Actually, no. The steps listed step 2 as *a* hypothesis, not the correct oone. Obviously, to find the right step 2 is difficult, but frequently theories abount.
Thank you, Rosco. You saved me a lot of typing, and your post is probably clearer as well.
Programmer skill, experience, knowledge and creativity is vastly underrated when it comes to debugging. The best tools in the world will only give bad programmers a portion of the abilities of a good programmer with a fprintf().
And what takes you between 2 and 3... and minimizes the number of attempts... is experience. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sometimes it is relatively easy and little knowledge or insight is required. But some bugs require huge leaps of intuition to solve in a reasonable amount of time.
Motorola is a giant company with compartmentalized divisions. I wouldn't be surprised if the cellular division doesn't even know the semiconductor division was involved with the PowerPC processor.
Yes, I'm sure. Look at the logo at the top with the penny and nickel. It looks like one of Google's logos -- specifically, the tax freedom day one. Below that are graphical links nested directly under the logo that are remarkably similiar to Google's tabs.
Now, I'll grant you that a lot of the rest of the page is a rip off of Apple's designs rather than Google's.
Conclusion: Entire design is a rip off with little to no originality, and is intentionally designed to mislead people into thinking it is a part of Google.
This is exactly how I feel. How is this even an issue?
Because Froogle is a play on both Frugal and Google. While Mr. Wolfe may have started Froogles before Google started Froogle, he started it well after Google started Google.
That Mr. Wolfe is attempting to use a confusingly similiar name in a bad-faith attempt to compete is obvious, given the layout of the Froogles web site.
Be careful with the Iomega drives. If someone provides you with a bad cow, it may damage your drive such that it damages all other cows you use. The damage is subtle, but eventually all the data on your cows will be lost.
For a so-called debunking, there's an awful lot of "Yes, this is true, but it doesn't tell the whole story" in the article. Quint's article reads like a panic attack waiting for a problem.
Oddly, having years of working with the damn things, the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear "HP" is "crappy printers."
Whether its bugs in the drivers -- and I've had to code around a lot of them -- or "optimizations" like Quick Layout, or just paper trays breaking or jams, I've never had a good experience with an HP printer.
Great! My mother works in a long term care facility, and the horror stories of what other employees do there makes me quite happy about this. If nothing else, it will hopefully help reveal who left a resident in a bath tub alone for several hours so they could go for a long lunch... something they very often can't tell you themselves.
I think my starter question is a little too hard to find with Google -- I've tried once -- but I'll give it another shot before I look like an idiot.:)
At the risk of being somewhat off topic, where do people suggest asking Linux-related questions and getting a minimum amount of condescending attitude back?
I'm an experienced computer user, but I'm definitely going to need some help getting things set up. Plus I have some questions about direction before I even start (and pick a distro).
All of the non-trivial (i.e. 2k or less) could have been saved with lossy compression. This change alone would have cut the size of the page to a third what it is now.
But going one step further, many of those graphics have no point at all. Do I really need a giant picture of some ugly mug? A name would have been sufficent, with a link to a bio.
Sorry, but it is not a good design, and was not done by someone who understands web usability.
Well, I suppose we can't blame them for a slashdotting, really. But even taking that into account, the page and graphics on it are still 575k in total... or over a minute of downloading for a 56k modem user.
And that's the core problem. See, your client is only the person who puts the web page up. He's not the end user.
By all means, do exactly what he wants and get paid for it. But don't justify the lousy interface you just created because it is "good art." You did it for the money.
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Actually, no. The steps listed step 2 as *a* hypothesis, not the correct oone. Obviously, to find the right step 2 is difficult, but frequently theories abount.
Thank you, Rosco. You saved me a lot of typing, and your post is probably clearer as well.
Programmer skill, experience, knowledge and creativity is vastly underrated when it comes to debugging. The best tools in the world will only give bad programmers a portion of the abilities of a good programmer with a fprintf().
And what takes you between 2 and 3... and minimizes the number of attempts... is experience. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sometimes it is relatively easy and little knowledge or insight is required. But some bugs require huge leaps of intuition to solve in a reasonable amount of time.
Motorola is a giant company with compartmentalized divisions. I wouldn't be surprised if the cellular division doesn't even know the semiconductor division was involved with the PowerPC processor.
Google's been doing the special day icons for several years. They didn't start *archiving* them until last year, though.
No, the first suit long predated Apple's music business.
Yes, I'm sure. Look at the logo at the top with the penny and nickel. It looks like one of Google's logos -- specifically, the tax freedom day one. Below that are graphical links nested directly under the logo that are remarkably similiar to Google's tabs.
Now, I'll grant you that a lot of the rest of the page is a rip off of Apple's designs rather than Google's.
Conclusion: Entire design is a rip off with little to no originality, and is intentionally designed to mislead people into thinking it is a part of Google.
This is exactly how I feel. How is this even an issue?
Because Froogle is a play on both Frugal and Google. While Mr. Wolfe may have started Froogles before Google started Froogle, he started it well after Google started Google.
That Mr. Wolfe is attempting to use a confusingly similiar name in a bad-faith attempt to compete is obvious, given the layout of the Froogles web site.
an observer.
Or, for the more rational and less ethical of you, a test subject.
Be careful with the Iomega drives. If someone provides you with a bad cow, it may damage your drive such that it damages all other cows you use. The damage is subtle, but eventually all the data on your cows will be lost.
For a so-called debunking, there's an awful lot of "Yes, this is true, but it doesn't tell the whole story" in the article. Quint's article reads like a panic attack waiting for a problem.
When you've got an iPod plugged into iTunes, you'll have an extra menu item. I think its called iPod Options. The setting is in there.
Oddly, having years of working with the damn things, the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear "HP" is "crappy printers."
Whether its bugs in the drivers -- and I've had to code around a lot of them -- or "optimizations" like Quick Layout, or just paper trays breaking or jams, I've never had a good experience with an HP printer.
Vancouver has a fairly high land cost, but a half hour out gets you over a 60% discount.
The cost of electronics varies greatly across Canada; in BC, they're dirt cheap.
Yeah, I was surprised nobody else thought of it. It doesn't happen very often that you get a chance like that...
Youinsensitiveclod!Ihavenothumbs!
Great! My mother works in a long term care facility, and the horror stories of what other employees do there makes me quite happy about this. If nothing else, it will hopefully help reveal who left a resident in a bath tub alone for several hours so they could go for a long lunch... something they very often can't tell you themselves.
I use Google Groups to post quite often and have never had problems with it, beyond the expected propagation time.
Thanks. :)
I think my starter question is a little too hard to find with Google -- I've tried once -- but I'll give it another shot before I look like an idiot. :)
At the risk of being somewhat off topic, where do people suggest asking Linux-related questions and getting a minimum amount of condescending attitude back?
I'm an experienced computer user, but I'm definitely going to need some help getting things set up. Plus I have some questions about direction before I even start (and pick a distro).
All of the non-trivial (i.e. 2k or less) could have been saved with lossy compression. This change alone would have cut the size of the page to a third what it is now.
But going one step further, many of those graphics have no point at all. Do I really need a giant picture of some ugly mug? A name would have been sufficent, with a link to a bio.
Sorry, but it is not a good design, and was not done by someone who understands web usability.
Well, I suppose we can't blame them for a slashdotting, really. But even taking that into account, the page and graphics on it are still 575k in total... or over a minute of downloading for a 56k modem user.
Not very usable.
I think some of it is intentional, at least with respect to bug fixes and old security updates.
And that's the core problem. See, your client is only the person who puts the web page up. He's not the end user.
By all means, do exactly what he wants and get paid for it. But don't justify the lousy interface you just created because it is "good art." You did it for the money.