I'm kind of a noob, but I've been trying for months to figure out how to get MPX installed, and they keep telling me it's coming in the next version of xorg...
I want my multiple cursors!
That is mostly true, but there is a big difference between a programmer and a web developer. Programs can expect their code to act in a sane way. Web developers have to undersand all the bugs in EVERY major browser, and how to write code in a way that will be compatible.
Every time a programmer touches code at my company, we have to have a web developer spend twice as much time combing through it and fixing all the problems. It's usually a case of the programmer doing things the "correct" way, like using XHTML syntax where it just isn't practically possible, and due to stupid implementation of standards, just doesn't work.
and then there are hilarious people who are looking for absurd skillsets like 'expertise in php, ajax, javascript, server side java, html4, css, linux scripting and an understanding of web design'.
That's not hilarious at all. I would say that those are all pretty much the essentials for web development--except server side java... i don't even know what that means.
i mean, html4, css, and javascript are the bare essentials. php is the easiest server script around... if a developer can't do PHP, they're useless for anything but client side work. ajax is just javascript that interacts with the server, so that's already covered in javascript. and if you understand javascript and PHP, it will take 2 minutes to learn the syntax for linux scripting.
when I was hired as a junior web dev, that was pretty much the skill set I had, though I didn't claim to be an "expert." however it was quickly obvious to everyone that I was overqualified to be a "jr." developer... which just goes to show that they throw words like "expert" in there to weed out the "yeah, i've heard of linux before. thats an OS, right?" people.
Why would a company intentionally undermine their newer products by making older alternatives free?
If everyone could get XP for free, that would be just one less reason to upgrade to Vista.
I have been looking for statistics that plot time vs. browser version market-share. Specifically, I'd like to see data on how many people are using Firefox 1.5, 2, 3, etc...
Sure, you can easily get charts pitting IE against Firefox (w3schools etc) but these charts, while distinguishing IE versions, lump all Firefox versions together into one clump!
Does anybody know where I could find a chart like that?
Credit can't go entirely to slashdot on this one... Mozilla seems remarkably unprepared for this... their servers are down, they didn't tell anyone what time download day started, the normal Mozilla download page (which is linked to in the download day email (which came out late)) still has Firefox 2 instead of 1...
Why didn't they rent more servers for today? Didn't they know that 20 million people were going to visit, and keep refreshing until it works?
There doesn't seem to be any way to quickly select a single portion of the URL
In Windows, FF3 lets you double click to do this. I have the same problem in Ubuntu and it is by far the worst thing about FF3 in Ubuntu.
I'm not against evolution, but I don't understand how this can be said to be evolution.
I heard that bacteria share like 98% of DNA with humans... there is a lot of DNA swapping going on all the time, with the result that there is tons of stuff in there that wouldn't have ever been there when bacteria was just evolving for the first time.
Doesn't it seem more likely that this is just a case of pre-existing genes or DNA sequences getting turned back on? (ie: not created new, just enabled.)
I'm looking all over the internet for what sh1t! means... or is it pure and simple just an obfuscated 4 letter word? If so, can someone explain this post to me? I don't get it.
I hope version 3 fixes the major flaw where a mistyped URL is sent to Google for resolution. People moan about IE not being compliant with standards, but where in the standards does it say that a for-profit company should be the authority on domain-name resolution? I wouldn't complain IF I COULD TURN IT OFF !!! Even if it's through about:config. a 404 is a response from a server: thus it is impossible to get a 404 error back if you type something crazy like lisdfoihjlih^%$^%$^$#9*(*&... so in that case it makes sense to route it through a search engine to see if it shows up as a search term.
if you actually connect to a server somewhere, you still get the normal 404s. try this:
amazon.com/lkjsdflkjsdflkjfoweijflsdkjoijl
If a corporate charter gets revoked, the government doesn't suddenly own it That would be pretty cool though, if it did happen that way. The profits of that company could go towards paying off our budget deficit instead of paying the pockets of CEOs... once enough companies are "executed", you have a huge national resource bringing in tons of money without taxing anyone.
That is why when I watch full-screen videos on my computer, I always resize the monitor resolution down to as small as it can go beforehand (800x600 for me)--it improves the quality a lot!
You are saying that morality is not allowed to apply to anything scientific unless it is 1) based on modern and logical arguments and 2) not based on religious belief.
I don't understand your insistence that moral beliefs are restricted to certain topics. I don't understand what the source of the morality has to do with what areas it is allowed to address.
Lastly, I don't understand any moral system that doesn't ultimately go back to some sort of "religious" belief--Christian or other. Foundationalism just doesn't work with atheism.
He didn't make a scientific point, nor did he claim to. He made a moral point, which is well within the realm of the church.
Are you trying to say that anything connected to science is "untouchable" when it comes to morality? Perhaps you would have had a successful career in Nazi Germany, doing scientific studies on Jews.
There is one slight flaw with that plan. I don't think so. The idea isn't to prevent anyone from giving legit CC #'s to scammers. The idea is for enough astute people like you and I to give dummy CC's that all fraudsters either 1) get caught and go to prison or 2) decide the industry is too dangerous, and leave.
"It breaks until you hire somebody to fix it" is not backwards compatibility. "compatible" doesn't mean that it works instantly, by default, and without any extra effort. it should mean that it is possible to make it work without an excessive amount of effort.
i suppose you're right on some level. but i assume that there would also be an option in the browser itself to set how to render the page if it breaks. that would fill them both.
the point is that it can still be backwards compatible even with IE8 rendering as the default. otherwise, by your definitions, it's not "present compatible" which is even worse.
If you have a better idea of how they can satisfy the constraints of backwards compatibility and closer conformance to the specifications, please, describe it. Simple! IE8 should render pages like IE8 by default. Anyone whose page was poorly designed to begin with can "fix" their page by putting this tag in or sending the equivalent HTTP header:
Slashdot Mirror
yeah. that's what i want. is that part of linux yet?
I'm kind of a noob, but I've been trying for months to figure out how to get MPX installed, and they keep telling me it's coming in the next version of xorg... I want my multiple cursors!
That is mostly true, but there is a big difference between a programmer and a web developer. Programs can expect their code to act in a sane way. Web developers have to undersand all the bugs in EVERY major browser, and how to write code in a way that will be compatible. Every time a programmer touches code at my company, we have to have a web developer spend twice as much time combing through it and fixing all the problems. It's usually a case of the programmer doing things the "correct" way, like using XHTML syntax where it just isn't practically possible, and due to stupid implementation of standards, just doesn't work.
and then there are hilarious people who are looking for absurd skillsets like 'expertise in php, ajax, javascript, server side java, html4, css, linux scripting and an understanding of web design'.
That's not hilarious at all. I would say that those are all pretty much the essentials for web development--except server side java... i don't even know what that means. i mean, html4, css, and javascript are the bare essentials. php is the easiest server script around... if a developer can't do PHP, they're useless for anything but client side work. ajax is just javascript that interacts with the server, so that's already covered in javascript. and if you understand javascript and PHP, it will take 2 minutes to learn the syntax for linux scripting. when I was hired as a junior web dev, that was pretty much the skill set I had, though I didn't claim to be an "expert." however it was quickly obvious to everyone that I was overqualified to be a "jr." developer... which just goes to show that they throw words like "expert" in there to weed out the "yeah, i've heard of linux before. thats an OS, right?" people.
Why would a company intentionally undermine their newer products by making older alternatives free? If everyone could get XP for free, that would be just one less reason to upgrade to Vista.
... what?
Why don't you just use the oldbar addon?
I have been looking for statistics that plot time vs. browser version market-share. Specifically, I'd like to see data on how many people are using Firefox 1.5, 2, 3, etc...
Sure, you can easily get charts pitting IE against Firefox (w3schools etc) but these charts, while distinguishing IE versions, lump all Firefox versions together into one clump!
Does anybody know where I could find a chart like that?
Credit can't go entirely to slashdot on this one... Mozilla seems remarkably unprepared for this... their servers are down, they didn't tell anyone what time download day started, the normal Mozilla download page (which is linked to in the download day email (which came out late)) still has Firefox 2 instead of 1... Why didn't they rent more servers for today? Didn't they know that 20 million people were going to visit, and keep refreshing until it works?
In Windows, FF3 lets you double click to do this. I have the same problem in Ubuntu and it is by far the worst thing about FF3 in Ubuntu.
i thought i read somewhere that a program was being integrated into x.org that would allow multiple mice/cursor input... is it true?
I'm not against evolution, but I don't understand how this can be said to be evolution. I heard that bacteria share like 98% of DNA with humans... there is a lot of DNA swapping going on all the time, with the result that there is tons of stuff in there that wouldn't have ever been there when bacteria was just evolving for the first time. Doesn't it seem more likely that this is just a case of pre-existing genes or DNA sequences getting turned back on? (ie: not created new, just enabled.)
I'm looking all over the internet for what sh1t! means... or is it pure and simple just an obfuscated 4 letter word? If so, can someone explain this post to me? I don't get it.
If anyone has an invite... I'd like one!
That is why when I watch full-screen videos on my computer, I always resize the monitor resolution down to as small as it can go beforehand (800x600 for me)--it improves the quality a lot!
You are saying that morality is not allowed to apply to anything scientific unless it is 1) based on modern and logical arguments and 2) not based on religious belief.
I don't understand your insistence that moral beliefs are restricted to certain topics. I don't understand what the source of the morality has to do with what areas it is allowed to address.
Lastly, I don't understand any moral system that doesn't ultimately go back to some sort of "religious" belief--Christian or other. Foundationalism just doesn't work with atheism.
He didn't make a scientific point, nor did he claim to. He made a moral point, which is well within the realm of the church. Are you trying to say that anything connected to science is "untouchable" when it comes to morality? Perhaps you would have had a successful career in Nazi Germany, doing scientific studies on Jews.
Since when do you need to be a newspaper to have first amendment rights???
i suppose you're right on some level. but i assume that there would also be an option in the browser itself to set how to render the page if it breaks. that would fill them both.
the point is that it can still be backwards compatible even with IE8 rendering as the default. otherwise, by your definitions, it's not "present compatible" which is even worse.