Comment Re:Get it in writing (Score 1) 848
You are right, I missed that part.
Comment Negotiate First (Score 1) 848
It's not clear to me if you were asked by your boss to write the app, or if you just saw the need and wrote it on your own.
It's best if you can think through your position before starting work rather than afterwards. However, at least you are thinking it through now so you are learning.
If you saw the need and wrote the application, ask for money. It does not cost anything to ask and you will learn about negotiating. Make a case for being paid extra and put it to your boss. Give it everything you've got. Then if he says no, give the work over with a good attitude and tell him you are glad you can participate and be helpful.
Remember that everything that you do builds your reputation, so if you are doing extra work and fixing problems that are beyond your formal responsibilities while at the same time meeting your responsibilities and not stepping on any toes, you are actually ahead of the game. At some point if the job is not giving you what you want, look to move on. Then in your interviews, you can speak in positive terms about the extra contributions you made.
Comment We are having no problems with Comcast Business (Score 1) 459
My business has a Comcast Business account, and we host our own email and for several clients. Comcast is not blocking port 25 for us and we are having no problems being blocked anywhere. Do you have a reverse DNS record that resolves to the address of your email server?
ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America 482
tetrahedrassface writes "As the US economic woes continue unabated, a German company is bringing gold-bearing ATMs to Mainstreet America. The machines accept credit cards, and will dispense 1 gram, 5 gram, 10 gram and 1 ounce units, as well as various gold coins. The company hopes to install 35 bullion machines in the United States this year, and will hopefully have several hundred up and running by next year. The machines will be decorated like giant gold ingots and be over two meters tall. Physical gold has both pros and cons, but from a safety standpoint would it be fine to have a couple of ounces in your pocket while walking around the mall? The giant, gold-dispensing ATMs will monitor the market conditions for gold every 10 minutes in order to reflect spot price changes as they occur." We already covered similar machines installed in travel hubs across Germany.
Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites 1695
theodp writes "In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy,' explained Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame. 'This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue,' said Goodgame, who added he did not know how long it had hosted the church's sites. Not quite the same thing, but would Kurt Westergaard's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad also violate Rackspace's AUP? How about Christopher Hitchens' Slate articles? Could articles from one-time Rackspace poster child The Onion pass muster?"
Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half 414
bonch writes "A new study on Greenland's and West Antarctica's rate of ice loss halves the estimate of ice loss. Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study takes into account a rebounding of the Earth's crust called glacial isostatic adjustment, a continuing rise of the crust after being smashed under the weight of the Ice Age. 'We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted,' said researcher Bert Vermeeersen."
Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website 323
An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the owners of TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com are complaining that they're being wrongfully written about in the press — one for not having had any content about Sarah Jones but being told it needs to pay $11 million, and the other for having the content and having the press say it lost a lawsuit, even though no lawsuit was ever actually filed against it."
The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design 242
I'm Not There (1956) writes "Jeffrey Zeldman brings up the interesting issue of the paradox between Japan's strong cultural preference for simplicity in design, contrasted with the complexity of Japanese websites. The post invites you to study several sites, each more crowded than the last. 'It is odd that in Japan, land of world-leading minimalism in the traditional arts and design, Web users and skilled Web design practitioners believe more is more.'"
Comment This is the Life (Score 1) 227
Well, welcome to the world of wire services. This was life in the Associated Press and United Press International and countless other wire services that were born and then buried over the years. I worked as a journalist for just about 10 years in photo, print and then TV and this is the life. You are on deadline and you have to hustle to get there first. There is nothing more satisfying that to have another reporter tell you that they are going to go do your story. Not everyone is made for this kind of life, and I watched over the years as people who did not have the drive, energy and love for what they were doing fade away. Finally I reached my end too. It's just the way it is.
Comment What I check first thing. (Score 1) 584
First thing I do in the morning is to check my previous night's backup
ODF Threat to Microsoft in US Governments Grows 269
Tookis writes "Another setback for Microsoft has cropped up in the space of document formats in government organizations. The state of California has introduced a bill to make open document format (ODF) a mandatory requirement in the software used by state agencies. Similar legislation in Texas and Minnesota has added further to the pressure on Microsoft, which is pushing its own proprietary Office Open XML (OOXML) document format in the recently released Office 2007. The bill doesn't specify ODF by name, but instead requires the use of an open XML-based format."
Feed Patent Fights Are a Legacy of MP3’s Tangled Origins (nytimes.com)
The $1.5 billion settlement against Microsoft is only one result of the music format’s tangled history.
Submission + - Museum IDs New Species of Dinosaur
Uryugen writes: A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said.
The dinosaur's horns, thick as a human arm, are like those of triceratops — which came 10 million years later. However, this animal belonged to a subfamily that usually had bony nubbins a few inches long above their eyes
Submission + - Open Call From the Patent Office
An anonymous reader writes: The patent office is looking to employ a Wiki-like process for reviewing patents. Here is the article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/03/04/AR2007030401263.html?nav=rss_email/c omponents?nav=slate
Cassini Returns Amazing New Imagery from Saturn 118
SeaDour writes "The Cassini spacecraft has recently entered a highly-inclined orbit around Saturn, revealing some never-before-seen images of the planet's ring system as seen from above and below the planet. 'Sailing high above Saturn and seeing the rings spread out beneath us like a giant, copper medallion is like exploring an alien world we've never seen before. It just doesn't look like the same place. It's so utterly breath-taking, it almost gives you vertigo.' The spacecraft will eventually return to its standard orbit parallel to the ring plane in late June."
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