Yep. Plus, if I'm using a computer which doesn't have my bookmarks, I'll invariably type the name of the site into Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky", rather than use the URL. Assuming that the home page on that computer is Google, of course.
Yep. My friend's dad just bought a new laptop. Not from Dell, but another big supplier. Every time you start this thing, a Flash AOL ad starts, and you have about a second to click the "I don't wanna see this again" box. Jebus!
I set it up for him becasue, hey, I'm a nice guy, and he gets scared sending email. I'd love to put him on Ubuntu, but he'd phone me every other day asking how to do things.
People want things that work. I set him up, he has used windows before. He's happy. I know that he would much rather have paid 50-100 (dollars _or_ pounds) to have something that works, than to have a dead box and have to get someone (me) in.
Turn off, and uninstall, all the "startup" crap that the pre-installed box comes with, and you have a system that will last him for years.
And the less I have to explain that he can't get online because he's on the phone (when he was on dial-up) the better.
The real effect of CSS was to make web layout more complicated
I disagree. I did a lot of accessibility work, recoding badly-written websites in XHTML and CSS. Once you've studied the box model of CSS, it is incredibly simple - it is only the browser implementations which let it down.
Typical process would be:
- Examine website
- Re-style with box model in tiny brain
- Code wonderful, flexible, tableless, standards compliant, gracefully degrading XHTML content and CSS styling
- Watch said code create mayhem in most browsers
- Hack
- Ta-dah!
- Client's main customer uses Mac IE 5.
- Scream
Slashdot Mirror
Excellent. I'll submit an article to Slashdot about this wonderful development.
Yep. Plus, if I'm using a computer which doesn't have my bookmarks, I'll invariably type the name of the site into Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky", rather than use the URL. Assuming that the home page on that computer is Google, of course.
Plus... there is this cut-up of Stephen Fry reading the HP audiobook. NSFW
Yep. My friend's dad just bought a new laptop. Not from Dell, but another big supplier. Every time you start this thing, a Flash AOL ad starts, and you have about a second to click the "I don't wanna see this again" box. Jebus! I set it up for him becasue, hey, I'm a nice guy, and he gets scared sending email. I'd love to put him on Ubuntu, but he'd phone me every other day asking how to do things. People want things that work. I set him up, he has used windows before. He's happy. I know that he would much rather have paid 50-100 (dollars _or_ pounds) to have something that works, than to have a dead box and have to get someone (me) in. Turn off, and uninstall, all the "startup" crap that the pre-installed box comes with, and you have a system that will last him for years. And the less I have to explain that he can't get online because he's on the phone (when he was on dial-up) the better.
Disappointing. Reading through, I thought that you were a double act, and that the GP had set it up for the parent. Why I oughta...
Just getting his own back.
Or we need to have a "Groan" to go with the "Funny". (Score: 4, Groan)
I think that is known as the Stonehenge Scale Error.
The real effect of CSS was to make web layout more complicated I disagree. I did a lot of accessibility work, recoding badly-written websites in XHTML and CSS. Once you've studied the box model of CSS, it is incredibly simple - it is only the browser implementations which let it down. Typical process would be: - Examine website - Re-style with box model in tiny brain - Code wonderful, flexible, tableless, standards compliant, gracefully degrading XHTML content and CSS styling - Watch said code create mayhem in most browsers - Hack - Ta-dah! - Client's main customer uses Mac IE 5. - Scream
Yes, but their better eyesight means they get super-hypnotised, and fly straight into the blades.
Surely, if it's fast enough, everyone can stand up for an hour or two. That'll cut the ticket price.