It's not just you. I'm using Mozilla 1.7.3, and before today, I'd never seen the infamous rendering problem. Today, it's happening once for every two or three times I return to the front page.
Am I the only one who absolutely hates A List Apart? I think they are one of the most dizzyingly ugly sites around. Red text, even just for headlines and other things that are supposed to stand out, is hard to read. That stripy background unsettles my stomach as I page down. Their More Articles >> once you're in the middle of a topic doesn't give you any easy way to go forward or back to a specific page of results.
The most frustrating contradiction of web design advice is that when it does appear on the web, it's badly designed.
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Whoa, freaky. I hadn't noticed that before. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to be integrated with white pages but rather only with business results.
Oddly enough, if I put in my name and city, it correctly comes up with where I work (which is in a different town), but if I try to get directions from where I live to where I work, it says it "did not match any locations."
The GUI has a heck of a lot to do with making Linux more popular amongst Windows users.
People I know consider me computer knowledgable. I can remove malware, read dialogue boxes, and keep up on technology news. I can't program and I use Windows, so many folks around here would dismiss me as non-geeky.
I know there are other things out there, but I still use the big name, closed source apps--both at work and at home--primarily based on their GUIs.
Let's look at text editors as an example. I like the way Notepad looks, but there are a couple of things I don't like about it, namely that it has no spellcheck, it only has a single undo, and it often rewraps lines on save without refreshing the view on the screen. I once went looking for other text editors that were plain and simple but with spellcheck and multiple undo. I installed and tried out half a dozen free/open source text editors. None of them met my standards for looking good on the screen and were promptly uninstalled. I'm still using Notepad for all my text editing.
Here's what you have to remember about this example: I'm considered geeky amongst people I know. If you can't get me to accept your program, there's no way they're going to use it.
Yes, they do. I worked for a small nonprofit that finally got DSL from SBC, which comes with 11 sbcglobal.net email addresses. Because it was a small nonprofit, which mostly worked with other small nonprofits, sbcglobal.net email addresses were perfectly fine for 10 people (the 11th was the general inquiry address). For the other ten or so employees who we wanted to have email addresses, we set up Yahoo emails with the company abbreviation in the name. Small nonprofits do not have the money for "real" email, and most of them don't have money for IT staff either.
And number 4 is why you should fill out your claim form. Vouchers, according to the paperwork they sent me forever ago, can be transferred once. If you want the money to go to schools, get your vouchers and give them to the schools. That way the school can get the full value of your voucher, rather than a measly two-thirds.
I'm glad this is already at 5; I'd love to see what he has to say. My attitude toward the two of them is that Gabe is the cutest thing ever, but Tycho's more likely to make me cry. (See: the birth of the baby.) His writing is by turns amusing and touching, and definitely of a high enough caliber to match many syndicated columnists.
There was a great early episode of The Guardian that dealt with that idea. The general plot of the show is that this corporate lawyer gets no jail time for his drug offenses but he has to do pro bono work for kids as his community service. In this particular episode, he has a client who's a gay teenager. The boy has found an older gay couple who want to adopt him. His rabidly Catholic mother won't give up her parental rights if it means he's going to live with them, but she also doesn't want him in the house if he's gay. The gay couple explains to Nick (the corporate lawyer) why they're good for the kid. With his mom, the kid is always pushing in her face the fact that he's gay. But when he tries that with them, their attitude is, "Yes, we know you're gay. Did you do your homework?"
Ever hear of slash? Slash is to western fandom as yaoi (mentioned in TFA) is to Japanese fandoms, and it's very definitely a woman dominated, woman oriented piece of fandom. Granted, we're a relatively small demographic in the larger scale of things, but that doesn't mean we don't exist. The last slash con I went to even had a panel specifically directed at getting women's ideas of what they want to see in mainstream gay porn.
OneList became eGroups became Yahoo!Groups. Yahoo!Clubs was indeed a separate thing that was only recently (within the last year to year and a half) merged into Yahoo!Groups.
That's not old fashioned. I didn't like Civ II, and I'm still wholly loyal to Civ I. If I could only find replacements for my damaged Civ I for Windows floppies, then I'd truly be able to waste hours at a time.
And if I do have to navigate through a menu, just let me get to the menu. I find navigating through multiple menus much less annoying than having to listen to some long message before the menu options. I make a lot of checking up on orders calls, and chances are that I've called your company before and I already know that I want to hit 2 at the first option and 1 at the second option, so just let me get to it.
For anyone else who's curious, Analog has a pretty good story index which tells us that the story was by Tom Ligon and appeared on page 82 of the July 1996 issue.
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I'm a lesbian, you insensitive clod.
It's not just you. I'm using Mozilla 1.7.3, and before today, I'd never seen the infamous rendering problem. Today, it's happening once for every two or three times I return to the front page.
Am I the only one who absolutely hates A List Apart? I think they are one of the most dizzyingly ugly sites around. Red text, even just for headlines and other things that are supposed to stand out, is hard to read. That stripy background unsettles my stomach as I page down. Their More Articles >> once you're in the middle of a topic doesn't give you any easy way to go forward or back to a specific page of results.
The most frustrating contradiction of web design advice is that when it does appear on the web, it's badly designed.
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Hilarious.
Whoa, freaky. I hadn't noticed that before. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to be integrated with white pages but rather only with business results.
Oddly enough, if I put in my name and city, it correctly comes up with where I work (which is in a different town), but if I try to get directions from where I live to where I work, it says it "did not match any locations."
The GUI has a heck of a lot to do with making Linux more popular amongst Windows users.
People I know consider me computer knowledgable. I can remove malware, read dialogue boxes, and keep up on technology news. I can't program and I use Windows, so many folks around here would dismiss me as non-geeky.
I know there are other things out there, but I still use the big name, closed source apps--both at work and at home--primarily based on their GUIs.
Let's look at text editors as an example. I like the way Notepad looks, but there are a couple of things I don't like about it, namely that it has no spellcheck, it only has a single undo, and it often rewraps lines on save without refreshing the view on the screen. I once went looking for other text editors that were plain and simple but with spellcheck and multiple undo. I installed and tried out half a dozen free/open source text editors. None of them met my standards for looking good on the screen and were promptly uninstalled. I'm still using Notepad for all my text editing.
Here's what you have to remember about this example: I'm considered geeky amongst people I know. If you can't get me to accept your program, there's no way they're going to use it.
Your meds need to be adjusted.
Yes, they do. I worked for a small nonprofit that finally got DSL from SBC, which comes with 11 sbcglobal.net email addresses. Because it was a small nonprofit, which mostly worked with other small nonprofits, sbcglobal.net email addresses were perfectly fine for 10 people (the 11th was the general inquiry address). For the other ten or so employees who we wanted to have email addresses, we set up Yahoo emails with the company abbreviation in the name. Small nonprofits do not have the money for "real" email, and most of them don't have money for IT staff either.
Oddly enough, I have a straight girl friend who has the power to make other people think Bill's totally hot. The catch? It only works on lesbians.
You're confusing Pauly Shore with John Leguizamo.
And number 4 is why you should fill out your claim form. Vouchers, according to the paperwork they sent me forever ago, can be transferred once. If you want the money to go to schools, get your vouchers and give them to the schools. That way the school can get the full value of your voucher, rather than a measly two-thirds.
I'm glad this is already at 5; I'd love to see what he has to say. My attitude toward the two of them is that Gabe is the cutest thing ever, but Tycho's more likely to make me cry. (See: the birth of the baby.) His writing is by turns amusing and touching, and definitely of a high enough caliber to match many syndicated columnists.
That's only part of why I prefer this equation: 1+1=3, for large values of 1.
Sure we can. We just have to finish building the index first.
I thought they were a Mickey Mouse outfit.
Finally someone recognizes that there are female /. readers.
Hawking should just e-mail Kip a link to Wikipedia.
There was a great early episode of The Guardian that dealt with that idea. The general plot of the show is that this corporate lawyer gets no jail time for his drug offenses but he has to do pro bono work for kids as his community service. In this particular episode, he has a client who's a gay teenager. The boy has found an older gay couple who want to adopt him. His rabidly Catholic mother won't give up her parental rights if it means he's going to live with them, but she also doesn't want him in the house if he's gay. The gay couple explains to Nick (the corporate lawyer) why they're good for the kid. With his mom, the kid is always pushing in her face the fact that he's gay. But when he tries that with them, their attitude is, "Yes, we know you're gay. Did you do your homework?"
Ever hear of slash? Slash is to western fandom as yaoi (mentioned in TFA) is to Japanese fandoms, and it's very definitely a woman dominated, woman oriented piece of fandom. Granted, we're a relatively small demographic in the larger scale of things, but that doesn't mean we don't exist. The last slash con I went to even had a panel specifically directed at getting women's ideas of what they want to see in mainstream gay porn.
With its decided lack of closure, this is a deeply unsatisfying story. What did you end up buying?
OneList became eGroups became Yahoo!Groups. Yahoo!Clubs was indeed a separate thing that was only recently (within the last year to year and a half) merged into Yahoo!Groups.
That's not old fashioned. I didn't like Civ II, and I'm still wholly loyal to Civ I. If I could only find replacements for my damaged Civ I for Windows floppies, then I'd truly be able to waste hours at a time.
And if I do have to navigate through a menu, just let me get to the menu. I find navigating through multiple menus much less annoying than having to listen to some long message before the menu options. I make a lot of checking up on orders calls, and chances are that I've called your company before and I already know that I want to hit 2 at the first option and 1 at the second option, so just let me get to it.
For anyone else who's curious, Analog has a pretty good story index which tells us that the story was by Tom Ligon and appeared on page 82 of the July 1996 issue.
Star Trek: Law & Order
Oh, thank God. For a moment there I thought you were going to say Star Trek: JAG.