The irony here is that had you been named CmdrTaco this would have not happened. So expectant mothers and fathers out there, please do your kids a favor, give them a name that no one else has... especially if your last name is Smith.
I take it that means Jane and John should be given a miss?;)
Although we assume "cmdr" means "commander", there are certainly other things it could stand for, such as "Commodore", "Cammalder" (not a real word) , or any other real and imaginary names. Ironically you could get round the moderation system by naming yourself bevelhebberTaco (try commander in Dutch) or anything else that is not English centric.
The other solution is to prepare a prototype solution, which you test in your own time, and make sure that it provides everyone what they expect from the old system. If it works then you probably have something substantial to show as evidence. Oh and if its solves some other problems at the same time, while not creating more then that is even better.
One other thing that might be handy in some companies is to document the process, or at least the general set up.
Just note that while some managers will accept that you have a better solution, some will get upset that you trumped them, so you might suffer in spite of your success. This is where you take the approach: if it fails, you will accept the blame, and it works they get to take the credit - the people in the know will know the truth. Politics sucks, but sometimes you just have to play the game.
On other solution would be to make it so you either have to log in to see where the URLs point to or using javascript to open the links. Yet another idea would simply to disable content links when Googlebot visits.
He had over 33,000 different user agents to sort through - why don't you email him and offer to trawl through the 22,000 UAs making up the 5% of traffic that he didn't generate stats for.
Actually it sounds like it would be a useful project if someone actually put together a registery of know UAs and then added some associated info on the UA. Maybe something like:
- client type (browser, bot, etc)
- platform & version
- browser name & version
Ideas are easy, putting them into action is something else.
You have to remember that IE is installed standard with MS-Windows, just as Safari is on the Mac and Konquerer on KDE. A lot of people are quite happy with what they get and even if they aren't, they aren't necessarily adventurous enough to try some alternative.
In English there is the saying: Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
This shows you that, while you may change your browser string to access certain sites, in the long run it actually works against you when trying to prove how often Opera accesses the site.
We need to see Opera identify itself properly and give a big middle finger to broken web sites, at least after giving the webmaster a chance to fix their issue. Remember there are some stupid webmasters, but there are many that will fix the issue if the get told about it. If you have to go through a help-desk to sort th issue, then there are chances that bozo 101 is going to give you some catch all answer and file it under "some idiot believes that there is some other browser than IE".
I hate it when they put paragraphs in ALL CAPS. It makes it even harder to read the EULA without my eyes going crazy. I think they do it to ensure that you have even less chances of reading the EULA.
One thing to note is that the lights that produce heat are actually not so bad in cold climates, since they help heat the room. It is only in hotter climates where this becomes an issue.
The Quebec French version of the Simpsons sounds more working class than the French French version. This partly because the French French version sounds to bourgeois in comparison. Its like trying to get Burns to do the voice for Homer.
Note to devs: not everyone is a developer. Some people like gadgets, some people don't and then there is everyone in between. Just look at the range of cell-phones on the market and then tell me that people don't like gadgets. Flock is a product that is likely to find appeal in Asia and amongst teens who want to share everything about themselves with friends. The are still some UI improvements that could be made, but otherwise it is an interesting product.
Remember how people on slashdot shot down the iPod when it first came on the market. This may be the same thing. At this point we don't know.
If there's a race that trisexual, then there probably aren't any geeks. I mean its hard enough getting one partner, but 3!? Geeks would have died out and this race would be without technology. Then again are morphic beings omnisexual?
Well you could always replace the trade-marked term "made for iPod" with something else like "works with iPod", "iPod compatible", "not certified, but designed for iPod" or something else.
Yup, this is a big issue. People want to have the liberty to do what they want in their own home. After all when you put a nail into your own wall, do you have to phone up the regional governing entity or pay to do so? Why should we have to do the same for our private computers?
Lack of IPv6 support on home ADSL routers really is a problem. If I bypass by Belkin router then I get to see the dancing turtle, otherwise I am just seeing a static image. The other problem is that there aren't any real work solutions for routing IPv6 over a NAT router, unless you modify the router itself.
I have tried FreeNet6, but this does not work on my Mac, so I am out of luck.
I am curious to see what the working solution is to allow people to have their own internal addresses, such as NAT provides, in the case of IPv6.
Also, are there still DNS servers that ignore the AAAA entry (IPv6 address entry)?
Apple realises that often the 'geeks' have some great ideas about new techology. The problem is that we don't always understand how to make it available in a form that your average punter would appreciate. Apple manages to take a lot of this stuff, add some eye candy and useability additions and then manages to sell it to people who want the power but don't want to open the manual.
RTFM? Sure, but it would certainly by nice that you could use something without having to.
But I'd rather pay nothing and have adverts, I find it very hard to spend money on something like TV which is merely mindless time-filler
Haha, shows you have never been to North America;) Here 15 minutes of a 1 hour show is adverts. The see how they masterfully manage to turn a 1.5 hour film into one that lasts 3 hours. Oh and any climax of the film always leads to an ad-break. Do this for a while and watch how people can go mad because of it. At this point I would rather pay £150 per year for no adverts or some sort of other low fee for the content I wish to see.
I stopped getting cable because the amount of adverts was just as bad as what I got over air.
Actually, abandonning the registry is one thing I would like to see. My main reason being applications over-dependency on it and that if you reinstall the system you are left reinstalling every program that assumed that a given entry would be there. Good programs, will still work even if you drag them to another computer, where the installation program was not run. Visio and TextEdit are two programs that I found worked well after reinstalling the system. Microsoft Office was one program that did not.
If you ever used OS/2, then you will know some of the dangers of having a rapidly changing central directory.
From having used MacOS X I got to like the way it handled storing configuration settings. Here The system wide settings are stored in the form of XML files, in/Library/Preferences and the user preferences in ~/Library/Preferences . The file names using a reverse domain name style naming, so for example the Mail program from Apple has its settings saved in fa file called com.apple.Safari.plist (plist being the xml file format). I moved my account from one computer to another and nothing broke. I even reinstalled the system and still there was no installer I had to run for the other applications.
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The irony here is that had you been named CmdrTaco this would have not happened. So expectant mothers and fathers out there, please do your kids a favor, give them a name that no one else has ... especially if your last name is Smith.
;)
I take it that means Jane and John should be given a miss?
Although we assume "cmdr" means "commander", there are certainly other things it could stand for, such as "Commodore", "Cammalder" (not a real word) , or any other real and imaginary names. Ironically you could get round the moderation system by naming yourself bevelhebberTaco (try commander in Dutch) or anything else that is not English centric.
I wonder how much difference a graphics tablet would have made?
The other solution is to prepare a prototype solution, which you test in your own time, and make sure that it provides everyone what they expect from the old system. If it works then you probably have something substantial to show as evidence. Oh and if its solves some other problems at the same time, while not creating more then that is even better.
One other thing that might be handy in some companies is to document the process, or at least the general set up.
Just note that while some managers will accept that you have a better solution, some will get upset that you trumped them, so you might suffer in spite of your success. This is where you take the approach: if it fails, you will accept the blame, and it works they get to take the credit - the people in the know will know the truth. Politics sucks, but sometimes you just have to play the game.
On other solution would be to make it so you either have to log in to see where the URLs point to or using javascript to open the links. Yet another idea would simply to disable content links when Googlebot visits.
He had over 33,000 different user agents to sort through - why don't you email him and offer to trawl through the 22,000 UAs making up the 5% of traffic that he didn't generate stats for.
Actually it sounds like it would be a useful project if someone actually put together a registery of know UAs and then added some associated info on the UA. Maybe something like:
- client type (browser, bot, etc)
- platform & version
- browser name & version
Ideas are easy, putting them into action is something else.
You have to remember that IE is installed standard with MS-Windows, just as Safari is on the Mac and Konquerer on KDE. A lot of people are quite happy with what they get and even if they aren't, they aren't necessarily adventurous enough to try some alternative.
In English there is the saying: Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
The MSI needs to be on the http://www.getfirefox.com/ page and not on some obscure site that only well informed techies seem to know about.
This shows you that, while you may change your browser string to access certain sites, in the long run it actually works against you when trying to prove how often Opera accesses the site.
We need to see Opera identify itself properly and give a big middle finger to broken web sites, at least after giving the webmaster a chance to fix their issue. Remember there are some stupid webmasters, but there are many that will fix the issue if the get told about it. If you have to go through a help-desk to sort th issue, then there are chances that bozo 101 is going to give you some catch all answer and file it under "some idiot believes that there is some other browser than IE".
I hate it when they put paragraphs in ALL CAPS. It makes it even harder to read the EULA without my eyes going crazy. I think they do it to ensure that you have even less chances of reading the EULA.
Now I understand why my local grow-op is labelled with "Xeon inside".
One thing to note is that the lights that produce heat are actually not so bad in cold climates, since they help heat the room. It is only in hotter climates where this becomes an issue.
The Quebec French version of the Simpsons sounds more working class than the French French version. This partly because the French French version sounds to bourgeois in comparison. Its like trying to get Burns to do the voice for Homer.
South Park its the same thing.
Note to devs: not everyone is a developer. Some people like gadgets, some people don't and then there is everyone in between. Just look at the range of cell-phones on the market and then tell me that people don't like gadgets. Flock is a product that is likely to find appeal in Asia and amongst teens who want to share everything about themselves with friends. The are still some UI improvements that could be made, but otherwise it is an interesting product.
Remember how people on slashdot shot down the iPod when it first came on the market. This may be the same thing. At this point we don't know.
If there's a race that trisexual, then there probably aren't any geeks. I mean its hard enough getting one partner, but 3!? Geeks would have died out and this race would be without technology. Then again are morphic beings omnisexual?
Well you could always replace the trade-marked term "made for iPod" with something else like "works with iPod", "iPod compatible", "not certified, but designed for iPod" or something else.
Well, you don't necessarily need a secured Wi-Fi server to prevent people connecting to the internet. Just add MAC address filtering and you're done.
Yup, this is a big issue. People want to have the liberty to do what they want in their own home. After all when you put a nail into your own wall, do you have to phone up the regional governing entity or pay to do so? Why should we have to do the same for our private computers?
Lack of IPv6 support on home ADSL routers really is a problem. If I bypass by Belkin router then I get to see the dancing turtle, otherwise I am just seeing a static image. The other problem is that there aren't any real work solutions for routing IPv6 over a NAT router, unless you modify the router itself.
I have tried FreeNet6, but this does not work on my Mac, so I am out of luck.
I am curious to see what the working solution is to allow people to have their own internal addresses, such as NAT provides, in the case of IPv6.
Also, are there still DNS servers that ignore the AAAA entry (IPv6 address entry)?
Apple realises that often the 'geeks' have some great ideas about new techology. The problem is that we don't always understand how to make it available in a form that your average punter would appreciate. Apple manages to take a lot of this stuff, add some eye candy and useability additions and then manages to sell it to people who want the power but don't want to open the manual.
RTFM? Sure, but it would certainly by nice that you could use something without having to.
But I'd rather pay nothing and have adverts, I find it very hard to spend money on something like TV which is merely mindless time-filler
;) Here 15 minutes of a 1 hour show is adverts. The see how they masterfully manage to turn a 1.5 hour film into one that lasts 3 hours. Oh and any climax of the film always leads to an ad-break. Do this for a while and watch how people can go mad because of it. At this point I would rather pay £150 per year for no adverts or some sort of other low fee for the content I wish to see.
Haha, shows you have never been to North America
I stopped getting cable because the amount of adverts was just as bad as what I got over air.
Actually, abandonning the registry is one thing I would like to see. My main reason being applications over-dependency on it and that if you reinstall the system you are left reinstalling every program that assumed that a given entry would be there. Good programs, will still work even if you drag them to another computer, where the installation program was not run. Visio and TextEdit are two programs that I found worked well after reinstalling the system. Microsoft Office was one program that did not.
/Library/Preferences and the user preferences in ~/Library/Preferences . The file names using a reverse domain name style naming, so for example the Mail program from Apple has its settings saved in fa file called com.apple.Safari.plist (plist being the xml file format). I moved my account from one computer to another and nothing broke. I even reinstalled the system and still there was no installer I had to run for the other applications.
If you ever used OS/2, then you will know some of the dangers of having a rapidly changing central directory.
From having used MacOS X I got to like the way it handled storing configuration settings. Here The system wide settings are stored in the form of XML files, in
Compared to regular broadcast it is still subpar. Although it is stripped of commercials so that's a plus.
Would you buy a TV episode again from iTunes, given the quality?
Its bad compared to the what you can get from the torrents, but how does it compare to your regular broadcast episode?
It bodes well for us gaim users!
And for users of other IM clients that use the GAIM libraries. I believe both Admium and Fire on the Mac make use of the GAIM libraries.