Depends on what you mean by local. Candidates for state house, senate, etc. will be included on Project Vote Smart and similar, including positions if they have chosen to provide the info. Smaller local offices, such as school board, county commissioner, city council, etc. seem to be best covered by your local paper and their various websites. Some county sites also include candidate info, or at least a list of those running and how to reach them.
I am a candidate for state house and have found that many sites list the basic information about who's running, but don't include anything more unless the candidate contacts them directly to do so. It is difficult for us independents, third party candidates and last minute fill-ins, because you aren't included in the first round of candidate surveys. You have to hope they send out another batch after your state filing deadline. Vote Smart does this, but many of the other sites do not.
Yes!! There is a large effort to try to get more men into nursing, as well as teaching (especially at the elementary levels). And they are using the same types of efforts - special marketing, camps, classes, role models, etc. - to do it.
When women call themselves that it is OK.:-) Same as with other minority groups (not just race, but even with geeks)- some terms are OK when it comes from within the group, but not from someone outside it. And chick is nowhere near on the level as calling someone a bitch.
They do have very good mailing lists, btw. And men aren't disallowed from participation.
Lots of good options mentioned so far. Here are a couple more you can try.
Test pages at the local university or library computer lab (depends on what they have available whether or not this will be of use to you). Some schools have separate Mac and PC labs.
Also, in many webmaster forums it's standard practice to ask other users with the browser/platform combination you're missing to test it for you and send you a screenshot.
I did find one other reference. MIT did some usability testing in 2000 of the Athena interface. http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui/ No idea of how many were involved that time, but it doesn't really matter since it's also several years ago and probably no longer relevant.
P.S.: Oh, yeah Candians are more polite. Last time I was in Montreal, several girls asked me if I wanted to get laid eventhough I was with my girlfriend.
I don't know that I'd call that more polite, especially not if I was in your girlfriend's shoes. Perhaps Montreal just has a lot of prostitutes?
Id like to see a gnome desktop that looks as nice as mine.
What's attractive is all in the eyes of user. And what you prefer is often just what you're used to. Personally the way your desktop is setup would drive me absolutely nuts! That's why it's nice to have the choice though. I wish I could post the screenshot of mine to show the contrast in what people prefer, but I'm on Windows at work.
I hope they didn't coerce the women to give their eggs unwillingly, especially when there is such a health high risk associated with this type of mass donation. Either way this is a great breakthrough and I hope this scandal doesn't cover up the high points of the experiment.
It doesn't mean a whole lot to people who think cloning of any type is evil no matter what, but I felt one of the more important points in the article was that, "This is not cloning to make babies, but to create medicine."
Even though they're creating embryos, they're not destined for implantation. And they're not sentient at this stage yet either, so the ethical problems just don't have much weight with me. Instead the idea that we can cure the ailments of tons of people someday based on this research makes me very optimistic.
Even more than that, the article says that they are down to $32 billion from $32.2 billion for the previous year. Waaah. We should obviously all feel sorry for a company with sales greater than the GDP of many countries.
The International Webmasters Association/HTML Writers Guild (now one entity) offers some good and inexpensive classes that may be of interest. I've taken a few in the past and been happy with them. They're all done exclusively online.
Since you already have the development knowledge, it sounds like you want to steer towards the classes that teach design principles, (they have one called Design Concepts that sounds exactly like what you want - it covers color, typography, etc. like a some posters have mentioned), graphics creation and manipulation, usability, accessibility, etc. and perhaps pick up some others that teach about contracts and legal issues, promotion, managing projects, etc. if you've never dealt with the business part of things. That way you'll completely round out your skill set.
On second thought, I'm not sure that every other company has worked out an agreement yet. From some posts I've just read this may not be the case.
I appreciate the fight and agree with Echostar in principle, but am questioning this because they aren't providing the service I am paying them to provide. I don't really think either company has my interests in mind, but what's best for their own pocketbooks.
In my mind Echostar is at fault - for failing to secure an agreement with Viacom. I think what Viacom is doing is bad, but every other company has worked out agreements without huge increases to customer costs, so why is Echostar any different?
This reminds me of the white paper at http://www.adti.net/opensource.pdf by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. While they make some very good points, in the end I still don't agree with their argument.
One innovative use of the internet this time around is Wesley Clark's TechCorps. I don't see a lot mentioned about it, but it seems he's got a pretty good thing going on. It's not a new concept to those on/. to get together and write open source software, but I think it may be new in politics to get together and do this to benefit a candidate, especially when the project coordination is all done via the internet at http://clark04.com/techcorps/
And no, I'm not trying to push Clark. I'm not even a supporter. I just think it's a great idea. I like what they say on their page: "Democracy cannot function without openness and transparency. The Clark TechCorps represents a significant commitment to both these guiding principles."
I understand your point and agree that this isn't ready for the public, however I really doubt that the 0.8 label is a red flag to non-geeks. Many I talk to have no idea what version of a browser they are using. They might know if it's Internet Explorer or Netscape, but the version number isn't as important to them. Some people can only describe what kind of icon it uses (the blue e). People using AOL often have no idea they are using a browser, just that they open up their AOL to get on the internet. I really doubt the number tips them off at all.
I agree, but also have a suggestion. The people who submit the articles, or the editors, can easily give us a registration free link. All they need to do is choose to mail the article to a friend (link on the right side of each page) and send it to themself and use that link instead. That's what I've done in the past for links I've posted. Alternatively grab the link off Google.
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You're right, the Commonwealth wasn't formed until 1901, but there six Australian colonies as of about 1855 and this is named after one of those.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_ballot
Depends on what you mean by local. Candidates for state house, senate, etc. will be included on Project Vote Smart and similar, including positions if they have chosen to provide the info. Smaller local offices, such as school board, county commissioner, city council, etc. seem to be best covered by your local paper and their various websites. Some county sites also include candidate info, or at least a list of those running and how to reach them.
I am a candidate for state house and have found that many sites list the basic information about who's running, but don't include anything more unless the candidate contacts them directly to do so. It is difficult for us independents, third party candidates and last minute fill-ins, because you aren't included in the first round of candidate surveys. You have to hope they send out another batch after your state filing deadline. Vote Smart does this, but many of the other sites do not.
Yes!! There is a large effort to try to get more men into nursing, as well as teaching (especially at the elementary levels). And they are using the same types of efforts - special marketing, camps, classes, role models, etc. - to do it.
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When women call themselves that it is OK. :-) Same as with other minority groups (not just race, but even with geeks)- some terms are OK when it comes from within the group, but not from someone outside it. And chick is nowhere near on the level as calling someone a bitch.
They do have very good mailing lists, btw. And men aren't disallowed from participation.
Lots of good options mentioned so far. Here are a couple more you can try.
Test pages at the local university or library computer lab (depends on what they have available whether or not this will be of use to you). Some schools have separate Mac and PC labs.
Also, in many webmaster forums it's standard practice to ask other users with the browser/platform combination you're missing to test it for you and send you a screenshot.
"Do the Roman centurions of 'Age of Empires' ... qualify as 'public law enforcement officers'?"
Shows just how laws like that could be misinterpreted...
According to this story the number of people using IE has dropped 1% in the past four weeks.
To a NY Times article on the subject from this morning:
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The big Linux vendors will ship Real Player 10 as part of the operating system, another step in trying to make Linux on the desktop a legitimate alternative to Windows.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/technology/28li
I did find one other reference. MIT did some usability testing in 2000 of the Athena interface.
No idea of how many were involved that time, but it doesn't really matter since it's also several years ago and probably no longer relevant.
http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui/
P.S.: Oh, yeah Candians are more polite. Last time I was in Montreal, several girls asked me if I wanted to get laid eventhough I was with my girlfriend.
I don't know that I'd call that more polite, especially not if I was in your girlfriend's shoes. Perhaps Montreal just has a lot of prostitutes?
The tests on the provided link were all done quite a long time ago, with version 1.2 of GNOME. Have they done anything since 2001?
Id like to see a gnome desktop that looks as nice as mine.
What's attractive is all in the eyes of user. And what you prefer is often just what you're used to. Personally the way your desktop is setup would drive me absolutely nuts! That's why it's nice to have the choice though. I wish I could post the screenshot of mine to show the contrast in what people prefer, but I'm on Windows at work.
I hope they didn't coerce the women to give their eggs unwillingly, especially when there is such a health high risk associated with this type of mass donation. Either way this is a great breakthrough and I hope this scandal doesn't cover up the high points of the experiment.
It doesn't mean a whole lot to people who think cloning of any type is evil no matter what, but I felt one of the more important points in the article was that, "This is not cloning to make babies, but to create medicine."
Even though they're creating embryos, they're not destined for implantation. And they're not sentient at this stage yet either, so the ethical problems just don't have much weight with me. Instead the idea that we can cure the ailments of tons of people someday based on this research makes me very optimistic.
Even more than that, the article says that they are down to $32 billion from $32.2 billion for the previous year. Waaah. We should obviously all feel sorry for a company with sales greater than the GDP of many countries.
The International Webmasters Association/HTML Writers Guild (now one entity) offers some good and inexpensive classes that may be of interest. I've taken a few in the past and been happy with them. They're all done exclusively online.
Since you already have the development knowledge, it sounds like you want to steer towards the classes that teach design principles, (they have one called Design Concepts that sounds exactly like what you want - it covers color, typography, etc. like a some posters have mentioned), graphics creation and manipulation, usability, accessibility, etc. and perhaps pick up some others that teach about contracts and legal issues, promotion, managing projects, etc. if you've never dealt with the business part of things. That way you'll completely round out your skill set.
http://iwa-hwg.eclasses.org
Tip: If you join the organization, you get all classes at half price. You'll make up the $50 right away if you plan to take more than one class.
On second thought, I'm not sure that every other company has worked out an agreement yet. From some posts I've just read this may not be the case.
I appreciate the fight and agree with Echostar in principle, but am questioning this because they aren't providing the service I am paying them to provide. I don't really think either company has my interests in mind, but what's best for their own pocketbooks.
In my mind Echostar is at fault - for failing to secure an agreement with Viacom. I think what Viacom is doing is bad, but every other company has worked out agreements without huge increases to customer costs, so why is Echostar any different?
This reminds me of the white paper at http://www.adti.net/opensource.pdf by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. While they make some very good points, in the end I still don't agree with their argument.
One innovative use of the internet this time around is Wesley Clark's TechCorps. I don't see a lot mentioned about it, but it seems he's got a pretty good thing going on. It's not a new concept to those on /. to get together and write open source software, but I think it may be new in politics to get together and do this to benefit a candidate, especially when the project coordination is all done via the internet at http://clark04.com/techcorps/
And no, I'm not trying to push Clark. I'm not even a supporter. I just think it's a great idea. I like what they say on their page: "Democracy cannot function without openness and transparency. The Clark TechCorps represents a significant commitment to both these guiding principles."
I understand your point and agree that this isn't ready for the public, however I really doubt that the 0.8 label is a red flag to non-geeks. Many I talk to have no idea what version of a browser they are using. They might know if it's Internet Explorer or Netscape, but the version number isn't as important to them. Some people can only describe what kind of icon it uses (the blue e). People using AOL often have no idea they are using a browser, just that they open up their AOL to get on the internet. I really doubt the number tips them off at all.
I'm not sure that addressing the writer as monkey-boy qualifies as a particularly nice response!
I understand your point, but just translate it and be done with it rather than complaining:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
I agree, but also have a suggestion. The people who submit the articles, or the editors, can easily give us a registration free link. All they need to do is choose to mail the article to a friend (link on the right side of each page) and send it to themself and use that link instead. That's what I've done in the past for links I've posted. Alternatively grab the link off Google.
Judge OKs file-sharing software maker's bid to sue entertainment companies
The New York Times had an article about it today too, but there's not too much more info in it.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Mars-R