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From: The Older Gentleman on 18 Nov 2009 02:19 Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216128(a)aol.com> wrote: > I have to admit that I've enjoyed visiting the British museum > and a few other London sites, but couldn't you add some > dancing cartoon characters like Disneyland to liven things > up a little ? http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/attend/debates.cfm -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: darsy on 18 Nov 2009 03:16 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:41:38 -0000, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: >darsy wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:47:53 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >> >> >But if web forums are the future, I don't want any part of it. >> >> the maddest bit is, they could be done properly if someone with 1/2 a >> clue about UX had a go at doing one. Every single one I've tried looks >> to have been "designed" by some open source LAMP-muppet, using the >> appropriately named Gimp for the badly formatted graphics (and don't >> even get me started on the ones that have anim-GIFs instead of >> smileys...) > >If only you knew an unemployed developer. hah. I, personally, haven't written a line of code in maybe 5 years. -- d.
From: darsy on 18 Nov 2009 03:20 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:56:40 +0100, "Leszek Karlik" <leslie(a)hell.pl> wrote: >On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:34:32 +0100, darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > >[...] >>> But if web forums are the future, I don't want any part of it. >> the maddest bit is, they could be done properly if someone with 1/2 a >> clue about UX had a go at doing one. > >Nah, no amount of UX will change the fact that web forums are a >single point of failure waiting to happen and are easily retromoderated >by the administrators and/or users. that problem is easily solvable - the web front end would point at a read/write-only datasource encrypted somewhere on "the cloud" - no retromoderation possible. >Usenet is failure- and censorship-resistant, which is it's best point >and most significant flaw at the same time. Of course, a decent (i.e. not Google's) web interface to Usenet would also be possible. -- d.
From: CT on 18 Nov 2009 03:39 The Older Gentleman wrote: > Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216128(a)aol.com> wrote: > > > I have to admit that I've enjoyed visiting the British museum > > and a few other London sites, but couldn't you add some > > dancing cartoon characters like Disneyland to liven things > > up a little ? > > http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/attend/debates.cfm heh -- Chris
From: CT on 18 Nov 2009 03:45
zymurgy wrote: > I was behind one today on the A1 North. He was giving it a fair amount > of stick (like over 100MPH), and I was a bit surprised. When I hired a Road King back in 2005, it maxed out at 102mph. On a dead straight, flat piece of road about 5 miles long[1]. It did have a screen on it though. [1] Somewhere along the 127 between Baker & Shoshone IIRC. -- Chris |