i have heard of migrant workers in South America digging a hole, placing their children in, and covering it up with a board so it doesn't get eaten by animals.
While I agree with you, I am from Massachusetts - a vote for either of the two big parties is a waste. Kerry will win Massachusetts. I WILL vote for a third party this year so they can try to get matching funds next election...
I think the important thing is that the keyword is "downloads". Perhaps the number of installations is more or less, but until Firefox keeps track of installations (which I can't imagine is difficult to do), the "download" statistic is a vauge as the "number of visitors" statistic...
it has the default latin entries of a portal site that hasn't really been populated with content. Do Mambo users have to fear litigation from a guy who can't even take care of his own site???
you all modded the parent up as funny, but really you should have modded her up as informative. It isn't the act that sends you to jail, its the intent. Just like an insurance claim - if you light your curtains on fire from your hand, it is arson; if it is from a candle, it is an accident. dousing your couch with lighter fluid and lighting it up, arson - f"falling asleep" with french fries cooking in the fryalator on the kitchen counter, accident - albeit with plenty on stupidity. Insurance companies pay for accidents, not arson. its all about intent. you go to jail for murder, but not necessarily killing someone.
My Sprint phone (Samsung I300) has had one for two years. Sprint does nothing with it. 911 uses it if necessary. But there are apparently no applications that use it. I don't know who owns the ability to track them. But just like every US cell company, we all get a list of features that can't compare to say, Japan's list of cell features. Call me tin-foil-hat-man, but I smell collusion between the service providers...
I wouldn't say that Jay has had his act cleaned up for a year now. There were many of us who saw him in Jerky's in Providence, RI as little as 9 months ago going out to the parking lot to do heroin and then coming back in all fucked up.
That said, he wasn't as much of a jerk as I expected. He had plenty of hot bitches milling around, but looking at him, it was all about "star power" and nothing about presenting himself in a way that someone who didn't know him would give the junkie a second look.
did anyone see the rediculous apple vest? was that a fake too? it looked like a prop from a 70's space movie. Or was that just a Lacie vest in disguise? French fashion!
does this not count anymore? the gallery on their website is filled with feature films that use them, many of which I didn't realize had CG in it at all. I know that many of the software packages mentioned on other platforms are awesome, but aren't many for cartoon 3d animations? I'm not a 3d guru by any means and would like to hear what you all think about 3d studio max.
as a side note, I work in a tv studio in a high school and need to work 3d into the curriculum. I know a school that some students will go onto (Fullsail, in Florida) uses 3d studio max, which is why I was considering and thinking about it in the first place...
the fact that you had such a bad interview experience with them and STILL use them as a search engine speaks volumes for how kick ass Google is. It has taken way less for me to swear off companies like Circuit City and ToysRUs.
as far as gmail is concerned, who cares??? switch to a different domain for your mail service and we will all follow. Whichever small company spends buckets to get the domain will still be pissing in the wind when its all over. We will all wuickly forget gmail.com and move onto google's new email service domain...
"I am unsure how a lack of security equates to better usability."
I think I meant more that when visiting any particular website, your generic end user expects a certain amout of usability from the site. Many sites are poorly coded and IE seems to let a lot get by without complaining. This includes a lot of scripting and IE lets a lot of scripting go on, some of which can be malicious.
IE tries to give the end user a very easy experience and as a result has left the browser open and insecure.
joe shmoe likes that IE just works without complaint and tweaking. we don't
I wasn't refering to the usability of the browsers themselves. I aggree that Firefox rocks.
it strikes me that we, as the slashdot crowd, tend to be the types where our jobs are highly dependant upon computers and thus as we progress in our careers, we care more and more about security of our blessed boxes. The health of these boxes are as important as the specific tasks whos sucess pay our bills. We care about our computers and the health of our friend's, family's and even stranger's computers.
In the mean time, the rest of the population care about learning, communication and entertainment.
I guess what I am getting at is most of us bash Microsoft because they choose usability (not the disability flavor, just that it works) over security. Slashdotters generally have a distaste for Flash even if it is because it is used gratuitously for entertainment. We choose to block ads and popups and some of us IMAGES because we feel it is useless and fluffy even though it is the main source of revenue for many businesses' web endevours. But the thing is, most folks ont he internet care that when their kid goes to PBS Kids, it works. When they go to their favorite mainstream band's website, it just works. When they go to their bank's website, it just works. When they want to play Yahoo games or take part in fantasy sports, it all just works.
Where Microsoft suceeds is giving the consumer what they WANT. For stuff to work, even if it means that their computer is riddled with spyware and viruses. As long as their credit card number doesn't get swiped or find kiddee pr0n on their computer and everything else works, they are satisfied.
I saw that someone wrote that Opera is a superior browser. While they are correct when using their guidelines, most end users would feel quite the opposite. Opera, at least with older incarnations, has not been a mainstream friendly browser. As an advanced user, I think its great. My mom, my kid and most folks int he public school system I work in think otherwise.
We all know that a lot of user's problems with a computer gone "bad" would disappear without IE 5.5. But of course, many folks wouldn't want to use the web as much without the end user usability IE 5.5 has provided. Quite the double edged sword and frankly, we here at Slashdot are the minority in the internet using world.
Let me guess - you own a Tivo? Current versions of Replay do not include "official" show sharing anymore. I know more people who own a Replay TV than I do Tivo. Not that one is necessarrily better than the other. I DO know that Tivo has had a very suspect privacy policy in the past and that they DO transfer personally idendifiable data back to their dbs. But who cares? As long as it improves the television experience, who cares if they know how many times you watched HBO's Real Sex?
Tivo is owned by Phillips and sold out to Hollywood, which is why they are still around in their current, Hollywood friendly incarnation. Of course, you can hack Tivo which really starts to bring out the cooler features that Replay came out with - like the 30 second skip forward button (to quickly get through commercials), networking your content and sharing it with an internet connection.
and that's really the crux of it - there are SO many PC users, many of who use it for their job that how can one execute this study and look at 100% of everyone? I mean, what about the mall kiosk cashier who rings you up on PC? What about the guy who works in a gas station who has a PC to print up estimates and play minesweeper.
PCs are often bought by the "lowest common denominator" because they need a computer and they can get a PC for far less than a mac (I use both BTW - I work in a TV studio)
really, I wonder what the test group looked like...
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how will you measure the effectiveness of your efforts?
i have heard of migrant workers in South America digging a hole, placing their children in, and covering it up with a board so it doesn't get eaten by animals.
While I agree with you, I am from Massachusetts - a vote for either of the two big parties is a waste. Kerry will win Massachusetts. I WILL vote for a third party this year so they can try to get matching funds next election...
I think the important thing is that the keyword is "downloads". Perhaps the number of installations is more or less, but until Firefox keeps track of installations (which I can't imagine is difficult to do), the "download" statistic is a vauge as the "number of visitors" statistic...
good one!
Mambo is definitely cool - and simple and clean. I am using it for an academic website...
it has the default latin entries of a portal site that hasn't really been populated with content. Do Mambo users have to fear litigation from a guy who can't even take care of his own site???
great point
you all modded the parent up as funny, but really you should have modded her up as informative. It isn't the act that sends you to jail, its the intent. Just like an insurance claim - if you light your curtains on fire from your hand, it is arson; if it is from a candle, it is an accident. dousing your couch with lighter fluid and lighting it up, arson - f"falling asleep" with french fries cooking in the fryalator on the kitchen counter, accident - albeit with plenty on stupidity. Insurance companies pay for accidents, not arson. its all about intent. you go to jail for murder, but not necessarily killing someone.
My Sprint phone (Samsung I300) has had one for two years. Sprint does nothing with it. 911 uses it if necessary. But there are apparently no applications that use it. I don't know who owns the ability to track them. But just like every US cell company, we all get a list of features that can't compare to say, Japan's list of cell features. Call me tin-foil-hat-man, but I smell collusion between the service providers...
on being the next Google.
correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the cost of the battery high enough that its a bit cost prohibitive?
I wouldn't say that Jay has had his act cleaned up for a year now. There were many of us who saw him in Jerky's in Providence, RI as little as 9 months ago going out to the parking lot to do heroin and then coming back in all fucked up.
That said, he wasn't as much of a jerk as I expected. He had plenty of hot bitches milling around, but looking at him, it was all about "star power" and nothing about presenting himself in a way that someone who didn't know him would give the junkie a second look.
did anyone see the rediculous apple vest? was that a fake too? it looked like a prop from a 70's space movie. Or was that just a Lacie vest in disguise? French fashion!
does this not count anymore? the gallery on their website is filled with feature films that use them, many of which I didn't realize had CG in it at all. I know that many of the software packages mentioned on other platforms are awesome, but aren't many for cartoon 3d animations? I'm not a 3d guru by any means and would like to hear what you all think about 3d studio max.
as a side note, I work in a tv studio in a high school and need to work 3d into the curriculum. I know a school that some students will go onto (Fullsail, in Florida) uses 3d studio max, which is why I was considering and thinking about it in the first place...
the fact that you had such a bad interview experience with them and STILL use them as a search engine speaks volumes for how kick ass Google is. It has taken way less for me to swear off companies like Circuit City and ToysRUs.
as far as gmail is concerned, who cares??? switch to a different domain for your mail service and we will all follow. Whichever small company spends buckets to get the domain will still be pissing in the wind when its all over. We will all wuickly forget gmail.com and move onto google's new email service domain...
naw, I will give you that the WRX is the exception to the subaru-lesbian rule, but for the money, I would still buy something else.
don't get me wrong, I love lesbians, especially when they are making out
"I am unsure how a lack of security equates to better usability."
I think I meant more that when visiting any particular website, your generic end user expects a certain amout of usability from the site. Many sites are poorly coded and IE seems to let a lot get by without complaining. This includes a lot of scripting and IE lets a lot of scripting go on, some of which can be malicious.
IE tries to give the end user a very easy experience and as a result has left the browser open and insecure.
joe shmoe likes that IE just works without complaint and tweaking. we don't
I wasn't refering to the usability of the browsers themselves. I aggree that Firefox rocks.
it strikes me that we, as the slashdot crowd, tend to be the types where our jobs are highly dependant upon computers and thus as we progress in our careers, we care more and more about security of our blessed boxes. The health of these boxes are as important as the specific tasks whos sucess pay our bills. We care about our computers and the health of our friend's, family's and even stranger's computers.
In the mean time, the rest of the population care about learning, communication and entertainment.
I guess what I am getting at is most of us bash Microsoft because they choose usability (not the disability flavor, just that it works) over security. Slashdotters generally have a distaste for Flash even if it is because it is used gratuitously for entertainment. We choose to block ads and popups and some of us IMAGES because we feel it is useless and fluffy even though it is the main source of revenue for many businesses' web endevours. But the thing is, most folks ont he internet care that when their kid goes to PBS Kids, it works. When they go to their favorite mainstream band's website, it just works. When they go to their bank's website, it just works. When they want to play Yahoo games or take part in fantasy sports, it all just works.
Where Microsoft suceeds is giving the consumer what they WANT. For stuff to work, even if it means that their computer is riddled with spyware and viruses. As long as their credit card number doesn't get swiped or find kiddee pr0n on their computer and everything else works, they are satisfied.
I saw that someone wrote that Opera is a superior browser. While they are correct when using their guidelines, most end users would feel quite the opposite. Opera, at least with older incarnations, has not been a mainstream friendly browser. As an advanced user, I think its great. My mom, my kid and most folks int he public school system I work in think otherwise.
We all know that a lot of user's problems with a computer gone "bad" would disappear without IE 5.5. But of course, many folks wouldn't want to use the web as much without the end user usability IE 5.5 has provided. Quite the double edged sword and frankly, we here at Slashdot are the minority in the internet using world.
the WRTs actually aren't that bad either.
i would buy a suburu, but then I would regularly be mistaken for a lesbian
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Let me guess - you own a Tivo? Current versions of Replay do not include "official" show sharing anymore. I know more people who own a Replay TV than I do Tivo. Not that one is necessarrily better than the other. I DO know that Tivo has had a very suspect privacy policy in the past and that they DO transfer personally idendifiable data back to their dbs. But who cares? As long as it improves the television experience, who cares if they know how many times you watched HBO's Real Sex?
Tivo is owned by Phillips and sold out to Hollywood, which is why they are still around in their current, Hollywood friendly incarnation. Of course, you can hack Tivo which really starts to bring out the cooler features that Replay came out with - like the 30 second skip forward button (to quickly get through commercials), networking your content and sharing it with an internet connection.
you can get PCs for $300 from Walmart
and that's really the crux of it - there are SO many PC users, many of who use it for their job that how can one execute this study and look at 100% of everyone? I mean, what about the mall kiosk cashier who rings you up on PC? What about the guy who works in a gas station who has a PC to print up estimates and play minesweeper.
PCs are often bought by the "lowest common denominator" because they need a computer and they can get a PC for far less than a mac (I use both BTW - I work in a TV studio)
really, I wonder what the test group looked like...
My understanding is that the lastest incarnation of Flash outputs stuff that is compatable with a screen reader if the author wishes...
I want to see a cat in zero gravity.
There could be a whole new entertainment industry around flailing animals in zero gravity...