Another problem with the flashy-ness of sites is search engines. If your content is all in some graphic or complex flash animation, then it can't be sucessfully spidered, thereby reducing the effectiveness of your content (as you have greatly reduced your audience). Similarly, if your navigation system relies on such complex systems, then the spiders won't be able to navigate past the frontpage.
Re:Accessibility: suddenly it's a priority...
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Drudge usually posts to other sites in the top 20 most visited sites, i.e. Yahoo or Washington Post (Drudge itself is 20 I believe). Whereas/. regularly posts links to small hardware sites, christmas trees, commodores, or even lego blocks (technically, they never linked to the block because the ip was never made public); these sites aren't designed to handle the loads that/. recieves and thus they balk at the load which has coined the term 'slashdot'
I don't think you could legally go through and edit a document after you already have 8k signatures. Granted, this is just a petition and it would be just be spelling fixes (presumbably) but it still would declare all signatures null and void.
I could see the logic in having a distro \ service that keeps track of all the latest bugs and holes and automagically updates them for you. Not everybody has time, the knowledge, or interest to read bugtraq and all the other sources, and stay on top of all the new releases.
Of course, particapation should be voluntary not mandatory, which is what MS major problem. If MS would just add all these 'hidden services' as dialog options during the initial setup procedure then they could have avoided problems like this. But then again, this is/. and not front page \ 11 o' clock news so it really isn't that major of a PR problem.
That way would be much better then waiting for the next vendor release (which may be 3 months off, and ship with another unsecure service), which is what I presume most people do anyway.
Get that key back! She could be under subcontract from MS!!!
Seriously though, there is no way for MS to know wether or not you legally own cd copies of all the mp3s you have, nor should they really care as they aren't affected either way (they 'shouldn't' care, but they probably do for some odd powertripy reason). But, what they could do with this list of mp3s is determine your general listening habits and then redirect spam to Passport account accordingly (targeted spam is better then random spam, but its spam nevertheless).
Dammit, if only i hadn't posted in this discussion already, I woulda have used my last mod point on this wonderful parent. Anybody who can ruin someones game and fun within a single minute is worth a +1, Insightful to me.
Good idea. But like many great ideas before you, it is actually disproven in pratice.
The site I am going to use is one that most of us would consider to be a great source of infomation, google itself.
You can view the results here and as you can see they aren't too pleasing. First of all, it doesn't have a doc type (which is a fatal error, and shows another underling problem with the plan -- doc type guessing). So after giving it a doc type of HTML 4.01 Transitional (btw, lower doc types didn't fare any better) it came out with about 28 errors (its quite possible I miscounted, shoot me).
28 / 13 = 2 errors per line
(rounded down out of niceness)
There are numberous reasons that you could argue in favor of google (ie. the insanely long line 13 that could be broken down to at least 5-10 more lines).
In the long run, I think that such an implantation would benefit web developers making them realize they should shape up their html or lose hits as a result. And, this could also help burden the transition to xhtml (which isn't nearly as tolerant as html was\is). However, the users would ulitimately suffer in the mean time, which violates one of google's main policies: always do things that helps the user.
This plagiarism is starting to become a serious problem. The real problem (after identifing a dupe post) is moderating it down and not losing your moderating ability (through meta-mod) as a result. The problem comes in when somebody is meta moderating your post and they see "Troll" for a post that looks fairly imformatize and interesting. Of course this appears to be an unfair moderation, so they meta-mod accordingly. Thus possibly removing a good moderator from the moderator pool in the process.
What I think should be the answer, is reporting the CID of the dupe post and the CID of the original to the editiors so they can bitchsmack it down to -1, Copied or something similar.
A potential problem with the ethernet is that you possibly bypass tivo altogether. For example, setup your router to redirect tivo.com to freetivo.org and get free updates and software upgrades, without the monthly service fee.
I'm not going to argue wether another protocol should be developed but thats not what samba was designed to do. Samba was made to be an easy way to network windows and linux machines together using the bottleneck (internal fs support in windows). Linux is more then willing to support a variety of filesystems in a number of ways; windows doesn't nearly play as nice.
Adding 'thin clients' and an entire new protocol is overkill for a problem that has been solved. There is nothing internally wrong with SMB, the problems often lies within the machines that are implementing them. Analogy time: lets say you came across a broken bridge that you needed to pass. You could either get a bunch of boards and nails and fix what is broken or you could create a catapult to leap over the gap. Clearly, the catapult gets the job done but opens up a whole other set of possible problems.
Personally, I think the related story feature needs some work. If you haven't already figured out, it simply takes all the hyperlinks from the story and plops them into that table (and adds a couple "Also by.." links at the bottom). How this better then reading the actual story I don't see.
I think there should be some extra fields for additional URLs on the story submittion page. For instance, the first mention of something on USENET would be an interesting related link for a lot of stories. However, there is no way of intergrating it into the story without it sticking out.
You get the market built, you come out with great games, then a keyboard, and start offering MSN to EcchsBox owners.
Microsoft has said on many occasions that they have no plans to release a keyboard for the Xbox (you seem to have been mispelling throughout your whole comment, perhaps you should get spellcheck:). I really don't see what MS would gain out of a Internet Appliance (well, turning the Xbox into one anyway, there is alot to gain out of Internet Appliances). I mean, Xbox has a stripped 2k kernel, that probably isn't much of cost of the final Xbox (probably in that $100 they lose per console); while a full-fledged Internet Appliance could have a real verison of XP Embedded (or something to fit) which they could make additional profit off of (and charge for upgrades, as they have done with every single market they have entered since their birth).
Re:I must be missing something
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WWWinamp allows you to control WinAMP via the internet. Granted, its not perfect (i.e. you only see the tracks after the current track playing, not those before it. Annoying if you don't listen to your mp3s in a sequential order) but its plenty functional.
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Mindspring's dns servers are ren and stimpy :P
Amazing, a redundant hyperlink gets modded higher then the actual link.
Klerck actually posts at -1 (*shocker*). And, we should stop talking about him before he messes his pants.
Remember, don't feed the trolls.
Try me!
Now that wasn't so hard was it
Another problem with the flashy-ness of sites is search engines. If your content is all in some graphic or complex flash animation, then it can't be sucessfully spidered, thereby reducing the effectiveness of your content (as you have greatly reduced your audience). Similarly, if your navigation system relies on such complex systems, then the spiders won't be able to navigate past the frontpage.
ZZZ has a new keyboard like everyother week.
Drudge usually posts to other sites in the top 20 most visited sites, i.e. Yahoo or Washington Post (Drudge itself is 20 I believe). Whereas /. regularly posts links to small hardware sites, christmas trees, commodores, or even lego blocks (technically, they never linked to the block because the ip was never made public); these sites aren't designed to handle the loads that /. recieves and thus they balk at the load which has coined the term 'slashdot'
For future reference, try robots.cnn.com whenever CNN is down. Its the load-balancing server, and IIRC it held up pretty good.
I don't think you could legally go through and edit a document after you already have 8k signatures. Granted, this is just a petition and it would be just be spelling fixes (presumbably) but it still would declare all signatures null and void.
get cable
I could see the logic in having a distro \ service that keeps track of all the latest bugs and holes and automagically updates them for you. Not everybody has time, the knowledge, or interest to read bugtraq and all the other sources, and stay on top of all the new releases.
/. and not front page \ 11 o' clock news so it really isn't that major of a PR problem.
Of course, particapation should be voluntary not mandatory, which is what MS major problem. If MS would just add all these 'hidden services' as dialog options during the initial setup procedure then they could have avoided problems like this. But then again, this is
That way would be much better then waiting for the next vendor release (which may be 3 months off, and ship with another unsecure service), which is what I presume most people do anyway.
I don't trust anybody (except my wife ;)
Get that key back! She could be under subcontract from MS!!!
Seriously though, there is no way for MS to know wether or not you legally own cd copies of all the mp3s you have, nor should they really care as they aren't affected either way (they 'shouldn't' care, but they probably do for some odd powertripy reason). But, what they could do with this list of mp3s is determine your general listening habits and then redirect spam to Passport account accordingly (targeted spam is better then random spam, but its spam nevertheless).
Dammit, if only i hadn't posted in this discussion already, I woulda have used my last mod point on this wonderful parent. Anybody who can ruin someones game and fun within a single minute is worth a +1, Insightful to me.
Good idea. But like many great ideas before you, it is actually disproven in pratice.
The site I am going to use is one that most of us would consider to be a great source of infomation, google itself.
You can view the results here and as you can see they aren't too pleasing. First of all, it doesn't have a doc type (which is a fatal error, and shows another underling problem with the plan -- doc type guessing). So after giving it a doc type of HTML 4.01 Transitional (btw, lower doc types didn't fare any better) it came out with about 28 errors (its quite possible I miscounted, shoot me).
28 / 13 = 2 errors per line
(rounded down out of niceness)
There are numberous reasons that you could argue in favor of google (ie. the insanely long line 13 that could be broken down to at least 5-10 more lines).
In the long run, I think that such an implantation would benefit web developers making them realize they should shape up their html or lose hits as a result. And, this could also help burden the transition to xhtml (which isn't nearly as tolerant as html was\is). However, the users would ulitimately suffer in the mean time, which violates one of google's main policies: always do things that helps the user.
This plagiarism is starting to become a serious problem. The real problem (after identifing a dupe post) is moderating it down and not losing your moderating ability (through meta-mod) as a result. The problem comes in when somebody is meta moderating your post and they see "Troll" for a post that looks fairly imformatize and interesting. Of course this appears to be an unfair moderation, so they meta-mod accordingly. Thus possibly removing a good moderator from the moderator pool in the process.
What I think should be the answer, is reporting the CID of the dupe post and the CID of the original to the editiors so they can bitchsmack it down to -1, Copied or something similar.
Just my 2 cents
A potential problem with the ethernet is that you possibly bypass tivo altogether. For example, setup your router to redirect tivo.com to freetivo.org and get free updates and software upgrades, without the monthly service fee.
I'm not going to argue wether another protocol should be developed but thats not what samba was designed to do. Samba was made to be an easy way to network windows and linux machines together using the bottleneck (internal fs support in windows). Linux is more then willing to support a variety of filesystems in a number of ways; windows doesn't nearly play as nice.
Adding 'thin clients' and an entire new protocol is overkill for a problem that has been solved. There is nothing internally wrong with SMB, the problems often lies within the machines that are implementing them. Analogy time: lets say you came across a broken bridge that you needed to pass. You could either get a bunch of boards and nails and fix what is broken or you could create a catapult to leap over the gap. Clearly, the catapult gets the job done but opens up a whole other set of possible problems.
Personally, I think the related story feature needs some work. If you haven't already figured out, it simply takes all the hyperlinks from the story and plops them into that table (and adds a couple "Also by.." links at the bottom). How this better then reading the actual story I don't see.
I think there should be some extra fields for additional URLs on the story submittion page. For instance, the first mention of something on USENET would be an interesting related link for a lot of stories. However, there is no way of intergrating it into the story without it sticking out.
Just a thought.
If you have no windows boxes to burn discjuggler images try the following site:
http://cdirip.freeyellow.com/index_en.htm
Unfortunately, my situtation is reversed (burner on windows..) so I cannot vouch for this method. But, its worth a look anyway.
You get the market built, you come out with great games, then a keyboard, and start offering MSN to EcchsBox owners.
:). I really don't see what MS would gain out of a Internet Appliance (well, turning the Xbox into one anyway, there is alot to gain out of Internet Appliances). I mean, Xbox has a stripped 2k kernel, that probably isn't much of cost of the final Xbox (probably in that $100 they lose per console); while a full-fledged Internet Appliance could have a real verison of XP Embedded (or something to fit) which they could make additional profit off of (and charge for upgrades, as they have done with every single market they have entered since their birth).
Microsoft has said on many occasions that they have no plans to release a keyboard for the Xbox (you seem to have been mispelling throughout your whole comment, perhaps you should get spellcheck
WWWinamp allows you to control WinAMP via the internet. Granted, its not perfect (i.e. you only see the tracks after the current track playing, not those before it. Annoying if you don't listen to your mp3s in a sequential order) but its plenty functional.
:P
Oh and its free
Well, today is Pearl Harbor. They probably wanted to keep NPS site up for the Pearl Harbor memorial.
Just a theory though.
Yeah, so brand me a troll. I am, after all, tired and cranky and sitting under a bridge. How about tossing me a Scooby snack while you're at it?
:P
Your not supposed to feed the trolls
I'm oddly reminded of the Seinfeld bit that talked about the warning on the side of the superman costume box: "Do not attempt to fly."
:P
Its supposed to protect someone whos stupid enough to use it for that application, but has enough foresight to check the box first
Hate to sound like a troll or an ass; but thats what the preview button is for....