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Subject: GSM Picocell
Message: Ah, what you want is a GSM Picocell. I went ahead and searched for it on Google and found these guys who sell a product that may be what you're looking for, enjoy.
You know, you'd like to think that after SO many ask slashdot topics that either these comments would stop (which is unlikely) or that people would realize that nearly every ask slashdot question requires much more detail for any good solution to be presented (which is equally likely).
The first thing you should probably do is pickup a copy of The Non-Designer's Design Book. It'll give you a great head start on typography and the use of space and save you some considerable face later.
After that, what I usually do is take a piece of paper and draw out your initial ideas and from there, use a trial version of Dreamweaver to codify your design. Then save it as a template and purchase a copy of Macromedia's Contribute to make pages and keep them up-to-date.
If coding by hand's more your style (it is for me), I'd still highly recommend using Contribute to keep your pages up-to-date. It's easy to use and (more importantly) is hard to royally screw up things with.
For inspiration, look at sites you like, but realize that flashy isn't necessarily the best user experience.
The parent post is correct, releasing specs is the same as inviting scrutiny for a corporation. It's an especially bad kind of scrutiny too: the bitching to other people kind. Among the primary reasons for NDA must be that the outside world doesn't hear about any odd decisions that might impact the perception of company X.
The open source community needs to start making noise about this. Let the motto be something like "we're not ashamed of our hardware, we opened the spec."
Sure, fair use and all is well and good, but I don't think you can argue that it's wrong for advertisers to get you to see their ads.
Considering there's no explicit agreement for browsing the web (which in this day and age I'm quite amazed that we haven't seen these yet) you can agree that the content provider has every right to distribute whatever content they wish to your machine, where you can then choose to disregard it or regard it as you want.
That being said, finding out how to get around a popup blocker isn't trampling your right to fair use (you just need to upgrade in the popup cold war).
As long as advertising is easy to ignore/disable, there will always be the back and forth (until some crappy future US law makes those things illegal).
I'm still hoping that micropayment technologies like bitpass work out, but am not holding my breath.
You know I almost mentioned that (cuz I agree with you there about the faux-OS alert boxes), but I didn't think that actually commenting on the content of an ad was very relevant to the notion of popup blocker software being worked around.
Unscrupulous? And you think actively blocking the content that pays the bills of the people whose websites you frequent isn't?
Popups may be annoying, but they're hardly dishonest. Just because something opens a new window doesn't make it malicious. Unscrupulous would be more along the lines of the Gator people managing to get changes approved to Firefox to make their popups work.
A location tag could be abused the same way any keywords could: an abuser could map its services to locations that it doesn't belong to. That's why these seemingly new meta tags (the technorati style tags) work: they're visible (which makes it harder to get away with fraudulent location reporting) and they're links, which makes Google consider them important (increases the page rank and such).
I agree that not every page needs to be dynamic (well, i suppose that really depends on your definition of "dynamic"). Something like a permalink for a blog doesn't _need_ to be generated any other way than a flat file, but that doesn't automatically mean that that url doesn't need syndication.
That's why I said "modern/outdated" versus "dynamic/static". Modern sites can be a mix while utilizing new technologies to get the word out in a bandwidth-friendly (not to mention machine-interpretation-friendly) manner.
As RSS content becomes more mainstream (thanks to efforts made by a ton of people, most recently Apple's Safari 2 browser) domains will be expected to have syndication feeds. This will lead to the adoption of those feeds by the search engines (if not Google, then someone wanting to break into an area that's not yet dominated by Google) which will lead to an altogether more efficient and accurate searching experience for all.
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Nintendo is all about emulation. They just don't want third parties doing it:)
Look at the Zelda promo disc for the Gamecube. Totally emulated NES there. Also for the GBA. It's highly likely those old games didn't get recoded or ported. Then there's the game Animal Crossing, where you could unlock old games.
The Big N is all about emulation: it's a cheap way to add a library of games to new hardware.
"Okay..Anyone use it?" Sure. Lots of people use it. Does Google grok it? I dunno.
"Most static sites..." So. Be a trend setter. I encourage you to not think in terms in static and dynamic but in terms of modern and outdated.
Do modern search engines even care about meta tags anymore? It seems that technorati-style tags may be a more modern equivalent, but they do tend to influence the way you display information on your site. There's a lot of discussion on whether or not these tags are primed to spiral out of control, but I think that being visible they have a much better chance of not being abused like the meta.
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Here's a more community-friendly translation of your post:
Subject: GSM Picocell
Message: Ah, what you want is a GSM Picocell. I went ahead and searched for it on Google and found these guys who sell a product that may be what you're looking for, enjoy.
Not quite, I do believe elephants are too efficient to be considered Sport Utility.
You know, you'd like to think that after SO many ask slashdot topics that either these comments would stop (which is unlikely) or that people would realize that nearly every ask slashdot question requires much more detail for any good solution to be presented (which is equally likely).
It's amazing to me how many problems would be solved if applications (client and server) just understood http 1.1 more fully.
I have no mod points, but your comment is "Insightful"
+1 for you!
> Clipping your wang I think will be appropriate.
And the winner is declared to be the one who faints last!
(fwiw, that's one of my favorite episodes of PA)
Wow, that was close. I would've told you to duck, but then I realized it went right over your head anyway...
Damn, I only see a schooner :(
Sweet!
Many Bothans died to bring you this post.
Thank God I'm dead!
You stole the words right out of my brain.
Get out of my head!
Those are obviously flags to the git command line program.
The first thing you should probably do is pickup a copy of The Non-Designer's Design Book. It'll give you a great head start on typography and the use of space and save you some considerable face later.
After that, what I usually do is take a piece of paper and draw out your initial ideas and from there, use a trial version of Dreamweaver to codify your design. Then save it as a template and purchase a copy of Macromedia's Contribute to make pages and keep them up-to-date.
If coding by hand's more your style (it is for me), I'd still highly recommend using Contribute to keep your pages up-to-date. It's easy to use and (more importantly) is hard to royally screw up things with.
For inspiration, look at sites you like, but realize that flashy isn't necessarily the best user experience.
Good Luck.
Ewe when beg thyme.
(we better stop before we create a new 1337-speak)
This is a nice little play by Dell. They surely know that Apple wouldn't do this, so them saying they would be open to the option is a freebie.
At the same time, they can use this statement to muscle around Microsoft too, keeping the option available (we could always "switch" to OSX).
Plus, since Apple's been the talk of the town, Dell just associated themselves with a winner, which will probably bump their stock a bit.
Well played indeed.
In a very similar way, Windows Explorer isn't a web browser, it's an ActiveX container. It just so happens that a very popular control to load is IE.
You can of course load IE into other apps via ActiveX, and load (or launch, depending on the control) file into it via a URL.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
The parent post is correct, releasing specs is the same as inviting scrutiny for a corporation. It's an especially bad kind of scrutiny too: the bitching to other people kind. Among the primary reasons for NDA must be that the outside world doesn't hear about any odd decisions that might impact the perception of company X.
The open source community needs to start making noise about this. Let the motto be something like "we're not ashamed of our hardware, we opened the spec."
I own Zeldman's book, and it's more or less a compilation of several A List Apart articles tied together with some questionable reasoning about XML.
If Lucas ignored complaints about episode 1 (though I think he did try to please the fans in ep2), then yes, the voices were silenced.
From a certain point of view.
Sure, fair use and all is well and good, but I don't think you can argue that it's wrong for advertisers to get you to see their ads.
Considering there's no explicit agreement for browsing the web (which in this day and age I'm quite amazed that we haven't seen these yet) you can agree that the content provider has every right to distribute whatever content they wish to your machine, where you can then choose to disregard it or regard it as you want.
That being said, finding out how to get around a popup blocker isn't trampling your right to fair use (you just need to upgrade in the popup cold war).
As long as advertising is easy to ignore/disable, there will always be the back and forth (until some crappy future US law makes those things illegal).
I'm still hoping that micropayment technologies like bitpass work out, but am not holding my breath.
You know I almost mentioned that (cuz I agree with you there about the faux-OS alert boxes), but I didn't think that actually commenting on the content of an ad was very relevant to the notion of popup blocker software being worked around.
Unscrupulous? And you think actively blocking the content that pays the bills of the people whose websites you frequent isn't?
Popups may be annoying, but they're hardly dishonest. Just because something opens a new window doesn't make it malicious. Unscrupulous would be more along the lines of the Gator people managing to get changes approved to Firefox to make their popups work.
A location tag could be abused the same way any keywords could: an abuser could map its services to locations that it doesn't belong to. That's why these seemingly new meta tags (the technorati style tags) work: they're visible (which makes it harder to get away with fraudulent location reporting) and they're links, which makes Google consider them important (increases the page rank and such).
I agree that not every page needs to be dynamic (well, i suppose that really depends on your definition of "dynamic"). Something like a permalink for a blog doesn't _need_ to be generated any other way than a flat file, but that doesn't automatically mean that that url doesn't need syndication.
That's why I said "modern/outdated" versus "dynamic/static". Modern sites can be a mix while utilizing new technologies to get the word out in a bandwidth-friendly (not to mention machine-interpretation-friendly) manner.
As RSS content becomes more mainstream (thanks to efforts made by a ton of people, most recently Apple's Safari 2 browser) domains will be expected to have syndication feeds. This will lead to the adoption of those feeds by the search engines (if not Google, then someone wanting to break into an area that's not yet dominated by Google) which will lead to an altogether more efficient and accurate searching experience for all.
Nintendo is all about emulation. They just don't want third parties doing it :)
Look at the Zelda promo disc for the Gamecube. Totally emulated NES there. Also for the GBA. It's highly likely those old games didn't get recoded or ported. Then there's the game Animal Crossing, where you could unlock old games.
The Big N is all about emulation: it's a cheap way to add a library of games to new hardware.
"Okay..Anyone use it?"
Sure. Lots of people use it. Does Google grok it? I dunno.
"Most static sites..."
So. Be a trend setter. I encourage you to not think in terms in static and dynamic but in terms of modern and outdated.
Do modern search engines even care about meta tags anymore? It seems that technorati-style tags may be a more modern equivalent, but they do tend to influence the way you display information on your site. There's a lot of discussion on whether or not these tags are primed to spiral out of control, but I think that being visible they have a much better chance of not being abused like the meta.