Exactly. I also turn off pictures, CSS and that pointless HTML rendering. What’s the reason for that anyway? I just miss out on all that random shit that I couldn’t care less about.:P
Pack all design (not content) pictures in one big picture, and use cropping to use the parts in the right places. Saves you separate requests and hence HTTP headers and establishing separate TCP connections. Also shorten all your links. A server-site script can handle the en- and decoding. (But beware that this stops Google from matching keywords against the URLs.) Much can also be done subjectively. Like never having elements with unknown heights hold up the rendering of elements below them. Always specify the sizes of external elements like pictures, objects/embeds, etc. Also, if you want to go further, re-order the elements on your site in such a way, that they can be rendered in the order in which people start looking at them. Start at the center, then work to the upper left, render the menu and title, and then grow from there. Anything below the fold should be loaded and rendered last. Also, by adding >script> tags in the <body> at the right place, you can time your JS execution to the right moments in rendering, and so optimize load.
But of course the best strategy still is: Don‘t make your freakin’ website so freakin’ big! Of course this has gotten bigger. I remember that our starting page law was to stay below 100kB back in 2004. I find it horrible that some sites take 500kB or even 1MB to load, even when all the standard site elements (design pic, CSS, JS) have already loaded.
And don’t forget to add Merkel (German Chancellor, which is the more powerful position here, as opposed to the president, who is a dummy).
Seems we’re headed straight for matriarchism.
Following the old German rule: If we had one extremism, and found it to be bad, we’r going for the exact opposite: The other side of the same extremism. God forbid maybe finding some healthy middle ground. And if, then it must be still the *exact* middle ground, with no tolerances whatsoever. So still the same extremism.
This is reminiscent of the Wii strategy, where Nintendo produces uncompetitive hardware at great margins and relies instead in mass appeal, brand power and gizmo features to unexpectedly great results.
Well, Apple is quite successful with that strategy. And the Wii as successfull too. Also, while MS always has pretty crappy OSes, they too still win with it.
Seems like it’s a better strategy nowadays, to sell dreams and lies, than to create actual value. Just look at all the nearly empty boxes at supermarket, that are way too large for their content, or look larger in volume than they are. Same strategy.
It always takes two. The fault lies just as much on the idots who buy it, as it lies on the fraudulent (in my eyes) companies.
What do you mean “big” media conglomerates. Actually the whole media industry is a relatively tiny industry. I’m too tired to do the calculations now, but I would not be surprised, if Google alone surpassed the whole “traditional” industry.
You know what would happen if that whole industry would die? Nobody would care. Creatives would still create. Consumers would still consume. Business people would still try to make money out of it.
The market doesn’t just go away.
And because there are no dozen layers of crooks in-between, taking a part of it for doing nothing, it would become a better deal for everybody involved.
(3) is still not fully correct. You would only be as safe, as you 1. know that the signer is who you think he is, and 2. actually trust the signer.
Since you don’t have the public keys for all the domains on the planet on your hard drive to check the actual correctness, point 1 already falls flat. And even then, I haven’t met them, I did no learn to know them, so I don’t trust them any more than any other crook who could highjack it, anyway. ^^
Now let’s see who’s done first, troll moderator! You with your hand full of mod points? Or me with my excellent karma? You know what? Fuck you. Fuck you majorly. Right where the sun don’t shine. Big old dinosaur dick, comes from the past, and takes you, right up the ass.
Go on. Mod me down. And use up all your mod points. I can do this all year long. Then at least you can’t damage others anymore. Go on. After all it’s the only thing you can do anyway. You wouldn’t be able to write a proper comment, if you life would depend on it. ^^
For me it was the other way around. I thought: Yes! Finally we’ll have a chance to get rid of that horrible horrible part of the world for good! Really. More Zoidberg and weirdness! Less Brannagan & co!
WTF? Can someone fix this troll-moderation? It seems someone just couldn’t stand the facts.
Am I the only one who noticed that the moderations here got worse and worse? As if people would replace basic reasoning and logic with emotional rage and religious nutjobbery.
Protip: I’m using Firefox as my main browser. I recommend Opera to non-web-developers. And after having gone to 5 years of torture of having to develop for IE5 and 6, I stopped talking to people who prefer IE. If you had done it, you’d understand, and wonder why I’m still so nice.;)
To be honest: Alex Jones created a religion. He is a bad example. You are without a doubt right but he still is a very bad example. He’s a conspiracy theorist that is the other extreme of what he hates. Which is just as bad. Because he’s just as much not trustworthy.
Make no mistakes.. I have given him a big huge long chance. I have watched lots of his stuff. And checked things for myself. Something nobody else ever does. Which means I did not believe either the ones he hates, nor him, and just looked at if his arguments were consistent and based on basic reality (physics).
1. The basis of his arguments are show as plain in-your-face facts that everybody could check. But nobody does, because they all believe that it’s so clear that it does not need checking. Like an old friend of mine, who used to go “I fucked that girl. Don’t believe me? Well, here’s the phone! Call her!”. I never did. But then when I grew up, he pulled that again. And I did call het. And some of the old ones. And they did either not even know who he was, or didn’t have had anything. Same thing here. I checked the stuff. It’s made up. Which shocked even me, since I was sure that some of them could not possibly have been made up. 2. He is inconsistent with everything else. Physics, my sense or reality and in fact the sense of reality of every mindset there is. 3. Which is no surprise, since he’s even inconsistent in pretty much all he does himself. Even in the very same article/report. Yes, that’s right. In the very same text or video you just have to analyze the logic, and a bit later you will find at least two or three things that do not match the previously conveyed sense of reality. It’s beyond silly. It’s beyond just being delusional. It’s the seed that leads to split personalities.
So you could say, that his behavior is in fact projection (the term from psychology). If he can hate others he can express his hate for such a behavior, without having to hate himself. The sad thing is that he got a good bait there. Because the ones he hates actually are nearly as crooked as he tries to show that they are. So people flock to it like crazy. It just fits their views. And people like their views to be confirmed.
And the really sad thing is, that if he would actually go the full way, and make his stuff consistent and based on proper paradigms, he could actually change the world for the better. But in this state, he’s just making the case of how conspiracy theorists are always such complete nutjobs. (Which they obviously aren’t always.)
There is no such thing as “the first copy“. They generated information. Which is a service. Not a good. Not a product. And especially not a physical object. Then they give it all away, including all their control, by passing the information on to someone. In return for something. And *then* they beg you to pay them money? After someone already paid for exactly what they asked?
That is the business model of total idiots. Sorry. But how can a human possibly be that stupid and delusional?? It is a religion, or what? Because you can’t act in such a way without believing in it like a fundamentalist.
They should have asked for the cost of their service, plus the profits, at tha first sale. Now it’s too late. Boo hoo. Cry me a river. Or how they say on the Internets: EPIC FAIL!
Don’t you know the “retard assumption“? It’s the assumption that all your customers are the worst kinds of idiots possible in nature, because, and here is the kicker, they are the loudest in voicing their opinion.
It’s the reason for all the “it’s so simple to use” advertisements. It’s the reason for Clippy. It’s the reason Windows is so cumbersome to use. It’s the reason Gnome and OS X limit the functionality and freedom. It’s half the reason why everything you can buy has miles of terms and conditions. And it’s the reason for that whole KISS (“keep it simple, stupid”) anti-philosophy.
The thing is: If you finally achieved to make it “good” for the worst of your customers, nature just invents better, and LOUDER, idiots. Meanwhile everyone with half a brain now lost a whole lot of power and efficiency when using it. Back to square one. In a worse situation.
And the worst thing is, that most companies and even open source projects never learn from this. They just keep going on and on. Until the thing makes Clippy look like writing the Monads part of a mission-critical Haskell-to-C++ JIT cross-compiler in Emacs lisp....while being just as hard to use for normal people.;)
I gave up. Nowadays I just quietly sit there, drinking tea, earl grey, hot, and watch them slowly kill themselves.:)
The new one is triple-band, has a samba/ftp/www/print server, 2 usb connectors, support for a UMTS usb stick as a alternative connection, a advanced high-quality firewall/ids, VPN support, voice-controlled installation, 3 analog lines and a ISDN bus over VoIP or ISDN routing, the ability to run a program on another system, that gets informed on when someone called, or when you did a call, who it was, etc.
And they still were sorry that it isn’t quite as good as a Fritz!Box apparently. (Apparently AVM offers better versions of it in Germany, than in English-speaking countries. As they are missing for the English version of the page.)
I thought it was common knowledge that Firefox was just NN, molded into a Opera clone. Tabs, mouse gestures, this, etc, etc, etc. Half the good plugins that came out first, were bad clones of Opera functionality.
I used Opera in the dark ages between NN 4.5 and Firefox 1.0. And the only reason I switched to Firefox, was when it started to offer add-ons that surpassed Opera. Especially firebug, webdev toolbar, adblock plus, greasemonkey, and that powerful javascript debugger. So if I hadn’t been doing it as my job, and were only a user, I would have stayed with Opera. Its mouse gestures were way more flawless than any add-on Firefox ever had.
My two brothers still use and love Opera, after I recommended it to them, nearly a decade ago (when or even before it had ads in the header..
I must say that something is weird with the way Slashdot does JS. It’s only here, that having a page open in the background over time starts to rise in CPU and memory usage. As if a loop would constantly fork itself while not releasing its variables to free memory.
It’s interesting, how they are at fault, when you’re the only one with that problem.
I bet you set affinity once and forgot about it. And what sites do you open to get FF to 100% CPU anyway? I’ve only ever seen more than 50% CPU, when the Flash plugin caused trouble.
Where consent is identified by a checkbox buried on next-to-final page in the installer of "partner software" that is ticked by default?
Now you’re being the dick! He specifically stated:
The SHOUTcast toolbar may only be downloaded by a user upon their prior consent.
Ergo: Not checked by default.
But hey, it’s so easy being a dick, if you just ignore everything that makes your arguments fail, right?
Now I don’t think there is a point to tool bars in 2000-freaking-10, so I don’t think it’s cool to demand even the option. Especially since it makes the VLC distribution partially non-free bloatware for no reason whatsoever. Also where would that toolbar install? It’s not as if Linux users typically had IE or you could expect certain Browsers to be installed.
Slashdot Mirror
That’s what traffic shaper scripts for your firewall are for.
I’ve done my own, and I still get perfect ping and priority for surfing/im/ssh etc.
Exactly. I also turn off pictures, CSS and that pointless HTML rendering. What’s the reason for that anyway? :P
I just miss out on all that random shit that I couldn’t care less about.
Pack all design (not content) pictures in one big picture, and use cropping to use the parts in the right places. Saves you separate requests and hence HTTP headers and establishing separate TCP connections.
Also shorten all your links. A server-site script can handle the en- and decoding. (But beware that this stops Google from matching keywords against the URLs.)
Much can also be done subjectively. Like never having elements with unknown heights hold up the rendering of elements below them. Always specify the sizes of external elements like pictures, objects/embeds, etc.
Also, if you want to go further, re-order the elements on your site in such a way, that they can be rendered in the order in which people start looking at them. Start at the center, then work to the upper left, render the menu and title, and then grow from there. Anything below the fold should be loaded and rendered last.
Also, by adding >script> tags in the <body> at the right place, you can time your JS execution to the right moments in rendering, and so optimize load.
But of course the best strategy still is: Don‘t make your freakin’ website so freakin’ big! Of course this has gotten bigger. I remember that our starting page law was to stay below 100kB back in 2004. I find it horrible that some sites take 500kB or even 1MB to load, even when all the standard site elements (design pic, CSS, JS) have already loaded.
And don’t forget to add Merkel (German Chancellor, which is the more powerful position here, as opposed to the president, who is a dummy).
Seems we’re headed straight for matriarchism.
Following the old German rule: If we had one extremism, and found it to be bad, we’r going for the exact opposite: The other side of the same extremism. God forbid maybe finding some healthy middle ground. And if, then it must be still the *exact* middle ground, with no tolerances whatsoever. So still the same extremism.
This is reminiscent of the Wii strategy, where Nintendo produces uncompetitive hardware at great margins and relies instead in mass appeal, brand power and gizmo features to unexpectedly great results.
Well, Apple is quite successful with that strategy.
And the Wii as successfull too.
Also, while MS always has pretty crappy OSes, they too still win with it.
Seems like it’s a better strategy nowadays, to sell dreams and lies, than to create actual value.
Just look at all the nearly empty boxes at supermarket, that are way too large for their content, or look larger in volume than they are. Same strategy.
It always takes two. The fault lies just as much on the idots who buy it, as it lies on the fraudulent (in my eyes) companies.
What does a advertising leaflet have to do with specs? The “specs” on that thing are beyond vague.
He meant with all the effects turned on.
But still: I don’t believe your statement. Got any proof? (Proof. Not just a citation. As that would just be another comment.)
Whaddaya mean IF? ;)
On the other hand: Who would willingly watch their stuff anyway?
Uuum, there’s still the production studios’ own sites. Like southpark.com.
And for everything else, there still is The Pirate Bay and btjunkie.org.
I don’t see the problem.
It will take even Joe Sixpack only about five minutes to solve that problem. (Yes, they all know about file sharing.)
What do you mean “big” media conglomerates. Actually the whole media industry is a relatively tiny industry. I’m too tired to do the calculations now, but I would not be surprised, if Google alone surpassed the whole “traditional” industry.
You know what would happen if that whole industry would die?
Nobody would care.
Creatives would still create.
Consumers would still consume.
Business people would still try to make money out of it.
The market doesn’t just go away.
And because there are no dozen layers of crooks in-between, taking a part of it for doing nothing, it would become a better deal for everybody involved.
(3) is still not fully correct. You would only be as safe, as you
1. know that the signer is who you think he is, and
2. actually trust the signer.
Since you don’t have the public keys for all the domains on the planet on your hard drive to check the actual correctness, point 1 already falls flat.
And even then, I haven’t met them, I did no learn to know them, so I don’t trust them any more than any other crook who could highjack it, anyway. ^^
Now let’s see who’s done first, troll moderator! You with your hand full of mod points? Or me with my excellent karma?
You know what? Fuck you. Fuck you majorly. Right where the sun don’t shine. Big old dinosaur dick, comes from the past, and takes you, right up the ass.
Go on. Mod me down. And use up all your mod points. I can do this all year long. Then at least you can’t damage others anymore. Go on. After all it’s the only thing you can do anyway. You wouldn’t be able to write a proper comment, if you life would depend on it. ^^
Actually his main source of information about the Internet is Ted Stevens, and he meant a herd of cows, browsing the pasture. ;)
For me it was the other way around. I thought: Yes! Finally we’ll have a chance to get rid of that horrible horrible part of the world for good! Really. More Zoidberg and weirdness! Less Brannagan & co!
Tomorrow? The second episode is already out. Watched it yesterday.
You have to ask Goldman Sachs and China about that one. In terms of money, they own the FED by now. And I mean in the literal sense.
WTF? Can someone fix this troll-moderation?
It seems someone just couldn’t stand the facts.
Am I the only one who noticed that the moderations here got worse and worse?
As if people would replace basic reasoning and logic with emotional rage and religious nutjobbery.
Protip: I’m using Firefox as my main browser. I recommend Opera to non-web-developers. And after having gone to 5 years of torture of having to develop for IE5 and 6, I stopped talking to people who prefer IE. If you had done it, you’d understand, and wonder why I’m still so nice. ;)
To be honest: Alex Jones created a religion. He is a bad example. You are without a doubt right but he still is a very bad example.
He’s a conspiracy theorist that is the other extreme of what he hates. Which is just as bad. Because he’s just as much not trustworthy.
Make no mistakes.. I have given him a big huge long chance. I have watched lots of his stuff. And checked things for myself. Something nobody else ever does. Which means I did not believe either the ones he hates, nor him, and just looked at if his arguments were consistent and based on basic reality (physics).
1. The basis of his arguments are show as plain in-your-face facts that everybody could check. But nobody does, because they all believe that it’s so clear that it does not need checking. Like an old friend of mine, who used to go “I fucked that girl. Don’t believe me? Well, here’s the phone! Call her!”. I never did. But then when I grew up, he pulled that again. And I did call het. And some of the old ones. And they did either not even know who he was, or didn’t have had anything. Same thing here. I checked the stuff. It’s made up. Which shocked even me, since I was sure that some of them could not possibly have been made up.
2. He is inconsistent with everything else. Physics, my sense or reality and in fact the sense of reality of every mindset there is.
3. Which is no surprise, since he’s even inconsistent in pretty much all he does himself. Even in the very same article/report. Yes, that’s right. In the very same text or video you just have to analyze the logic, and a bit later you will find at least two or three things that do not match the previously conveyed sense of reality. It’s beyond silly. It’s beyond just being delusional. It’s the seed that leads to split personalities.
So you could say, that his behavior is in fact projection (the term from psychology). If he can hate others he can express his hate for such a behavior, without having to hate himself. The sad thing is that he got a good bait there. Because the ones he hates actually are nearly as crooked as he tries to show that they are. So people flock to it like crazy. It just fits their views. And people like their views to be confirmed.
And the really sad thing is, that if he would actually go the full way, and make his stuff consistent and based on proper paradigms, he could actually change the world for the better.
But in this state, he’s just making the case of how conspiracy theorists are always such complete nutjobs. (Which they obviously aren’t always.)
Conclusion: :((
And that is completely and utterly retarded.
There is no such thing as “the first copy“. They generated information. Which is a service. Not a good. Not a product. And especially not a physical object.
Then they give it all away, including all their control, by passing the information on to someone. In return for something.
And *then* they beg you to pay them money? After someone already paid for exactly what they asked?
That is the business model of total idiots. Sorry. But how can a human possibly be that stupid and delusional?? It is a religion, or what? Because you can’t act in such a way without believing in it like a fundamentalist.
They should have asked for the cost of their service, plus the profits, at tha first sale. Now it’s too late. Boo hoo. Cry me a river. Or how they say on the Internets: EPIC FAIL!
Don’t you know the “retard assumption“?
It’s the assumption that all your customers are the worst kinds of idiots possible in nature, because, and here is the kicker, they are the loudest in voicing their opinion.
It’s the reason for all the “it’s so simple to use” advertisements. It’s the reason for Clippy. It’s the reason Windows is so cumbersome to use. It’s the reason Gnome and OS X limit the functionality and freedom. It’s half the reason why everything you can buy has miles of terms and conditions. And it’s the reason for that whole KISS (“keep it simple, stupid”) anti-philosophy.
The thing is: If you finally achieved to make it “good” for the worst of your customers, nature just invents better, and LOUDER, idiots. Meanwhile everyone with half a brain now lost a whole lot of power and efficiency when using it.
Back to square one. In a worse situation.
And the worst thing is, that most companies and even open source projects never learn from this. They just keep going on and on. Until the thing makes Clippy look like writing the Monads part of a mission-critical Haskell-to-C++ JIT cross-compiler in Emacs lisp. ...while being just as hard to use for normal people. ;)
I gave up. Nowadays I just quietly sit there, drinking tea, earl grey, hot, and watch them slowly kill themselves. :)
Do you want my old one? It did all of this.
The new one is triple-band, has a samba/ftp/www/print server, 2 usb connectors, support for a UMTS usb stick as a alternative connection, a advanced high-quality firewall/ids, VPN support, voice-controlled installation, 3 analog lines and a ISDN bus over VoIP or ISDN routing, the ability to run a program on another system, that gets informed on when someone called, or when you did a call, who it was, etc.
And they still were sorry that it isn’t quite as good as a Fritz!Box apparently. (Apparently AVM offers better versions of it in Germany, than in English-speaking countries. As they are missing for the English version of the page.)
I thought it was common knowledge that Firefox was just NN, molded into a Opera clone.
Tabs, mouse gestures, this, etc, etc, etc.
Half the good plugins that came out first, were bad clones of Opera functionality.
I used Opera in the dark ages between NN 4.5 and Firefox 1.0. And the only reason I switched to Firefox, was when it started to offer add-ons that surpassed Opera. Especially firebug, webdev toolbar, adblock plus, greasemonkey, and that powerful javascript debugger.
So if I hadn’t been doing it as my job, and were only a user, I would have stayed with Opera.
Its mouse gestures were way more flawless than any add-on Firefox ever had.
My two brothers still use and love Opera, after I recommended it to them, nearly a decade ago (when or even before it had ads in the header..
I must say that something is weird with the way Slashdot does JS. It’s only here, that having a page open in the background over time starts to rise in CPU and memory usage. As if a loop would constantly fork itself while not releasing its variables to free memory.
It’s interesting, how they are at fault, when you’re the only one with that problem.
I bet you set affinity once and forgot about it. And what sites do you open to get FF to 100% CPU anyway? I’ve only ever seen more than 50% CPU, when the Flash plugin caused trouble.
Where consent is identified by a checkbox buried on next-to-final page in the installer of "partner software" that is ticked by default?
Now you’re being the dick! He specifically stated:
The SHOUTcast toolbar may only be downloaded by a user upon their prior consent.
Ergo: Not checked by default.
But hey, it’s so easy being a dick, if you just ignore everything that makes your arguments fail, right?
Now I don’t think there is a point to tool bars in 2000-freaking-10, so I don’t think it’s cool to demand even the option. Especially since it makes the VLC distribution partially non-free bloatware for no reason whatsoever.
Also where would that toolbar install? It’s not as if Linux users typically had IE or you could expect certain Browsers to be installed.