Well, the person responsible for that website certainly has their own agenda. In my opinion it's a bunch of lies, innuendos, half-truths and fakery by a top level troll; but opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one!:-)
Sorry bud, you're looking for DMOZ, not Google. DMOZ employs a whole buncha editors to assess sites for quality, content and relevance. That isn't Google's game.
There was a very interesting TV special about this some seven or eight years ago as well. It had interviews with Georgian specialists in Tbilisi and an extensive history, plus their methodology. Further information here and here.
Rather than having inherent problems with the host's immune system, it seems to have fallen afoul of the Not Invented Here syndrome.
Happily, it looks like this medical technology is coming back out of necessity.
"Hey guys, I'm deaf. Been wondering about this for a long time, is there any kind of open source voice recognition package I could pipe audio through and get some kind of recognizable text?
"Ok Notes-lovers, so did Eudora, and like Thunderbird, Pegasus opens a window for every mail you wish to double-click, but then also adds them to the Windows list."
Yes, Pegasus does this in the latest iteration and I like it, but Peg lets me choose the option of having a Windows list.
I wish Peg was available for Linux.
Adam Doxtater has written a review of Ubuntu 5.10 Preview and he's done a damn poor job of it.
Some hints:
- List your hardware configuration before you start.
- In fact, it's useful to have two or maybe three computers to install on.
- Use a checklist of items for newbies and items for geeks.
- Develop your checklist by actually talking to newbies and geeks!
- Organize your review into logical segments.
- When explaining, explain fully and clearly - eschew obfuscation.
- Write the review on this software, not experiences with previous programs/distributions.
- Keep personal tastes, allergies and prejudices out of it. The reader isn't interested. The reader chooses the review for information, not personal colour.
Adam Doxtater did none of these things in his review. I'll take care not to read any other crappy reviews by this person. I'm amazed that Slashdot gave him the time of day. For the record, I have Mepis and Kubuntu currently installed. I use Mepis, but that's a matter of personal taste and my own hardware configuration:
Old Tekram motherboard, AMD k6-2 256 megabytes of ram, old ATI Rage Pro graphics and Soundblaster card with a slow dial-up connection. Works for me.
It seems that Google has abandoned Windows 98 and ME in favour of Windows XP. I don't know why they've done this for their Google/Fox Toolbar (and other Google software). So far as I can tell there is no reason other than bloody-mindedness behind it. I'd be interested in hearing a rationale having to do with programming and code. I don't know how many installations of Win 98 there are on this planet, but I suspect it's quite a lot, as there are a great many computers out there that will not support Win XP. It's a big planet, why not write software that everyone can use?
Insisting that their Toolbar is only compatible with Redhat Linux is just misleading crap.
What a great reply! It's clear and it opens the discussion to everyone, probably much like your website designs....
There are no end of poorly constructed, poorly spelled, poorly conceived websites, written in languages and using tools that almost encourage this junk. As a matter of fact, I'm writing in one now - slashdot's text entry screen is too narrow. The average sentence in English is one to two dozen words and this entry field is only about fifty characters wide, when it needs to be at least sixty-four. It's difficult to create good sentences and think creatively when constrained to only partial sentences. This may well be one of the reasons one has to wade through so much broken language on this website. It's all about communication, yet the design almost forbids it.
There are so many web applications that offer the customer a text window that is tiny, constraining and says "we don't really want to hear from you, we're much too busy to read it anyway and so please keep it brief". I realize that's not really what you're talking about, but it's one of my pet peeves and this is a good chance to vent about it.
It's nice that you speak your own discipline-specific version of acronym so well! Felicitations!
From what little I could decypher, much of this seems like a control issue. You guys want to control precisely what my browser does and so do I. Might I suggest that there are times that it is completely correct to render the precise page from the user's cache no matter the insanely complicated goings on at the programmer's end? If it isn't possible to signal those instances when that might be done, I suggest your software is broken.
But then, that's just me, your customer, blithely changing the luvvily charcoal grey print on black background to black text on a white background. {grin}
I think one of the reasons I avoid Gnome like the plague is the nasty attitudes of developers and fans. As well, I run an old box and Gnome just drives it to its knees. Whenever I try to configure anything in Gnome, I end up stymied and frustrated. I don't want to be frustrated and pissed off, I just want to get some work done. This is not intended as a flame or troll, just telling it the way it feels to me.
The developers might feel that simplification to the point there is only one choice or no choice is the way to go, but I don't. I don't know who these mysterious users are who prefer over-simplification, but I wish someone would ask me.
For what it's worth, I find KDE annoying at times too, but it's much prettier.
"Has anti-americanism gotten so bad that now people feel obliged to close their eyes to the facts and celebrate our fall even though it hasn't happened yet?"
In a word, yes.
I don't think anyone is celebrating the fall of civil freedoms, or the drastic decline in engineers and scientists - rather it's a feeling of regret on the part of most of us.
GWB did manage to pee in the world's collective cornflakes right after 911 though. That declaration that if we weren't with the US then we were on the side of the terrorists pretty well guaranteed some dislike. Canada has been on the end of what can only be described as economic warfare for the last few years as well. More and more you see people avoiding "Made in the USA" or "Product of US" or "Grown in USA".
I'm pretty sure some idiot will flame me about this - so go ahead, But it doesn't change the fact that when the US most needed friends, GWB managed to piss everyone off.
What I see as terribly regrettable in the US space program and in the comments here, is lack of a goal. Go to Mars. Go to the moon. Go to Venus (practical by the way if the colonists live in floating cities, as breathable air provides all the lifting capacity needed in Venus' atmosphere.) PDF Document here.
I don't have a problem with doing harm to those who employ spammers.
It would be nice to have a public noticeboard giving the URLs of entities who pay spammers for driving traffic to their sites. I'm not advocating that we collectively attack the spammers or spam employers, just let's see their names, the same way they show the names of the guilty on the crime page of the newspaper.
Leave the action to the public. In some cases, I imagine that it would actually drive shopping traffic figures up. In others, the results might not be so... salubrious.
"I just read a bunch of the Bill Moyer thing (third link in parent), and he convinced me that his conclusions aren't to be trusted."
So let's see, on the one hand we have Mr Bill Moyers, twenty-four carat, sixteen ounces to the pound, internationally respected and revered journalist, renowned for personal bravery and integrity, and on the other hand, we have you. You who won't even come out and say what you have to say, but cast doubt on either his honesty or intelligence by vague innuendo.
The site http://www.activewin.com/winxp/tips/index.shtml successfully executed a popup on me when I visited, just now. The browser is Mozilla 1.8b using Adblock. I have javascript allowed to raise and lower windows and change images. When I disable those two Java options - no popup.
Thank you for the informative and truthful, tip.
Slashdot Mirror
The Cities in Flight were a wonderful series of novels by James Blish. I miss them.
Well, the person responsible for that website certainly has their own agenda. In my opinion it's a bunch of lies, innuendos, half-truths and fakery by a top level troll; but opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one! :-)
Sorry bud, you're looking for DMOZ, not Google. DMOZ employs a whole buncha editors to assess sites for quality, content and relevance. That isn't Google's game.
"People do it better."
Jezusss, what you read when you don't have mod points.
Will someone for fuck's sake mod parent up as informative? If nothing else it is a wonderful pointer to a great forum.
Many thanks 22RealMcCoy, you just made a friend.
There was a very interesting TV special about this some seven or eight years ago as well. It had interviews with Georgian specialists in Tbilisi and an extensive history, plus their methodology. Further information here and here.
Rather than having inherent problems with the host's immune system, it seems to have fallen afoul of the Not Invented Here syndrome.
Happily, it looks like this medical technology is coming back out of necessity.
Antibiotics have no effect on viruses at all and therefore don't cause them to mutate or become 'stronger'.
Learn some history. Hostility is a poor response. Use the preview button to correct your atrocious English.
Or else your use of English is sloppy to the point of incomprensibility.
Adam Doxtater has written a review of Ubuntu 5.10 Preview and he's done a damn poor job of it.
Some hints:
- List your hardware configuration before you start.
- In fact, it's useful to have two or maybe three computers to install on.
- Use a checklist of items for newbies and items for geeks.
- Develop your checklist by actually talking to newbies and geeks!
- Organize your review into logical segments.
- When explaining, explain fully and clearly - eschew obfuscation.
- Write the review on this software, not experiences with previous programs/distributions.
- Keep personal tastes, allergies and prejudices out of it. The reader isn't interested. The reader chooses the review for information, not personal colour.
Adam Doxtater did none of these things in his review. I'll take care not to read any other crappy reviews by this person. I'm amazed that Slashdot gave him the time of day. For the record, I have Mepis and Kubuntu currently installed. I use Mepis, but that's a matter of personal taste and my own hardware configuration:
Old Tekram motherboard, AMD k6-2 256 megabytes of ram, old ATI Rage Pro graphics and Soundblaster card with a slow dial-up connection. Works for me.
It seems that Google has abandoned Windows 98 and ME in favour of Windows XP. I don't know why they've done this for their Google/Fox Toolbar (and other Google software). So far as I can tell there is no reason other than bloody-mindedness behind it. I'd be interested in hearing a rationale having to do with programming and code. I don't know how many installations of Win 98 there are on this planet, but I suspect it's quite a lot, as there are a great many computers out there that will not support Win XP. It's a big planet, why not write software that everyone can use?
Insisting that their Toolbar is only compatible with Redhat Linux is just misleading crap.
Gerry Pournelle wants a billion dollars and three years to put this all back on track. Personally, I think he'd do better than the bureaucrats. http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view372.html#NA SA
What a great reply! It's clear and it opens the discussion to everyone, probably much like your website designs....
There are no end of poorly constructed, poorly spelled, poorly conceived websites, written in languages and using tools that almost encourage this junk. As a matter of fact, I'm writing in one now - slashdot's text entry screen is too narrow. The average sentence in English is one to two dozen words and this entry field is only about fifty characters wide, when it needs to be at least sixty-four. It's difficult to create good sentences and think creatively when constrained to only partial sentences. This may well be one of the reasons one has to wade through so much broken language on this website. It's all about communication, yet the design almost forbids it.
There are so many web applications that offer the customer a text window that is tiny, constraining and says "we don't really want to hear from you, we're much too busy to read it anyway and so please keep it brief". I realize that's not really what you're talking about, but it's one of my pet peeves and this is a good chance to vent about it.
It's nice that you speak your own discipline-specific version of acronym so well! Felicitations!
From what little I could decypher, much of this seems like a control issue. You guys want to control precisely what my browser does and so do I. Might I suggest that there are times that it is completely correct to render the precise page from the user's cache no matter the insanely complicated goings on at the programmer's end? If it isn't possible to signal those instances when that might be done, I suggest your software is broken.
But then, that's just me, your customer, blithely changing the luvvily charcoal grey print on black background to black text on a white background. {grin}
I think one of the reasons I avoid Gnome like the plague is the nasty attitudes of developers and fans. As well, I run an old box and Gnome just drives it to its knees. Whenever I try to configure anything in Gnome, I end up stymied and frustrated. I don't want to be frustrated and pissed off, I just want to get some work done. This is not intended as a flame or troll, just telling it the way it feels to me.
The developers might feel that simplification to the point there is only one choice or no choice is the way to go, but I don't. I don't know who these mysterious users are who prefer over-simplification, but I wish someone would ask me.
For what it's worth, I find KDE annoying at times too, but it's much prettier.
I don't think anyone is celebrating the fall of civil freedoms, or the drastic decline in engineers and scientists - rather it's a feeling of regret on the part of most of us.
GWB did manage to pee in the world's collective cornflakes right after 911 though. That declaration that if we weren't with the US then we were on the side of the terrorists pretty well guaranteed some dislike. Canada has been on the end of what can only be described as economic warfare for the last few years as well. More and more you see people avoiding "Made in the USA" or "Product of US" or "Grown in USA".
I'm pretty sure some idiot will flame me about this - so go ahead, But it doesn't change the fact that when the US most needed friends, GWB managed to piss everyone off.
What I see as terribly regrettable in the US space program and in the comments here, is lack of a goal. Go to Mars. Go to the moon. Go to Venus (practical by the way if the colonists live in floating cities, as breathable air provides all the lifting capacity needed in Venus' atmosphere.) PDF Document here.
Does the shuttle help do that? Don't think so.
I don't have a problem with doing harm to those who employ spammers. It would be nice to have a public noticeboard giving the URLs of entities who pay spammers for driving traffic to their sites. I'm not advocating that we collectively attack the spammers or spam employers, just let's see their names, the same way they show the names of the guilty on the crime page of the newspaper. Leave the action to the public. In some cases, I imagine that it would actually drive shopping traffic figures up. In others, the results might not be so ... salubrious.
The site http://www.activewin.com/winxp/tips/index.shtml successfully executed a popup on me when I visited, just now. The browser is Mozilla 1.8b using Adblock. I have javascript allowed to raise and lower windows and change images. When I disable those two Java options - no popup. Thank you for the informative and truthful, tip.