I can't think of a good workaround for non-HTML folk though. I guess for now we'll stick with person A posting the URL and person B replying to that post with the URL turned into a link.
I've clicked on more banner ads since switching to tabbed browsing because if I see something that interests me I can ctrl/cmd-click or right-click & open it in a new tab without interrupting what I'm doing at the moment and read the ad-referenced page later.
However, there are a lot of Flash banner ads out there these days. When I right-click on those, all I get are options to control the Flash movie. If I ctrl/cmd-click I get the ad page in the same window, which completely disrupts what I'm doing. So anyone advertising with Flash just gets ignored.
This is off-topic, but relevant to your post. I've noticed on another site that uses Slashcode (see sig), when people copy and paste URLs from the address window of their browser and then post them, the URLs often end up with a space inserted at a random place. I'd like to tell people how to avoid this, but can't figure out what causes it.
Would you mind telling me, in the interest of science, what steps you followed to get that URL from your address window into your post?
the people (in the US) can move on to higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs
I keep hearing this, but no one ever gives specific examples. Can someone tell me what these "creative" jobs are? What is a job that almost any American can do that almost nobody in a foreign country can do more cheaply?
no matter how much we warn users not to run surprise executable attachments, they do any way
Yesterday a friend of mine lamented that she didn't want to open the virus emails, she just wanted to delete them, but every time she selected an email to delete it Outlook Express opened it automatically, so now she just leaves them sitting in her inbox like land mines. I explained to her how to turn off the preview pane. She was grateful for the help, she just hadn't known that Outlook Express could be reconfigured that way. It made me realize that we have to do more than telling people not to open emails with attachments: we have to provide software that doesn't sabotage their efforts to avoid viruses.
Don't buy into the claim that you have to spend big to win big.
True. Technology makes all sorts of cost-savings possible. For example, this weekend I made campaign calls to voters in TN. A request for callers was sent to a volunteer listserv I'm on, and I received a list of people to call via email. I used my free weekend minutes and free long distance on my cell phone to place those calls.
A decade ago, making all those calls on my own dime would've cost me a bundle, assuming that a campaign office in another state would even know how to contact me in the first place. The Internet and cell phones make getting in touch with people easier and less expensive. What follows builds on that.
But a lot of people do cave digital cable, even some of our friends with dialup have the TWC (our local monopoly) set-top box. This weekend, we "rented" League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for 24 hours using the built-in digital cable features. Like Pay-per-view, only you can watch it as many times as you want during the 24 hour period, pause, rewind, etc.
I wonder if this is the sort of thing Disney & MS are planning on doing? Contract with a cable company to put out MS/Cox (for example) branded set-top boxes and have Disney movies on demand.
At a place where I used to work, we had meetings of everyone in our group once a week. The manager told us anything major that was going on in the company then went around the room and asked everyone for a brief update on current projects. It kept us from feeling in the dark or disconnected from our peers, since we were usually parcelled out 1 or 2 to a project team.
I think our manager understood the difference between informational and conflict resolution meetings, because if anyone had a problem with their project, she just noted it and said she'd set a later time to discuss it with them. Those meetings were only ever 30 min. long, and sometimes included birthday cake.
Every electable official since the days of... well, since there were elections, has been a product shaped to win a constituency.
True. For a good example of this, check out this list of campaign slogans dating back to 1840. My favorite is James Blaine's 1844 "Ma, Ma, Where's my Pa, Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha." Of course, since you're probably wondering "Who the hell is James Blaine?" we can see how well that slogan worked.
As you know, we just had our primary here in SC last week. Some of my friends said they had robo-call messages left on their answering machines from the Kerry campaign that said something like, "If you want to hear more about John Kerry's economic plan, press 1. If you want to hear about his military service, press 2..." and so on. I can't help wondering how many people stood there listening to their voice mail, hitting numbers on their phone and wondering "Why doesn't this dang thing work?"
And the most important part of the results is the user interface.
As someone who basically designs interfaces for a living, I'll remember to use this argument the next time I get laid off. I wish it weren't so damn hard to convince people that the user experience is worth investing a little bit of money in.
I watched Lilo & Stitch on a plane ride, and I was kind of disappointed. The middle of the movie was great, but the beginning and the end just about ruined it for me. Couldn't they have just set the whole movie in Hawaii? Why bring in the alien ship and a totally out of place spaceship gun battle ala Star Wars? Stitch's appearance on earth and the guy chasing him could've been explained without it. It seemed like something tacked on to the story to appeal to a specific demographic (boys aged 6-10), which is my problem with a lot of Disney fare. They might do better if the marketing team weren't the ones writing the script.
I don't know, but I think we should hire a team of people to watch Battlestar Galactica repeatedly to get pointers on how to deal with this eventuality.
I hope this doesn't sound trollish, but I thought I should mention that someone proposed this very idea last summer: "give a 10 percent tax cut to corporations that produce goods here and keep jobs at home." (Read more here.)
That was the first thing I thought when I read this. But it turns out that only "covered nonexempt" employees are required to be paid minimum wage (reference), so I'm sure a creative employer could find loopholes (though he might have trouble finding employees). There are many exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act, including the provision that "certain computer professionals paid at least $27.63 per hour are exempt from the overtime provisions of the FLSA."
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it's called reverse discrimination
As long as we have a topic dedicated to ranting, I'd like to say that if I could remove one phrase from the English language, it would be "reverse discrimination." Descrimination is discrimination. If you are a Japanese store owner who charges me more because I'm Korean, that's discrimination. If I am an African-American employer who won't hire you because you are white, that's discrimination.
"Reverse" discrimination would be not discriminating against someone.
And starting next year, they won't accept MasterCard debit cards used as credit cards. They say MC charges too much, and are hoping to force them to drop their prices via their massive influence.
Well, it just so happens that the ATM card my bank issues is a MasterCard. Yes, I could use it as a debit card, but my bank pays me back a small percentage of purchases made using it as a credit card, so I prefer to do it that way. I guess I won't be shopping at Wal-Mart much anymore, either. This especially sucks because the Target near my house is shutting down for 10 months for repairs.
My wedding ring is gold, and didn't cost anywhere near that much. For a plain gold band it was about $50 (don't remember exactly, that was 3 years ago) at the mall jewelry store. My husband's ring, being larger and thicker, was closer to $200, but still a great deal less than $361.
Look at all the pointless music keyboards that are now entirely outclassed.
Do any of them have MIDI in/out? Because, if so, I'd like to know how much you're selling them for. I have a wonderful old Yamaha from 1980-something that's great for playing music (fullsize keys, touch-sensitive, sturdy stand), but has no way to gracefully connect it to a computer.
I don't have enough music stuff cluttering up my office yet - I'm also planning on getting a music stand and mic stand. I have too many old pieces of paper, though. Get rid of those, and I'd have acres of space.
go for the cute ones! Nice...thats where I am going wrong
Actually, that could be true. There was an experiment described in my old social psychology textbook where, when presented with the option of talking to a beautiful or average woman, men chose the average woman. Hypothesis was, they thought rejection was less likely. So maybe you should be going for the cute ones - perhaps everyone else is intimidated by them.
so where's the money going? Is it inefficiency? Is somebody going to Argentina with suitcases full of hundred-dollar bills?
Well, that might help explain Hillary Rosen's 10-acre villa in Buenos Aires.
Re:Biggest PC annoyance...
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...is someone else watching me use a computer!
Get your grubby fingers off my screen! I know which button I'm supposed to click. Yes, I know what I'm doing. I did it this way last time and it worked. Fine, I give up. Have a seat, do it your way. I'm going to go make some coffee.
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Thanks! That was very Informative.
I can't think of a good workaround for non-HTML folk though. I guess for now we'll stick with person A posting the URL and person B replying to that post with the URL turned into a link.
I've clicked on more banner ads since switching to tabbed browsing because if I see something that interests me I can ctrl/cmd-click or right-click & open it in a new tab without interrupting what I'm doing at the moment and read the ad-referenced page later.
However, there are a lot of Flash banner ads out there these days. When I right-click on those, all I get are options to control the Flash movie. If I ctrl/cmd-click I get the ad page in the same window, which completely disrupts what I'm doing. So anyone advertising with Flash just gets ignored.
This is off-topic, but relevant to your post. I've noticed on another site that uses Slashcode (see sig), when people copy and paste URLs from the address window of their browser and then post them, the URLs often end up with a space inserted at a random place. I'd like to tell people how to avoid this, but can't figure out what causes it.
Would you mind telling me, in the interest of science, what steps you followed to get that URL from your address window into your post?
the people (in the US) can move on to higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs
I keep hearing this, but no one ever gives specific examples. Can someone tell me what these "creative" jobs are? What is a job that almost any American can do that almost nobody in a foreign country can do more cheaply?
no matter how much we warn users not to run surprise executable attachments, they do any way
Yesterday a friend of mine lamented that she didn't want to open the virus emails, she just wanted to delete them, but every time she selected an email to delete it Outlook Express opened it automatically, so now she just leaves them sitting in her inbox like land mines. I explained to her how to turn off the preview pane. She was grateful for the help, she just hadn't known that Outlook Express could be reconfigured that way. It made me realize that we have to do more than telling people not to open emails with attachments: we have to provide software that doesn't sabotage their efforts to avoid viruses.
Don't buy into the claim that you have to spend big to win big.
True. Technology makes all sorts of cost-savings possible. For example, this weekend I made campaign calls to voters in TN. A request for callers was sent to a volunteer listserv I'm on, and I received a list of people to call via email. I used my free weekend minutes and free long distance on my cell phone to place those calls.
A decade ago, making all those calls on my own dime would've cost me a bundle, assuming that a campaign office in another state would even know how to contact me in the first place. The Internet and cell phones make getting in touch with people easier and less expensive. What follows builds on that.
But a lot of people do cave digital cable, even some of our friends with dialup have the TWC (our local monopoly) set-top box. This weekend, we "rented" League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for 24 hours using the built-in digital cable features. Like Pay-per-view, only you can watch it as many times as you want during the 24 hour period, pause, rewind, etc.
I wonder if this is the sort of thing Disney & MS are planning on doing? Contract with a cable company to put out MS/Cox (for example) branded set-top boxes and have Disney movies on demand.
At a place where I used to work, we had meetings of everyone in our group once a week. The manager told us anything major that was going on in the company then went around the room and asked everyone for a brief update on current projects. It kept us from feeling in the dark or disconnected from our peers, since we were usually parcelled out 1 or 2 to a project team.
I think our manager understood the difference between informational and conflict resolution meetings, because if anyone had a problem with their project, she just noted it and said she'd set a later time to discuss it with them. Those meetings were only ever 30 min. long, and sometimes included birthday cake.
Every electable official since the days of... well, since there were elections, has been a product shaped to win a constituency.
True. For a good example of this, check out this list of campaign slogans dating back to 1840.
My favorite is James Blaine's 1844 "Ma, Ma, Where's my Pa, Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha." Of course, since you're probably wondering "Who the hell is James Blaine?" we can see how well that slogan worked.
As you know, we just had our primary here in SC last week. Some of my friends said they had robo-call messages left on their answering machines from the Kerry campaign that said something like, "If you want to hear more about John Kerry's economic plan, press 1. If you want to hear about his military service, press 2..." and so on. I can't help wondering how many people stood there listening to their voice mail, hitting numbers on their phone and wondering "Why doesn't this dang thing work?"
And the most important part of the results is the user interface.
As someone who basically designs interfaces for a living, I'll remember to use this argument the next time I get laid off. I wish it weren't so damn hard to convince people that the user experience is worth investing a little bit of money in.
I watched Lilo & Stitch on a plane ride, and I was kind of disappointed. The middle of the movie was great, but the beginning and the end just about ruined it for me. Couldn't they have just set the whole movie in Hawaii? Why bring in the alien ship and a totally out of place spaceship gun battle ala Star Wars? Stitch's appearance on earth and the guy chasing him could've been explained without it. It seemed like something tacked on to the story to appeal to a specific demographic (boys aged 6-10), which is my problem with a lot of Disney fare. They might do better if the marketing team weren't the ones writing the script.
Actually, I think we're right on schedule. September 11 was a crisis, wasn't it? And things have been different since then, right?
I don't know, but I think we should hire a team of people to watch Battlestar Galactica repeatedly to get pointers on how to deal with this eventuality.
Credits for hiring US citizen IN the US.
I hope this doesn't sound trollish, but I thought I should mention that someone proposed this very idea last summer: "give a 10 percent tax cut to corporations that produce goods here and keep jobs at home." (Read more here.)
That was the first thing I thought when I read this. But it turns out that only "covered nonexempt" employees are required to be paid minimum wage (reference), so I'm sure a creative employer could find loopholes (though he might have trouble finding employees). There are many exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act, including the provision that "certain computer professionals paid at least $27.63 per hour are exempt from the overtime provisions of the FLSA."
it's called reverse discrimination
As long as we have a topic dedicated to ranting, I'd like to say that if I could remove one phrase from the English language, it would be "reverse discrimination." Descrimination is discrimination. If you are a Japanese store owner who charges me more because I'm Korean, that's discrimination. If I am an African-American employer who won't hire you because you are white, that's discrimination.
"Reverse" discrimination would be not discriminating against someone.
And starting next year, they won't accept MasterCard debit cards used as credit cards. They say MC charges too much, and are hoping to force them to drop their prices via their massive influence.
Well, it just so happens that the ATM card my bank issues is a MasterCard. Yes, I could use it as a debit card, but my bank pays me back a small percentage of purchases made using it as a credit card, so I prefer to do it that way. I guess I won't be shopping at Wal-Mart much anymore, either. This especially sucks because the Target near my house is shutting down for 10 months for repairs.
My wedding ring is gold, and didn't cost anywhere near that much. For a plain gold band it was about $50 (don't remember exactly, that was 3 years ago) at the mall jewelry store. My husband's ring, being larger and thicker, was closer to $200, but still a great deal less than $361.
No, I'm in the U.S. Perhaps I should check out ebay instead.
Look at all the pointless music keyboards that are now entirely outclassed.
Do any of them have MIDI in/out? Because, if so, I'd like to know how much you're selling them for. I have a wonderful old Yamaha from 1980-something that's great for playing music (fullsize keys, touch-sensitive, sturdy stand), but has no way to gracefully connect it to a computer.
I don't have enough music stuff cluttering up my office yet - I'm also planning on getting a music stand and mic stand. I have too many old pieces of paper, though. Get rid of those, and I'd have acres of space.
Yes, good old vinyl records. A quarter apiece at Goodwill, and they make lovely, sturdy bags or bowls when baked at 200 degrees F.
go for the cute ones! Nice...thats where I am going wrong
Actually, that could be true. There was an experiment described in my old social psychology textbook where, when presented with the option of talking to a beautiful or average woman, men chose the average woman. Hypothesis was, they thought rejection was less likely. So maybe you should be going for the cute ones - perhaps everyone else is intimidated by them.
so where's the money going? Is it inefficiency? Is somebody going to Argentina with suitcases full of hundred-dollar bills?
Well, that might help explain Hillary Rosen's 10-acre villa in Buenos Aires.
...is someone else watching me use a computer!
Get your grubby fingers off my screen! I know which button I'm supposed to click.
Yes, I know what I'm doing. I did it this way last time and it worked.
Fine, I give up. Have a seat, do it your way. I'm going to go make some coffee.