Wait a minute, are you saying that these climate scientists are suggesting we save the environment with a sci-fi force field and then decapitate an alien dude with a train?
You do yourself and the people viewing your site a disservice.
IE6 and IE7 share very similar layout properties when working "correctly", but they vastly different rendering quirks and bugs. If you're not familiar with the differences and building your pages accordingly, a page could very well look perfect in one of them and totally out of whack in the other.
You should really check your site in both IE6 and IE7 if you intend to support both browsers.
Hold down the play/pause button for a few seconds, but you don't usually need to do it. It will turn itself off when you're not using it.
How do you delete tracks from it?
You have to use iTunes. I don't agree with that idea, but they're consistent. You need iTunes to get the songs onto it at well.
Can you easily change the volume without taking it out of your pocket?
Yes, you slide your finger around the circular interface. The ipod is the only MP3 player I know of with an "analog" volume control. It's wonderful.
I got a iPod classic for christmas, and all of these are things my 4-years old, half as expensive creative mp3-player did far better.
Give it some time. I only recently bought an ipod, as I had used some other mp3 players and I bought those arguments that others are better than the ipod for feature X or Y, but once you let go of the interface you're used to, you may find that for the vast majority of cases the ipod interface is actually pretty quick and intuitive.
No, Fox would sue WB for violating their distribution rights, and they would win.
WB doesn't want to stick it to Fox. Well, I'm sure they do, but not nearly as much as they want to recoup their $100M investment. You can bet that the deal with Fox is already in the works.
Actually, Alan Moore does write comic books and is frankly incensed about adapting his work to any other medium. He disavowed any connection to both V for Vendetta and Watchmen. It's not really Alan Moore you need to tell off.
irony - noun
1. That Alan Moore, author of "The League of Extraordinay Gentlemen", believes that it is wrong for another artist to re-interpret his work in a different medium.
Meanwhile Grand Theft Auto IV has 'Comets' instead of 'Porsches'. I'm not sure if the reason is that EA has soem sort of exclusivity, so the manufacturers can't license them, or whether the manufacturers are turning them down due to the level of criminal/violent content, or whether GTA isn't simply isn't asking because it doesn't want to pay?
I would guess that it's because GTA is, and always has been, satire. The entire world is a parody of ours- real products would ruin the effect.
You can do this for the Country you live in, but you cannot enforce it on a developing country.
From a moral or a practical perspective?
From a practical perspective, you can certainly tell a country to whom you provide $X million per year in aid that you won't provide that money if they don't subscribe to your energy policy.
And from a moral perspective, wouldn't developing nations be better off if they were generating power from resources that aren't scarce? Sub-Saharan Africa doesn't have oil, but have plenty of wind and sun.
Esquire is running a a jaw-dropping profile of MacArthur genius Marc Roth in their annual Best and Brightest roundup, detailing how this gonzo DNA scientist... went from watching his infant daughter die to literally reincarnating animals.
I think they meant literally reanimating animals, but if I'm wrong, this guy's experiments would be interesting indeed.
I suppose it would more accurate to say learning how jQuery works has helped be better understand javascript, rather than simply using it.
The best example that comes to mind is the way that jQuery handles queuing functions to fire when the document is ready. I don't recall the specifics off the top of my head, but reading Resig's articles on that and other topics have really given me a better handle on the core concepts of javascript.
Mootools allows for using traditional OOP concepts like "Class", "Implement", and Extend" in your JavaScript code. I haven't seem a similar mechanism in any other "lightweight" javascript library, including jQuery. I can think the same in my Java and JavaScript, while simplifying my code base by using inheritance and polymorphism. Having OOP in JavaScript might seem silly or unnecessary, but for large apps, it really helps. When I was coding a website that required drag and drop with validation that the input source could be dropped onto the drop target it saved me lots of time.
Javascript is inherently fully object oriented. It's a strange and terrifying beast if you're well used to the class-based system, but it has objects with abstraction, inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism.
If you're into grokking the underlying language, try reading John Resig's book or his articles online.
I've found that my desire to have a fundamental understanding of javascript, which kept me away from most of the popular libraries for quite a while, is one of the main reasons I love jQuery, and also that understanding jQuery and how it works has given me a much better fundamental understanding of javascript.
While jQuery does create a pretty big abstraction from the core DOM functions, it does so efficiently.
I'm confident that when I use jQuery to find a list of elements with a particular class for example, that I wouldn't be able to write something from scratch to achieve the same effect that would be substantially more resource efficient.
It's also, last I looked, the smallest download of any of the major js libraries.
No, it reduces the equation to who can pull the trigger fastest. The most ruthless person wins.
Then why not let people carry guns?
The most ruthless person can be assumed to be the attacker, and in a world where guns don't exist, the most ruthless person would probably have won the fight if they'd used a knife or a club instead.
Still, the point stands. Less guns in general in a society means less people getting shot.
But is that a better society?
Even if you take that line of reasoning to its logical conclusion and ban all weapons, we're still left with the ability to beat each other to death with our fists.
Then again, once we get everyone separated and into their cages, that should reduce the beatings.
Apart from that though, yes, Trek hasn't been as good as it ever has been lately, but honestly, I'd still take everything up through and including Voyager (for the series) or Insurrection (for the movies) over a mindless action flick.
I think Enterprise was very watchable, and much truer to the spirit of Star Trek than either DS9, which I enjoyed most of, or Voyager, which I couldn't stand.
It did violate "canon", which I know upsets a lot of people, but really, there's very little canon established before Next Generation. In ToS they don't even mention the federation until about halfway through the first season, star dates are essentially random, and almost every sciencey word they used was just technobabble — not even the internally-consistent technobabble they used in Next Generation.
I'm as upset as anyone that JJ Abrams feels that he's qualified to ruin Star Trek, but in order for your cross-franchise quoting to be truly valid, Gene Roddenberry would have to rise from the grave and do it himself.
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Wait a minute, are you saying that these climate scientists are suggesting we save the environment with a sci-fi force field and then decapitate an alien dude with a train?
Sweet.
I still use IE6.
I use IE (any version) for exactly 3 things:
And for them, IE6 is faster than IE7.
You do yourself and the people viewing your site a disservice.
IE6 and IE7 share very similar layout properties when working "correctly", but they vastly different rendering quirks and bugs. If you're not familiar with the differences and building your pages accordingly, a page could very well look perfect in one of them and totally out of whack in the other.
You should really check your site in both IE6 and IE7 if you intend to support both browsers.
How do you turn off an iPod?
Hold down the play/pause button for a few seconds, but you don't usually need to do it. It will turn itself off when you're not using it.
How do you delete tracks from it?
You have to use iTunes. I don't agree with that idea, but they're consistent. You need iTunes to get the songs onto it at well.
Can you easily change the volume without taking it out of your pocket?
Yes, you slide your finger around the circular interface. The ipod is the only MP3 player I know of with an "analog" volume control. It's wonderful.
I got a iPod classic for christmas, and all of these are things my 4-years old, half as expensive creative mp3-player did far better.
Give it some time. I only recently bought an ipod, as I had used some other mp3 players and I bought those arguments that others are better than the ipod for feature X or Y, but once you let go of the interface you're used to, you may find that for the vast majority of cases the ipod interface is actually pretty quick and intuitive.
Hmmm, I wonder why they did that.
I've read that it was because the HD in the 160GB model used two platters and was more prone to damage than the single platter drive in the 80GB.
I've emailed Time Warner (I'm a customer) and asked them not to agree to the fee increases if it means an increase in my bill.
If you're a TWC customer and you agree that nothing of value was lost, you may want to do the same.
I always thought it was hilarious that Oregon forbids people from pumping their own gas to create jobs, and also allows truckers to pull two trailers.
You'd think promoting jobs for truck drivers, who can earn a decent living, would be more effective than inventing jobs for gas station attendants.
No, Fox would sue WB for violating their distribution rights, and they would win.
WB doesn't want to stick it to Fox. Well, I'm sure they do, but not nearly as much as they want to recoup their $100M investment. You can bet that the deal with Fox is already in the works.
Actually, Alan Moore does write comic books and is frankly incensed about adapting his work to any other medium. He disavowed any connection to both V for Vendetta and Watchmen. It's not really Alan Moore you need to tell off.
irony - noun
1. That Alan Moore, author of "The League of Extraordinay Gentlemen", believes that it is wrong for another artist to re-interpret his work in a different medium.
Leaving off the mystery of "whodunit" until the second movie worked in Kill Bill ;)
Maybe you're being facetious, but I thought they were pretty clear in the first one that Bill dunit.
Are you sure? I remember that being Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Rand from the original series.
There, fixed that for you.
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I need to apologize for that. I feel dirty.
...nor am I sure how dogs would help track down dark matter...
Duh! You take one of dark matter's old socks give the tracking dogs a whiff. It doesn't take an astro-physicist to figure that out.
Meanwhile Grand Theft Auto IV has 'Comets' instead of 'Porsches'. I'm not sure if the reason is that EA has soem sort of exclusivity, so the manufacturers can't license them, or whether the manufacturers are turning them down due to the level of criminal/violent content, or whether GTA isn't simply isn't asking because it doesn't want to pay?
I would guess that it's because GTA is, and always has been, satire. The entire world is a parody of ours- real products would ruin the effect.
You can do this for the Country you live in, but you cannot enforce it on a developing country.
From a moral or a practical perspective?
From a practical perspective, you can certainly tell a country to whom you provide $X million per year in aid that you won't provide that money if they don't subscribe to your energy policy.
And from a moral perspective, wouldn't developing nations be better off if they were generating power from resources that aren't scarce? Sub-Saharan Africa doesn't have oil, but have plenty of wind and sun.
If the company is producing three in tandem, I can't see how they could possibly finish all the content and polish an MMO needs.
Three distinct teams?
I am surprised Atari still exists, even more so that it has tens of millions to invest.
Atari, the company that made those cartridges you remember, doesn't exist. The name is still around, and they've published some good titles.
I played Champions online at Gen Con, it looks pretty cool. I wouldn't be surprised if it prints money for them.
Esquire is running a a jaw-dropping profile of MacArthur genius Marc Roth in their annual Best and Brightest roundup, detailing how this gonzo DNA scientist ... went from watching his infant daughter die to literally reincarnating animals.
I think they meant literally reanimating animals, but if I'm wrong, this guy's experiments would be interesting indeed.
Certainly Obama and company can find better places to trim in this day of multi-trillion dollar giveaways.
Maybe it would help them to determine that if they asked NASA for some sort of report on the actual cost savings of scrapping those programs?
I suppose it would more accurate to say learning how jQuery works has helped be better understand javascript, rather than simply using it.
The best example that comes to mind is the way that jQuery handles queuing functions to fire when the document is ready. I don't recall the specifics off the top of my head, but reading Resig's articles on that and other topics have really given me a better handle on the core concepts of javascript.
Mootools allows for using traditional OOP concepts like "Class", "Implement", and Extend" in your JavaScript code. I haven't seem a similar mechanism in any other "lightweight" javascript library, including jQuery. I can think the same in my Java and JavaScript, while simplifying my code base by using inheritance and polymorphism. Having OOP in JavaScript might seem silly or unnecessary, but for large apps, it really helps. When I was coding a website that required drag and drop with validation that the input source could be dropped onto the drop target it saved me lots of time.
Javascript is inherently fully object oriented. It's a strange and terrifying beast if you're well used to the class-based system, but it has objects with abstraction, inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism.
If you're into grokking the underlying language, try reading John Resig's book or his articles online.
I've found that my desire to have a fundamental understanding of javascript, which kept me away from most of the popular libraries for quite a while, is one of the main reasons I love jQuery, and also that understanding jQuery and how it works has given me a much better fundamental understanding of javascript.
While jQuery does create a pretty big abstraction from the core DOM functions, it does so efficiently.
I'm confident that when I use jQuery to find a list of elements with a particular class for example, that I wouldn't be able to write something from scratch to achieve the same effect that would be substantially more resource efficient.
It's also, last I looked, the smallest download of any of the major js libraries.
Guns make it easier to kill others.
True. That's why law abiding citizens should be allowed to have them, and not just criminals.
Guns make it easier to kill yourself quickly before you can have second thoughts.
And somehow society has continued on over the last 500 years, without everyone blowing their own head off every time they have a bad day.
No, it reduces the equation to who can pull the trigger fastest. The most ruthless person wins.
Then why not let people carry guns?
The most ruthless person can be assumed to be the attacker, and in a world where guns don't exist, the most ruthless person would probably have won the fight if they'd used a knife or a club instead.
Still, the point stands. Less guns in general in a society means less people getting shot.
But is that a better society?
Even if you take that line of reasoning to its logical conclusion and ban all weapons, we're still left with the ability to beat each other to death with our fists.
Then again, once we get everyone separated and into their cages, that should reduce the beatings.
Apart from that though, yes, Trek hasn't been as good as it ever has been lately, but honestly, I'd still take everything up through and including Voyager (for the series) or Insurrection (for the movies) over a mindless action flick.
I think Enterprise was very watchable, and much truer to the spirit of Star Trek than either DS9, which I enjoyed most of, or Voyager, which I couldn't stand.
It did violate "canon", which I know upsets a lot of people, but really, there's very little canon established before Next Generation. In ToS they don't even mention the federation until about halfway through the first season, star dates are essentially random, and almost every sciencey word they used was just technobabble — not even the internally-consistent technobabble they used in Next Generation.
Then again, it does have that awful theme song.
I'm as upset as anyone that JJ Abrams feels that he's qualified to ruin Star Trek, but in order for your cross-franchise quoting to be truly valid, Gene Roddenberry would have to rise from the grave and do it himself.