Those rules shouldn't apply to every webpage, since content is so wide. Haven't seen any yet, but I guess there are sites which would be terribly crippled or inconsistent if they try to follow those rules.
At the end of the day, website designers must take consistency into account. Users should find what they need quickly and easily, no matter what web rules are applied.
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"I have considered an ISP to a company that provides access to the Net with or without Mail or Usenet".
That's the way I define ISP, too. The thing is that even the term ISP (Internet Service Provider) is confusing. It should be "Internet Access Provider". If it was "IAP", then there would be less confusion.....but, of course, we're talking about politicians, so they would have found a way to make it "IAP" confusing;-)
"Unless the Spanish speaking Mexican American population of Los Angeles county agree to replace the 'le' and 'la' with something more gender nutural,"
That would be "el" and "la". You also have cuban americans, spanish americans, colombian americans, argentinan americans, venezuelan americans, spanish guinea americans (who come from Africa), puerto ricans (which are all automatically americans), and so on and on and on. I guess it's better to say "latin/hispanic americans";-D.
I live in Venezuela, and when I was about 10, I took this computer course, where they had PCs and these wonderful, color-based C64 machines. I fell in love with them, but could never make my parents get me one (I got one 13 years later, for nostalgic reasons).
By that time, I also bought a weekly british magazine called "My Computer" (some publisher translated it to spanish and distributed it all over Spain and Latinamerica).
Thanks to that magazine, I became a C64, Sinclair Spectrum, Sinclair ZX81 and BBC Micro fan, even though, except fot the C64, I never had the chance to fiddle around with any of those machines! I read all the articles about their SO internals, processor specs and machine code techniques! The magazine also mentioned the IBM PCs and clones, but I never got interested in them until I got to college.
If they hope to make a 3D media storage device, alright. Otherwise, it won't be that great in 2D (a media the shape of a CD would carry something like... 9GB?
I code in Perl and C; I find those languages really cool and appropiate for the kind of stuff I do.
However, BASIC can be quite cool, too.. not in the bloated, dot-it-all sense Microsoft puts it with its Visual Basic incarnation, but for small, hobby applications.
"The English language is not engineered by erudite dorks like yourself."
So freaking what?
My point is still valid. The media misuses the term.
"The definition of English evolves according to whatever is currently being said by the vast majority of English-speakers."
So, it's ok that english speakers accept all that crap glossary from the media, even if it is wrong? Yeah, let's continue saying stuff like "color people", "new and improved" and "he broke his right leg".
Sorry, I prefer to be an iconoclastic slashdotter and erudite dork. If you want to be a mindless, do-not-question follower, go ahead, have a nice life.
"to most people it means someone who does bad things with computers"
Definitely, it's a misused term. And the media is responsible for this.
A hacker is that guy how is interested in learning more than he/she needs to in order to use a system.
I would have preferred the author to call the bad guys "crackers". Even "malicious hackers" would do.
All crackers might be hackers, but definitely not all hackers are crackers.
If you were a professional reporter, how would you take that people use "professional reporter" and "sensacionalist reporter" interchangeably? What about "opera singer" and "soap-opera hit performer"? "Ballet dancer" and "go-go dancer"? (maybe this last example was not too illustrative since both occupations are noble!).
Well, they could dedicate into producing "anti-cancer" pills or whatever (I think they are naming it "Reolysin").
Cancer won't just dissapear. It will continue popping up... anytime in the future, a person could get cancer as s/he gets chicken pox, and buy the medicine for it in the drugstore.
So, as ugly as it sounds to me: there's a market. Even if cancer is eradicated, these guys will get hell of a lot of cash curing the existing millions of people with cancer.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's another article about Linux based robots.
Linux robots sounds like a project I would like to explore in the near future!
Just what I needed.
Yet another machine that will beat me in GNUChess!
Those rules shouldn't apply to every webpage, since content is so wide. Haven't seen any yet, but I guess there are sites which would be terribly crippled or inconsistent if they try to follow those rules.
At the end of the day, website designers must take consistency into account. Users should find what they need quickly and easily, no matter what web rules are applied.
"I have considered an ISP to a company that provides access to the Net with or without Mail or Usenet".
..but, of course, we're talking about politicians, so they would have found a way to make it "IAP" confusing ;-)
That's the way I define ISP, too. The thing is that even the term ISP (Internet Service Provider) is confusing. It should be "Internet Access Provider". If it was "IAP", then there would be less confusion...
Google was my #1 tool to find my penis enlargement products.
Now I can't even get a home loan!!! And I can't consolidate my debts!!!
What am I gonna do???
"Unless the Spanish speaking Mexican American population of Los Angeles county agree to replace the 'le' and 'la' with something more gender nutural,"
;-D .
That would be "el" and "la". You also have cuban americans, spanish americans, colombian americans, argentinan americans, venezuelan americans, spanish guinea americans (who come from Africa), puerto ricans (which are all automatically americans), and so on and on and on. I guess it's better to say "latin/hispanic americans"
Funny stuff, though!!
"I like to think that pieces of hardware won't get offended if I call it a "slave". Unless you think that harddrives now have AI?"
;-) .
If we are not dumb enough to emulate the way we think when we design AI devices, I don't think such devices will give a damn if we call them names
I live in Venezuela, and when I was about 10, I took this computer course, where they had PCs and these wonderful, color-based C64 machines. I fell in love with them, but could never make my parents get me one (I got one 13 years later, for nostalgic reasons).
By that time, I also bought a weekly british magazine called "My Computer" (some publisher translated it to spanish and distributed it all over Spain and Latinamerica).
Thanks to that magazine, I became a C64, Sinclair Spectrum, Sinclair ZX81 and BBC Micro fan, even though, except fot the C64, I never had the chance to fiddle around with any of those machines! I read all the articles about their SO internals, processor specs and machine code techniques! The magazine also mentioned the IBM PCs and clones, but I never got interested in them until I got to college.
UK computing in the 80's. Wonderful times!
The guys at Ogg.com also changed their business model, too!!!
...would be that one which reads my mind and installs the OS exactly the way I want it.
;-D
I wouldn't care whether it's graphical or text-based
"I always understood that a complete reinstall every couple of months was the only way to make the thing useable?"
Tell me about it!
That's what I've been doing until 2000 came in, and finally when I switched to Linux.
However, I have plenty of "average consumer" friends and neighbors who ask me to reinstall Windows in their PCs.
Oh, wait! They said elegant.
If they hope to make a 3D media storage device, alright. Otherwise, it won't be that great in 2D (a media the shape of a CD would carry something like... 9GB?
I code in Perl and C; I find those languages really cool and appropiate for the kind of stuff I do.
However, BASIC can be quite cool, too.. not in the bloated, dot-it-all sense Microsoft puts it with its Visual Basic incarnation, but for small, hobby applications.
"The English language is not engineered by erudite dorks like yourself."
So freaking what?
My point is still valid. The media misuses the term.
"The definition of English evolves according to whatever is currently being said by the vast majority of English-speakers."
So, it's ok that english speakers accept all that crap glossary from the media, even if it is wrong? Yeah, let's continue saying stuff like "color people", "new and improved" and "he broke his right leg".
Sorry, I prefer to be an iconoclastic slashdotter and erudite dork. If you want to be a mindless, do-not-question follower, go ahead, have a nice life.
"to most people it means someone who does bad things with computers"
Definitely, it's a misused term. And the media is responsible for this.
A hacker is that guy how is interested in learning more than he/she needs to in order to use a system.
I would have preferred the author to call the bad guys "crackers". Even "malicious hackers" would do.
All crackers might be hackers, but definitely not all hackers are crackers.
If you were a professional reporter, how would you take that people use "professional reporter" and "sensacionalist reporter" interchangeably? What about "opera singer" and "soap-opera hit performer"? "Ballet dancer" and "go-go dancer"? (maybe this last example was not too illustrative since both occupations are noble!).
This is a serious note.
This family is running out of insurance money :-(
The Blue Sight Of Death!!!
Nano acrobatics!
X-Ray contact lenses!!
Man!! When you think you are paranoid enough... now I see my motherboard in a different way.
Dude, thank you for that link!! Really interesting reading.
"Unless they support Linux, in which case I will gladly accept Flash's decline in exchange for that much more acceptance of Linux by Microsoft."
Dude, why?
I don't want that on my Linux box!!
"stick finger in ass"
Models with vibracall will be so popular!
Just the average Mr. "please-copy-internet-in-this-diskette" is not ready for Linux (or Windows, or...).
Oncolytics Biotech (ONCY)
Well, they could dedicate into producing "anti-cancer" pills or whatever (I think they are naming it "Reolysin").
Cancer won't just dissapear. It will continue popping up... anytime in the future, a person could get cancer as s/he gets chicken pox, and buy the medicine for it in the drugstore.
So, as ugly as it sounds to me: there's a market. Even if cancer is eradicated, these guys will get hell of a lot of cash curing the existing millions of people with cancer.