I don't think this is much a matter of wanting to conform to standards, as it is that the majority of web pages out there were probably built before XHTML became popular.
I think most professionals are probably coding in XHTML, whether by hand or by GUI program.
This is going to be one of those slow-adopting things just like everything else because you don't want stuff to break. Look how long it took us to get rid of the PS2-style mouse/keyboard ports on our computers, even though USB has been around for ages now.
Yeah they are great. The ISP that I previously worked for had used them for a year or so, and our customers really loved it. Management decided the service was too expensive and brought the filtering in-house though. Mistake IMHO.
By the way, if you can't work with Postini directly (because of your size) try one of the many resellers. The one I use is www.mxresources.com
You know, this whole issue might be avoided if Hormel were to have ventured into the IT industry years ago. They could have pioneered a junk email filtering service like Postini or Cloudmark.
Then they could have successfully argued that they own the trademark "SPAM" in both industries (food and IT) and start protecting their trademark accordingly.
And, who wouldn't buy Anti-Spam(R) from the people who invented SPAM(R) in the first place?
With every release of Windows or Office we hear the same arguments about how inconvincing this will be, and how awful, and how computers will OMG BLOW UP!!!!!111 if they aren't registered.
Please.
While the occasional problem has come up, sure, how hard was it really to pick up the phone and call Microsoft. I've had two do it twice on occasion and both times took less than 5 minutes each. Big deal.
This is great, but the article doesn't say what the user can recycle. PCs, sure, but what about monitors or laptops?
In California, we pay an extra $8 when we purchase a monitor (or laptop) to the state for future landfill services. Then when we dump a CRT monitor it's a $20 fee (not sure about laptops or desktops).
Articles with buzzwords like "breakthrough" are written to get attention. Do you blame them? That is the PR person's job.
If the article headline was "Intel Tries Something with Optical Computing" then it wouldn't catch as many eyeballs.
People love to blame the media for their overuse of buzzwords, exaggeration of truths, and focusing on petty things like celebrity's lives. But remember it is us who read/buy/click based on their headlines, and sadly it works.
If they didn't do it, we wouldn't read/buy/click, and that media outlet would struggle while all the others succeed.
Wallop, a spinout company from Microsoft, redefines the popular social networking space by... Wallop started as a Microsoft research project more than four years ago..... Karl found the research project at Microsoft and recruited Sean Kelly, the inventor of Wallop, as a founder... It is a privately-held venture backed by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Bay Partners, Consor Capital and an equity stake from Microsoft.
So no, the article, summary, and headline are quite misleading.
Besides, Microsoft's social networking site is called Spaces.
movies.yahoo.com has been doing this for well over a year, and it's very easy and fast. The recommendations, after you've told it enough about what you like, are actually pretty spot-on.
Plus you have the added benefit of being able to link directly to where that movie is showing, the cast, plot, reviews, etc. And if you have way too much money, pay the extra fee and get your tickets from Fandango.
Of course it works with old movies just as much as new releases.
The concensus so far on this forum is that it's a stupid idea. We really don't know enough about it yet, though.
If the game's base price is kept relatively low (say $30) compared to other games going for $40, then people will figure they have $10 to spend on the cars they want.
Or, they could sell it for $40 and say that it includes $10 worth of free downloads.
Either way, they are getting people used to the idea of micropayments and purchasing online, which is probably their number one goal. Because once someone spends $0.50 on something, they're going to be doing that a lot more often. It's the first purchase that is the hardest.
I think you've got something there. A massive "open" library of all sorts of document templates, images, clip art, photos, etc, would be fantastic.
Ideally it could be linked into applications like OO through various HTTP APIs or something, much like Office is. (When you install office, you only install about 300 MB of clip art, the rest of it is accessed from the web.)
This is one of those things that people take for granted, but they come in very handy when you need them.
As a licensed Office user, you can pull down literally thousands (probably closer to 100,000) various types of clip art, stock photography, and templates. There's probably 20 different Invoice templates alone, all very good.
And with Office 2003, opening a template from the web or adding clip art is all integrated into the application.
Little things like this will help OO become more mainstream, but I think it still has a long way to go.
Here on/. we slam website developers all the time for making their website work only in IE and not testing it on Opera or Firefox. Our stance is that they should take the extra time to make their website compatible with the 10% of the community that is not using IE.
Yet when/. implements a new feature, that feature is only supported by Firefox (not IE or Opera) and therefore 25% of the community can't use it. The people behind the project even say that it's not worth their time to serve that extra 25%.
It's interesting that many of the rules we have to limit commercial entities do not apply to political entities.
While I feel that the Do Not Call list was a success, it's sad that it does not apply to those with political interests. Now that it is approaching election time, I'm getting 2-3 automated calls per week of a political nature.
I went to the Google page and clicked on the "To Kill a Mockingbird" link to find that book at my local library.
What I got was a list of about 75 books with "To Kill a Mockingbird" in the title, including many screenplays, references, notes, etc. I think there are a lot of duplicates, too, with minor differences in the book's meta data. It was extremely difficult to distinguish which one is the "real" book.
After trying five or six links that looked like it might be the right one, I gave up.
I think it's interesting to watch highlights, or particularly impressive moves/strategies, etc... but I can't see myself sitting down for 1-2 hours and watching it straight.
What does this mean for all of the "mom and pop" websites out there that are non-ADA compliant?
Will we suddenly have thousands of little lawsuits against "Henry's Landscaping" because he used Publisher to make his website?
I could see a lawyer cleaning up on this, just hunting around for businesses without compliant websites and finding a blind person to represent. Didn't that happen with wheelchair / ramp access?
It should be noted that Media Center will now be part of certain versions of Vista.
I've been testing it out the last few weeks and it is really quite slick. I can even assemble a "playlist" of MP3s, WMVs, GIFs/JPGs, and just about any other media on the computer and have it burn it all straight to a DVD. Not only that, but the DVD has a very professional menu-driven interface that worked perfectly on my 1995 Sony DVD player.
MythTV looks great when it's up and running, but with the majority of tuner/video cards having Vista support out-of-the-box, I really can't see Myth getting market share on Vista.
Say what you will about Microsoft, but Windows OneCare has a very painless backup process. It automatically backs up the "My Documents" folders on your PCs as well as settings and other such files, and allows you to specify any other folders you want.
It can then write directly to CD/DVD without the use of any additional software. I haven't tried to see if it will span multiple DVDs, but I assume it will.
And it kindly reminds you every X weeks to do the backup again. All-in-all it is a very simple, grandma friendly program that I have recommended to many home users.
Not to mention it comes with a decent anti-virus and anti-spyware which Microsoft assimilated, and can also run a regular "tune-up" as often as you want to defrag and delete old files.
Phone-based support is free for paying customers, and the person who answered when I called was on the phone in less than a minute and spoke perfect English. I even got a follow-up call two days later asking if the issue was resolved.
It's currently $20 for a 3-computer license (home or work) from Amazon.com. There is also a 90-day free trial from Microsoft's website.
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I tried to visit www.myspace.com/login_home_index_html and it appears the account has been taken down.
Either that, or, that's what these scammers want us to think?
I don't think this is much a matter of wanting to conform to standards, as it is that the majority of web pages out there were probably built before XHTML became popular.
I think most professionals are probably coding in XHTML, whether by hand or by GUI program.
This is going to be one of those slow-adopting things just like everything else because you don't want stuff to break. Look how long it took us to get rid of the PS2-style mouse/keyboard ports on our computers, even though USB has been around for ages now.
Yeah they are great. The ISP that I previously worked for had used them for a year or so, and our customers really loved it. Management decided the service was too expensive and brought the filtering in-house though. Mistake IMHO.
By the way, if you can't work with Postini directly (because of your size) try one of the many resellers. The one I use is www.mxresources.com
You know, this whole issue might be avoided if Hormel were to have ventured into the IT industry years ago. They could have pioneered a junk email filtering service like Postini or Cloudmark.
Then they could have successfully argued that they own the trademark "SPAM" in both industries (food and IT) and start protecting their trademark accordingly.
And, who wouldn't buy Anti-Spam(R) from the people who invented SPAM(R) in the first place?
In Soviet Russia... iPod shuffles YOU!
(Sorry.)
With every release of Windows or Office we hear the same arguments about how inconvincing this will be, and how awful, and how computers will OMG BLOW UP!!!!!111 if they aren't registered.
Please.
While the occasional problem has come up, sure, how hard was it really to pick up the phone and call Microsoft. I've had two do it twice on occasion and both times took less than 5 minutes each. Big deal.
Listen to sample.
This is great, but the article doesn't say what the user can recycle. PCs, sure, but what about monitors or laptops?
In California, we pay an extra $8 when we purchase a monitor (or laptop) to the state for future landfill services. Then when we dump a CRT monitor it's a $20 fee (not sure about laptops or desktops).
Articles with buzzwords like "breakthrough" are written to get attention. Do you blame them? That is the PR person's job.
If the article headline was "Intel Tries Something with Optical Computing" then it wouldn't catch as many eyeballs.
People love to blame the media for their overuse of buzzwords, exaggeration of truths, and focusing on petty things like celebrity's lives. But remember it is us who read/buy/click based on their headlines, and sadly it works.
If they didn't do it, we wouldn't read/buy/click, and that media outlet would struggle while all the others succeed.
http://www.wallopcorp.com/about.html
... Wallop started as a Microsoft research project more than four years ago. .... Karl found the research project at Microsoft and recruited Sean Kelly, the inventor of Wallop, as a founder ... It is a privately-held venture backed by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Bay Partners, Consor Capital and an equity stake from Microsoft.
Wallop, a spinout company from Microsoft, redefines the popular social networking space by
So no, the article, summary, and headline are quite misleading.
Besides, Microsoft's social networking site is called Spaces.
How about that movie where the guy's webserver is melted because he posted an article that every geek on the internet wanted to read?
Oh, wait...
movies.yahoo.com has been doing this for well over a year, and it's very easy and fast. The recommendations, after you've told it enough about what you like, are actually pretty spot-on.
Plus you have the added benefit of being able to link directly to where that movie is showing, the cast, plot, reviews, etc. And if you have way too much money, pay the extra fee and get your tickets from Fandango.
Of course it works with old movies just as much as new releases.
Google's motto of "Do No Evil" has one very distinct flaw:
People disagree on what "evil" means.
Obviously Google thinks it's doing the right thing by spreading information to the masses, like the information on this newspaper's website.
The newspaper, on the other hand, thinks that action is quite evil. They are losing ad revenue because of it.
The concensus so far on this forum is that it's a stupid idea. We really don't know enough about it yet, though.
If the game's base price is kept relatively low (say $30) compared to other games going for $40, then people will figure they have $10 to spend on the cars they want.
Or, they could sell it for $40 and say that it includes $10 worth of free downloads.
Either way, they are getting people used to the idea of micropayments and purchasing online, which is probably their number one goal. Because once someone spends $0.50 on something, they're going to be doing that a lot more often. It's the first purchase that is the hardest.
I think you've got something there. A massive "open" library of all sorts of document templates, images, clip art, photos, etc, would be fantastic.
Ideally it could be linked into applications like OO through various HTTP APIs or something, much like Office is. (When you install office, you only install about 300 MB of clip art, the rest of it is accessed from the web.)
This is one of those things that people take for granted, but they come in very handy when you need them.
As a licensed Office user, you can pull down literally thousands (probably closer to 100,000) various types of clip art, stock photography, and templates. There's probably 20 different Invoice templates alone, all very good.
And with Office 2003, opening a template from the web or adding clip art is all integrated into the application.
Little things like this will help OO become more mainstream, but I think it still has a long way to go.
Here on /. we slam website developers all the time for making their website work only in IE and not testing it on Opera or Firefox. Our stance is that they should take the extra time to make their website compatible with the 10% of the community that is not using IE.
/. implements a new feature, that feature is only supported by Firefox (not IE or Opera) and therefore 25% of the community can't use it. The people behind the project even say that it's not worth their time to serve that extra 25%.
Yet when
Interesting.
It's interesting that many of the rules we have to limit commercial entities do not apply to political entities.
While I feel that the Do Not Call list was a success, it's sad that it does not apply to those with political interests. Now that it is approaching election time, I'm getting 2-3 automated calls per week of a political nature.
I went to the Google page and clicked on the "To Kill a Mockingbird" link to find that book at my local library.
What I got was a list of about 75 books with "To Kill a Mockingbird" in the title, including many screenplays, references, notes, etc. I think there are a lot of duplicates, too, with minor differences in the book's meta data. It was extremely difficult to distinguish which one is the "real" book.
After trying five or six links that looked like it might be the right one, I gave up.
I think it's interesting to watch highlights, or particularly impressive moves/strategies, etc... but I can't see myself sitting down for 1-2 hours and watching it straight.
What does this mean for all of the "mom and pop" websites out there that are non-ADA compliant?
Will we suddenly have thousands of little lawsuits against "Henry's Landscaping" because he used Publisher to make his website?
I could see a lawyer cleaning up on this, just hunting around for businesses without compliant websites and finding a blind person to represent. Didn't that happen with wheelchair / ramp access?
It should be noted that Media Center will now be part of certain versions of Vista.
I've been testing it out the last few weeks and it is really quite slick. I can even assemble a "playlist" of MP3s, WMVs, GIFs/JPGs, and just about any other media on the computer and have it burn it all straight to a DVD. Not only that, but the DVD has a very professional menu-driven interface that worked perfectly on my 1995 Sony DVD player.
MythTV looks great when it's up and running, but with the majority of tuner/video cards having Vista support out-of-the-box, I really can't see Myth getting market share on Vista.
Are you suggesting that Microsoft is the only company that your employer has deals with to push their product?
It's nice to see Firefox catching up to IE 7's features.
Say what you will about Microsoft, but Windows OneCare has a very painless backup process. It automatically backs up the "My Documents" folders on your PCs as well as settings and other such files, and allows you to specify any other folders you want.
It can then write directly to CD/DVD without the use of any additional software. I haven't tried to see if it will span multiple DVDs, but I assume it will.
And it kindly reminds you every X weeks to do the backup again. All-in-all it is a very simple, grandma friendly program that I have recommended to many home users.
Not to mention it comes with a decent anti-virus and anti-spyware which Microsoft assimilated, and can also run a regular "tune-up" as often as you want to defrag and delete old files.
Phone-based support is free for paying customers, and the person who answered when I called was on the phone in less than a minute and spoke perfect English. I even got a follow-up call two days later asking if the issue was resolved.
It's currently $20 for a 3-computer license (home or work) from Amazon.com. There is also a 90-day free trial from Microsoft's website.