"...it's not uncommon for mainstream reporters, including the occasional technology columnist, to lobby bloggers to include links to their print articles."
"You've have tried to run the file CelineDionNaked.jpg.pif, this may not be a legitimate application. Choose Run to run the file, Delete to delete the file, and Update to convert to a Windows XP icon."
For many people, that sentence would mean nothing other than "hit run to proceed".
"What's even goofier is that in OS X, as far as I can figure, "show file extension" is a file-specific flag, not a user-specific flag. Unless I'm missing something, it's impossible to get OS X to show file extensions on all files all the time."
It's a global option in the Finder's preferences, but even then, some apps will still hide them.
Autodesk has a whole lot of different products in different markets with different types of customers. The ways in they handle each of those products are pretty diverse.
That means no, this will have little effect on how they deal with Maya, but it also means that you shouldn't make assumptions about how they will deal with Maya.
You're talking about the latest models, and even if we're to take your word for it that they are bright now, they have been pretty dim for a very long time.
My mother's Powerbook G4 can barely be used near a window during the day, but my father's Thinkpad looks great in any light. Next to each other, the difference is night and day.
I thought he was saying that Apple was the leading notebook maker for 3308 years.
And while I'm not one of those who expects Apple to go out of business anytime soon, I'm not so sure about them still being around in the disastrous year 5300.
Wikipedia gets defaced all the time. People put in a lot of effort to clean it up though. When an entry gets changed, it's pretty easy to either fix it or roll back to the previous one.
If however, they allowed people to edit their main page by putting up a photo of the goatse guy any time they want to, they probably wouldn't be as useful as they are now. The editing abilities for articles are also pretty limited. People can post small images, text, and links.
I don't know if you read what I posted on your site before you took it down, so I'll summarize once again...
Your search box sent its output to the main page in its recent searches box unfiltered. HTML tags (including style info) got read as if they were part of your own code. No offense, but that's just dumb.
All I did was enter the following 3 items into your search box:
"he parrots The Company line and acts as if they're doing us all a favor."
Um, they are doing us a favor. Would you prefer them to NOT do it?
Would you prefer they not talk about it?
I don't see what you have a problem with. The other guy complained about them implying it's their own great idea, and you are complaining about the use of the word "finally" which is more like admitting that they are now getting around to doing what people want them to.
Neither of those things matter one bit to people who either use it at home on Windows or in an office environment where everyone uses the same software (again, on Windows).
Those people care about how fast they can get work done, and if their are improvements in UI and workflow in this version of Office, it's already got OpenOffice beat, since that just copied the features from the previous versions (aside from the standards compliance and Linux support, of course).
OS X came out like 5 years ago, and it wasn't until last year or so that Apple came out with machines that could run it without feeling slow. Heck, even with the latest version and the high end machines today, it doesn't feel nearly as smooth as Win XP on my Dell from when that came out.
I highly doubt they could get OS X to run smoothly on a $100 machine unless they stripped it down to what it was before Apple got their hands on it.
"I would love to help people but I sure as hell wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life in front of doctors if I was in his position, I would rather continue a "normal" life (you know, normal,/. reading computer geek)"
Wow. If you were dying, and then given a second chance to live and possibly help millions of others do the same by offering some of your remaining healthy years to research, you would instead waste it reading Slashdot?
When I saw the word classic, I assumed the black-and-white hits of yesteryear, but this is going to include things that I would still consider somewhat recent like Babylon 5 and Growing Pains.
Then again, maybe that just means I'm getting old.
Sounds pretty decent so far. I just hope I don't have to install some P.O.S. viewer to see this stuff.
I didn't miss the point, and yes, I look forward to the day when things work as you'd like them to, but today, I just expect sites to work in my browser of choice (as long as it's a current verison of one of the handful of major browsers), and I certainly prefer when websites don't preach to me or expect me to do more work than them in order to see their site.
"Lazy web designers who only bother to ensure their page works in IE are not doing the world any favours."
How is that any worse than this guy, who doesn't bother to make sure his site works in IE even after he clearly to the time to find out that it doesn't and write a disclaimer about it.
Heck at this point, I'd go as far as to imply that he's intentionally making it NOT WORK in IE.
"why should the coder HAVE to do work arounds/fixes just to get his site to work"
Why should his viewers HAVE to install extra software just to get his site to look nice, when most other sites work fine?
Look, I respect his ideals, and I am a Firefox user myself and recomend it to others, but this guy is suggesting that what is probably a large percentage of his visitors go and download and install another browser just so he doesn't have to change a few lines of code.
That isn't going to get them to switch to Firefox. It'll just get them to switch to another hosting service.
And even if a few do as he suggests, they probably still won't use it for anything other than his site, but now they'll have yet another desktop icon and folder in their start menu, and they still won't understand what the problem was in the first place.
Web standards aren't there for users, and they shouldn't have to care about them at all. They are there to make the coders jobs easier (as you implied), but my point was that it's lame when the coder basically tells his users to go out of their way becaues he couldn't be bothered to take a step beyond the "easy way" and get the site to work for them, his customers.
If I didn't know better, all I'd see is a hosting company that can't seem to make a working web site that would have been possible back in 1996. I work with computers to make content for "normal people" and I wouldn't dream of putting diclaimers on my work to excuse the fact that I didn't find a way to make it work as they expect.
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"...it's not uncommon for mainstream reporters, including the occasional technology columnist, to lobby bloggers to include links to their print articles."
How does one link to a print article?
"You've have tried to run the file CelineDionNaked.jpg.pif, this may not be a legitimate application. Choose Run to run the file, Delete to delete the file, and Update to convert to a Windows XP icon."
For many people, that sentence would mean nothing other than "hit run to proceed".
"What's even goofier is that in OS X, as far as I can figure, "show file extension" is a file-specific flag, not a user-specific flag. Unless I'm missing something, it's impossible to get OS X to show file extensions on all files all the time."
It's a global option in the Finder's preferences, but even then, some apps will still hide them.
Don't worry about the details. His post was just an excuse to claim he has a girlfriend.
I'd expect something in their FAQ about safety, but they don't seem to mention it anywhere.
I'd love to get one of these, but not if it's going to make me sterile or make my hair fall out.
"On the american discussion boards, they often debate how their guns were stolen and what to do."
Why does that remind me of the cartoons where Speedy Gonzalez steals the cheese from the mousetraps?
Autodesk has a whole lot of different products in different markets with different types of customers. The ways in they handle each of those products are pretty diverse.
That means no, this will have little effect on how they deal with Maya, but it also means that you shouldn't make assumptions about how they will deal with Maya.
Don't worry too much about it.
"If and when our government has become so corrupt that reform through the ballot boxes is impossible, then it is time to turn to the ammo boxes."
So, your solution basically comes down to intentionally killing other Americans?
Are you doing something in the meantime to keep this corruption from happening, or are you just waiting for your opportunity to shoot someone?
"I'd appreciate it if you could report any placement-related or other bugs."
Well, you seem to have placed it in the middle of the page instead of the top.
You're talking about the latest models, and even if we're to take your word for it that they are bright now, they have been pretty dim for a very long time.
My mother's Powerbook G4 can barely be used near a window during the day, but my father's Thinkpad looks great in any light. Next to each other, the difference is night and day.
That's one way to interpret it.
I thought he was saying that Apple was the leading notebook maker for 3308 years.
And while I'm not one of those who expects Apple to go out of business anytime soon, I'm not so sure about them still being around in the disastrous year 5300.
If however, they allowed people to edit their main page by putting up a photo of the goatse guy any time they want to, they probably wouldn't be as useful as they are now. The editing abilities for articles are also pretty limited. People can post small images, text, and links.
As an interesting example, listen to this radio show (realaudio): http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=16516
Then check out these two Wikipedia articles, and step through the newer revisions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy_Br
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken_Fre
If anything, it's good for a laugh.
I don't know if you read what I posted on your site before you took it down, so I'll summarize once again...
Your search box sent its output to the main page in its recent searches box unfiltered. HTML tags (including style info) got read as if they were part of your own code. No offense, but that's just dumb.
All I did was enter the following 3 items into your search box:Now, imagine if this post could screw up the layout of the Slashdot page it's on. This place would be a mess.
Oh, and yeah, it was just by "searching for" an IMG html tag.
You might want to fix the search code on your site.
I just left you a birthday present.
WTH are you guys complaining about?
"he parrots The Company line and acts as if they're doing us all a favor."
Um, they are doing us a favor. Would you prefer them to NOT do it?
Would you prefer they not talk about it?
I don't see what you have a problem with. The other guy complained about them implying it's their own great idea, and you are complaining about the use of the word "finally" which is more like admitting that they are now getting around to doing what people want them to.
"it is cross platform and standards compliant."
Neither of those things matter one bit to people who either use it at home on Windows or in an office environment where everyone uses the same software (again, on Windows).
Those people care about how fast they can get work done, and if their are improvements in UI and workflow in this version of Office, it's already got OpenOffice beat, since that just copied the features from the previous versions (aside from the standards compliance and Linux support, of course).
OS X came out like 5 years ago, and it wasn't until last year or so that Apple came out with machines that could run it without feeling slow. Heck, even with the latest version and the high end machines today, it doesn't feel nearly as smooth as Win XP on my Dell from when that came out.
I highly doubt they could get OS X to run smoothly on a $100 machine unless they stripped it down to what it was before Apple got their hands on it.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8& q=Alice+Babylon+5+Beetlejuice+Chico+and+the+Man+Da rk+Justice+Eight+is+Enough+F+Troop+The+F.B.I.+Falc on+Crest+Freakazoid+Freddy's+Nightmares+The+Fugiti veGrowing+Pains&btnG=Search+News
"I would love to help people but I sure as hell wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life in front of doctors if I was in his position, I would rather continue a "normal" life (you know, normal, /. reading computer geek)"
Wow. If you were dying, and then given a second chance to live and possibly help millions of others do the same by offering some of your remaining healthy years to research, you would instead waste it reading Slashdot?
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8& ncl=http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3563926
When I saw the word classic, I assumed the black-and-white hits of yesteryear, but this is going to include things that I would still consider somewhat recent like Babylon 5 and Growing Pains.
Then again, maybe that just means I'm getting old.
Sounds pretty decent so far. I just hope I don't have to install some P.O.S. viewer to see this stuff.
Holding shift prevents the installation of the software that keeps the disc from playing normally, therefore requiring you to use their player.
If you don't install any of their software, the disc will play like any other.
I didn't miss the point, and yes, I look forward to the day when things work as you'd like them to, but today, I just expect sites to work in my browser of choice (as long as it's a current verison of one of the handful of major browsers), and I certainly prefer when websites don't preach to me or expect me to do more work than them in order to see their site.
"Lazy web designers who only bother to ensure their page works in IE are not doing the world any favours."
How is that any worse than this guy, who doesn't bother to make sure his site works in IE even after he clearly to the time to find out that it doesn't and write a disclaimer about it.
Heck at this point, I'd go as far as to imply that he's intentionally making it NOT WORK in IE.
"why should the coder HAVE to do work arounds/fixes just to get his site to work"
Why should his viewers HAVE to install extra software just to get his site to look nice, when most other sites work fine?
Look, I respect his ideals, and I am a Firefox user myself and recomend it to others, but this guy is suggesting that what is probably a large percentage of his visitors go and download and install another browser just so he doesn't have to change a few lines of code.
That isn't going to get them to switch to Firefox. It'll just get them to switch to another hosting service.
And even if a few do as he suggests, they probably still won't use it for anything other than his site, but now they'll have yet another desktop icon and folder in their start menu, and they still won't understand what the problem was in the first place.
Web standards aren't there for users, and they shouldn't have to care about them at all. They are there to make the coders jobs easier (as you implied), but my point was that it's lame when the coder basically tells his users to go out of their way becaues he couldn't be bothered to take a step beyond the "easy way" and get the site to work for them, his customers.
If I didn't know better, all I'd see is a hosting company that can't seem to make a working web site that would have been possible back in 1996. I work with computers to make content for "normal people" and I wouldn't dream of putting diclaimers on my work to excuse the fact that I didn't find a way to make it work as they expect.