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  1. Re:Hey, here's an idea! on ABC Wants DVR Fast Forwarding Disabled · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Newsgroups don't seem particularly new to me.

    IMarv

  2. Re:Table Layout? on Håkon Responds to Questions About CSS and... · · Score: 2, Informative
    The tag is bad. This is structure being used for layout.

    A <div> tag that acts as a table is good. This is layout.
    <div class='overContainer'>
      <div class='containerRow>
      <div class='contentColumn1'>Links</div>
      <div class='contentColumn2'>Content</div>
      <div class='contentColumn3'>Ads</div>
      </div>
      <div class='containerRow'>
      <div class='footer3Colspanner'>Site Footer</div>
      </div>
    </div>
    Should theoretically make a great 3 column lay out.
    I admit, it was one of the first things I tried when learning CSS. Confused the hell out of me when I couldn't figure out what I had done wrong. (Following the recommendation and expecting it to work.)

    Your choices for display include: inline | block | list-item | run-in | inline-block | table | inline-table | table-row-group | table-header-group | table-footer-group | table-row | table-column-group | table-column | table-cell | table-caption | none | inherit

    IMarv
  3. Re:Must be a definition of ALL I'm not familiar wi on All D&D Books To Be Available As PDFs · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think they mean the PHB, DMG, and Monster Manual I. But you can get basically free copies of these in the SRD site. It won't be PDF, but they'll be good enough. Or use http://www.d20srd.org/ for your core book needs. Except for the XP chart, starting gold for high level characters, and some WOTC monsters.

    IMarv

  4. Re:News? on All D&D Books To Be Available As PDFs · · Score: 1

    Well, the place certainly isn't in order and tidy.

    IMarv

  5. This will defininitely help my database. on All D&D Books To Be Available As PDFs · · Score: 1

    Oooh, yum. They're last PDFs really helped me update my spell (and other things) database. The Book of Vile Darkness is a 3.0 book, and so are a few of the other titles. Although they could be updated PDFs for 3.5.

    They still need to be MUCH cheaper. I already own most of them in Hardback.

    IMarv

  6. Re:I have to say on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    I've never liked Serif fonts on the screen.

    IMarv

  7. Oxygen, Micrometorites, pah, think LIGHTNING! on Space Elevator An Impossible Dream? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry about the small things like Oxygen and micrometorites and other debris. The real threat would be an electrical discharge between the Earth and the Solar system. Take all the energy going through an Aurora Borealis and let it go all at once through a lightning rod that goes from low in Earth's atmosphere to outside the ionosphere and BOOM!

    I was a big fan of a Space Elevator until I realized that we're a speck of dust floating around in a splasma globe with our Sun in the middle.

    Check out http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/040927 earth-capacitor.htm for a graphic.

    IMarv

  8. At the risk of being redundant. on Do You Care if Your Website is W3C Compliant? · · Score: 1

    At the risk of being redundant after 6 pages of comments.
    How do I mark the story itself as a -1, Troll?

    I can't seem to find the moderation or the tagging option. For the story.

    IMarv

  9. Re:Obsolete? on FCC Opens Flood Gates for Junk Faxes · · Score: 1

    The funny thing about securing e-mail is that it can be. The problem is that it involves both users using PGP or PKI.
    I love e-mails that read something about intended for the recipient only, bla bla bla. If that were true, you would have sent it encrypted!
    The DoD's on the ball with this one, any FOUO documents sent by e-mail these days has to be encrypted. It is a pain in the butt, but it is the right thing. (The hard part after that is finding all the correct Public keys for all your recipients... Which generally means we send out an unencrypted e-mail that says "go download this file from the website")
    As for tagging, there are categories, keywords, and comments fields in Word documents and Excel when you go to File->Properties.
    You can use the same certificates for the e-mail to digitally sign those same documents, and even encrypt the documents too.
    Everything is in place, it's just a matter of DOING them and getting everybody else to be able to do them.

    IMarv

  10. Re:XML/XSLT is often more work than it's worth on No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP · · Score: 1

    Until a user then comes up with the requirement for an additional column, which you then can't insert without breaking the existing format. In that case, you can't move on with life until you have updated the data handling process for those users. XML is designed to handle just this situation.

    Then you weren't using column names on the first line and their application wasn't mapping them and ignoring the ones they didn't need. Why should order be important? Why should quantity be important?

    IMarv

  11. Re:XML/XSLT is often more work than it's worth on No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP · · Score: 3, Informative

    Agreed.
    XML is designed to be an exchange format.
    Databases are designed to hold and maintain data.
    Applications are designed to present and modify the data.

    My database talks to my application which talks in XML to talk to your application to talk to your database.

    XML/XSLT is more work than it is worth because it is forcing the squre block into the round hole with a hammer. XSLT is for converting somebody else's XML into the XML your application wants to consume.
    If you have a limited number of users of your raw data, you can just as easily talk to them and give them a simple CSV or TSV file and move on with live.

    IMarv

  12. I have one name: on Long Dev Time Equals Better Game? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Daikatana

    IMarv

  13. Dated, what is dated? on FFVII Advent Children Dated · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I always have troubles with "Dated". Did it get a date with some girl or boy program? Is it archaic, sort of in the way Mary Poppins is "dated"? I realize it means that the thing has had a date set, but I always get the "has time period specific references" dated before I get "has had a date set" dated.

    Does anybody else get this confusion?

    IMarv

  14. Monopoly on Dragon Slayers or Tax Evaders? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this mean I need to tell the IRS about every time I buy or sell Park Place?

    What happens when it looses its value because the game ended?

    IMarv

  15. Re:lol on What Makes a Good IM Client? · · Score: 1

    You know, you could search for people in ICQ by e-mail too, you just had to let your address be available or some such. I did it often enough. You could also search for people by real name and nick name. The number was the only 100% to work thing, but the others are pretty good too, especially if you made sure you would let it.

    IMarv

  16. Re:Or just write it in perl on How To Write Unmaintainable Code · · Score: 1

    You see, the browser needs to run as root, so it has a root kit. And the browser is needed so you can select the DVD you need decrypted. I'm not certain, but I think it also plays the movie too.

    IMarv

  17. Re:just say no on Sony Rootkit Allegedly Contains LGPL Software · · Score: 0

    In soviet Russia, DRMS violates copyrights.

    IMarv

  18. So, Does this Make... on iPod Tax Causes Sour Apples · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, Is MPAA to Apple as Apple is to add-on makers?

    Or is Greedy generic enough to cover all the bases?

    IMarv

  19. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS · · Score: 5, Informative
  20. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS · · Score: 1

    Or go download the GreaseMonkey script for it...

    (I'd link it, but the site is having difficulties.)

    IMarv

  21. Re:Can I get a link please? on Supernova 1987A Decoded · · Score: 1

    Look around on their sites a little more.
    What you just said seems to apply better to the popular theory than that of the electric theory. Plasma simulations scale up quite well from what I've seen.

    IMarv

  22. Re:Riiiiiiight on The Future of the Net · · Score: 1

    Zaphod: Why doesn't it want to go up!?
    Marvin: Because it's afraid.
    Zaphod: Afraid of what? Heights? An elevator that's afraid of heights?
    Elevator: The future.

    Fit the 7th is one of the best, I wonder if I can find the script anywhere. that whole bit is great.

    IMarv

  23. Kings and Monkeys on God of War the Newest Video Game Movie · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you all, but that Three Kings and 12 Monkeys movie sounds pretty cool.

    That's 4 monkeys for each king! But all in all, that would make for some weird movie.

    IMarv

  24. Re:For the lazy... on Apple Campus Missing From MSN Earth · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, the construction at I-95, I-495, and I-395 in Springfield Virginia seems to be nearly identical between the two.

    Google
    MSN

    The bridge you see with the nifty shadows has been complete for about a year now. See http://www.springfieldinterchange.com/ for pictures and details on what's going on.

    And don't miss the new Woodrow Wilson bridge they're building just to the east of this mess.

    IMarv

  25. Re:Why not? on Extending Pop Music Copyrights · · Score: 1

    You are thinking too logically. 100 years seems finite, but in court it is the cut-off point to infinite. Humans don't live long enough usually to see that much time. Thus, for all intents-and-purposes, 100 or more is the same as perpetual. That would be unconstitutional.

    IMarv