Ido fixes most if the stupid things in Esperanto, and lojban is much more logical.
...and isn't explaining B.C.E. as "before the Christian era" defeating the object? The reason I use BCE (before the common era) and CE (common era) instead of BC and AD is to remove the references to religious myth. --
mrBlond
> There was an excellent article at Suck.com last month, pointing out one simple fact:
> Banner ads probably do work
Previously you could just move the bottom sucky frame to zero size, and whala! no banner ads. You can still link to a unframed pages tho, or even better the more liquid print friendly version (that unfortunately still uses tables for layout). --
mrBlond
Lower back pain has to be the worst thing I've experienced. Yoga asanas have helped me really understand my body - turns out my body slants down to the right because I daily walk short distances with a backpack (thousands of accumulative k's)).
I'm now concentrating on my posture, aware of which muscles do what, breathe better, and more supple.
You say "Aum", I say "AgnOstic atheisM". --
mrBlond
Not enough horrible dessert
on
Voyager Eulogy
·
· Score: 1
In my country we've only recently been introduced to 7 of 9 (2nd last season?). I try to avoid reading ST stuff on the net 'cos it's usually a couple of seasons ahead of what we get to see here, but it's pretty hard avoiding Usenet posts dissing Voyager. What I don't get is why people keep watching it if they don't like it? The franchise is just sci-fi soap anyway, for geeks who consider themselves above The bold and the beautiful and WWF; and I enjoy Voyager as that: mindless TV. When I'm in the mood for hard sf I read some KSR.
Also, if you don't like the show's politics (folk on the net seem to only like white male captains), write your senator, or change the channel. --
mrBlond
> Everyone, please read the books first!! There is
> no chance of the film being better than the books,
> and if you see the film first you have spoiled the
> plot for the books. It's much better to spoil the
> plot for the films.
> -- DagSverre
The book is almost always better than the movie, that's why I try and see the movie before reading the book - that way I enjoy the movie, and later enjoy the book. If you read it 1st, the movie is always a disappointment.
Already read Silm, Hobb and LotR tho, but waiting for Fincher's Rama before reading it.
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mrBlond
> But I agree adding this restriction is foolhardy.
> It undermines the very principle of user freedom
> -- ichimunki
So people should not have the freedom to prevent others from charging for support for code the "chargers" didn't write? One should not have the freedom to prevent code you wrote from being available from commercial banner ad sites? One should not licence code you wrote so that derivatives must use a different name?
I think people should be allowed to licence their code any way they want, and if that licence is too restrictive for you - don't use the code. --
mrBlond
Untrained millionaire space tourist - check. Microsoft Windows - check. Next up: flaming alien space bat monkey pilots.
Am I the only one hearing a 007[0]-like bad guy laughing somewhere?
[0] Are James Bond movies written by the same guy who does Pinky and the Brain?
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mrBlond
From their home page click on Download on that ugly yellow bar at the top, then on the left bar click on mirrors.
I don't understand why more sites don't use Yahoo!'s navigation interface design. If only Progeny and User friendly would read some Alertbox... --
mrBlond
Libertarians generally build theories where property rights are supreme; anarchists generally build theories where individual freedom is supreme
...that is Blue's house. The road to the south belongs to Sienna, the walls to the north and west are Burgundy's, and the airport on the east is Black's. The Blues don't get out much.
Pink lives wherever he wants, except in Darkland. Vert is suffocating under the bridge.
--
mrBlond
Kudos to zephc for giving the print friendly link. It's not quite Alertbox, but much better than the default crap page "design" we've become accustomed to. "The vast majority of web 'designers' should be shot." - JatTDB --
mrBlond
2001022007 with everything set to text: Preferences and mail/news account settings. The problem is that it still has weird blue and flashing black lines when replying. When using email and newsgroups I want plain vanilla text. Also, the preview pane is horrible with a low res (800x600).
I've haven't sent in a bugzilla RFE 'cos mine are almost always duplicates. The words I use to search previous entries almost never pick up previously entered bugs/RFEs:( --
mrBlond
I've never done a site which tried to sell stuff. For niche sites I use frames, funky graphics and Java, but make it easy to just get the plain text frame.
For political and other content sites I mostly focus on Nielsen's writings (ignoring his 1st law tho), with XHTML1 and CSS1.
I usually have a "Best viewed with a CSS1 capable browser" line on the meta page.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.satirewire.com/features/satire-jeevesin terview.shtml
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mrBlond (I don't email from Malaysia)
They have their own list of popular articles, and .company craziness, but just from the homepage comes these gems: SETI@home, house bonds, web profanity, Dell says, communists!, corporate power, and from their archives: capitalism!, Jakob Nielsen, more onion than the onion, famous cubist site, Nader, USentric... Jezus, I'm gonna stop adding links now, otherwise this post could be a copyright violation of their archives page.
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mrBlond (I don't email from Malaysia)
> I then suggest (understand : "Vehemently
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...
> sustain") that the webmasters who'd want to be
> smart-tagged should put a Meta Tag in their pages.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitio
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Foo</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../bar.css"
<meta name="DontAllowSmartTagsFrom" content="Microsoft"
<meta name="DontAllowAutoLinksFrom" content="AOL-Time-Warner-Hughes Electronics-3Com-Eastman Kodak-General
Motors-VarsityBooks-Hewlett-Packard-PurchasePro
City-AOL Europe-ICQ-The
Knot-MapQuest-Spinner-DrKoop-Netscape-iAmaze-Qu
Club-HomeStyle Books-Crafter's Choice-One Spirit-International-Little,
Brown and Company (and UK)-Bulfinch Press-Back Bay Books-The
Mysterious Press-Oxmoor House-Leisure Arts-Sunset Books-TW Kids-HBO
(USA, Asia, en Español, Ole, Poland, Brasil, Hungary)-Cinemax-Comedy
Central-CNN-Court TV-Road Runner-Time Warner Communications
(telephone)-New York City Cable Group-New York 1 News-Time
Warner-Kablevision-Hanna Barbera Cartoons-Telepictures-Witt-Thomas
Productions-Castle Rock Entertainment-Time (Asia, Atlantic, Canada,
Latin America, South Pacific, Money, For Kids)-Fortune-Life-Sports
Illustrated-Inside Stuff-Money (Your Company, Your Future)-People (Australian, Español, Teen)-Entertainment Weekly-The
Ticket-In Style-Southern Living-Progressive Farmer-Southern
Accents-Cooking Light-The Parent Group(Parenting, Baby Talk, Baby on
the Way)-This Old House-Sunset-The Health Publishing
Group-Hippocrates-Coastal Living-Weight Watchers-Real
Simple-Asiaweek-President (Japanese business monthly)-Dancyu-Wallpaper
(UK)-eCompany Now-Field & Stream-Freeze-Golf Magazine-Outdoor
Life-Popular Science-Salt Water Sportsman-Ski-Skiing Magazine-Skiing
Trade News-SNAP-Snowboard Life-Ride BMX-Today's Homeowner-TransWorld
Skateboarding-TransWorld Snowboarding-Verge-Yachting
Magazine-Warp-American Express Publishing Corporation (Travel &
Leisure, Food & Wine, Your Company, Departures, SkyGuide)-DC
Comics-Vertigo-Paradox-Milestone-Mad Magazine-Time Warner Music-The
Atlantic Group-Atlantic Classics-Atlantic Jazz-Atlantic
Nashville-Atlantic Theater-Big
Beat-Blackground-Breaking-Curb-Igloo-Lava-Mesa/
43-Rhino Records-Elektra Entertainment
Group-Elektra-EastWest-Asylum-Elektra/Sire-Warn
Records-Warner Brothers-Warner Nashville-Warner Alliance-Warner
Resound-Warner Sunset-Reprise-Reprise Nashville-American
Recordings-Giant-Maverick-Revolution-Qwest-Warn
International-WEA Telegram-East West ZTT-Coalition-CGD East
West-China-Continential-DRO East
West-Erato-Fazer-Finlandia-Magneoton-MCM-Nonesu
Music-WEA Inc.-Ivy Hill Corporation-Warner Special Products-Joint
Ventures-Columbia House-Music Sound Exchange-Music Choice and Music
Choice Europe-Viva-Channel V-Heartland Music-Road Runner-Warner
Publisher Services-Time Distribution Services-American Family
Publishers-Pathfinder-Africana.com-Warner Brothers Recreation
Enterprises-Turner Entertainment-TBS Superstation-TNT-Turner
South-Cartoon Network(Europe, Latin America, Asia/Pacific)-Turner
Classic Movies-Turner Original Productions-Philips Arena-Turner
Learning-Turner Adventure Learning-Turner Home Satellite-Turner
Network Sales-New Line Cinema-Fine Line Features-Atlanta
Braves-Atlanta Hawks-Atlanta Thrashers-Turner Sports-World
Championship Wrestling-Good Will Games"
<meta
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mrBlond
Interestingly (because Islam uses a lunar calendar, and Christianity a solar) Mohammed will one day be "older" than Jesus :)
--
mrBlond
...and isn't explaining B.C.E. as "before the Christian era" defeating the object? The reason I use BCE (before the common era) and CE (common era) instead of BC and AD is to remove the references to religious myth.
--
mrBlond
"The Internet is American. English only please." - *@aol.com on a Cuban newsgroup.
--
mrBlond
> Banner ads probably do work
Previously you could just move the bottom sucky frame to zero size, and whala! no banner ads. You can still link to a unframed pages tho, or even better the more liquid print friendly version (that unfortunately still uses tables for layout).
--
mrBlond
> No one is forced to eat [at McDonalds], do
> business there, or work there, but they're somehow
> super oppressive and evil.
No one is forced to read Jon Katz's columns, think about it, consider an alternate pov *gasp*, but he's somehow super oppressive and evil.
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mrBlond
IANAD.
Lower back pain has to be the worst thing I've experienced. Yoga asanas have helped me really understand my body - turns out my body slants down to the right because I daily walk short distances with a backpack (thousands of accumulative k's)).
I'm now concentrating on my posture, aware of which muscles do what, breathe better, and more supple.
You say "Aum", I say "AgnOstic atheisM".
--
mrBlond
Also, if you don't like the show's politics (folk on the net seem to only like white male captains), write your senator, or change the channel.
--
mrBlond
> no chance of the film being better than the books,
> and if you see the film first you have spoiled the
> plot for the books. It's much better to spoil the
> plot for the films.
> -- DagSverre
The book is almost always better than the movie, that's why I try and see the movie before reading the book - that way I enjoy the movie, and later enjoy the book. If you read it 1st, the movie is always a disappointment.
Already read Silm, Hobb and LotR tho, but waiting for Fincher's Rama before reading it.
--
mrBlond
> But I agree adding this restriction is foolhardy.
> It undermines the very principle of user freedom
> -- ichimunki
So people should not have the freedom to prevent others from charging for support for code the "chargers" didn't write? One should not have the freedom to prevent code you wrote from being available from commercial banner ad sites? One should not licence code you wrote so that derivatives must use a different name?
I think people should be allowed to licence their code any way they want, and if that licence is too restrictive for you - don't use the code.
--
mrBlond
Untrained millionaire space tourist - check. Microsoft Windows - check. Next up: flaming alien space bat monkey pilots. Am I the only one hearing a 007[0]-like bad guy laughing somewhere? [0] Are James Bond movies written by the same guy who does Pinky and the Brain?
--
mrBlond
Hopefully everyone who writes XHTML in ALL CAPS will share cubicles with spammers in hell...
PS: the first panel is empty.
--
mrBlond
I don't understand why more sites don't use Yahoo!'s navigation interface design. If only Progeny and User friendly would read some Alertbox...
--
mrBlond
...that is Blue's house. The road to the south belongs to Sienna, the walls to the north and west are Burgundy's, and the airport on the east is Black's. The Blues don't get out much.
Pink lives wherever he wants, except in Darkland. Vert is suffocating under the bridge.
--
mrBlond
standard got me rotfl. How many furlongs per fortnight to Planckville, Canada?
--
mrBlond
From their site: Purdue, Sourceforge, CMU, Sunsite.dk. Purdue and dk's fast, CMU dead - YKMV.
--
mrBlond
That's not a meteor, it's a space station!
--
mrBlond
Kudos to zephc for giving the print friendly link. It's not quite Alertbox, but much better than the default crap page "design" we've become accustomed to. "The vast majority of web 'designers' should be shot." - JatTDB
--
mrBlond
>> For dolphins, the primary route to assimilate
>> information is via sound.
>
> Perhaps they could use blind people.
Insightful=2
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mrBlond
2001022007 with everything set to text: Preferences and mail/news account settings. The problem is that it still has weird blue and flashing black lines when replying. When using email and newsgroups I want plain vanilla text. Also, the preview pane is horrible with a low res (800x600).
:(
I've haven't sent in a bugzilla RFE 'cos mine are almost always duplicates. The words I use to search previous entries almost never pick up previously entered bugs/RFEs
--
mrBlond
I've never done a site which tried to sell stuff. For niche sites I use frames, funky graphics and Java, but make it easy to just get the plain text frame.
For political and other content sites I mostly focus on Nielsen's writings (ignoring his 1st law tho), with XHTML1 and CSS1.
I usually have a "Best viewed with a CSS1 capable browser" line on the meta page.
--
mrBlond
Has no-one been following Mir at all? 2010-09-08 07:06:05
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mrBlond
> Netscape for my mail client for many years now...
> that it can display HTML mail), but Mozilla just
> doesn't cut it for me
I browse with Moz day, and email with Communicator 4.7 because Moz can't give me HTML free, plain text email. YMOV
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mrBlond