Had a "bug" yesterday in IE (which threw no errors) and finally found this on w3c schools as the official example of how to add a select option. I wonder if they were trying to be funny in subtle way.
<script type="text/javascript"> function insertOption() { var y=document.createElement('option'); y.text='Kiwi' var x=document.getElementById("mySelect"); try { x.add(y,null);// standards compliant } catch(ex) { x.add(y);// IE only } } </script>
I just want to say that I'm very excited for this service to come out. In light of the Comcast p2p throttling news (which is really not that much of anything new), I think this is great news for techies. I love my 15/5 FIOS service from Verizon because it's been consistently fast and reliable and the 20/20 is going to be one more victory for technophiles. My only paranoid concern has nothing much to do with this service, but it concerns me that there is no real competition against Verizon at the moment and I can see them steamrolling all of the other ISPs with their FIOS products and then using their clout to start doing sketchy things like Comcast is doing.
I used Yahoo's Email service back when it was Rocketmail. I did this faithfully and I loved the service, but one day they decided to start charging for their pop3 service, something that practically cost them nothing. The next day I signed up for a google e-mail account with free pop3 and a ton of space and I've never looked back. The point is, unlimited e-mail is a novell concept, but you get more than you'll need with Gmail, and you don't have to pay to integrate your e-mail with Evolution, Thunderbird or Outlook. But I keep in mind that it's always cool to have competition to give the consumers the best deals.
I don't understand all of the technical aspects. But could this be the method of bending light around an object to create a cloak of invisibility? There was some talk a few months back about making light bend around objects and re-appear on the other side thus rendering them invisible if you may recall.
Looks like this may be a possibility soon and the only question left now is what to do with my super-evil invisibility powers!
The site key is not a bad idea for those users who actually use it, but yes most people aren't paying attention. But I think it really ignores the more obvious solution. This is to frequently remind users to NEVER CLICK A LINK THROUGH E-MAIL. Type the website into your browser every time and you will never have this problem. I would put this scam in the same category as phone fraud phishing; most people know that you're not supposed to give your SSN or Bank Numbers when somebody calls you. This should raise suspicion immediately. I think the same approach for the internet is the best that we can hope for. Educate, educate, educate.
We were selected as a Nielsen family Pre-Tivo. They sent a letter in the mail and a log-book, and they even sent a crisp brand new dollar for your participation. It felt like power because the TV shows that I was watching were going to remain on TV and the advertisers for those TV shows were going to profit.
Anyways, it's not particularly strange that this TV watching data is being researched and you could hardly argue that the effects are more than benign. The difference here clearly is that now the users aren't going to be able to volunteer that data, and Tivo is going to be the one to profit by intercepting the Nielsen ratings and saying "wait I have the data right here, you don't need to pay Nielsen."
When i listened to national public radio the other day they were advising the same thing. To wait on Vista until all the bugs are worked out. I really fail to see why the fact that Koreans were advised the same thing makes that big a difference. The title should have been "Users warned to wait until upgrading to Vista".
I'm not trying to speak negatively about this particular book's contents, but just comment generally in response to a previous poster's reply. I think what we need less of is books that tell us how to use API's and control structures and logic as such. What we really need is a shift in the way we're taught to program in schools to mimic real world software creation. This book would more appropriately been titled "How to Program in Java" because development in the real world is quite different from just learning the language specifics.
Software development is more about the deadlines you need to meet for the customers end and the balance between the most technical solutions and the most feasible ones. Essentially it's about the efficiency you complete a task given constraints of time and resource. We should stop writing books that just walkthrough different languages, and start teaching students in a way that places them in team projects and make them collaborate to complete projects. My undergrad school had only ONE class that was designed in this fashion, yet I would say that almost 100% of my work existence operates in this reality.
The one sysadmin said:
"Asked if he had any advice for aspiring sysadmins, Thomas said, "Back up, back up, back up -- and plan for the absolute worst.""
Shouldn't he have had a off-site backup if was really following good admin practices? Why run into a burning building...
What I find interesting about this is not necessarily how the definition of e-mail was stretched to cover instant messages but rather for the definition to be stretched even further. Does this mean that posting on a public forum messageboard could get somebody in trouble for soliciting? What about porn spam on these boards. How about a youtube comment on a video....? There are so many ways to communicate by sending messages "electronically" that I wonder if it we should define these things strictly.
In fact, don't just make the wifi drivers easy to use, make the wifi interface easy to use. Why do I have to do some crazy ass hack to make my WPA2 drivers work with my 64-bit laptop?
And while we're at it throw in a good financing program. No, my bank is not compatible with GnuCash.
I love Linux, but I can't spend hours on end troubleshooting and customizing everything when technology is moving as fast as it is. Of course I remember life before plug and play, and recall windows 3.1 not having a much better system at the time and requiring playing around with COM ports and IRQs and such. But the point is that Linux is not quite mature enough for the masses, close, but more like Windows 95 mature.;P
This is a no brainer when working in web development environments. Being able to see the source code and gui output simultaneously is incredibly useful and most certainly increases productivity.
All one has to do to see the difference between what gmail and yahoo are trying to accomplish is go to each companies respective search page. Google.com, simple search bar, customize as needed. Yahoo.com, cluttered page, unwanted content, advertising, a total mess. I've used yahoo mail longer than any other service, that is, until they started to charge for their pop3 service. Then I switched over to gmail for my primary mail through thunderbird, but I still pop into yahoo mail for those "legacy" e-mails, or for services I sign up for so I won't get spam on my "normal" e-mail account. The yahoo mail interface is just more of the same bloated garbage that business people have in mind when cash is their bottom line.
simple solutions that work for nearly all cheaters that are currently used:
1) IP address ban for those who are detected by cheat engine, let people call up Microsoft and get the IP unbanned for honest mistakes
2) Have a small staff of moderators who you can report cheating to, they can observe the player in question and ban them if it looks like cheating
3) Block the users unique serial number and not let them connect if detected
This will pretty much weed out almost all of the cheaters. This is pretty much the norm for PC's, but I suppose game consoles aren't used to handling this kind of cheating
I work in software development and there's this thing called "Exempt" and "Non-Exempt" which basically means some of us do not receieve overtime pay. And it's fairly normal for a project that's reaching a deadline or behind to start requiring massive amounts of overtime. I have (yes in the states) worked 60 hour weeks frequently back to back for sustained periods of time. It was expected that we would be working 10 hour days and at least one day on the weekend. Thank god I found another job on a more laid back project.
But what I really wonder is how much of this overtime was driven by pressure coming down from Apple. There's so much talk trying to rationalize the "mindset" of the Chinese worker, but doesn't all workplace culture trickle down the hierarchy of leadership within a company? Knowing that China is one of those places which we also say is a civil-rights abuser, wouldn't we upon taking the risky move to start employing workers there want to be "extra" certain that we made sure our policies were outlined clearly to the Chinese taskmasters?
Realplayer used to be a pretty sweet application when it first came out. The problem with it is that it is ubiquitous everywhere, but the software resides in your memory and keeps bugging you about upgrades. That for me makes it an annoyance not worth using.
If IE7 really indeed is compliant with CSS and WC3 standards, doesn't that suggest that those users who move to the new browser will now be incompatible with the webpages made with the older non-compliant IE browsers in mind?
Microsoft purposely tried to branch off the standards everyone else followed in the hopes that their large pre-installed base would in fact make the proprietary Microsoft standards ubiquitous. But what they've effectively done is distance themselves from a quickly growing number of users who refuse to play by their rules. I don't see how they can become compliant without alienating either their current users or instead their potential users.
It's pretty cool. But my only beef is that the robot will suffer from the fate of all computer mice. Dirt and debris clogging up the sphere. This will eventually lead to the robot to begin complaining and eventually it will urge the human to: "Please clean my balls." And I'll be damned if I will be cleaning anybody elses balls, robot or human!
Although I think the conclusion of the assertion may have a ring of truth to it, I believe that it sweeps too wide a brush. You can, in fact, take any sort of organizational activity and start to make the very same generalizations about an individuals behaviors and correlate them to their upbringing, how their parents raised them, etc.. For example, if I look at the way my office is arranged, or perhaps how the interior of my car is: can i deduce anything if it is neat and tidy, or instead in a disarray?
The truth is my e-mail inbox used to be spic-and-span, organized, archived and tucked away. I used to work in IT and once upon a time, if your Microsoft Outlook hit the 2gb mark your entire e-mail data file would turn corrupted and be destroyed forever. Yet, with the advent of g-mail and mega storage capacities available freely, I haven't deleted a letter since. As my boss once told me, it pays to 'cover your ass.' Does this prove that my former characteristic cleanliness has drifted away into slovenly disregard? No, it merely says in this case that I can afford the space to leave all of my e-mail. I think that trying to read the analyze the character of another human's psyche is missing out on more reliable factors.
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Had a "bug" yesterday in IE (which threw no errors) and finally found this on w3c schools as the official example of how to add a select option. I wonder if they were trying to be funny in subtle way.
// standards compliant // IE only
<script type="text/javascript">
function insertOption()
{
var y=document.createElement('option');
y.text='Kiwi'
var x=document.getElementById("mySelect");
try
{
x.add(y,null);
}
catch(ex)
{
x.add(y);
}
}
</script>
I just want to say that I'm very excited for this service to come out. In light of the Comcast p2p throttling news (which is really not that much of anything new), I think this is great news for techies. I love my 15/5 FIOS service from Verizon because it's been consistently fast and reliable and the 20/20 is going to be one more victory for technophiles. My only paranoid concern has nothing much to do with this service, but it concerns me that there is no real competition against Verizon at the moment and I can see them steamrolling all of the other ISPs with their FIOS products and then using their clout to start doing sketchy things like Comcast is doing.
I used Yahoo's Email service back when it was Rocketmail. I did this faithfully and I loved the service, but one day they decided to start charging for their pop3 service, something that practically cost them nothing. The next day I signed up for a google e-mail account with free pop3 and a ton of space and I've never looked back. The point is, unlimited e-mail is a novell concept, but you get more than you'll need with Gmail, and you don't have to pay to integrate your e-mail with Evolution, Thunderbird or Outlook. But I keep in mind that it's always cool to have competition to give the consumers the best deals.
ahh crap, that's what I get for not RTFA
I don't understand all of the technical aspects. But could this be the method of bending light around an object to create a cloak of invisibility? There was some talk a few months back about making light bend around objects and re-appear on the other side thus rendering them invisible if you may recall. Looks like this may be a possibility soon and the only question left now is what to do with my super-evil invisibility powers!
we actually need to increase the amount of space junk to counteract the effects of global warming. damn i'm smart.
The site key is not a bad idea for those users who actually use it, but yes most people aren't paying attention. But I think it really ignores the more obvious solution. This is to frequently remind users to NEVER CLICK A LINK THROUGH E-MAIL. Type the website into your browser every time and you will never have this problem. I would put this scam in the same category as phone fraud phishing; most people know that you're not supposed to give your SSN or Bank Numbers when somebody calls you. This should raise suspicion immediately. I think the same approach for the internet is the best that we can hope for. Educate, educate, educate.
We were selected as a Nielsen family Pre-Tivo. They sent a letter in the mail and a log-book, and they even sent a crisp brand new dollar for your participation. It felt like power because the TV shows that I was watching were going to remain on TV and the advertisers for those TV shows were going to profit. Anyways, it's not particularly strange that this TV watching data is being researched and you could hardly argue that the effects are more than benign. The difference here clearly is that now the users aren't going to be able to volunteer that data, and Tivo is going to be the one to profit by intercepting the Nielsen ratings and saying "wait I have the data right here, you don't need to pay Nielsen."
How about they let me pull my Wii out in the bathroom and play with THAT instead.
When i listened to national public radio the other day they were advising the same thing. To wait on Vista until all the bugs are worked out. I really fail to see why the fact that Koreans were advised the same thing makes that big a difference. The title should have been "Users warned to wait until upgrading to Vista".
I'm not trying to speak negatively about this particular book's contents, but just comment generally in response to a previous poster's reply. I think what we need less of is books that tell us how to use API's and control structures and logic as such. What we really need is a shift in the way we're taught to program in schools to mimic real world software creation. This book would more appropriately been titled "How to Program in Java" because development in the real world is quite different from just learning the language specifics. Software development is more about the deadlines you need to meet for the customers end and the balance between the most technical solutions and the most feasible ones. Essentially it's about the efficiency you complete a task given constraints of time and resource. We should stop writing books that just walkthrough different languages, and start teaching students in a way that places them in team projects and make them collaborate to complete projects. My undergrad school had only ONE class that was designed in this fashion, yet I would say that almost 100% of my work existence operates in this reality.
The one sysadmin said: "Asked if he had any advice for aspiring sysadmins, Thomas said, "Back up, back up, back up -- and plan for the absolute worst."" Shouldn't he have had a off-site backup if was really following good admin practices? Why run into a burning building...
What I find interesting about this is not necessarily how the definition of e-mail was stretched to cover instant messages but rather for the definition to be stretched even further. Does this mean that posting on a public forum messageboard could get somebody in trouble for soliciting? What about porn spam on these boards. How about a youtube comment on a video....? There are so many ways to communicate by sending messages "electronically" that I wonder if it we should define these things strictly.
In fact, don't just make the wifi drivers easy to use, make the wifi interface easy to use. Why do I have to do some crazy ass hack to make my WPA2 drivers work with my 64-bit laptop? And while we're at it throw in a good financing program. No, my bank is not compatible with GnuCash. I love Linux, but I can't spend hours on end troubleshooting and customizing everything when technology is moving as fast as it is. Of course I remember life before plug and play, and recall windows 3.1 not having a much better system at the time and requiring playing around with COM ports and IRQs and such. But the point is that Linux is not quite mature enough for the masses, close, but more like Windows 95 mature. ;P
This is a no brainer when working in web development environments. Being able to see the source code and gui output simultaneously is incredibly useful and most certainly increases productivity.
All one has to do to see the difference between what gmail and yahoo are trying to accomplish is go to each companies respective search page. Google.com, simple search bar, customize as needed. Yahoo.com, cluttered page, unwanted content, advertising, a total mess. I've used yahoo mail longer than any other service, that is, until they started to charge for their pop3 service. Then I switched over to gmail for my primary mail through thunderbird, but I still pop into yahoo mail for those "legacy" e-mails, or for services I sign up for so I won't get spam on my "normal" e-mail account. The yahoo mail interface is just more of the same bloated garbage that business people have in mind when cash is their bottom line.
simple solutions that work for nearly all cheaters that are currently used: 1) IP address ban for those who are detected by cheat engine, let people call up Microsoft and get the IP unbanned for honest mistakes 2) Have a small staff of moderators who you can report cheating to, they can observe the player in question and ban them if it looks like cheating 3) Block the users unique serial number and not let them connect if detected This will pretty much weed out almost all of the cheaters. This is pretty much the norm for PC's, but I suppose game consoles aren't used to handling this kind of cheating
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Just please make it work with Linux....
I work in software development and there's this thing called "Exempt" and "Non-Exempt" which basically means some of us do not receieve overtime pay. And it's fairly normal for a project that's reaching a deadline or behind to start requiring massive amounts of overtime. I have (yes in the states) worked 60 hour weeks frequently back to back for sustained periods of time. It was expected that we would be working 10 hour days and at least one day on the weekend. Thank god I found another job on a more laid back project.
But what I really wonder is how much of this overtime was driven by pressure coming down from Apple. There's so much talk trying to rationalize the "mindset" of the Chinese worker, but doesn't all workplace culture trickle down the hierarchy of leadership within a company? Knowing that China is one of those places which we also say is a civil-rights abuser, wouldn't we upon taking the risky move to start employing workers there want to be "extra" certain that we made sure our policies were outlined clearly to the Chinese taskmasters?
Realplayer used to be a pretty sweet application when it first came out. The problem with it is that it is ubiquitous everywhere, but the software resides in your memory and keeps bugging you about upgrades. That for me makes it an annoyance not worth using.
If IE7 really indeed is compliant with CSS and WC3 standards, doesn't that suggest that those users who move to the new browser will now be incompatible with the webpages made with the older non-compliant IE browsers in mind?
Microsoft purposely tried to branch off the standards everyone else followed in the hopes that their large pre-installed base would in fact make the proprietary Microsoft standards ubiquitous. But what they've effectively done is distance themselves from a quickly growing number of users who refuse to play by their rules. I don't see how they can become compliant without alienating either their current users or instead their potential users.
Hardware is hard to upgrade.
It's pretty cool. But my only beef is that the robot will suffer from the fate of all computer mice. Dirt and debris clogging up the sphere. This will eventually lead to the robot to begin complaining and eventually it will urge the human to: "Please clean my balls." And I'll be damned if I will be cleaning anybody elses balls, robot or human!
Although I think the conclusion of the assertion may have a ring of truth to it, I believe that it sweeps too wide a brush. You can, in fact, take any sort of organizational activity and start to make the very same generalizations about an individuals behaviors and correlate them to their upbringing, how their parents raised them, etc.. For example, if I look at the way my office is arranged, or perhaps how the interior of my car is: can i deduce anything if it is neat and tidy, or instead in a disarray?
The truth is my e-mail inbox used to be spic-and-span, organized, archived and tucked away. I used to work in IT and once upon a time, if your Microsoft Outlook hit the 2gb mark your entire e-mail data file would turn corrupted and be destroyed forever. Yet, with the advent of g-mail and mega storage capacities available freely, I haven't deleted a letter since. As my boss once told me, it pays to 'cover your ass.' Does this prove that my former characteristic cleanliness has drifted away into slovenly disregard? No, it merely says in this case that I can afford the space to leave all of my e-mail. I think that trying to read the analyze the character of another human's psyche is missing out on more reliable factors.