Robots aren't bad, they help people find things, and get them to your site. However, if you would rather keep them away from you, consider using your robots.txt http://www.robotstxt.org/ along with meta tags on pages. You can also set certain content to be filtered out by looking at the connecting agent. Things you should consider filtering out would be admin links/pages, version numbers (often in the footer of pages), and files that aren't related to content. There's no reason for Google to know what your login pages look like, for instance.
If I've said it once, I've said it 1000 times. When you secure the old tech first, you find fewer problems with the new tech. robots.txt,.htaccess, proper chmod/chown... these are the things that can prevent a new bug from being a really bad new bug.
You only need to look at Star Wars for that answer. People seem love more and more Star Wars games, but not even the hard core Star Wars movie fans think the movie sequels are better than the originals. Same basic story, different format.
On the other hand, Star Trek is based on television, and the sequels and reruns are loved by the fans. No comment on their games, though I don't think they are near that of Star Wars.
I think that when someone loves a story, like Star Wars, they want to interact with it, where as when someone loves a character, they want to observe them. But, if that's true, can we ever expect to see Gordon Freeman on the big screen? (Hopefully he would do much better than another popular gamer, yet horrible actor, Mario.)
I wouldn't say people like 7 day weeks. Most have never known anything else.
However, I'm not forgetting what the word month means, nor the word week. Months were based on the position of the Moon. Today, that is laughable as the calendar is a Solar one, not a Lunar one. But, there already is a calendar that does away with them. Simply write the day of the year from 1-366.
The main importance of weeks in modern life is to know when we get paid, and months to know when we pay our bills. With a 6x6x10 calendar, or as I represent as a (4!+*3!+*3!+ + 5||6) mathematical equation (which you can find more appreciation for as a mathematical thinker in regards to time keeping), there is a greater symetry. This is wonderful for new work schedules that are overtaking the old. People are moving from 5 on, 2 off, to a 12hr rotating 7 day schedule that wreaks havoc on knowing when you will be off. I have tested about 20 different regular interval work schedules with this structure, and find that in the majority of cases (which mimic current schedules), that people will more free time, without loss of productivity.
Also, the weeks/months structure our calendar into an x,y equation. However, the current structure is a broken graph. The Triangular Earth Calendar is a truer representation of the calendars x,y orientation.
I have not come up with any name replacements. People are touchy when you say you'll do away with month names or weekday names. I'm dealing with the numbers, and if adopted ever in the future, society will likely choose the appropriate names for the units.
Not to self promote, but I think that a new calendar should ditch uneven months, weeks, etc., not just slap a patch on. The chinese first invented it, and I'm working to improve it... the 10 month calendar, aka The Triangular Earth Calendar.
Very simple and learnable. Each week has 6 days. Each month has 6 weeks. Each year has 10 months. Every year has a final week (thinking about a "week of light" for world peace celebration or such). The final week is 5 days, 6 on a leap year, leap years remain as they are now.
By basing months on a value of 6, instead of 7, you can have more normal weeks. You can divide them in half, thirds, and even fourths (with half days) much easier than a 7 day week. The same holds true for months. Such a calendar is as easy to work with as the metric system. This 12 month proposal is utterly devoid of any improvement on the current system.
When I finish my proposal, I'll be happy to put it up (in my spare time, working on how the new calendar integrates with business and culture models currently) and dispell such foolish notions that don't go to the root of the problem.
It's not about the days in the month. To rephrase the popular quote: "It's the days of the week, and weeks of the month, stupid."
Not only is the Trangular calendar uniform, but it is also very beautiful. The days of the week form a triangle (0 at top, 3 4 5 at bottom), but these triangles form a larger triangle that is a month (same structure), and the months form a triangle that is the year (0 at the top, 6 7 8 9 at the bottom). In standard format, this calendar can be printed on with 1 single month, and you just check off the current month in the header, and reuse the days (useful for marker board calendars) because every month is the same. Also, unlike the chinese, this one recognizes true time. It recognizes time that has elapsed correctly. IE - After one hour has passed after the new year, it is 0 month, 0 day, 1 hour. It is also millenial, recognizing 2001 (the true millenium) as 0 year. Like the metric unit, this system recognizes the day as a unit of 1, thus all time is based on a decimal of day.
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Robots aren't bad, they help people find things, and get them to your site. However, if you would rather keep them away from you, consider using your robots.txt http://www.robotstxt.org/ along with meta tags on pages. You can also set certain content to be filtered out by looking at the connecting agent. Things you should consider filtering out would be admin links/pages, version numbers (often in the footer of pages), and files that aren't related to content. There's no reason for Google to know what your login pages look like, for instance.
.htaccess, proper chmod/chown... these are the things that can prevent a new bug from being a really bad new bug.
If I've said it once, I've said it 1000 times. When you secure the old tech first, you find fewer problems with the new tech. robots.txt,
You only need to look at Star Wars for that answer. People seem love more and more Star Wars games, but not even the hard core Star Wars movie fans think the movie sequels are better than the originals. Same basic story, different format. On the other hand, Star Trek is based on television, and the sequels and reruns are loved by the fans. No comment on their games, though I don't think they are near that of Star Wars. I think that when someone loves a story, like Star Wars, they want to interact with it, where as when someone loves a character, they want to observe them. But, if that's true, can we ever expect to see Gordon Freeman on the big screen? (Hopefully he would do much better than another popular gamer, yet horrible actor, Mario.)
I wouldn't say people like 7 day weeks. Most have never known anything else. However, I'm not forgetting what the word month means, nor the word week. Months were based on the position of the Moon. Today, that is laughable as the calendar is a Solar one, not a Lunar one. But, there already is a calendar that does away with them. Simply write the day of the year from 1-366. The main importance of weeks in modern life is to know when we get paid, and months to know when we pay our bills. With a 6x6x10 calendar, or as I represent as a (4!+*3!+*3!+ + 5||6) mathematical equation (which you can find more appreciation for as a mathematical thinker in regards to time keeping), there is a greater symetry. This is wonderful for new work schedules that are overtaking the old. People are moving from 5 on, 2 off, to a 12hr rotating 7 day schedule that wreaks havoc on knowing when you will be off. I have tested about 20 different regular interval work schedules with this structure, and find that in the majority of cases (which mimic current schedules), that people will more free time, without loss of productivity. Also, the weeks/months structure our calendar into an x,y equation. However, the current structure is a broken graph. The Triangular Earth Calendar is a truer representation of the calendars x,y orientation. I have not come up with any name replacements. People are touchy when you say you'll do away with month names or weekday names. I'm dealing with the numbers, and if adopted ever in the future, society will likely choose the appropriate names for the units.
Not to self promote, but I think that a new calendar should ditch uneven months, weeks, etc., not just slap a patch on. The chinese first invented it, and I'm working to improve it... the 10 month calendar, aka The Triangular Earth Calendar.
Very simple and learnable. Each week has 6 days. Each month has 6 weeks. Each year has 10 months. Every year has a final week (thinking about a "week of light" for world peace celebration or such). The final week is 5 days, 6 on a leap year, leap years remain as they are now.
By basing months on a value of 6, instead of 7, you can have more normal weeks. You can divide them in half, thirds, and even fourths (with half days) much easier than a 7 day week. The same holds true for months. Such a calendar is as easy to work with as the metric system. This 12 month proposal is utterly devoid of any improvement on the current system.
When I finish my proposal, I'll be happy to put it up (in my spare time, working on how the new calendar integrates with business and culture models currently) and dispell such foolish notions that don't go to the root of the problem.
It's not about the days in the month. To rephrase the popular quote: "It's the days of the week, and weeks of the month, stupid."
Not only is the Trangular calendar uniform, but it is also very beautiful. The days of the week form a triangle (0 at top, 3 4 5 at bottom), but these triangles form a larger triangle that is a month (same structure), and the months form a triangle that is the year (0 at the top, 6 7 8 9 at the bottom). In standard format, this calendar can be printed on with 1 single month, and you just check off the current month in the header, and reuse the days (useful for marker board calendars) because every month is the same. Also, unlike the chinese, this one recognizes true time. It recognizes time that has elapsed correctly. IE - After one hour has passed after the new year, it is 0 month, 0 day, 1 hour. It is also millenial, recognizing 2001 (the true millenium) as 0 year. Like the metric unit, this system recognizes the day as a unit of 1, thus all time is based on a decimal of day.
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