Society and Campbell Roasting - were as expensive, for the latter, or weirder/ruder in service, for the former.
I used to own cube111.com and let it lapse on purpose. I recently checked its availability, which it was. I was going to reregister the domain when I found a web host to pair with it. I did, and lo and behold, it's taken and parked by "Protected Domain Services." Either one of the web hosters I was checking did it, but I think it's this site which I've used to check domains.
8.34 hrs per semi-monthly pay period == 25 days PTO per year. At my 9th anniv. (just hitting 8), it's 30 days. PTO = sick = vacation = personal days. We're a venture funded company in its 11th year - still waiting to go public.
I have my complaints about my job and where I work, but the PTO is a gem and I think has helped retain many of the software engineers when jobs in Silicon Valley are semi abundant.
In tech I think 15 days is a quite common starting point.
"Already killed LinkedIn", yeah "LinkedIn" is what I was thinking
about. I'm not sure if it's dead yet, but I kind of hope it does
go away. Apparently LinkedIn thinks pretty highly of themselves
"We're excited about building this company," said Nye. "It would take a helluva lot to get us off that path." Does that mean $1 billion? "A lot more than that," said Nye, who worked at Procter & Gamble (PG), Intuit (INTU) and Advent Software (ADVS) before joining LinkedIn.
You're right, I haven't had a lot of experience with this. I've lived in three major cities since the obiquity of cell phones. (Los Angeles is one of them...) I've seen a NUMBER of movies, and can only think of two times where I've been annoyed by a jackass with a cell phone.
Same here. I don't ever recall having a problem with cell phones in a movie. I've been bothered by people behind my idly chatting to each other.
And I'm even hypersensitive to cell phones, so I'm told. I'm someone who has complained to HR because people leave cell phones on their desks letting their annoying ringtones go on and on. Never noticed it in a movie theater.
I've always wondered if that is an urban legend. Of course it depends on what "a lot" means. Granted, in many areas it is "a lot" less strenuous having gone from back breaking to using a joystick. Though my former apartment in Menlo Park, CA had those cans that are below ground.
It just...reads PDF files and does so well. Which is pretty much what you want it to do, right?
I've been using Foxit for probably 2 years now. It does more than just read PDFs. You can type directly into the PDF (look for "typewriter mode") and draw and mark it up with lines, squares, circles, and whatnot. It's great for PDF forms that must be downloaded and normally handwritten on, like the forms most company HRs post.
Hitler considered it appropriate for the state to adopt a view of what is a life worth living (ein lebenswertig Leben) and cast this ideal in aesthetic/ethical, or quasi-biological terms, and, he gave the state the means to the implementation of this ideal. The RIAA is, like Hitler, telling us how life should be lived and paints this ideal in ethical terms and they want to have the means to implement this ideal.
There. Did it. Happy now?
This is what I did. Create a new style based on predefined style HTML Preformatted. Name it XML Sample. Make sure "Style for following paragraph" is also XML Sample. I use a 15% Gray background pattern and Courier New 10pt and a 0.3" indent to set it off.
For better or worse, where I work, tech specs are Word. I use the style just mentioned for my XML or sometimes embed XML Spy schema fragments as JPEG.
I checked their website about price protection. It said this:
The Best Value Guarantee program will terminate on October 1, 2006 except the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card which ends November 1, 2006. Any purchases charged to your Card account after the program termination date will not be eligible for the program. Accordingly, the provisions under the heading Best Value Guarantee that accompany your Cardmember Agreement are deleted after the program termination date.
But then again, maybe not. I know people who pay more for bottled water price-per-gallon than gasoline... and they complain about the price of gasoline.
God, I hate that analogy. Dr. Dean Edell, whom I really like for the most part, likes to use that analogy. If we bought our gasoline in little 16.9 oz. bottles, it would cost more than $3 per gallon. Have you ever seen those vending machines in front of grocery stores or the water stores (popular in Cupertino, CA) where you fill by the gallon (sort of like a gas station)? It runs between $.25 and $.75 a gallon.
Where are these people paying more on a per gallon equivalent? The restaurant? The convenience store (note, you are paying for convenience)? What kind of water: Fiji, Voss?
If you are in an area with decent T-Mobile coverage, their prepaid is great for light/moderate use. The Nokia 6030 is cheap and easy to use, long battery life. Even better, Target occasionally runs a promotion where they give it away with a $100 (1000 minutes good for 1 year) card. I just bought one of those to get the spare battery for my wife's 6030.
Their customer service is helpful and friendly. They don't treat me like a lowlife for not subscribing to one of their premium subscriptions. Just a few days ago I called asking if I can have a new number for my recent move (change of area code). Piece of cake.
I love T-Mobile prepaid. I have it, my wife has it, my parents are converted (from Cingular family plan with gobs of unused minutes).
I have found Yahoo Pipes to be an indispensable companion to Craigslist RSS feeds. I can plop in feed from say Fresno and SF Bay, search with positive, negative, and grouped searches, and restuff that back into a new RSS feed.
Take it further. Replace blogging with "talking to your friend on a cellphone about the game as it's going on." Under the NCAA interpretation, this would be violating their policies. I would like to see them try to enforce that. The answer is, short of requiring everybody to turn in their cellphones at the gate, they can't.
Perhaps interesting in a legalistic vacuum. As someone who attends the occasional Giants game, I sometimes wish they would make people turn in their cellphones. Is everyone talking and making noise? Yes. There's just something about the loud "cell phone guy (or yappy gal)" that's stands out.
Just had to point this out. But yeah, I get the point, a reasonable one. Funny thing is that AT&T Park (formerly SBC formerly PacBell) provides free WiFi in the park.
Slashdot Mirror
I realize this thread is over, but for anyone following up, now Starbucks is doing it. Go to this site. Noisy, annoying. http://www.starbuckscoffeeonthego.com/
Sometimes I fight that automatic urge to click Skip Intro just to see what that 30 sec. to 2 min. video is. It is always ... always! ... completely pointless. Why? Why is that cute little Flash movie at the beginning of some web pages.
An even greater web page peeve is the automatically loaded video, especially when it doesn't allow you to mute or stop the video. And every page has one of these.
I hope Mr. or Ms. Web Developer has HTML, Javascript, and server side performance down pat before wasting cycles on meaningless Flash pages or annoying videos.
Those style websites like that one or this with the large screaming letters, so-called testimonials, and long, long single page have all the class and allure of a used car salesman in a plaid blazer.
Really? I find that very hard to believe. On average, the fridge is using about 1 kwh/day.
Energy Star
It's always on and always drawing some power even if the compressor isn't cooling. The DSL modem is drawing more power per day? How much? I just really find that hard to believe.
Needless to say, it didn't translate well on a resume. "You programmed in BASIC on a mainframe on a database called 'Pick'"?
Go learn some. :-)
Why is parent Troll? It's a little bit Funny, a little Insightful.
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Perhaps the devil's in the details, but I believe that little extra you might pay at Starbucks gets them health insurance, probably more of a bennie than a 50c tip. And as far as cost, the decent quality indie coffeehouses I frequented in the San Jose Bay Area - Coffee Society and Campbell Roasting - were as expensive, for the latter, or weirder/ruder in service, for the former.
http://whois.domaintools.com/cube111.com
Whoever did it, I think it's crap that they scrape out or listen in on potential names.
I'm going to try some semimeaningful name searches on domaintools.com as an experiment.
He's pining for the fjords.
I have my complaints about my job and where I work, but the PTO is a gem and I think has helped retain many of the software engineers when jobs in Silicon Valley are semi abundant.
In tech I think 15 days is a quite common starting point.
"We're excited about building this company," said Nye. "It would take a helluva lot to get us off that path." Does that mean $1 billion? "A lot more than that," said Nye, who worked at Procter & Gamble (PG), Intuit (INTU) and Advent Software (ADVS) before joining LinkedIn.
Same here. I don't ever recall having a problem with cell phones in a movie. I've been bothered by people behind my idly chatting to each other.
And I'm even hypersensitive to cell phones, so I'm told. I'm someone who has complained to HR because people leave cell phones on their desks letting their annoying ringtones go on and on. Never noticed it in a movie theater.
But I digress ...
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Sanitation_Worker/Hourly_Rate
I've been using Foxit for probably 2 years now. It does more than just read PDFs. You can type directly into the PDF (look for "typewriter mode") and draw and mark it up with lines, squares, circles, and whatnot. It's great for PDF forms that must be downloaded and normally handwritten on, like the forms most company HRs post.
Godwin's Law has been triggered. Stop the thread.
Radiohead. That one caught my attention. I haven't check lately, but they've been one of the one that I couldn't get on iTunes.
For better or worse, where I work, tech specs are Word. I use the style just mentioned for my XML or sometimes embed XML Spy schema fragments as JPEG.
I find this site handy to learn about the origin of unknown callers (but with caller ID).
I checked their website about price protection. It said this: The Best Value Guarantee program will terminate on October 1, 2006 except the Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card which ends November 1, 2006. Any purchases charged to your Card account after the program termination date will not be eligible for the program. Accordingly, the provisions under the heading Best Value Guarantee that accompany your Cardmember Agreement are deleted after the program termination date.
God, I hate that analogy. Dr. Dean Edell, whom I really like for the most part, likes to use that analogy. If we bought our gasoline in little 16.9 oz. bottles, it would cost more than $3 per gallon. Have you ever seen those vending machines in front of grocery stores or the water stores (popular in Cupertino, CA) where you fill by the gallon (sort of like a gas station)? It runs between $.25 and $.75 a gallon.
Where are these people paying more on a per gallon equivalent? The restaurant? The convenience store (note, you are paying for convenience)? What kind of water: Fiji, Voss?
Nokia 6030
Their customer service is helpful and friendly. They don't treat me like a lowlife for not subscribing to one of their premium subscriptions. Just a few days ago I called asking if I can have a new number for my recent move (change of area code). Piece of cake.
I love T-Mobile prepaid. I have it, my wife has it, my parents are converted (from Cingular family plan with gobs of unused minutes).
I have found Yahoo Pipes to be an indispensable companion to Craigslist RSS feeds. I can plop in feed from say Fresno and SF Bay, search with positive, negative, and grouped searches, and restuff that back into a new RSS feed.
If he weighs the same as a duck, he's made of wood. And therefore ...
Perhaps interesting in a legalistic vacuum. As someone who attends the occasional Giants game, I sometimes wish they would make people turn in their cellphones. Is everyone talking and making noise? Yes. There's just something about the loud "cell phone guy (or yappy gal)" that's stands out.
Just had to point this out. But yeah, I get the point, a reasonable one. Funny thing is that AT&T Park (formerly SBC formerly PacBell) provides free WiFi in the park.