And if you're really lazy, or don't regularly update your blog, you can even enter your email on the Downloads page of Wordpress.org and they will email you whenever a stable version comes out.
I imagine many would assume that the cut icon is scissors because you are cutting something, not because there used to be an editing task involving cutting and pasting with typewriters.
People may understand what cutting is, and what pasting is -- both physically and electronically -- and still never know that people used to edit typewritten manuscripts using that process. (Or created fliers and quizzes doing the same.)
No, he's not trying to claim that. He said they didn't know the origin of the phrase. He never said they didn't know about the materials involved.
Just because they know what what scissors and glue and typewriters are doesn't mean they've ever had any reason to make the connection between those items and the phrase "cut-and-paste".
The Director's Guild would have you believe that the "artist" has an intrinsic right to see that his work is only displayed in approved forms. Such a right does not exist in law. (Not in the United States, anyway.)
In the United States only the copyright holder may authorize or create a derivative work. Cutting out the naughty bits of a movie is probably considered an abridgement, which is a derivative work under copyright law. So in that case an artist does have a legal right to decide the approved form for his work.
I'm still reading the spec, but it looks to me like the message is "Go ahead and use tables to design your sites, just don't use the HTML table tags because those mean something specific."
But using the CSS table display values still means we're using tables and rows, now they're just attached to different tags. So the mark-up will still have tags whose only purpose is to make a visual design work (i.e., tags to define tables and rows). That seems to go against the idea of seperating content and form.
However, unless I'm deeply misreading it, the original question wasn't about tables or tabular data. It was about having a layout with three or more columns that share the same height. The questioner never mentions tables.
Is the difficulty of producing a layout that consists of three or more columns of equal height justification for adding some new feature to the specification to make this easier?
I don't think so. CSS2 defines a table layout that can be used for this purpose...
Wait, we're supposed to use tables if we want to do that? Isn't one of the talking points of CSS that we get away from using tables for layout?
If I remember the episode you're talking about correctly, the medicine they took wasn't going anywhere near any frontier world.
The parent post didn't say they were. He's said that the medicines were needed on those worlds -- not that they were destined to go there -- and that Mal could have taken them there instead of the black market.
"Backward thinking?" Not really. The one director rule may, on rare occasions, cause problems, but it is an important protection for directors.
Here is an article on why the DGA is so intent on the one director rule.
This isn't to say that the DGA (or any guild) is perfect in their rules. Organizations like the DGA are designed to protect the majority of their members, and that sometimes hurts specific individuals who have a different vision, or who have unique situations. This isn't the first time Rodriguez has quit the guild to make a movie, nor is he the only director to do so. But the directors who do are usually the one's who don't need the guild to protect them. People like Rodriguez, Lucas and Tarentino have more than enough clout to get a movie made and distributed while being outside the guild.
Should the DGA re-examine the rules that are inspiring a couple major directors to leave? Maybe. Should the needs of a couple of directors (even if they are powerful ones) be enough to change rules that appear to working very well for everyone else? I doubt Rodriguez thinks so. He is quoted saying "It was easier for me to quietly resign before shooting because otherwise I'd be forced to make compromises I was unwilling to make or set a precedent that might hurt the guild later on."
Even in quitting he says that one of his goals was to protect the guild he was leaving.
And it's not just routers. In my house, we tried to get a 2.4GHz phone and had to take it back because it selected a different channel each time we got a call. We had a random chance of being knocked offline whenever we got a phone call.
I think our downstairs neighbors just got a new phone. We've started randomly losing our wireless...
'DVD watching' isn't any worse than oogling pretty women along the side of the street and having an accident.
Yes it is. DVD watching is intentionally creating an environment where you can be distracted. Oogling a woman is not. The level of distraction may be the same, but the DVD is making an effort to be distracted.
Or, to put it another way: The cause is distraction. The effect is an accident. Those are the same. It is the intent that is different. If a prosecutor could prove that someone went driving with the intent of oogling women rather than watching the road, they might try for murder on that too. But they can't. When a guy installs a DVD player that plays while driving and then watches a DVD, it is much clearer that he intended to be distracted.
Once you show intent, you can call show implied malice ("my DVD is more important than your safety").
If Chairman Powell is open to blogging, maybe he's open to the old Slashdot 10-Question interview? We've already had an FCC chief technologist, why not they guy who runs it all? He says he wants to hear from the tech community...
I agree with everything you have to say about the different series. Even Enterprise has only managed to engage me for one or two full episodes.
However, I have to disagree with this statement:
you can't undertake a successful creative endeavor by starting with contraints
Human beings create amazing things while under constraits. If the suits at Paramount said "don't violate any part of the Star Trek continuity," that wouldn't stop a good writer from creating a good story.
In your comment, you dimiss the importance of continuity but then object to the use of technobabble and pseudoscience. If continuity is not that important, why should science be? Isn't that just another constraint they shouldn't have to accept?
Two actually. There is an iTunes mix that lists every song they have given away for free. There are two listed each week. I know one shows up on the home page of iTunes, I don't know where the other one comes from. Here's the URL for that mix:
Serious question, who got the ball rolling on that horrible style?
Possibly this guy. He was responsible for much of the user interface for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. However, I don't know if he started before or after floating windows appeared.
Yeah, I work in a lab too. Up until last year, I used to used to bring my laptop to school everyday. It was an older ThinkPad, that ran Win95. When someone had a bad floppy, our WinNT and Win2000 computers were useless, but Win95 recovered the files almost everytime.
Of course, now I use a Powerbook, so I can't help anyone anymore. But I'm also seeing less students who even use floppies. More of them are using USB drives or they just email their papers to themselves. (Of course, I still see students who write their papers in one sitting, print it out and then forget about it. Some never save during the entire writing process.)
Hopefully he's improved on his big-screen capabilities since the original Buffy and Alien 4. Ick.
Well, it's hard to tell what the original scripts were like. A good script can become awful between the day it's bought and the day it's released in a theater.
You have a half-dozen suits, directors, and editors to screw it up. (We're assuming here that the original script was good.)
seeing how he much time he's taken in perfecting the series runs he's had, I have little doubt that Serenity will be spectacular.
Yes. His TV shows are probably the better indicator of the quality of his writing, since that is where he has the most control. Everything he has done for film has had multiple hands, for good or ill. (And he's repeatedly stated his disappointment at both the Buffy movie and Alien Resurrection. He was once mis-identified as having written an episode of "Boy Meets World" and he expressed more pride in that incorrect credit than his writing of Resurrection.)
It's possible that the Firefly film will suck, maybe because he fails to produce a good script, maybe because Universal selects someone else to direct, maybe because the producers demand bad changes.
That's why he's better in TV. Head writers (who are almost always the producers) are nearly Gods with regard to how their scripts read and show up on screen. The network has some input, but much of it is Standards and Practices stuff (i.e., the censors).
In film, the producers own the script and can do as they please. And then the director is in control the moment shooting starts (with input from the producers).
Film writing is good money, but it's very little control. (Unless you make it yourself.)
You can try TinkerTool to do this. The version I have (2.32) isn't fully compatible with Panther, but the dock orientation and pinning is (the new version is 3.1, I haven't updated). Currently, my dock runs up the left side of the display, with the trash can end pinned to the bottom left corner.
You can also open the Dock's plist and change the orientation and pinning there.
(Note: I haven't tried the other TinkerTool options, so I can't say how useful or stable they are.)
why does some government bureacracy rate the most expensive and fancy location in NYC?
Probably for the same reason they did in the original WTC: They owned it, built it and controlled it. (The current controller is only leasing from the Port Authority.)
I imagine the other reason is to ensure that it doesn't lack for tenants. The second article you link even notes that the presence of the Port Authority presence will "...[provide] cash flow from the day the building opens."
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I imagine many would assume that the cut icon is scissors because you are cutting something, not because there used to be an editing task involving cutting and pasting with typewriters.
People may understand what cutting is, and what pasting is -- both physically and electronically -- and still never know that people used to edit typewritten manuscripts using that process. (Or created fliers and quizzes doing the same.)
No, he's not trying to claim that. He said they didn't know the origin of the phrase. He never said they didn't know about the materials involved.
Just because they know what what scissors and glue and typewriters are doesn't mean they've ever had any reason to make the connection between those items and the phrase "cut-and-paste".
Exclusive rights in copyrighted works.
In the United States only the copyright holder may authorize or create a derivative work. Cutting out the naughty bits of a movie is probably considered an abridgement, which is a derivative work under copyright law. So in that case an artist does have a legal right to decide the approved form for his work.
Ah.
Shouldn't the elements that are display: table-cell be contained in a display: table-row element?
I'm still reading the spec, but it looks to me like the message is "Go ahead and use tables to design your sites, just don't use the HTML table tags because those mean something specific."
But using the CSS table display values still means we're using tables and rows, now they're just attached to different tags. So the mark-up will still have tags whose only purpose is to make a visual design work (i.e., tags to define tables and rows). That seems to go against the idea of seperating content and form.
That is, We'll have this:Rather than this:Isn't the latter more desirable, since it doesn't use tags that only exist to affect the design of the page?
However, unless I'm deeply misreading it, the original question wasn't about tables or tabular data. It was about having a layout with three or more columns that share the same height. The questioner never mentions tables.
Wait, we're supposed to use tables if we want to do that? Isn't one of the talking points of CSS that we get away from using tables for layout?
It's an odd number of legs for a horse to have.
If I remember the episode you're talking about correctly, the medicine they took wasn't going anywhere near any frontier world.
The parent post didn't say they were. He's said that the medicines were needed on those worlds -- not that they were destined to go there -- and that Mal could have taken them there instead of the black market.
"Backward thinking?" Not really. The one director rule may, on rare occasions, cause problems, but it is an important protection for directors.
Here is an article on why the DGA is so intent on the one director rule.
This isn't to say that the DGA (or any guild) is perfect in their rules. Organizations like the DGA are designed to protect the majority of their members, and that sometimes hurts specific individuals who have a different vision, or who have unique situations. This isn't the first time Rodriguez has quit the guild to make a movie, nor is he the only director to do so. But the directors who do are usually the one's who don't need the guild to protect them. People like Rodriguez, Lucas and Tarentino have more than enough clout to get a movie made and distributed while being outside the guild.
Should the DGA re-examine the rules that are inspiring a couple major directors to leave? Maybe. Should the needs of a couple of directors (even if they are powerful ones) be enough to change rules that appear to working very well for everyone else? I doubt Rodriguez thinks so. He is quoted saying "It was easier for me to quietly resign before shooting because otherwise I'd be forced to make compromises I was unwilling to make or set a precedent that might hurt the guild later on."
Even in quitting he says that one of his goals was to protect the guild he was leaving.
It's not common yet, but it will be soon.
This guy is having that problem.
And it's not just routers. In my house, we tried to get a 2.4GHz phone and had to take it back because it selected a different channel each time we got a call. We had a random chance of being knocked offline whenever we got a phone call.
I think our downstairs neighbors just got a new phone. We've started randomly losing our wireless...
The title says "HD-Based".
Taken in context with the little blurb, it's pretty clear to me that they are using HD to mean "Hard Drive" not "High Definition".
One could argue that they should have said "HDD-Based", to avoid confusion. But nothing about the post suggests they didn't RTFA.
'DVD watching' isn't any worse than oogling pretty women along the side of the street and having an accident.
Yes it is. DVD watching is intentionally creating an environment where you can be distracted. Oogling a woman is not. The level of distraction may be the same, but the DVD is making an effort to be distracted.
Or, to put it another way: The cause is distraction. The effect is an accident. Those are the same. It is the intent that is different. If a prosecutor could prove that someone went driving with the intent of oogling women rather than watching the road, they might try for murder on that too. But they can't. When a guy installs a DVD player that plays while driving and then watches a DVD, it is much clearer that he intended to be distracted.
Once you show intent, you can call show implied malice ("my DVD is more important than your safety").
If Chairman Powell is open to blogging, maybe he's open to the old Slashdot 10-Question interview? We've already had an FCC chief technologist, why not they guy who runs it all? He says he wants to hear from the tech community...
I agree with everything you have to say about the different series. Even Enterprise has only managed to engage me for one or two full episodes.
However, I have to disagree with this statement:
you can't undertake a successful creative endeavor by starting with contraints
Human beings create amazing things while under constraits. If the suits at Paramount said "don't violate any part of the Star Trek continuity," that wouldn't stop a good writer from creating a good story.
In your comment, you dimiss the importance of continuity but then object to the use of technobabble and pseudoscience. If continuity is not that important, why should science be? Isn't that just another constraint they shouldn't have to accept?
Two actually. There is an iTunes mix that lists every song they have given away for free. There are two listed each week. I know one shows up on the home page of iTunes, I don't know where the other one comes from. Here's the URL for that mix:
/ viewPublishedPlaylist?id=47821
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa
It does the same thing to me in Mozilla 1.6.
Serious question, who got the ball rolling on that horrible style?
Possibly this guy. He was responsible for much of the user interface for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. However, I don't know if he started before or after floating windows appeared.
Yeah, I work in a lab too. Up until last year, I used to used to bring my laptop to school everyday. It was an older ThinkPad, that ran Win95. When someone had a bad floppy, our WinNT and Win2000 computers were useless, but Win95 recovered the files almost everytime.
Of course, now I use a Powerbook, so I can't help anyone anymore. But I'm also seeing less students who even use floppies. More of them are using USB drives or they just email their papers to themselves. (Of course, I still see students who write their papers in one sitting, print it out and then forget about it. Some never save during the entire writing process.)
I imagine the press release only included the names of actors who had signed contracts at the time it was written.
Hopefully he's improved on his big-screen capabilities since the original Buffy and Alien 4. Ick.
Well, it's hard to tell what the original scripts were like. A good script can become awful between the day it's bought and the day it's released in a theater.
You have a half-dozen suits, directors, and editors to screw it up. (We're assuming here that the original script was good.)
seeing how he much time he's taken in perfecting the series runs he's had, I have little doubt that Serenity will be spectacular.
Yes. His TV shows are probably the better indicator of the quality of his writing, since that is where he has the most control. Everything he has done for film has had multiple hands, for good or ill. (And he's repeatedly stated his disappointment at both the Buffy movie and Alien Resurrection. He was once mis-identified as having written an episode of "Boy Meets World" and he expressed more pride in that incorrect credit than his writing of Resurrection.)
It's possible that the Firefly film will suck, maybe because he fails to produce a good script, maybe because Universal selects someone else to direct, maybe because the producers demand bad changes.
That's why he's better in TV. Head writers (who are almost always the producers) are nearly Gods with regard to how their scripts read and show up on screen. The network has some input, but much of it is Standards and Practices stuff (i.e., the censors).
In film, the producers own the script and can do as they please. And then the director is in control the moment shooting starts (with input from the producers).
Film writing is good money, but it's very little control. (Unless you make it yourself.)
You can try TinkerTool to do this. The version I have (2.32) isn't fully compatible with Panther, but the dock orientation and pinning is (the new version is 3.1, I haven't updated). Currently, my dock runs up the left side of the display, with the trash can end pinned to the bottom left corner.
You can also open the Dock's plist and change the orientation and pinning there.
(Note: I haven't tried the other TinkerTool options, so I can't say how useful or stable they are.)
why does some government bureacracy rate the most expensive and fancy location in NYC?
Probably for the same reason they did in the original WTC: They owned it, built it and controlled it. (The current controller is only leasing from the Port Authority.)
I imagine the other reason is to ensure that it doesn't lack for tenants. The second article you link even notes that the presence of the Port Authority presence will "...[provide] cash flow from the day the building opens."