Although I know this post will go over-looked, I still feel compelled to respond to maybe clear some things up.
I just recently turned 18 years of age -- Dec. 1st, actually. I started fiddling around with web development when I was 10 years old. I did, as many people here involved in most types of programming, teach myself. Using online references, of course, but I was not taught in a classroom or a personal trainer. I grasped very quickly and within the following year I had actually started to make money doing it. No, I do not use dreamweaver. If you really want to know: I use Gentoo Linux, XFCE, Mousepad, Inkscape and Xara for web development. I also run my own server on a separate machine dedicated to web hosting in itself. This is mostly used for development purposes, but I do host a few of my small projects [mostly my blog]. My mind is not just limited to web development. I do programming in most "prototyping" languages [Python, TCL/TK, PHP-GTK, etc.]. Mostly because these programs never leave my systems and are not designed for use by anyone else. Mostly small utilities such as a 'punch-in' program I use to monitor my work times. Not for payment, as most projects are on a fixed-price basis. Mostly just for my own knowledge.
Currently, I hold 2nd place in a National Competition in Canada. Look for Web Site Development in the Secondary Competitions. They combine the entire competition and then split the results after. I placed 3rd over all. That is, between Secondary and Post-Secondary.
I will be attending again this year. Hopefully I will come hope with a Gold Medal this year.
I understand and use XHTML 1.1 [which, currently, is basically XHTML 1.0 Strict], CSS, JavaScript, etc. just as it comes out and is mostly available to everyone. I'm just sick of how these "Standards" crop up. AJAX is not a standard, but it is said to be a rough outline/framework as to how the whole system works. A reference if you will. People adopt stuff like this as if it were a standard. Just like flash back in the day. Don't you remember when Flash was the cool thing and your site would be dubbed as "un-cool" by en masse? That around the time I ever got into this stuff, and it was not pretty. Obviously we have progressed in actually producing something worth looking at.
I know anyone who may stumble across this post will read it and think "I call your bullshit!" Really, there is no bullshit here. Although my last post was indeed harsh, I was having a rather shitty day dealing with stress. I have an anger problem and am in counseling and anger management for it. I'm sorry if I ruined anyones day. I do still believe that Web Standards is an Oxymoron in the sense that there are not very many standards that are actually fully obeyed.
No. Just stating how I feel about the current situation.
Do you know how hard it is to try and stay in a business that constantly evolves based on what is cool? I was not stating literally that the standards move with trends. Note the quotes around Web Standards and Standards throughout my post. But I guess morons like you fail to read what is actually being said and like to go with the flow. You are one of them! Burn in hell you dolt!
I am very well aware as to what I said and I stand by it. Web Standards is still an Oxymoron. It doesn't make sense because there never were any real solid standards, because of this people are forced to go with the flow of what is 'in' and 'cool.' EG: AJAX, RSS and many other XML-based "standards."
To whoever may have modded down my last post, shame on you. It is a very valid point coming from a developers point of view. Most people here have never actually developed a commercial site for real money. I hope your karma burns in a hot fiery volcano.
Note: Due to certain reasons, this post may or may not necessarily be entirely serious. You be the judge. Don't take shit so fucking literally.
As a web developer of 7 years as my main source of income, web standards is a waste of time. Personally I try to adhere to them as much as humanely [no, that's not a typo] possible. "Web Standards" changes constantly with what is "in" and "cool." Right now the big thing is AJAX. I, personally, have never used it and I suggest everyone else does the same. Except in situations like Google's Writely. Web Applications are useful, but not necessarily worth the effort. Because "Standards" never actually stay put, I have this to say:
I feel that is still unintuitive. I have never used Vista and can honestly say I don't think I've used Windows at all in at least 6 months.
Would it not make more sense to have three buttons representing 3 options. You should be able to right click on the button and set the default action. By default install it should be, in my opinion: Shutdown, Log Off, and Switch Users [as XP was]. Or it could detect the type of install [eg. workstation or laptop] and adjust accordingly upon install.
But who am I do know anything? Maybe I am wrong. Maybe you can already do this? I have no intentions of purchasing Vista. I may be force to use it in school of the college I am waiting to get into plans to adopt it. Or if I can find a nice torrent for educational purposes [eg. learn all the new features to provide support to users as I used to do with win98+]
At first I thought you were talking about the Motorola A630. I've had this phone for about 3 months now. Admittedly that's not very long but all I can say is this is the greatest geek phone EVER! Full qwerty keyboard and a game pad slightly embossed into the keyboard [some pictures should show it OK on google] that resembles the NES controllers. My girlfriend loves to play the games that came loaded on it.
I bought it through an online vendor and can't seem to download anything from my telco that I deal with. However, this phone appears to be fairly big in the UK/Europe. I have found numerous ring tones and games, etc for a few pounds.
Anyway... greatest phone I've ever had. Not too bulky [physically] and very feature full. I have one gripe about it, but it's not really a big deal. When you lock the exterior keypad and then then flip it open [say, to read a text message] and close it again, you will have to lock it again. I think there might be a setting somewhere, but I got the phone OEM with no manual.:-(
This reminds me of the time I tried to stay awake for as long as I could. I hit 93 hours or so. Note that this incident did not involve any drugs. Legal or otherwise.
I was still fairly young then, at the age of 14 or so. I was out with friends on the final night of my experiment and I started to see things and totally freaked out. One of the hallucinations was indeed a miniature pink elephant. As well I thought a tree was a very large spider. I have a terrible fear of spiders. After my friends managed to get me into the house and calmed me down, I suddenly got up and went out into the back yard to jump on the trampoline. It was -10 degree's Celsius or so and I was just wearing Jeans and a T-Shirt. I couldn't tell the difference. All I remember is having them waking me up and having to be rushed to the hospital. I was jumping on the trampoline and slipped. I flew off and cracked my head on a mound of ice. I'm just glad one of the springs didn't break or on the trampoline and hit me in the ass or something. It was fairly cold.
I stayed in the hospital for the night as the thought I may have had a concussion. I still don't remember any of that week. What I told you now is what my friends have told me. I also heard that earlier on in my experiment [first 24 hours I suppose] I had exclaimed to my friends that my toothpaste had started talking to me the next day at school.
Now I enjoy my sleep.
Pills? No thanks. I prefer the natural method of recovering from a hard days work writing code.:-)
If this is directed to me, I am on a waiting list to get into a Business Program at SIAST. It's basically a College and only through-out Sask. Canada.:-)
Disclaimer: I am Canadian, but I feel it's a similar situation up here as well.
I just graduated from high school last June. I am 17 (I turn 18 in about 10 days) years of age and work for a small local business doing tech/IT stuff. I think that a major factor would be that it has been pushed [forced?] into a lot of people's heads that they need to make a lot of money to be successful.
So I think they figure they can beat the competition and start working earlier. This does make sense to me, sort of. As if you are responsible enough with your money, you can gain from working early. If you put it away in a bank account and later into a Savings Bond or similar, you'd have a much larger amount of cash in the long run compared to someone who finishes school and then gets a job and starts saving/investing.
Although this is modded as funny, it is completely true.
I used to have an LG 5500 cellular phone and had terrible typing speeds, even with T9 typing.
I had some issues with that carrier and switched to a cheaper GSM carrier and bought a Motorola A630. I can type messages faster than I can dial a phone number in a lot of cases. The only thing I had to get used to was where the space bar was. And how it implements Shift vs. Alt... but once I got past that [very quickly I might add] I now type faster than it can keep up with me.
I have always been a huge believer in punctuation and spelling and I maintain it wherever I may be typing, even in my text messages. I am not typing in any form of short hand. Okay, once in a while I forget to use a capital 'I'.:-)
P.S. - This is the best phone I've ever had! Try it out if you can get a hold of one. I bought mine for $160 with tax & shipping on TigerDirect as it was the only place I could find it.
I would say that until the installation is streamlined to where you don't have [snip] bang head against wall or threaten the system with a baseball bat, the average "user" is going to be lost, frustrated
I think Windows users experience this a fair bit as well. Especially related to hardware. I do a lot of "PC Repair" in my spare time for people via word-of-mouth. Until these people can understand, figure out, and problem-solve Windows issues, I think they will be lost in Linux. However, Linux has a lot of tools for debugging/problem-solving and is generally more apparent. Windows hides users from this side of the fence.
My birthday is December 1st. If they were to wait one more day, my birthday would have been the day the world went to hell.
With my luck, something will go wrong and they will delay it one day.
... my birthdays always suck. If it happens to fall on my b-day, I just don't know what I'll do.
No matter how interesting, I'll NEVER bear an ad before a small online video.
I think I can helpyou.
Well, in most situations, anyway... hehe.
On topic: I feel this technology really could grow... I would like to see it more like the Nintendo DS. With Dual screens. One being your main form of input. Perhaps by having an overlay application of a scalable keyboard similar to the one featured in the video. And you can use the primary display for, well, display. I dunno. It's late and I'm tired... if you understand what I mean, mod me up!;-)
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Although I know this post will go over-looked, I still feel compelled to respond to maybe clear some things up.
I just recently turned 18 years of age -- Dec. 1st, actually. I started fiddling around with web development when I was 10 years old. I did, as many people here involved in most types of programming, teach myself. Using online references, of course, but I was not taught in a classroom or a personal trainer. I grasped very quickly and within the following year I had actually started to make money doing it. No, I do not use dreamweaver. If you really want to know: I use Gentoo Linux, XFCE, Mousepad, Inkscape and Xara for web development. I also run my own server on a separate machine dedicated to web hosting in itself. This is mostly used for development purposes, but I do host a few of my small projects [mostly my blog]. My mind is not just limited to web development. I do programming in most "prototyping" languages [Python, TCL/TK, PHP-GTK, etc.]. Mostly because these programs never leave my systems and are not designed for use by anyone else. Mostly small utilities such as a 'punch-in' program I use to monitor my work times. Not for payment, as most projects are on a fixed-price basis. Mostly just for my own knowledge.
Currently, I hold 2nd place in a National Competition in Canada. Look for Web Site Development in the Secondary Competitions. They combine the entire competition and then split the results after. I placed 3rd over all. That is, between Secondary and Post-Secondary.
I will be attending again this year. Hopefully I will come hope with a Gold Medal this year.
I understand and use XHTML 1.1 [which, currently, is basically XHTML 1.0 Strict], CSS, JavaScript, etc. just as it comes out and is mostly available to everyone. I'm just sick of how these "Standards" crop up. AJAX is not a standard, but it is said to be a rough outline/framework as to how the whole system works. A reference if you will. People adopt stuff like this as if it were a standard. Just like flash back in the day. Don't you remember when Flash was the cool thing and your site would be dubbed as "un-cool" by en masse? That around the time I ever got into this stuff, and it was not pretty. Obviously we have progressed in actually producing something worth looking at.
I know anyone who may stumble across this post will read it and think "I call your bullshit!" Really, there is no bullshit here. Although my last post was indeed harsh, I was having a rather shitty day dealing with stress. I have an anger problem and am in counseling and anger management for it. I'm sorry if I ruined anyones day. I do still believe that Web Standards is an Oxymoron in the sense that there are not very many standards that are actually fully obeyed.
Do I have to repeat it?
Do you know how hard it is to try and stay in a business that constantly evolves based on what is cool? I was not stating literally that the standards move with trends. Note the quotes around Web Standards and Standards throughout my post. But I guess morons like you fail to read what is actually being said and like to go with the flow. You are one of them! Burn in hell you dolt!
I am very well aware as to what I said and I stand by it. Web Standards is still an Oxymoron. It doesn't make sense because there never were any real solid standards, because of this people are forced to go with the flow of what is 'in' and 'cool.' EG: AJAX, RSS and many other XML-based "standards."
To whoever may have modded down my last post, shame on you. It is a very valid point coming from a developers point of view. Most people here have never actually developed a commercial site for real money. I hope your karma burns in a hot fiery volcano.
Note: Due to certain reasons, this post may or may not necessarily be entirely serious. You be the judge. Don't take shit so fucking literally.
... for a lot of "adorable kitten" stories.
Although this sounds like a neat idea in the beginning, just wait until it gets abused by the masses. Bye bye Yahoo! and Reuters.
As a web developer of 7 years as my main source of income, web standards is a waste of time. Personally I try to adhere to them as much as humanely [no, that's not a typo] possible. "Web Standards" changes constantly with what is "in" and "cool." Right now the big thing is AJAX. I, personally, have never used it and I suggest everyone else does the same. Except in situations like Google's Writely. Web Applications are useful, but not necessarily worth the effort. Because "Standards" never actually stay put, I have this to say:
Web Standards is an Oxymoron.
Thank you for your time.
*kicks back*
:-)
I have to say that this chair was the best investment I ever made... only about $100 (Canadian) at Walmart, but still.
I feel that is still unintuitive. I have never used Vista and can honestly say I don't think I've used Windows at all in at least 6 months.
Would it not make more sense to have three buttons representing 3 options. You should be able to right click on the button and set the default action. By default install it should be, in my opinion: Shutdown, Log Off, and Switch Users [as XP was]. Or it could detect the type of install [eg. workstation or laptop] and adjust accordingly upon install.
But who am I do know anything? Maybe I am wrong. Maybe you can already do this? I have no intentions of purchasing Vista. I may be force to use it in school of the college I am waiting to get into plans to adopt it. Or if I can find a nice torrent for educational purposes [eg. learn all the new features to provide support to users as I used to do with win98+]
Really? I hold a button, speak the name of whom I wish to speak to and it will [try to] connect to the person of whose name I spoke. ;-)
Phew!
:-(
At first I thought you were talking about the Motorola A630. I've had this phone for about 3 months now. Admittedly that's not very long but all I can say is this is the greatest geek phone EVER! Full qwerty keyboard and a game pad slightly embossed into the keyboard [some pictures should show it OK on google] that resembles the NES controllers. My girlfriend loves to play the games that came loaded on it.
I bought it through an online vendor and can't seem to download anything from my telco that I deal with. However, this phone appears to be fairly big in the UK/Europe. I have found numerous ring tones and games, etc for a few pounds.
Anyway... greatest phone I've ever had. Not too bulky [physically] and very feature full. I have one gripe about it, but it's not really a big deal. When you lock the exterior keypad and then then flip it open [say, to read a text message] and close it again, you will have to lock it again. I think there might be a setting somewhere, but I got the phone OEM with no manual.
Attack of the 50-Foot Geek Girls! Geek Girls with 50 feet?
;-)
So I guess Pamela Anderson is more useful than we thought! Other than the obvious, of course. ;-)
They had to wake me every now and then to ensure I was till alive. Although, the sleep I got between wakings felt sooo long.
This reminds me of the time I tried to stay awake for as long as I could. I hit 93 hours or so. Note that this incident did not involve any drugs. Legal or otherwise.
:-)
I was still fairly young then, at the age of 14 or so. I was out with friends on the final night of my experiment and I started to see things and totally freaked out. One of the hallucinations was indeed a miniature pink elephant. As well I thought a tree was a very large spider. I have a terrible fear of spiders. After my friends managed to get me into the house and calmed me down, I suddenly got up and went out into the back yard to jump on the trampoline. It was -10 degree's Celsius or so and I was just wearing Jeans and a T-Shirt. I couldn't tell the difference. All I remember is having them waking me up and having to be rushed to the hospital. I was jumping on the trampoline and slipped. I flew off and cracked my head on a mound of ice. I'm just glad one of the springs didn't break or on the trampoline and hit me in the ass or something. It was fairly cold.
I stayed in the hospital for the night as the thought I may have had a concussion. I still don't remember any of that week. What I told you now is what my friends have told me. I also heard that earlier on in my experiment [first 24 hours I suppose] I had exclaimed to my friends that my toothpaste had started talking to me the next day at school.
Now I enjoy my sleep.
Pills? No thanks. I prefer the natural method of recovering from a hard days work writing code.
If this is directed to me, I am on a waiting list to get into a Business Program at SIAST. It's basically a College and only through-out Sask. Canada. :-)
Disclaimer: I am Canadian, but I feel it's a similar situation up here as well.
I just graduated from high school last June. I am 17 (I turn 18 in about 10 days) years of age and work for a small local business doing tech/IT stuff. I think that a major factor would be that it has been pushed [forced?] into a lot of people's heads that they need to make a lot of money to be successful.
So I think they figure they can beat the competition and start working earlier. This does make sense to me, sort of. As if you are responsible enough with your money, you can gain from working early. If you put it away in a bank account and later into a Savings Bond or similar, you'd have a much larger amount of cash in the long run compared to someone who finishes school and then gets a job and starts saving/investing.
Anyway, that is my take on it.
'nough said. ;-)
Too bad they suck.
But I always thought Amazon.com was bad. Why would anyone want to conserve it?
:-P
Oh... nevermind.
Although this is modded as funny, it is completely true.
:-)
I used to have an LG 5500 cellular phone and had terrible typing speeds, even with T9 typing.
I had some issues with that carrier and switched to a cheaper GSM carrier and bought a Motorola A630. I can type messages faster than I can dial a phone number in a lot of cases. The only thing I had to get used to was where the space bar was. And how it implements Shift vs. Alt... but once I got past that [very quickly I might add] I now type faster than it can keep up with me.
I have always been a huge believer in punctuation and spelling and I maintain it wherever I may be typing, even in my text messages. I am not typing in any form of short hand. Okay, once in a while I forget to use a capital 'I'.
P.S. - This is the best phone I've ever had! Try it out if you can get a hold of one. I bought mine for $160 with tax & shipping on TigerDirect as it was the only place I could find it.
May I be the first to point out that it is god-awfully ugly?
Mod me down if you so please, I hope to never see the light of day after seeing what I just witnessed.
I burst into laughter when I came across this comment.
I wish I had mod points.
Don't post on Slashdot.
So close!
... my birthdays always suck. If it happens to fall on my b-day, I just don't know what I'll do.
My birthday is December 1st. If they were to wait one more day, my birthday would have been the day the world went to hell.
With my luck, something will go wrong and they will delay it one day.
On topic: I feel this technology really could grow... I would like to see it more like the Nintendo DS. With Dual screens. One being your main form of input. Perhaps by having an overlay application of a scalable keyboard similar to the one featured in the video. And you can use the primary display for, well, display. I dunno. It's late and I'm tired... if you understand what I mean, mod me up!