Many people have argued that "marketing budget report 1996" is easier to remember than widgets.com/divisions/marketing/1996_budget.html, but two other points arise from this:
1. As many people have pointed out, the CN has to be typed exactly. So if someone said "marketing budget 96" or something then they wouldn't find it. Perhaps URLs, by making people remember the string exactly, actually make things easier to find.
2. In a well-designed heirarchy, nobody should have to remember a web address/CN anyway.
IMHO, this new "common name format" is just another unnecessary layer. The main bragging point was that you don't to remember a long, complex URL; instead you can just type in a document name. The only problem with this is that if an intranet site is any good, you should never have to type in a URL at all. It's just a matter of a navigation interface that should be on the site anyway. For example, they said you could just type in "1996 budget report" instead of the URL. But if a site is designed correctly, you should be able to navigate to reports, then budget, then 1996. Or budget department, then 1996 budget report. This common name system just fixes something that isn't broken anyway -- the URL system. All it provides is an excuse for web site designers to be lazy about designing an intranet site (who needs nav bars? Just type in "memo from Robert T. Frog in Budget Department to Bob Q. Flair in the Widgets subcommitee of the Projects department on August 8, 1996!").
Did you put quotes around it? I counted 1,250,376 responses without quotes, and 0 with quotes.
Note: Putting quotes around something makes AV search it as a phrase. So "I like to maim and kill puppies and kittens" netted all the pages that had the words 'puppies' or 'maim' or 'kittens' or 'like' or 'kill'... you get the idea:-).
It would be nice if everyone gave away their software for free. But the fact is that Oracle is in the business of selling software, and Oracle has identified Linux as an OS that's large enough for them to make money by selling products. As a matter of fact, I *want* commercial software companies to move to Linux, that way I can ditch my Windoze machine and run my favorite apps from Linux (the only thing keeping me on windoze is the software). And if the software I want is non-free, then so be it. While it's not the best, I'd rather have non-free software over no software.
Note: Before everyone yells at me about all of the free software out there, let me just add that some stuff you currently just have to pay for. Especially in the gaming category, some of the non-free software is simply better. This isn't a dis to open source; open source is definitely the best method. But it's still maturing, and currently you still have to pay to get the best software.
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Many people have argued that "marketing budget report 1996" is easier to remember than widgets.com/divisions/marketing/1996_budget.html, but two other points arise from this:
1. As many people have pointed out, the CN has to be typed exactly. So if someone said "marketing budget 96" or something then they wouldn't find it. Perhaps URLs, by making people remember the string exactly, actually make things easier to find.
2. In a well-designed heirarchy, nobody should have to remember a web address/CN anyway.
IMHO, this new "common name format" is just another unnecessary layer. The main bragging point was that you don't to remember a long, complex URL; instead you can just type in a document name. The only problem with this is that if an intranet site is any good, you should never have to type in a URL at all. It's just a matter of a navigation interface that should be on the site anyway. For example, they said you could just type in "1996 budget report" instead of the URL. But if a site is designed correctly, you should be able to navigate to reports, then budget, then 1996. Or budget department, then 1996 budget report. This common name system just fixes something that isn't broken anyway -- the URL system. All it provides is an excuse for web site designers to be lazy about designing an intranet site (who needs nav bars? Just type in "memo from Robert T. Frog in Budget Department to Bob Q. Flair in the Widgets subcommitee of the Projects department on August 8, 1996!").
Did you put quotes around it? I counted 1,250,376 responses without quotes, and 0 with quotes.
:-).
Note: Putting quotes around something makes AV search it as a phrase. So "I like to maim and kill puppies and kittens" netted all the pages that had the words 'puppies' or 'maim' or 'kittens' or 'like' or 'kill'... you get the idea
It would be nice if everyone gave away their software for free. But the fact is that Oracle is in the business of selling software, and Oracle has identified Linux as an OS that's large enough for them to make money by selling products. As a matter of fact, I *want* commercial software companies to move to Linux, that way I can ditch my Windoze machine and run my favorite apps from Linux (the only thing keeping me on windoze is the software). And if the software I want is non-free, then so be it. While it's not the best, I'd rather have non-free software over no software.
Note: Before everyone yells at me about all of the free software out there, let me just add that some stuff you currently just have to pay for. Especially in the gaming category, some of the non-free software is simply better. This isn't a dis to open source; open source is definitely the best method. But it's still maturing, and currently you still have to pay to get the best software.