... foremost. The runner-up is definitely an improvement over the traditional/. look, as well, but my tired allergy eyes (I need relief... FAST FAST FAST FAST!) make their way easily through the more generous font sizes and white space of the winning design.
Funny thing is, I probably get 95 percent of my/. usage from reading the RSS of top-level items in Bloglines, without visiting the site itself. I'm a scanner, sosumi.
Now there's a UI (Bloglines) that needs a redesign, too!
Why would even an open-source developer community want to start with a browser that is so far behind the state of the art -- one that breaks more modern Web pages than it renders well, that is slower than any other browser in common use on Mac OS X and, as already stated, is completely unrelated to the IE/Windows family so does nothing for cross-platform compatibility?
Sheesh, other than that, it's great!;-)
Everyone has biases, so news sources, naturally, do too. The only difference between "mainstream media" and some guy with a laptop reporting a car crash is how many people vet and filter the information before it is offered to the public.
I'm a journalist of more than 20 years experience. I grew up in the business.
And I've argued for years that the ease of making a message available on the Internet favors the rise of strong opinion leaders over news organizations that attempt to filter out their own biases (with admittedly varying degrees of success).
It's already starting to happen. The tone of dialogue in mainstream media has started to take on characteristics of talk radio, which was the previous bastion of opinion leadership.
With that trend well under way, I'm really afraid to see how Google's machines will assign "trust" values to anything.
Those URL arguments are, as I remember, mostly carryovers from PHP-Nuke.
The Nuke variants are all designed to be highly modular portalware, but in my opinion, the modules and indeed some of the core components vary widely in programming quality.
But this is a huge, diverse software package and it has plenty of lines of code to represent both the best and worst of open source.
I'll go the opposite way here. I went two years since purchasing my PB at work without.Mac, thinking I didn't need it. Then I bought a second Mac to replace a pathetic old Wintel box I had at home, and went without.Mac there for a year.
Mind you, I could just FTP to my Web site, as you suggest, but now that I've signed up for.Mac I find the freeware alone to be worth the price. iDisk is convenient, and I use it from Mac and Wintel environments. I really don't use my.Mac Mail account, so I don't care whether spam filters work there or not (they work great on Mail.app for my master accounts, and that's where I prefer to manage e-mail anyway)..Mac is a substantial suite of products. No one feature makes it worth the price. But for some people, selected combinations of the features available get it over that threshold.
For a few of us, nature itself prevents being slotted in the jobs with the highest satisfaction. I, for example, would love to be a lead singer/rhythm guitarist in a "classic" rock band (sign of my age, I suppose). I even tried it back when "classic" rock didn't need the adjective.
But if you ever heard me sing or play guitar, you'd know right away why I'm not in that job, despite how much I'd love to do it. So I found other work (design work) that was suitably creative and satisfactory. Now I'm a manager who works with other creatives. That's not bad either.
Sometimes you just have to bend the coolest path a little until it points in a direction that matches talents to interests.
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... foremost. The runner-up is definitely an improvement over the traditional /. look, as well, but my tired allergy eyes (I need relief ... FAST FAST FAST FAST!) make their way easily through the more generous font sizes and white space of the winning design.
Funny thing is, I probably get 95 percent of my /. usage from reading the RSS of top-level items in Bloglines, without visiting the site itself. I'm a scanner, sosumi.
Now there's a UI (Bloglines) that needs a redesign, too!
Why would even an open-source developer community want to start with a browser that is so far behind the state of the art -- one that breaks more modern Web pages than it renders well, that is slower than any other browser in common use on Mac OS X and, as already stated, is completely unrelated to the IE/Windows family so does nothing for cross-platform compatibility? Sheesh, other than that, it's great! ;-)
Everyone has biases, so news sources, naturally, do too. The only difference between "mainstream media" and some guy with a laptop reporting a car crash is how many people vet and filter the information before it is offered to the public. I'm a journalist of more than 20 years experience. I grew up in the business. And I've argued for years that the ease of making a message available on the Internet favors the rise of strong opinion leaders over news organizations that attempt to filter out their own biases (with admittedly varying degrees of success). It's already starting to happen. The tone of dialogue in mainstream media has started to take on characteristics of talk radio, which was the previous bastion of opinion leadership. With that trend well under way, I'm really afraid to see how Google's machines will assign "trust" values to anything.
Those URL arguments are, as I remember, mostly carryovers from PHP-Nuke.
The Nuke variants are all designed to be highly modular portalware, but in my opinion, the modules and indeed some of the core components vary widely in programming quality.
But this is a huge, diverse software package and it has plenty of lines of code to represent both the best and worst of open source.
I'll go the opposite way here. I went two years since purchasing my PB at work without .Mac, thinking I didn't need it. Then I bought a second Mac to replace a pathetic old Wintel box I had at home, and went without .Mac there for a year.
Mind you, I could just FTP to my Web site, as you suggest, but now that I've signed up for .Mac I find the freeware alone to be worth the price. iDisk is convenient, and I use it from Mac and Wintel environments. I really don't use my .Mac Mail account, so I don't care whether spam filters work there or not (they work great on Mail.app for my master accounts, and that's where I prefer to manage e-mail anyway). .Mac is a substantial suite of products. No one feature makes it worth the price. But for some people, selected combinations of the features available get it over that threshold.
For a few of us, nature itself prevents being slotted in the jobs with the highest satisfaction. I, for example, would love to be a lead singer/rhythm guitarist in a "classic" rock band (sign of my age, I suppose). I even tried it back when "classic" rock didn't need the adjective.
But if you ever heard me sing or play guitar, you'd know right away why I'm not in that job, despite how much I'd love to do it. So I found other work (design work) that was suitably creative and satisfactory. Now I'm a manager who works with other creatives. That's not bad either.
Sometimes you just have to bend the coolest path a little until it points in a direction that matches talents to interests.