All those hardware/software things are great. But the one thing they didn't mention is the education of the masses. As more and more people become more and more familiar with computers and how to use them, these technological innovations will become more important to more people, thereby fueling the need for this Top 20 list...
What I find particularly amusing is that he doesn't even follow his own 'advice.' To wit:
Of the homepages in our sample, 60% used the traditional standard for link colors: blue. This is a fairly small majority, but still large enough that we continue to recommend blue as the color for unvisited links. If links are blue, users know what to do. End of story.
Now go look at this example. Notice the link in the upper left hand corner of the page? WHERE IS THE BLUE TEXT, JAKOB?!?! Help! I'm such an idiot that I can't find my way back to your homepage! I don't know what to do!
Feh.
Why don't you crawl back into your cave with your Lynx browser and your Athena widget set. We'll stick with substance AND style, thank you very much.
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All the while, the execs work on their v_tans on the French Riviera...
Fine, if that's what you want.
I don't think Janet Reno is doing anything at the moment...
Wow! Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of karma whores?
Ummm... I... Nevermind.
How about $5 for each offense to be awarded to an Open Source movement?
Here is the Amazon link.
More like too much /.
1. Make proprietary video recording device
2. ???
3. Profit!
and,
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of Betamax's?
Download VIM from here.
You sure can!
Pack it up and move.
What is 'Xmas?' Is that the same as Xnakah or Xzaa? Is it a holiday near the 'X of July?' Or perhaps 'X day?'
Please.
Cinefex #90 has the AotC writeup regarding this very topic. Well worth checking out.
Making and selling hardware is not an optimum business model.
HP: Make one printer, sell one printer = not much money.
M$: Write one piece of shit software, sell it a million times = a shitload of money.
See the difference?
Download the TI 92 SDK here.
All those hardware/software things are great. But the one thing they didn't mention is the education of the masses. As more and more people become more and more familiar with computers and how to use them, these technological innovations will become more important to more people, thereby fueling the need for this Top 20 list...
jmo
Yeah, baby!
Now go look at this example. Notice the link in the upper left hand corner of the page? WHERE IS THE BLUE TEXT, JAKOB?!?! Help! I'm such an idiot that I can't find my way back to your homepage! I don't know what to do!
Feh.
Why don't you crawl back into your cave with your Lynx browser and your Athena widget set. We'll stick with substance AND style, thank you very much.
Take a look at Hudson Bay (Canada). Kinda round, wouldn't you say?
This would be a great way for them to once again become the mainstay personal computer in schools again
Why would I want to be lumped together with a bunch of stodgy old electrical or mechanical dweebs?
Hell, if it weren't for the likes of us, those other disciplines would still be using a slide rule and pencil...
Asimov (I think) said: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'
Ergo, I'm a magician!