I would like to see oil prices rise, so that people get the clue that this is not a good long-term solution for out energy needs...
Then you are in complete agreement with Al Gore... at least the old 1990s Al Gore. Just read his book _Earth in the Balance_.
Recently, he and Clinton have been blaming the oil companies for fixing high prices, when it has been Gore's stated goal to raise gas prices. Of course, we have no idea which Al Gore we will have if he is elected - probably both of the above and then some.
CSS is alive and well! As a web developer, I use CSS in all my pages. I have a habit of looking at the source of most sites I go to, sometimes just to see if I can find out what editor they used (like MickeySoft FrontPage). I would guestimate that 60% of websites use CSS, although not very much. I think a lot of developers are needlessly scared of browser compatibility of advanced CSS.
All you gotta do is remember three rules:
Use object detection instead of browser detection - Netscape uses document.layers; IE uses document.all. On a positive note, both Mozilla and IE5 support GetElementById, so one version of the code works on both of the latest major browsers!
Do not attempt to use CSS-P (positioning) in Netscape. It'll drive you nuts!
Use <div> instead of the Netscape-only <layer> tag. But of course you knew that already. <iframe> is also cross-browser, but may not be as versatile as <div> - I haven't used <iframe>.
We have been farming for many thousands of years. Is that not against nature?
What????? Have you gone mad?????
Please tell me how growing plants and trees is against nature! (Better alert the Arbor Day Foundation! Those folks have had it wrong all this time.) Farming is the reason FOR nature.
God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. [...] I give every green plant for food." And it was so. - Genesis 1:29-30
And it still is so.
Are you advocating an all-meat diet? Oh, but that would be against nature too. I guess we'll just have to kill ourselves so as to not hurt nature.
Fire, clothing, and weapons are also part of nature, not against it. Btw, humans did not invent these things either.
Weapons: claws, teeth, quills (a porcupine's arrows or bullets, so to speak), fangs, poison (venom, ivy, hallucinogenics), spikes, thorns, horns, antlers
Fire: natural forest fires, volcanic fires
Clothing: various furs, wool, bark (a tree's clothing), various exoskeletons/shells
We are part of nature, but we rule the rest of it, so far as God allows.
Chopping down trees is very "healthy" for the atmosphere, at least when done by logging corporations. Old trees don't grow very much, so there is little photosynthesis occuring -- in other words, they don't convert much CO2 to oxygen. When these old trees are cut down, new ones are planted. (Corporations have an economic incentive to protect and renew forests because they are their source of products to sell!) So the evil logging companies plant new trees, which, of course, grow much faster than the old trees. In order to grow faster, photosynthesis must occur more rapidly, which results in sucking up a lot more CO2 than those lazy, old, stagnant forests.
On another note, this really doesn't matter anyway as far as it relates to "global warming". Recall that 3/4 of the earth is covered by water, not land. The vast majority of oxygen that is released into the atmosphere comes from algae. Yes, algae. In fact, I have heard that some scientists assert that whatever happens (to plants) on land is "inconsequential" to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Just because two events occur at the same time is not evidence that one caused the other!
Another logical trap in this discussion is the faulty conclusion. For instance, a long time ago people actually believed that putting meat out in the open produced (i.e. spawned, generated; not merely attracted) swarms of flies!
Yes, there are many dialects of English, but remember that we're talking about ASCII - the first 128 entities of ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1). This set includes lower and upper-case letters, with and without the diacritical marks. Unless some totally new characters or ideograms have been invented, all dialects of English should be fine under ASCII. The semantics or construction of the language (within the bounds of common Latin-1 characters) is irrelevant.
Right on, AC! You understand my point. Except, I would have said that a black American is simply an American, but you took it one step further.
Unfortunately, Eladio McCormick (this is not ad hominem) is in the dark -- s/he seems not be from the US, so I'll excuse his/her ignorance. The media constantly throws around the term "African American" as if it were a given that all AAs were black. In most polls and standardized tests in school, you must answer the Race question by answering "white" OR "AA", as if a person can't be both. I make it a point never to use the AA term because it makes a foolish assumption.
Wow! I didn't know the United States was the only English-speaking country in the world! I could've sworn that the people in England spoke English. Not to mention Canada, Australia, and 79 other countries.
This is the kind of innovation that makes Microsoft such a great company! Look at this note from a FIN site visitor:
"I fully intend to e-mail my representatives, and I hope they realize the important impact that Microsoft has had on the computing industry alone, and ALL the other industries as well."
Yes, you go ahead and send them that email from Outlook... hehehe I'm sure they'll be bowled over by your persuasive argument and buffer overflows.
FIN (Freedom to Innovate Network) should be VIN (Virus Innovation Network).
I would mod this post +1 Informative, although I already knew how to customize Slashdot.
I agree: this article is the last straw!! I am Xing out JonKatz for good! I have kept Katz on for a long time because I didn't want to censor myself; I wanted the total Slashdot experience. No more! Katz' trend has been to use less and less reason. His articles just don't even make sense anymore. Katz is starting to make Jesse Berst look respectable. It's not worth my time or bandwidth to put up with this crap anymore.
Also, he uses the word "corporatism" the way Eddie Murphy uses the word "f*ck". His writing is so predictable I could almost write it for him.
As for Katz' views... Slashdot needs to make a logo for Katz articles -- it should have a red background and have a hammer and a sickle as seen here.
My reply addressed ONLY the "paranoia" issue. I did not address and DO NOT agree with the sweeping xenophobic comments that were made. I understand that just because other nations' governments are evil does not mean that their citizens are too.
And btw, that last statement you made was awfully prejudiced. I thought liberals were supposed to be understanding and non-discriminatory. (I did not realize there was a stigma related to unemployed forklift drivers.) I agree that the anti-Jew, anti-black contingent is a minority of America.
However, people like myself, on the contrary, are not in the minority. You are clearly out of touch with the conservative mindset. We are not a bunch of uneducated hayseeds. The same way that you (and myself) don't want the "kook contingent" speaking for America, I don't want the "kook contingent" speaking for conservatives either.
I suppose I am a relatively typical slashdotter: college-educated (CIS degree), dual-boot Linux/Win98, middle-class... never once driven a forklift...not that there's anything wrong with that.:-)
when it's true. I bet you believe everythingTom Brokaw says. Sucker. Most people here in America are blind fools by not questioning anything the media tells them. Remember: All news is biased, even in a free country.
Please educate yourself while you still can. See my sig. (12-3PM US Eastern)
Did you see my last line? I conceded that it would be possible with a dual-processor system or a truckload of RAM. Given your setup, I do believe your claim. But you have to admit, your hardware is not typical, even for most "power users."
I had first implied that you were lying assuming you had a remotely typical hardware configuration. But then I made an exception for extraordinary hardware, so no, I don't owe you an apology.:-)
At first I was angry when reading this, knowing that it couldn't be true. But then I burst out laughing when he got to the part about playing Quake on top of all that. That was too much!!
Yes, it would be feasible with a dual-Athlon or 512MB+ of RAM, but it wouldn't be stable.
A search warrant is for searching for objects, such as drugs or guns. For a person they needed a COURT ORDER which they did not have! Besides, child custody issues are farrrrrr beyond what should be within the scope of the federal government.
Take a look at the front page of my website, which is in XHTML. It looks almost exactly like HTML except for the doctype declaration and the closed <BR> tags. (Some of the JavaScript isn't yet Mozilla 5 compatible -- a DOM issue.)
I converted the page by hand but then realized I already had a program that would have done it automatically. Try out this awesome web development program by Evrsoft (only for Windows). Go to Tools | Tidy HTML Quick Tools | Convert to XML. Instant XHTML.
I believe most of the parsing errors are due to Slashdot's omission of a DOCTYPE declaration. Most of the errors seemed to be unwarranted. As for the true "errors"... Oftentimes, it is necessary to use non-compliant code in order to achieve a uniform look in both Netscape and IE. Also, HTML's limitations make it difficult to strictly adhere to the standards.
For instance, if you want to make unordered list items appear directly below some other text, you must omit the <UL> tags. There might be a better (i.e., standards-compliant) hack, but this is the way/. and I do it.
Christ's message of judge-not-lest-ye-should-be-judged
This is the most misunderstood and misused verse in the Bible. Christ was referring to the judging of others' eternal salvation. He was saying that you shouldn't judge whether someone is going to heaven or hell because only God can know what's really in a person's heart. He was NOT referring to judging behavior. This verse pertains only to a person's salvation!
In fact, Christ demands that Christians reprimand and correct others when they commit sins. Judgment of the morality of behavior is absolutely necessary for a moral society. How could Christ have possibly opposed this?
When do we start sending different/deviant children off to reeducation camps?
Remember John Rocker? His attitude deviated from polical correctness and was forced to visit a therapist to have his mind "fixed". Wasn't he terminated from the team? "Can't be having people who think differently from us on our team, now can we?" So much for tolerance. Conform or be persecuted.
Why is it so hard to understand that the more money the government takes from you, the less money you have to spend? And the less money people spend, the weaker the economy is. What part of that can't you understand? It doesn't require a scientific study. Sure, there are other influencing factors, but let's use some common sense.
Anyway, why are you fighting for taxes? I have never understood people who want to be mugged and raped (figuratively speaking) by the government. Do you realize that about 4 months of your salary already goes to the government (in the US)? And you want to give them more?!?
Oh yes, we must save our our wonderful public education system! It's the best in the world you know! (*gag*) We pay far more money per student than any other country, but we are still lagging. That's why we must give even more money for education!! (*double gag*)
Any thing that government can do, the private sector can do better.
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Then you are in complete agreement with Al Gore... at least the old 1990s Al Gore. Just read his book _Earth in the Balance_.
Recently, he and Clinton have been blaming the oil companies for fixing high prices, when it has been Gore's stated goal to raise gas prices. Of course, we have no idea which Al Gore we will have if he is elected - probably both of the above and then some.
All you gotta do is remember three rules:
What????? Have you gone mad????? Please tell me how growing plants and trees is against nature! (Better alert the Arbor Day Foundation! Those folks have had it wrong all this time.) Farming is the reason FOR nature.
And it still is so.Are you advocating an all-meat diet? Oh, but that would be against nature too. I guess we'll just have to kill ourselves so as to not hurt nature.
Fire, clothing, and weapons are also part of nature, not against it. Btw, humans did not invent these things either.
Weapons: claws, teeth, quills (a porcupine's arrows or bullets, so to speak), fangs, poison (venom, ivy, hallucinogenics), spikes, thorns, horns, antlers
Fire: natural forest fires, volcanic fires
Clothing: various furs, wool, bark (a tree's clothing), various exoskeletons/shells
We are part of nature, but we rule the rest of it, so far as God allows.
On another note, this really doesn't matter anyway as far as it relates to "global warming". Recall that 3/4 of the earth is covered by water, not land. The vast majority of oxygen that is released into the atmosphere comes from algae. Yes, algae. In fact, I have heard that some scientists assert that whatever happens (to plants) on land is "inconsequential" to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Another logical trap in this discussion is the faulty conclusion. For instance, a long time ago people actually believed that putting meat out in the open produced (i.e. spawned, generated; not merely attracted) swarms of flies!
Yes, there are many dialects of English, but remember that we're talking about ASCII - the first 128 entities of ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1). This set includes lower and upper-case letters, with and without the diacritical marks. Unless some totally new characters or ideograms have been invented, all dialects of English should be fine under ASCII. The semantics or construction of the language (within the bounds of common Latin-1 characters) is irrelevant.
Unfortunately, Eladio McCormick (this is not ad hominem) is in the dark -- s/he seems not be from the US, so I'll excuse his/her ignorance. The media constantly throws around the term "African American" as if it were a given that all AAs were black. In most polls and standardized tests in school, you must answer the Race question by answering "white" OR "AA", as if a person can't be both. I make it a point never to use the AA term because it makes a foolish assumption.
Wow! I didn't know the United States was the only English-speaking country in the world! I could've sworn that the people in England spoke English. Not to mention Canada, Australia, and 79 other countries.
(Off-Topic)
Riddle for liberals (US): Since you define "African American" == "black", what do you call an African American who is white?
Troll Alert!
There was never a Netscape 4.3. The version number skipped from 4.0x to 4.5. Any "hard-core Netscape user" would know that.
FIN (Freedom to Innovate Network) should be VIN (Virus Innovation Network).
I agree: this article is the last straw!! I am X ing out JonKatz for good! I have kept Katz on for a long time because I didn't want to censor myself; I wanted the total Slashdot experience. No more! Katz' trend has been to use less and less reason. His articles just don't even make sense anymore. Katz is starting to make Jesse Berst look respectable. It's not worth my time or bandwidth to put up with this crap anymore.
Also, he uses the word "corporatism" the way Eddie Murphy uses the word "f*ck". His writing is so predictable I could almost write it for him.
As for Katz' views... Slashdot needs to make a logo for Katz articles -- it should have a red background and have a hammer and a sickle as seen here.
And btw, that last statement you made was awfully prejudiced. I thought liberals were supposed to be understanding and non-discriminatory. (I did not realize there was a stigma related to unemployed forklift drivers.) I agree that the anti-Jew, anti-black contingent is a minority of America.
However, people like myself, on the contrary, are not in the minority. You are clearly out of touch with the conservative mindset. We are not a bunch of uneducated hayseeds. The same way that you (and myself) don't want the "kook contingent" speaking for America, I don't want the "kook contingent" speaking for conservatives either.
I suppose I am a relatively typical slashdotter: college-educated (CIS degree), dual-boot Linux/Win98, middle-class... never once driven a forklift...not that there's anything wrong with that. :-)
Why don't you open your mind?
Please educate yourself while you still can. See my sig. (12-3PM US Eastern)
I had first implied that you were lying assuming you had a remotely typical hardware configuration. But then I made an exception for extraordinary hardware, so no, I don't owe you an apology. :-)
Yes, it would be feasible with a dual-Athlon or 512MB+ of RAM, but it wouldn't be stable.
So XSP = XML Server Page. How does it work?
A search warrant is for searching for objects, such as drugs or guns. For a person they needed a COURT ORDER which they did not have! Besides, child custody issues are farrrrrr beyond what should be within the scope of the federal government.
I'm using the list within a table cell. Wouldn't Opera automatically close the list at the </td> tag?
I converted the page by hand but then realized I already had a program that would have done it automatically. Try out this awesome web development program by Evrsoft (only for Windows). Go to Tools | Tidy HTML Quick Tools | Convert to XML. Instant XHTML.
I believe most of the parsing errors are due to Slashdot's omission of a DOCTYPE declaration. Most of the errors seemed to be unwarranted. As for the true "errors"... Oftentimes, it is necessary to use non-compliant code in order to achieve a uniform look in both Netscape and IE. Also, HTML's limitations make it difficult to strictly adhere to the standards.
For instance, if you want to make unordered list items appear directly below some other text, you must omit the <UL> tags. There might be a better (i.e., standards-compliant) hack, but this is the way /. and I do it.
This is the most misunderstood and misused verse in the Bible. Christ was referring to the judging of others' eternal salvation. He was saying that you shouldn't judge whether someone is going to heaven or hell because only God can know what's really in a person's heart. He was NOT referring to judging behavior. This verse pertains only to a person's salvation!
In fact, Christ demands that Christians reprimand and correct others when they commit sins. Judgment of the morality of behavior is absolutely necessary for a moral society. How could Christ have possibly opposed this?
Remember John Rocker? His attitude deviated from polical correctness and was forced to visit a therapist to have his mind "fixed". Wasn't he terminated from the team? "Can't be having people who think differently from us on our team, now can we?" So much for tolerance. Conform or be persecuted.
3 of the 4 true African Americans (of African descent) I have known are WHITE!
On the census, would they say they are "White" or "African American"? Never occurred to them that someone could be both!
Anyway, why are you fighting for taxes? I have never understood people who want to be mugged and raped (figuratively speaking) by the government. Do you realize that about 4 months of your salary already goes to the government (in the US)? And you want to give them more?!?
Oh yes, we must save our our wonderful public education system! It's the best in the world you know! (*gag*) We pay far more money per student than any other country, but we are still lagging. That's why we must give even more money for education!! (*double gag*)
Any thing that government can do, the private sector can do better.