but if they were successful in levying this fee, I would probably start. Whereas I don't have a need to buy blank tapes (which apparently have fees on them for such a purpose), I do have a need to be on the internet, and it's not related to swapping the latest non-hits with random people from the internet.
I still spend a few hundred dollars a year on CDs, mostly from non-RIAA artists. If they were successful in levying this fee, I would probably use it to get whatever music I wanted from RIAA bands, and never buy an RIAA disc again.
Terminator: Human protects Sarah from Terminator Terminator2: Terminator protects Sarah+John from advanced Terminator Terminator3: Terminator protects John from Barbie.
Terminator4: Terminator protects John+Barbie from Sarah?
People submit the stories so much because they know that every minor release will always have a story to go along with it, and they want to be the person that submitted it.
If you don't want to post them, STOP POSTING THEM. Jesus, have a fucking spine and be an editor like you're supposed to be.
I sent them a mail about that a long time ago, they never got back to me. The entire site seems rather sophomoric -- instead of focusing on root causes and common issues (error messages that announce success, or dialog boxes that give you no choice), it seems like a flimsy platform to make fun of bad UI without (much) constructive criticism, the equivelant of Nelson chanting "ha ha" at Bart's attempt at UI.
It's as if they're scared to stick their neck out, lest their head be axed.
I'm the admin of diary-x. A few months ago, when I was setting up the server into its current configuration, I thought "I should have a mod_rewrite rule that redirects traffic from slashdot away, so that the hordes won't crush my poor server if I should ever get linked."
I'm glad the rule actually works, I never had a chance to test it out:)
I should change the message though, the "you look like you could use some sun" comment is probably a bit harsh.
It's obviously "no", from context clues. If the carrying capacity of a network is huge, it won't be overwhelmed by miniscule amounts of traffic.
I agree the paper should have been proofed but if you seriously couldn't determine what word belonged in the gap, you need to revisit basic English. This is 2nd grade stuff.
The Diesel Sweeties book (along with the second ExplodingDog book) is really just a pamphlet. Seriously, it's only 16 pages, 8 sheets stapled together. It's extremely professionally printed, but calling it a book is a bit much.
I really like Diesel Sweeties (I did buy the book after all), but when I think 'book' I think of something that wouldn't flutter in the breeze and has a spine with the title printed on it. The Diesel Sweeties thing is more like a CD insert.
The first ExplodingDog book was actually a book, and it's really nice. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes ExplodingDog. Hopefully rstevens will make a second book that's more expansive than the first.
Add to this "I want them to all use the same data format, so I can easily transfer my address book from one to another when I decide I need a new one."
Even if the el cheapo ones cost $5 at your local drugstore, it's useless unless it's easy to move data into and out of it. Nothing sucks worse than building up your data for six months and then getting a PDA with a completely different data format as a gift.
You are seriously destined for management. This sounds like a lot of the projects I get at work.
Look, yes, if you had all of the same functions with all of the same hooks and all of the same callbacks -- if you absolutely duplicated the API -- then yes, you'd be able to remove mshtml.dll and copy nshtml.dll into its place, and it might work.
But Gecko's API and Microsoft's renderer's API are two completely different things, and shoehorning one to have the API of the other would be a project in and of itself. And even if you succeeded, you'd wind up with something that barely works -- this function may have side effects that you don't duplicate, that function may have no documentation whatsoever, this other one might not even have a name at all.
You may have to be logged in to see it, but basically it's just a flash-animated demo (which pops up in a javascript window) explaining how to use one of the features of the site.
Actually, Amazon has used Flash in the past, to demonstrate how a particular feature works. Most of Amazon is "generic" because it has to work on multiple browsers and platforms, with conflicting standards.
Keeping a site easy to use and navigate while easy to maintain, update, and work for everyone while still making use of advanced features isn't quite as easy as it may seem.
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It's been up for like half an hour. I just wanted to see what the error message is.
The 'woosh' sound you just heard was the joke going right over your head. Thank god you're not taller or it may have hit you.
The word 'meme' is in itself an effective meme. It is a good reproducer.
Is this a bad time to point out that neither "Windows NT", "Windows 2000", or "Windows XP" match the glob pattern you specified?
Bill Gates is also banned on sidewalks in San Fransisco, so there you have it.
Are you suggesting we should write them letters, call them, or attempt to DDoS their domain servers?
but if they were successful in levying this fee, I would probably start. Whereas I don't have a need to buy blank tapes (which apparently have fees on them for such a purpose), I do have a need to be on the internet, and it's not related to swapping the latest non-hits with random people from the internet.
I still spend a few hundred dollars a year on CDs, mostly from non-RIAA artists. If they were successful in levying this fee, I would probably use it to get whatever music I wanted from RIAA bands, and never buy an RIAA disc again.
Terminator: Human protects Sarah from Terminator
Terminator2: Terminator protects Sarah+John from advanced Terminator
Terminator3: Terminator protects John from Barbie.
Terminator4: Terminator protects John+Barbie from Sarah?
Yet the fact that he believes it enough to make it his .sig proves his point.
Damn that's freaky.
People submit the stories so much because they know that every minor release will always have a story to go along with it, and they want to be the person that submitted it.
If you don't want to post them, STOP POSTING THEM. Jesus, have a fucking spine and be an editor like you're supposed to be.
I sent them a mail about that a long time ago, they never got back to me. The entire site seems rather sophomoric -- instead of focusing on root causes and common issues (error messages that announce success, or dialog boxes that give you no choice), it seems like a flimsy platform to make fun of bad UI without (much) constructive criticism, the equivelant of Nelson chanting "ha ha" at Bart's attempt at UI.
It's as if they're scared to stick their neck out, lest their head be axed.
I'm the admin of diary-x. A few months ago, when I was setting up the server into its current configuration, I thought "I should have a mod_rewrite rule that redirects traffic from slashdot away, so that the hordes won't crush my poor server if I should ever get linked."
:)
I'm glad the rule actually works, I never had a chance to test it out
I should change the message though, the "you look like you could use some sun" comment is probably a bit harsh.
My downstairs neighbors are going to just love this device.
It's obviously "no", from context clues. If the carrying capacity of a network is huge, it won't be overwhelmed by miniscule amounts of traffic.
I agree the paper should have been proofed but if you seriously couldn't determine what word belonged in the gap, you need to revisit basic English. This is 2nd grade stuff.
And yet language is such that it doesn't matter what OED says. If people say virii is the plural of virus, it is. It's the same with hacker / cracker.
You cannot stop language from evolving.
Anything you don't believe in looks plastic, superficial, and soulless.
That's the Way It Is.
The Diesel Sweeties book (along with the second ExplodingDog book) is really just a pamphlet. Seriously, it's only 16 pages, 8 sheets stapled together. It's extremely professionally printed, but calling it a book is a bit much.
I really like Diesel Sweeties (I did buy the book after all), but when I think 'book' I think of something that wouldn't flutter in the breeze and has a spine with the title printed on it. The Diesel Sweeties thing is more like a CD insert.
The first ExplodingDog book was actually a book, and it's really nice. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes ExplodingDog. Hopefully rstevens will make a second book that's more expansive than the first.
Add to this "I want them to all use the same data format, so I can easily transfer my address book from one to another when I decide I need a new one."
Even if the el cheapo ones cost $5 at your local drugstore, it's useless unless it's easy to move data into and out of it. Nothing sucks worse than building up your data for six months and then getting a PDA with a completely different data format as a gift.
The Mozilla project used their own widget rendering system for extremely valid and relevant reasons.
For one thing, most of the widget systems on desktop environments (mac / windows) have the ability to do all of the crap that CSSx demands of it.
For another, the portability bonus of having a webpage look exactly the same down to the pixel no matter what system you're viewing it on.
You are seriously destined for management. This sounds like a lot of the projects I get at work.
Look, yes, if you had all of the same functions with all of the same hooks and all of the same callbacks -- if you absolutely duplicated the API -- then yes, you'd be able to remove mshtml.dll and copy nshtml.dll into its place, and it might work.
But Gecko's API and Microsoft's renderer's API are two completely different things, and shoehorning one to have the API of the other would be a project in and of itself. And even if you succeeded, you'd wind up with something that barely works -- this function may have side effects that you don't duplicate, that function may have no documentation whatsoever, this other one might not even have a name at all.
Could you do it? Yes. But why would you want to?
You beat me to it. But actually, the FBI can't outlaw anything, they can only push the legislature to outlaw it, and then they could enforce that law.
Nevertheless, I wonder what implications this will have for privacy, assuming this is feasable enough to become widespread.
No kidding. A lot of that site is designed under the assumption that everyone has Javascript enabled.
<noscript> motherfucker, do you speak it?
Doesn't work.
But then again I have Javascript disabled, so the link never executes in the first place.
I take it back, Amazon is actually using Flash at this very moment:
5 10/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/508
You may have to be logged in to see it, but basically it's just a flash-animated demo (which pops up in a javascript window) explaining how to use one of the features of the site.
Actually, Amazon has used Flash in the past, to demonstrate how a particular feature works. Most of Amazon is "generic" because it has to work on multiple browsers and platforms, with conflicting standards.
Keeping a site easy to use and navigate while easy to maintain, update, and work for everyone while still making use of advanced features isn't quite as easy as it may seem.