I left a job and gave them two days notice because I saw the writing on the wall. They were hemorrhaging money and couldn't keep talent and I knew the job wouldn't last. I got another job in another city and they asked me to report the following week. This was on Wednesday. So I walked back inside, told them I Friday I was done. They scowled, scoffed, criticized and demonized me to the rest of the company. I even had to pay back a signing bonus I received due to a contract I signed. Didn't care. 10 days after I left the company, they folded - gave everyone pink slips and no severance. Loyalty doesn't mean anything, anywhere, anytime. Look out for yourself. Protect yourself. I gave a company I worked for previously a month's notice and they still complained I screwed them over ... so you can't win. Do what is best for you.

Wow... I hadn't even thought of this. The only problem is the widgets will not get updated as new versions of browsers come out. Unless we could convince them to open source the widget code.

Yeah - but the beauty of Xmarks is it synced Chrome, Firefox, MSIE and Safari with one central repository of bookmarks. Now I have to keep four separate ones... one for each browser. For people like me who have to use and check my work on all browsers it was a major time saver when you have several hundred client bookmarks.

I've been using Xmarks since they were Foxmarks and it's the only tool out there that syncs multiple browsers. It's really handy when you have a folder full of client URL's and you need to check them on multiple browsers and operating systems. I'd gladly have paid for the service - but they never asked or proposed it. Sure some people would have balked and left, but those that stayed could have supported your business. I refuse to give my bookmark data to Google and I really just don't trust anyone else that is associated with a search engine or browser developer.

I get my degree from Kaplan University in about 2 weeks and while it had it's ups and downs, my experience was mostly positive. Sure there were some idiots in the class and even one student who complained because she "couldn't write her paper in anything but ebonics" but those were the exceptions as opposed to the rules.

I made some friends that I keep in touch with via facebook and twitter who have similar interests and career goals and it's also been a great networking opportunity.

I put in a lot of time, but it was worth it. I graduated with a 3.85gpa and get all my degree honors in Chicago on August 7th.

I've not done any other online school - but because of being a single dad with a full time job and limited ability to be in a "real physical" classroom, it worked out well for me. I was in class for two and a half years and yeah, it was expensive, but I learned a lot and I grew as a developer and learned some a lot of things I would not have known ordinarily.... so I have to say my experience overall was very positive.

Ultimately this is a good thing. I've worked with a number of non-GPL based PHP solutions like Interpire and to a lesser extent Magento - and have (against my better judgement) "bought" modules for these which typically meant the thing is encoded with Zend Optimizer or some other crap and doesn't work half the time anyway.

While I'm not crazy about Wordpress, you do have the same issue with Drupal or many other CMS solutions. It's part of the price you pay for playing ball with someone elses CMS/Framework.

Frankly, I'll accept these terms any day than having to play ball with byte-code compiled PHP.

Next - maybe they're figure out a way to produce more food so that they're people won't be starving to death and in complete poverty.

Yeah anyway! Aren't these the same guys who wrote "America, Fuck Yeah!"

Opera Mini's end use is as an application to browse the web. It's not intended to do anything else. It may not "technically" render HTML and what not, but it IS a web browser since it's what you use to BROWSE THE WEB! :) It's even called "Opera Mini Web Browser" in the store.

Saying it's not a good web browser isn't an unfair comparison - it's a statement of opinion about how good that application performs as it's intended purpose.

Much like AOL's attempted speed boost by compressing images via proxy distorted web pages in the past, Opera's compression of web pages has the same effect. I tried it myself and was not impressed.

Fighting a negative review by saying "Well it's NOT a web browser" is just a straw man argument. It's clearly developed and marketed to be a competitor to Safari. And it doesn't live up to the hype. And now that the truth is out, those upset about it will make up a defense about the application being something it's clearly not marketed to be. Kinda funny.

If ads didn't have video, or audio that plays by default, or stuff that pops directly over the content I am trying to view via a modal dialog, I would make less of an effort to block them.

The catch-22 is, the more the advertiser tries to get the attention of the viewer, the less I am willing to put up with the annoyance of being required to click on modal dialogs or hit the "sound off" option.

The last thing I want to hear at 11pm when everyone is asleep is "CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU ARE OUR 10,000TH VISITOR" or some shizz. Facebook has a good model. You can "dislike" or block ads that are repetitive, annoying, or otherwise uninteresting - and it helps them target you better.

I have no problem clicking on ads for things I am genuinely interested in. But I have zero interest in being annoyed in the process.

I run a Fedora Core 12 server as a personal development server. There are package updates for it almost daily. I would say that in the 30 days that I've had it running, I've patched it at least 10 times. I try not to check it every day because I really shouldn't have to. It just seems there are a lot of patches and package updates for this.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with Fedora or any other flavor of Linux?

I just got a brand new Netbook (Dell Inspirion 10) as part of a deal with my TV provider (got it for free) and out of the box it had Windows XP and IE 6.

Perhaps once Microsoft decides to stop distributing it as part of their OEM package, it can be sure of a faster death.

A lot of Bing Maps runs on Silverlight - so that might be part of the problem. If you can run Silverlight (Mac and Windows can - don't know about Linux) then you can get some pretty impressive features.

Also - a lot of Bing Maps is beta or just freshly out of Beta. I'm using their API on web sites where I am asked to integrate a map as it just really works better IMHO.

Myth 3 was originally done by MumboJumbo games and was so badly done that the dev team was fired the week it was released. Fortunately, there are some (mythwolfage.com) that are still doing stuff with it. MumboJumbo later resurfaced as some lame casino game making company... with an entirely different staff