I've been using it for about a week now. It does what it's supposed to and isn't obtrusive. It doesn't try to censor anything either; it'll only flag porn sites that have malicious content, not sites that have adult content. The little red or green circles next to Google searches are really nice too.
Here are my specific gripes (minor as they may be): -awkward placement of some information: the "read more" link and post scoring information are on the right, which means (for those of us with large monitors) your eye has a long way to travel to find information that is frequently looked at. -it's a little dark: more contrasting colors means slightly more straining than it used to be. -preconfigured fonts: It would be nice to use the fonts set in the viewer's browser rather than what the designer thought looked good. It does look good, but I like my default font, which is why I have it set.
Minor quibbles aside, it does look very nice, and the progress was inevitable.
oh yeah, the top 100 list is cool, too:-P
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I'm a young'un, so I could be wrong about this but...
Wasn't the whole point of cable tv originally to cut out commercials? I thought that back in the day, cable tv was doing what satellite radio is doing now: offering an ad-free subscription service.
What I would love to see is the option to pay a little more every month to get ad-free tv. That way, the people that want to save money by putting up with the commercials can do so, and the people that would just subscribe to Tivo or buy a MythTV box with commercial flagging can achieve the same ad-free viewing (though, alas, not the pvr funtionality).
Well said. It occured to me that since the question seems to be, "if there's nothing stopping them from doing it (reading the blog entries), should they do it?", isn't it possible for the kid to simply restrict the reading of his blog to friends only? Seems to be the easy answer.
On a sidenote, I had a xanga account a few years ago in which I ranted about a statistics teacher I had. My mother knew about my blog and I didn't realize it, so I was surprised when she asked me about the entry. It ended up turning out well for me, since the teacher in question really was breaking a number of rules, and with the help of my mother, the teacher had a conference with her department head and stopped grading me letters below where I should have been. I guess what I mean to say by this is that if you want to complain about the system on MySpace, and the superintendent wants to read it, maybe it'll work out for you.
Correction: kids shouldn't be so stupid as to post something on the PUBLIC internet that they wouldn't want their teachers/parents reading. When a kid gets in trouble for writing that he hates his math teacher and wants to kill him because he got an F on a test, that kid shouldn't bitch about civil liberties when he gets called to the principal's office the next day. Freedom of speech is great and all but talking about doing something illegal on MySpace is starting to become as stupid as saying "bomb" in an airport (I realize that's a bit of an exaggeration, before you flame me for it).
Dealing with issues that don't concern the school are shady, I definitely agree there. However I can't imagine there's anything stopping the school official from notifiying the police if he/she sees something of real concern.
What it boils down to is that you should know the risks associated when you post information in a public forum. If you wouldn't yell it in the streets, don't blog it.
What about the cost of bandwidth? Servers to distribute the product? Clients to facilitate the downloads? I certainly see your point that since the customer is getting less material, it should cost less, but maybe those costs really do justify the convenice you get from downloading.
Are you kidding me? This is what I get from users I've had to help:
"if you have some time now I could help you over the phone."
"um"
"so do you have time now?"
"oh. yeah. um. yeah?"
"yeah?"
"yeah?"
"so do you have time?"
"yes."
"okay, you have windows 98, correct?"
"yes"
"So I need you to boot into safe mode. do you need me to tell you how to do that?"
"yes?"
"yes?"
"yeah."
"Alright, go to the start menu and choose shutdown/reboot."
"Hang on, let me turn it on."
"Oh! Okay, as it starts up, before it says 'Starting windows 98' hit the F8 key."
"um. before it says starting windows 98?"
"yes."
"it says "Starting Windows XP."
"Windows XP?"
"Windows XP home."
"I thought you had windows 98?"
"Well yeah, I assume it's 98."
I'm not kidding. It actually gets better.
"Go to the start button. then select run."
"Run?"
"run."
"I don't see a run. There's a network places. is that it?"
"No. On the right, near the bottom, there should be a 'run' option."
"I dont' think so. There's Help and Support?"
"Can you read all the options once you click the start button please."
[giant list ending in "Run" and then "Shutdown/whatever"]
"Wait! Back up one."
"Help and Support?"
"No. forward."
"Seach for files?"
"Forward."
"Run?"
"yes, click that."
Users are idiots. Seven versions is going to make things absolutely awful for tech support.
What this company should do is fire this tool and hire someone that doesn't need to ask Slashdot how to handle their huge and apparently very important mail system.
If they can get it to be as fast as Opera's cached pages, they'll really have something there. Going back and forth in Opera is almost entertaining, it's so damn fast.
That seems like it would indeed be a huge pain, but not because of the scroll wheel. The article says that the top of the mouse uses "capacitive" technology to detect which finger is clicking, and that leads me to believe that if your finger is in contact AT ALL, it would assume that you're clicking with that finger. So does this mean you have to actually pick up the finger you're not clicking with? It might not seem like much, but it's considerably more work to do that than to just apply more pressure to a button with a conventional mouse. Then again, maybe I'm just lazy. Let's hope they sorted this out though.
4GB is starting to approach being large enough to hold an entire OS and all the programs a lot of users have installed. Seems like $100 to have an OS that will boot and run faster than most RAID arrays would be worth it. Nonetheless, 4GB is still only just barely big enough. Until the size at least doubles, this is only practical for a select (rich) few.
My Firefox looks great in Linux. I personally use the Noia icons theme in KDE, so using the Noia theme for Firefox integrates with the rest of the OS quite well. I also name the bookmarks in my toolbar folder to the character ' ' so all I get are the icons, almost like a browser quick-launch. It's very aesthetically pleasing as well as more efficient with the space. Unfortunately, I don't have good hosting for the snapshot so you'll just have to take my word for it. Mozilla has the official snapshot of the theme though: https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?app lication=firefox&id=72&page=previews
It looks pretty goofy in rural areas where the satellite pictures can't zoom in enough.
That only really matters though for college students like me who want to look at their quad from space, but since it's in the middle of a frickin' cornfield it seems nobody cares enough to take pictures of it.
My old college roommate, a hockey player and zamboni driver, was also under the very distinct impression that the reason the water in zambonis was heated was because it froze faster on the surface. Despite whatever reason I could provide, including the fact that the water can't be allowed to freeze in the machine and the fact that hot water will melt away imperfections on the ice, he still insisted that the sole reason it was warmed was so it would freeze faster. He then looked it up on the first zamboni site Google turned up, and they too claimed it would freeze faster.
Tell you what, that's the last time I'll EVER question a hockey player in matters of science again!
For a full set of CDs (that only an anal collector would actually want) for all 11 archs, and the source, you'll need 164 CDs
Finally! A use for that huge spindle of CD-Rs on my desk! Or better yet, that 120GB hard drive I never planned on using! Whew, I thought those would just sit around forever collecting dust...
Slashdot Mirror
What do the items on this list have in common?
- Cingular Wireless
- Vonage
- Kazaa
- JP Morgan Chase
- Delta
- Travelocity
- Priceline.com
All companies that will no longer have my business, ever. (not that Kazaa would anyways)
I just wish I had the complete list
I've been using it for about a week now. It does what it's supposed to and isn't obtrusive. It doesn't try to censor anything either; it'll only flag porn sites that have malicious content, not sites that have adult content. The little red or green circles next to Google searches are really nice too.
Link for the lazy: http://www.siteadvisor.com/
Here are my specific gripes (minor as they may be):
:-P
-awkward placement of some information: the "read more" link and post scoring information are on the right, which means (for those of us with large monitors) your eye has a long way to travel to find information that is frequently looked at.
-it's a little dark: more contrasting colors means slightly more straining than it used to be.
-preconfigured fonts: It would be nice to use the fonts set in the viewer's browser rather than what the designer thought looked good. It does look good, but I like my default font, which is why I have it set.
Minor quibbles aside, it does look very nice, and the progress was inevitable.
oh yeah, the top 100 list is cool, too
I'm a young'un, so I could be wrong about this but...
Wasn't the whole point of cable tv originally to cut out commercials? I thought that back in the day, cable tv was doing what satellite radio is doing now: offering an ad-free subscription service.
What I would love to see is the option to pay a little more every month to get ad-free tv. That way, the people that want to save money by putting up with the commercials can do so, and the people that would just subscribe to Tivo or buy a MythTV box with commercial flagging can achieve the same ad-free viewing (though, alas, not the pvr funtionality).
Well said. It occured to me that since the question seems to be, "if there's nothing stopping them from doing it (reading the blog entries), should they do it?", isn't it possible for the kid to simply restrict the reading of his blog to friends only? Seems to be the easy answer.
On a sidenote, I had a xanga account a few years ago in which I ranted about a statistics teacher I had. My mother knew about my blog and I didn't realize it, so I was surprised when she asked me about the entry. It ended up turning out well for me, since the teacher in question really was breaking a number of rules, and with the help of my mother, the teacher had a conference with her department head and stopped grading me letters below where I should have been. I guess what I mean to say by this is that if you want to complain about the system on MySpace, and the superintendent wants to read it, maybe it'll work out for you.
Correction: kids shouldn't be so stupid as to post something on the PUBLIC internet that they wouldn't want their teachers/parents reading. When a kid gets in trouble for writing that he hates his math teacher and wants to kill him because he got an F on a test, that kid shouldn't bitch about civil liberties when he gets called to the principal's office the next day. Freedom of speech is great and all but talking about doing something illegal on MySpace is starting to become as stupid as saying "bomb" in an airport (I realize that's a bit of an exaggeration, before you flame me for it).
Dealing with issues that don't concern the school are shady, I definitely agree there. However I can't imagine there's anything stopping the school official from notifiying the police if he/she sees something of real concern.
What it boils down to is that you should know the risks associated when you post information in a public forum. If you wouldn't yell it in the streets, don't blog it.
What about the cost of bandwidth? Servers to distribute the product? Clients to facilitate the downloads? I certainly see your point that since the customer is getting less material, it should cost less, but maybe those costs really do justify the convenice you get from downloading.
By using Dvorak on this keyboard. Ahh, I can see the frustration already...
What this company should do is fire this tool and hire someone that doesn't need to ask Slashdot how to handle their huge and apparently very important mail system.
If they can get it to be as fast as Opera's cached pages, they'll really have something there. Going back and forth in Opera is almost entertaining, it's so damn fast.
Apparently CNET is hiring
Personally, I'm impressed with this guy. He actually managed to troll on the front page.
Nonetheless, a troll article is all this is, and as such, it should be taken lightly.
That seems like it would indeed be a huge pain, but not because of the scroll wheel. The article says that the top of the mouse uses "capacitive" technology to detect which finger is clicking, and that leads me to believe that if your finger is in contact AT ALL, it would assume that you're clicking with that finger. So does this mean you have to actually pick up the finger you're not clicking with? It might not seem like much, but it's considerably more work to do that than to just apply more pressure to a button with a conventional mouse. Then again, maybe I'm just lazy. Let's hope they sorted this out though.
I think what you meant to write was:
1. Apple switches to intel
2. Apple releases 2 button mouse
3. ????
4. Profit!
4GB is starting to approach being large enough to hold an entire OS and all the programs a lot of users have installed. Seems like $100 to have an OS that will boot and run faster than most RAID arrays would be worth it. Nonetheless, 4GB is still only just barely big enough. Until the size at least doubles, this is only practical for a select (rich) few.
This would make perfect sense, since it now seems that Google OWNS Slashdot...
Spam brutally murders you! Sorry, but as soon as I saw the headline, I realized I had no choice.
My Firefox looks great in Linux. I personally use the Noia icons theme in KDE, so using the Noia theme for Firefox integrates with the rest of the OS quite well. I also name the bookmarks in my toolbar folder to the character ' ' so all I get are the icons, almost like a browser quick-launch. It's very aesthetically pleasing as well as more efficient with the space. Unfortunately, I don't have good hosting for the snapshot so you'll just have to take my word for it.p lication=firefox&id=72&page=previews
Mozilla has the official snapshot of the theme though: https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?ap
It looks pretty goofy in rural areas where the satellite pictures can't zoom in enough.
That only really matters though for college students like me who want to look at their quad from space, but since it's in the middle of a frickin' cornfield it seems nobody cares enough to take pictures of it.
Here we have a Slashdot article about women, and nowhere in here does it mention how I can get a date? What the hell is this??
And what should have been the addition of a "'nt" is the reason we have the preview button here on slashdot...
My old college roommate, a hockey player and zamboni driver, was also under the very distinct impression that the reason the water in zambonis was heated was because it froze faster on the surface. Despite whatever reason I could provide, including the fact that the water can't be allowed to freeze in the machine and the fact that hot water will melt away imperfections on the ice, he still insisted that the sole reason it was warmed was so it would freeze faster. He then looked it up on the first zamboni site Google turned up, and they too claimed it would freeze faster.
Tell you what, that's the last time I'll EVER question a hockey player in matters of science again!
For a full set of CDs (that only an anal collector would actually want) for all 11 archs, and the source, you'll need 164 CDs
Finally! A use for that huge spindle of CD-Rs on my desk! Or better yet, that 120GB hard drive I never planned on using! Whew, I thought those would just sit around forever collecting dust...