what your parent wrote was that HIS computer impaired relatives need Lindows, MY computer impaired relatives need to get hit over their heads with a hammer before they tell me that "you know stuff aout computer, so show me how to use XYZ product since you MUST know how to use any piece of software ever made".
Using page names like ".../User_Centered_URL_Design.html" only causes more work for the admin. If you say that you'll know then what it contains, try checking the titlebar.
The subject of this discussion is making the life easier for the user, not the admin. If the admin have to write som code to let the user have the same URL (amlost) as the title, then so be it.
It's kind of useless to dictate the titlebar over the phone to someone if you want them to get to the same page.
Antitrust, Swordfish, and even Wargames were very poor movies. The only thing that keeps Wargames alive in my memory is that I wasn't very old when it came out...
But then again, it may just be me getting older...
Streamer was the one that was GPLed, it's source is right here.
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Most likely we, as most specialists, like to keep our language as concise as possible. If for instance I want to talk about the PC/Mac crossbreed made by apple I might refer to it as a PPC, or as a PowerPC, or as a Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC Personal Computer, or as Performance Optimized With Enhanced Reduced Instruction Set Computer Personal Computer. I prefer one of the shorter versions. Most the acronyms in story titles are used to keep the titles short, and readable.
I've never been to Europe, let alone tried to access AOL there without a client, but I'd imagine it's much the same.
It most likely IS the same over here, but since it's AMERICA online we haven't seen much of it over here in Europe... do the other ISPs over there brag about NOT using some proprietary scheme (I would)?
And don't act like the days of modems are dead. The majority of people in the US still use them. We may be backwards, but it's still a fact.
Actually, my grandarents (who are just learning to use computers) are still using ISDN. But just about ewveryone else are using ADSL or some other broadband scheme...
uhmm... lets say I'm from Europe, where alls ISPs deliver routers when you sign up and you never needed anything but an ethernet card to reach the net (ignoring the long gone days of modems). What is it with AOL and client software? Do you really need anything but an ethernet card if you are using AOL? Why would even common Joe want that?
Please enlighten me, I've never been an AOL customer. What is there to the AOL service, aside from the ISP part and AIM? Both of those you should be able to use just fine from you linux box.
Just how far do you recommend I go to avoid being boiled in the hot tub?
I recommend you start a crusade! I'm going to. I'm going to get myself a pair of digital, DRM-enabled, secure path (and whatever they call it) speakers and disassemble them (with a hammer) and find out how to get the decrypted digital signal back into my computer. I am going to pick up my old SoftICE and look around inside Windows again (I haven't done that in a long time). I am going to make ogg files from all my CDs (which I have just played from the CD for now out of lazyness. I am going to get myself a copy of the new and shiny DRM-enabled Media Player and disassemble it and try and break the DRM. I am going to...
This pisses me off to such an extend that I will do anything I can to make sure this project from microsoft will fail! When I (or someone else) break the DRM I am goin to make an internet worm that will propagate to all windows boxes it can find and install a DRM crack on them!
I am going to post the code I found to break the DRM on the internet whereever I can! On all forums! Everywhere! This horrible DRM idea has got to go!
*pant* *pant*... *take more pills*... *relax a bit*... *lower blood pressure*
Unless the chip you talk about can be reached from the network and implements access control management, it is useless for everyone else but you.
Why should I care if anybody else can use MY chip for anything? It stores all the information I witherwise couldn't remember. It does NOT provide a means to spam me to death. It does NOT grant everybody access to my credit card information. But I still have all this information at my fingertips. That chip is a perfect solution!
This of cause also means that I do not use the build-in phone book, calendar etc of any of my handheld/worn computers anymore, since I can "remember" all the relevant information in my brain-chip.
your post screams O/T and flamebait, but i'll bite...
of cause it's not ok for meis31337 to ignore copyright on music and movies, but neither of us can say he did do so. On the other hand, I i did see modified binary only releases of GNU software on a p2p network I wouldn't touch it with... well anything. The same applies to United Linux which if they did indeed break the GPL I won't come near. Hence your parent post.
Even though this poster seems less that trustworthy based on the information at hand, the question is still a valid one and we do need to do something to try to make sure software patents never come to europe.
Software patents are so anti-competetive that you should repeat that mantra if you do like software patents. Software patents, like patents on matematical algorithms hinder competition and the forces of the free market. Software patents are against the economic principles that we are so proud of in the west...
So if Joe downloads mp3s of songs that he never intended to buy in the store, that would be legal too right? Since Joe would've never bought the music, the music industry has suffered no loss.
Indeed the music industry suffered no loss in that case. Imagine that there never was any peer to peer file sharing mechanisms. Joe would then never know about all the music offered to him. He would only know about all the mainstream stuff with the large PR budgets. Thus he would never buy any of all the great non-mainstream music out there. He simply wouldn't know that it existed.
I found out about Disturbed and Static X through the gnutella network, liked the music and went and bought it. I believe (actually I know) I am not alone in doing this.
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How will those "easier" urls benefit users?
That's the subject of the article, try to read it.
what your parent wrote was that HIS computer impaired relatives need Lindows, MY computer impaired relatives need to get hit over their heads with a hammer before they tell me that "you know stuff aout computer, so show me how to use XYZ product since you MUST know how to use any piece of software ever made".
Using page names like ".../User_Centered_URL_Design.html" only causes more work for the admin. If you say that you'll know then what it contains, try checking the titlebar.
The subject of this discussion is making the life easier for the user, not the admin. If the admin have to write som code to let the user have the same URL (amlost) as the title, then so be it.
It's kind of useless to dictate the titlebar over the phone to someone if you want them to get to the same page.
The users care about:
- How to get to the site
Since writing the URL is one way to get to the site, then the users care about URLs.- How to navigate to the place they want - and get out as quick as possible
Since being able to guess an URL lets the user navigate faster, then the users care about URLs- Bookmark their fav spot - to get in/out quick
True.- Short URLS should be provided to redirect users to redirect to the intended result site. Such as advertising.
Therefore users care about URLs.Conclusion: URLs should be for people, not computers. People care what the URLs are, computers don't
...or are these kinds of movies notoriously bad?
Antitrust, Swordfish, and even Wargames were very poor movies. The only thing that keeps Wargames alive in my memory is that I wasn't very old when it came out...
But then again, it may just be me getting older...
yes, it can be done: "now it runs well enough to announce that Windows has been run inside Linux with common PC virtualization software".
...of taking an MS product and hacking at it 'till it runs linux, just to emulate another MS product.
Streamer was the one that was GPLed, it's source is right here.
Most likely we, as most specialists, like to keep our language as concise as possible. If for instance I want to talk about the PC/Mac crossbreed made by apple I might refer to it as a PPC, or as a PowerPC, or as a Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC Personal Computer, or as Performance Optimized With Enhanced Reduced Instruction Set Computer Personal Computer. I prefer one of the shorter versions. Most the acronyms in story titles are used to keep the titles short, and readable.
The point is that default preferences should be sensible, and not pop up dialogs while playing a movie (for gods sake).
Everybody should do it! You rid yourselves from software patents too! All kinds of good things come from my solution to all your problems!
I live in Europe!
(waiting for USA patriots to mod me as troll)That's kind of like saying this new car model we introduced last year is selling better than it was 2 years ago.
Of cause people can get away with saying stuff like that when they can get away with saying that a new book is a bestseller from the day it hit the street.
I'm from Denmark, And sory if I was generalizing. Maybe I was a bit... 256Kbit/sec starts at ~30EUR/month here. Move to Denmark :)
I've never been to Europe, let alone tried to access AOL there without a client, but I'd imagine it's much the same.
It most likely IS the same over here, but since it's AMERICA online we haven't seen much of it over here in Europe... do the other ISPs over there brag about NOT using some proprietary scheme (I would)?
And don't act like the days of modems are dead. The majority of people in the US still use them. We may be backwards, but it's still a fact.
Actually, my grandarents (who are just learning to use computers) are still using ISDN. But just about ewveryone else are using ADSL or some other broadband scheme...uhmm... lets say I'm from Europe, where alls ISPs deliver routers when you sign up and you never needed anything but an ethernet card to reach the net (ignoring the long gone days of modems). What is it with AOL and client software? Do you really need anything but an ethernet card if you are using AOL? Why would even common Joe want that?
Please enlighten me, I've never been an AOL customer. What is there to the AOL service, aside from the ISP part and AIM? Both of those you should be able to use just fine from you linux box.
Of cause! And it's going to be a best-seller from the day it goes to the press!
Just how far do you recommend I go to avoid being boiled in the hot tub?
I recommend you start a crusade! I'm going to. I'm going to get myself a pair of digital, DRM-enabled, secure path (and whatever they call it) speakers and disassemble them (with a hammer) and find out how to get the decrypted digital signal back into my computer. I am going to pick up my old SoftICE and look around inside Windows again (I haven't done that in a long time). I am going to make ogg files from all my CDs (which I have just played from the CD for now out of lazyness. I am going to get myself a copy of the new and shiny DRM-enabled Media Player and disassemble it and try and break the DRM. I am going to...
This pisses me off to such an extend that I will do anything I can to make sure this project from microsoft will fail! When I (or someone else) break the DRM I am goin to make an internet worm that will propagate to all windows boxes it can find and install a DRM crack on them!
I am going to post the code I found to break the DRM on the internet whereever I can! On all forums! Everywhere! This horrible DRM idea has got to go!
*pant* *pant* ... *take more pills* ... *relax a bit* ... *lower blood pressure*
So was the Soviet Union. Duh.
well, actually, no. The Russia we know today was, to some extend. The Soviet Union was not born in rebellion, but was conquered.
Yes, I am truly that lazy.
... but you still did copy'n'paste it to make the links for us :)
Unless the chip you talk about can be reached from the network and implements access control management, it is useless for everyone else but you.
Why should I care if anybody else can use MY chip for anything? It stores all the information I witherwise couldn't remember. It does NOT provide a means to spam me to death. It does NOT grant everybody access to my credit card information. But I still have all this information at my fingertips. That chip is a perfect solution!
This of cause also means that I do not use the build-in phone book, calendar etc of any of my handheld/worn computers anymore, since I can "remember" all the relevant information in my brain-chip.
your post screams O/T and flamebait, but i'll bite...
of cause it's not ok for meis31337 to ignore copyright on music and movies, but neither of us can say he did do so. On the other hand, I i did see modified binary only releases of GNU software on a p2p network I wouldn't touch it with... well anything. The same applies to United Linux which if they did indeed break the GPL I won't come near. Hence your parent post.
Even though this poster seems less that trustworthy based on the information at hand, the question is still a valid one and we do need to do something to try to make sure software patents never come to europe.
Au contraire (sp?)
Software patents are so anti-competetive that you should repeat that mantra if you do like software patents. Software patents, like patents on matematical algorithms hinder competition and the forces of the free market. Software patents are against the economic principles that we are so proud of in the west...
So if Joe downloads mp3s of songs that he never intended to buy in the store, that would be legal too right? Since Joe would've never bought the music, the music industry has suffered no loss.
Indeed the music industry suffered no loss in that case. Imagine that there never was any peer to peer file sharing mechanisms. Joe would then never know about all the music offered to him. He would only know about all the mainstream stuff with the large PR budgets. Thus he would never buy any of all the great non-mainstream music out there. He simply wouldn't know that it existed.
I found out about Disturbed and Static X through the gnutella network, liked the music and went and bought it. I believe (actually I know) I am not alone in doing this.
Hahaha, frikin moron
I can see why you posted anonymously.