Google was one of the first major sites to start using the Accept-Language header to dynamically serve content in the user's preferred language header. My question is: How did google decide to do this? What has the response been?
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The Twiddler's not ergonomic for everyone. I find it cramps my fingers (which are longer than average.) I haven't tried the half-keyboard, but that seems more likely to be usable. I'm unsure about this thing: making more use of the thumbs is certainly a good thing; they're a lot stronger than the other fingers.
What happened to the folks a number of years ago who had found a definite correlation betweent the percentage of adolescent males in a society and its likelyhood to go to war? Did that research pan out?
It's actually quite common for authors to request that the work they are working on not be published, and for their friends and associates to blithely ignore them. Virgil's last request was reportedly for the Aeneid to be burned. I'm personally happy his opinion didn't prevail. But then, I'm not a big fan of authorial intent inside the text, either.
Of course a corporation can fund a global network. But I didn't ask whether you would have a network. I asked whether you would be reading slashdot. Do you think that a network that was not designed for the public benefit would have the diversity of content sources that produced slashdot? Or would you be reading Time's Netly News and marveling at its edgy take on the AOLNet?
Where do you think the universities get their money? A lot of it comes from the government in one form or another. The anti-tax argument only holds if you can make a case that 1950s and 60s corporations would have paid for the internet themselves and allowed the kind of freedom that has given birth to sites like slashdot.
You know, perhaps it's a good thing that we have a government that provides services and doesn't have to levy troops to put down a freaking tax revolt every April. Go ahead and complain about how high taxes are, but do you think you'd be reading/. right now if ARPA had never existed? The government does use our money in worthwile ways that would never occur to us individually.
I know I'm going to be slammed for this, but there is only one way the continual escalation of ad annoyance will stop: when people start paying for content. It doesn't help if you stop using a site if the site won't continue to exist under its current business model. And people refuse to pay for content, so that leaves, mostly, ads. And ads are less useful the more you see them, so the sites have to keep making them more annoying. Will micropayments eventually fix this? Maybe. But not if every site offering content eventually collapses. Maybe the web should be composed entirely of sites selling something offline and people willing to pay to share their content with the world. If that's the case, continue to skip from site to site, pushing up the bandwidth charges of the new free alternative until it turns into the old alternative with too many ads. Or you can keep ignoring ads until it makes you too annoyed to keep reading. At that point, you can subscribe. Ads seem to be the only workable way to provide free content. If someone has a better business model, I'd love to hear it.
Um, not to be a luddite, but if you're trying to get "close to a pen-n-paper RPG experience" why don't you play a pen-n-paper RPG? I love pen-n-paper RPGs, but I don't play a computer one for the rules-lawyering and the cheetos.
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Google was one of the first major sites to start using the Accept-Language header to dynamically serve content in the user's preferred language header. My question is: How did google decide to do this? What has the response been?
The Twiddler's not ergonomic for everyone. I find it cramps my fingers (which are longer than average.) I haven't tried the half-keyboard, but that seems more likely to be usable. I'm unsure about this thing: making more use of the thumbs is certainly a good thing; they're a lot stronger than the other fingers.
What happened to the folks a number of years ago who had found a definite correlation betweent the percentage of adolescent males in a society and its likelyhood to go to war? Did that research pan out?
It's actually quite common for authors to request that the work they are working on not be published, and for their friends and associates to blithely ignore them. Virgil's last request was reportedly for the Aeneid to be burned. I'm personally happy his opinion didn't prevail. But then, I'm not a big fan of authorial intent inside the text, either.
Of course a corporation can fund a global network. But I didn't ask whether you would have a network. I asked whether you would be reading slashdot. Do you think that a network that was not designed for the public benefit would have the diversity of content sources that produced slashdot? Or would you be reading Time's Netly News and marveling at its edgy take on the AOLNet?
Where do you think the universities get their money? A lot of it comes from the government in one form or another. The anti-tax argument only holds if you can make a case that 1950s and 60s corporations would have paid for the internet themselves and allowed the kind of freedom that has given birth to sites like slashdot.
You know, perhaps it's a good thing that we have a government that provides services and doesn't have to levy troops to put down a freaking tax revolt every April. Go ahead and complain about how high taxes are, but do you think you'd be reading /. right now if ARPA had never existed? The government does use our money in worthwile ways that would never occur to us individually.
I know I'm going to be slammed for this, but there is only one way the continual escalation of ad annoyance will stop: when people start paying for content. It doesn't help if you stop using a site if the site won't continue to exist under its current business model. And people refuse to pay for content, so that leaves, mostly, ads. And ads are less useful the more you see them, so the sites have to keep making them more annoying. Will micropayments eventually fix this? Maybe. But not if every site offering content eventually collapses. Maybe the web should be composed entirely of sites selling something offline and people willing to pay to share their content with the world. If that's the case, continue to skip from site to site, pushing up the bandwidth charges of the new free alternative until it turns into the old alternative with too many ads. Or you can keep ignoring ads until it makes you too annoyed to keep reading. At that point, you can subscribe.
Ads seem to be the only workable way to provide free content. If someone has a better business model, I'd love to hear it.
Um, not to be a luddite, but if you're trying to get "close to a pen-n-paper RPG experience" why don't you play a pen-n-paper RPG? I love pen-n-paper RPGs, but I don't play a computer one for the rules-lawyering and the cheetos.
As a regular reader, I'm not certain that fuckedcompany isn't porn.