Although more people from every age group are getting online every day, wouldn't online voting only really appeal to those of the 'slacker' generation, age 25 and under? What steps are you taking (candidates, too) to attract those who aren't as 'Net savvy? Most polls tend to show that the Baby Boomers and beyond wouldn't vote online even if they could.
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I imagine that would provide us with much different candidates for President than we see now... "Governor Bush? How is your aim compared to the war-trained eye of Senator McCain?"
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Having experienced cable and DSL I agree with you. I'm not sure how it works in the rest of the country but we get our DSL straight from Bell Atlantic, so when something is f*cked, there's only one number to call. Speed is great, works like a champ, no complaints here. The only real downfall of cable is that you lose speed as more people in your area sign on. Unacceptable, IMO. Don't ask me about my month on Juno in between my old ISP and DSL though...(shudder)...
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Awesome article...except for all the spelling and layout errors. Sheesh. And what's up with this - Dr. Guenter Nimtz [[umlaut over u]] - ? You telling me these guys don't know how to use the character map? Or hard code them - ü or ü - into their HTML? They should hire me.;-)
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But using phrases like "Napster operations manual" sort-of cancel out any techie butt-kissing.;-) I was a bit impressed with some of the points he made, but not to the Gnutella/etc. question. I can respect their wishes to control their music, but they really have no grasp on how futile an endevour that is.
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Okay it wasn't enough that people have cell phones going off in movie theatres and restaurants, now they have to play other people's bad taste in music as well? "Well, I WAS enjoying Rocky XXIV until that guy's phone started playing the 'Beaches' soundtrack."
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If everybody became an artist, chances are that 90% of them would suck. (Law of averages. Some people just have no ear/talent/imagination.) The artists COULD charge whatever they want, they could do that now, except - If another band underprices you, you don't sell as much (unless you just really rock). And then it's back to where we are now - Band A charges $25.00 for their latest 2 CD album - man, that's more than my lunch money for the week - hey, let's go get it from Napster instead!
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...have you forgotten the poo that ensued after/. tried to publish our comments w/out our permission? Unless/. wants to draft a petition type of letter and then collect signatures from all of us then I'm not sure your idea would work. (NOTE:/. can use my comments, my name, my nude pictures, etc. - anything as long as it helps the cause. Hehe.) If all of us typed up a letter and sent it in to our Congressperson via the USPS, though, THAT would be cool. And you could include a reference to the ongoing debates here at/. for them to check out if you like.
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Threats from Black Beard aside (I refuse to make the computer/piracy joke - c'mon trolls), what about the conditions? I'll be the first to admit I know nothing about houseboats, but how far out can you go before you're in international waters, and how far out can you go before it becomes dangerous?
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Couldn't get to it, man... have you been/.ed already?;-)
For my 2cents, I'm pretty tired of hearing everybody rattle off the same arguments. We've had a half dozen Metallica/Dre stories here and none of you are going to say anything new now. But the story got posted because they know you'll converge on it like vultures. Ick, I feel all dirty now.
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I'll be the first to say that most websites are horribly clogged with features you consider 'cardinal sins', but I don't really think his is that bad. (Granted I'm at work on a Windoze machine, I may feel differently trying to browse it on Linux...that IS what you meant by 'putting off potential readers', right?) After seeing this story I went through his whole site, and though I think he has a big bone for CSS which kinda makes me cringe, he does have a lot of worthy info, not to mention some good stories to share. His low-res graphics and sparse layouts were like a breath of fresh air compared with the overstuffed sites I have to build for my clients. (Contrary to popular polls, average web surfers WILL wait for stuff to download, and things that don't work get blamed on their OWN machine, not the offending website. Moms across the nation don't read/. and a lot of people think the Internet lives in their monitor. Scary but true...anybody who's ever done any amount of tech support can back me up on this.) Unless you yourself are also a web designer and you've been able to avoid all these non-compliance issues in your work, don't be so uppity.
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My clients and even my boss routinely point me to other sites they've seen that do something 'cool', and I'm starting to sound like a real bitch telling them 'No' all the time. When will these companies figure out that CONTENT is what drives people to a site, not fancy toys? Do we come to/. for the icons? As long as there are people who have limited bandwidth and processor power, the bleeding edge gizmos should probably be left to entertainment sites.
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My Mom loves that little paper clip guy. She sent me email about how to turn him on and all the 'cute' things he says. (groan....) Who has to bail her out with an hour of support over the phone when something f*cks up? You and me, baby. Multiply that by how many middle aged mom secretary-types there are in all the offices across this nation...
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Example: the concept of "incentive to racial hatred" does not exist in the United States. However nothing prevents the sites néo-Nazis based on the other side of the Atlantic to diffuse their propaganda in Europe via the Net...
The Internet has forced us to deal with our differences in a rather disturbing way. Our laws can not and should not be applied to people of other countries, but at the same time, they can't expect us to sacrifice our freedoms to comply with their agendas. (Not saying that trying to block nazi propaganda isn't a good agenda, but...where does it stop?) I am more worried about the USA's role in this not because I don't think we can come to an agreement, but because the Web has been overrun by corporations and media, who in turn have their own puppets in DC. I see a vision of trade agreement type laws being passed to regulate the 'net, with a very AOL-ish type of structure. You see the web your government has decided it's ok for you to see. And I'm not sure how to affect that outcome. Stories like this one give me goosebumps. I keep them mentally filed with other unpleasant mind-candy, like 2 year olds on Prozac and the destruction of the rainforest...
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The movie was disappointing to most of us, actually. Let's hope they don't go down the road that Star Trek did...I'd hate to see "X-Files III, Saving the Whales with a Lame plot and Bad Co-Stars".
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Of COURSE there are a bunch of 'dead end' and non-connected sites. There are a thousand web rings for Leonardo DiCraprio just languishing, having been abandoned for whoever is hot now... argh... I love Google, but lately when I search I get more results consisting of dead links and posts to message boards than any useful info. I've been on the mailing list for the Search Engine Watch newsletter for a couple years now, and while there's a lot being done to weed through all the fluff, IMHO the fluff is growing at too high a rate for the technology to keep up with presently. Anybody currently active in the industry got an insight into how search engines are combatting all this expired flotsam?
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I read that the release of Netscape 6.0 will be so much like IE5 that some proprietary tags made specifically for Netscape 4 will NOT work.
My question, then, is how in the world are we supposed to maintain multi-browser compatibility? Or should we even try anymore? I've been trying to steer my clients far clear of 'fancy' stuff by telling them that not everyone will see it the way we do...but with everyone else doing it, that argument is beginning to slip. Everybody wants Flash, and Quicktime, and JavaScript... I grow weary of fighting in the Browser Wars...;-)
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... I will.
Dig this article about some other rockers (albeit some sucky rockers) who are doing pretty much the same thing.
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Although more people from every age group are getting online every day, wouldn't online voting only really appeal to those of the 'slacker' generation, age 25 and under? What steps are you taking (candidates, too) to attract those who aren't as 'Net savvy? Most polls tend to show that the Baby Boomers and beyond wouldn't vote online even if they could.
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I imagine that would provide us with much different candidates for President than we see now...
"Governor Bush? How is your aim compared to the war-trained eye of Senator McCain?"
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Having experienced cable and DSL I agree with you. I'm not sure how it works in the rest of the country but we get our DSL straight from Bell Atlantic, so when something is f*cked, there's only one number to call. Speed is great, works like a champ, no complaints here. The only real downfall of cable is that you lose speed as more people in your area sign on. Unacceptable, IMO.
Don't ask me about my month on Juno in between my old ISP and DSL though...(shudder)...
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Awesome article...except for all the spelling and layout errors. Sheesh. And what's up with this - Dr. Guenter Nimtz [[umlaut over u]] - ? You telling me these guys don't know how to use the character map? Or hard code them - ü or ü - into their HTML? ;-)
They should hire me.
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And technically he only got part of the 'A'...wish I could draw it in ASCII for you... ;-)
"Mindy, will you be my Mole Queen?"
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...what about Dome homes?
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But using phrases like "Napster operations manual" sort-of cancel out any techie butt-kissing. ;-)
I was a bit impressed with some of the points he made, but not to the Gnutella/etc. question. I can respect their wishes to control their music, but they really have no grasp on how futile an endevour that is.
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Anybody else notice the moon in this strip? :-)
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'Chinese products' pretty much includes everything in your house that says 'Made in Taiwan', doesn't it?
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...as long as your way is the one way we programmed it to cook.
"But I asked for medium rare!"
"Hey lady, this ain't McLinux's."
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Maybe they do, but it seems to me this site's been slashdotted. :-(
[Begin whiny rant] - I wanna see the pictures!
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Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that. :-)
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Okay it wasn't enough that people have cell phones going off in movie theatres and restaurants, now they have to play other people's bad taste in music as well?
"Well, I WAS enjoying Rocky XXIV until that guy's phone started playing the 'Beaches' soundtrack."
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If everybody became an artist, chances are that 90% of them would suck. (Law of averages. Some people just have no ear/talent/imagination.)
The artists COULD charge whatever they want, they could do that now, except - If another band underprices you, you don't sell as much (unless you just really rock). And then it's back to where we are now - Band A charges $25.00 for their latest 2 CD album - man, that's more than my lunch money for the week - hey, let's go get it from Napster instead!
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...have you forgotten the poo that ensued after /. tried to publish our comments w/out our permission? Unless /. wants to draft a petition type of letter and then collect signatures from all of us then I'm not sure your idea would work. (NOTE: /. can use my comments, my name, my nude pictures, etc. - anything as long as it helps the cause. Hehe.) /. for them to check out if you like.
If all of us typed up a letter and sent it in to our Congressperson via the USPS, though, THAT would be cool. And you could include a reference to the ongoing debates here at
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Threats from Black Beard aside (I refuse to make the computer/piracy joke - c'mon trolls), what about the conditions? I'll be the first to admit I know nothing about houseboats, but how far out can you go before you're in international waters, and how far out can you go before it becomes dangerous?
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Couldn't get to it, man... have you been /.ed already? ;-)
For my 2cents, I'm pretty tired of hearing everybody rattle off the same arguments. We've had a half dozen Metallica/Dre stories here and none of you are going to say anything new now. But the story got posted because they know you'll converge on it like vultures.
Ick, I feel all dirty now.
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I'll be the first to say that most websites are horribly clogged with features you consider 'cardinal sins', but I don't really think his is that bad. (Granted I'm at work on a Windoze machine, I may feel differently trying to browse it on Linux...that IS what you meant by 'putting off potential readers', right?) /. and a lot of people think the Internet lives in their monitor. Scary but true...anybody who's ever done any amount of tech support can back me up on this.)
After seeing this story I went through his whole site, and though I think he has a big bone for CSS which kinda makes me cringe, he does have a lot of worthy info, not to mention some good stories to share. His low-res graphics and sparse layouts were like a breath of fresh air compared with the overstuffed sites I have to build for my clients. (Contrary to popular polls, average web surfers WILL wait for stuff to download, and things that don't work get blamed on their OWN machine, not the offending website. Moms across the nation don't read
Unless you yourself are also a web designer and you've been able to avoid all these non-compliance issues in your work, don't be so uppity.
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My clients and even my boss routinely point me to other sites they've seen that do something 'cool', and I'm starting to sound like a real bitch telling them 'No' all the time. /. for the icons?
When will these companies figure out that CONTENT is what drives people to a site, not fancy toys? Do we come to
As long as there are people who have limited bandwidth and processor power, the bleeding edge gizmos should probably be left to entertainment sites.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
My Mom loves that little paper clip guy. She sent me email about how to turn him on and all the 'cute' things he says. (groan....)
Who has to bail her out with an hour of support over the phone when something f*cks up? You and me, baby. Multiply that by how many middle aged mom secretary-types there are in all the offices across this nation...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Example: the concept of "incentive to racial hatred" does not exist in the United States. However nothing prevents the sites néo-Nazis based on the other side of the Atlantic to diffuse their propaganda in Europe via the Net...
The Internet has forced us to deal with our differences in a rather disturbing way. Our laws can not and should not be applied to people of other countries, but at the same time, they can't expect us to sacrifice our freedoms to comply with their agendas. (Not saying that trying to block nazi propaganda isn't a good agenda, but...where does it stop?) I am more worried about the USA's role in this not because I don't think we can come to an agreement, but because the Web has been overrun by corporations and media, who in turn have their own puppets in DC. I see a vision of trade agreement type laws being passed to regulate the 'net, with a very AOL-ish type of structure. You see the web your government has decided it's ok for you to see. And I'm not sure how to affect that outcome.
Stories like this one give me goosebumps. I keep them mentally filed with other unpleasant mind-candy, like 2 year olds on Prozac and the destruction of the rainforest...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
The movie was disappointing to most of us, actually.
Let's hope they don't go down the road that Star Trek did...I'd hate to see "X-Files III, Saving the Whales with a Lame plot and Bad Co-Stars".
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Of COURSE there are a bunch of 'dead end' and non-connected sites. There are a thousand web rings for Leonardo DiCraprio just languishing, having been abandoned for whoever is hot now... argh...
I love Google, but lately when I search I get more results consisting of dead links and posts to message boards than any useful info. I've been on the mailing list for the Search Engine Watch newsletter for a couple years now, and while there's a lot being done to weed through all the fluff, IMHO the fluff is growing at too high a rate for the technology to keep up with presently.
Anybody currently active in the industry got an insight into how search engines are combatting all this expired flotsam?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I read that the release of Netscape 6.0 will be so much like IE5 that some proprietary tags made specifically for Netscape 4 will NOT work.
;-)
My question, then, is how in the world are we supposed to maintain multi-browser compatibility? Or should we even try anymore? I've been trying to steer my clients far clear of 'fancy' stuff by telling them that not everyone will see it the way we do...but with everyone else doing it, that argument is beginning to slip. Everybody wants Flash, and Quicktime, and JavaScript...
I grow weary of fighting in the Browser Wars...
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