These "senior" whatever-they-are's didn't bother to look closely at their tests. They say that the color mismatches occur in high-color modes because the browser has to pick between (as an example) 1.9 and 2.1, from an original 2.0, and it doesn't always pick the same thing...
If they would look at their example images (ghost.gif and obvious.gif, linked from within the article), they would see that the BGCOLOR for the table cell was solid, but the GIF was *dithered*. They claim that it is a bug in the browser. You could consider it a bug, I suppose, but it's really just the fact that the browser assumes that BGCOLORS should be solid, and thus picks the nearest color, whereas images are quite often *not* solid shades of color, and they usually benefit from dithering.
Another nitpick: The fact that they claim these colors that don't pass their test in high color aren't "web safe" is inane, at best. They consider these colors "unsafe" because they are shifted slightly in high-color? Um, how often can you get colors to display consistently across all sets of hardware/software? Never. A little color shifting is irrelevant. *Maybe* you can have an issue with high-color dithering (which they didn't seem to notice), but that's pushing it...
Duhhh, I feel special because I picked apart an article written by guys making lots of money...:-P
The program you mentioned will also not accept cookies from the ad sites, most likely. The cookies get sent in the HTTP headers whenever the browser requests an ad banner. If the banner isn't requested, the cookies won't get sent.
Incidentally, I'm writing a simple win32 program that employs the javascript-proxy-autoconfig method. Netscape automatically asks localhost, port 10401 (who knows where that came from...) for an ad, and my program happily returns a 1x1 transparent gif. It's amazingly simple, yet powerful... The program isn't quite fit for public consumption, really, and there are many other things out there that do the same trick, I'm sure...
Do a google search for "proxy autoconfig block banner ads" or similar things, and you'll find plenty.
First of all, why would Apple be unaware of this problem, while Sony has a 'fix'?
Secondly, almost all CRTs nowadays come with Mac adapters. The plugs are standard 15 pin vga ports (sorry I don't have the more technical term... something with an 's' I think...). I don't know if Macs have different ports, but yeah, I'm pretty sure they do something differently in terms of scanrates. I assume that monitors that Apple sells will not work on a PC without an adapter (if at all).
Bottom line, Apple monitors are made for Apple computers. Other monitors are made for other computers, and come with Mac adapters.
If there is some incompatibility between Apple computers and Apple monitors, somebody dropped the ball...
Hm... Sorry if it's been perceived as such. I was completely serious (except for the misspelling deal). Ah well, the world isn't fair, and I suppose I should move on . . . my single karma point is now lost in history.
Months later, TrailBlazer will impact on the surface of the moon.
Are there any regulations about polluting space? There's almost no hope for Earth orbit, but c'mon, do we just let people throw anything they want on the moon?
This of course brings up the encompassing issue of governmental/commercial regulation/ownership/etc of space. Unfortunately, I don't know about any specifics...
Heheh.. this reminds me: "I've given a gift the whole world can appreciate... I've colorized the moon." (Ted Turner - on The Family Guy)
I'm new to the whole database scene. I've been using Postgres for a while, but I've been using it to do the things for which this article says MySQL should be used...
I'm very interested in this, however, because I am about to implement a large, complex database for a project I'm working on this summer/fall. So, I'd truly appreciate it if someone would quickly explain some of these terms:
While that's true, we're not just talking about one lucky roll here, but millions. And the odds of hitting all of these could *possibly* be beyond the billions of years available.
Probability does not dictate what can and cannot happen. Okay, so you come up with some figure like "there is a 1 in 1E(1E(1E(1E(1E100)))) chance that x will ever happen." (And don't even bother trying to think about that number, unless you generally count in base googol or something...) So what? "x" could happen tomorrow while you're driving to work! Sure, you'll be surprised, but hey, it still happened.
Probability only has some credibility when applied to repeated trials. Even then, it can only make sense when there are enough trials such that one would "probably" roll true. For example, there is a one in 100 chance that you will roll a 1 on a 100-sided die. If you roll it 100 times, you will get a 1 pretty close to one time. If you roll it 50 times, the probability doesn't really mean much... The more times you roll your die relative to the number of tries that should be 'true', the closer your results will come to the expected probability.
It always irks me when people say "No, that couldn't have happened" or "No, that won't happen" just because "It's too weird"! Anything can happen... deal with it.
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mp3.com doesn't make it any easier to pirate CD collections than borrowing it from a friend.
Um... So? That doesn't make it okay...: "Teacher! Billy just hit me!!!" "It's okay, Timmy, he's not going to be the only one, so why punish him?" Y'see?
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> You *do not* have access to every song ever > made, because *you have to buy physical CDs*.
> If you do not own the CD *you CAN'T listen > to the music*
I'm sorry, but there is an _amazingly_ large difference between sending their server a few numbers and actually owning the CD.
At the very least, there is nothing to stop people from going to their friends, saying "Hey, can I borrow your CD collection tonight?" *POOF*, they now "own" all of those CDs?
Also, it certainly can't be long before some enterprising individual(s) breaks whatever encryption is used to send the CD serial #s to MP3.com's servers, and they (and whoever gets their software) suddenly own any music they want! Now _that_ is pretty threatening, and quite a legitimate reason to worry about something.
As for a lawsuit? Well, They could go for the tried and true Physical Intimidation method...
Dean: "Alright then, let's empty out your pockets." Homer: "Make me." Dean: "Proffesor Rocco, Chancellor Knuckles..." (heheh, those crazy finger-breakin' academic types...)
When I have what I think is a good, innovative idea, I get selfish and I want to make sure that everyone knows that it's mine. Haven't you ever been somewhat indignant when someone retells a joke you told them and doesn't give you credit?
I suppose that this could be covered by software licenses, etc, but patenting one's idea seems like a comprehensive method of asserting that it is yours. I'm not too knowledgeable on patents, but you don't have to demand royalties, restrict use, or anything else, do you? Can't the patent office just be used as a place for keeping a nice record of who came up with an idea? (yeah! Exploit! Exploit!...:-)
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Yet another inaccuracy in the article:
:-P
These "senior" whatever-they-are's didn't bother to look closely at their tests. They say that the color mismatches occur in high-color modes because the browser has to pick between (as an example) 1.9 and 2.1, from an original 2.0, and it doesn't always pick the same thing...
If they would look at their example images (ghost.gif and obvious.gif, linked from within the article), they would see that the BGCOLOR for the table cell was solid, but the GIF was *dithered*. They claim that it is a bug in the browser. You could consider it a bug, I suppose, but it's really just the fact that the browser assumes that BGCOLORS should be solid, and thus picks the nearest color, whereas images are quite often *not* solid shades of color, and they usually benefit from dithering.
Another nitpick: The fact that they claim these colors that don't pass their test in high color aren't "web safe" is inane, at best. They consider these colors "unsafe" because they are shifted slightly in high-color? Um, how often can you get colors to display consistently across all sets of hardware/software? Never. A little color shifting is irrelevant. *Maybe* you can have an issue with high-color dithering (which they didn't seem to notice), but that's pushing it...
Duhhh, I feel special because I picked apart an article written by guys making lots of money...
The program you mentioned will also not accept cookies from the ad sites, most likely. The cookies get sent in the HTTP headers whenever the browser requests an ad banner. If the banner isn't requested, the cookies won't get sent.
Incidentally, I'm writing a simple win32 program that employs the javascript-proxy-autoconfig method. Netscape automatically asks localhost, port 10401 (who knows where that came from...) for an ad, and my program happily returns a 1x1 transparent gif. It's amazingly simple, yet powerful... The program isn't quite fit for public consumption, really, and there are many other things out there that do the same trick, I'm sure...
Do a google search for "proxy autoconfig block banner ads" or similar things, and you'll find plenty.
First of all, why would Apple be unaware of this problem, while Sony has a 'fix'?
Secondly, almost all CRTs nowadays come with Mac adapters. The plugs are standard 15 pin vga ports (sorry I don't have the more technical term... something with an 's' I think...). I don't know if Macs have different ports, but yeah, I'm pretty sure they do something differently in terms of scanrates. I assume that monitors that Apple sells will not work on a PC without an adapter (if at all).
Bottom line, Apple monitors are made for Apple computers. Other monitors are made for other computers, and come with Mac adapters.
If there is some incompatibility between Apple computers and Apple monitors, somebody dropped the ball...
Hm... Sorry if it's been perceived as such. I was completely serious (except for the misspelling deal). Ah well, the world isn't fair, and I suppose I should move on . . . my single karma point is now lost in history.
Months later, TrailBlazer will impact on the surface of the moon.
Are there any regulations about polluting space? There's almost no hope for Earth orbit, but c'mon, do we just let people throw anything they want on the moon?
This of course brings up the encompassing issue of governmental/commercial regulation/ownership/etc of space. Unfortunately, I don't know about any specifics...
Heheh.. this reminds me: "I've given a gift the whole world can appreciate... I've colorized the moon." (Ted Turner - on The Family Guy)
hm.
I'm new to the whole database scene. I've been using Postgres for a while, but I've been using it to do the things for which this article says MySQL should be used...
I'm very interested in this, however, because I am about to implement a large, complex database for a project I'm working on this summer/fall. So, I'd truly appreciate it if someone would quickly explain some of these terms:
ACID
atomicity
commit/rollback
transaction
Thanks.
"Genius and tragedy are too often linked."
Ahem.
*Anything* and tragedy are too often linked.
While that's true, we're not just talking about one lucky roll here, but millions. And the odds of hitting all of these could *possibly* be beyond the billions of years available.
Probability does not dictate what can and cannot happen. Okay, so you come up with some figure like "there is a 1 in 1E(1E(1E(1E(1E100)))) chance that x will ever happen." (And don't even bother trying to think about that number, unless you generally count in base googol or something...) So what? "x" could happen tomorrow while you're driving to work! Sure, you'll be surprised, but hey, it still happened.
Probability only has some credibility when applied to repeated trials. Even then, it can only make sense when there are enough trials such that one would "probably" roll true. For example, there is a one in 100 chance that you will roll a 1 on a 100-sided die. If you roll it 100 times, you will get a 1 pretty close to one time. If you roll it 50 times, the probability doesn't really mean much... The more times you roll your die relative to the number of tries that should be 'true', the closer your results will come to the expected probability.
It always irks me when people say "No, that couldn't have happened" or "No, that won't happen" just because "It's too weird"! Anything can happen... deal with it.
mp3.com doesn't make it any easier to pirate CD collections than borrowing it from a friend.
Um... So? That doesn't make it okay...:
"Teacher! Billy just hit me!!!"
"It's okay, Timmy, he's not going to be the only one, so why punish him?"
Y'see?
> You *do not* have access to every song ever
> made, because *you have to buy physical CDs*.
> If you do not own the CD *you CAN'T listen
> to the music*
I'm sorry, but there is an _amazingly_ large difference between sending their server a few numbers and actually owning the CD.
At the very least, there is nothing to stop people from going to their friends, saying "Hey, can I borrow your CD collection tonight?"
*POOF*, they now "own" all of those CDs?
Also, it certainly can't be long before some enterprising individual(s) breaks whatever encryption is used to send the CD serial #s to MP3.com's servers, and they (and whoever gets their software) suddenly own any music they want! Now _that_ is pretty threatening, and quite a legitimate reason to worry about something.
As for a lawsuit? Well, They could go for the tried and true Physical Intimidation method...
Dean: "Alright then, let's empty out your pockets."
Homer: "Make me."
Dean: "Proffesor Rocco, Chancellor Knuckles..."
(heheh, those crazy finger-breakin' academic types...)
I'm not saying that this is the case here...
When I have what I think is a good, innovative idea, I get selfish and I want to make sure that everyone knows that it's mine. Haven't you ever been somewhat indignant when someone retells a joke you told them and doesn't give you credit?
I suppose that this could be covered by software licenses, etc, but patenting one's idea seems like a comprehensive method of asserting that it is yours. I'm not too knowledgeable on patents, but you don't have to demand royalties, restrict use, or anything else, do you? Can't the patent office just be used as a place for keeping a nice record of who came up with an idea? (yeah! Exploit! Exploit! ... :-)