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  1. Re:Web Standards by Kwantus · · Score: 1 · on Web Standards Project: Upgrade, Or Miss Out
    a commercial site that expected to get every kind of user is going to have to break their back to make sure they support as many browser versions as practicable

    Yeah, you'd think... yet in my experience they're the ones most likely to try to piss me off by telling me what browser to use. ChaptersGlobe was particularly annoying. They'd tell me I had to enable my cookies without even testing them; they just looked at the User-Agent and decided from that whether I had cookies or not. (Interestingly, the first cookie they'd send would come with the page telling me to enable cookies. A Bright Fscking Bunch this was.) Opera... 4 I think... diddled its User-Agent line to work with sites like that. (Which is one reason I don't trust User-Agent stats. Most counters only count IMG loaders, and browsers have to claim to be Netscape, or M$IE lately, to work with many sites... and then they crow about how Messie and Nessie are everything! Grr.)

    ... anyway, that's why I continued with Amazon despite their patents; my browsers of choice would work! :)

    And what's this nonsense I see at WSP about Konquerer being built on Mozilla?? I'll have to straighten that idear out...

  2. Re: Hidden features and hierarchies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Jakob Nielsen Answers Usability Questions
    But that's not what many corporate (non e-commerce) sites are about. Because there's bugger all content there anyway. The site exists only to make the company look good to other companies.

    Well, if the site's just a corporate pissing/masturbation contest, then fine. But an online store like ChaptersGlobe is kinda shooting its foot off when, for instance, it insists on cookies but refuses to send me any because it doesn't know my User-Agent. (This is why I use Amazon even though it's not Canadian and I'm supposed to be boycotting its patents... Amazon works with all mybrowsers.)

    Suits should not be allowed to make these technical decisions.... I've no idea how to accomplish this, but it's not a hell of a lot different than building a bridge with KrazyGlue instead of rivets because some suit found out it's cheaper, newer technology, and leaves a smoother finish.

  3. What we really need is this test for baby boomers by Ticker · · Score: 1 · on Software to Predict "Troubled Youths"

    This kind of stuff really pisses me off, because this is nothing more than turning kids into scapegoats for all of society's problems. If it were politically correct to run this type of test for blacks, politicians would do it because they simply need someone to blame and put the focus off themselves. "There so many problems with kids today. They shoot each other. Sorry, we just don't have time to work on real problems like rising crime among baby boomers and poverty".

    Statistics actually show that school is one of the safest places for a kid/teenager to be. They are much much much more likely to be killed by their parents in their homes than to be killed by another kid. Where is the standardized test to find violent parents? We couldn't do that; it would violate parents rights, wouldn't it? But kids don't have any rights; at least not in this society.

    One of my favourite authors is Mike Males, and he has two very good books: Framing Youth and Scapegoat Generation: America's War Against Adolescents. I recommend both of the books to anyone who wants to find out the truth the media is too afraid to tell you about. Links lead to Chapters since I'm now boycotting Amazon.com.

  4. What we really need is this test for baby boomers by Ticker · · Score: 1 · on Software to Predict "Troubled Youths"

    This kind of stuff really pisses me off, because this is nothing more than turning kids into scapegoats for all of society's problems. If it were politically correct to run this type of test for blacks, politicians would do it because they simply need someone to blame and put the focus off themselves. "There so many problems with kids today. They shoot each other. Sorry, we just don't have time to work on real problems like rising crime among baby boomers and poverty".

    Statistics actually show that school is one of the safest places for a kid/teenager to be. They are much much much more likely to be killed by their parents in their homes than to be killed by another kid. Where is the standardized test to find violent parents? We couldn't do that; it would violate parents rights, wouldn't it? But kids don't have any rights; at least not in this society.

    One of my favourite authors is Mike Males, and he has two very good books: Framing Youth and Scapegoat Generation: America's War Against Adolescents. I recommend both of the books to anyone who wants to find out the truth the media is too afraid to tell you about. Links lead to Chapters since I'm now boycotting Amazon.com.

  5. If you're in .ca and don't want to pay big shippin by Ron+Harwood · · Score: 1 · on Web Salvation: Running To The Internet Tour

    ...you can get Mr. Katz's book here .
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  6. If you're in .ca and don't want to pay big shippin by Ron+Harwood · · Score: 1 · on Web Salvation: Running To The Internet Tour

    ...you can get Mr. Katz's book here .
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  7. Chapters Bookstores by Optic · · Score: 1 · on Linux to be used in large retail operation

    Chapters bookstores in Canada are using QNX for salesdroid book lookups and POS. They have terminals around the stores for the droids to key things into, with a nice text-based captive user interface.

    Plenty of power, plus you get QNX reliability and support.

    For my mission-critical system, I'd probably take QNX over Linux too. :)

    And of course, anything is better than NT. Well, maybe not Win95. :)