how much i owe, to whom, and how long it takes me to pay it off is between me, my creditors, and a few people very close to me.
it is *not* the business of the government. yes, you are 100% right - the couple in TFA are not under a cloud of suspicion, and their payment eventually went through
however, homeland security goons are familliar with some of the intimate details of their finances, and the just makes me feel icky
Okay. First, PHP is *not* an issue at all. PHP is handled by the server before googlebot sees anything. PHP doesn't exist to crawlers at all.
As for Flash, maybe you've got a point, but here's a question: How do you propose a robot deal with Flash? How does it tell the diference between a flash ad and actual content? Besides (and this is my own personal evangelism at work), Flash is inherently inaccessible (to people with disabilities, mobile/pda displays, etc.), and as far as I'm concerned, shouldn't be indexed by search engiens anyway, since they should help people find content that is usable to everyone.
i'm not usually an 'email-your-congress-critter' sort, but your pleas were heard. here's the text of the emails i sent to my (CA) senators:
Hi. I'm writing about Sen. Ron Wyden's Internet Non-Discrimination Act, which I've read is expected to be introduced today. I support this measure in the strongest possible terms. Prohibiting service providers from engaging in pay-to-play shemes with content providers is the only sensible course. Computer technology has at its core an idealized notion of equality and accessibility, and allowing companies to add increased charges for the deliver of certain content is not only anti competitive, but locks many users out of equal use of the internet. If pay-to-play schemes like those Sen. Wyden's bill aims to prohibit had been in place in 2000, the internet certainly would not be where it is today, and companies like Amazon and Google, which are now household names, may have never been able to get off the ground.
I think it'd be best to go somewhere like switzerland, then it'd be safe, no one ever asks questions there
untrue! I've been to switzerland! they asked all kinds of questions, like "how much further is it to the restaurant?" and "would you like a beer with that?" and "wanna play cards?" and "do you like eggs for dinner?"
It's gotten to be a real problem. You can have crap content but come in first or second if you obsess over optimization, but if you simply concentrate on content, and not Google, you may not come up in a search.
bollocks. well written original content, marked up semantically, and such that content is seperate from presentation, will *allways* rank reasonably well. hands down. aditionally, the #1 main indicator for google page rank is other sites that link to yours. if your content is good, people will link to it, and it will do well on google.
"SEO" is a bunch of horsepoop, agreed, but at the end of the day, quality content that others link to + correct semantic markup will allways rank quite well
Seriously, use a dedicated email account. Call it "workorders@yourdomain.com." Sounds oversimple, perhaps, but I think it would be more than sufficient for your needs as described.
100% right on. email is the way to go. they come to you, you can look at them easily (and anywhere), and you can easily respond if the fix is a simple one they can do themselves
use a different address for each of your customers: joes.garage.support@example.net; keep it real simple, and everyone is happy
Sorry to be so negative, but this is like the Highway Division saying "Well, we got tired of projects taking 15 years to complete, so now we're going to do them in one year!"
If it's true, great, bully for them and well done, but I'll believe it when I see it. My hopes aren't too high for all these cool fixes/features to actually function as advertised. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised, who knows?
...supplies for writing and being artistic and making noise and doing the sort of messy "chemistry" kids like, and so on...
amen to that. kids will do *anything*, and learn heaps from it, if it's (a) a game, (b) messy, or (c) food-related... if it's all three, you've got a recipe for success
kids, especially li'll ones, are *not* big-person trainees. they are play machines... the brain learns, and quickly -- that's what it's designed to do... as long as they are having fun, and aren't being *forced* into anything , they will learn from it...
people get all into having kids mimic the things that big do, when really, it needs to be kid-foccussed... hint: paper machier dinosaurs are the roxorz
As the child gets older, and shows an aptitude for Technology, I would suggest some simple electronics project kits that are suitable for their age, and appeal to their interests.
This is right right on. When I was a kid, as soon as i got bored of my simon toy, i took a screw driver and took it all apart. My parents just said "be careful that you can still put it back together." Maybe what they *should* have done was buy me kits like you're suggesting - would have saved me a lot of learning in highschool (everything is *so* much easier) when you're young
i continue from what you said with somethign along the lines of "see what their interests are, and anything they seem interested in, see if they're interested in making it/hacking it themselves, or if they're content to use it as is"... don't force the young'uns into anything
What? An electronic system that didn't function properly? Color me SHOCKED!!!
/sarcasm
Seriously. I remember in the early 90s, tv ads for banks that ended with "...and remember, our staff will never ask for your credit card number over the phone." I think people *eventually* got the message on that one. How long will it take online? Remember, unsolicited email that links to a website ready to take your credit card number is bullshit, mom.
I only went to WWDC once, when i was 17, my employer (first IT job) sent me on their dime... it was a blast, really cool, really eye-opening... giving OSS developers a free ride (and a free computer!) is just cool... i don't have much of a point... this just cool, and makes me nostalgic:)
man! that brings back some memories... when i was ten, i was showing off to the other kids that you could change the pen color... i remember my introduction to logo at some summer camp i was at, where they had this remote control turtle that crawled around the floor for a while to get us interested before they turned us loose on the amigas or apple IIs or whatever they were
No. They don't. For you all who don't understand the point of standards and tableless design, let me break it down:
The whole point of design that involves compliant markup and avoids the use of tables is this: it is 100% portable to any device, and to any user. Your PDA or mobile phone (as well as your blind friend's screen reader and your deaf-blind-friend's braille display) need to receive document structure and text only. Then they can present as best fits that device. When you wack a bunch of stuff into tables, you are essentially requiring your user to have a visual display. It's not portable, and it's not accessible. It totally blocks all kinds of groupos: mobile phone users, pda users, users with disabilities, etc. out of your content. To a lesser extent, it hinders search engine spiders and is bad for SEO.
Totally separating content&structure from presentation is the only way to make sure that your document is portable across platforms.
that abstract seemed really clear to me. It seemed intelligent and well structured, and summarized the reasarch methodology and findings in an easy-to-understand way. What about the writing do you note as being weak or poorly done?
It's worth noting that the summary (didn't read TFA) mentions the game was found "on the seat". Er. High speed chase -> crash -> death; and the game is still on the seat? not the floor?
so you would think that they could fine one parent who needs this law
I'm sure you meant 'find' one parent... and i agree with you; but how about fining parents too;) seems a sight more effective than hassling retail shops
It's weird; a lot of this study seems to ignore CSS where it's fairly obvious that's what's going on.
You're right about BR. It's just about useless these days.
Look at this sentence from the 'HTTP Headers' section:
There are pages that use the Window-Target header, and even some that use the Link header (though we haven't yet checked what for!). There are even some pages that include the Content-Style-Type header.
Excuse me? the link header is for including stylesheets (among other uses). The fact that they've got such! emphatic! pucntuation! here makes me wonder just how important they took this study, and what kind of employees they made responsible for it.
amen to that. a simbiotic relationship with one's own internal microbes, such that you don't have to eat *or* poop is probably among the top 10 coolest adaptations i've ever heard of
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you forgot Poland
Well, we didn't even need to get the name of the mood, we *all* know where the Casini probe is and what it's doing...
it is *not* the business of the government. yes, you are 100% right - the couple in TFA are not under a cloud of suspicion, and their payment eventually went through
however, homeland security goons are familliar with some of the intimate details of their finances, and the just makes me feel icky
give me a break, this is *hardly* the forum for your reasonable common sense solution! where's the loud, undeducated complaining that i'm here for?
Okay. First, PHP is *not* an issue at all. PHP is handled by the server before googlebot sees anything. PHP doesn't exist to crawlers at all.
As for Flash, maybe you've got a point, but here's a question: How do you propose a robot deal with Flash? How does it tell the diference between a flash ad and actual content? Besides (and this is my own personal evangelism at work), Flash is inherently inaccessible (to people with disabilities, mobile/pda displays, etc.), and as far as I'm concerned, shouldn't be indexed by search engiens anyway, since they should help people find content that is usable to everyone.
untrue! I've been to switzerland! they asked all kinds of questions, like "how much further is it to the restaurant?" and "would you like a beer with that?" and "wanna play cards?" and "do you like eggs for dinner?"
bollocks. well written original content, marked up semantically, and such that content is seperate from presentation, will *allways* rank reasonably well. hands down. aditionally, the #1 main indicator for google page rank is other sites that link to yours. if your content is good, people will link to it, and it will do well on google.
"SEO" is a bunch of horsepoop, agreed, but at the end of the day, quality content that others link to + correct semantic markup will allways rank quite well
100% right on. email is the way to go. they come to you, you can look at them easily (and anywhere), and you can easily respond if the fix is a simple one they can do themselves
use a different address for each of your customers: joes.garage.support@example.net; keep it real simple, and everyone is happy
If it's true, great, bully for them and well done, but I'll believe it when I see it. My hopes aren't too high for all these cool fixes/features to actually function as advertised. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised, who knows?
amen to that. kids will do *anything*, and learn heaps from it, if it's (a) a game, (b) messy, or (c) food-related... if it's all three, you've got a recipe for success
kids, especially li'll ones, are *not* big-person trainees. they are play machines... the brain learns, and quickly -- that's what it's designed to do... as long as they are having fun, and aren't being *forced* into anything , they will learn from it...
people get all into having kids mimic the things that big do, when really, it needs to be kid-foccussed... hint: paper machier dinosaurs are the roxorz
This is right right on. When I was a kid, as soon as i got bored of my simon toy, i took a screw driver and took it all apart. My parents just said "be careful that you can still put it back together." Maybe what they *should* have done was buy me kits like you're suggesting - would have saved me a lot of learning in highschool (everything is *so* much easier) when you're young
i continue from what you said with somethign along the lines of "see what their interests are, and anything they seem interested in, see if they're interested in making it/hacking it themselves, or if they're content to use it as is"... don't force the young'uns into anything
Seriously. I remember in the early 90s, tv ads for banks that ended with "...and remember, our staff will never ask for your credit card number over the phone." I think people *eventually* got the message on that one. How long will it take online? Remember, unsolicited email that links to a website ready to take your credit card number is bullshit, mom.
okay. where's the link?
I only went to WWDC once, when i was 17, my employer (first IT job) sent me on their dime... it was a blast, really cool, really eye-opening... giving OSS developers a free ride (and a free computer!) is just cool... i don't have much of a point... this just cool, and makes me nostalgic :)
man! that brings back some memories... when i was ten, i was showing off to the other kids that you could change the pen color... i remember my introduction to logo at some summer camp i was at, where they had this remote control turtle that crawled around the floor for a while to get us interested before they turned us loose on the amigas or apple IIs or whatever they were
No. They don't. For you all who don't understand the point of standards and tableless design, let me break it down:
The whole point of design that involves compliant markup and avoids the use of tables is this: it is 100% portable to any device, and to any user. Your PDA or mobile phone (as well as your blind friend's screen reader and your deaf-blind-friend's braille display) need to receive document structure and text only. Then they can present as best fits that device. When you wack a bunch of stuff into tables, you are essentially requiring your user to have a visual display. It's not portable, and it's not accessible. It totally blocks all kinds of groupos: mobile phone users, pda users, users with disabilities, etc. out of your content. To a lesser extent, it hinders search engine spiders and is bad for SEO.
Totally separating content&structure from presentation is the only way to make sure that your document is portable across platforms.
Sure, I follow you. I'm curious *what* aspects of the style and diction you found lacking.
that abstract seemed really clear to me. It seemed intelligent and well structured, and summarized the reasarch methodology and findings in an easy-to-understand way. What about the writing do you note as being weak or poorly done?
It's worth noting that the summary (didn't read TFA) mentions the game was found "on the seat". Er. High speed chase -> crash -> death; and the game is still on the seat? not the floor?
I'm sure you meant 'find' one parent... and i agree with you; but how about fining parents too ;) seems a sight more effective than hassling retail shops
You're right about BR. It's just about useless these days.
Look at this sentence from the 'HTTP Headers' section:
Excuse me? the link header is for including stylesheets (among other uses). The fact that they've got such! emphatic! pucntuation! here makes me wonder just how important they took this study, and what kind of employees they made responsible for it.
amen to that. a simbiotic relationship with one's own internal microbes, such that you don't have to eat *or* poop is probably among the top 10 coolest adaptations i've ever heard of
Just because it's a government owned facility doesn't mean anybody can walk around as they please. Just try it at your local National Guard armory.
promotions all around, eh?