One thing he forgot was the biggest cruft in our time. The QWERTY keyboard is designed to slow typists down so that keys don't get stuck when typing to fast. Typerwriters (at least the mechanical ones that had keys that got stuck) are long gone, but we still use this extremely inefficient layout.
As a result of this bad design, people have decided to design programming languages around the keyboard layout. As a result, we use ; to end statements since ; is on the home row. CRUFT!
There was a time when people in this country said, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Too bad having liberty for so long has made people value it less.
The problem is not that most people don't know what netscape/mozilla is. The problem is that most people don't know the difference. At work there are many users who simply don't know whether they are using internet explorer or netscape. They simply complain that certain sites only work if they click on the "e" instead of on the wheel. But they still think of it as two different ways to open the SAME application.
I think Anderseen was a little cynical, but he has a point. When fighting against an app that is bundled with the OS for free, it's hard to compete.
Eventually, we will win and the devices will be legal. At that point, the industry will respond by using the bottom of your tv set to display ads all the time. Maybe they will move around so that people don't cover them with electric tape. And we might even get endorsements from characters during the show.
More reasons NOT to use flash:
1) It doesn't print well.
2) It's not section 508 compliant, meaning it's not accessible so government websites won't link to you.
3) Not cross platform (I'm thinking PDA's and webpads)
Herbalife, a lesson in small business I'd like to make this information available to as many people as possible.
This is the story of how Herbalife works. I've never actually been an herbalife distributor, but I've interviewed a couple of them to get this information. If you know more about it, or find any errors, please email me.
1) you call a toll-free number of one of their current distributors, (not the herbalife company itself), leave your name, address, and phone number. 2) That distributor sends you a free 14-page booklet. This booklet is red, yellow, blue or green. It has NO information about what the home-business actually is besides "Mail-order". It contains eight "success stories" from happy people that make $8,000-$15,000 per month.
It seems to concentrate on the fabulous vacations that this kind of money can buy. Interspersed with the success stories are paragraphs of text that challenge you to buy into this scheme, like "Choosing to succeed can be frightening", and "Success is our birthright and we cannot allow our fears to keep us from it.", and "only desire and determination matter".
3) If you call the number on the back, you will be given the option to pay $36 for the first information packet. If you decide to pay this, you will get a "decision kit" package. It will have one videotape, an audiotape, and another booklet. Still, no mention of Herbalife, just "success stories". If you want to take the next step, you will call another phone number, and really talk to your real, human, independent distributor.
4) He or she will send you a second set of tapes for free. One audio tape and one video tape. These are more success stories and motivational speeches. If you call your Mentor back, he or she may tell you it is Herbalife at that point. To get started in the actual business, you have to spend more money for an "IBP".
5) The IBP, International Business Packet is $195 The packet contains the manual, notebook with forms, procedure, some actual products and books to get you started. This is where you first hear the name "Herbalife" if your distributor didn't tell you already.
Once you purchase the IBP and complete the Distributor Application, you qualify for a 35% retail discount.
(The IBP contains a catalog, order forms, 3 manuals (Success Starter, Welcome & Sales and Marketing plan), samples of 1 Thermojetics bar, 1 peach mango drink mix,1 chocolate shake mix, 1 vanilla shake mix, 1 herbal concentrate, 1 herbal aloe, 1 balancing system, 1 "lose weight now ask me how" button, price list and other various forms)
You are now ready to proceed as an independent herbalife distributor.
6) Then, you have to decide how dedicated you are to the Herbalife business, which is based on how much product you buy for resale.
When you get the IBP and sign up for your HAP, you qualify for 35% below retail, but if you want to get a better price on your products, you need to become a "Supervisor". HAP stands for Herbalife Advantage Program, and it is a package of stuff that you are required to buy every month. They want you to be using the herbalife products, so that you can accurately describe their qualities to potential customers. It is not to be sold, just used by you. It is $80 worth every month. The HAP can be set up to automatically charge your credit card or checking account.
7) To become a supervisor you must have 2,500 VP. VP stands for "value points", and are awarded for goods that you buy from herbalife. Some information indicates that you must recruit 3-5 people under you to become a supervisor, but others say you simply need the VP. If you leap into Herbalife determined to start at that advanced level, you need to buy $4,000 worth of products.
This allows you to get the products from Herbalife at 50% below retail. (the $4000 worth of stuff costs you $2000).
To help you with your big purchase, they send you a list of the top 100 credit card companies in the country.
You may also be encouraged to buy a website to sell Herbalife diet and skin products for $315, and a site to promote the "work at home" business for another $315. And it doesn't stop there. I downloaded a PDF which describes Silver, Gold and Platinum E-Commerce Business Packages from $952.90 to $1994.22.
You can subscribe to a toll-free number for $6.95 a month plus the price of the calls. You can expect a $25 bill each month.
I'm surprised so many people are mentioning VNC. I'd actually say that VNC is too slow to use all the time. X-Server is much faster and works across slower connections. If you want to use a windows based solution, go for MS-Terminal Services which is also much faster than VNC.
Good point. Besides, if this is possible, then why in the world are IR transfers so slow? I want 100mbps transfers from ipaq to ipaq over a blinking LED!
Wow, that's impressive. I've always wondered why they don't use incandescent bulbs for these applications (tiny flashlight bulbs, the downsind I guess is heat and power consumption). I wonder if manufacturers will switch to something like that to lower the maximum flicker rate. Then again, someone might be able to use the dimming of the light to collect the same data. That makes me wonder, I wonder if those home networks that run over the electrical wires could be tapped by observing any light in the house.
Yes, but the goal to force Microsoft to stick to the standards is real. I agree we shouldn't be asking users to switch their software; we should ask Microsoft to stick to the standards. Microsoft has a right to make software just like everyone else.
What bothers the open source community is that Microsoft uses proprietary undocumented protocols, claims to implement protocols but then doesn't, and then sues people who try to interface with their software from unix.
If we can make a point of sending messages that comply to the official standards, but break Microsoft products, we might actually get Microsoft to fix the bug.
Several times the article mentioned the automated posting of patches and bug reports. Wouldn't a slashdot type system solve some of these problems of an over busy linux mailing list?
This is something people keep forgetting. Spam for the most part comes from corporations. Corporations do not have constitutional rights (e.g. corporations don't vote). A corporation is not a citizen. This law does not apply to an individual that spams people saying, "Protect our rights!!!", or "Oppose the Government!!". It applies to businesses saying "Buy our products!!!"
People need to remember that there is a difference between citizens and corporations.
Slashdot Mirror
What about NT 3.5, NT 4, and 2000. You could argue NT was not for consumers, but Win2000 was a consumer release.
Does anyone know how this will impact other open source clients such as Azureus?
Yes, but what does geocities use?
> Lots of (gaffa? or duct tape) very handy.
I think you meant gaffer's tape.
Is it just me or does slashdot look more and more like a Google press release page?
There's also Tidy Online if you'd rather not have to download and install the tool.
http://infohound.net/tidy/
There is a specific checkbox for cleaning Word 2000 generated HTML.
http://www.redhat.com/software/advancedserver/tech nical/piranha.html
Google link to article
One thing he forgot was the biggest cruft in our time. The QWERTY keyboard is designed to slow typists down so that keys don't get stuck when typing to fast. Typerwriters (at least the mechanical ones that had keys that got stuck) are long gone, but we still use this extremely inefficient layout.
As a result of this bad design, people have decided to design programming languages around the keyboard layout. As a result, we use ; to end statements since ; is on the home row. CRUFT!
There was a time when people in this country said, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Too bad having liberty for so long has made people value it less.
The problem is not that most people don't know what netscape/mozilla is. The problem is that most people don't know the difference. At work there are many users who simply don't know whether they are using internet explorer or netscape. They simply complain that certain sites only work if they click on the "e" instead of on the wheel. But they still think of it as two different ways to open the SAME application.
I think Anderseen was a little cynical, but he has a point. When fighting against an app that is bundled with the OS for free, it's hard to compete.
Don't worry to much about the 7 out of 10. They gave IE 6 the same score.
Eventually, we will win and the devices will be legal. At that point, the industry will respond by using the bottom of your tv set to display ads all the time. Maybe they will move around so that people don't cover them with electric tape. And we might even get endorsements from characters during the show.
More reasons NOT to use flash: 1) It doesn't print well. 2) It's not section 508 compliant, meaning it's not accessible so government websites won't link to you. 3) Not cross platform (I'm thinking PDA's and webpads)
Herbalife, a lesson in small business
I'd like to make this information available to as many people as possible.
This is the story of how Herbalife works. I've never actually been an herbalife distributor, but I've interviewed a couple of them to get this information. If you know more about it, or find any errors, please email me.
1) you call a toll-free number of one of their current distributors, (not the herbalife company itself), leave your name, address, and phone number.
2) That distributor sends you a free 14-page booklet.
This booklet is red, yellow, blue or green. It has NO information about what the home-business actually is besides "Mail-order". It contains eight "success stories" from happy people that make $8,000-$15,000 per month.
It seems to concentrate on the fabulous vacations that this kind of money can buy. Interspersed with the success stories are paragraphs of text that challenge you to buy into this scheme, like "Choosing to succeed can be frightening", and "Success is our birthright and we cannot allow our fears to keep us from it.", and "only desire and determination matter".
3) If you call the number on the back, you will be given the option to pay $36 for the first information packet.
If you decide to pay this, you will get a "decision kit" package. It will have one videotape, an audiotape, and another booklet. Still, no mention of Herbalife, just "success stories". If you want to take the next step, you will call another phone number, and really talk to your real, human, independent distributor.
4) He or she will send you a second set of tapes for free.
One audio tape and one video tape. These are more success stories and motivational speeches. If you call your Mentor back, he or she may tell you it is Herbalife at that point. To get started in the actual business, you have to spend more money for an "IBP".
5) The IBP, International Business Packet is $195
The packet contains the manual, notebook with forms, procedure, some actual products and books to get you started. This is where you first hear the name "Herbalife" if your distributor didn't tell you already.
Once you purchase the IBP and complete the Distributor Application, you qualify for a 35% retail discount.
(The IBP contains a catalog, order forms, 3 manuals (Success Starter, Welcome & Sales and Marketing plan), samples of 1 Thermojetics bar, 1 peach mango drink mix,1 chocolate shake mix, 1 vanilla shake mix, 1 herbal concentrate, 1 herbal aloe, 1 balancing system, 1 "lose weight now ask me how" button, price list and other various forms)
You are now ready to proceed as an independent herbalife distributor.
6) Then, you have to decide how dedicated you are to the Herbalife business, which is based on how much product you buy for resale.
When you get the IBP and sign up for your HAP, you qualify for 35% below retail, but if you want to get a better price on your products, you need to become a "Supervisor".
HAP stands for Herbalife Advantage Program, and it is a package of stuff that you are required to buy every month. They want you to be using the herbalife products, so that you can accurately describe their qualities to potential customers. It is not to be sold, just used by you. It is $80 worth every month. The HAP can be set up to automatically charge your credit card or checking account.
7) To become a supervisor you must have 2,500 VP. VP stands for "value points", and are awarded for goods that you buy from herbalife. Some information indicates that you must recruit 3-5 people under you to become a supervisor, but others say you simply need the VP. If you leap into Herbalife determined to start at that advanced level, you need to buy $4,000 worth of products.
This allows you to get the products from Herbalife at 50% below retail. (the $4000 worth of stuff costs you $2000).
To help you with your big purchase, they send you a list of the top 100 credit card companies in the country.
You may also be encouraged to buy a website to sell Herbalife diet and skin products for $315, and a site to promote the "work at home" business for another $315. And it doesn't stop there. I downloaded a PDF which describes Silver, Gold and Platinum E-Commerce Business Packages from $952.90 to $1994.22.
You can subscribe to a toll-free number for $6.95 a month plus the price of the calls. You can expect a $25 bill each month.
TouchFone is the company recommended in the IBP.
I'm surprised so many people are mentioning VNC. I'd actually say that VNC is too slow to use all the time. X-Server is much faster and works across slower connections. If you want to use a windows based solution, go for MS-Terminal Services which is also much faster than VNC.
Who is we? Were you saying that coffee help grasps technology or hurt it?
:)
Coding: The process of synthesizing caffeine into software.
-Northeasterner
Good point. Besides, if this is possible, then why in the world are IR transfers so slow? I want 100mbps transfers from ipaq to ipaq over a blinking LED!
Wow, that's impressive. I've always wondered why they don't use incandescent bulbs for these applications (tiny flashlight bulbs, the downsind I guess is heat and power consumption). I wonder if manufacturers will switch to something like that to lower the maximum flicker rate. Then again, someone might be able to use the dimming of the light to collect the same data. That makes me wonder, I wonder if those home networks that run over the electrical wires could be tapped by observing any light in the house.
FYI, the DNA sequence isn't that big. The National Human Genome Research Institute has their 90% complete draft burned on a single CD.
Yes, but the goal to force Microsoft to stick to the standards is real. I agree we shouldn't be asking users to switch their software; we should ask Microsoft to stick to the standards. Microsoft has a right to make software just like everyone else.
What bothers the open source community is that Microsoft uses proprietary undocumented protocols, claims to implement protocols but then doesn't, and then sues people who try to interface with their software from unix.
If we can make a point of sending messages that comply to the official standards, but break Microsoft products, we might actually get Microsoft to fix the bug.
Several times the article mentioned the automated posting of patches and bug reports. Wouldn't a slashdot type system solve some of these problems of an over busy linux mailing list?
I'd like to see the U.S. implement something like this before they go shoving it down other people's throats.
If don't want something here in America, why should we want it for countries abroad?
This is something people keep forgetting. Spam for the most part comes from corporations. Corporations do not have constitutional rights (e.g. corporations don't vote). A corporation is not a citizen. This law does not apply to an individual that spams people saying, "Protect our rights!!!", or "Oppose the Government!!". It applies to businesses saying "Buy our products!!!"
People need to remember that there is a difference between citizens and corporations.
In addition, I'd love to see the source for some of my favorite classics like test-drive or even jumjoe2!