By opening the box you agree to the license agreement, even if it is in the box. I remember reading a case in business law about this a few years ago. Seems pretty unfair but it's the truth.
Aldous Huxley wrote this in regard to a later edition of Brave New World:
To pore over the literary shortcomings of twenty years ago, to attempt to patch a faulty work into perfection it missed at its first execution, to spend one's middle age in trying to mend the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth - all this is surely vain and futile. And that is why this new Brave New World is the same as the old one. Its defects as a work of art are considerable; but in order to correct them I should have to rewrite the book - and in the process of rewriting, as an older, other person, I should probably get rid not only of some of the faults of the story, but also of such merits as it originally possessed. And so, resisting temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else.
Too bad Lucas didn't read that before engaging in the Special Edition movies. Of course, the taste of vomit in my mouth, post Lucas abominations, has really gotten quite tolerable.
Cringely says:
(4th para)
"eBay makes more profit than all the rest of the retail Internet businesses COMBINED. It is a money machine. In retail economic terms, eBay IS the Internet."
How about some Jack Handey: When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmm, boy.
Obviously you would come up with stuff about Apple Computer if you typed in "apple." The vast, vast majority of people with the query "apple" would be searching for Apple Computers as opposed to Granny Smiths.
What I've done some places is write some SSI that detects the browser. If it detects Netscape 4 or lower, or IE
Why not just use @import instead of SSI? @import blocks pretty much all CSS in the browsers you are talking about.
Or you can use things like:
div#id {/* stuff to hide from NS4 */ }
Using techniques like this make your stylesheet much easier to maintain.
You also put @import statements within stylesheets so you serve up your 'dumbed' down style sheet to everyone then @import stylesheets for everyone else. There are a lot of options to pursue without having to turn to server side code. I just find it much easier to maintain pages this way.
more info here:
(from CSS god Eric Meyer)
http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/bonus/trick-hide.htm l
My experience was ugh to bad. The first big problem I had was copying text from webpages. For some reason, moz always thought I was gesturing.
You can always cancel a mouse gesture by pausing the gesture. I now use the right button for gestures, but before when it was the left... I just made sure to pause slightly before copying/pasting.
It's great. Even when running a 'non-compliant' browser, you can still click the 'advertising' link for M$N. You may not be good enough to view their site, but you can still send them money.
Slashdot Mirror
Silent film star wars
interesting search result
n/t
Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't recommend Perl
Agreed. Python is the way to go for a newb.
By opening the box you agree to the license agreement, even if it is in the box. I remember reading a case in business law about this a few years ago. Seems pretty unfair but it's the truth.
ever want to slap someone for saying it Eff Ay Queue, rather than fack?
hmm... nope. Because if I did, I would have to start slapping myself, and I'm not really into the whole self-inflicted pain thing.
Aldous Huxley wrote this in regard to a later edition of Brave New World:
To pore over the literary shortcomings of twenty years ago, to attempt to patch a faulty work into perfection it missed at its first execution, to spend one's middle age in trying to mend the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth - all this is surely vain and futile. And that is why this new Brave New World is the same as the old one. Its defects as a work of art are considerable; but in order to correct them I should have to rewrite the book - and in the process of rewriting, as an older, other person, I should probably get rid not only of some of the faults of the story, but also of such merits as it originally possessed. And so, resisting temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else.
Too bad Lucas didn't read that before engaging in the Special Edition movies.
Of course, the taste of vomit in my mouth, post Lucas abominations, has really gotten quite tolerable.
I think I just threw up in my mouth (again).
haha, Maybe i'll learn to count someday, that's the 6th paragraph. woops.. html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020725
Well, I never understood the craze about ebay
Maybe you don't but plenty of people do.
Cringely says:
(4th para)
"eBay makes more profit than all the rest of the retail Internet businesses COMBINED. It is a money machine. In retail economic terms, eBay IS the Internet."
"from governments-never-play-for-a-draw dept"
haha, that is great.
Am I the only person who feels like my eyes have permanent holes burned in them with that white text on black bg of the Ars Technica layout?
How about some Jack Handey:
When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmm, boy.
I wouldn't even go that far. Dali had a few unique paintings and drawings, then things slid downhill. A case study in dysfunctionality.
t .exe/index.html?E+dali
t .exe/collection/classic/discovery.html?L+dali+ftss 7153+1063474222
Well, I guess you have never been here then:
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/cgi-bin/SoftCar
And have never seen something like this:
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/cgi-bin/SoftCar
(this piece is about 10 feet tall or so. stunning.)
Some of the paintings are amazing. He did way more than the crazy surrealist stuff that everyone knows him for.
--
pteaxwa
agreed try *apples*.
What I've done some places is write some SSI that detects the browser. If it detects Netscape 4 or lower, or IE Why not just use @import instead of SSI? @import blocks pretty much all CSS in the browsers you are talking about. Or you can use things like: div#id { /* stuff to hide from NS4 */ }
Using techniques like this make your stylesheet much easier to maintain.
You also put @import statements within stylesheets so you serve up your 'dumbed' down style sheet to everyone then @import stylesheets for everyone else. There are a lot of options to pursue without having to turn to server side code. I just find it much easier to maintain pages this way.
more info here:
(from CSS god Eric Meyer)
http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/bonus/trick-hide.htm l
My experience was ugh to bad. The first big problem I had was copying text from webpages. For some reason, moz always thought I was gesturing.
You can always cancel a mouse gesture by pausing the gesture. I now use the right button for gestures, but before when it was the left... I just made sure to pause slightly before copying/pasting.
Check the mouse gestures FAQ. It answers some of your complaints. http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/faqs.html
in case you haven't seen it:
http://www.corrode.org/media/4me2p00p0n.wmv
(it's in windows media format unfortunately:/)
how can you stand it? it has netscape 4.x like standards support. any self respecting web surfer should stay from omni-web.
more info here: http://www.webstandards.org/act/campaign/buc/
ironically icab's standards compliance is on par with netscape's 4.x. it doesn't even fully implement CSS1.
i'll never know because once i heard that god awful sound i hit back.
i noticed the same thing (posted on it a little earlier - a few other ppl have too). hilarious isn't it? gotta love microsoft.
It's great. Even when running a 'non-compliant' browser, you can still click the 'advertising' link for M$N. You may not be good enough to view their site, but you can still send them money.