I think you're misunderstnading the purpose of the markup.
It's not intended to *replace* the comic, it's intended to sit alongside the markup and supply easily-indexable information such as the authorship details and even the dialogue, in much the same way META tags on a site can store non-visible data for search engines.
When I was at Uni in Cambridge, we were given a talkj about a prototype of this from someone from AT&T Labs (then still ORL).
IIRC, there was some sort of light sensor on the badges that ensured they weren't active when, eg. in a desk drawer. It was possible to turn off the device simply by placing it in the dark.
Olivetti got taken over by AT&T about 2-3 years ago, and the Cambridge lab that developed VNC are all still working in what is now the AT&T lab, Cambridge. Most of the research groups remained untouched by the change in name.
Sealand isn't really much of an island. It's an old WW2 concrete artilery platform - completely man-made. It was abandoned for many years, before being settled on by Paddy Roy Bates, who has since been proclaimed 'king'
Their main claim to sovereignty is that the UK ignored them for many years, writing them off as a bunch of loonies. However, in the last few years they've been allowing HavenCo to situate their servers on the island, and the UK government have started laying claim to the island.
Note however, they get all their power and internet connection from nearby countries, who would be entirely within their rights to switch off the connection if Havenco start doing something they disagree with.
I wonder if the economics of the situation could be improved by at least packaging the Win and Linux versions together, and maybe the Mac version too? I can't imagine the number of CDs inside the box makes that much difference to the shelf price.
Not quite. The 404 code clearly marks it as an error message in the first few bytes the user downloads
What I'd like to see is a pop-up when I click on a broken link telling me the link is not active, and giving me the option of either staying on my current page or proceeding to read the error message.
How about this, then. When the user visits a page with malformed HTML they get a pop-up window saying 'This page contains incorrect HTML. Would you like to attempt to render it?'.
Believe me, that'd be a great incentive for designers to comply to the standards and actually validate their documents!
Actually, if there isn't a VNC client for the machine you want to use, you *can* just use a web browser.
The VNC software runs a web server on the user's machine at an unusual port, that anyone can connect to, download a java applet VNC viewer and view the target machine's desktop.
Speeds ove a LAN are acceptable, and I used to use this to remote access my machine from various public terminals at Uni.
That's actually a pretty big problem. one of the whole points of Swing is that it doesn't use native widgets at all, so the developer has a better idea of the Look and Feel of the application.
If a developer wants to use native widgets, they should use AWT, surely?
You can do this with your Hauppage card? Under which OS?
I'd be really grateful if you could email me at the above address and let me know how, as this is certainly something I'd be interested in doing myself.
I guess what pisses me off the most are things like ASP pages that I can't view on netscape on my SGI. Do these companies even realize they are losing my business?
What ASP pages? Why on earth can't you view them in Netscape? ASP just generate HTML. There's nothing specifically about ASP technology that limits it to being viewed in IE as you seem to imply.
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I think you're misunderstnading the purpose of the markup.
It's not intended to *replace* the comic, it's intended to sit alongside the markup and supply easily-indexable information such as the authorship details and even the dialogue, in much the same way META tags on a site can store non-visible data for search engines.
-Ciaran
Oh come on!
It's not like Opera is going to be only accessable through the gestural interface, it's an extra way of interacting for those who want to use it.
Um, it doesn't. Registering a .co.uk can cost around £5 ($7.50) per annum.
Technically, the value of Pi doesn't change. It's the ratio of a cricle's diameter to its circumference that changes with the crvature of space.
-Ciaran
The constitution says that the government cannot censor the populace. Privately owned schools can do what they like.
-Ciaran
When I was at Uni in Cambridge, we were given a talkj about a prototype of this from someone from AT&T Labs (then still ORL).
IIRC, there was some sort of light sensor on the badges that ensured they weren't active when, eg. in a desk drawer. It was possible to turn off the device simply by placing it in the dark.
-Ciaran
Olivetti got taken over by AT&T about 2-3 years ago, and the Cambridge lab that developed VNC are all still working in what is now the AT&T lab, Cambridge. Most of the research groups remained untouched by the change in name.
-Ciaran
Do You Know Where Your Robot Are?
They are belong to us!
-Ciaran
Sealand isn't really much of an island. It's an old WW2 concrete artilery platform - completely man-made. It was abandoned for many years, before being settled on by Paddy Roy Bates, who has since been proclaimed 'king'
Their main claim to sovereignty is that the UK ignored them for many years, writing them off as a bunch of loonies. However, in the last few years they've been allowing HavenCo to situate their servers on the island, and the UK government have started laying claim to the island.
Note however, they get all their power and internet connection from nearby countries, who would be entirely within their rights to switch off the connection if Havenco start doing something they disagree with.
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-Ciaran
Are there really any uses of Pi that aren't derived from Euclidian geometry?
This isn't a troll, it's an honest question.
I can't think of any from my admittedly hazy first-year maths course
-Ciaran
I wonder if the economics of the situation could be improved by at least packaging the Win and Linux versions together, and maybe the Mac version too? I can't imagine the number of CDs inside the box makes that much difference to the shelf price.
-Ciaran
"also an icon from the Sherlock family"
Wow, the concept of using a magnifying glass for a search is really original...
"yellow files = Win; blue files = Mac"
So they're different, right?
"what a coincidence...M$ also uses a flower to demonstrate the new surface"
This is just ridiculous. So they used a similar demo pic? please!
"oh, look at the place where the garbage pail now stands"
The garbage pail can be moved around the desktop in both MacOS and Windows. That's just down to the user's preference.
-Ciaran
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Wow, the concept of using a magnifying glass for a search is really original...
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So they're different, right?
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This is just ridiculous. So they used a similar demo pic? please!
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The garbage pail can be moved around the desktop in both MacOS and Windows. That's just down to the user's preference.
-Ciaran
Nah, the obvious Japanese version of dotcom would be do-tu-co-mu (I think)
I Am Not A Linguist, however
He said 'Day of Birth' not 'Date'
It's pretty obvious that he means something like '28th June'
-Ciaran
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Only in the US. In the UK it would more properly be 'one millionth of _a_ Kelvin'
-Ciaran
Not quite. The 404 code clearly marks it as an error message in the first few bytes the user downloads
What I'd like to see is a pop-up when I click on a broken link telling me the link is not active, and giving me the option of either staying on my current page or proceeding to read the error message.
-Ciaran
How about this, then. When the user visits a page with malformed HTML they get a pop-up window saying 'This page contains incorrect HTML. Would you like to attempt to render it?'.
Believe me, that'd be a great incentive for designers to comply to the standards and actually validate their documents!
-Ciaran
Actually, if there isn't a VNC client for the machine you want to use, you *can* just use a web browser.
The VNC software runs a web server on the user's machine at an unusual port, that anyone can connect to, download a java applet VNC viewer and view the target machine's desktop.
Speeds ove a LAN are acceptable, and I used to use this to remote access my machine from various public terminals at Uni.
-Ciaran
That's actually a pretty big problem. one of the whole points of Swing is that it doesn't use native widgets at all, so the developer has a better idea of the Look and Feel of the application.
If a developer wants to use native widgets, they should use AWT, surely?
-Ciaran
"Hitchhiker's Guide takes place in the future"
Umm... nope.
It starts in the mid-80's and continues from there.
It takes place off-planet, which is why the tech is so advanced.
-Ciaran
Hum, I have a pretty ancient Hauppage card so although I don't think the hardware has changed much, the software is pretty old and buggy.
What's the name of the application are you using for capturing?
I'll see if it's on the Hauppage site.
-Ciaran
You can do this with your Hauppage card? Under which OS?
I'd be really grateful if you could email me at the above address and let me know how, as this is certainly something I'd be interested in doing myself.
-Ciaran
I guess what pisses me off the most are things like ASP pages that I can't view on netscape on my SGI. Do these companies even realize they are losing my business?
What ASP pages? Why on earth can't you view them in Netscape? ASP just generate HTML. There's nothing specifically about ASP technology that limits it to being viewed in IE as you seem to imply.
-Ciaran
You can only think of a few movies released on VCD?
Practically all Hong Kong cinema can be had in any Chinatown on VCD for peanuts, and most major movies get released in the format.
Personally I was severely tempted by the Star Wars trilogy on VCD available here, along with things like X-Men, Gladiator and so on.
-Ciaran