I don't understand why anyone listens to Jacob Nielson. He's out of touch, a complete crank, is utterly upposed to design and doesn't seem to understand that the web has evolved from the days of black text on a white page. Change or die, Jacob.
His right of free speech is exactly that - the right to speak. There is no corrollary requirement that other people listen, or that they facilitate his his free speech.
My own experience is that they avoid doing anything about fraudulent sellers. They make it almost impossible for buyers to turn in complaints and their arbitration option is toothless. So is Square Trade, by the way. If you do manage to thread your way through the maze of links to actually turn in a complaint, it gets ignored or brushed aside. I love ebay for small purchases, but I never bid an amount I'm not willing to lose.
My husband consulted a dot.com a couple of years ago, and we were invited to a dinner for the IT dept. at the end on the project. While the blowhard dept. head sat at one end of the table desperately trying to engage someone in a conversation about sports, all of the IT geeks sat around discussing computer stuff. It was soon clear that even the IT geeks's wives knew more about computers than the boss did. Finally out of frustration, he burst out with "Can't you guys talk about anything except computers?". There was a silence, then someone said "No" and we all laughted and went back to talking. He wasn't in it for the technology - he was in it for the money and the ability to push other people around. The IT geeks were in for the technology. That's the difference in a nutshell.
The websites our company hosts invariably get 75-90% of their hits from a combination of Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. For several of those sites, hits from Yahoo are now outstripping hits from Google.
Google's last ranking algorithm modification a month or two ago, has caused large numbers of link farms to be returned on most searches. At the same time, a great many legitimate sites were downgraded.
Meanwhile, Yahoo is now faster at including new sites and appears to be excluding link farms, for the most part.
If Google doesn't undertake some further tweeking to reduce the number of link farms returned, Yahoo's usefulness may threaten Google's preeminance.
Well, the problem is that PDF documents are just not very suitable for online access because they are optimized for print...
Often that's the point. The marketing department creates a brochure at great expense. It looks the way they want it to. Why reinvent the wheel by trying to recreate it as html?
Moreover, users with impaired vision can make PDFs as large as they want or need. While giving the user a type size choice can be done on a web page, very few sites bother.
Nielson's real problem is that he can't accept the fact that the days of text on a gray page have come and gone. He's anti-design - and it's not that he merely doesn't understand design - he appears to loathe design. He's a website Neanderthal, and an ignorable irritant.
They've been taking drivers licence numbers at used book/CD/media stores in Dallas for years. This is purportedly to combat the sale of stolen property, though I can't think of the last time someone broke into a house to steal books.
What's curious, though, is that a friend who owns a used camera store was told by the police that if he innocently buys stolen photo equipment, he's under no obligation to return it to the original owner.
So how is that different from innocently stocking fake CDs? Hmmmmm.
An external tuner *might* work, but it misses the point that once HDTV becomes the norm, the content won't be shot for a 3x4 ratio, but a 16x9. Much of the essential action in a scene may be out of the 3x4 ratio viewing area. So you may be able to use your old set, but what good will it do you?
The real problem here is that Congress decided some years ago that a quick fix to the budget problems would be to make a killing on a one time sale of the electromagnetic spectrum rather than continuing to lease it at more moderate rates. Well, once you've sold something, you can't sell it again. This is literally a goose with golden eggs problem, and the Congress is having a goose dinner.
The trickle-down effect of their decision is that the video industry is in total turmoil. The cost of new equipment is very high, and making a wrong guess about the direction to go could bankrupt a company. More than one post facility owner has just called it quits rather than lose the money they have guessing about the timing of HTDV. Moreover, because of the current lousy economy, businesses aren't spending as much on advertising and video training right now, so these same post houses are just struggling to stay in business. There isn't any surplus cash to go out and refit entire facilities. The same is true for small market TV stations.
Congress and the FCC are deaf and dumb to all of this. They just want their money.
I have always thought diamonds were a colossal bore. They look like glass or at best, cubic zirconia. I wanted (and got) a sapphire. My husband has an equal loathing for gold-colored metal. He really wanted titanium, but at the time we couldn't find anyone who worked in that metal. So we compromised on white gold. While everyone thought it was pretty strange at the time, I have since read that sapphires are the #2 engagement ring stone.
However, if she really wants diamonds, you can always seek out a good quality antique and have a new setting made. At least in that case, the miners are long dead and you aren't putting currently living humans at risk.
Not only did it crash my Mozilla, but once it detects java capability, it disables the option of using either the html or text version. You have to delete the cookies in order to get access to html or text. If you block cookies from the site, it goes automatically to the java version without offering the html or text version.
The map is apparently meaningless, and calls up an endlessly looping java application error message from which there is no escape except to kill Mozilla.
And the java version searches endlessly, often without finding anything. Good grief, it's a meta search engine. How can it not find anything, when the search engines it's searching can find all sorts of things using the same search string?
There are a number of other robot competitions, but they're a lot less commercial than BattleBots and Robot Wars, so they don't get the media attention. I don't consider BB and RW to be actual robots anyway, because they're radio controlled rather than autonomous. There's a list of many of the other competitions here.
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I don't understand why anyone listens to Jacob Nielson. He's out of touch, a complete crank, is utterly upposed to design and doesn't seem to understand that the web has evolved from the days of black text on a white page. Change or die, Jacob.
Egg-shaped craft with no external markings sound like escape pods to me. Maybe their landing here was an accident.
His right of free speech is exactly that - the right to speak. There is no corrollary requirement that other people listen, or that they facilitate his his free speech.
My own experience is that they avoid doing anything about fraudulent sellers. They make it almost impossible for buyers to turn in complaints and their arbitration option is toothless. So is Square Trade, by the way. If you do manage to thread your way through the maze of links to actually turn in a complaint, it gets ignored or brushed aside. I love ebay for small purchases, but I never bid an amount I'm not willing to lose.
My husband consulted a dot.com a couple of years ago, and we were invited to a dinner for the IT dept. at the end on the project. While the blowhard dept. head sat at one end of the table desperately trying to engage someone in a conversation about sports, all of the IT geeks sat around discussing computer stuff. It was soon clear that even the IT geeks's wives knew more about computers than the boss did. Finally out of frustration, he burst out with "Can't you guys talk about anything except computers?". There was a silence, then someone said "No" and we all laughted and went back to talking. He wasn't in it for the technology - he was in it for the money and the ability to push other people around. The IT geeks were in for the technology. That's the difference in a nutshell.
The websites our company hosts invariably get 75-90% of their hits from a combination of Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. For several of those sites, hits from Yahoo are now outstripping hits from Google.
Google's last ranking algorithm modification a month or two ago, has caused large numbers of link farms to be returned on most searches. At the same time, a great many legitimate sites were downgraded.
Meanwhile, Yahoo is now faster at including new sites and appears to be excluding link farms, for the most part.
If Google doesn't undertake some further tweeking to reduce the number of link farms returned, Yahoo's usefulness may threaten Google's preeminance.
Well, the problem is that PDF documents are just not very suitable for online access because they are optimized for print...
Often that's the point. The marketing department creates a brochure at great expense. It looks the way they want it to. Why reinvent the wheel by trying to recreate it as html?
Moreover, users with impaired vision can make PDFs as large as they want or need. While giving the user a type size choice can be done on a web page, very few sites bother.
Nielson's real problem is that he can't accept the fact that the days of text on a gray page have come and gone. He's anti-design - and it's not that he merely doesn't understand design - he appears to loathe design. He's a website Neanderthal, and an ignorable irritant.
They've been taking drivers licence numbers at used book/CD/media stores in Dallas for years. This is purportedly to combat the sale of stolen property, though I can't think of the last time someone broke into a house to steal books.
What's curious, though, is that a friend who owns a used camera store was told by the police that if he innocently buys stolen photo equipment, he's under no obligation to return it to the original owner.
So how is that different from innocently stocking fake CDs? Hmmmmm.
An external tuner *might* work, but it misses the point that once HDTV becomes the norm, the content won't be shot for a 3x4 ratio, but a 16x9. Much of the essential action in a scene may be out of the 3x4 ratio viewing area. So you may be able to use your old set, but what good will it do you?
The real problem here is that Congress decided some years ago that a quick fix to the budget problems would be to make a killing on a one time sale of the electromagnetic spectrum rather than continuing to lease it at more moderate rates. Well, once you've sold something, you can't sell it again. This is literally a goose with golden eggs problem, and the Congress is having a goose dinner.
The trickle-down effect of their decision is that the video industry is in total turmoil. The cost of new equipment is very high, and making a wrong guess about the direction to go could bankrupt a company. More than one post facility owner has just called it quits rather than lose the money they have guessing about the timing of HTDV. Moreover, because of the current lousy economy, businesses aren't spending as much on advertising and video training right now, so these same post houses are just struggling to stay in business. There isn't any surplus cash to go out and refit entire facilities. The same is true for small market TV stations.
Congress and the FCC are deaf and dumb to all of this. They just want their money.
I have always thought diamonds were a colossal bore. They look like glass or at best, cubic zirconia. I wanted (and got) a sapphire. My husband has an equal loathing for gold-colored metal. He really wanted titanium, but at the time we couldn't find anyone who worked in that metal. So we compromised on white gold. While everyone thought it was pretty strange at the time, I have since read that sapphires are the #2 engagement ring stone.
However, if she really wants diamonds, you can always seek out a good quality antique and have a new setting made. At least in that case, the miners are long dead and you aren't putting currently living humans at risk.
Not only did it crash my Mozilla, but once it detects java capability, it disables the option of using either the html or text version. You have to delete the cookies in order to get access to html or text. If you block cookies from the site, it goes automatically to the java version without offering the html or text version.
The map is apparently meaningless, and calls up an endlessly looping java application error message from which there is no escape except to kill Mozilla.
And the java version searches endlessly, often without finding anything. Good grief, it's a meta search engine. How can it not find anything, when the search engines it's searching can find all sorts of things using the same search string?
I think it's garbage.
There are a number of other robot competitions, but they're a lot less commercial than BattleBots and Robot Wars, so they don't get the media attention. I don't consider BB and RW to be actual robots anyway, because they're radio controlled rather than autonomous. There's a list of many of the other competitions here.