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The unemployment would cost the government more than the bailout.

One could argue that it would still be better off in the long term for the government to bite the bullet and pay that unemployment money than to keep the US auto industry afloat; I am partial to that argument myself. But I'm responding to the "why should a waitress at Denny's..." question.
Do read the comments at the bottom of the page before taking this howto serious.
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FYI Tapestry.ScriptManager is undefined
[Break on this error] Tapestry.ScriptManager.initialize();
It doesn't exist outside the PR department
Why do you think GM will survive long enough to pay us back?
It is probably just that, though, a symbolic sacrifice, not a real sacrifice? I suppose they still get their stock options, boni and what not.
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I think Chrome is not yet ready for everyday use for everyone. It must be just the people who like to peek into the possible future who should be interested in Chrome beta

i.e Google clearly stated that browser's robustness is the top priority, therefore plugins run in their own thread, and as of now Flash looks choppy. This is completely understandable for a technology demo, and it would be understandable if it will take quite some time to iron out, but unacceptable for real-world usage
They build cars nobody wants anymore, credit or no credit.
any plans to open-source some of the parts? I really liked the WYSIWYG nature of the site builder.
Ford has most advanced auto plant... in Brazil
But no students pay for software
Unemployment costs $362/week + administrative overhead.

The wage of an auto worker costs from $1200/week to $2920/week (depending on whether you believe the $30/hour number or the $73/hour number floating around).

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/uia/EUC_Fact_Sheet_120_240...

Additionally, auto workers have an incentive to get off unemployment; it pays less than market rate. They have no incentive to stop working for GM, which pays above market rate.
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This article was heavy on FUD and speculation, and light on facts (expected that). The trojan (if it exists) would either have to work with the O/S, in which case it would either work in *nix or Windows, but not both; or it would talk directly to the hardware bypassing the O/S, so encrypting your data stored on your hard drive should protect it. Keyloggers are a different story though and I see where a keylogger could send data by talking directly to the hardware and bypassing the O/S. I wonder if you might get more protection from that by not using your motherboard's Ethernet interface at all and install a separate network card instead? Then the trojan would need to have its own TCP/IP stack and drivers for the NIC, and that's less likely (I hope).
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So use Gnash? http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
I rememembered reading something similar about pizza flyers, so I looked it up:

http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/002462.ht...

They argue that pizza flyers are good design because they all fit the viewer expectations about what a pizza flyer should look like, and that the cluttered layout tells the viewer "we're too busy making cheap pizza to make this thing look better", thus implanting the idea that they're getting cheap pizza.

Perhaps a similar phenomenon is at work here?
Thanks for the feedback toddcw. There actually are feed / email subscription options but the locations are intentionally 'out of the way' as this is not my preferred method of consumption. Beyond the homepage, you can find subscription options at the bottom of the sidebar on every page.
I like that definition, but dictionaries often make a less clear distinction, and put envy as a more powerful emotion.

(try dictionary.com, for instance, but my print ones also concur)
Yes Chrome has been a point of difficulty for the developers since the onset of the project (as has Safari on PC). They're still working on a solution and I hope to have it ironed out before launch.
Just yesterday I was able to grab a seven-letter domain in th form of ----fly.com. I'm pretty happy about that--it was available and it only cost me $9.95.
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Not if you are a professional negotiator or a lawyer. This would be full employment for lawyers.
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That sounds cool.

Do you have any references to research arguing this, or is it just your personal idea?
Upvoted because that's funny, but you are missing the purpose which according to the site is:

to assess the level of community interest in reusing existing C and C++ libraries in Web applications that run on Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR.

In that context, it makes sense. I've had to re-write certain geometry routines that I could only find written in C/C++, and there are other graphic libraries that would be excellent to tap into when writing a complex Flash application, e.g. http://pixlr.com/
If employee A has a grievance and employees B-Z strike, how's that any different?
One person's eyestrain is not another person's eyestrain. I understand that some people have problems with small fonts.

Other people, perhaps with sharper vision, find it extremely tiring to stare at a rigid square grid. BTW, the unpleasantness of looking at a square grid is already mentioned in TAOCP, vol. 2, page 2.

The market does not cater to those people (anymore). The Thinkpad forums are full of people lamenting the fact that Lenovo stopped offering flexview (IPS) UXGA displays.

The list in the article is a hall of shame and notebook manufacturers should wake up to the fact that a significant amount of consumers would spend money if there were decent products to spend money on.
Why? Explain?
Live Search isn't actually bad, and they have some cool toys on top of it like Miss Dewey. In my copy of Firefox, Google is the first search choice, then Yahoo, then Amazon, Live is 8th. Who would go for something that's 8th?! Amazon isn't even a search engine!
I wish Google would publish an estimate of the "how much time does each spam message waste" number, gathered from monitoring GMail.
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Did they? How would you describe Putin?
Thanks for the response, I do admit I haven't really played with jquery in depth, just seen lots of code.

However, it does seem like it is geared to "Find things in the dom" a fair amount. Whilst I can see that being handy for some websites, for webapps I can see less point - I know what's in the DOM, I put it there. If I need to do something with ssl links later, I'll just remember them all.

In your example $('a[href^="https"]') I'd say it'd be a lot tidier and faster where possible to just give all https links a class and manipulate that class - sure, not as easy to do things like your 2nd example, which admittedly is kinda fun (Although seeing HTML in javascript strings always makes me feel very very sick).

Several people seem to sell jquery etc on cross browser issues. But from my personal experience most of those issues are css layout issues - not js issues. Is that sort of thing covered in jquery?
Sorry I was just being facetious. I had the phrase 'unmaintained projects' in my head and within the first second of looking at the site I noticed the word windows. Juxtaposed my brain thought: 'windows is an unmaintained project'. If true, which it isn't, it would explain a lot.
Fortunately we don't live in a collective like ants and aren't driven by biological forces to carry out tasks we were predetermined for at birth. I call bullshit.
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as usual the essay shows paul grahams brilliance, but this essay seemed to end up as little more than an explanation for why we lie to kids. It ended up feeling very supportive of lying to children, which i certainly don't believe was mr. graham's goal. Obviously some lies are for protecting a child. But i cant believe he ACTUALLY supported the idea of telling a kid that turkey wanted to die. its because of those kinds of lies that i completely ignored my parents after the age of 12. I COULD NOT TRUST THEM. Which is to bad because they probably had some legitimate advise during those years. but due to my sanity i didn't even listen to them anymore. Basically it seemed like you said "parents lie to kids because they are philosophically lazy and avoid meaningful thought at all cost like 95% of humans do until they die. Of course actually trying to talk with a kid about a complex issue requires as much mental work as talking to another adult about a complex issue. Of course your average person isn't going to do either. so the basic problem here isnt that were lying to kids (as you explained a few of those lies are good) but root problem is that youre average person is addicted to ignorance and fears a little philosophy more than anything else. and of course the children are being raised to be just a knowledge-fearing as their parents are. I suggest you right an essay trying to convince people (adults,everybody) that knowledge, truth, and logic ARE NOT BAD. Because if theres anything thing that seems to be taboo among the common man its learning. If we could convince the world that learning was a good thing so many problems would be solved.
This is a very interesting marketing example. Google is not just describing features, but helping the user build a need. They took the spam problem, which most execs would view as a simple annoyance, and made a tool to translate that annoyance to monetary losses.

Sometimes the best way to sell your product is to lead the user to the need, even if they don't realize they need it in the first place.
Payroll taxes suck, especially at this level. Sure you get them back in a refund, but there's an opportunity cost.
GM is still #2 in sales worldwide.
I know what you mean :D that would be rather cool

Thinking about it (going back slightly) there are not many situations where I see anyone actually coding with others in REAL time. Perhaps on hackathons (actually it would be ace for them) or suchlike - but for real work I doubt it would work. So the big selling point is gone: and there is nothing else to support it as a useful app (when Google docs has 100x the features).

That said I hope that will change in the future because it is rather nifty :D
You are aware of the fact that it was a joke, yes? I mean, I just want to check that.
The sad thing is that the company was not getting fleeced... They were paying a premium for having made a bad hire that they couldn't get rid of. I bet they settled on the high price after having found that anyone paid less leaves right away.
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If people pay you to make logos and are satisfied, you are a professional logo designer. It's no different than any other craft. For other organizations, I've designed one logo so far ( http://www.703designs.com/portfolio-logos ) but I wouldn't consider myself a logo designer until I've made maybe ten quality logos outside of my own ventures.
It means the only noticeable difference between Yahoo and Google search results is the brand name, which means Google's lead in search technology is no longer obvious -- that they are no longer innovating faster than the market.

Either some third party could discover fantastic new search technology and steal the market, or internet search is solved and brand name is all that matters, so the company with the best PR will win. Either way, it shows that Google has lost its previously unassailable technological advantage.
I think that's one of their stated reasons.

Since they've stated they're heading for all Flash-based software in a few years (no more desktop), they probably more or less have to port all their apps to Flash. Ugh.
Or without any library

formelement.onchange=function() {previewelement.nodeValue=this.value}

True there are caveats, some elements don't fire change until they loose focus... in which case formelement.onkeyup = formelement.onchange etc etc.
The $31/hour is the wages paid to the employee. $73/hour is the cost to GM (healthcare, retirement, etc)
I'm in my mid-40s and in IT and have the same feeling. Good luck finding something in this economy no matter what industry.
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/gmvstoyota/
GM's problem is that it costs them money to make a car.

Profitability per Vehicle
Source: 2005 Harbour Report
GM: Loses $2,331 per vehicle
Toyota: Makes $1,488 per vehicle

If GM continues to lose money on each vehicle sold, how wil a bailout help in any way?
Surely these days they could pretty much have used javascript, with canvas etc. No flash==even bigger win.
what language? or any language?
All very nice, but it's all just buying into the general twisting of the word "professional".

The Wikipedia definition is much closer:

A professional is a person in a profession that requires certain types of skilled work requiring formal training or education. In western nations, such as the United States, the term commonly describes highly educated, mostly salaried workers, who enjoy considerable work autonomy, economic security, a comfortable salary, and are commonly engaged in creative and intellectually challenging work

The essential part is the autonomy, which comes from responsibility. You wouldn't give someone you hire autonomy unless they are a professional - i.e. they take responsibility for their work and for the outcome of their work.

A bricklayer's assistant might be paid for their work, but they're not a "professional". In fact, even a bricklayer isn't really a professional, because he will pass on the responsibility to the person who tells him to build the wall. At the top of that chain of responsibility you have an architect, who stakes his personal reputation on the successful completion of the project. That one is a professional.

Other examples of professionals: lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs, managers (both mid-level and senior - but I'll grant you that many managers are awful professionals). Basically, anyone who, if things go wrong within the piece of work they have control over, will get royally fucked.
"it's pretty fucking difficult to find another job when after 20 years the only thing you're qualified to do is work in a general motors factory"

I've always had a problem with this argument. If you work 40 hours a week, you've easily got time in 20 years to do anything you'd like to do -- including becoming a brain surgeon.

I'm honestly not trying to be cold about it, but the rest of us live in a world, especially in IT, where you have to keep learning new skills in order to survive. I'm very sad that people thought that GM would last forever and that they could simply get trained in one skill and have it last a lifetime. But those days are over. They've been over for a long, long time.
One detail I don't remember seeing in the Op-Ed piece was health care differences between countries. In the countries our auto companies compete against, I believe all of them have health care at the national level. Right there, you have a major cost businesses in the US are absorbing.
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Look, 25$/hour + Free heath care + Vacation + Retirement is way better than most Americans get today. I knew someone supporting a wife and 2 kids making 7.25$/hour + a lot of overtime working as a cook at Denny's and going to collage at the same time. That's America, sure he worked all the time and had no life but now he has a good job and if he was in a dieing industry he would do it again.

Unions have done great things to bring heath care and a living wage to most americans but they kept pushing and over time they have distroyed many companies. Management was doing the same thing and they shorted the pension program etc but these companies are dieing and assuming they are going to keep just as many people employed long term is stupid. Capitalism creates efficiency by destroying jobs, when one welder can do the work of 4 you lay off the redundant people and move on.

PS: Saying they pay 2k per car in pension benefits is silly, if they made twice as many cars their pension benefits don't go up. Yes, they have huge unfunded liabilities but if they made coffee they would still have that same costs. Fixing pension cost's is all about growth not cutting benefits.
Some fond memories on the list, but they missed Kilobaud. That was a great magazine.
I don't think 3/4 of teachers, police, and the military simply show up and are waiting for retirement. They might not put in 110% as it where but they still get a lot of stuff done. I think it's the Government office workers that don't really do much but most private sector office workers don't seem to get much done so I wonder how much less effective they really are. (Cue XKCD comic "it's time for science" or some such.)
Awesome. I'm doing a redesign/rebuild right now and I was about to write this myself to create this effect for the Contact form (I first saw it on ALA years back in the discussion area).
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What exactly is bad about any of that?
A senior designer / creative director should take into consideration brand strategy, market demographics, messaging, product positioning, company culture, etc.

A designer makes stuff look pretty.
Look at MMO's or FPS games to see how fast they can make that model.
BlackBerry Storm doesn't quite trump iPhone
Slick though both Versions and Cornerstone look, neither of them support svn merging. Does anyone know of a GUI subversion client on Mac that does?
Yeah, it's just that simple. Game over, all you massively popular languages, because lisp has arrived!

The primary reasons to use one programming language over another are its libraries, its community (documentation, examples, etc), followed by its expressive power. In other words, just because Lisp is so badass does not mean it will dominate. That's like claiming that your new amazing EBay clone will be a big hit. In both cases, you're fighting the massive inertia of huge network effects.
are you serious? they are trying to pull a microsoft, of course. i don't think anybody needs to be told what's bad about that.
In both Japan and Germany, health care is mandated by the government but paid for by the employer. See e.g. http://www.nchc.org/facts/Japan.pdf
I think that about Subversion, which is really just a versioned filesystem; the git command line is pretty complicated though.
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This plugin is vulnerable to XSS -- try entering <script>alert('boom');</script> in the input field of the example.
Bochs can emulate X86 quite well. Does Bochs itself bypass X86 copy protection code?

There's two obstacles:

(1) The VM emulation has to be perfect, and the Slysoft and open source emulation is reverse engineered. Reactos is Win32 reversed from one of the easiest platforms in the industry to reverse, and it's not perfect; BD+ was designed to be hard to reverse.

(2) Once the VM is perfect, so that the next 20 revs of Macrovision's protection code can't just go peek at some dark corner of the VM that Slysoft didn't know about, you still have to use that emulator to beat every successive program that Macrovision chooses to run on it.

A major challenge for SPDC, the underlying technology behind BD+, was that it had to be implemented autonomously by numerous consumer electronics companies, most of whom have no expertise in the areas of CS (compilers, virtual machine runtimes, content protection) that BD+ plays in. I expect it to get better over time, not worse.
I am trying out Git for a new project and I think we are going to end up going back to SVN.

Problems:

There is no support user based auth, so you have to set up SSH keys. Pain for our non-techies in the group. You should be able to add users and get access via user/pw/repo url.

Bigger problem is the lack of Windows support. We have 2 people (the non-techies) on Windows and expecting them to learn the command line stuff isn't realistic.
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Apress is offering a free download of "The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming" - good today only! Site is acting buggy, but I was able to download.
I love VALVE so much. If it wasn't for them, good old fashion FPS would be practically dead on the PC. To top it off, STEAM is amazing... so much cash generation.

Even though I've been pinching my pennies, they took my $45 for Left 4 Dead. Haven't had this much fun in a longgggg time. As the recession tightens, $45 goes a long way providing entertainment value... I'll play this game for months.
i read almost all of these at one time or another. it was a much different world back then, when computers were mostly for hobbyists, and the scene hadn't gotten so deadly serious yet.
Isn't this achieved by simply using twitter badges and a custom callback function?

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/nirmalpatel.json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;count=5"></script>
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Do you not believe you were predtermined at birth to do what you do? Your thoughts and interests drove you to your current profession.
stop focusing the login text box on pages with content.

it's fine if you're on a dedicated login or search page, but for other pages it's very annoying.
Photoshop anyone? It is due for a re-write and it is in C/C++.
Most UI code written in JS is a variant of "find something in the DOM and change it". Most JS frameworks are really UI frameworks. And in evolutionary terms, we are with JS where X11 was around the time when Xt came out; there's Motif if you want it, but I might just stick with Xt and wait for Gtk.

What are the cross-browser issues you're thinking jQ won't handle for you?
I still have copies of byte from the 80s boxed up. The BYTE.com site should just be shut down and replaced with scans from each of these issues.

And they have Compute!, but they missed Transactor.
in many cases with a large project it's faster to work with a GUI. You can navigate complex hierarchies more quickly.
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You can use the options to set the output as text() rather than html(), e.g. $('div').magicpreview('mp_', { 'change': 'text' });

But yes, I should really add a flag to strip out any script elements :)
lets talk.

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Your thoughts and interests were influenced by everything you saw and heard since the day you were born... regardless of your genetic makeup.
thanks, though it really isn't getting many votes. I wonder if the title sucks, and doesn't really say anything that makes people want to click.

Somebody say something negative if you don't like it!

Or maybe it just isn't a good idea :(
"The iPhone still boasts more elegance in its interface, which operates beautifully, quickly and intuitively, with very little confusion."

So it's better in every way... except in the most vague and nebulous one. The author may like the iPhone's interface but calling it "quick"? That's not a word I'd ever use to describe the iPhone.
Hi, I'm the author of the plug-in, I actually hang around here quite often actually but I didn't realise my plug-in had been submitted until now.

The reason I made this plug-in was because I was doing what you were doing in your without-plugin example, but the form got more complex and suddenly the original code wasn't working as well. So I decided to make the plug-in to not only help me out but I figured that other people might be having the same problem too. However, if I was doing something quick and simple, I would do something akin to your without-plugin example.
I'd say vectoring is a big part of it.
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99,71,34, Sqrt(8), ...
http://xkcd.com/487/
Although regenerating species is a great advance I am not sure they would be able to survive the climate. Also it would be hurtful to see them in Zoos or become a center of attraction as opposed to let them just be.
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