If I read a CV and someone lists loads of languages known then I know that they don't really *know* all of them and that they probably don't really *know* any of them.
Were they getting false positives or false negatives?
The results were roughly the same for each category. There was a bias to one but I cant remember which direction. I really wish I could remember where I saw it.
I was reading recently (cant remember where) that in a recent test subjects failed to correlate id photos with the person holding them roughly 50% of the time.
I was contending that I am more likely to get killed by my own government's medical experiments or "health programmes" than I am being killed by a foreign government agency.
You notice that I didn't say "Americans are more likely to get killed by American government officials than being run over and killed in the street."
Not to sound like the XFiles but you're probably more likely to be killed by the government you voted for than somebody elses. [wild speculation, of course!]
How on earth did a six foot fly come to be living in a twelve foot cube in the down below?
That's a story line I'd like to see.
I also want to know how on earth he gets all the information.
Perhaps he's got some sort of dominion over normal sized flies which he commands to hang out on the walls of the ship and report interesting stuff back.
Star Trek stories are mostly shite. They've got that huge ship with all those people and almost all the action takes place in one of 8 rooms.
Rykers beard & hair combination looks like it's plastic too.
Here's hoping someone wipes out the Ferengi any time soon
have you ever developed server side activex controls?
I have on nt4sp3 IIS4. Version Control Nightmare it was. Change a line, compile, (reboot|change the vbscript & have 20 slightly different versions in memory at once).
So how is writing an active x control to do sockets more secure again?
I'm not sure my hosting company would be too keen on me doing binary installs on their IIS Server.
Anyway. That was the last straw. Never touched IIS since. FreeBSD & plan9 all the way now:)
as for the hardcoded pixels. yeah I know it's not perfect but it enables me to arrange the divs in the page so that for text only the important text of the page appears first and then the menus underneath.
I'm hoping to add a choice of stylesheets at some point. I only make the site part time, we're hoping to turn it in to a full time post before christmas.
Yes, it is entirely possible that people using AIX just see a garbled home page. (well not that garbled). I could get the funding to buy a cheap sparc but I'd need the confidence to say "we'll get x more registrations if I had a sparc to test the site with"
I test/develop it with mozilla primarily and then check with ie. When I had KDE it was okay in konqueror. I'm a plan9 user with limited computers for multiple OSes. My FreeBSD workstation comes back from the co-lo soon so that's one more.
I run a fairly sucessful website. Like many businesses money is tight so guess where I'm goign to spend it when it comes to testing, certainly not on Sparc/Solaris9 combination.
So far from 350,000 hits this month I've had the following Browsers:
MS Internet Explorer (Versions) 94.9 %
(MSIE/3.xx 0 % MSIE/4.xx 1.9 % MSIE/5.xx 56.6 % MSIE/6.xx 41.3%) Netscape (Versions)No 2.7 % (Mozilla/3.xx 1.1 % Mozilla/4.xx 55 % Mozilla/5.xx 43.7 %) Unknown 1.9 % Opera 0.3 % Konqueror 0 % ANT Fresco 0 % iCab 0 % WebCollage (PDA/Phone browser) 0 % LibWWW 0 % Microsoft Mobile Explorer (PDA/Phone browser) 0 % Lynx 0%
Using the following OSs
Windows 37.4 % Windows 2000 17.3 % Windows XP 17.1 % Windows Me 10.9 % Windows 9.4 % Windows 4.9 % Mac OS 1.2 % Unknown 1.1 % Linux 0.2 % Sun Solaris 0.1 % HP Unix 0 % Warp OS/2 0 % Windows 3.xx 0 % OSF Unix 0 % Irix 0% RISC_OS_4.03 0%
Thats at least 15 browers on 17 OSs.
How am I supposed to test my pages for all those expectations?
My HTML passes 4.01 Validation but I can't be sure it displays on those browsers.
I know it displays in Lynx okay so that's about the best I can offer.
I've had one email in the past year saying 'your site doesn't display properly' and that was IE on NT4. A product I can't buy and test with even if I wanted to. (except through warez of course). HP Unix presents a better challenge.
ohh! what wouldn't i give to have copper to the door.
true. It's only any good if you live in a city. Opening competition means that no-one is really prepared to subsidise rural comms. "It's too expensive" they all bleat because now they are busy competing.
Actually, I'm pretty sure either way the massive profits would not have been invested. Well my bleating is "community before profit" but that's a voice that's lost on the trading floors. They are too busy currency speculating (another community wrecking activity [i.e. the Baht]).
We had a time in the 80s not long after then sell off when BT was making £100 profit per second. That could have been money in the treasury but I guess it went into venture capital to get burned in the.com goldrush:)
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If I read a CV and someone lists loads of languages known then I know that they don't really *know* all of them and that they probably don't really *know* any of them.
Were they getting false positives or false negatives?
The results were roughly the same for each category. There was a bias to one but I cant remember which direction. I really wish I could remember where I saw it.
I was reading recently (cant remember where) that in a recent test subjects failed to correlate id photos with the person holding them roughly 50% of the time.
and no-one else seems to get the joke
as usual
1. America is not the world
I was contending that I am more likely to get killed by my own government's medical experiments or "health programmes" than I am being killed by a foreign government agency.
You notice that I didn't say "Americans are more likely to get killed by American government officials than being run over and killed in the street."
#include insult.h
Nagasaki.
Depleted uranium bullets.
LSD on soldiers.
There are so many examples it's staggering.
Common thread? Govt. Agencies.
Not to sound like the XFiles but you're probably more likely to be killed by the government you voted for than somebody elses. [wild speculation, of course!]
Vivisection is wrong
how positively uncivilised
I knew letting the insects in would lower the tone.
But would they listen to me?
"But they eat dog shit", I said.
"Well, there's no dogs allowed on B5", they told me.
see for yourself
why does mozilla do that 8(
it's been a while.
I wonder if he has to have his clothes hand made on B5 or if he has them delivered from Mantisworld.
Don't the female mantisii (jk) eat the male's head after sex? Maybe he's hi!1 from his wife.
I'm sorry already and I've not even pressed submit yet.
:)
B5 was/is the best.
They moved it off prime time here though and I've missed at least one series.
I'll get someone to buy me the DVDs for Christmas
We always used to laugh about this one
How on earth did a six foot fly come to be living in a twelve foot cube in the down below?
That's a story line I'd like to see.
I also want to know how on earth he gets all the information.
Perhaps he's got some sort of dominion over normal sized flies which he commands to hang out on the walls of the ship and report interesting stuff back.
Star Trek stories are mostly shite. They've got that huge ship with all those people and almost all the action takes place in one of 8 rooms.
Rykers beard & hair combination looks like it's plastic too.
Here's hoping someone wipes out the Ferengi any time soon
have you ever developed server side activex controls?
:)
I have on nt4sp3 IIS4. Version Control Nightmare it was. Change a line, compile, (reboot|change the vbscript & have 20 slightly different versions in memory at once).
So how is writing an active x control to do sockets more secure again?
I'm not sure my hosting company would be too keen on me doing binary installs on their IIS Server.
Anyway. That was the last straw. Never touched IIS since. FreeBSD & plan9 all the way now
ASP is for people who don't mind paying for a good programming environment.
Give me the unix programming environment before any version of Visual Studio.
It's been a while but last time I used IIS & ASP you couldn't even open a socket.
taking a bath/shower is not normal
Try a "Magic The Gathering" convention
for taking the time
so much for "I *know* my css is alright" 8)
as for the hardcoded pixels. yeah I know it's not perfect but it enables me to arrange the divs in the page so that for text only the important text of the page appears first and then the menus underneath.
I'm hoping to add a choice of stylesheets at some point. I only make the site part time, we're hoping to turn it in to a full time post before christmas.
I've not optimised it for cacheing yet either.
Yes, it is entirely possible that people using AIX just see a garbled home page. (well not that garbled).
I could get the funding to buy a cheap sparc but I'd need the confidence to say "we'll get x more registrations if I had a sparc to test the site with"
here's an idea. if anyone cares to help
http://www.thebigchoice.com
I test/develop it with mozilla primarily and then check with ie. When I had KDE it was okay in konqueror. I'm a plan9 user with limited computers for multiple OSes. My FreeBSD workstation comes back from the co-lo soon so that's one more.
I can't get my summary past the lameness filter
but it's not that kind of errors
Guess which one Slashdot chose.
:
Well let's see
Attractive - nop, butt ugly
Compatible - well I can't test it on multiple platofrms but according to http://validator.w3.org the (logged in) homepage has over 100 HTML errors.
I run a fairly sucessful website.
:
Like many businesses money is tight so guess where I'm goign to spend it when it comes to testing, certainly not on Sparc/Solaris9 combination.
So far from 350,000 hits this month I've had the following Browsers
MS Internet Explorer (Versions) 94.9 %
(MSIE/3.xx 0 % MSIE/4.xx 1.9 % MSIE/5.xx 56.6 % MSIE/6.xx 41.3%)
Netscape (Versions)No 2.7 %
(Mozilla/3.xx 1.1 % Mozilla/4.xx 55 % Mozilla/5.xx 43.7 %)
Unknown 1.9 %
Opera 0.3 %
Konqueror 0 %
ANT Fresco 0 %
iCab 0 %
WebCollage (PDA/Phone browser) 0 %
LibWWW 0 %
Microsoft Mobile Explorer (PDA/Phone browser) 0 %
Lynx 0%
Using the following OSs
Windows 37.4 %
Windows 2000 17.3 %
Windows XP 17.1 %
Windows Me 10.9 %
Windows 9.4 %
Windows 4.9 %
Mac OS 1.2 %
Unknown 1.1 %
Linux 0.2 %
Sun Solaris 0.1 %
HP Unix 0 %
Warp OS/2 0 %
Windows 3.xx 0 %
OSF Unix 0 %
Irix 0%
RISC_OS_4.03 0%
Thats at least 15 browers on 17 OSs.
How am I supposed to test my pages for all those expectations?
My HTML passes 4.01 Validation but I can't be sure it displays on those browsers.
I know it displays in Lynx okay so that's about the best I can offer.
I've had one email in the past year saying 'your site doesn't display properly' and that was IE on NT4. A product I can't buy and test with even if I wanted to. (except through warez of course). HP Unix presents a better challenge.
What would you suggest is my *obvious* solution?
"Please could you violate the site's copyright before posting the story"
although "please use server xxx.xxx as the proxy" for submissions could be a solution
could even set up Apache to do that on a url therefore subtly circumventing the copyright problem, banners could be passed through.
because if mine had userland applications that can freeze me out I'd be concerned.
who says we pay for them?
with your soul and mine
ohh! what wouldn't i give to have copper to the door.
.com goldrush :)
true. It's only any good if you live in a city.
Opening competition means that no-one is really prepared to subsidise rural comms.
"It's too expensive" they all bleat because now they are busy competing.
Actually, I'm pretty sure either way the massive profits would not have been invested.
Well my bleating is "community before profit" but that's a voice that's lost on the trading floors. They are too busy currency speculating (another community wrecking activity [i.e. the Baht]).
We had a time in the 80s not long after then sell off when BT was making £100 profit per second. That could have been money in the treasury but I guess it went into venture capital to get burned in the