I started playing computer games back in the mid-80's. I can say with confidence that games like Balance of Power, Pirates!, Europa Universalis, and the Total War series taught me as much if not more about history and/or geography than I learned in school. If they didn't directly teach me, they at least got my interest up in those subjects and inspired me to learn more about the subject through reading/studying. If parents pick the right games their kids can learn without realizing it.
I was even inspired to learn how to make Italian food after playing Mafia.:)
The best way to do this today is to just look up stuff on the Internet. Technology is changing so fast that books/magazines quickly become obsolete and I don't bother with them anymore. They're pretty much a waste of money. The only way to stay current is to find stuff online. When I'm searching for something tech/programming-related I always check the date it was posted and if it's too old I'll try to find something more current.
The world will be much better off if ie6 will completely die. Continuing to give the crack addicts crack while putting them in rehab does nothing to fix the problem.
Compatibility mode does a great job of emulating the shit of ie 6 & 7. However, you're being overly optimistic about the users ability to use compatibility mode. I was told by my supervisor and our lead designer that "people won't know that button is there", so I have to put in all these shitty workarounds and hacks for all of ie's f-tard proprietary standards. All that because they can't trust that users will actually use that little button.
I work as a Front End web programmer for one of the largest ministry sites in the world. For virtually everything we do, ie is the problem and all other browsers behave as expected, especially with CSS2/HTML4 stuff. The only time we have problems between the W3C-compliant browsers is doing something really advanced, but it's so rare I can't think of an example. IE is always the problem, and the lack of documentation and testing plugins (like Firebug) makes it an absolute nightmare to work with.
Who gives a f--- about old browsers? Do people still make parts for Model T's? Do we still have butter churns? No, we move forward and those who don't upgrade get left in the dust.
For the Verizon customers, your analogy would be like this: when they started going to your restaurant you had no problem selling veal, dogmeat, dolphinburgers, baby seal, etc., and they loved your restaurant. But one day you stopped selling those things they loved and now they have no place to go to get it. The other restaurants just don't make it the same as you used to make it.
Most US cities only have 2 choices: whatever the local cable or DSL provider is. I wouldn't be surprised if they switched.
I don't know what your native language is, but I guess each language has its own rules about when to "pause" (denoted by a comma, period, dash, etc. in English depending on the length of the pause and the context of the words around it). In English it could be this way:
Some say that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future, and that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of Walmart and the current political system in business. All we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence — welcome to 2010!
If they're unwilling to adapt and they refuse to change, then they will die off and be replaced by people who understand the Internet. Really, who cares about Neilsen ratings other than the network executives? Most of the stuff on TV is garbage anyway. Everyone is looking for alternative forms of entertainment. I know few people that actually sit and watch TV. Most people I know play computer/console games and have little interest in TV.
From TFA:
"As you can see in the chart, we found that Windows 7 RTM was the fastest to shutdown, and was tied with XP for iTunes encoding. It was slower than XP and Vista, however, for both booting up cold by a little more than 1 second, and slower than either of its predecessors in its Microsoft Office performance. After having used Windows 7 beta, RC and now the RTM for more than six months combined, it still feels faster for us when launching programs, opening the control panel and dragging icons, files and folders around than XP. That's not to denigrate the value of the benchmarks, but keep in mind that the perception and reality might differ based on hardware and usage."
Oh, so it feels faster. Right. Feelings really aren't good at measuring things. As the charts show, XP destroyed vista and 7.
Or we can just say we're not going to make parts or fix Model T's anymore and DROP ie6. Who cares if idiots don't want to upgrade. That's their problem.
While a house built with css is quite epic, the way he did it (making thousands of 1px high divs to simulate gradients) is not very efficient (but it is very creative).
It is nice to know that gradients can be made this way in an emergency situation if for some reason you couldn't fire up Paint Shop Pro and make a gradient in 20 seconds and set background-repeat:repeat-x.
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I started playing computer games back in the mid-80's. I can say with confidence that games like Balance of Power, Pirates!, Europa Universalis, and the Total War series taught me as much if not more about history and/or geography than I learned in school. If they didn't directly teach me, they at least got my interest up in those subjects and inspired me to learn more about the subject through reading/studying. If parents pick the right games their kids can learn without realizing it.
I was even inspired to learn how to make Italian food after playing Mafia. :)
Or did they probabilistically learn a lot from it? Seriously, "probabilistically"? Who makes up words like that. It's like "problematically".
The best way to do this today is to just look up stuff on the Internet. Technology is changing so fast that books/magazines quickly become obsolete and I don't bother with them anymore. They're pretty much a waste of money. The only way to stay current is to find stuff online. When I'm searching for something tech/programming-related I always check the date it was posted and if it's too old I'll try to find something more current.
The world will be much better off if ie6 will completely die. Continuing to give the crack addicts crack while putting them in rehab does nothing to fix the problem.
We can and sometimes do stand up to them and stand for principles. And then we probably get fired.
"Girl ran after ball and up hill," sounds wrong to our ears.
But it sounds great to Russians!
So what if it has javascript? There's nothing wrong with it. It's the language of the Internet.
Frist psot!
Compatibility mode does a great job of emulating the shit of ie 6 & 7. However, you're being overly optimistic about the users ability to use compatibility mode. I was told by my supervisor and our lead designer that "people won't know that button is there", so I have to put in all these shitty workarounds and hacks for all of ie's f-tard proprietary standards. All that because they can't trust that users will actually use that little button.
"This means all greasemonkey scripts and AdBlock Plus/other ad blocking technologies as these modify a sites look from what is intended."
So that means ie should also be illegal. It shows websites differently from what I intend all the time. ;)
I work as a Front End web programmer for one of the largest ministry sites in the world. For virtually everything we do, ie is the problem and all other browsers behave as expected, especially with CSS2/HTML4 stuff. The only time we have problems between the W3C-compliant browsers is doing something really advanced, but it's so rare I can't think of an example. IE is always the problem, and the lack of documentation and testing plugins (like Firebug) makes it an absolute nightmare to work with.
You obviously haven't seen ie's 20% market share loss over the last 3 years...
The Eudora email sound (the 1st six notes from the Log Song on Ren & Stimpy) going off is about as bad. ;)
Who gives a f--- about old browsers? Do people still make parts for Model T's? Do we still have butter churns? No, we move forward and those who don't upgrade get left in the dust.
Who cares? If they want to continue using a Model T, they can . The rest of the Internet will advance and they'll be left hopelessly behind.
Is it possible to use the User Agent Switcher addon for Firefox and trick your employer's site into thinking you're using ie6?
For the Verizon customers, your analogy would be like this: when they started going to your restaurant you had no problem selling veal, dogmeat, dolphinburgers, baby seal, etc., and they loved your restaurant. But one day you stopped selling those things they loved and now they have no place to go to get it. The other restaurants just don't make it the same as you used to make it.
Most US cities only have 2 choices: whatever the local cable or DSL provider is. I wouldn't be surprised if they switched.
And sometimes insightful?
I don't know what your native language is, but I guess each language has its own rules about when to "pause" (denoted by a comma, period, dash, etc. in English depending on the length of the pause and the context of the words around it). In English it could be this way: Some say that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future, and that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of Walmart and the current political system in business. All we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence — welcome to 2010!
If they're unwilling to adapt and they refuse to change, then they will die off and be replaced by people who understand the Internet. Really, who cares about Neilsen ratings other than the network executives? Most of the stuff on TV is garbage anyway. Everyone is looking for alternative forms of entertainment. I know few people that actually sit and watch TV. Most people I know play computer/console games and have little interest in TV.
Wouldn't a giant magnet work, kinda like Katamari Damacy?
My command center sure could use a display upgrade!
From TFA:
"As you can see in the chart, we found that Windows 7 RTM was the fastest to shutdown, and was tied with XP for iTunes encoding. It was slower than XP and Vista, however, for both booting up cold by a little more than 1 second, and slower than either of its predecessors in its Microsoft Office performance. After having used Windows 7 beta, RC and now the RTM for more than six months combined, it still feels faster for us when launching programs, opening the control panel and dragging icons, files and folders around than XP. That's not to denigrate the value of the benchmarks, but keep in mind that the perception and reality might differ based on hardware and usage."
Oh, so it feels faster. Right. Feelings really aren't good at measuring things. As the charts show, XP destroyed vista and 7.
Or we can just say we're not going to make parts or fix Model T's anymore and DROP ie6. Who cares if idiots don't want to upgrade. That's their problem.
While a house built with css is quite epic, the way he did it (making thousands of 1px high divs to simulate gradients) is not very efficient (but it is very creative).
It is nice to know that gradients can be made this way in an emergency situation if for some reason you couldn't fire up Paint Shop Pro and make a gradient in 20 seconds and set background-repeat:repeat-x.