Now... think about where this applies in other situations... including outside of programming.:)
Are you suggesting I think about building my own hooker instead of just re-using the same one? Or perhaps I should at least go to a different brothel and try others? Perhaps, by I am kind of happy with the current solution to the problem.
Still, I see you're point. Now if somebody would actually admit that just because Struts is free and supposedly "standard" doesn't mean we should continue to build new apps with it, I'd be a little more pleasant this morning. "If it is free, then it ain't broke" seems to be the thinking around here.
I feel for the guy but I also hate to keep seeing people spanked to the tune of millions every time that someone gets their feelings hurt. No matter the cause, I hate to see (what looks like) lawsuit abuse. Nothing but the dollar amount is bothering me.
Its not worth going to court unless you feel you can get a million bucks. The legal process itself takes so much time, effort and legal cost. The value of the original offence pales with respect to the cost of validating that offence and getting the law to spank the wrong-doer.
So in this case, I'd argue that the claimant feels that unless he can get a few million dollars, why should he bother with the years of hoop jumping? That's where the real cost is.
Great stat about the 3%. Let's leave out the part that financially it's overwhelming for most people, not to mention that it takes longer then a weekend since you're flying for about 20 hours each way to get to Europe (including your layover in New York in most cases, coming and going).
20 hours? Trying doing the Sydney - London run more than once (via Melbourne of all places!). 28 hours in economy. I have done it. But then I was spending a week in London so it seemed bearable. Contrast that with the number of people who commute for 3 hours each day just to be at the office for 8 hours - every fucking day.
Its not the finances that trouble most people - air fares have come way down in recent times - its the trouble that your government goes to to keep everybody on their proper side of their border. Those that are in should stay in; those that are out should stay out. I've stopped flying much because its just too much damn trouble to get on a plane these days and everywhere you go you have to be "validated" as not a potential terrorist. The US is fueling the paranoia. A government by the politicians for the big business.
30 years ago we were a society. Now we are an economy.
Not that I disagree with your statement that more Americans should leave the country, but I will point out that leaving the USA is a little more geographically involved than it is in, say, Europe.
I agree this is a large factor. It's the same down here. Every trip to another nation is literally "over seas". We can't drive nor train to any other country; have to fly, and fly for at least 4 or 5 hours, probably 12 or even 20 to get to more exotic places (well NZ is 3 hours, but is that really another country:-P ). On the other hand I can drive for four days just to cross our great southern land. Don't see much need to go OS myself. travel restrictions and paranoid delusions are just going to make it that much less attractive.
Then again, I know a bunch of people that won't even travel more than 10 km except to get to the office.
And by the way... for some unknown reason, Radio Shack could no longer sell electronics parts. Funny how that worked. So they got rid of the parts, too. I went in the other day looking for fuses; they only had a handful and suggested I go to "Home Depot". Ouch. Tell me again why people go to Radio Shack these days?
Same thing happened to Dick Smith Electronics down here. Was an excellent parts and odds & ends store in the late '80s and the core audience was build-it-yourself types (me:-)). Then he sold out to Wollies in '91 - don't blame him, made about $A50M - and it went down hill from there. Wollies are a grocer, they sell packages at low margin and higher low-cost students and drop outs to keep the packages moving.
15 years later and maybe only Jaycar has the bits that you need, or else through the internet. You can buy a headphone cable or a TV antenna at Dick Smith - if you're in a hurry and they are local and you don't mind paying $10 extra - but the rest of their "products" are just average consumer electronic boxes for no-nothing mums and dads.
Isn't copyrighting a geometrical figure about the same as copyrighting a number? How exactly do they plan to go about doing this?
Off topic, but are you saying that Google can't be copyrighted? It is a number after all. Cool. And the Googleplex, too, I assuem then. And isn't the Coke Ribbon Device (TM) just a geometrical figure? Hell, you can copyright colours - again the Coke Red.
They were complaining that "the entrances should be made bigger". So yes, I agree with you that the Pyramids might not be the most tourist friendly attraction.
Or maybe they were just not the most attraction friendly tourists. Put a hot dog stand and a Starbucks at the entrance and the Americans will be happy enough. Its easy to stop the infidels, just ensure the passages around your monuments and within your cities are too narrow for them - say about two donkey breadths wide.
Great list! The US is just so evil. Thank God you can still go to Russia and China. Those are nice places with no current wars and great human rights and freedoms.
Sarcasm aside, it's not that the US is evil, more that it's paranoid. The automatic fingerprinting on arrival is the straw for me. Next will be DNA checks. I don't need that sort of interrogation when I visit a place, just because I might be a "terrorist" or even a "sleeper", ready to slay the common peoples of the land for no reason at all. Suspected Enemy until proven otherwise.
Most Americans are paranoid xenophobes and the government philosophy backs that up. I read a stat that said that only 3-5% of Americans will travel overseas in their lifetime. That's 95% that don't care what's out there. And you certainly don't want what's out there getting in here, right? Not unless they are checked, and double checked on entry and have some money or skills to offer. That fear is being exported and reciprocated throughout the world.
At least in Russia, China, etc they are more open an honest about it. Pretend you agree with government policy, pay your taxes and bribes, ignore certain "customs" and don't tell them how to run their country, and you'll be treated with respect and left about your business. Not that simple in the good ol' USA.
But hey, its your country, do what you like. And as long as you have the military might, guess you can tell other countries how to run theirs as well. "Cause we got the bombs..."
Figure 8 GB per glass master, at a cost of $1k each*. That'd end up being 500 masters - $500k ouch. Still, you'd end up with a store that would slaughter even film at longevity.
And it'd be mostly a static cost - not annual.
$500K doesn't sound too bad considering probably $100-200 million went into creating the film. For a reasonable expectation of a century of life and being able at any time to capitalise on a hidden extra, that seems very, very reasonable.
If you had a $100 million jewel that would be kept in a sealed vault for $1/2 million for a hundred years would you opt for it? I would.
Why is everybody worried about $100K here - these costs are the most minimal costs in making a $100M film?
Its always legal to report suspected crime. In fact, its expected. You can lose your job for not reporting the crime.
If I let someone into my house to fix the drain, that doesn't mean it's OK for them to go searching through my house, read my private journals and look through my medical records.
But if you had pictures hanging on your wall depicting child pornography then yes you would be reported, the police would come along with a search warrant and you would go to jail. Don't want to get caught, then hide the pictures before you let the plumber in. Even if the pictures were in your bedroom and the plumber stumbled in for no apparent reason, you still commited a crime, the plumber still should report it and it must be investigated.
Do we really have to support older versions of firefox? I mean some one at some point figured out how to download it, why can't they just do it again?
I only just recently upgraded a bunch of my home boxes to run FF 2.0.x from 1.0/1.5. I don't like changing my stable systems when I use them every day. It matters some how easy the upgrade is, but until you've done an upgrade for a specific product you don't know how quick and easy it will be.
Are there other introduced bugs? Will my settings be carried forward? What about on the Ubuntu box upstairs? How hard will it be for me and my family to get used to the new behaviours, interfaces, widgets and settings? Will it put more load on my machines? etc, etc.
These questions have to be asked and answer whenever software or hardware is upgraded. Doesn't matter that its just "a click of a button and everything is magic". For some apps, like Firefox this is largely true, for most it is not and there are always gotchas. Lots of them. That's the computing industry today. And gotchas mean my time is wasted, my system performs worse, my apps become less useful - and that pisses us all off. I don't need that at home nor the office.
Upgrades have lots of externalities passed from the developer / vendors to the user. I want to minimise those externalities. NOT UPGRADING UNTIL NEEDED often is the best way to minimise that.
Stupid users will upgrade willy nilly and just trust the vendor did it right.
I don't know why the laser printer manufacturers haven't started playing the same games as the inkjet people. Is it a historic fluke, or is there some technical or legal reason why toner isn't $8000 a pound?
Simple. Inkjets are sold to a different market then laser printers. inkjets are sold to mums, dads and grandmas who only care about initial price and don't care about ongoing costs. They won't kick up a stink if they can't stick a cheap generic cartridge in a HP printer and will fork out the dollars for a new cartridge when the printer tells them too. Consumers do as tey are told.
Laster printers are sold primarily to the commercial market - ie businesses. They will use the printers a hell of a lot more and they are business critical. They won't except such shenanigans and won't buy from vendors that play such games. Vendors know their customers.
That's why base level laptops these days are a hell of a lot better quality then you'd expect of most consumer goods. Historically they were - and still are - still primarily aimed at the business market. Same with most data projectors. TVs, home appliances, etc are abysmal quality and won't last the distance.
Its good to be aware which market the products you are looking for are being aimed at and adjust accordingly. Sometimes look for commercial products other times look for consumer / mass-market products.
They also charge for backhaul, so your 200mb plan (for $29.95 / month for 24 months) includes all traffic in both directions.
Jesus H. Christ! Just 200 megabytes a month? Sounds like you guys would welcome Comcast or Verizon.
Yup, all the majors down here "offer" that service for that price point. Its a caseof if that type of service is enough for you you don't need the internet at all and your tooling $30 a month down the dunny. Better then people pay $100/mnth for reruns on Foxtel (our version of cable) so its not like people have any better use for the money. Might as well got to Telstra. God know CEO Sol and his possy need the money for their own pockets.
As I seen on another post "Friends do not let Friends use Pig Puddle". Family members you don't like - encourage them. More bandwidth for the rest of us:-)
Because life has no meaning, and because at any second someone could hit Ctrl-C and kill us all instantly...
Or an asteroid could wipe us out in an instant, or a gamma ray burst from a nearby super-massive black hole or quasar, a few nukes dropped in the wrong place, or...
Well, my point is that, yes, life has no meaning nor our entire life's work. Not your, nor mine. If the human race was wiped out the universe would continue without us, as it did with the dinosaurs. Nobody love's us and until we find alien life its just us and the big old rocks out in the big black.
Were all dancing on the head of a pin - simulated or not matters little. If that bothers you then your two options are suicide or intense religious furvour. The rest of us just accept it and move on.
I honestly cannot believe they haven't considered this possibility.
They did consider this possibility. They considered it unimportant and not their problem. They considered their bottom line more important. They considered their customers are too ignorant to care or too impotent to be able to do anything about it. They considered right.
Oh, and Javascript was NOT designed as a "display customization language". It was originally designed to script (drumroll please...) Java.
Please check thy facts, kind sir. Javascript was conceived of as a Java-like script language. A poor man's Java for those that found object oriented concepts a little too brain intensive. Thrown in the first netscape browser to allow a little customisation of the DOM on the fly, for things that then then HTML 3 couldn't do properly.
Javascript is not an object oriented language. It is at best what can be called object-based, but then anything that uses "objects" can make that claim. There is no polymorphesm or inheritance, strong type checking, nor even much encapsulation. Its all function based monolithic code. And even if javascript, per se, is capable of the above, examples of such are very, very rare indeed.
As for the W3C specs, they aren't worth that much as most of the javascript interpretors - aka browsers - haven't given much more of a cursory glance at them either. No point writing code to spec if the interpretor won't run the code in the same way. At least Sun managed to force JVMs to be written to a more standard standard.
My brother builds model planes in his spare time. According to your Javascript defence guess he can call himself an "Aircraft Engineer" now. Everytime I see recruitment ads for "HTML / Javascript Programmer" I kack myself. Well, at least it leaves the real programming jobs for those of us that can.
There's been well over a decade of time for users to become comfortable or uncomfortable with the idea of entrusting a third party with their data. So far, users have been leaning toward "comfortable".
I'd say users have been leading towards "don't care". Of course the solution is to host your own web/app server. Then your client talks to your server and stores your data.
Javascript and HTML are for content and presentation, not processing data. That's because browsers are optomised as display platforms, because they are built to display documents. Javascript is not a programming language its a script language to allow designers to customise your display, just like CSS.
Want a customisable, interactive, client-server GUI. Code one in a real language. Use C, C++, C# or even Java, then throw an XML over HTTP client comms library in. Easy. Well easy for programmers with a little training. Not easy for script monkeys who can't code. AJAX is just a bastardisation of what was easiest for most people to build with.
AJAX is to the Web what Lego is to the building industry. Useful in its place.
The hard(ish) part is making an app that is completely AJAX. As in, loads from a single page and never refreshes after that.
Why would this even be a goal? What would be the point? What are you trying to accomplish? What's wrong with the browser loading pages? Isn't that the whole purpose of a browser? Otherwise build your own downloadable GUI and use whatever client/server protocol you like.
I consider myself green and am looking into installing Solar when the price drops a bit more.
Oh we all consider ourselves green here and I have no doubt when the price drops a little more then we'll all install solar. Say when it becomes cheaper than anything else, such as base-load coal generated power.
And I'm pro-American too and will consider buying good old USA goods when the price drops a bit more - say to just a little bit less than the Made In China stuff we all currently by.
The companies market it as a way to "give young programmers real-life experience" and "something to use in their portfolio".
So there is no incentive for real programmers who already have a resume to bother. Only ameteurs and script kiddies would bother, so where is the quality code?
The idea has potential in some markets and for some industries however. I might offer to "crowdsource" for the local brothel by holding a bonking competition open to all the young ladies in my neighbourhood as a way of selecting the best potential hookers. I will personally judge all entrants to guarantee the quality: after all I'm responsible to my client - the brothel - for the quality of candidates. Winner gets $100, a twelve month contract and a chance to pad their resume with some real-life experience. Got to be a cheaper way for the brothel - sorry, "bordello" - to recruit quality talent.
here are more alternatives to Facebook than there are telecom companies. But the next one to get big will simply follow the same business model (chicken and egg problem, but the problem exists nonetheless).
Its not a chicken and egg problem; its an economic reality. The only way to make money - even cover costs - is to sell adverts and advertisers want a more "targeted" audience. Your personal details are the currency of the advertising world.
Well, unless Facebook moved to a subscription only model. Would you pay a monthly fee to be part of this network that you can't live without? If not, then your privacy and personal details are the only thing worth anything to anybody else - and worth less and less as the months pass.
Unless you are a telecom there are only two ways to make money off a pure internet business: sell subscriptions or sell ads.
Let's say I have a site that has some pages with a little content and some with a lot. I have some ads down the right side, and a navigation bar down the left. I have a header, and I'd like a footer.
Why try to do this in CSS? Won't a table work well? One with a cell across for the header, three cells in the next row, then one for the footer? That's kind-of what tables are built for, or so I believe. Then the footer will always be placed at the bottom of the longest column, as all three columns belong to the same row. That's how every site I've ever built constructs headers, footers and side bars.
...politicians haven't found a way to inform the public that by spending 2x as much now, we're saving 20x as much over the next n years.
Politicians, business leaders - hell most people - don't believe/see/understand/care (pick one) that a stitch in time really works. If they can't see immediate bang for buck then they won't support it. That's the way our world is now and has been for a while. Instant gratification. Apollo program got cut because of the same attitude, lack of spending in helath/roads/telecom, AT&T's video phone never took off (WTF?), even quadraphonic failed;
All because people just can't see past the day after tomorrow. If the effects won't be seen till next week, or next month, then wait till then to do something about it. Politicians really do implement the will of the people sometimes.
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Are you suggesting I think about building my own hooker instead of just re-using the same one? Or perhaps I should at least go to a different brothel and try others? Perhaps, by I am kind of happy with the current solution to the problem.
Still, I see you're point. Now if somebody would actually admit that just because Struts is free and supposedly "standard" doesn't mean we should continue to build new apps with it, I'd be a little more pleasant this morning. "If it is free, then it ain't broke" seems to be the thinking around here.
Its not worth going to court unless you feel you can get a million bucks. The legal process itself takes so much time, effort and legal cost. The value of the original offence pales with respect to the cost of validating that offence and getting the law to spank the wrong-doer.
So in this case, I'd argue that the claimant feels that unless he can get a few million dollars, why should he bother with the years of hoop jumping? That's where the real cost is.
20 hours? Trying doing the Sydney - London run more than once (via Melbourne of all places!). 28 hours in economy. I have done it. But then I was spending a week in London so it seemed bearable. Contrast that with the number of people who commute for 3 hours each day just to be at the office for 8 hours - every fucking day.
Its not the finances that trouble most people - air fares have come way down in recent times - its the trouble that your government goes to to keep everybody on their proper side of their border. Those that are in should stay in; those that are out should stay out. I've stopped flying much because its just too much damn trouble to get on a plane these days and everywhere you go you have to be "validated" as not a potential terrorist. The US is fueling the paranoia. A government by the politicians for the big business.
30 years ago we were a society. Now we are an economy.
I agree this is a large factor. It's the same down here. Every trip to another nation is literally "over seas". We can't drive nor train to any other country; have to fly, and fly for at least 4 or 5 hours, probably 12 or even 20 to get to more exotic places (well NZ is 3 hours, but is that really another country :-P ). On the other hand I can drive for four days just to cross our great southern land. Don't see much need to go OS myself. travel restrictions and paranoid delusions are just going to make it that much less attractive.
Then again, I know a bunch of people that won't even travel more than 10 km except to get to the office.
Same thing happened to Dick Smith Electronics down here. Was an excellent parts and odds & ends store in the late '80s and the core audience was build-it-yourself types (me:-)). Then he sold out to Wollies in '91 - don't blame him, made about $A50M - and it went down hill from there. Wollies are a grocer, they sell packages at low margin and higher low-cost students and drop outs to keep the packages moving.
15 years later and maybe only Jaycar has the bits that you need, or else through the internet. You can buy a headphone cable or a TV antenna at Dick Smith - if you're in a hurry and they are local and you don't mind paying $10 extra - but the rest of their "products" are just average consumer electronic boxes for no-nothing mums and dads.
Life goes on...
Off topic, but are you saying that Google can't be copyrighted? It is a number after all. Cool. And the Googleplex, too, I assuem then. And isn't the Coke Ribbon Device (TM) just a geometrical figure? Hell, you can copyright colours - again the Coke Red.
Or maybe they were just not the most attraction friendly tourists. Put a hot dog stand and a Starbucks at the entrance and the Americans will be happy enough. Its easy to stop the infidels, just ensure the passages around your monuments and within your cities are too narrow for them - say about two donkey breadths wide.
Sarcasm aside, it's not that the US is evil, more that it's paranoid. The automatic fingerprinting on arrival is the straw for me. Next will be DNA checks. I don't need that sort of interrogation when I visit a place, just because I might be a "terrorist" or even a "sleeper", ready to slay the common peoples of the land for no reason at all. Suspected Enemy until proven otherwise.
Most Americans are paranoid xenophobes and the government philosophy backs that up. I read a stat that said that only 3-5% of Americans will travel overseas in their lifetime. That's 95% that don't care what's out there. And you certainly don't want what's out there getting in here, right? Not unless they are checked, and double checked on entry and have some money or skills to offer. That fear is being exported and reciprocated throughout the world.
At least in Russia, China, etc they are more open an honest about it. Pretend you agree with government policy, pay your taxes and bribes, ignore certain "customs" and don't tell them how to run their country, and you'll be treated with respect and left about your business. Not that simple in the good ol' USA.
But hey, its your country, do what you like. And as long as you have the military might, guess you can tell other countries how to run theirs as well. "Cause we got the bombs..."
$500K doesn't sound too bad considering probably $100-200 million went into creating the film. For a reasonable expectation of a century of life and being able at any time to capitalise on a hidden extra, that seems very, very reasonable.
If you had a $100 million jewel that would be kept in a sealed vault for $1/2 million for a hundred years would you opt for it? I would.
Why is everybody worried about $100K here - these costs are the most minimal costs in making a $100M film?
Its always legal to report suspected crime. In fact, its expected. You can lose your job for not reporting the crime.
But if you had pictures hanging on your wall depicting child pornography then yes you would be reported, the police would come along with a search warrant and you would go to jail. Don't want to get caught, then hide the pictures before you let the plumber in. Even if the pictures were in your bedroom and the plumber stumbled in for no apparent reason, you still commited a crime, the plumber still should report it and it must be investigated.
I only just recently upgraded a bunch of my home boxes to run FF 2.0.x from 1.0/1.5. I don't like changing my stable systems when I use them every day. It matters some how easy the upgrade is, but until you've done an upgrade for a specific product you don't know how quick and easy it will be.
Are there other introduced bugs? Will my settings be carried forward? What about on the Ubuntu box upstairs? How hard will it be for me and my family to get used to the new behaviours, interfaces, widgets and settings? Will it put more load on my machines? etc, etc.
These questions have to be asked and answer whenever software or hardware is upgraded. Doesn't matter that its just "a click of a button and everything is magic". For some apps, like Firefox this is largely true, for most it is not and there are always gotchas. Lots of them. That's the computing industry today. And gotchas mean my time is wasted, my system performs worse, my apps become less useful - and that pisses us all off. I don't need that at home nor the office.
Upgrades have lots of externalities passed from the developer / vendors to the user. I want to minimise those externalities. NOT UPGRADING UNTIL NEEDED often is the best way to minimise that.
Stupid users will upgrade willy nilly and just trust the vendor did it right.
Simple. Inkjets are sold to a different market then laser printers. inkjets are sold to mums, dads and grandmas who only care about initial price and don't care about ongoing costs. They won't kick up a stink if they can't stick a cheap generic cartridge in a HP printer and will fork out the dollars for a new cartridge when the printer tells them too. Consumers do as tey are told.
Laster printers are sold primarily to the commercial market - ie businesses. They will use the printers a hell of a lot more and they are business critical. They won't except such shenanigans and won't buy from vendors that play such games. Vendors know their customers.
That's why base level laptops these days are a hell of a lot better quality then you'd expect of most consumer goods. Historically they were - and still are - still primarily aimed at the business market. Same with most data projectors. TVs, home appliances, etc are abysmal quality and won't last the distance.
Its good to be aware which market the products you are looking for are being aimed at and adjust accordingly. Sometimes look for commercial products other times look for consumer / mass-market products.
That's it. Cheaper to fly Open Office express on gold plated DVDs. Don't you love it when business types fuck up a good thing like the Internet.
Yup, all the majors down here "offer" that service for that price point. Its a caseof if that type of service is enough for you you don't need the internet at all and your tooling $30 a month down the dunny. Better then people pay $100/mnth for reruns on Foxtel (our version of cable) so its not like people have any better use for the money. Might as well got to Telstra. God know CEO Sol and his possy need the money for their own pockets.
As I seen on another post "Friends do not let Friends use Pig Puddle". Family members you don't like - encourage them. More bandwidth for the rest of us :-)
Or an asteroid could wipe us out in an instant, or a gamma ray burst from a nearby super-massive black hole or quasar, a few nukes dropped in the wrong place, or ...
Well, my point is that, yes, life has no meaning nor our entire life's work. Not your, nor mine. If the human race was wiped out the universe would continue without us, as it did with the dinosaurs. Nobody love's us and until we find alien life its just us and the big old rocks out in the big black.
Were all dancing on the head of a pin - simulated or not matters little. If that bothers you then your two options are suicide or intense religious furvour. The rest of us just accept it and move on.
They did consider this possibility. They considered it unimportant and not their problem. They considered their bottom line more important. They considered their customers are too ignorant to care or too impotent to be able to do anything about it. They considered right.
Please check thy facts, kind sir. Javascript was conceived of as a Java-like script language. A poor man's Java for those that found object oriented concepts a little too brain intensive. Thrown in the first netscape browser to allow a little customisation of the DOM on the fly, for things that then then HTML 3 couldn't do properly.
Javascript is not an object oriented language. It is at best what can be called object-based, but then anything that uses "objects" can make that claim. There is no polymorphesm or inheritance, strong type checking, nor even much encapsulation. Its all function based monolithic code. And even if javascript, per se, is capable of the above, examples of such are very, very rare indeed.
As for the W3C specs, they aren't worth that much as most of the javascript interpretors - aka browsers - haven't given much more of a cursory glance at them either. No point writing code to spec if the interpretor won't run the code in the same way. At least Sun managed to force JVMs to be written to a more standard standard.
My brother builds model planes in his spare time. According to your Javascript defence guess he can call himself an "Aircraft Engineer" now. Everytime I see recruitment ads for "HTML / Javascript Programmer" I kack myself. Well, at least it leaves the real programming jobs for those of us that can.
I'd say users have been leading towards "don't care". Of course the solution is to host your own web/app server. Then your client talks to your server and stores your data.
Javascript and HTML are for content and presentation, not processing data. That's because browsers are optomised as display platforms, because they are built to display documents. Javascript is not a programming language its a script language to allow designers to customise your display, just like CSS.
Want a customisable, interactive, client-server GUI. Code one in a real language. Use C, C++, C# or even Java, then throw an XML over HTTP client comms library in. Easy. Well easy for programmers with a little training. Not easy for script monkeys who can't code. AJAX is just a bastardisation of what was easiest for most people to build with.
AJAX is to the Web what Lego is to the building industry. Useful in its place.
Why would this even be a goal? What would be the point? What are you trying to accomplish? What's wrong with the browser loading pages? Isn't that the whole purpose of a browser? Otherwise build your own downloadable GUI and use whatever client/server protocol you like.
Oh we all consider ourselves green here and I have no doubt when the price drops a little more then we'll all install solar. Say when it becomes cheaper than anything else, such as base-load coal generated power.
And I'm pro-American too and will consider buying good old USA goods when the price drops a bit more - say to just a little bit less than the Made In China stuff we all currently by.
. What smells around here?
So there is no incentive for real programmers who already have a resume to bother. Only ameteurs and script kiddies would bother, so where is the quality code?
The idea has potential in some markets and for some industries however. I might offer to "crowdsource" for the local brothel by holding a bonking competition open to all the young ladies in my neighbourhood as a way of selecting the best potential hookers. I will personally judge all entrants to guarantee the quality: after all I'm responsible to my client - the brothel - for the quality of candidates. Winner gets $100, a twelve month contract and a chance to pad their resume with some real-life experience. Got to be a cheaper way for the brothel - sorry, "bordello" - to recruit quality talent.
Think it'll work :-) I'm willing to try.
Its not a chicken and egg problem; its an economic reality. The only way to make money - even cover costs - is to sell adverts and advertisers want a more "targeted" audience. Your personal details are the currency of the advertising world.
Well, unless Facebook moved to a subscription only model. Would you pay a monthly fee to be part of this network that you can't live without? If not, then your privacy and personal details are the only thing worth anything to anybody else - and worth less and less as the months pass.
Unless you are a telecom there are only two ways to make money off a pure internet business: sell subscriptions or sell ads.
Why try to do this in CSS? Won't a table work well? One with a cell across for the header, three cells in the next row, then one for the footer? That's kind-of what tables are built for, or so I believe. Then the footer will always be placed at the bottom of the longest column, as all three columns belong to the same row. That's how every site I've ever built constructs headers, footers and side bars.
Or am I missing something?
Just like hookers really :->
Politicians, business leaders - hell most people - don't believe/see/understand/care (pick one) that a stitch in time really works. If they can't see immediate bang for buck then they won't support it. That's the way our world is now and has been for a while. Instant gratification. Apollo program got cut because of the same attitude, lack of spending in helath/roads/telecom, AT&T's video phone never took off (WTF?), even quadraphonic failed;
All because people just can't see past the day after tomorrow. If the effects won't be seen till next week, or next month, then wait till then to do something about it. Politicians really do implement the will of the people sometimes.