Just had a look at the Reference Book. Entry after entry is truncated mid-sentence, and it seem fairly arbitrary which entries have been truncated. wtf?
and your answer is... 4. well, that's the number of people (before me) who commented on it anyway. A shame really - one of the points that Con made in the interview was about the perceived insularity of the US.
yeah, well maybe if Mozilla added a few more items to meet demand they wouldn't have this issue. In the store.mozilla.org they ONE WHITE T-SHIRT with a mozilla logo on it.
Nice to see that you can now loop audio - this makes composition much quicker.
And the pitch, tempo and speed effects mean that Audacity has just taken a big step towards the pro packages like ACID. Of course ACID has a lot more to it than what Audacity 1.2 has, but slowly slowly catch the monkey.
The other reason the PHB's don't tell employees anything is because they can't. If PHB's started going around telling their employees what they really thought, or what was really going in the company there'd be a revolution. Because a lot of their time is spent:
a) working out who to fire
b) freaking out about poor company performance
c) freaking out about bad employees
d) freaking out about their colleagues who are probably trying to stab them in the back.
These ads are going to get bigger too. From the unicast website:
I think there's still room for a larger canvas," said Allie Savarino, Senior Vice President. "What we've introduced is a new product that runs on a full screen for 15 seconds with a 300k file size, and that's the biggest canvas anyone has online. However, I think as advertisers become more comfortable they will demand even more flexibility. In time I think we will provide more length and file size."
Note that he's not talking about the audience for these ads - he's talking about the advertisers. Once they get comfortable with 300K, they'll start pushing 500, and then 750, and then say hello to megabyte ads.
No, how about these people that develop websites that can only be supported by advertising go back to the drawing board and come up with something that people are willing to pay for?
Of course, not all flash crowds/mobs are good. IN Australia it is getting very difficult for a teenager to organise a party at their house and not have hundreds of mobile-phone toting gatecrashers turn up, get into fights, razz the police and steal all the beer.
For a couple of years now I have been volunteering at a radio station during their annual subscriberthon. A room of volunteers answers phones and enters subscriber details into a database. The database is Access. The frontend runs off a ColdFusion server. I asked the IT guy why ColdFusion and he said "because we can have multiple users of the Access database, without anyone actually having to run it".
So if you really want to keep Access, try ColdFusion.. Although it'd cost you far more for a ColdFusion licence than MySQL...
Somehow I don't think any major network will take feeds from video-bloggers. Have a look at your local news and work out why the stories they show are shown. Often the determining factor is footage ie. footage that interests viewers. This is why a 20 car pileup somewhere else where it really doesn't effect you gets such a prominent run, while a report about healthcare, or some even more obscure piece of legislation won't get run.
There's no way networks would just take a feed of some blogger sitting in front of a camera sounding off about some_issue. It's just too boring.
The only way it could happen would be for the bloggers to actually get out the door and start hunting down stories with the potential for good footage. And then they're not bloggers anymore - they're journalists.
Although, in very noisy environments, as SMS can be very effective, instead of yelling into the phone over and over "hey, can you hear me? i said, can you hear me? hang on, i'll go outside, i can't hear you." etc etc etc
Well, using Acrobat 5.0 you can set the levels of "security" that you want for your document. If you select the "No security" option, then Printing, Changing the Document, Content Copying or Extraction, Authoring Comments or Form Fields, Form Field Fill-in or Signing" are all "allowed". Also, PDF's are searchable, much like a webpage is searchable. Acrobat also has an Acessibility Checker which looks for:
Alternate descriptions
Text language specification
Reliable character encoding
All content contained within the document structure
Form field descriptors
The important thing is anyone who publishes PDF's needs to take the time to create bookmarks and indexes, and make sure the documents conforms to the checks above.
PDF's aren't a perfect solution, but if you take the time to do them properly they can be very useful.
Well, PDF's do have their uses. I work on a large government site, and frankly I would hate to have to mark up some of the very large documents that we are required to publish. And I can't see how making the user wade through 90+ pages of HTML is a better solution than doing it all up as a PDF.
But PDF has to be done properly - if you publish a PDF you need to put bookmarks in, so that users can easily navigate to the section they need. And of course take steps to minimise file sizes...
Yes, I think that is exactly what is happening. It seems like medireview enthusiasts are suffering a case of Emperor's New Clothes syndrome - no-one's brave enough to say "hang on - why are we using this stupid word? And where did it come from anyway?"
Advertisers just don't get it - the more and more they bombard us with ads, the less and less we'll pay attention to them. If they were really brave and smart they'd reduce the number of ads on TV and in other spaces. And then they'd find that we'd all start noticing and remembering the ads a lot more than we do now. But of course there's a whole industry of leeches to support, so don't expect to see this happen anytime soon.
I have to agree with this - a lot of people who build and run sites unfortunately don't do any user testing. The only way they are ever going to get any feedback at all is from someone emailing the webmaster and pointing out the deficiencies.
As long as you are polite when you do it, you'll find that you pretty quickly get an email thanking you for your input.
The exception to this is when you send an email complaining about a "feature", and it gets passed on to the marketing manager, who then tries to justify their poor business decision. Case in point: STA. Don't try and do any research for your next trip here, because all the useful information requires registration. I told those guys that was a dumb decision - they defended it on the grounds that their (paraphrasing) "content is extremely valuable, and registration is a way of making users aware of that". So now they don't get my business.
Although, the cost of changing would be a massive pump primer for the American economy, and could probably get Wall Street back ontrack. It'd be Y2K all over again, but more so. Think of the expenditure and contracts.... mmmmm, contracts!
..Various comments from people who know suggest that the FBI will probably break the internet in trying to funnel it all through their Carnivore++ setup..
Which is all very well, except that the internet is not just an American medium - it belongs to the world. What recourse does someone not in the US have if the FBI did have such plans? It's all right for US citizens - they can attempt to vote in a Government that could curb the FBI (*as if*), but outside the US, we don't have that option.
I'm not getting into an anti-US govt rant here - I just think it's another example of how governments everywhere (particularly Australia, where I'm from) try to apply territorial solutions to something that transcends territory.
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Just had a look at the Reference Book. Entry after entry is truncated mid-sentence, and it seem fairly arbitrary which entries have been truncated. wtf?
and your answer is ... 4. well, that's the number of people (before me) who commented on it anyway. A shame really - one of the points that Con made in the interview was about the perceived insularity of the US.
yeah, well maybe if Mozilla added a few more items to meet demand they wouldn't have this issue. In the store.mozilla.org they ONE WHITE T-SHIRT with a mozilla logo on it.
Nice to see that you can now loop audio - this makes composition much quicker.
And the pitch, tempo and speed effects mean that Audacity has just taken a big step towards the pro packages like ACID. Of course ACID has a lot more to it than what Audacity 1.2 has, but slowly slowly catch the monkey.
don't forget that most of the world's fresh water is locked up in the Antarctic ice cap, and that isn't floating in the sea - it's on dry land.
The other reason the PHB's don't tell employees anything is because they can't. If PHB's started going around telling their employees what they really thought, or what was really going in the company there'd be a revolution. Because a lot of their time is spent:
a) working out who to fire
b) freaking out about poor company performance
c) freaking out about bad employees
d) freaking out about their colleagues who are probably trying to stab them in the back.
Note that he's not talking about the audience for these ads - he's talking about the advertisers. Once they get comfortable with 300K, they'll start pushing 500, and then 750, and then say hello to megabyte ads.
No, how about these people that develop websites that can only be supported by advertising go back to the drawing board and come up with something that people are willing to pay for?
Of course, not all flash crowds/mobs are good. IN Australia it is getting very difficult for a teenager to organise a party at their house and not have hundreds of mobile-phone toting gatecrashers turn up, get into fights, razz the police and steal all the beer.
Or what about classic Samurai fiction? Try the story of Miyamoto Musashi, Japan's greatest swordsman. Oevr a thousand pages and all good.
Musashi
So if you really want to keep Access, try ColdFusion.. Although it'd cost you far more for a ColdFusion licence than MySQL...
There's no way networks would just take a feed of some blogger sitting in front of a camera sounding off about some_issue. It's just too boring.
The only way it could happen would be for the bloggers to actually get out the door and start hunting down stories with the potential for good footage. And then they're not bloggers anymore - they're journalists.
Sounds like Xandros.
Although, in very noisy environments, as SMS can be very effective, instead of yelling into the phone over and over "hey, can you hear me? i said, can you hear me? hang on, i'll go outside, i can't hear you." etc etc etc
he is inventive. too bad he can't write very well. "plodding" is the best description for his prose.
- Alternate descriptions
- Text language specification
- Reliable character encoding
- All content contained within the document structure
- Form field descriptors
The important thing is anyone who publishes PDF's needs to take the time to create bookmarks and indexes, and make sure the documents conforms to the checks above.PDF's aren't a perfect solution, but if you take the time to do them properly they can be very useful.
But PDF has to be done properly - if you publish a PDF you need to put bookmarks in, so that users can easily navigate to the section they need. And of course take steps to minimise file sizes...
Yes, I think that is exactly what is happening. It seems like medireview enthusiasts are suffering a case of Emperor's New Clothes syndrome - no-one's brave enough to say "hang on - why are we using this stupid word? And where did it come from anyway?"
Advertisers just don't get it - the more and more they bombard us with ads, the less and less we'll pay attention to them. If they were really brave and smart they'd reduce the number of ads on TV and in other spaces. And then they'd find that we'd all start noticing and remembering the ads a lot more than we do now. But of course there's a whole industry of leeches to support, so don't expect to see this happen anytime soon.
As long as you are polite when you do it, you'll find that you pretty quickly get an email thanking you for your input.
The exception to this is when you send an email complaining about a "feature", and it gets passed on to the marketing manager, who then tries to justify their poor business decision. Case in point: STA. Don't try and do any research for your next trip here, because all the useful information requires registration. I told those guys that was a dumb decision - they defended it on the grounds that
their (paraphrasing) "content is extremely valuable, and registration is a way of making users aware of that". So now they don't get my business.
Although, the cost of changing would be a massive pump primer for the American economy, and could probably get Wall Street back ontrack. It'd be Y2K all over again, but more so. Think of the expenditure and contracts .... mmmmm, contracts!
hee
so stop whining and do it yourself.
www.workcover.vic.gov.au. Is is indeed all about positioning.
Which is all very well, except that the internet is not just an American medium - it belongs to the world. What recourse does someone not in the US have if the FBI did have such plans? It's all right for US citizens - they can attempt to vote in a Government that could curb the FBI (*as if*), but outside the US, we don't have that option.
I'm not getting into an anti-US govt rant here - I just think it's another example of how governments everywhere (particularly Australia, where I'm from) try to apply territorial solutions to something that transcends territory.
MAKE IT STOP!