I am not visually impaired, but since I'm surfing with out-of-date or text-only browsers every now and then, I get similar issues that I'd like to add:
Get rid of flash/java/javascript for anything related to navigation on the site! These things are nice for showing a movie, or a small program, but not for main content and navigation
A completely cluttered page with an option added afterwards to see it in larger fonts is still a cluttered page! Once I saw a site for local elections where there was a link to the part of the site for visually impaired people (large font page), but you needed to find the link first, which was still in small fonts, hidden on the page somewhere.
If you use the ALT-tag for pictures, use it wisely. Don't put alt-tags saying 'picture' or 'link'. Until now I liked the pages that didn't use the alt-tag better, as 'left-arrow.gif' 'home.gif' are still more intuitive then non-saying alt-tags (of which there are way too many).
Happy that he apparently understands how progress can be achieved most efficiently, or sad that his (previous) company does anything it can to stop this kind of progress in the IT field, even though their previous boss apparently knows very well what the consequence of that is....
I wonder which poor souls will have to screen all that content. I guess you'll get a "dangerous work" bonus for doing that, in case you might not be able to survive without severe brain damage.
Please take a look at this page form february 2006. It shows some very nice toys that are actually based on technology, like the bug sound amplifier (bugs to be collected by the kid himself) a toy creator set, where you can mould your own toys. And some moldeable moon sand. All these modern technological toys really stimulate kids discorvering the world, and technology is in there, but not in the way. And dammit, I wish I had some of these things as a kid! By the way, lego also contains a lot of technology, one way (how come the bricks stick so nicely but are also easy to remove from eachother) or another (the new robotics sets).
Yeah, but did you see their new radar gun? This time you could actually measure the speed, measure the distance that it travelled and compare (draw graphs of the trajectory if you want to). Does someone know if it works as a generic radar gun, and until what distances? Could be pretty cool for kids that want to do physics experiments!
Already happened. Please, my passwords are not so important as my physiological and physical health. Just keep those damn things out of my body, I can just passwords that are important, and any security system can be broken anyway. Remember, security is all about winning time against 'attacks' from the outside. So what do you want, a missing limb and eventually have your identity 'stolen', or having your identity stolen some time earlier, but you keeping your limb.
ok, I didn't try the kensington trackball because it is very expensive and I just wanted to get used to the concept of a trackball (although, I used one on the commodore 64 but that one was very impractical, and I was 11 years old or something). Furthermore it's very hard to find one in the shops here in europe. They do look pretty nice though, only negative point I get is that pictures give the impression that your hand lies a bit in an awkward upward position against it, or is it different with the real thing. If I could find one, I could find out myself, but as said, won't happen very soon.
But just so you don't get the wrong impression, the logitech doesn't have a scroll wheel, but you can just turn the trackball itself in 'scroll mode', which does the trick for me. This kensington ring thing might be pretty cool, a bit like the ipod I guess.
I'll probably buy one when I get rich and a creditcard, and I am also very curious about the 3d mice from 3dconnexion
Actually, I do. When I learned for my exams at school, I found out that it was often the best to take at least 2 different sources, as the people who wrote the book did this in a certain style and with a certain background that was often different from what I wanted to know exactly. Combining several sources really helped me through college, and still helps me (also when coding).
Furthermore, you don't want to know how many mistakes or misconceptions (often for the sake of simplicity) there can be in handbooks, especially in academics. If you use data from handbooks, be sure to do a double check with severl different and recent sources.
5. On September 1, 2006 the changes to the Russian copyright legislation will come into force. Since January 2006 the site has been making direct agreements with rightholders and authors at the same time increasing the price of the music compositions and transferring the royalties directly to the artists and record companies. The aim of AllofMP3.com is to agree with all rightholders on the prices and royalties amounts by September 1, 2006.
If I understand this correctly, they will slowly adjust their prices/policy towards complying with the 1 september ruling. Time will tell if allofmp3 will still be as profitable a place to download music by that time. I guess it might get more expensive (will offer drm'd music?), but still a better alternative than itunes, as the price competition within russia will be pretty tough.
flamebait, but I'll reply anyway. I have very unstable hands, since my birth. On a laptop with tap-to-click trackpad I end up deleting half the filesystem due to unwanted clicks. It's just too sensitive. But guess what, you can turn them of and use the normal buttons provided. Maybe you can even tune the sensitivity. Worse for me were the early laptops with small trackballs because they went everywhere. I do can handle the bigger trackballs just fine, though.
The best invention for me is the trackpoint from IBM, it has just the right resistance to make sure my finger can move it stabily around. I even use the tap-and-click option in it without problems. I sometimes consider buying one of those keyboards for the desktop. Note for the official poster: no need to use the thumb there!
Even worse for me than the tap-and-click trackpads are the modern no-button mice from apple, that click if you softly press your hand on it. I cannot use it at all without creating havock on the system. I guess apple has had a bit of a bad track record for unergonomic mice anyway (the early Imacs had these crazy hockey-puck like mice). I like their stuff for the rest, and the keyboards seem to be ok again as well, just the mice I would immediately throw away and replace with a real one with buttons where I get to decide to press or not (or a trackball).
I find that you don't really need a scroll wheel, the trackball can take it over. Logitech drivers normally take middle click on the simple mice to a sort of scroll-wheel mode. Now if you activate that you can use the ball to go up and down, or left and right in excel or whatever:) You could also just click on a sidebar and scroll with the trackball. This solution if much much faster than scrollwheels, and doesn't strain your middle/index finger with scrolling this little wheel, a practice which I never really liked that much. The logitech marble mouse actually has the option to scroll up and down with the small buttons on it, but in the end that's a bit lame so better remap them to something more useful.
I found it a bit akward to use at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly.
Same here, in the beginning, I actually felt a little more strain on my hands then with a mouse, but after about a week this should be over. It'll also require a bit more time orienting the cursor quickly around the desktop (I was spending some time unwantingly making circles with it around the point I want to click). I bought it just out of curiosity, without having carpal tunnel, so no real experiences with that. I do actually not use the thumb so much. My (opposite) hand lies comfortably on it, my ring finger is for main clicks, you could with a bit of training use your middle finger to use the middle finger on the smaller button for left clicks ( I use my thumb there, on the big button on the other side. One of the smaller buttons is "copy", the other is "middle button", both big ones will paste, this also saves a lot of time and creates a bit of X-windows like copy-paste behavior in windows:) )
Actually my laundry machine should have a 'parent of a teenager' mode, where it would just nag me long enough to make sure I really unload it. Already too many times I forgot the laundry for longer periods than is olfactory favorable (just to end up restarting the same laundry again, ugh).
They don't seem to remove the actual sites, just the entries in the search results. In this way, it helps only MS search, and rightly so, as google seems to be sleeping on this problem already for way too long.
While google was developing online applications we weren't really waiting for, Microsoft correctly found the main spot of irritation in search results, and if they will manage to automatically remove those and provide the search results people want (not just the sponsored shit msn search has shown in the past), then they might prevail over google.
I bold-faced "automatically" because google's efforts so far seemed mostly manual actions at the wrong spots, which do make only little sense to clean out the mass amount of spam sites. In the case I linked to, BMW more or less has a legitimate goal to make people looking for BMW find their site, and the action of google was just plain stupid. If apparently people can shortcut the google search results, than google is the one making the failure, not the one misusing it. Hopefully google will wake up now, so we get at least 2 efforts to automatically clean out spam sites of the search results.
Your comment actually makes the most sense out here. After all, the apple product cyle website may be a joke, but as every joke it's based on at least some truth, in this case that the enthusiasm of apple buyers starts with 'leaked' information. So normally, when a new ipod is on the release, apple can only be happy with these 'leaks'. But since this ibm/intel switch would likely refrain apple costumers from buying machines until it is sure that they can use them in the future, and apple probably didn't want to give ibm/motorola too much info on what they were planning (if it would have failed with intel, and ibm would have retracted before, what would they do?), it's clear that apple didn't want to get this big fish out. Now after this happened, they can let the little fish swim again...
Funny you use england as an example, as it has the highest teenage birth rates in Western Europe"twice as high as in Germany, three times as high as in France and six times as high as in the Netherlands." and it's still rising.
Apparently, it's not completely clear what the cause is (no "duh" erlebnis here), if you look at TV shows every country in western europe gets is fair share of the usual crap (temptation island, big brother, and I don't know what), an interesting quote:
In comparing rates between Europe and the US, where rates are much higher - it found the difference in levels of sexual activity were small.
What I get from the article, there are two most probably causes, which is the socially and economically f**ked up family life in england, and (therefore) the missing of someone taking the effort to actually talking to the kid about sex and what its consequences can be.
so, you can answer the question: how hot does this all get? Can the disks really stay cool enough during full use? And what about the swappability of the disks, in front loaders it'll be easy to reach, but to remove these vertical ones it seems you'll have to do a lot of hassle to get them out (and hope they're not hot:) )
Where can I cast my vote for this? I too have a bit of a problem with backslash being in 'index' now. I already scanned the original comments, and the ones of the dupe (just a joke there, folks!), and I really don't have that much desire to read the comments on the comments. If backslash has its own section (and what about an icon?), I can move it away from my frontpage.
Actually in germany and the netherlands (almost) all mortar-brick gambling houses, and several lotteries as well, are state owned, and a lot of money of the poor souls that get addicted to this flows directly towards the state. As they have to get their money somewhere, and are not earning enough, they're likely to get their money in a criminal way. In effect, all this leads to state-controlled white washing of criminal money.
Don't know how it's in the US, but I don't wonder countries are against online gambling: not because of your health, or to prevent fraud, but because of all the money they'll lose their grip on.
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Get rid of flash/java/javascript for anything related to navigation on the site! These things are nice for showing a movie, or a small program, but not for main content and navigation
A completely cluttered page with an option added afterwards to see it in larger fonts is still a cluttered page! Once I saw a site for local elections where there was a link to the part of the site for visually impaired people (large font page), but you needed to find the link first, which was still in small fonts, hidden on the page somewhere.
If you use the ALT-tag for pictures, use it wisely. Don't put alt-tags saying 'picture' or 'link'. Until now I liked the pages that didn't use the alt-tag better, as 'left-arrow.gif' 'home.gif' are still more intuitive then non-saying alt-tags (of which there are way too many).
Happy that he apparently understands how progress can be achieved most efficiently, or sad that his (previous) company does anything it can to stop this kind of progress in the IT field, even though their previous boss apparently knows very well what the consequence of that is....
ah, so you're the guy screening content on their website! How much does it pay? ;)
I wonder which poor souls will have to screen all that content. I guess you'll get a "dangerous work" bonus for doing that, in case you might not be able to survive without severe brain damage.
Please take a look at this page form february 2006. It shows some very nice toys that are actually based on technology, like the bug sound amplifier (bugs to be collected by the kid himself) a toy creator set, where you can mould your own toys. And some moldeable moon sand. All these modern technological toys really stimulate kids discorvering the world, and technology is in there, but not in the way. And dammit, I wish I had some of these things as a kid! By the way, lego also contains a lot of technology, one way (how come the bricks stick so nicely but are also easy to remove from eachother) or another (the new robotics sets).
Yeah, but did you see their new radar gun? This time you could actually measure the speed, measure the distance that it travelled and compare (draw graphs of the trajectory if you want to). Does someone know if it works as a generic radar gun, and until what distances? Could be pretty cool for kids that want to do physics experiments!
I hope he ment it that way, anyway.
Already happened. Please, my passwords are not so important as my physiological and physical health. Just keep those damn things out of my body, I can just passwords that are important, and any security system can be broken anyway. Remember, security is all about winning time against 'attacks' from the outside. So what do you want, a missing limb and eventually have your identity 'stolen', or having your identity stolen some time earlier, but you keeping your limb.
But just so you don't get the wrong impression, the logitech doesn't have a scroll wheel, but you can just turn the trackball itself in 'scroll mode', which does the trick for me. This kensington ring thing might be pretty cool, a bit like the ipod I guess.
I'll probably buy one when I get rich and a creditcard, and I am also very curious about the 3d mice from 3dconnexion
Furthermore, you don't want to know how many mistakes or misconceptions (often for the sake of simplicity) there can be in handbooks, especially in academics. If you use data from handbooks, be sure to do a double check with severl different and recent sources.
well, it can
5. On September 1, 2006 the changes to the Russian copyright legislation will come into force. Since January 2006 the site has been making direct agreements with rightholders and authors at the same time increasing the price of the music compositions and transferring the royalties directly to the artists and record companies. The aim of AllofMP3.com is to agree with all rightholders on the prices and royalties amounts by September 1, 2006.
If I understand this correctly, they will slowly adjust their prices/policy towards complying with the 1 september ruling. Time will tell if allofmp3 will still be as profitable a place to download music by that time. I guess it might get more expensive (will offer drm'd music?), but still a better alternative than itunes, as the price competition within russia will be pretty tough.
The best invention for me is the trackpoint from IBM, it has just the right resistance to make sure my finger can move it stabily around. I even use the tap-and-click option in it without problems. I sometimes consider buying one of those keyboards for the desktop. Note for the official poster: no need to use the thumb there!
Even worse for me than the tap-and-click trackpads are the modern no-button mice from apple, that click if you softly press your hand on it. I cannot use it at all without creating havock on the system. I guess apple has had a bit of a bad track record for unergonomic mice anyway (the early Imacs had these crazy hockey-puck like mice). I like their stuff for the rest, and the keyboards seem to be ok again as well, just the mice I would immediately throw away and replace with a real one with buttons where I get to decide to press or not (or a trackball).
I find that you don't really need a scroll wheel, the trackball can take it over. Logitech drivers normally take middle click on the simple mice to a sort of scroll-wheel mode. Now if you activate that you can use the ball to go up and down, or left and right in excel or whatever :) You could also just click on a sidebar and scroll with the trackball. This solution if much much faster than scrollwheels, and doesn't strain your middle/index finger with scrolling this little wheel, a practice which I never really liked that much. The logitech marble mouse actually has the option to scroll up and down with the small buttons on it, but in the end that's a bit lame so better remap them to something more useful.
Same here, in the beginning, I actually felt a little more strain on my hands then with a mouse, but after about a week this should be over. It'll also require a bit more time orienting the cursor quickly around the desktop (I was spending some time unwantingly making circles with it around the point I want to click). I bought it just out of curiosity, without having carpal tunnel, so no real experiences with that. I do actually not use the thumb so much. My (opposite) hand lies comfortably on it, my ring finger is for main clicks, you could with a bit of training use your middle finger to use the middle finger on the smaller button for left clicks ( I use my thumb there, on the big button on the other side. One of the smaller buttons is "copy", the other is "middle button", both big ones will paste, this also saves a lot of time and creates a bit of X-windows like copy-paste behavior in windows :) )
Actually my laundry machine should have a 'parent of a teenager' mode, where it would just nag me long enough to make sure I really unload it. Already too many times I forgot the laundry for longer periods than is olfactory favorable (just to end up restarting the same laundry again, ugh).
While google was developing online applications we weren't really waiting for, Microsoft correctly found the main spot of irritation in search results, and if they will manage to automatically remove those and provide the search results people want (not just the sponsored shit msn search has shown in the past), then they might prevail over google.
I bold-faced "automatically" because google's efforts so far seemed mostly manual actions at the wrong spots, which do make only little sense to clean out the mass amount of spam sites. In the case I linked to, BMW more or less has a legitimate goal to make people looking for BMW find their site, and the action of google was just plain stupid. If apparently people can shortcut the google search results, than google is the one making the failure, not the one misusing it. Hopefully google will wake up now, so we get at least 2 efforts to automatically clean out spam sites of the search results.
Your comment actually makes the most sense out here. After all, the apple product cyle website may be a joke, but as every joke it's based on at least some truth, in this case that the enthusiasm of apple buyers starts with 'leaked' information. So normally, when a new ipod is on the release, apple can only be happy with these 'leaks'. But since this ibm/intel switch would likely refrain apple costumers from buying machines until it is sure that they can use them in the future, and apple probably didn't want to give ibm/motorola too much info on what they were planning (if it would have failed with intel, and ibm would have retracted before, what would they do?), it's clear that apple didn't want to get this big fish out. Now after this happened, they can let the little fish swim again...
No, these are actually stacks of graphite sheets, a bit like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Graphit_gitter. png
you need root, man!
Apparently, it's not completely clear what the cause is (no "duh" erlebnis here), if you look at TV shows every country in western europe gets is fair share of the usual crap (temptation island, big brother, and I don't know what), an interesting quote:
In comparing rates between Europe and the US, where rates are much higher - it found the difference in levels of sexual activity were small.
What I get from the article, there are two most probably causes, which is the socially and economically f**ked up family life in england, and (therefore) the missing of someone taking the effort to actually talking to the kid about sex and what its consequences can be.
so, you can answer the question: how hot does this all get? Can the disks really stay cool enough during full use? And what about the swappability of the disks, in front loaders it'll be easy to reach, but to remove these vertical ones it seems you'll have to do a lot of hassle to get them out (and hope they're not hot :) )
Still less than the 640 k that should be enough for everybody, though! But with four of these you might be ok :)
Where can I cast my vote for this? I too have a bit of a problem with backslash being in 'index' now. I already scanned the original comments, and the ones of the dupe (just a joke there, folks!), and I really don't have that much desire to read the comments on the comments. If backslash has its own section (and what about an icon?), I can move it away from my frontpage.
Don't know how it's in the US, but I don't wonder countries are against online gambling: not because of your health, or to prevent fraud, but because of all the money they'll lose their grip on.