The job market for web designers and developers could get more crowded as millions of former web designers who quit to become grocery baggers and deodorant testers who left the field out of sheer frustration, may return to the once promising field now that there is hope that the world’s most popular browser will actually adhere to the standards that it should have been supporting for it’s entire life.
I will admit that I haven’t been following the whole net neutrality issue as closely as I should have, but I just dont’ see how anyone could have thought that this would fly and that the company won’t get reamed for trying it.
What is really strange is that it was a Canadian ISP - wouldn’t have thought that one of the sleaziest moves I’ve seen in a while would come from our oh-so-polite neighbors to the north. Just proves that stupidity knows no borders.
Sure, they may have cheap prescriptions, college paid for and Metric, but it isn’t worth putting up with that kind of bullshit.
But then again, they did give us Bryan Adams and Celine Dion, so I shouldn’t be surprised…
You’ve got to love those Google developers and that whole 20% time project thing they have going on.
One of the latest free offerings to stroll out of the Google labs is the Google Chart API, a really simple way to generate images of charts to easily embed in your website. Basically, you just set your image source as a formatted link with the chart parameters and it returns a PNG with the info
Here are some examples that use the number of blog posts broken down by month:
Pie Chart-
It also offers line charts, bar charts, 3d pie charts, and more.
As soon as I saw that ridiculous and blatantly irresponsible tv ad Apple put out where a “pilot” tells an empowering story of how he used his wonderful little iPhone to overthrow the bureaucratic and oppressive thugs that run air traffic control by checking his weather widget and schooling them on when it is and isn’t safe to fly, I knew it wouldn’t be long before some jackass with more disposable income than common sense and a corporately sponsored sense of superiority and entitlement decided to take the reckless hint dropped by Apple and decide to involve themselves in matters reserved for trained individuals.
Luckily, some people do not suffer fools gladly.
After an iPhone-wielding douchebag decided that plane he was on did not need to be rerouted due to bad weather and made his misguided opinions loudly known. The pilot responded as such:
“If the passenger with the IPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with IPhones, then we will be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the Flight Attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its passengers to safely leave.”
