Again, you've got a warped sample group there... wikipedia was originally promoted in geek circles (most particularly, right here on/.), and there's still a strong bias toward the technically literate on there... meaning more people who don't use IE.
I saw a fairly good set of benchmarks a couple of days ago showing that the 2.6.x series is doing a lot better than 2.4.x as a SQL server and as a fileserver, with minimal losses in some other areas. It looked pretty impressive for something that's still on fairly early versions, so I was planning on swapping over this weekend... although I guess I'll wait for the Debian package to update to.5 now.
My website recently won an award for being 'Disability Friendly'. One of the items I submitted to the judges was an audio cassette of the site being read out by screen-reader software. There are browsers specifically designed for blind people, it's not just a publicity stunt - why should a disability prevent someone accessing information?
And you don't have to put massive extra time investment in to get this kind of thing working - you just have to do things properly in the first place - write good standards compliant code and DON'T USE CRAPPY AUTHORING TOOLS and you should be fine. If you run a site which is about information, not presentation, then you might be most of the way there already...
I wrote a Slash clone that doesn't require a dedicated server or root access. You can find it on freshmeat, project name is YAWNS.
It doesn't do everything Slash does, but it covers the main stuff - articles, comments and weblogs. Polls are in development Right Now so will be in the next posted version, a few weeks at a guess. The biggest missing feature would be moderation I guess...
There are a few other Slash clones out there too - several in PHP, and one or two in other languages. YAWNS is written in Perl, and has the singular distinction of actually producing standards compliant XHTML as output, something that Slash falls short on as do (as far as I'm aware) all the other clones.
The following quote appears above each list of items on that page:
> Even if your page does conform to these > guidelines they appear in the report.
That's why I don't use Bobby, it's totally pointless. Accessibility is judged on subjective criteria, it can't be judged by a script - recognising that, all Bobby does is fail you for trivia (no ALT tag, etc), and then PROMPT you to check the more involved items...
If you fail on ALT tags, you don't care enough to even bother using Bobby, at a guess...
I think they're using the towers, not the handsets, but I could be wrong. Either way, just because your phone is off doesn't mean the guy next to you switched his off too...
They're talking about using the towers as a radar type system - this is a different story to the fact that they can track your movements by plotting which towers you've been connecting through lately...
I think the post you're replying to was saying that people will run more software (that uses bandwidth) if they had broadband than they currently do on dialup...
When I worked at Cambridge Uni I had to use ssh and scp to access my work machines from home. I'd have been horrified if they'd had ftp and telnet access into that network.
If this is a "common" theme for posts to address, then I guess it might well be interesting to quite a few people - all the people who post similar comments, for a start...
...I did the same, for three months (Jan to Apr this year) and just as I was starting to think "Oh shit, I'm going to have to start sending out Word.doc format CVs soon", I got a job doing mostly perl work at a company which uses linux extensively through its core product range and allows me to use linux (on the sony vaio they supplied for me) as my personal desktop/development environment.
Now, that's a success story. It could have gone the other way, because money was getting very scarce in April, and I wouldn't flame anyone for taking the MS-biased job... but I thought it was worth posting a happy tale of selective job-hunting.
You conveniently skipped over the second half of that first quoted paragraph:
that same privileged fifth also consumes 80 percent of the world's natural resources and generates 80 percent of the pollution and waste.
(the part about 53% which you were happy to quote referred purely to CO2 emissions, not all pollution)
We're not the good guys here. Sorry, but we're not.
Americans seem to find this fact harder to deal with than the inhabitants of any other rich nation - something in the American culture compells Americans to fight furiously against being portrayed as the bad guy, no matter how clear the evidence might seem to be.
The problem with this argument is that in fact rich developed countries are already polluting less and less each year.
Wrong.
America recently dropped out of one of the most significant international environmental treaties, as it was not in the short-term financial interests of American industry to abide by that treaty, and the current US president appears to jump to industry's tune more than the last few did (not intended as a slur particularly on the US - we have the same problem in the UK at present, with the prime minister bending over for any industry special interest group that brings enough cash lubrication to the proceedings).
Have a look at this:
http://eces.org/ec/facts.shtml
* The richest fifth of the world's population, including the U.S., consumes 86 percent of all goods and services and produces 53 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. Looked at another way, that same privileged fifth also consumes 80 percent of the world's natural resources and generates 80 percent of the pollution and waste.
* The U.S. alone, with only five percent of the world's population, gobbles up 30 percent of the natural resource base, using 20 percent of the planet's metals, 24 percent of its energy (the highest per capita consumption in the world) and 25 percent of its fossil fuels.
Regards,
Denny
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Hrm... I'd be careful with the random accusations of stupidity if you're not going to spell-check them first - it tends to detract from the overall impact of your insult when you can't manage to correctly type and/or spell half of the words in it.
I don't understand your post - how can Zen have money? Zen isn't an institution like the Catholic Church (to pick a name at random which definitely DOES have money!)
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Again, you've got a warped sample group there... wikipedia was originally promoted in geek circles (most particularly, right here on /.), and there's still a strong bias toward the technically literate on there... meaning more people who don't use IE.
Here's the article
I saw a fairly good set of benchmarks a couple of days ago showing that the 2.6.x series is doing a lot better than 2.4.x as a SQL server and as a fileserver, with minimal losses in some other areas. It looked pretty impressive for something that's still on fairly early versions, so I was planning on swapping over this weekend... although I guess I'll wait for the Debian package to update to .5 now.
*sniggers wildly*
It's important that people take these things seriously ;)
"There opening it's door over their and its not even they're car! Than I'll loose more then my job!"
:)
Ouch. Nicely done
Do you really see much confusion between than and then? I've never seen that mistake being made personally.
Loose/lose is definitely my current pet hate...
Regards,
Denny
My website recently won an award for being 'Disability Friendly'. One of the items I submitted to the judges was an audio cassette of the site being read out by screen-reader software. There are browsers specifically designed for blind people, it's not just a publicity stunt - why should a disability prevent someone accessing information?
And you don't have to put massive extra time investment in to get this kind of thing working - you just have to do things properly in the first place - write good standards compliant code and DON'T USE CRAPPY AUTHORING TOOLS and you should be fine. If you run a site which is about information, not presentation, then you might be most of the way there already...
Regards,
Denny
I wrote a Slash clone that doesn't require a dedicated server or root access. You can find it on freshmeat, project name is YAWNS.
It doesn't do everything Slash does, but it covers the main stuff - articles, comments and weblogs. Polls are in development Right Now so will be in the next posted version, a few weeks at a guess. The biggest missing feature would be moderation I guess...
There are a few other Slash clones out there too - several in PHP, and one or two in other languages. YAWNS is written in Perl, and has the singular distinction of actually producing standards compliant XHTML as output, something that Slash falls short on as do (as far as I'm aware) all the other clones.
Regards,
Denny
The following quote appears above each list of items on that page:
> Even if your page does conform to these
> guidelines they appear in the report.
That's why I don't use Bobby, it's totally pointless. Accessibility is judged on subjective criteria, it can't be judged by a script - recognising that, all Bobby does is fail you for trivia (no ALT tag, etc), and then PROMPT you to check the more involved items...
If you fail on ALT tags, you don't care enough to even bother using Bobby, at a guess...
Regards,
Denny
Even the slashdot article has the facts right this time, there's no excuse for half the comments in this discussion getting it wrong! :)
Regards,
Denny
I think they're using the towers, not the handsets, but I could be wrong. Either way, just because your phone is off doesn't mean the guy next to you switched his off too...
Regards,
Denny
They're talking about using the towers as a radar type system - this is a different story to the fact that they can track your movements by plotting which towers you've been connecting through lately...
Regards,
Denny
I think the post you're replying to was saying that people will run more software (that uses bandwidth) if they had broadband than they currently do on dialup...
Regards,
Denny
Good points well made. And yes, probably not popular :)
If I've read the original post correctly, it IS comparing it to the installed base - that's what is meant by "exploit vs platform count".
Regards,
Denny
Your answer has nothing to do with the original question. The comment you replied to did.
When I worked at Cambridge Uni I had to use ssh and scp to access my work machines from home. I'd have been horrified if they'd had ftp and telnet access into that network.
Regards,
Denny
If this is a "common" theme for posts to address, then I guess it might well be interesting to quite a few people - all the people who post similar comments, for a start...
Regards,
Denny
> Kyoto is not popular among any advanced countries.
This isn't a popularity contest. I don't care if the treaty is "popular" - it's necessary (unless you have a better idea, in which case, post away).
Regards,
Denny
...I did the same, for three months (Jan to Apr this year) and just as I was starting to think "Oh shit, I'm going to have to start sending out Word .doc format CVs soon", I got a job doing mostly perl work at a company which uses linux extensively through its core product range and allows me to use linux (on the sony vaio they supplied for me) as my personal desktop/development environment.
Now, that's a success story. It could have gone the other way, because money was getting very scarce in April, and I wouldn't flame anyone for taking the MS-biased job... but I thought it was worth posting a happy tale of selective job-hunting.
Good luck.
Regards,
Denny
You conveniently skipped over the second half of that first quoted paragraph:
that same privileged fifth also consumes 80 percent of the world's natural resources and generates 80 percent of the pollution and waste.
(the part about 53% which you were happy to quote referred purely to CO2 emissions, not all pollution)
We're not the good guys here. Sorry, but we're not.
Americans seem to find this fact harder to deal with than the inhabitants of any other rich nation - something in the American culture compells Americans to fight furiously against being portrayed as the bad guy, no matter how clear the evidence might seem to be.
Regards,
Denny
The problem with this argument is that in fact rich developed countries are already polluting less and less each year.
Wrong.
America recently dropped out of one of the most significant international environmental treaties, as it was not in the short-term financial interests of American industry to abide by that treaty, and the current US president appears to jump to industry's tune more than the last few did (not intended as a slur particularly on the US - we have the same problem in the UK at present, with the prime minister bending over for any industry special interest group that brings enough cash lubrication to the proceedings).
Have a look at this:
http://eces.org/ec/facts.shtml
* The richest fifth of the world's population, including the U.S., consumes 86 percent of all goods and services and produces 53 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. Looked at another way, that same privileged fifth also consumes 80 percent of the world's natural resources and generates 80 percent of the pollution and waste.
* The U.S. alone, with only five percent of the world's population, gobbles up 30 percent of the natural resource base, using 20 percent of the planet's metals, 24 percent of its energy (the highest per capita consumption in the world) and 25 percent of its fossil fuels.
Regards,
Denny
*LOL* +1 : Made me grin at the end of a workday :)
Hrm... I'd be careful with the random accusations of stupidity if you're not going to spell-check them first - it tends to detract from the overall impact of your insult when you can't manage to correctly type and/or spell half of the words in it.
Regards,
Denny
I don't understand your post - how can Zen have money? Zen isn't an institution like the Catholic Church (to pick a name at random which definitely DOES have money!)
Regards,
Denny