Graphics is graphics, no matter what the medium is. What i hate about flash is the time it takes to load and to grind and clunk its way into action. That's rarely an issue with small areas of flash on a mainly html page, but the bigger it is the worse the problem.
But it is mostly pointless. At the good end, it barely makes any more impact than a static image would and at the bad end it may be ok the first time, but it quickly becomes intensely irritating when you have to go to a site several times.
Flash is always pointless crap - unless it's a video (e.g., youtube). In my experience, the quality of a company is inversely proportional to the size of the holes that flashblock leaves in its web site.
I got a bit sick of the problems i was having with F10 a couple of months ago, and switched my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04 beta. It was ok, some things were a bit better, but there were a few annoyances - in particular, X kept freezing. I switched to F11 preview, a week or so ago and i'm glad to be back on Fedora!
Yeah, i like having the most advanced software available - and i also like being able to contribute, in a very small way, by posting bug reports occasionally.
This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Google, in the manner permitted by the Terms.
Yeah, so...? That's just about the purpose of the licence, it doesn't say anything about how you can or can't use the software that's being licensed. If it said something like "you may use the software for the sole purpose of enjoying the benefit of the services...." it might be relevant.
The whole paragraph is badly drafted anyway. "...license to use the software provided to you by Google as part of the Services as provided to you by Google..." is ambiguous.
Exactly. The only sensible solution is to make it all really cheap and DRM-free. That way people can share it - which encourages people to buy stuff as soon as it's available so they can be first to share the latest cool stuff with their mates.
I just read TFA in the paper (yeah, i'll hand my geek card in on the way out...) and it struck me that the most important thing that he doesn't mention is that there's no evidence that anyone downloading a pirate copy of anything would actually buy it if they couldn't download it for free. Therefore nothing is actually lost.
My guess is that 99% of the stuff "illegally" downloaded would never actually be bought if it wasn't there to download.
If they were losing more in stolen money (that they had to repay) or business than it costs to actually secure the ATM they would make the proper changes in security, it would already be fixed.
Yeah, of course they would. Bank managements are well known for being sensible and never doing stuff that loses money.
Yeah, true. It was 9.04 beta. I was mixing it up with Debian's 5.01. And, yeah, maybe it's not default and i chose to install it - i don't remember, but i generally opt to test new software, and regularly file bug reports.
But none of that's really the point. The point is that i lost data for the first time in many years - while using ext4.
A couple of months ago i installed Ubuntu 9.01, which used ext4 by default. Running it, i experienced data loss for the first time since i moved from ext2 to ext3 quite a few years ago now. I've just changed back to ext3 - which has been rock solid for me since it first appeared in Redhat or whatever distro it was i was using back then.
Yeah, i'd much rather do tables with css than the abysmal table html - and i do when i can get away with it. But the problem is that, for tabular data, it's not so great for accessibility. In those situations i end up having to use tables - and i loathe the stupid things. I mean, you can't even style the damn things properly with css!
How anyone can prefer tables to css is entirely beyond me!
Also, it would be great if we could have variables. As in $text="Put your long interesting content here" and then be able to put it anywhere you want on the page.
You can. I do it all the time - with PHP. My css files are called things like style.css.php and i use variables in them like in any php file. You just have to remember the
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It works fine in FF 3.5 (under Linux) for me.
Graphics is graphics, no matter what the medium is. What i hate about flash is the time it takes to load and to grind and clunk its way into action. That's rarely an issue with small areas of flash on a mainly html page, but the bigger it is the worse the problem. But it is mostly pointless. At the good end, it barely makes any more impact than a static image would and at the bad end it may be ok the first time, but it quickly becomes intensely irritating when you have to go to a site several times.
Flash is always pointless crap - unless it's a video (e.g., youtube). In my experience, the quality of a company is inversely proportional to the size of the holes that flashblock leaves in its web site.
People talk about "rashers of bacon".
Oh. Maybe. It's Australian. But i guess "rasher" doesn't mean anything in some English speaking countries. A "rasher" is a slice of bacon.
You can tell if you've got swine flu, because you come out in rashers.
I got a bit sick of the problems i was having with F10 a couple of months ago, and switched my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04 beta. It was ok, some things were a bit better, but there were a few annoyances - in particular, X kept freezing. I switched to F11 preview, a week or so ago and i'm glad to be back on Fedora!
Last time i looked, krugerrand were South African. The Dutch use the euro.
Yeah, i like having the most advanced software available - and i also like being able to contribute, in a very small way, by posting bug reports occasionally.
Yeah, i looked into switching my laptop to Centos, but it's so far behind Fedora it just wasn't viable.
Yeah, so...? That's just about the purpose of the licence, it doesn't say anything about how you can or can't use the software that's being licensed. If it said something like "you may use the software for the sole purpose of enjoying the benefit of the services...." it might be relevant. The whole paragraph is badly drafted anyway. "...license to use the software provided to you by Google as part of the Services as provided to you by Google..." is ambiguous.
Exactly. The only sensible solution is to make it all really cheap and DRM-free. That way people can share it - which encourages people to buy stuff as soon as it's available so they can be first to share the latest cool stuff with their mates.
I just read TFA in the paper (yeah, i'll hand my geek card in on the way out...) and it struck me that the most important thing that he doesn't mention is that there's no evidence that anyone downloading a pirate copy of anything would actually buy it if they couldn't download it for free. Therefore nothing is actually lost.
My guess is that 99% of the stuff "illegally" downloaded would never actually be bought if it wasn't there to download.
"Imaginary", rather than "fake", i think.
Of course they're doing it wrong - they're a bank, that's what they do.
There, fixed that for you.
Yeah, of course they would. Bank managements are well known for being sensible and never doing stuff that loses money.
Yeah, true. It was 9.04 beta. I was mixing it up with Debian's 5.01. And, yeah, maybe it's not default and i chose to install it - i don't remember, but i generally opt to test new software, and regularly file bug reports.
But none of that's really the point. The point is that i lost data for the first time in many years - while using ext4.
A couple of months ago i installed Ubuntu 9.01, which used ext4 by default. Running it, i experienced data loss for the first time since i moved from ext2 to ext3 quite a few years ago now. I've just changed back to ext3 - which has been rock solid for me since it first appeared in Redhat or whatever distro it was i was using back then.
What a surprise! Who would have guessed that nasty stuff would leach out of plastic into the liquids in the bottles...?
That rarely happens. But it's much more likely that abused people believe their abuser has changed (or will change) - when he or she hasn't and won't.
No, but they were crap.
I don't see the problem. Use a div instead of a tr and divs instead of tds, float everything properly, etc, and it just works.
Yeah, i'd much rather do tables with css than the abysmal table html - and i do when i can get away with it. But the problem is that, for tabular data, it's not so great for accessibility. In those situations i end up having to use tables - and i loathe the stupid things. I mean, you can't even style the damn things properly with css!
How anyone can prefer tables to css is entirely beyond me!
You can. I do it all the time - with PHP. My css files are called things like style.css.php and i use variables in them like in any php file. You just have to remember the
header( 'Content-type: text/css' );
statement at the top of the file.