"Well, you very obviously haven't got good advice. Might I suggest you start by updating the site to XHTML 1.0 (ideally Strict, Transitional will do), and make sure the code validates . If you haven't done this you haven't even taken the first steps you should have taken."
Search engines do not give a rats ass if your site is xhtml or not. Its really annoying seeing people constantly giving ridiculous reasons to move to xhtml that are complete nonsense.
"You should also take a lot of that text on the site out of images and put it in lovely plain (but styled) HTML. Google can't index text in images - this is pretty much SEO Baby-Steps lesson #2."
Uh, images get alt tags. Google can index text in alt tags, so replacing images with text for SEO purposes is complete nonsense. This is pretty much SEO Baby-Steps lesson #2.
"Research by raptor experts for the California Energy Commission (CEC) indicates that each year, Altamont Pass wind turbines kill an estimated 881 to 1,300 birds of prey"
That is not a large number at all, cars, buildings, pets, power lines, etc, etc kill WAY more than that. And the altamont pass is the single worst wind farm in north america for bird of prey deaths, because they were stupid and built it not only in the middle of a migratory path, but in the middle of the highest concentration of breeding golden eagles anywhere in the world, and with the blades positioned right at the typical altitude of those birds flight paths. This is exactly what caused the myth; old, improperly planned wind farms that haven't been fixed. Learn to find facts instead of just repeating nonsense you heard from whackjobs.
The fact that you think the tiny number of bird deaths produced by the worst wind farm on the continent is "substantial numbers" is just silly. And the fact that you pretend its indicative of modern, properly planned and constructed wind farms is just plain stupid. You can't say wind farms in general kill substantial numbers of birds just because a couple of bad wind farms were built.
You haven't removed anything, you've just moved the heat, or more likely delayed it. You do realize that all that stuff we use electricity for produces heat right?
And we already have created the opposite problem all over the place, we call them cities. Plants absorb sunlight and use its energy, so its not all going to heat. But if we remove the plants and pave everything (make a city), suddenly the local tempurature goes way up. Imagine now if we did something crazy like put solar panels on buildings, bringing cities back down closer to where they should be temperature wise and providing electricity.
First of all, the turbines killing birds myth is getting really tired. Buildings kill birds too, but we seem to be building those. Properly located wind farms do not kill significant numbers of birds. This myth comes from the fact that one particular wind farm was placed directly in a valley that birds migrated through, giving them no choice but to go through and risk being killed. There's tons of other wind farm installations which show birds who have a choice to go around them, do go around them.
And what do you think that solar energy is going to do if you don't turn it into electicity? The sun already raises the temperature last I checked.
Yes, it will be great when anything I do can be taken by competitors who happen to already have a dominant market position. The big corps would just move to contract law to protect their investments, and the little guy writing software on his own will be fucked, since he suddenly has no way to defend his work, since he can't afford a lawyer army. Of course removing copyright would hurt the little guy, removing protections will always hurt the people who most need protected.
Yes, it is relevant. He was trying to pretend that copyright is some exclusive, hard to obtain thing used only to push other people around. That's not the case, there's tons of people using copyright, you can't say its good to get rid of it based only on the people who abuse it.
I own dozens of copyrights. Its not hard to do, just write something. It doesn't have to be good, or popular, or make money, or anything else. You automatically have copyright on your creations.
Blocks are just anonymous functions with closures, so ruby and python are equals? But python doesn't have proper first class anonymous functions with closures. It only has a half-assed crippled version that is supposedly being removed in python 3. So clearly python is missing functionality that languages like ruby and pike have.
Lots of people had online diaries long before the horrible term "weblog" came about. Just because people now try to call those diaries "blogs" doesn't mean those diary keepers now have an obligation to provide content you want.
You most certainly do not need any sort of write access to/bin. Install stuff in ~/bin and set your PATH appropriately. Upgrading compilers? You do not need to mess with the system at all, just install as many compilers as you want in your home dir and use whichever one you need when you need it. And you shouldn't be setting the date, that's what ntpd is for.
See my reply to jack. Scaffolding is a specific (useless and broken) piece of functionality in rails. I did not mean the concept of generating code in general.
Scaffolding is not a concept in rails, it is a single, very specific piece of functionality. Its when you use the actual "scaffold" function on your class. I never said the concept of generating code was flawed, I said rails scaffolding is not supposed to be used.
First of all, people who have to build and package X with their OS care too.
Second, no autotools do not work. They don't even work all the time on linux distros, nevermind less common unixes. And they were already using a superior alternative, imake.
Now we can look forward to longer build times, the even worse than imake autocrap tools, and of course, only linux and solaris are supported "for now". Somehow I am not excited.
Please re-read my entire post. I don't care why you reject scaffolding, you don't have to reject it because you aren't supposed to use it. Its not an option for you to reject, it is known to be broken and should not be used. Its just there for people who can't edit their db for some reason, so they can stick data in to build their app on.
When people complained that scaffolding opens up trivial exploits, the answer was "you aren't supposed to use it". Its just there to look impressive in the demo videos, and for people who can't add/delete/edit their database through other means (I have no idea who these people are).
Everyone is already concerned about the people. There's tons of organizations out there trying to help people. Just because some other people choose to try to help animals instead doesn't mean they don't think people matter. If you want to bitch about people caring about animals that's up to you, but quit trying to pretend caring about animals equals not caring about people.
Seriously, nothing you are saying makes any sense. What suicide bomber, is supposed to see the reason in what argument? And who said anything about the value of human life at all, much less in comparison with other animals lives?
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I didn't say the site was good. I just said the posters "advice" is complete bullshit.
"Well, you very obviously haven't got good advice. Might I suggest you start by updating the site to XHTML 1.0 (ideally Strict, Transitional will do), and make sure the code validates . If you haven't done this you haven't even taken the first steps you should have taken."
Search engines do not give a rats ass if your site is xhtml or not. Its really annoying seeing people constantly giving ridiculous reasons to move to xhtml that are complete nonsense.
"You should also take a lot of that text on the site out of images and put it in lovely plain (but styled) HTML. Google can't index text in images - this is pretty much SEO Baby-Steps lesson #2."
Uh, images get alt tags. Google can index text in alt tags, so replacing images with text for SEO purposes is complete nonsense. This is pretty much SEO Baby-Steps lesson #2.
"Research by raptor experts for the California Energy Commission (CEC) indicates that each year, Altamont Pass wind turbines kill an estimated 881 to 1,300 birds of prey"
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That is not a large number at all, cars, buildings, pets, power lines, etc, etc kill WAY more than that. And the altamont pass is the single worst wind farm in north america for bird of prey deaths, because they were stupid and built it not only in the middle of a migratory path, but in the middle of the highest concentration of breeding golden eagles anywhere in the world, and with the blades positioned right at the typical altitude of those birds flight paths. This is exactly what caused the myth; old, improperly planned wind farms that haven't been fixed. Learn to find facts instead of just repeating nonsense you heard from whackjobs.
The fact that you think the tiny number of bird deaths produced by the worst wind farm on the continent is "substantial numbers" is just silly. And the fact that you pretend its indicative of modern, properly planned and constructed wind farms is just plain stupid. You can't say wind farms in general kill substantial numbers of birds just because a couple of bad wind farms were built.
The quote is from this page, there's more info there about what can be done to improve altamont specifically:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/programs
You haven't removed anything, you've just moved the heat, or more likely delayed it. You do realize that all that stuff we use electricity for produces heat right?
And we already have created the opposite problem all over the place, we call them cities. Plants absorb sunlight and use its energy, so its not all going to heat. But if we remove the plants and pave everything (make a city), suddenly the local tempurature goes way up. Imagine now if we did something crazy like put solar panels on buildings, bringing cities back down closer to where they should be temperature wise and providing electricity.
First of all, the turbines killing birds myth is getting really tired. Buildings kill birds too, but we seem to be building those. Properly located wind farms do not kill significant numbers of birds. This myth comes from the fact that one particular wind farm was placed directly in a valley that birds migrated through, giving them no choice but to go through and risk being killed. There's tons of other wind farm installations which show birds who have a choice to go around them, do go around them.
And what do you think that solar energy is going to do if you don't turn it into electicity? The sun already raises the temperature last I checked.
Yes, it will be great when anything I do can be taken by competitors who happen to already have a dominant market position. The big corps would just move to contract law to protect their investments, and the little guy writing software on his own will be fucked, since he suddenly has no way to defend his work, since he can't afford a lawyer army. Of course removing copyright would hurt the little guy, removing protections will always hurt the people who most need protected.
Yes, it is relevant. He was trying to pretend that copyright is some exclusive, hard to obtain thing used only to push other people around. That's not the case, there's tons of people using copyright, you can't say its good to get rid of it based only on the people who abuse it.
I own dozens of copyrights. Its not hard to do, just write something. It doesn't have to be good, or popular, or make money, or anything else. You automatically have copyright on your creations.
Blocks are just anonymous functions with closures, so ruby and python are equals? But python doesn't have proper first class anonymous functions with closures. It only has a half-assed crippled version that is supposedly being removed in python 3. So clearly python is missing functionality that languages like ruby and pike have.
Lots of people had online diaries long before the horrible term "weblog" came about. Just because people now try to call those diaries "blogs" doesn't mean those diary keepers now have an obligation to provide content you want.
Cgd is several years old, its not new at all.
You most certainly do not need any sort of write access to /bin. Install stuff in ~/bin and set your PATH appropriately. Upgrading compilers? You do not need to mess with the system at all, just install as many compilers as you want in your home dir and use whichever one you need when you need it. And you shouldn't be setting the date, that's what ntpd is for.
Google for "opera adblock" and click I'm feeling lucky.
Download an adblock extension if you want it. http://nontroppo.org/wiki/OperaAdblock
"unless Opera has never bundled anything that could be considered spyware".
Duh?
Its on par with C for speed.
See my reply to jack. Scaffolding is a specific (useless and broken) piece of functionality in rails. I did not mean the concept of generating code in general.
Scaffolding is not a concept in rails, it is a single, very specific piece of functionality. Its when you use the actual "scaffold" function on your class. I never said the concept of generating code was flawed, I said rails scaffolding is not supposed to be used.
First of all, people who have to build and package X with their OS care too.
Second, no autotools do not work. They don't even work all the time on linux distros, nevermind less common unixes. And they were already using a superior alternative, imake.
Now we can look forward to longer build times, the even worse than imake autocrap tools, and of course, only linux and solaris are supported "for now". Somehow I am not excited.
Please re-read my entire post. I don't care why you reject scaffolding, you don't have to reject it because you aren't supposed to use it. Its not an option for you to reject, it is known to be broken and should not be used. Its just there for people who can't edit their db for some reason, so they can stick data in to build their app on.
When people complained that scaffolding opens up trivial exploits, the answer was "you aren't supposed to use it". Its just there to look impressive in the demo videos, and for people who can't add/delete/edit their database through other means (I have no idea who these people are).
Everyone is already concerned about the people. There's tons of organizations out there trying to help people. Just because some other people choose to try to help animals instead doesn't mean they don't think people matter. If you want to bitch about people caring about animals that's up to you, but quit trying to pretend caring about animals equals not caring about people.
Seriously, nothing you are saying makes any sense. What suicide bomber, is supposed to see the reason in what argument? And who said anything about the value of human life at all, much less in comparison with other animals lives?
What about it? They think its bad that people are getting animals caught up in their sensless violence. The problem you have with this is ...?