About a year ago, I noticed that some of the Groups navigation text had changed to a pale blue. WTF? I'm having a hard time reading it. Then I noticed that the navigation is split between the left and right sides of the screen. I navigate within a group on the left and between my groups on the right. The Admin interface needs work too. For spammers, how about a button that drops the spammer AND all their posts? A few hundred thousand Admins would thank you for implementing this.
Then I began seeing more and more animations. Yes, I realize that these are ads and ads pay the bit-freight but while I can recall the woman with the dread-locks dancing in silhouette, I can't recall the product. Would have been better to put up "Coca-Cola" or "Scotch-Tape" in large letters, with a lot of whitespace around it. If you add movement or color changes, make it VERY slow and VERY subtle. Load up the page with content and sneak the ad in.
I use Groups a lot (for Freecycle, check it out) the user and admin interfaces are awkward. I see occasional changes so it looks like someone it trying.
About 3 weeks ago, www.Yahoo.com was down for days. It still fails occasionally. This is amazing for a web-portal.
What's the matter? Too many managers? Too many PMP'ers? Too many meetings? "We need a meeting next month to discuss this."
-khome If you want to get the work done, hire more people who work; if you want more meetings, hire more managers. Your choice.
There are dozens of fine linear languages. If anything, there are too many choices.
Basic is OK, as long as you drop the line numbers and stick to the function calls. What's good about Basic is that it's accessable from many useful products, Word Basic, Excel Basic, and there's the Basic called Lotusscript.
There are many good C and C++ compilers and IDE's. I like Bloodshed. It works well. For all the weirdness of C++ and C, it's not a bad language if you stick to K&R and learn the fundamentals.
For the truly bold, search for Hercules/390, an open source mainframe emulator that runs IBM mainframe operating systems and applications. Download it onto a used $100 Pentium IV box and run mainframe compilers and applications faster than the biggest 1980's mainframe.
It's about knowing what to pick. Everything anyone wants is there. The problem is that there is too much blather and distraction and every soft major who "saw" a computer once, thinks they know this business.
Here's a telling story. Recently, I overheard a big dollar, suit-consultant say that the problem with Computer Science curricula is that they don't teach "the important stuff, you know, like Microsoft Office Products, how to use Outlook Express."
At first I was too shocked to reply. Then I thought it was an anomaly. Now I'm not too sure.
In a world where GNU C and the Bloodshed IDE are free, a "writer" is telling nerds that there are no linear programming languages left and that's the reason that kids don't learn algorithm development.
We gotta take back {slashdot, business, the industry, America, the world}, if you can't program in one assembly language, one linear language, and do not know automata theory, please, sit in the corner and keep quiet while your betters make things happen.
There are too many blatherers, meeting attenders, and Dilbert boss-types who think they have an opinion. Let's get rid of them and take over. Who's with me?
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About a year ago, I noticed that some of the Groups navigation text had changed to a pale blue. WTF? I'm having a hard time reading it. Then I noticed that the navigation is split between the left and right sides of the screen. I navigate within a group on the left and between my groups on the right. The Admin interface needs work too. For spammers, how about a button that drops the spammer AND all their posts? A few hundred thousand Admins would thank you for implementing this.
Then I began seeing more and more animations. Yes, I realize that these are ads and ads pay the bit-freight but while I can recall the woman with the dread-locks dancing in silhouette, I can't recall the product. Would have been better to put up "Coca-Cola" or "Scotch-Tape" in large letters, with a lot of whitespace around it. If you add movement or color changes, make it VERY slow and VERY subtle. Load up the page with content and sneak the ad in.
I use Groups a lot (for Freecycle, check it out) the user and admin interfaces are awkward. I see occasional changes so it looks like someone it trying.
About 3 weeks ago, www.Yahoo.com was down for days. It still fails occasionally. This is amazing for a web-portal.
What's the matter? Too many managers? Too many PMP'ers? Too many meetings? "We need a meeting next month to discuss this."
-khome If you want to get the work done, hire more people who work; if you want more meetings, hire more managers. Your choice.
There are dozens of fine linear languages. If anything, there are too many choices.
Basic is OK, as long as you drop the line numbers and stick to the function calls. What's good about Basic is that it's accessable from many useful products, Word Basic, Excel Basic, and there's the Basic called Lotusscript.
There are many good C and C++ compilers and IDE's. I like Bloodshed. It works well. For all the weirdness of C++ and C, it's not a bad language if you stick to K&R and learn the fundamentals.
For the truly bold, search for Hercules/390, an open source mainframe emulator that runs IBM mainframe operating systems and applications. Download it onto a used $100 Pentium IV box and run mainframe compilers and applications faster than the biggest 1980's mainframe.
It's about knowing what to pick. Everything anyone wants is there. The problem is that there is too much blather and distraction and every soft major who "saw" a computer once, thinks they know this business.
Here's a telling story. Recently, I overheard a big dollar, suit-consultant say that the problem with Computer Science curricula is that they don't teach "the important stuff, you know, like Microsoft Office Products, how to use Outlook Express."
At first I was too shocked to reply. Then I thought it was an anomaly. Now I'm not too sure.
In a world where GNU C and the Bloodshed IDE are free, a "writer" is telling nerds that there are no linear programming languages left and that's the reason that kids don't learn algorithm development.
We gotta take back {slashdot, business, the industry, America, the world}, if you can't program in one assembly language, one linear language, and do not know automata theory, please, sit in the corner and keep quiet while your betters make things happen.
There are too many blatherers, meeting attenders, and Dilbert boss-types who think they have an opinion. Let's get rid of them and take over. Who's with me?
-khome-boy