I say "zero thought" and "bad implementation" because very few of the pages I see rendering like shit add the what? 3 lines? of html and javascript required for a "no script" notice. I suspect it is less a reasoned choice to throw 2% of your traffic overboard than a lack of knowledge.
I surf with requestpolicy and noscript up. It is utterly amazing the number of websites that can't render a page without firing scripts or loading content from 6, 8, 10 or more different domains.
If you haven't tried these, do it and be amazed at how many sites load without stylesheets, pictures etc. It's amazing how badly shit is implemented - zero thought about graceful degradation.
Reagrdless of any shared code, one behaves much better than the other
- Konq saw a network share that I have to manually mount with dolphin (no big deal really)
- Konq hasn't crashed once since I changed back. Dolphin locked up regularly. (this was the big deal)
You're right. For Joe Average, it makes a great desktop if they don't need to change anything. I think we are at the point where configuration takes some skill, but the user experience is just fine.
I've got my senior citizen mother using Slackware. She doesn't understand much of anything about computers, or viruses, or pretty much anything your average 15 year old would get about computers, but the interface is _still_ easy enough for her requirements (lolcats, email, reading news/recipes)
If she actually needs to change anything, it is past her abilities and she has to call me. She had to do that under windows, though, so no difference to me, + the added bonus that I don't clean a pile of malware off it every time I visit. Getting her on linux has cured a long standing headache.
That has been my habit ever since cams started showing up in every single screen/laptop I buy.
Nothing wrong with covering a cam you are not going to use and plenty right about it if your shit gets rooted.
>> too incompetent to make a non-JavaScript fallback
What you said.
At least fall through to a no-script page that tells me my browser sucks instead of failing to render. If they can't understand graceful degradation, they should get out of the business.
You can kick the shit out of a cop? way to go.
Can you kick the shit out of 6 cops? Cuz that is what round two is going to be.
Better to hold your temper while they are in control of your immediate destiny, remember names, remember faces and unload on them legally, after the fact if you feel compelled.
>>pay-as-you-go pricing is what the poor and people living paycheck to paycheck use
Perhaps Canada is different as far as the efficiency of pay as you go pricing levels (I doubt it), but I've had a pay-as-you-go phone for years. I buy my phones up front. No contract & pay as I go. It suits my usage patterns much better than a plan.
And yeah, the data rates are so wrong I can't wrap my head around it. No argument there.
I believe this could turn out very well for both Nokia and Microsoft.
Nokia nails the hardware (and then totally fscks the user experience from about the time you first turn the phone on.)
MSFT has experience in easy, user friendly GUIs and even more experience marketing the hell out of them. Put these things together _correctly_ (Nokia hardware + W7 optimized for the product + the MSFT marketing monster) and you have a winner.
I can't see Kodak and SCO in the same light. wallowing and desperate for cash mebbe, but not SCO. Kodak isn't trying to sue the community at large. Big difference to me.
(and no, I don't own any Kodak product or Kodak stock)
I can't imagine Oracle will sell the domain. If they did tho, the buyer would have to get some sort of understanding about uses that didn't constitute trademark infringement... So I can't see Oracle letting it go without the surviving bits and chunks of Sun attached. Not like they're hard up for cash.
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I say "zero thought" and "bad implementation" because very few of the pages I see rendering like shit add the what? 3 lines? of html and javascript required for a "no script" notice. I suspect it is less a reasoned choice to throw 2% of your traffic overboard than a lack of knowledge.
I surf with requestpolicy and noscript up. It is utterly amazing the number of websites that can't render a page without firing scripts or loading content from 6, 8, 10 or more different domains.
If you haven't tried these, do it and be amazed at how many sites load without stylesheets, pictures etc. It's amazing how badly shit is implemented - zero thought about graceful degradation.
no script
requestpolicy
well, the conservatives _do_ have a majority now. stay tuned.
Reagrdless of any shared code, one behaves much better than the other
- Konq saw a network share that I have to manually mount with dolphin (no big deal really)
- Konq hasn't crashed once since I changed back. Dolphin locked up regularly. (this was the big deal)
I wonder if Dolphin runs any better than explorer.exe yet. I've been fed up enough to change my installs back to Konq...
You're right. For Joe Average, it makes a great desktop if they don't need to change anything. I think we are at the point where configuration takes some skill, but the user experience is just fine.
I've got my senior citizen mother using Slackware. She doesn't understand much of anything about computers, or viruses, or pretty much anything your average 15 year old would get about computers, but the interface is _still_ easy enough for her requirements (lolcats, email, reading news/recipes)
If she actually needs to change anything, it is past her abilities and she has to call me. She had to do that under windows, though, so no difference to me, + the added bonus that I don't clean a pile of malware off it every time I visit. Getting her on linux has cured a long standing headache.
"If you don't give me a spec, whatever I give you meets spec."
say it, mean it and give em a lot of shit when they balk at the end result. Next time, they find time for the non coding parts of the SDLC.
Wish I could mod this +5. If even one person spending 110% of their pay reads it and "gets" i, you've helped them out.
That has been my habit ever since cams started showing up in every single screen/laptop I buy.
Nothing wrong with covering a cam you are not going to use and plenty right about it if your shit gets rooted.
Quit trolling AC. We all know SCO owns linux.
Do you think they might want to flag a price for human review if it hits a certain threshold? or advances a certain percentage?
Goin out on a limb here, but I think 23 million is a bit pricey.
I wish i could mod you up. some of them are meh, some are very good. Worth a look
>> too incompetent to make a non-JavaScript fallback
What you said.
At least fall through to a no-script page that tells me my browser sucks instead of failing to render. If they can't understand graceful degradation, they should get out of the business.
Fighting with the cops is bad math.
You can kick the shit out of a cop? way to go.
Can you kick the shit out of 6 cops? Cuz that is what round two is going to be.
Better to hold your temper while they are in control of your immediate destiny, remember names, remember faces and unload on them legally, after the fact if you feel compelled.
While we're tacking on book references Lederer's 'Nation of Sheep' is worth reading.
You're getting the government you deserve, by and large.
>>pay-as-you-go pricing is what the poor and people living paycheck to paycheck use
Perhaps Canada is different as far as the efficiency of pay as you go pricing levels (I doubt it),
but I've had a pay-as-you-go phone for years. I buy my phones up front. No contract & pay as I go.
It suits my usage patterns much better than a plan.
And yeah, the data rates are so wrong I can't wrap my head around it. No argument there.
I believe this could turn out very well for both Nokia and Microsoft.
Nokia nails the hardware (and then totally fscks the user experience from about the time you first turn the phone on.)
MSFT has experience in easy, user friendly GUIs and even more experience marketing the hell out of them.
Put these things together _correctly_ (Nokia hardware + W7 optimized for the product + the MSFT marketing monster) and you have a winner.
or it might turn out like zune... time will tell.
you know, for the folks that never understood what a memory leak is.
:P
next version, we get rid of pointers
>> For a technically savvy but nefarious user
having someone else carry your phone would require zero technical savvy...
Kodak's R&D stuff predates the toaster by about 15 years.
I can't see Kodak and SCO in the same light. wallowing and desperate for cash mebbe, but not SCO.
Kodak isn't trying to sue the community at large. Big difference to me.
(and no, I don't own any Kodak product or Kodak stock)
What's he going to do? play in the park?
Hiding indoors and posting to slashdot might be the healthiest use of his time at the moment.
I can't imagine Oracle will sell the domain. If they did tho, the buyer would have to get some sort of understanding about uses that didn't constitute trademark infringement... So I can't see Oracle letting it go without the surviving bits and chunks of Sun attached. Not like they're hard up for cash.
semi o/t, but this site might interest you
The gent has the same last name as a big car company. Sort of bad luck for him. He still has his domain, but out of pocket for lawyers...
Playing with RequestPolicy right now. - thank you
Just another big yellow rectangle....