If you don't want something to become public knowledge -- accessible by anyone -- then don't put it on the internet.
Or use the sitemaps protocol to let them spider what semi-private information you want to offer and let users of your site decide whether or not it's worth their time to login (or whatever authentication method you choose) to read what they deem acceptable.
If you put shit up on the web for everyone to read, that will include spiders, and then stop whining when public information is read by, *gasp*, everyone.
This is a non-issue and one that people should fucking stop whining about and get some common sense about.
The fact of the matter is this: Comcast is no longer the biggest and the best. Cable is taking a distance back seat to Verizon's FiOS (fiber optic service), which delivers speeds up to 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speeds.
The fact of the matter is that I *can* get cable (well, not Comcast is this area but Charter instead) but I cannot get FiOS. I still find it hysterical that McLeod fiber runs less than 100 feet from my backdoor (nothing in between me and it) and I cannot get any Internet benefit from that cable.
They can't keep selling it at a loss and hope to eventually make a profit, since Microsoft's online music store isn't as comprehensive as iTunes.
I'm apparently confused. I was under the apparent misconception that both units played MP3s and neither required a music store to operate the device. Silly me -- all this time I thought you could use any MP3 on these devices. Don't know where I got that from.
Aside from your comment about the music store, from what I've seen of the Zune (I don't own either an iPod or a Zune) it works just fine for a media player. Yeah, the color schemes are lame and they certainly don't have the marketing team that Apple does for their units, but money talks.
As long as it plays music and fit in your pocket, cheap people (who happen to outnumber those interested in being hip) will flock to it. In addition, for you to claim that MSFT will somehow not be able to continue this mode of operation for a very long time, you're nuts.
I see some people saying that this isn't news, but I am glad to see Firefox get some attention. Some people may have disabled auto update and forgotten to update for a while. (I personally don't like apps that automatically phone home even with good intentions).
Then you need to pay attention for updates yourself and your point that it should be front page Slashdot news is moot. In addition, I would assume that the vast majority of geek users of Firefox don't turn off auto-updating because then it basically becomes quite similar to IE in updates and no one wants that.
Maybe it was different in the past when software didn't automatically tell its users to upgrade but now that Firefox reminds you automatically when a new release is out I don't see the reason why Slashdot would put this on the front page... Not only that but this release was pushed out yesterday (or the day before, I can't recall when I picked it up). In addition to even that aside, 2.*.10 was out just several days before that and was a bigger update. If anything, we should have heard about that instead and not this minor fix.
Until the "editors" stop pushing garbage through w/o letting the firehose "fix" stupid submissions, Slashdot will continue to lag other sites in the quality coming through. If you really want to keep it up let the firehose do its job -- if not, let it degrade to the steaming pile that is Digg and be done with it already.
You're assuming that they're visiting all restaurants which just isn't true. If they visit an establishment that's poor then they should get equal press time than a good one does. They've already visited it, usually more than twice -- especially if it was a poor experience, why not write about it and save the rest of us the time?
I don't even think it goes that far. I know plenty of restaurant reviewers for news print magazines that refuse to have their poor experiences published. Only the good restaurants (according to their opinions) get exposure and the others don't get jack. It's disappointing that our media culture is full of a bunch of pansy motherfuckers who are afraid to say exactly what they think.
Bloggers are happy to write their opinions honestly and truthfully and I'm glad they exist. I refuse to believe any "real" restaurant reviewer. They're all full of shit and in my experience have never hit the nail on the head.
All this (and many other examples) prove is that for-profit journalism is really declining fast. I just hope that the government, the advertisers and whatever future groups don't get a stranglehold on the citizen journalists too.
I'm quite impressed by the years of books they have offered. While I figured that many of the books would be out of copyright and a few would be done with permission, I was shocked to see that they have nearly 1/2 million books published after 1981.
"The mobile industry has constantly outperformed even the most optimistic forecasts for subscriber growth," Mark Newman, head of research at Informa said in a statement.
And the telcos constantly outperformed even the most dismal forecasts for subscriber growth by charging people for long distance service automatically because they didn't add a block onto their account (a $7 fee), they force them to have a telephone in order to get DSL, and they charge astronomical flat rates instead of going back to rate plans which are more reasonable for the amount of usage people require out of their landlines.
When my parents switched from having long distance on their landline (they have to get DSL as there's no cable where they just built) to use only their mobile phones I knew that time was up for the telcos.
Actually, I've already regained the top spot within a few weeks of that PageRank drop. My post was just talking about the general weirdness that was occurring around that time.
There have only been 12 Google Searches for [B|b]ill [R|r]oehl today though. Not nearly enough to stroke my ego;)
Recently (end of October) Google reordered some of their sites and dropped the PageRank on many (mine included) there was a blog post about it here. My PageRank suffered immensely dropping from an overall high of 6/10 to the now 3/10. The most noticeable difference for me was that for the next two weeks (and the first time ever) I was no longer the #1 hit for: Bill Roehl, "Bill Roehl", or any variation thereof. Not only that but the first result from Google wasn't even for my root page, it was for some post I had underneath. I found that to be very odd.
Now, while I was digging through the Google results to find out why this could have possibly happened (prior to reading the blog post linked above) I found tons of SEO spam sites that my site had been linked from. I had never seen that many junk results returned before and was surprised they were getting through. I was seriously concerned that they had something to do w/my ranking drop.
At least Google is getting back on track dumping those bastards. While most people probably don't change their default settings to see anything more than the first 10 results, I am constantly looking through the first 100 on various searches and have seen more and more of that. I was wondering if some of the claims of Google's drop from #1 would imminent if something didn't change.
Their budget is usually enough for one good manager and a bunch of college students who need spending cash.
Well, that's not entirely true but IT in Higher Ed certainly does not function like it does everywhere else and hosted solutions (of any application genre) are going great guns in Higher Ed because of the slow response times with IT.
It's a serious cash cow for the companies that host these services (like RightNow and TimeTrade to name just two of the dozen that I have dealt with as part of my job in the last 6 months) because Higher Ed is so willing to slough this stuff off on someone else and pay the maintenance fees rather than having to rely on the overworked in-house IT staff.
The unfortunate part of having a hosted solution is the maintenance fees. With a hosted CRM solution requiring an 8% yearly fee to keep up with upgrades and hosting/service fees, college budgets are dwindling for the departments that rely on this software for day-to-day activities.
The biggest problem will come in ~2014 as the enrollment decline hits the big time and colleges are scrambling to spend more of their limited budgets on marketing to their high-quality leads and keeping up with all the budgets of those higher-end schools. It should be interesting:)
Blah blah blah. The single "activist judge" who didn't kowtow in this particular instance -- woofuckinghoo for checks and balances.
I'm sorry but this one particular example does, in no way, bring us back on an even playing field prior to the Bush Administration's far-reaching and scary-as-fuck violations of privacy all in the name of the ever so popular terrorism.
Drooling over hardware like an idiot.. you already own a Mac don't you?
Yeah, and I really can't say I like my Mac. I do, however, love those huge displays that I don't see demoed in any other store like they are in the Apple store. If drooling over hardware like those displays makes me an idiot, I guess I'll deal with it but for you to assume that it was because I was just drooling over it w/o any practical use for it then you're sorely mistaken.
That's gotta hurt a little, coinciding as it does with Apple's Don't Give Up On Vista attack ad.
I wish they would go back to the ads showing how sexy the technology they offer is (like the PC with a mess of wires in the back compared to the iMac with nothing but the keyboard and mouse or the continuing awesome iPod ads with catchy tunes from bands with moderate success prior to the release of the video) instead of those crappy "attack" ads. Hell, go back to the old ads with the geek chic that was ever so popular here on Slashdot even.
Just enough talking about Vista and Windows -- they're starting to sound like politicians. In fact, they've been picking up other bad habits. My wife and I went into the Apple store at the Mall of America and while I was gawking and drooling over those huge displays, two of their employees launched a Best Buy style sales attack on her. She actually said, "you know, we used to enjoy entering this store and you're now very much like Best Buy, you might want to rethink that." The sales people actually left her alone after one replied, "sorry, I will bring that forward." Who knows if they did or not.
You've convinced your dad not to buy a PC, and you've convinced your mom not to use a Mac. You brought this on yourself, cowboy, and no-one feels bad for you.
You're a douchebag and I certainly don't feel bad for you.
I didn't convince my father of anything. If he had called me and asked what to buy, I would have told him a Dell and certainly not a Mac for my mother.
1) stop telling your mom that Macs suck, and help her learn to use the damned thing.
I didn't do anything of the sort. Don't put words in my mouth.
2) stop telling your dad that Dell and Vista suck, and help him buy a new computer.
I have a Dell laptop from 1996 (it's about to turn 11 in December) that still works. I don't suggest to my father what OS to run (unlike most of the popular commenters here on Slashdot that feel like they should convert everyone to Linux). He's quite capable of reading the news and making up his own mind.
3) stop being incompetent tech support for your parents.
I don't need to be tech support (of any kind) for my parents. They are quite sufficient at using a computer and doing what they need to do if they are not operating properly. We're not talking about computer users that started using them since XP. We're talking about people who've used computers since the Vic-20 and from DOS 5.0 through XP on the PC side.
In addition, they are too far away from me for me to bother with "tech support". If I'm not able to sit in front of the machine to "fix" it, I don't bother.
Still.... it doesn't sound much like she knew what she was doing to start out. If she knows how to use Windows Explorer, the Finder should hardly be a challenge.
Thanks for yet another obnoxious answer from a computer user. Exactly what I have asked you not to be. Please do not waste everyone's time w/inconsiderate responses.
Where is this learning curve she's talking about? I just don't see it.
You're also not a 57 year old female that has used a PC since moving from a C64 back in 1990.
Apple Mail more or less works the same as Outlook Express. Safari, IE, and Firefox are similar enough that anybody who's used one should be able to use all three.
She uses GMail and apparently GMail isn't operating quite the same in Safari as it is in IE on her PC. She wasn't specific (as I said, she was being overly difficult and stubborn) as to what was missing for her in GMail but it was enough to irk her. I suggested she download Firefox and that the experience would be the same as IE but she said she had other things to do that were more important at the time (they just built and moved into a new house three weeks ago).
Her biggest complaint is that she can't find anything she wants to use aside from what's listed on the Dock. I have similar issues with OS X and not being able to locate what I want. It's a completely different experience from looking on the Start Menu (if it's not already on the desktop) and when she plugged in her USB drive she was unable to find any of the files because the icons were too big and she could only see one at a time. I tried to explain to her how to increase the size of the window she was viewing but she said no such ability existed.
I am not looking for more people who insist there is nothing wrong with OS X and that she's being irrational (I know this already). I'm looking for answers on how to make the transition more comfortable for her and if there are any programs or theme changes I can utilize to make that happen w/o having to try a bunch myself ahead of time. Someone out there has to have had some similar issue that they resolved...
As I stated above -- none of the laptops "he wanted to buy" were available without Vista. He does not want to purchase a Dell for very specific reasons.
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If you don't want something to become public knowledge -- accessible by anyone -- then don't put it on the internet.
Or use the sitemaps protocol to let them spider what semi-private information you want to offer and let users of your site decide whether or not it's worth their time to login (or whatever authentication method you choose) to read what they deem acceptable.
If you put shit up on the web for everyone to read, that will include spiders, and then stop whining when public information is read by, *gasp*, everyone.
This is a non-issue and one that people should fucking stop whining about and get some common sense about.
The fact of the matter is this: Comcast is no longer the biggest and the best. Cable is taking a distance back seat to Verizon's FiOS (fiber optic service), which delivers speeds up to 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speeds.
The fact of the matter is that I *can* get cable (well, not Comcast is this area but Charter instead) but I cannot get FiOS. I still find it hysterical that McLeod fiber runs less than 100 feet from my backdoor (nothing in between me and it) and I cannot get any Internet benefit from that cable.
They can't keep selling it at a loss and hope to eventually make a profit, since Microsoft's online music store isn't as comprehensive as iTunes.
I'm apparently confused. I was under the apparent misconception that both units played MP3s and neither required a music store to operate the device. Silly me -- all this time I thought you could use any MP3 on these devices. Don't know where I got that from.
Aside from your comment about the music store, from what I've seen of the Zune (I don't own either an iPod or a Zune) it works just fine for a media player. Yeah, the color schemes are lame and they certainly don't have the marketing team that Apple does for their units, but money talks.
As long as it plays music and fit in your pocket, cheap people (who happen to outnumber those interested in being hip) will flock to it. In addition, for you to claim that MSFT will somehow not be able to continue this mode of operation for a very long time, you're nuts.
I see some people saying that this isn't news, but I am glad to see Firefox get some attention. Some people may have disabled auto update and forgotten to update for a while. (I personally don't like apps that automatically phone home even with good intentions).
Then you need to pay attention for updates yourself and your point that it should be front page Slashdot news is moot. In addition, I would assume that the vast majority of geek users of Firefox don't turn off auto-updating because then it basically becomes quite similar to IE in updates and no one wants that.
Maybe it was different in the past when software didn't automatically tell its users to upgrade but now that Firefox reminds you automatically when a new release is out I don't see the reason why Slashdot would put this on the front page... Not only that but this release was pushed out yesterday (or the day before, I can't recall when I picked it up). In addition to even that aside, 2.*.10 was out just several days before that and was a bigger update. If anything, we should have heard about that instead and not this minor fix.
Until the "editors" stop pushing garbage through w/o letting the firehose "fix" stupid submissions, Slashdot will continue to lag other sites in the quality coming through. If you really want to keep it up let the firehose do its job -- if not, let it degrade to the steaming pile that is Digg and be done with it already.
Which is a more useful service to your reader?
You're assuming that they're visiting all restaurants which just isn't true. If they visit an establishment that's poor then they should get equal press time than a good one does. They've already visited it, usually more than twice -- especially if it was a poor experience, why not write about it and save the rest of us the time?
I don't even think it goes that far. I know plenty of restaurant reviewers for news print magazines that refuse to have their poor experiences published. Only the good restaurants (according to their opinions) get exposure and the others don't get jack. It's disappointing that our media culture is full of a bunch of pansy motherfuckers who are afraid to say exactly what they think.
Bloggers are happy to write their opinions honestly and truthfully and I'm glad they exist. I refuse to believe any "real" restaurant reviewer. They're all full of shit and in my experience have never hit the nail on the head.
All this (and many other examples) prove is that for-profit journalism is really declining fast. I just hope that the government, the advertisers and whatever future groups don't get a stranglehold on the citizen journalists too.
I'm quite impressed by the years of books they have offered. While I figured that many of the books would be out of copyright and a few would be done with permission, I was shocked to see that they have nearly 1/2 million books published after 1981.
Check out their progress report here.
"The mobile industry has constantly outperformed even the most optimistic forecasts for subscriber growth," Mark Newman, head of research at Informa said in a statement.
And the telcos constantly outperformed even the most dismal forecasts for subscriber growth by charging people for long distance service automatically because they didn't add a block onto their account (a $7 fee), they force them to have a telephone in order to get DSL, and they charge astronomical flat rates instead of going back to rate plans which are more reasonable for the amount of usage people require out of their landlines.
When my parents switched from having long distance on their landline (they have to get DSL as there's no cable where they just built) to use only their mobile phones I knew that time was up for the telcos.
Actually, I've already regained the top spot within a few weeks of that PageRank drop. My post was just talking about the general weirdness that was occurring around that time.
;)
There have only been 12 Google Searches for [B|b]ill [R|r]oehl today though. Not nearly enough to stroke my ego
I never noticed that in my results before.
It had nothing to do with that. The two sites that outranked mine were pointing back to me. That's why it made no sense.
Recently (end of October) Google reordered some of their sites and dropped the PageRank on many (mine included) there was a blog post about it here. My PageRank suffered immensely dropping from an overall high of 6/10 to the now 3/10. The most noticeable difference for me was that for the next two weeks (and the first time ever) I was no longer the #1 hit for: Bill Roehl, "Bill Roehl", or any variation thereof. Not only that but the first result from Google wasn't even for my root page, it was for some post I had underneath. I found that to be very odd.
Now, while I was digging through the Google results to find out why this could have possibly happened (prior to reading the blog post linked above) I found tons of SEO spam sites that my site had been linked from. I had never seen that many junk results returned before and was surprised they were getting through. I was seriously concerned that they had something to do w/my ranking drop.
At least Google is getting back on track dumping those bastards. While most people probably don't change their default settings to see anything more than the first 10 results, I am constantly looking through the first 100 on various searches and have seen more and more of that. I was wondering if some of the claims of Google's drop from #1 would imminent if something didn't change.
At least he didn't have it in his pants pocket... He might have survived but his future children would not have.
The enrollment decline begins in 2010 because the number of eligible secondary students drops significantly.
Their budget is usually enough for one good manager and a bunch of college students who need spending cash.
:)
Well, that's not entirely true but IT in Higher Ed certainly does not function like it does everywhere else and hosted solutions (of any application genre) are going great guns in Higher Ed because of the slow response times with IT.
It's a serious cash cow for the companies that host these services (like RightNow and TimeTrade to name just two of the dozen that I have dealt with as part of my job in the last 6 months) because Higher Ed is so willing to slough this stuff off on someone else and pay the maintenance fees rather than having to rely on the overworked in-house IT staff.
The unfortunate part of having a hosted solution is the maintenance fees. With a hosted CRM solution requiring an 8% yearly fee to keep up with upgrades and hosting/service fees, college budgets are dwindling for the departments that rely on this software for day-to-day activities.
The biggest problem will come in ~2014 as the enrollment decline hits the big time and colleges are scrambling to spend more of their limited budgets on marketing to their high-quality leads and keeping up with all the budgets of those higher-end schools. It should be interesting
Blah blah blah. The single "activist judge" who didn't kowtow in this particular instance -- woofuckinghoo for checks and balances.
I'm sorry but this one particular example does, in no way, bring us back on an even playing field prior to the Bush Administration's far-reaching and scary-as-fuck violations of privacy all in the name of the ever so popular terrorism.
Nah, the aftereffects of radiation poisoning from Chernobyl weren't all that bad -- not nearly as bad as being dead.
I love skew.
Drooling over hardware like an idiot.. you already own a Mac don't you?
Yeah, and I really can't say I like my Mac. I do, however, love those huge displays that I don't see demoed in any other store like they are in the Apple store. If drooling over hardware like those displays makes me an idiot, I guess I'll deal with it but for you to assume that it was because I was just drooling over it w/o any practical use for it then you're sorely mistaken.
That's gotta hurt a little, coinciding as it does with Apple's Don't Give Up On Vista attack ad.
I wish they would go back to the ads showing how sexy the technology they offer is (like the PC with a mess of wires in the back compared to the iMac with nothing but the keyboard and mouse or the continuing awesome iPod ads with catchy tunes from bands with moderate success prior to the release of the video) instead of those crappy "attack" ads. Hell, go back to the old ads with the geek chic that was ever so popular here on Slashdot even.
Just enough talking about Vista and Windows -- they're starting to sound like politicians. In fact, they've been picking up other bad habits. My wife and I went into the Apple store at the Mall of America and while I was gawking and drooling over those huge displays, two of their employees launched a Best Buy style sales attack on her. She actually said, "you know, we used to enjoy entering this store and you're now very much like Best Buy, you might want to rethink that." The sales people actually left her alone after one replied, "sorry, I will bring that forward." Who knows if they did or not.
Think different, again, please!
I don't have video support with my Mac Mini. Can I do this w/o that in iChat?
You've convinced your dad not to buy a PC, and you've convinced your mom not to use a Mac. You brought this on yourself, cowboy, and no-one feels bad for you.
You're a douchebag and I certainly don't feel bad for you.
I didn't convince my father of anything. If he had called me and asked what to buy, I would have told him a Dell and certainly not a Mac for my mother.
1) stop telling your mom that Macs suck, and help her learn to use the damned thing.
I didn't do anything of the sort. Don't put words in my mouth.
2) stop telling your dad that Dell and Vista suck, and help him buy a new computer.
I have a Dell laptop from 1996 (it's about to turn 11 in December) that still works. I don't suggest to my father what OS to run (unlike most of the popular commenters here on Slashdot that feel like they should convert everyone to Linux). He's quite capable of reading the news and making up his own mind.
3) stop being incompetent tech support for your parents.
I don't need to be tech support (of any kind) for my parents. They are quite sufficient at using a computer and doing what they need to do if they are not operating properly. We're not talking about computer users that started using them since XP. We're talking about people who've used computers since the Vic-20 and from DOS 5.0 through XP on the PC side.
In addition, they are too far away from me for me to bother with "tech support". If I'm not able to sit in front of the machine to "fix" it, I don't bother.
Thanks for the troll though, it was nice.
Still.... it doesn't sound much like she knew what she was doing to start out. If she knows how to use Windows Explorer, the Finder should hardly be a challenge.
Thanks for yet another obnoxious answer from a computer user. Exactly what I have asked you not to be. Please do not waste everyone's time w/inconsiderate responses.
Where is this learning curve she's talking about? I just don't see it.
You're also not a 57 year old female that has used a PC since moving from a C64 back in 1990.
Apple Mail more or less works the same as Outlook Express. Safari, IE, and Firefox are similar enough that anybody who's used one should be able to use all three.
She uses GMail and apparently GMail isn't operating quite the same in Safari as it is in IE on her PC. She wasn't specific (as I said, she was being overly difficult and stubborn) as to what was missing for her in GMail but it was enough to irk her. I suggested she download Firefox and that the experience would be the same as IE but she said she had other things to do that were more important at the time (they just built and moved into a new house three weeks ago).
Her biggest complaint is that she can't find anything she wants to use aside from what's listed on the Dock. I have similar issues with OS X and not being able to locate what I want. It's a completely different experience from looking on the Start Menu (if it's not already on the desktop) and when she plugged in her USB drive she was unable to find any of the files because the icons were too big and she could only see one at a time. I tried to explain to her how to increase the size of the window she was viewing but she said no such ability existed.
I am not looking for more people who insist there is nothing wrong with OS X and that she's being irrational (I know this already). I'm looking for answers on how to make the transition more comfortable for her and if there are any programs or theme changes I can utilize to make that happen w/o having to try a bunch myself ahead of time. Someone out there has to have had some similar issue that they resolved...
As I stated above -- none of the laptops "he wanted to buy" were available without Vista. He does not want to purchase a Dell for very specific reasons.