I'll admit I am guilty of that every time “my Internet” (access) drops. It feels like a natural abbreviation. That's probably due to excess exposure to stupidity, though...
I'm lucky this season, but most winters it's considerably colder at this point in the year and I've got to FedEx my packets down to an Internet uplink in New York or they'll freeze and clog up the tubes.
Welcome to California. Apparently, none of our Northernisms (I'm Canadian, eh) are welcome Cupertino-wise. That is pretty mind-bogglingly high even for there, though - it does snow there sometimes.
(Wow, I dragged you out to reply to my humble post? Sorry!;) )
...people who confuse “the Internet” with “the web”.
Not like I'd expect Microsoft and their Internet Explorer (which has always targeted web browsing, barely supports FTP, and doesn't support anything else beyond handing it off to a helper program) to know the difference...
That's the default error Firefox displays when it fails to load an image accessed directly (it's usually due to either a connection or server timeout). The actual JPEG's are kosher when they finally load.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that an article on Photoshop has such low-quality screenshots? Most, if not all of them, are JPEG's, and almost all of them have been badly rescaled down (and a few of them down then up again).
We're not talking about a group called “Anonymous”, but TFA is, and the group they're talking about no longer uses 4chan as their plan incubator. Spawning ground, sure, but it's not their war room.
...(who insisted he or she is not a spokesperson for the group)...
...because the “group” does not have a spokesperson. Remember the “loose-knit” thing?
The site where some members of Anonymous are said to hang out, 4chan...
Yeah, let me know when you see Anonymous on there. They're totally a bunch of black shadowy figures hanging out in/b/. Also, last time I checked, this was 4chan rule #4:
The posting of personal information or calls to invasion is prohibited.
4chan has a reputation for being a launchpad for this sort of thing, but it's not, at least, not any more. Go blame IRC, go blame any of the dozen clone boards, but it's not 4chan now.
I got dual 21.5" monitors (1920x1080) for my workstation a few months ago. While it had Windows XP on it at the time, I moved to Windows 7 within a day of getting the new monitors just to take advantage of the superior window management. Without good window management capabilities, multiple and high-resolution monitors can cause more frustration than they're worth.
FWIW, the Windows 7 window management “killer feature” for me was the ability to drag maximized windows between monitors without first un-maximizing them.
As someone who has used a laptop 2-3 times a week regularly since 1996, I can say it usually takes about 2 years for a Li-ion battery to get to the point where it is only half-as-good as it was originally and generally I can get another year of it before I replace it.
Looks like someone's never experienced the bundles of joy that are consumer-grade Dell batteries.
He probably went to Quova due to the extreme quantity of data. I imagine most end-user-accessible GeoIP lookup interfaces would temporarily ban your IP after a few thousand rapid-fire lookups.
BTW; if you are concerned about Flash CPU usage, use 10.1 beta which has GPU decoding under Windows.
Yeah I tried that. I had to move back down to 10.0 because while the performance was better, videos looked like crap because hey, guess what, 10.1 doesn't have nice-looking video scaling! I'm sorry, but I'd rather have Flash eat my CPU alive than feel like gouging my eyes out due to uneven pixelation.
Interestingly enough, one of my favourite Sim games, SimTower, wasn't even developed by Maxis - they just handled localization and publishing in North America. I spent hours playing that game. So easy to get started, and then find that you've screwed yourself over through bad elevator layout decisions.
And then there was SimIsle. I never did even figure out how to play that one...
This exactly what I envisioned when I saw the title, too. I was kinda disappointed when I saw it's just normal perspective with fullscreen rotation tacked on.
The interface is horrendous, and very occasionally won't even load (you'll auth then sitting there waiting for it to pull up the domai- sorry, zone list), but I find that it's quit reliable once everything's set up alright.
It's gotten better recently, too - I set up a new domain last night, and it took maybe five minutes, most of which was me humming and hawing about how I wanted it.
I can't remember whether or not the default Apache configuration has compression enabled or not - it's been a while since I installed a web server. This matters because I'm sure there are many less-than-half-brained folks who leave the majority of httpd.conf in its default state and jump straight to setting up virtual hosts.
Oh, I wasn't disagreeing - my home was on a 48k dial-up connection for a six-year period that only just ended in the last week of October. I was simply trying to explain why 19KB is less likely than the jQuery team seems to make out.
On a related note, accessing/. on dial-up raises a funny point about the new Slashcode comment system: the slowness of the site is not so much due to the size of all the resources, but due to the amount of CPU time it takes to handle the CSS and JS.
I don't have any recent experience with MooTools, but when I was at a jQuery/MooTools crossroads about a year and a half ago, I chose jQuery for two reasons:
JS written using jQuery was more concise and easier to read/write
jQuery's documentation was better (at the time, I seem to remember large chunks of MooTools documentation missing; possibly because they'd just released a new version or something, but still bad)
And that's about it. jQuery has given me no reason to look elsewhere; it's still concise and easy-to-use, it's fairly fast, it's compatible with as many browsers as I'm willing to target for CSS, and there's a million and one plugins so often the only JS I need to write is that to enable a plugin.
Slashdot Mirror
*ducks*
I'll admit I am guilty of that every time “my Internet” (access) drops. It feels like a natural abbreviation. That's probably due to excess exposure to stupidity, though...
--- Mr. DOS
I'm lucky this season, but most winters it's considerably colder at this point in the year and I've got to FedEx my packets down to an Internet uplink in New York or they'll freeze and clog up the tubes.
The latency's a bitch...
--- Mr. DOS
Welcome to California. Apparently, none of our Northernisms (I'm Canadian, eh) are welcome Cupertino-wise. That is pretty mind-bogglingly high even for there, though - it does snow there sometimes.
(Wow, I dragged you out to reply to my humble post? Sorry! ;) )
--- Mr. DOS
The specs say differently:
--- Mr. DOS
...people who confuse “the Internet” with “the web”.
Not like I'd expect Microsoft and their Internet Explorer (which has always targeted web browsing, barely supports FTP, and doesn't support anything else beyond handing it off to a helper program) to know the difference...
--- Mr. DOS
That's the default error Firefox displays when it fails to load an image accessed directly (it's usually due to either a connection or server timeout). The actual JPEG's are kosher when they finally load.
--- Mr. DOS
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that an article on Photoshop has such low-quality screenshots? Most, if not all of them, are JPEG's, and almost all of them have been badly rescaled down (and a few of them down then up again).
--- Mr. DOS
17-18C here. Welcome to Canada in winter with a budget heating bill ;)
--- Mr. DOS
We're not talking about a group called “Anonymous”, but TFA is, and the group they're talking about no longer uses 4chan as their plan incubator. Spawning ground, sure, but it's not their war room.
--- Mr. DOS
TPB doesn't have rules beyond the usage policy. Contrary to popular opinion, 4chan does, and is (for the most part) moderated by them.
--- Mr. DOS
Yeah, let me know when you see Anonymous on there. They're totally a bunch of black shadowy figures hanging out in /b/. Also, last time I checked, this was 4chan rule #4:
4chan has a reputation for being a launchpad for this sort of thing, but it's not, at least, not any more. Go blame IRC, go blame any of the dozen clone boards, but it's not 4chan now.
--- Mr. DOS
I got dual 21.5" monitors (1920x1080) for my workstation a few months ago. While it had Windows XP on it at the time, I moved to Windows 7 within a day of getting the new monitors just to take advantage of the superior window management. Without good window management capabilities, multiple and high-resolution monitors can cause more frustration than they're worth.
FWIW, the Windows 7 window management “killer feature” for me was the ability to drag maximized windows between monitors without first un-maximizing them.
--- Mr. DOS
Oh come on! My voice is my passport.
--- Mr. DOS
Looks like someone's never experienced the bundles of joy that are consumer-grade Dell batteries.
--- Mr. DOS
I didn't even think about that being a possibility.
On a related note, thank you for that tidbit of information - I'm sure I'll find it useful in the future.
--- Mr. DOS
He probably went to Quova due to the extreme quantity of data. I imagine most end-user-accessible GeoIP lookup interfaces would temporarily ban your IP after a few thousand rapid-fire lookups.
--- Mr. DOS
Yeah I tried that. I had to move back down to 10.0 because while the performance was better, videos looked like crap because hey, guess what, 10.1 doesn't have nice-looking video scaling! I'm sorry, but I'd rather have Flash eat my CPU alive than feel like gouging my eyes out due to uneven pixelation.
--- Mr. DOS
Interestingly enough, one of my favourite Sim games, SimTower, wasn't even developed by Maxis - they just handled localization and publishing in North America. I spent hours playing that game. So easy to get started, and then find that you've screwed yourself over through bad elevator layout decisions.
And then there was SimIsle. I never did even figure out how to play that one...
--- Mr. DOS
This exactly what I envisioned when I saw the title, too. I was kinda disappointed when I saw it's just normal perspective with fullscreen rotation tacked on.
--- Mr. DOS
It doesn't help that the EA logo is never skippable, but the studio logo almost always is...
--- Mr. DOS
The interface is horrendous, and very occasionally won't even load (you'll auth then sitting there waiting for it to pull up the domai- sorry, zone list), but I find that it's quit reliable once everything's set up alright.
It's gotten better recently, too - I set up a new domain last night, and it took maybe five minutes, most of which was me humming and hawing about how I wanted it.
--- Mr. DOS
And ZoneEdit is free for the first five domains. AFAIK, they're not doing IPv6 yet, though.
--- Mr. DOS
I can't remember whether or not the default Apache configuration has compression enabled or not - it's been a while since I installed a web server. This matters because I'm sure there are many less-than-half-brained folks who leave the majority of httpd.conf in its default state and jump straight to setting up virtual hosts.
--- Mr. DOS
Oh, I wasn't disagreeing - my home was on a 48k dial-up connection for a six-year period that only just ended in the last week of October. I was simply trying to explain why 19KB is less likely than the jQuery team seems to make out.
On a related note, accessing /. on dial-up raises a funny point about the new Slashcode comment system: the slowness of the site is not so much due to the size of all the resources, but due to the amount of CPU time it takes to handle the CSS and JS.
--- Mr. DOS
I don't have any recent experience with MooTools, but when I was at a jQuery/MooTools crossroads about a year and a half ago, I chose jQuery for two reasons:
And that's about it. jQuery has given me no reason to look elsewhere; it's still concise and easy-to-use, it's fairly fast, it's compatible with as many browsers as I'm willing to target for CSS, and there's a million and one plugins so often the only JS I need to write is that to enable a plugin.
--- Mr. DOS