I would be willing to continue to view the ads as they are now. Can I get a version with some ads, but not the big square ones? Those that take up half the page, jump spin, and in general ruin a site? Would I get a cheaper rate than people who choose not to view all ads? That's what I'd like to see.
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Or better yet, write both of them.
Polticians may seem like a waste of time, but occasionally a letter to one actually makes a difference. They may not know much about the issue, but your letter could change that. They may be keeping a tally of people who write them about an issue and your vote could push them to the threshold of actually taking an interest in the topic.
Sure, all your points about writing to CEOs are good ones. They do have more clout than politicians in some cases and would potentially take more notice of your letter. But sending an email to your senator is so easy their's no reason not to do it. Look yours up and send them an email today. http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm
Let me say one thing first, the Wow Web Designs site is NOT a good example of web site design. Look at it in Opera and see for yourself how nice the dark blue links look on the dark brown background. Yuck. Try turning the images off. Almost none of them have alt tags.
Good web site design is subjective. What one person considers good to look at, another won't. Some people actually like those huge flashing animated gifs they put on web sites. Do what you like if its a personal site. If its commercial and you're doing it for a client, then of course do whatever the clients like.
That aside, I know I might be rehashing a lot of other people's comments, but here are a few of the things I keep in mind when designing sites:
- Conforms to the W3C accessibility guidelines and validates (HTML, CSS, etc.) If your site does this, it will cover a lot of the other bases and cut down on problems. Also try running your site through Bobby at http://www.cast.org/Bobby/
- Doesn't use unnecessary graphics or flash. When you have a site about art, movies, or other topics that lend themselves to heavy graphics or when you want to show off something, like a product or your campus - use the images and make sure they're nice ones. In most cases tons of graphics and fancy flash things aren't necessary and just contribute to download time.
- Looks acceptable on as many browsers as possible. It might not look identical on all, but there isn't anything that's illegible on an older or non-traditional version. Try a site like Any Browser's Site Viewerthat will show you what your site looks like on using other browsers, or older versions of HTML support.
- Dynamic Content is important if you want to bring visitors back. They come to your site once, find what they want and never come back again unless your content changes. On the same note, when they get there the content must be up to date on things that are timely, like events information
- Make sure the site downloads fast - most importantly the front page. I now have a 24kbps connection at home and realize just how important this one is.
I guess those are my main ones. I won't get into all the others because so many people have covered them on here already.
34sp.com has proved very reliable for cheap hosting. I now have three clients sites hosted through them. Hosting accounts can be had for 12 pounds or about $17 dollars per YEAR. In this case something that seems too good to be true, really is turning out quite. Why go to the trouble of hosting your own if you can get hosting so cheaply?
Would there be wear on particular spots in the hill since it always goes the same way? Would it be bad for a person's body to always be turning the same way? For instance, on a walking track at the local YMCA, every other day the people switch the way they walk around the track. This is supposedly for reasons of wear on the track, plus something about people always walking the same direction and the unequality of how it wears on their bodies - turning on the same foot all the time and stuf I guess.
I know I'm rambling. Just ignore me unless you have an explanation for me.
The job itself is ok, I like what I do, but its the management and atmosphere I don't enjoy. I work for a small college in charge of all web design and development. The catch is I work in the department alongside fundraisers and other such positions, not in the IT department. That means nobody knows what I do really, we don't have much in common at all except the same boss, and most of them are quite a bit older than I. The boss doesn't understand much about my position either, just knows that it fits into our strategic plan. For the most part that's ok, but my biggest gripe is that I could easily do this all from home (and with a nicer machine) and even if there's a blizzard, I am expected to come in just because that's what everbody else has to do. I am also required to dress up and come in early because that's what they all do. Atmosphere at a college is so different from that at a business.
I guess I shouldn't complain because I do have a job, but I feltlike contributing to the discussion.
My point is this is good for them - not good for us. They can mark it in any way they want to. Small, large, or invisible ink (jk!) and as long as they mark them they are probably covering their asses. The fact that joe sixpack doesn't know how to look for the mark isn't their concern.
I wish the court had specified that they now had to mark them in 72pt. bright red type on the cd's front or back, but any step towards marking them is a good one.
Phillips is a doing a good thing asking the CD logo not be displayed on them, but I wonder if any more people will take notice of that than they would a fine print warning. More info from EFF at: http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020206_eff_philips_ale rt.html
6. Defendants shall include a warning that the Charlie Pride CD is not designed to work in DVD players or Computer CD-ROM players;
As long as they mark the cd, and people know ahead that the product will not work for them, they can protect all the cds they want to. People will just learn to avoid cds that are marked that way.
Probably all mentioned already, but here's a few of my suggestions:
Don't change my window focus. Your program is not necessarily the most important one running. Besides I might have it running in the background for a purpose - like I don't want my boss to see it.
Allow me to turn off (and permanently turn off) programs that run automatically. That includes turning them off via their icons in the system tray.
Make sure that I can do things without a "wizard" to help me out. A wizard is nice for the unknowing, but is not for everyone.
Let me choose whether or not I want to check for updates periodically on the web. I might not want the new version of your program for any number of reasons.
Don't send data automatically from my computer back to your company - even for error reports.
Don't make me register before being allowed to see the property settings. (Hey Real - this one's for you)
Don't give errors with just code numbers. I don't know what error CC344 is or why it has occured and giving me the error number doesn't tell me anything. It might help you while developing, but change it to something meaningful before release.
This article mentions nothing at all about them cloning the cat so that they could profit from it. This one suggests its good because they can study feline aids in comparison to human aids.
Why aren't more stories mentioning the fact they want to clone rich people's pets?
Where is the incentive for movie theatres to switch to the new format if they are not having any problems with their current system?? Will they get movies before non-digital theatres or some other perk for switching? If not they won't bother. Consumers aren't demanding digital anyway. So what if George Lucas is dissapointed? Most moviegoers were dissapointed with his last Star Wars film.
Any of the theatres near where I live would have to shut down rather than go to digital. They are old and hardly make any money as it is. The towns they are in are small and they would have no way to justify the cost. As it is I am surprised they are hanging on and wonder if the owners are losing money just to continue to provide one of the only entertainment venues in town. And getting new movies first or similar wouldn't be an incentive to these types of theatres as they already get movies a couple of weeks behind because that's all they can do.
I should have waited to post. Now that I've read this particular article (the other ones I read on this topic didn't mention that the U was going to capitalize on their discovery - just that they had suceeded in cloning a cat) I agree that the University is taken advantage of the situation, probably just for monetary gain by agreeing to clone pets for rich owners. I don't agree with that. I still however agree that this is an excellent research opportunity. Sorry for the misunderstanding of your intent
I agree completely that people should adopt pets whenever possible (I suggest using petfinder.com - free for non-profits like shelters and rescue groups around the US), but your argument is not sound.
There are plenty of sheep in the world too. Yet why did they clone Dolly? I'm sure the reason behind that project and this one - has nothing to do with overpopulation. It has to do with research. We learn how something works, not necessarily so we can reproduce the effect.
had a story about this on Morning Edition this morning.
Here's the audio file of the segment:
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020214.me.07.ra m
A commentator on there seemed to think it would interfere with all sorts of things acting like a "layer of jelly" which the poor little GPS device could not operate through.
So it all comes down to the fact that this is mostly Microsoft's fault? Imagine that.:) After all, they do have the primary share of the browser market. Let BT sue them.
Would that be any more viable than voting online? My thought is that the percentage of people with phones in the UK and Europe is so much greater than in the US that it might not be an option right now.
The BBC article also mentions voting by digital television. That's the first I've heard of that option. What percentage of people in the US, or for that matter the UK, have digital tv available to them??
I agree, why the heck would we ask them if they are willing to accept the punishment? Should it just be assigned to them and if they don't like it, tough?
Imagine if a person got to choose, or at least had to agree to their own punishment. What do you think people accused of rape, embezzelment murder, or any crime would choose? Of course they want the most lenient sentence available. As does Microsoft.
All those pro-Microsoft 7,500 users were probably taking part in the Back Microsoft and win an iPaq contest. (They said it wasn't a bribe, but just a tool to get people involved... Yeah right.) Either that or they were Microsoft employees, friends and family.
Yes, the Rocket eBook is now the Gemstar. According to their site description: Was Rocket-eBook, official NuvoMedia site for Rocket eBook reader.
More information at http://www.gemstar-ebook.com/ You'll notice that their models still are labeled as REB #### and that all urls such as www.rocketbook.com/ point to Gemstar now.
I was interested to see this discussion pop up because I am having a similar problem with Windows. Its as can probably be expected when using something so crappy, but my PC at work (Compaq Deskpro), running Win 98 (not by my choice) is having odd clock related problems. My clock gets slower and slower throughout the day. Its not the battery, as it goes back to the correct time if I reboot. My emails are sent out with the correct time/date stamp, not what shows up on my system clock. Its not the power in my office (that has been checked and there are no fluctuations). And, to top it off, I was given a newly reimaged computer of the same type and its now started doing the same thing. Think it could be software? Something in the bios I should check? Anybody have any insight for me??? Switching computers or my OS is not an option.
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Here are a few:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/technology/01DI
http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/press/107-159.htm
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174828.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-847229.html
http://www.theregus.com/content/54/24195.html
Hope you weren't being sarcastic.
I would be willing to continue to view the ads as they are now. Can I get a version with some ads, but not the big square ones? Those that take up half the page, jump spin, and in general ruin a site? Would I get a cheaper rate than people who choose not to view all ads? That's what I'd like to see.
Options, give us options!
Or better yet, write both of them.
Polticians may seem like a waste of time, but occasionally a letter to one actually makes a difference. They may not know much about the issue, but your letter could change that. They may be keeping a tally of people who write them about an issue and your vote could push them to the threshold of actually taking an interest in the topic.
Sure, all your points about writing to CEOs are good ones. They do have more clout than politicians in some cases and would potentially take more notice of your letter. But sending an email to your senator is so easy their's no reason not to do it. Look yours up and send them an email today. http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm
Let me say one thing first, the Wow Web Designs site is NOT a good example of web site design. Look at it in Opera and see for yourself how nice the dark blue links look on the dark brown background. Yuck. Try turning the images off. Almost none of them have alt tags.
Good web site design is subjective. What one person considers good to look at, another won't. Some people actually like those huge flashing animated gifs they put on web sites. Do what you like if its a personal site. If its commercial and you're doing it for a client, then of course do whatever the clients like.
That aside, I know I might be rehashing a lot of other people's comments, but here are a few of the things I keep in mind when designing sites:
- Conforms to the W3C accessibility guidelines and validates (HTML, CSS, etc.) If your site does this, it will cover a lot of the other bases and cut down on problems. Also try running your site through Bobby at http://www.cast.org/Bobby/
- Doesn't use unnecessary graphics or flash. When you have a site about art, movies, or other topics that lend themselves to heavy graphics or when you want to show off something, like a product or your campus - use the images and make sure they're nice ones. In most cases tons of graphics and fancy flash things aren't necessary and just contribute to download time.
- Looks acceptable on as many browsers as possible. It might not look identical on all, but there isn't anything that's illegible on an older or non-traditional version. Try a site like Any Browser's Site Viewerthat will show you what your site looks like on using other browsers, or older versions of HTML support.
- Dynamic Content is important if you want to bring visitors back. They come to your site once, find what they want and never come back again unless your content changes. On the same note, when they get there the content must be up to date on things that are timely, like events information
- Make sure the site downloads fast - most importantly the front page. I now have a 24kbps connection at home and realize just how important this one is.
I guess those are my main ones. I won't get into all the others because so many people have covered them on here already.
This site - Any Browser and this site Software QA Test have testing tools that may be of some use to you.
I'd give you some examples of my work, but I really can't afford for for any of my sites to be slashdotted right now.
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well. Its turning out quite well.
34sp.com has proved very reliable for cheap hosting. I now have three clients sites hosted through them. Hosting accounts can be had for 12 pounds or about $17 dollars per YEAR. In this case something that seems too good to be true, really is turning out quite. Why go to the trouble of hosting your own if you can get hosting so cheaply?
Would there be wear on particular spots in the hill since it always goes the same way? Would it be bad for a person's body to always be turning the same way? For instance, on a walking track at the local YMCA, every other day the people switch the way they walk around the track. This is supposedly for reasons of wear on the track, plus something about people always walking the same direction and the unequality of how it wears on their bodies - turning on the same foot all the time and stuf I guess.
I know I'm rambling. Just ignore me unless you have an explanation for me.
The job itself is ok, I like what I do, but its the management and atmosphere I don't enjoy. I work for a small college in charge of all web design and development. The catch is I work in the department alongside fundraisers and other such positions, not in the IT department. That means nobody knows what I do really, we don't have much in common at all except the same boss, and most of them are quite a bit older than I. The boss doesn't understand much about my position either, just knows that it fits into our strategic plan. For the most part that's ok, but my biggest gripe is that I could easily do this all from home (and with a nicer machine) and even if there's a blizzard, I am expected to come in just because that's what everbody else has to do. I am also required to dress up and come in early because that's what they all do. Atmosphere at a college is so different from that at a business.
I guess I shouldn't complain because I do have a job, but I feltlike contributing to the discussion.
My point is this is good for them - not good for us. They can mark it in any way they want to. Small, large, or invisible ink (jk!) and as long as they mark them they are probably covering their asses. The fact that joe sixpack doesn't know how to look for the mark isn't their concern.
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I wish the court had specified that they now had to mark them in 72pt. bright red type on the cd's front or back, but any step towards marking them is a good one.
Phillips is a doing a good thing asking the CD logo not be displayed on them, but I wonder if any more people will take notice of that than they would a fine print warning. More info from EFF at:
http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020206_eff_philips_al
I see this as the most important point:
6. Defendants shall include a warning that the Charlie Pride CD is not designed to work in DVD players or Computer CD-ROM players;
As long as they mark the cd, and people know ahead that the product will not work for them, they can protect all the cds they want to. People will just learn to avoid cds that are marked that way.
Probably all mentioned already, but here's a few of my suggestions:
Don't change my window focus. Your program is not necessarily the most important one running. Besides I might have it running in the background for a purpose - like I don't want my boss to see it.
Allow me to turn off (and permanently turn off) programs that run automatically. That includes turning them off via their icons in the system tray.
Make sure that I can do things without a "wizard" to help me out. A wizard is nice for the unknowing, but is not for everyone.
Let me choose whether or not I want to check for updates periodically on the web. I might not want the new version of your program for any number of reasons.
Don't send data automatically from my computer back to your company - even for error reports.
Don't make me register before being allowed to see the property settings. (Hey Real - this one's for you)
Don't give errors with just code numbers. I don't know what error CC344 is or why it has occured and giving me the error number doesn't tell me anything. It might help you while developing, but change it to something meaningful before release.
Here is an example:
d _1 820000/1820749.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsi
This article mentions nothing at all about them cloning the cat so that they could profit from it. This one suggests its good because they can study feline aids in comparison to human aids.
Why aren't more stories mentioning the fact they want to clone rich people's pets?
Where is the incentive for movie theatres to switch to the new format if they are not having any problems with their current system?? Will they get movies before non-digital theatres or some other perk for switching? If not they won't bother. Consumers aren't demanding digital anyway. So what if George Lucas is dissapointed? Most moviegoers were dissapointed with his last Star Wars film.
Any of the theatres near where I live would have to shut down rather than go to digital. They are old and hardly make any money as it is. The towns they are in are small and they would have no way to justify the cost. As it is I am surprised they are hanging on and wonder if the owners are losing money just to continue to provide one of the only entertainment venues in town. And getting new movies first or similar wouldn't be an incentive to these types of theatres as they already get movies a couple of weeks behind because that's all they can do.
I should have waited to post. Now that I've read this particular article (the other ones I read on this topic didn't mention that the U was going to capitalize on their discovery - just that they had suceeded in cloning a cat) I agree that the University is taken advantage of the situation, probably just for monetary gain by agreeing to clone pets for rich owners. I don't agree with that. I still however agree that this is an excellent research opportunity. Sorry for the misunderstanding of your intent
I loved this quote from the article:
"Technology develops through decades of work by many people. That's why I put my work into the public domain whenever possible."
Why can't everybody think more like this old guy??
I agree completely that people should adopt pets whenever possible (I suggest using petfinder.com - free for non-profits like shelters and rescue groups around the US), but your argument is not sound.
There are plenty of sheep in the world too. Yet why did they clone Dolly? I'm sure the reason behind that project and this one - has nothing to do with overpopulation. It has to do with research. We learn how something works, not necessarily so we can reproduce the effect.
had a story about this on Morning Edition this morning.
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Here's the audio file of the segment:
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020214.me.07.r
A commentator on there seemed to think it would interfere with all sorts of things acting like a "layer of jelly" which the poor little GPS device could not operate through.
Inquiring minds wand to know - since the proposal was online, will the wedding be webcast? :)
Hope you two will continue to very happy together!
So it all comes down to the fact that this is mostly Microsoft's fault? Imagine that. :) After all, they do have the primary share of the browser market. Let BT sue them.
What about elections by mobile phone? They are trying that in the UK -i d_1802000/1802956.stm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/news
Would that be any more viable than voting online? My thought is that the percentage of people with phones in the UK and Europe is so much greater than in the US that it might not be an option right now.
The BBC article also mentions voting by digital television. That's the first I've heard of that option. What percentage of people in the US, or for that matter the UK, have digital tv available to them??
Here is another BBC article that talks about the fraud that could occur with online voting -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/news
I agree, why the heck would we ask them if they are willing to accept the punishment? Should it just be assigned to them and if they don't like it, tough?
Imagine if a person got to choose, or at least had to agree to their own punishment. What do you think people accused of rape, embezzelment murder, or any crime would choose? Of course they want the most lenient sentence available. As does Microsoft.
All those pro-Microsoft 7,500 users were probably taking part in the Back Microsoft and win an iPaq contest. (They said it wasn't a bribe, but just a tool to get people involved... Yeah right.) Either that or they were Microsoft employees, friends and family.
Yes, the Rocket eBook is now the Gemstar. According to their site description: Was Rocket-eBook, official NuvoMedia site for Rocket eBook reader.
More information at http://www.gemstar-ebook.com/ You'll notice that their models still are labeled as REB #### and that all urls such as www.rocketbook.com/ point to Gemstar now.
I was interested to see this discussion pop up because I am having a similar problem with Windows. Its as can probably be expected when using something so crappy, but my PC at work (Compaq Deskpro), running Win 98 (not by my choice) is having odd clock related problems. My clock gets slower and slower throughout the day. Its not the battery, as it goes back to the correct time if I reboot. My emails are sent out with the correct time/date stamp, not what shows up on my system clock. Its not the power in my office (that has been checked and there are no fluctuations). And, to top it off, I was given a newly reimaged computer of the same type and its now started doing the same thing. Think it could be software? Something in the bios I should check? Anybody have any insight for me??? Switching computers or my OS is not an option.