I
agree wholeheartedly. The fun/attraction of browsing websites has totally worn
off: it has turned into a game for developers and venders and a nightmare for
users. It smacks of tele-marketing. Hear me hear me
:-))) oh yeah: shoot me!
imo,
We have too many websites as it is, they bombard you with redundant of
buttons and totally frivilous an visually irritating information.
To manually browse/search online for routinely needed
information is a total waste of time.
If you
haven't noticed it: Times and technology have changed and just so that
somebody can make money we are being suckered into using stuff we
don't need and we don't even want to look at. Ever get those unsolicited
phonecalls trying to sell you something? Well visiting websites makes me
feel exactly the same way: wbesites are not designed to serve you,
they are designed to serve the vender.
Memory
and HD space is dirt cheap. Copying and downloading routinely needed information
from the web can easily be automated (website grabbers) and ought to be
automated using a scheduler that can track preferred
sites and filter/collect only the info we want.
If any
changes were to be made it should to break tradition and switch from
on-line to off-line operation. This would also make for a more efficient use of
Internet bandwidth. It should be entirely possible to create a local
auto-updated image of preferred/frequently visited web resources and use a local
search engine (Desktop Yahoo?) to find info on your computer. Probably a
1000x faster too.
Having
a local "Resource Manager" that automatically updates information would be
preferential, I think...
just
my 2 cents worth...
herman
I like the fact that
the posts arrive by email. I rarely go to the Yahoo sites. If I
want to search I use “Lookout” which is installed in Outlook as a plug-in
which is a free download from Microsoft to do the searching. Lookout
will also index any folder on your hard drive if you
want.
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dingo
Sent: 11 April 2006 05:45
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [amibroker] OT: What About a
Web-Based Forum?
A wiki was presented
to us but none that tried it new how to compose the pages easily so we all
gave up. The documentation, imho, was for inhabitants of another
planet.
d
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel
LaLiberte
Sent: Monday,
April 10, 2006 11:24 PM
To:
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] OT: What About
a Web-Based Forum?
On Monday 10 April 2006 07:33 pm, William Peters
wrote:
> I do participate on web and email based forums and
they both have their
> pros
and cons,
Merging the
features of both web-based forums and email, you can get the best
of both. Yahoo
attempts to do this, in fact, but the web side is very weak.
Since we have such a strong
community of AmiBroker users, I wonder if we
should be building a Wiki, one that supports forums
integrated with email as
well. The idea, of course, is to
take the load off the developer(s), and
to replace the current forums and email
archives. The online docs and the
AFL library with its comment stream should be folded in
also. Even the new
bug tracking and feedback forum could be part of
this.
I'm
actually planning to build such an integrated collaboration support system
for other purposes.
(First I have to figure out a successful automated day
trading system, so I can quit
my day job. :)
dan
liberte@xxxxxxxxxxxxx