A blue "RSS" is only clear to the user if they know what RSS means, and probably 95%+ of Internet users don't.
The orange has become something of a de-facto standard, and the icon Firefox and IE are going to use has the advantage of working just fine for non-english users and no flamewar between the "XML", "RSS", and "FEED" camps.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of AdSense displayers just like me have faced this fate.
Hmm.
Let's take a high estimate of 100,000 AdSense publishers having this happen. That'd be $14 million if the average lost is $140. Most of the people I've seen complain note numbers somewhere between $30 and $200, so it's probably a high estimate too.
$14 million. For a company worth $120+ billion. They probably spend more than that on staplers.
I don't think that Britannia's errors are in any way as bad as the obscene vandalism that affects many wikipedia articles.
Which one are you more likely to take as fact without questioning - that the speed of light is 295,792,458 metres per second, or that George Bush sucks Dick Cheney's cock nightly before his bedtime story?
Subtle errors are far more dangerous than outright vandalism.
Your point re: editors cutting down wordiness is a valid one, but the opposite applies as well - Wikipedia's lack of length restraints likely permits more detail in many cases. You might find out what made him irritable, how he killed them, what the repercussions across the kingdom were, etc., when such things are too minor for Britannica to use paper on.
"No, they don't let you render JavaScript on the site. If you RTFA, he split the word "java script" into two lines, hid it in a CSS tag, and IE read it anyway. MySpace has stripped out tags for at least a year and a half."
Well, that's how XMLHTTPRequest came about, so there's a place for such things I'd say. We'd be without Gmail and Google Maps and other such things if it weren't for Microsoft's unilateral non-standardness.
That's not to say it's always (or even usually) a good thing - see ActiveX and the like - but to condemn it outright is silly.
What's the marriage rate compared between the two groups? Are fundies getting divorced more often because they are more likely to get married in the first place?
If I'm remembering the study correctly, it only dealt with married people who later divorced - i.e. rate of marriage is irrelevant to the results.
Indeed - by the time the original Xbox was functional enough to be a general-purpose machine running linux (real video support (still no 3D), sound, etc) it was a fraction of the power compared to what could be done with a $300 off the shelf PC.
And by that time, the original Xbox no longer cost $300.
Hmmmm... beer and curry... the British must live fer freakin' ever.... or they would, were it not for fish and chips, beans on toast, lamb roasted in lard, meat pies, etc.
There's a significant difference between hearing the difference and giving a shit about the difference.
Plenty of people are quite happy with standard broadcast radio, despite it being what, 50kbps max? Audiophiles make the mistake of thinking that everyone cares like they do.
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I'm just saying they're obviously not doing it for the money.
I think the whole radio-waves motif predates Engadget by a couple decades.
A blue "RSS" is only clear to the user if they know what RSS means, and probably 95%+ of Internet users don't.
The orange has become something of a de-facto standard, and the icon Firefox and IE are going to use has the advantage of working just fine for non-english users and no flamewar between the "XML", "RSS", and "FEED" camps.
It makes it unlikely that it's a deliberate thing.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of AdSense displayers just like me have faced this fate.
Hmm.
Let's take a high estimate of 100,000 AdSense publishers having this happen. That'd be $14 million if the average lost is $140. Most of the people I've seen complain note numbers somewhere between $30 and $200, so it's probably a high estimate too.
$14 million. For a company worth $120+ billion. They probably spend more than that on staplers.
I don't think that Britannia's errors are in any way as bad as the obscene vandalism that affects many wikipedia articles.
Which one are you more likely to take as fact without questioning - that the speed of light is 295,792,458 metres per second, or that George Bush sucks Dick Cheney's cock nightly before his bedtime story?
Subtle errors are far more dangerous than outright vandalism.
Your point re: editors cutting down wordiness is a valid one, but the opposite applies as well - Wikipedia's lack of length restraints likely permits more detail in many cases. You might find out what made him irritable, how he killed them, what the repercussions across the kingdom were, etc., when such things are too minor for Britannica to use paper on.
Here this was up just yesterday and was just taken takendown.
So you left slander up on the Internet when you could easily have removed it? You're part of the problem!
Without Wiki it WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN UP AT ALL.
And neither would much of the useful content.
Other Encyclopedias don't have problems, anywhere even remotely close to Wiki with its slander and information athentication WARS.
Other encyclopedias don't have much of the more obscure information available in Wikipedia.
Perhaps, but try saying XMLHTTPRequest ten times fast.
From the thread:
"No, they don't let you render JavaScript on the site. If you RTFA, he split the word "java script" into two lines, hid it in a CSS tag, and IE read it anyway. MySpace has stripped out tags for at least a year and a half."
Sounds like an IE bug, not a problem with AJAX.
Works here, but try the first link if the particletree.com (second) link still isn't working on your end.
Sure, but that's a stupid people problem.
More useful examples would include Google Maps, Gmail, Flickr, etc.
Client-side Python? How long, exactly, should we wait for Internet Explorer to add support for that?
Anyone who finds basic AJAX "too complex" needs to try the Prototype library.
Sure, but when something useful comes along, people say it is a fad.
Look at what Google Maps did for online mapping and tell me AJAX is "just a fad".
Well, that makes some of your older comments entertaining.
"It's primarily Google's fault, according to http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/"
becomes
"It's primarily Google's fault, according to me."
et cetera...
I am no genius.
That much is readily apparent.
Well, that's how XMLHTTPRequest came about, so there's a place for such things I'd say. We'd be without Gmail and Google Maps and other such things if it weren't for Microsoft's unilateral non-standardness.
That's not to say it's always (or even usually) a good thing - see ActiveX and the like - but to condemn it outright is silly.
What's the marriage rate compared between the two groups? Are fundies getting divorced more often because they are more likely to get married in the first place?
If I'm remembering the study correctly, it only dealt with married people who later divorced - i.e. rate of marriage is irrelevant to the results.
1800flowers.com must be sad to have wasted all that advertising money.
If only they'd TRIED getting to their website, they'd have saved all that lost money on an invalid domain!
Oh, wait.
(who are the two dumbass moderators who modded the parent up?)
Yep.
A few people spent a week or two writing PENIS, if I remember correctly.
Pixelfest is cooler.
Indeed - by the time the original Xbox was functional enough to be a general-purpose machine running linux (real video support (still no 3D), sound, etc) it was a fraction of the power compared to what could be done with a $300 off the shelf PC.
And by that time, the original Xbox no longer cost $300.
They're $100 locally now.
Hmmmm ... beer and curry ... the British must live fer freakin' ever. ... or they would, were it not for fish and chips, beans on toast, lamb roasted in lard, meat pies, etc.
Mmmmm, greasy. I miss my Aussie/British food.
There's a significant difference between hearing the difference and giving a shit about the difference.
Plenty of people are quite happy with standard broadcast radio, despite it being what, 50kbps max? Audiophiles make the mistake of thinking that everyone cares like they do.
That is because my interest is in music and not in expensive equipment.
Beautiful. That's the soundbite that needs to get used more often.