To what extent will people start using their browser's features to compensate for bad Web sites? For example, your browser might automatically convert frames to tables, or precis long chunks of text, or concatenate lots of bitty pages into one easily-readable page. Since there will always be badly designed sites out there, do you think this is a useful sticking-plaster?
This is already happening with Opera. With one click (or Ctrl+G), I can switch between the page settings and my own settings. Fonts, colors, custom styles, etc. No more pages with good text and ugly colors - just one keypress.:)
Does anyone else have a similar experience? I was about 13, and 100% self-confident when it came to computers. I bought a similar book in hope of writing the next Doom, and it has successfully gathered dust on my shelves since then.
I did learn plenty of useful stuff from it, but...
We all probably agree that Amazon has the best catalog and listings. So, what do we do? We browse at Amazon, and then copy the ISBN number, paste it into the search field at BestBookBuys.com, and voila! The best of both worlds.
By the way, I have yet to see a book listing on BBB where Amazon's name isn't all the way at the bottom of the lowest-to-highest price list.
Ultimately, there can only be one logical conclusion (other than banning internet from public places) which is that people have to educate their kids about how to deal with unpleasent images and concepts and take responsibility for their childrens upbringing rather than expecting some robot sentry guard to do it for them.
So what are you saying, I have to spend time with my kids? I have to explain with them that there are bad things out there that they shouldn't be looking at? I should actually *gasp* watch them sometimes when they're surfing? I thought I could just sit them down in front of the thing and it would raise them for me while I go out and have some fun!
I know! It's all those sickos out there that are to blame! I mean, I understand all the free speech stuff, and I'm totally for that, I just think that we should get rid of all the sites that have bad stuff on them.
"Would somebody PLEASE think of the children?!" - Simpsons character whose name evades me.
It's easy. Just choose "Yes" when they ask you if you have ever purchased anything online, and answer "Within 3 months" for most of the "Are you planning to buy Product X?" Oh, and specify a high income.:)
Allow the cracker to execute a program, and the contest is over. No matter what Microsoft says, a program under NT can hijack the entire system easily, with the person running it having only the permissions to execute it. While I find NT5 to be a fairly nice desktop OS, I wouldn't trust it to support anything important.
I hope you're just kidding in that sentence. The only similarity about the stamp taxes and the postal stamps is that the stamp is presented as proof that you paid. The postal rates are payment for the service. Perhaps you'd like the books you ordered online delivered to you by email?
Win2k is unstable This we cannot really comment on. Some of the betas worked perfectly, some crashed like their "stable" cousins, 95/98. To really know how stable it is, it needs to be released and put into use under a wide range of conditions. Given Window's proven and well documented track record on first releases, I know I don't want to be relying on it till it's gone through real world testing.
I can comment on it. I've had the final build for some time. I reached an uptime of a week once. I can do that with NT4 just as well. I haven't had any BSODs yet, but I've had a ton of mysterious freezeups. It also seems to freeze half the time I put in a blank CD into my CD-R drive. I have fairly standard hardware, and I can't say that I do anything out of the ordinary on this box.
I've tried Linux (Caldera 1.2, RedHat 5.x, Corel 1.0, Storm 1.0). I wouldn't trust Windows with anything critical, but I'm sticking with it on the desktop for now. The GUI in Windows seems a lot more responsive and polished. Also, I'm missing Agent, Opera (not for long, I guess), and StarCraft. Sure, I can dual-boot, but the whole point is to reboot *less* often, right? Maybe I'll try a newer Red Hat again... or Mandrake.
The Point (with a capital P): There is no panacea.
In the days of Stalin, sleep deprivation was used as a method of torture to get information out of people. This is a lot more effective than physical torture, since a person who is deprived of sleep doesn't think nearly the same as (s)he does after getting some sleep.
REDMOND, Washington -- Today, thousands of Microsoft software users gathered outside the offices of the software giant to protest a conspiracy and lie. The latest article by ZDNet seems to clearly demonstrate that Windows 2000 is based on decades-old technology - it's still written with code!
One of the protesters commented, but preferred to stay anonymous. "Well, Microsoft told us that this Windows 2000 thing would be totally revolutionary and all, but it still seems to be based on code. Come on, Microsoft, is this how you innovate? Software has been made from code for decades now, isn't it time for something new?"
Now suppose we somehow (magically) erased all memory and effects of this expirience from your brain and placed you in the EXACT same situation.
I would definitely say that the person would run out without even noticing the children. And had he noticed them, he would be afraid of them, as of anything else unfamiliar.
Great idea. I'm sure that of the thousands of people that visit Slashdot, one must be a lawyer. Please tell me if this service would be legal.
One goes to a website, browses a catalog of music, and picks out an album. After paying, the company sends him a CD. However, not to keep the customer waiting, they make the contents of the CD available for download in MP3 form. Now, subtract the shipment of the CD. Good idea?
Maybe Rob should make it mandatory for moderators to agree to the following before being allowed to moderate a discussion: "I, John A. Moderator, have read the article linked to from this post."
From the article: "Choosing the prizes was easy. Winners will receive Magnetic Perl Poetry Kits from Perltoys.com"
I wonder what exactly the definition of a "PC" is? A case, motherboard, and hard drive? Should the monitor's price be tax-free as well, if it's included? Keyboard? Mouse? Printer? What if I want to put it together myself? Also, some computers include some sort of ISP subscription - will that be tax-free as well?
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This is already happening with Opera. With one click (or Ctrl+G), I can switch between the page settings and my own settings. Fonts, colors, custom styles, etc. No more pages with good text and ugly colors - just one keypress. :)
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I did learn plenty of useful stuff from it, but...
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By the way, I have yet to see a book listing on BBB where Amazon's name isn't all the way at the bottom of the lowest-to-highest price list.
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So what are you saying, I have to spend time with my kids? I have to explain with them that there are bad things out there that they shouldn't be looking at? I should actually *gasp* watch them sometimes when they're surfing? I thought I could just sit them down in front of the thing and it would raise them for me while I go out and have some fun!
I know! It's all those sickos out there that are to blame! I mean, I understand all the free speech stuff, and I'm totally for that, I just think that we should get rid of all the sites that have bad stuff on them.
"Would somebody PLEASE think of the children?!" - Simpsons character whose name evades me.
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In many cases, this may be a lot lower than all the other numbers...
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I hope you're just kidding in that sentence. The only similarity about the stamp taxes and the postal stamps is that the stamp is presented as proof that you paid. The postal rates are payment for the service. Perhaps you'd like the books you ordered online delivered to you by email?
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I've tried Linux (Caldera 1.2, RedHat 5.x, Corel 1.0, Storm 1.0). I wouldn't trust Windows with anything critical, but I'm sticking with it on the desktop for now. The GUI in Windows seems a lot more responsive and polished. Also, I'm missing Agent, Opera (not for long, I guess), and StarCraft. Sure, I can dual-boot, but the whole point is to reboot *less* often, right? Maybe I'll try a newer Red Hat again... or Mandrake.
The Point (with a capital P): There is no panacea.
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One of the protesters commented, but preferred to stay anonymous. "Well, Microsoft told us that this Windows 2000 thing would be totally revolutionary and all, but it still seems to be based on code. Come on, Microsoft, is this how you innovate? Software has been made from code for decades now, isn't it time for something new?"
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I would definitely say that the person would run out without even noticing the children. And had he noticed them, he would be afraid of them, as of anything else unfamiliar.
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One goes to a website, browses a catalog of music, and picks out an album. After paying, the company sends him a CD. However, not to keep the customer waiting, they make the contents of the CD available for download in MP3 form. Now, subtract the shipment of the CD. Good idea?
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From the article: "Choosing the prizes was easy. Winners will receive Magnetic Perl Poetry Kits from Perltoys.com"
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I think that the article is a bit vague...
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