Why registration-sites suck

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Sites That Suck

Sites That Suck 04/15/2005 09:55 AM

Sites That Suck: This site is worthy of a browse — it's a gallery of painfully-designed Web sites (sadly, the site itself doesn't look all that great). I like the use of vacuum cleaners instead of stars to measure how much a site "sucks," and great commentary like this:

I would assume that at some point, an actual person decided that a hit counter wasn't enough, and that it needed to be an animated hit counter that comically rolled at such a speed that it caused you to imagine traffic so intense that the poor counter couldn't keep up. Oh the hysteria!

It's in blog format, so there's an RSS feed.

top 25 bugmenot registration sites

top 25 bugmenot registration sites 08/19/2004 02:13 PM
people *really* don't like registering to read news

Online News Sites registration
workarounds

Online News Sites registration
workarounds 07/20/2004 04:06 PM

I know what I do when I encounter a news site that requires registration I go elsewhere. Why do I want to entrust a news company with my personal demographic information when I can read the same story on a news site that does not require registration. Wired takes a look at sites offering ways to bypass site registration and Techdirt offers commentary on the sheer stupidity of news sites that hide their content from behind a login. [Wired] [Techdirt]

Why Requiring Registration Does More
Harm Than Good For News Sites

Why Requiring Registration Does More
Harm Than Good For News Sites 02/12/2004 05:00 PM
We've been discussing news site registration lately, and Digital Deliverance has a piece where they explain why it's likely to backfire for almost all sites who try it. As we were just saying last week, sites that require registration and/or demographic info tend to get many fewer visitors and a ton of bogus data. As the Digital Deliverance piece points out, most sites aren't even doing anything with that dirty data - so it's completely useless. They're getting fewer visitors and bad data they don't even use for any reasonable purpose. This certainly doesn't help them get more advertising, but the fewer readers does mean they'll get less advertising. Doesn't seem like such a smart strategy - and yet more sites seem to be doing it every day.

I Suck

I Suck 11/15/2003 12:02 AM
I tried making an AppleScript for iTunes that would change the case of articles in ID3 tags, I got it to work, but it removed...

Suck it, NYC!

Suck it, NYC! 06/11/2004 07:56 AM
The latest affront in a war of good vs. evil.

Suck

Suck 12/15/2002 12:23 AM
The store is really messy, so I get to work 3pm to 11pm tomorrow, Sunday. I get to work until 11pm on a Sunday. Ass.

Suck on this!

Suck on this! 07/12/2004 08:42 PM
Selfellatio (NSFW) [via Jane's Guide]

All KVMs suck.

All KVMs suck. 04/04/2005 11:57 PM
MacInTouch: All KVMs suck.

"Why does Windows still suck?"

"Why does Windows still suck?" 02/07/2005 02:02 AM

but tweakers still suck

but tweakers still suck 04/11/2005 07:45 PM
I told you Ecstasy was good for you. "The study of Ecstasy for the terminally ill will involve 12 cancer patients who have less than a year to live. They'll receive varying doses during two strictly supervised therapeutic sessions. The drug, once hailed as 'penicillin for the soul,' is a chemical cousin to amphetamines that reportedly induces feelings of profound empathy. It will be combined with traditional psychotherapy, and, [Dr.] Halpern hopes, 'enable them to open up in therapy so they can talk about challenging issues and resolve their grief.'" (reg rq'd)

Why, oh why, does Windows suck?

Why, oh why, does Windows suck? 02/05/2005 09:35 PM
A SFGate columnist (and Mac user) has asked a hot question, but I think those looking to Microsoft to solve all their ills are missing part of the social landscape that keeps the company cozy.

Verbs Suck

Verbs Suck 03/11/2003 11:53 AM
Joe Gregorio: XForms doesn't support the DELETE verb.

I find this very amusing< /a>.

Forget SOAP. Forget ReST. Consider the following flow. I POST an email address to a URL. An SMTP message comes to that address. In the body of that message is a URL. Issue a GET on that URL. You get a cookie.

It's just data.

It is a very big world out there

“Why does Windows still suck”

“Why does Windows still suck” 02/05/2005 09:55 PM
read the whole article .. and answers it

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/02/04/note s020405.DTL
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Air America Might Not Suck

Air America Might Not Suck 08/05/2004 10:54 PM
I've made fun of Air America once before for having way too many people on staff for a radio station, but things might not look...

Deadlines still suck

Deadlines still suck 03/26/2005 01:16 PM

Even when you're doing work you love. In other news: today I finally finished Chapter 14: Blog Your Build Process and Chapter 15: Blog From a Chat Room.

Webl0ggers Suck

Webl0ggers Suck 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
You're all a bunch of sad, lonely hosers and I've only been blogging for the last 18 months to work my way into your affections in order to get to a position of trust from which I could then undermine you all with my real thoughts and opinions on the subject of blogging. Just to make you feel bad about humanity. Blow me.

Why Does Windows Still Suck?

Why Does Windows Still Suck? 02/05/2005 09:08 PM

We Suck. But Trust Us With Your Web Site
Anyway.

We Suck. But Trust Us With Your Web Site
Anyway. 03/19/2005 02:22 AM

I'm currently looking for a ColdFusion MX hosting provider (no, I haven't found another shiny object — we inherited a bunch of sites from someone else).

I thought I had found a good one that was recommended by someone I trust, but their new customer sign-up interface threw a fatal, unhandled error halfway through the process.

So I call their tech support and actually had to send them a screencap of the error screen. Their response:

1. You may be missing the CV2 number.
2. It could be that you are not using Internet Explorer. (That is the browser that would need to be used.)
3. The security settings may be set too high on your computer.

I translate this as the following:

1. We're not error checking. We prefer to just throw up when we get something we don't expect.
2. We don't support 1 out of every 10 potential customers. New business is not that important to us.
3. Our interface is so poorly designed that it needs to get unnecessarily friendly with your system. Trust us.

I'm sanctimoniously withholding my business from this company, even though they met every other criteria I had. Not supporting non-IE browsers (and not bothering to tell you this or check for it before you start the process) was enough for me to withdraw.

I don't want to get all philosophical, but this is just sloppy. If they're this bad with their sign-up system (you know, the system that puts food on the table), then how can they expect me to trust them with my Web sites?

So, this leaves me in the market for good ColdFusion MX hosting. Preferably, I'd like a virtual server on which I can host unlimited domains (not a dedicated server — I only need like four or five sites). However, I'll consider anything. And it has to be Windows (someone else wrote the sites specifically for Windows, we just have to put them somewhere).

Any recommendations?

who says mini-jacks suck?

who says mini-jacks suck? 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
How to convert LPs to CDs. Many audiophiles will mock the software they suggest using as well as the hardware pictured, but this is aimed for the everyday people that don't have a laser turntable or ProTools . All in all, a decent introductory guide.

Blogging Tools Suck

Blogging Tools Suck 06/26/2004 05:42 PM
people *are* more important than tools... i can't disagree with a word fred's written

Great Homepages Really Suck

Great Homepages Really Suck 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
WebmasterBase Mar 10 2003 6:54PM ET

Data centres suck it up

Data centres suck it up 07/10/2004 01:16 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 10 2004 5:21AM GMT

You Can Pay For Your Homework Online,
But Most Likely It Will Suck

You Can Pay For Your Homework Online,
But Most Likely It Will Suck 04/07/2005 02:24 AM
In the last few years, one of the biggest issues that teachers and professors have had to deal with is that many students are buying papers off the internet. There are a number of tools, like Turnitin, that try to catch students in the act, but now some are pointing out that, students who buy papers online may get "rewarded" in another way. Most of the papers are just plain bad and won't get the student a particularly good grade. Of course, this was hardly a scientific study. It was just one professor checking out a few different essays available online. However, it still makes you wonder what sort of person would buy a paper online when there's absolutely no way to judge the quality of it? Oh, right, the sort of person who buys a paper online probably is too clueless to recognize that quality might matter.

For Speeders, Hybrids Suck Gas

For Speeders, Hybrids Suck Gas 05/21/2004 05:30 AM
One of the biggest selling points for hybrid cars is their fuel-efficiency, but some disappointed owners still have a case of the gas-pump blues. They're discovering that, just like with regular cars, driving styles dictate mileage. By John Gartner.

MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT

MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT 06/22/2004 07:46 AM
Hey, that's our money you're throwing away

Batteries Continue To Suck

Batteries Continue To Suck 11/11/2003 09:15 PM

Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck?

Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck? 01/02/2005 02:06 PM
I'm a not a big fan of Wiki technology, mostly because I find the markup annoying and the random nature of Wiki changes difficult to follow. However, many Wiki software packages offer RSS feeds so that one can subscribe to a feed of changes in your favorite aggregator. But they all suck. At least all the ones I've tried do. Rather than take advantage of the fact that most people are reading RSS feeds in something capable of displaying HTML,...

charter schools suck

charter schools suck 08/18/2004 03:08 PM
AFT-funded study .. an NYT article

nytimes.com/2004/08/17/education/17charter.html
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IE Tabs Suck Memory Too

IE Tabs Suck Memory Too 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
Adam Stiles notes that Microsoft's IE Tabs Suck Memory like there's no tomorrow: I never considered the possibility that each IE7 tab would have its own copy of 3rd party toolbars. But that's the direction Microsoft has taken. What's the problem with that approach? Every time you open a new browser tab (which tabbed browser users do much more frequently than single-window browser users), you have to create new instances of any 3rd-party bars. Ouch. Opening a folder of 25...

Filipinos Suck Eggs

Filipinos Suck Eggs 11/11/2003 06:57 AM
In the Philippines, if you stay out late and get too drunk, don't be surprised if you wake up the next morning with the taste of boiled duck fetus on your breath. (11-08)

Scam sites start spoofing secure sites

Scam sites start spoofing secure sites 12/12/2003 10:26 AM
Personal Computer World Dec 12 2003 9:16AM ET

WalTunes ToS suck: they 0wn the music
they sell you, not you

WalTunes ToS suck: they 0wn the music
they sell you, not you 12/22/2003 11:19 AM
My co-worker Fred von Lohmann writes: "Wal-Mart launched a music download site today. Notice the rather breathtaking EULA terms (much more onerous than the Apple terms) -- Fair Use, First Sale, all other copyright exceptions are swallowed up by contractual prohibitions. Just as with software, these restrictions will almost certainly be selectively enforced against reverse engineers, would-be competitors, and tinkerers who disrupt the biz model. All backed up by WinMediaPlayer technical restrictions.

"And all completely useless at preventing Internet redistribution, since you can presumably record via analog outputs or burn to CD-R and re-encode to mp3.

"I say again: current DRM has nothing to do with preventing piracy, everything to do with impairing consumer rights, competition and innovation."

You are entitled to download, export, burn or copy Products solely for personal, noncommercial use in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Any burning or exporting capabilities are solely an accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver of any rights of the copyright owners in any Product or in any content, sound recording, underlying musical composition, artwork or other copyrightable matter embodied in any Product. No right, title or interest in any downloaded Products or software is transferred to you as a result of any downloading or copying or otherwise. All rights in the Products are owned by WALMART.COM or its licensors and you have only a limited, nontransferable, nonexclusive, revocable, nonsublicensable right to use the Products for personal use in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

You may not reproduce (except as noted above), publish, transmit, distribute, display, broadcast, re-broadcast, modify, create derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, any of the Products, the Service or any related software. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify or disable any copy protection or use limitation systems associated with the Products. You may not play and then re-digitize any Products, or upload those Products to the Internet. You may not use the Products in conjunction with any other third-party content (e.g, to provide sound for a film). You may not sell or offer to sell the Products, including but not limited to, posting any Product for auction, on any Internet auction site. All Products are sublicensed to you and not sold, notwithstanding the use of the terms "sell," "purchase," "order," or "buy" on the Service or in this Agreement.

L ink

Profiler That Doesn't Suck 0.0.3
(Default branch)

Profiler That Doesn't Suck 0.0.3
(Default branch) 03/27/2005 05:18 AM
PTDS is a unique sampling profiler for Java applications. It can give you immediate feedback about which methods are executing the most. It also offers a more advanced mode in which you can control the profiler from within your Java application. This allows you to get precise information on specific phases of your algorithm. Also included is a simple way of measuring the size of individual objects.

Alan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck

Alan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck 01/23/2004 02:20 PM
Do those MSN SPOT watches stand a chance? Mobile data pundit Alan Reiter says (this) (and this), summarized by BB reader John Troyer:

- They're big and ugly
- They need to be recharged daily
- They crash and sometimes die when shocked with static electricity
- They have to be turned off on planes
- Coverage is spotty compared to pagers and mobile phones
- News blurbs are 25-word useless snippets
- You have to tell MSN when and where you are traveling for it to work away from your home area!
- Nobody's *ever* made money selling generic headlines, weather and sports via wireless.

Reiter also says:

"However, syncing with MS Outlook is useful, and Reiter does believe they could catch on if Microsoft repositions to emphasize the fun aspects: downloadable watch faces, games, etc. ... [The watches] look as if they were designed by the Borg, on a very bad day. Many years ago Motorola introduced its first pager watch, I was there. I was pretty excited about the product. But when I spoke with a Motorola executive, he said the company wasn't sure whether the target market would view the device as a smallest, sexiest pager or as the world's ugliest watch. Unfortunately for Motorola, the view was the latter. Pager watches have generally died quick or lingering deaths. But the operative word is "death."

Link to earlier BoingBoing entry on MSN SPOT Watches

Scientists suck hydrogen from sunflower
oil

Scientists suck hydrogen from sunflower
oil 08/27/2004 01:43 PM
The fuel of the future

Finally a Matrix sequel that doesn't
suck.

Finally a Matrix sequel that doesn't
suck. 12/15/2003 01:16 AM
The response to the first Matrix Code Photoshop tutorial was and continues to be phenomenal. Today, I'm proud to unveil the sequel that I believe to be a vast improvement on the original. I hope you will agree.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

"Does XML suck?" revisited (O'Reilly
Network)

"Does XML suck?" revisited (O'Reilly
Network) 08/07/2002 01:28 PM

Profiler That Doesn't Suck 0.0.4
(Default branch)

Profiler That Doesn't Suck 0.0.4
(Default branch) 04/10/2005 09:49 PM
PTDS is a unique sampling profiler for Java applications. It can give you immediate feedback about which methods are executing the most. It also offers a more advanced mode in which you can control the profiler from within your Java application. This allows you to get precise information on specific phases of your algorithm. Also included is a simple way of measuring the size of individual objects.

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Changes:
The ability to track live methods and compiled methods has been added. A bug with profiling recursive methods has been fixed. A user-friendly command line interface has been added. The ability to change the sampling period, the maximum allowable stack height, and the minimum displayed method rate has been added. Enhancements have been added to the Java API. Internal refactoring has been performed. The documentation has been expanded. Note that this release includes incompatible changes to the Java API.
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