Would it make sense to say that corporations have the "right to the pursuit of profit"? Or would saying that make corporations more powerful than they are now? (What has the "pursuit of hapiness" clause meant for the specific rights of individuals?)
Sites can silently collect information sent in HTTP headers (or use a script to look through logs afterward). With JavaScript, you can usually see what information the site looks up by looking at the page source. Thus there is some loss of privacy in including this information in the headers.
Taco released slashcode to the open-source community. He also helps to run a popular news site for geeks. Do either of those count as a donation or at least contribution?
(thomas.loc.gov is the first site that I've encountered that not only uses temporary URLs for search results and uses POST forms for searching, but also won't accept the form if I tell my browser to GET it instead.)
You've stopped clicking on banner ads because pop-up ads annoy you? I don't quite understand that logic, and I hope your response doesn't cause website owners to use more pop-up ads "because banner ads don't work".
I saw the iridium article on the front page before I saw this one, but the iridium article is above this one. Did this one jump to the front page while I wasn't reloading slashdot every minute? (I can only afford to reload once every 15 minutes while taking tests.)
Many US states do something similar. For example, California has an initiative process that requires 5% or 8% of voters to sign the petition, depending on whether normal laws or the constitution are being updated. There are additional restrictions (beyond the percent of voters), such as neutral but useful editing by the Secretary of State, but the idea is basically the same.
(1) Article II, [section] 8:
(a) The initiative is the power of the electors to propose statutes and amendments to the Constitution and to adopt or reject them.
(b) An initiative measure may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the text of the proposed statute or amendment to the Constitution and is certified to have been signed by electors equal in number to 5 percent in the case of a statute, and 8 percent in the case of an amendment to the Constitution, of the votes for all candidates for Governor at the last gubernatorial election.
(c) The Secretary of State shall then submit the measure at the next general election held at least 131 days after it qualifies or any special statewide election held prior to that general election. The Governor may call a special statewide election for the measure.
(d) An initiative measure embracing more than one subject may not be submitted to the electors or have any effect.
At one point in the original article he said "The problem is that one of the clients they work for wants the EXACT product I am producing in my spare time." So he would be taking at least one client that he most likely came into contact with by working for his current employer.
March 2000: Correlation Found Between Adding Banner Ads to a Web Site and Incrased Traffic
Researchers have detected a correlation between adding more banner ads to a news web site and subsequent incrases in traffic.
"I did a least-squares fit for traffic changes versus banner ad density changes over the last month, and even though the points I could see to be slowly going down with increased banner ads, the line had a distincly positive slope", said high school student William Peterson. "Clearly, adding banner ads to an existing news website increases traffic."
Advertisers welcomed this news. "We expect to see an increase in <strike>percent of web tracked</strike> banner ad sales this quarter", said Paul Brooks of DoubleClick, Inc.(www.doubleclick.com).
Some content providers who recieve most of their revenue through advertising other sites were less ecstatic, however.
"This incrase in traffic seems to be mostly due to the Slashdot effect, which is notorious for sending low-quality traffic to our sites," said Eliza Gregson of SatireWire (www.satirewire.com).
Slashdot (www.slashdot.org) is a fun and useful news-and-discussion site frequented by computer nerds. SatireWire is a "humor" site that usually isn'tfunny.
Gregson continued, "Sure, those users are curious and click on ads, but they never buy anything because they think advertising is 'evil' and out to 'trick' them into buying products. Our advertisers use this spike of anti-corporatist users in calculating our CPM [revenue per thousand banner impressions], and so over the next few months we end up getting less banner ad revenue."
Popular slashdot community members "Signal 11" and "Bruce Perens" were not available for comment.
That page was full of ...>, as are many other sites heavy on banner ads. What's the point of putting alt text if it's meaningless to people who don't use images? If you want IE users to know they can learn more about the product by clicking on the ad, use the TITLE attribute so it's just a tooltip and not a replacement text, and give an empty ALT. If you want Lynx users or people who have disabled cross-site images to click on the ad, give meaningful alt text. But don't fill their pages with useless "click here"s!
The most recent change to the roadmap was to push 0.9 out five more weeks and to call the next release after 0.8 "0.8.1" instead. This was done partly because many open bugs that require large changes to the code are nominated for being fixed by mozilla 0.9. The "if we're lucky" release date for 1.0 was also pushed back five weeks.
I was forwarded a link to this interesting article back in January: After Tight Race, Bush Should Race To Space like JFK. James Pinkerton argues that Bush should use a space initiative, perhaps something like "people to Mars within a decade", in order to give momentum to his presidency that he didn't get by winning in a landslide.
Unfortunately it looks like Bush isn't following Pinkerton's advice:( It's not clear to me whether Bush is actually doing the opposite and cutting funding, though.
Clear 1x1 gifs with width= and height= are also used as spacers on many webpages. They're used when it's difficult to get the intended layout with tables and when the target audience is not known to have a CSS-supporting browser. As long as the webpage author sets alt="" on each spacer, they're not at all evil by themselves.
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Would it make sense to say that corporations have the "right to the pursuit of profit"? Or would saying that make corporations more powerful than they are now? (What has the "pursuit of hapiness" clause meant for the specific rights of individuals?)
Sites can silently collect information sent in HTTP headers (or use a script to look through logs afterward). With JavaScript, you can usually see what information the site looks up by looking at the page source. Thus there is some loss of privacy in including this information in the headers.
Imagine never having to answer stupid questions like "flash or html?" "800x600 or 1024x768?"
What if I resize my browser window? Are you going to have a script that forces a page reload every time I resize?
Taco released slashcode to the open-source community. He also helps to run a popular news site for geeks. Do either of those count as a donation or at least contribution?
The text of this bill is available by searching http://thomas.loc.gov for "spam".
(thomas.loc.gov is the first site that I've encountered that not only uses temporary URLs for search results and uses POST forms for searching, but also won't accept the form if I tell my browser to GET it instead.)
You've stopped clicking on banner ads because pop-up ads annoy you? I don't quite understand that logic, and I hope your response doesn't cause website owners to use more pop-up ads "because banner ads don't work".
I saw the iridium article on the front page before I saw this one, but the iridium article is above this one. Did this one jump to the front page while I wasn't reloading slashdot every minute? (I can only afford to reload once every 15 minutes while taking tests.)
I have 16-bit color set, but I don't remember whether that was the default or not.
I think the default for Windows is now 800x600, and that's what I use.
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Please don't do that. Every time someone says they don't believe in Microsoft, someone's Windows computer crashes.
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I forget what depressingly low percentage was required to pass.
:)
I just hope that 20 percentile was more than enough to pass
"The numbers may be misleading" does not imply "the story is meaningless".
Many US states do something similar. For example, California has an initiative process that requires 5% or 8% of voters to sign the petition, depending on whether normal laws or the constitution are being updated. There are additional restrictions (beyond the percent of voters), such as neutral but useful editing by the Secretary of State, but the idea is basically the same.
(1) Article II, [section] 8:
(a) The initiative is the power of the electors to propose statutes and amendments to the Constitution and to adopt or reject them.
(b) An initiative measure may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the text of the proposed statute or amendment to the Constitution and is certified to have been signed by electors equal in number to 5 percent in the case of a statute, and 8 percent in the case of an amendment to the Constitution, of the votes for all candidates for Governor at the last gubernatorial election.
(c) The Secretary of State shall then submit the measure at the next general election held at least 131 days after it qualifies or any special statewide election held prior to that general election. The Governor may call a special statewide election for the measure.
(d) An initiative measure embracing more than one subject may not be submitted to the electors or have any effect.
Additional choices empower the users, because they are all capable of making choices.
I agree. Furthermore, making sure users always have this kind of choice is likely to make both Linux and Windows better in the long run.
At one point in the original article he said "The problem is that one of the clients they work for wants the EXACT product I am producing in my spare time." So he would be taking at least one client that he most likely came into contact with by working for his current employer.
It sounds like he's also getting *clients* from his current employer. That makes me reluctant to side with him on this issue.
Actually, I'm an Internet Explorer user and a Mozilla tester. But thanks for the flame.
That's what the TITLE attribute is for. ALT is for alternate text when the image isn't displayed, not for tooltips.
March 2000: Correlation Found Between Adding Banner Ads to a Web Site and Incrased Traffic
Researchers have detected a correlation between adding more banner ads to a news web site and subsequent incrases in traffic.
"I did a least-squares fit for traffic changes versus banner ad density changes over the last month, and even though the points I could see to be slowly going down with increased banner ads, the line had a distincly positive slope", said high school student William Peterson. "Clearly, adding banner ads to an existing news website increases traffic."
Advertisers welcomed this news. "We expect to see an increase in <strike>percent of web tracked</strike> banner ad sales this quarter", said Paul Brooks of DoubleClick, Inc.(www.doubleclick.com).
Some content providers who recieve most of their revenue through advertising other sites were less ecstatic, however.
"This incrase in traffic seems to be mostly due to the Slashdot effect, which is notorious for sending low-quality traffic to our sites," said Eliza Gregson of SatireWire (www.satirewire.com).
Slashdot (www.slashdot.org) is a fun and useful news-and-discussion site frequented by computer nerds. SatireWire is a "humor" site that usually isn't funny.
Gregson continued, "Sure, those users are curious and click on ads, but they never buy anything because they think advertising is 'evil' and out to 'trick' them into buying products. Our advertisers use this spike of anti-corporatist users in calculating our CPM [revenue per thousand banner impressions], and so over the next few months we end up getting less banner ad revenue."
Popular slashdot community members "Signal 11" and "Bruce Perens" were not available for comment.
That page was full of...>, as are many other sites heavy on banner ads. What's the point of putting alt text if it's meaningless to people who don't use images? If you want IE users to know they can learn more about the product by clicking on the ad, use the TITLE attribute so it's just a tooltip and not a replacement text, and give an empty ALT. If you want Lynx users or people who have disabled cross-site images to click on the ad, give meaningful alt text. But don't fill their pages with useless "click here"s!
Well since webrings was taken over by yahoo all new pages added to webrings require you to use javascript.
Ahh, that's right, it was webrings the guy was talking about, not LE.
The most recent change to the roadmap was to push 0.9 out five more weeks and to call the next release after 0.8 "0.8.1" instead. This was done partly because many open bugs that require large changes to the code are nominated for being fixed by mozilla 0.9. The "if we're lucky" release date for 1.0 was also pushed back five weeks.
I was forwarded a link to this interesting article back in January: After Tight Race, Bush Should Race To Space like JFK. James Pinkerton argues that Bush should use a space initiative, perhaps something like "people to Mars within a decade", in order to give momentum to his presidency that he didn't get by winning in a landslide.
:( It's not clear to me whether Bush is actually doing the opposite and cutting funding, though.
Unfortunately it looks like Bush isn't following Pinkerton's advice
Clear 1x1 gifs with width= and height= are also used as spacers on many webpages. They're used when it's difficult to get the intended layout with tables and when the target audience is not known to have a CSS-supporting browser. As long as the webpage author sets alt="" on each spacer, they're not at all evil by themselves.