I think I read somewhere (Don't Panic? Radio Scripts?) that DNA wrote Arthur's role was with Simon Jones in mind. Of course, that was originally for the radio series, but he took the part over to the TV version well, too. If that's true, that would explain why he fit the role so well...
You can always run the c pre-processor (cpp in gcc) on your java files before compiling them. It would require having a build process that's a little less straightfoward than 'javac *.java', though. There are other pre-processors, I think, that you can grab off-the-shelf, but I don't know much about them.
They've been pretty bad, but you bothered to read all of them to date?
I watched the movie before I had read the books, and thought it was pretty good, except for a few bits here and there. Certainly enjoyable. Then I read all the books, and was aching to see the movie again, so I bought it. I don't think I liked the movie as much after reading the books... Of course, I still want to see the next one. I'll watch it again right before the next movie comes out.
I noticed with the books that the first one was written kind of like a fairy-tale... but the later books have been geared somewhat more towards adults... I think she realized that adults were her real market when writing the later books. You might also notice how the size of the books explodes as you get further in the series.
Or maybe it's because Potter himself is getting older. In the last book, he's 3 years older than in the first book. At that age, your perspective changes quite a lot in 3 years. Maybe she's trying to reflect that in the books. If kids Harry's age are reading the books, and she comes out with them no quicker than one a year, then her readership is growing with the kids in the story, so maybe that's what she's trying to do.
if you like. An XML parser can't tell the difference, just like it can't tell the difference between an attribute value surrounded by apostrophes or quotes (as long as they are balanced). It's just not as aesthetically pleasing. Event with this, though, XHTML is not completely compatible with 4G browsers, as a grandparent poster indicated with his checkbox example.
One problem I ran into was that we were embedding some XHTML inside an XML container, and it was all being generated by XSL. The XSL engine was kind enough to always emit the shorthand version of the BR tag, with no space before the slash. Perfectly valid XHTML and/or XML, but invalid HTML (or, at least, NN4 doesn't like it). So we worked around it by emitting it out as text with output escaping disabled with the space before the slash, but that makes for some ugly XSL.
These quirky things about NN4 cost time and money, and, as a previous poster pointed out, you can weigh the economic value of supporting it versus not. But I think there's a greater, moral question of maximizing the benefit you can provide to society, and customers that don't require legacy platform support, by focusing your engineers' time and energy on new, interesting, valuable development, improving the user experience, rather than cumbersome backwards compatibility issues. I liken it to supporting Windows 95 or NT 3.5 with a native application, what modern software vendor does that? (especially if it's for the consumer market)
And the idea of the article was that if you are forward-looking, you can assure wide, clean cross-platform compability by adhering to these new specifications, like XHTML, at the cost of supporting legacy platforms, like NN4.
So in other words, NO it's not HTML. That's what I thought. They could have just as easily gotten around the problem in a way that works in BOTH HTML and XHTML renderers, but they chose not to.
Is that the fault of people who still want to support old browsers? No. It's the fault of people who deliberately made a spec that breaks old browsers for no good reason.
Don't you think that's somewhat uneccesarily belligerent? This is the same group that gave you HTML in the first place. The problem was HTML was too relaxed in it's syntax, and thus the web is totally broken. Sometimes you have to swallow hard and install Windows 95 (or Linux) over your DOS drive and don't look back, otherwise you'll be swallowed in the quagmire of backwards compatibility. Thus is the nature of this industry.
I would rather people focus on content and value than compatibility. I want to see more useful web applications with a better user experience, not something that HAS to work on lynx. If you can, of course, that's great, but if it's not free (and it's not), then I don't think it really benefits society.
And this is still moving, changing technology... the industry is still trying to find the best way to do things. If you want to live on the edge of technology, you have to be willing to accept some inconveniences before the specifications and standards settle down, like deploying a new version of the browser once every couple years.
Well, the idea was that we want to move to XHTML, which is a "nicer" specification (at least more regular) of HTML that follows XML's syntax rules. One of XML's syntactic requirements for being "well-formed" is that ALL tags must be closed (and balanced).
<br>
Which is the standard "break" html tag, is NOT well-formed. It doesn't close. To make it well-formed, you would have to have close it, like this:
<br></br>
Which can be somewhat cumbersome, especially in this instance. So the standard XML shortcut for a tag that has no content in it's body is this:
<br/>
So, in XHTML, there is no
<br>
only
<br/>
or
<br></br>
Otherwise it wouldn't be parsable as an XML document.
The general form of an XML tag (without going into BNF form) is something like: <elemName attName="attVal">bodyContent</elemName>
Where apostrophes and quotes are interchangable as long as they are balanced. Each element can contain zero to any number of attributes, but they each HAVE to have a value, and they HAVE to be named uniquely within the element.
What NN4 is probably doing is reading the name of the tag as "br/", and not recognizing it. If you put a space, it sees the name as "br" and "/" as an attribute that it doesn't recognize, so it ignores. I wouldn't expect NN4 to support it, XHTML came out afterwards. Which is my point: it's a very old browser, in software terms, and came out before the whole web-application revolution that came with the "dot-com era", and is somewhat antiquated for that purpose.
I think the value of adhering to standards and MODERN cross-browser support is more important in this still very developmental period. And people who want to utilize this technology need to realize that it's evolved into something different from what it was originally designed for, and we, as developers and users, have to evolve with it for a period until it's a mature technology, otherwise we'll have a non-optimal resultant technology.
Well, in the nickel arcades I've seen, the classic games are all rigged for free play... Also, I haven't seen too many "modern" arcades that have many classic games. Not to mention the modern games that they have at the nickel arcade are also much cheaper (3-4 nickels instead of 3-4 quarters).
One thing that San Jose has year-round are nickel arcades... "Hi-5" (On Payne and Saratoga, I think?) and several "Nickel City"s. (I think there's one right on Camden near the entrance to 85) They generally have an eclectic selection of classic games like Tempest or Pac Man or Golden Axe and other random things. They usually cost around $2 to get in, and $5 of nickels goes a long way, even though most of the games take 2 or more nickels.
If you ever get the urge to play classic games, look for a nickel arcade in the area. The games are usually beat up a bit, but it's a good way to spend an evening -- if you like that sort of thing. I'm curious where else these things are popular, other than the Silicon Valley.
P.S. Regarding your sig, unless I'm missing some obvious joke: "lone" means by one's self, like The Lone Ranger (who had Tonto, so he wasn't really "lone"), and "loan" is to let someone borrow something, like to loan someone some money.
That is not my experience. The simplest things that work in one browser cause another to go wacko. Emphasize 'lowest' in lowest-common-denominator.
This is only true, I've found, when you are trying to support Netscape 4. NS4 doesn't count, it's outdated technology that's holding the web-application development industry back, and raises the costs of software development. People have an alternative now, no matter what the platform. It's imperative that this industry STOPS SUPPORTING Netscape 4.
A pure-java editor that people at work have started using is JEdit... seems to be pretty responsive most of the time, and has a pretty extensive plug-in library.
If it weren't so effective a practice, they wouldn't be doing it. Ideally, we could assume everyone who has gone through punishment/rehabilitation is now an upstanding citizen, and treat them no differently. And I'm sure there are some who have gone through that process and have come out utterly reformed.
But the reality is that there patterns that people follow. People exposed to certain environments over time behave in a similar matter. There are always plenty of exceptions, enough that it can only be used as a tool, but it would be naive to ignore this information.
Statistically, people who hang out with criminals are more likely to commit a crime (than a completely randomly chosen person). Statistically, people who commit crimes are more likely to commit other crimes. It's one quick way to filter out the amount of work that has to be done. There are so many people in the US and in the world, how can they possibly search them all? This is one of the most obvious and intuitive ways to optimize an algorithm or heuristic: pruning. This form of pruning of this heuristic just happens to require a (relatively) static lookup table be generated.
Sorry, it sucks. People suck. We aren't that complicated. We're predictable. Does that mean I'm all for this database? No, I'm wary of it, but I recognize that this information might be helpful for society, as long as it's not abused. That's the clincher: abuse.
You have a very strange mind to be able to pick up on that pattern.
Not too strange, apparantly, as that episode was the first thing I thought of when I read this news item... Not so say that I'm not strange, but at least he's not alone!
Unfortunately, I've seen people with lots of experience and education that couldn't do anything practical at all. I've seen people with no experience and no (or little) education that were bright and capable and adaptable, and could get the job done. So the formula isn't so straightforward as you make it seem. Of course there ARE people with lots of experience and Education that blow your socks off.
I've found, though, if I have to pick favorites, that a proper education in the field is worth a lot more than experience, because experience will teach you very specific things about very specific topics, whereas an education teaches you how to approach any problem. And the reality is that when entering a new job, you are rarely, if ever, doing the exact same thing the exact same way.
So I would disagree and say that education is more valuable than experience.
"I could go down to Fry's and buy a 6.022 x 10^23 Gig drive for $20, but NOOOO I have be a SCSI snob."
You might want to check your units there...
Yeah, well... it was a bit of an exaggeration.:) Point is: IDE Hard drives are insanely cheap these days.
Pretty soon we will have some persistant storage with a Mole of bytes. Molar storage, it will be called. You will be able to go to a dentist, get a Molar removed, and then buy a Molar Disk to make yourself feel better. Better than local anesthetic, I bet.
This sucks... I'm still living with a 18Gig drive because I'm 100% SCSI. I remember like 6-7 years ago (or was it longer?) when I decided to move to all SCSI at great expense... before there was anything like ATA-66 or better. Of course, "at great expense" meant something different at the time, because I was in High School, and only had an allowance + birthday money.
Anyway, my SCSI drives are still pretty sweet, they are just very, very small in capacity. If I wanted to add an IDE drive, I could go down to Fry's and buy a 6.022 x 10^23 Gig drive for $20, but NOOOO I have be a SCSI snob. I really need that support for the 11 other SCSI devices, too... I actually have 1 8x burner, 1 40x CD rom, and THREE scsi hard drives. But, since I can't fit the third one in my case anyway, I'm not using it. Just in case, though, I have the option of adding 11 other devices. Yaaay!
Ahh, back in the day when I thought I'd get a SCSI scanner and laugh at those people with Parallel scanners. Nobody told me about USB, or FireWire, or digital cameras, for that matter.
Damn you Adaptec! Daaaaaaaammmmmmmnnnnnnnnnn yyyyyyooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only reason I know anything about Philosopher's Stones is thanks to a computer game from Microprose called Darklands, which seemed to try to be as faithful to German history as possible. There was a whole alchemy portion of the game where you could mix potions using fairly authentic-sounding ingredients. Of course the game assumed that all the legends and stuff was all true. You also had to take down Robber-barons and other things of the region/period. You can find it for download on some abandonware sites, like maybe the-underdogs.org
Anyway, sure it's obscure, but there's no reason to change stuff like "Philosopher's Stone," especially if it has SOME basis in old legends. Maybe people would learn something! I like learning things...
I think Dreamweaver is great for mockups by graphics designers.... keeps mockups realistic, but also keeps implementation details from bogging them down... then you hand off to a HTML producer, and they should code it from scratch... You would never want to actually use dreamweaver HTML, unless you really don't care about readability or maintainability. But that doesn't make it a useless tool. It's powers can be used for good, and not evil!
This is a good idea. At one point, classifieds2000 was the only money-making division of Excite. Perhaps slashdot should build out a classifieds section... just for the appropriate categories... tech jobs, computer stuff, personals.... everyone's doing it! And it might actually make money or something.
On the other hand, we do have a recent example of an out-and-out blatant lie, from a certain Democratic President. Does "I did not had sexual relations with that woman" ring any bells?
Fortunately, the truth, or lack thereof, of that statement has no real bearing on life as we know it for 99.999% of The World's population (approx.). Whew! Close one!
Berkeley, CA is now considering a bill to put people in jail for buying/selling the "wrong" brand of coffee.
Berkeley is a sell-out, too: they opened up a Starbucks in Berkeley while I was there. The coffee's half as good as most of the other cafes in the area, and costs at least twice as much. But it's always crowded...
AFAIK, you only really need a warrant to get something where the person in control of that something doesn't want to give it to you. The government does not need a warrant to buy this information. They need a warrant to take the information forcefully, assuming that the company won't just throw the information at them anyway to avoid any hassle. As long as the source is willing to sell the information to the government, why would they need a warrant?
If the police come and knock on your door, and want to search your house, and you say, "OK," then they don't need a warrant. If you say, "No, where's your warrant?" then they have to show one. You can let anyone search your house, it's your perogative. It might be unethical (depending on the situation) to ask you for permission to search your house without a warrant, but I don't think it's illegal. You could say, "Well, I'll let you search my house for 50 bucks." If they didn't have a warrant, they might take you up on that offer!
-If
PS: All this I gathered mainly from watching cop movies, so what do I know, really?
I always find it amazing how much crap we put up with in computer games of yore. I was playing ACS on a commodore emulator, to relive my youth and all that, and it was a frustrating interface! But even more professional games like Curse of the Azure Bonds had hideous interfaces. But I played them for hours as a kid.
One of my favorite interfaces on an early game was Might and Magic. Once you played for a while, everything was easily accessed, viewing characters, transferring items, casting spells... you just learned the key sequences by rote. And MM2 had the first automap that I ever remember. An RPG without automap these days would be pretty miserable.
Interplay released a Bard's Tale Construction Set a long time ago. It was exactly that, a tool to make Bard's Tale. The construction sets never interested me for too long because you could dump a ton of time into them, but you were still fairly limited in your output.
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I think I read somewhere (Don't Panic? Radio Scripts?) that DNA wrote Arthur's role was with Simon Jones in mind. Of course, that was originally for the radio series, but he took the part over to the TV version well, too. If that's true, that would explain why he fit the role so well...
-If
You can always run the c pre-processor (cpp in gcc) on your java files before compiling them. It would require having a build process that's a little less straightfoward than 'javac *.java', though. There are other pre-processors, I think, that you can grab off-the-shelf, but I don't know much about them.
-If
They've been pretty bad, but you bothered to read all of them to date?
I watched the movie before I had read the books, and thought it was pretty good, except for a few bits here and there. Certainly enjoyable. Then I read all the books, and was aching to see the movie again, so I bought it. I don't think I liked the movie as much after reading the books... Of course, I still want to see the next one. I'll watch it again right before the next movie comes out.
I noticed with the books that the first one was written kind of like a fairy-tale... but the later books have been geared somewhat more towards adults... I think she realized that adults were her real market when writing the later books. You might also notice how the size of the books explodes as you get further in the series.
Or maybe it's because Potter himself is getting older. In the last book, he's 3 years older than in the first book. At that age, your perspective changes quite a lot in 3 years. Maybe she's trying to reflect that in the books. If kids Harry's age are reading the books, and she comes out with them no quicker than one a year, then her readership is growing with the kids in the story, so maybe that's what she's trying to do.
-If
Well, you CAN use
<br></br>
if you like. An XML parser can't tell the difference, just like it can't tell the difference between an attribute value surrounded by apostrophes or quotes (as long as they are balanced). It's just not as aesthetically pleasing. Event with this, though, XHTML is not completely compatible with 4G browsers, as a grandparent poster indicated with his checkbox example.
One problem I ran into was that we were embedding some XHTML inside an XML container, and it was all being generated by XSL. The XSL engine was kind enough to always emit the shorthand version of the BR tag, with no space before the slash. Perfectly valid XHTML and/or XML, but invalid HTML (or, at least, NN4 doesn't like it). So we worked around it by emitting it out as text with output escaping disabled with the space before the slash, but that makes for some ugly XSL.
These quirky things about NN4 cost time and money, and, as a previous poster pointed out, you can weigh the economic value of supporting it versus not. But I think there's a greater, moral question of maximizing the benefit you can provide to society, and customers that don't require legacy platform support, by focusing your engineers' time and energy on new, interesting, valuable development, improving the user experience, rather than cumbersome backwards compatibility issues. I liken it to supporting Windows 95 or NT 3.5 with a native application, what modern software vendor does that? (especially if it's for the consumer market)
And the idea of the article was that if you are forward-looking, you can assure wide, clean cross-platform compability by adhering to these new specifications, like XHTML, at the cost of supporting legacy platforms, like NN4.
-If
So in other words, NO it's not HTML. That's what I thought. They could have just as easily gotten around the problem in a way that works in BOTH HTML and XHTML renderers, but they chose not to.
Is that the fault of people who still want to support old browsers? No. It's the fault of people who deliberately made a spec that breaks old browsers for no good reason.
Don't you think that's somewhat uneccesarily belligerent? This is the same group that gave you HTML in the first place. The problem was HTML was too relaxed in it's syntax, and thus the web is totally broken. Sometimes you have to swallow hard and install Windows 95 (or Linux) over your DOS drive and don't look back, otherwise you'll be swallowed in the quagmire of backwards compatibility. Thus is the nature of this industry.
I would rather people focus on content and value than compatibility. I want to see more useful web applications with a better user experience, not something that HAS to work on lynx. If you can, of course, that's great, but if it's not free (and it's not), then I don't think it really benefits society.
And this is still moving, changing technology... the industry is still trying to find the best way to do things. If you want to live on the edge of technology, you have to be willing to accept some inconveniences before the specifications and standards settle down, like deploying a new version of the browser once every couple years.
-If
Well, the idea was that we want to move to XHTML, which is a "nicer" specification (at least more regular) of HTML that follows XML's syntax rules. One of XML's syntactic requirements for being "well-formed" is that ALL tags must be closed (and balanced).
<br>
Which is the standard "break" html tag, is NOT well-formed. It doesn't close. To make it well-formed, you would have to have close it, like this:
<br></br>
Which can be somewhat cumbersome, especially in this instance. So the standard XML shortcut for a tag that has no content in it's body is this:
<br/>
So, in XHTML, there is no
<br>
only
<br/>
or
<br></br>
Otherwise it wouldn't be parsable as an XML document.
The general form of an XML tag (without going into BNF form) is something like:
<elemName attName="attVal">bodyContent</elemName>
Where apostrophes and quotes are interchangable as long as they are balanced. Each element can contain zero to any number of attributes, but they each HAVE to have a value, and they HAVE to be named uniquely within the element.
What NN4 is probably doing is reading the name of the tag as "br/", and not recognizing it. If you put a space, it sees the name as "br" and "/" as an attribute that it doesn't recognize, so it ignores. I wouldn't expect NN4 to support it, XHTML came out afterwards. Which is my point: it's a very old browser, in software terms, and came out before the whole web-application revolution that came with the "dot-com era", and is somewhat antiquated for that purpose.
I think the value of adhering to standards and MODERN cross-browser support is more important in this still very developmental period. And people who want to utilize this technology need to realize that it's evolved into something different from what it was originally designed for, and we, as developers and users, have to evolve with it for a period until it's a mature technology, otherwise we'll have a non-optimal resultant technology.
-If
Oh, yeah? Try this:
/>
<br/>
Doesn't work in netscape 4. This does, though:
<br
(note space between "br" and "/")
NN4 sucks for so many reasons. We, as web development professionals, need to stop supporting it so that users will upgrade. It's for their own good.
-If
Well, in the nickel arcades I've seen, the classic games are all rigged for free play... Also, I haven't seen too many "modern" arcades that have many classic games. Not to mention the modern games that they have at the nickel arcade are also much cheaper (3-4 nickels instead of 3-4 quarters).
-If
One thing that San Jose has year-round are nickel arcades... "Hi-5" (On Payne and Saratoga, I think?) and several "Nickel City"s. (I think there's one right on Camden near the entrance to 85) They generally have an eclectic selection of classic games like Tempest or Pac Man or Golden Axe and other random things. They usually cost around $2 to get in, and $5 of nickels goes a long way, even though most of the games take 2 or more nickels.
If you ever get the urge to play classic games, look for a nickel arcade in the area. The games are usually beat up a bit, but it's a good way to spend an evening -- if you like that sort of thing. I'm curious where else these things are popular, other than the Silicon Valley.
P.S. Regarding your sig, unless I'm missing some obvious joke: "lone" means by one's self, like The Lone Ranger (who had Tonto, so he wasn't really "lone"), and "loan" is to let someone borrow something, like to loan someone some money.
That is not my experience. The simplest things that work in one browser cause another to go wacko. Emphasize 'lowest' in lowest-common-denominator.
This is only true, I've found, when you are trying to support Netscape 4. NS4 doesn't count, it's outdated technology that's holding the web-application development industry back, and raises the costs of software development. People have an alternative now, no matter what the platform. It's imperative that this industry STOPS SUPPORTING Netscape 4.
-If
A pure-java editor that people at work have started using is JEdit... seems to be pretty responsive most of the time, and has a pretty extensive plug-in library.
-If
I would think really sick rich people would drive the high-end surgical equipment market....
-If
If it weren't so effective a practice, they wouldn't be doing it. Ideally, we could assume everyone who has gone through punishment/rehabilitation is now an upstanding citizen, and treat them no differently. And I'm sure there are some who have gone through that process and have come out utterly reformed.
But the reality is that there patterns that people follow. People exposed to certain environments over time behave in a similar matter. There are always plenty of exceptions, enough that it can only be used as a tool, but it would be naive to ignore this information.
Statistically, people who hang out with criminals are more likely to commit a crime (than a completely randomly chosen person). Statistically, people who commit crimes are more likely to commit other crimes. It's one quick way to filter out the amount of work that has to be done. There are so many people in the US and in the world, how can they possibly search them all? This is one of the most obvious and intuitive ways to optimize an algorithm or heuristic: pruning. This form of pruning of this heuristic just happens to require a (relatively) static lookup table be generated.
Sorry, it sucks. People suck. We aren't that complicated. We're predictable. Does that mean I'm all for this database? No, I'm wary of it, but I recognize that this information might be helpful for society, as long as it's not abused. That's the clincher: abuse.
-If
You have a very strange mind to be able to pick up on that pattern.
Not too strange, apparantly, as that episode was the first thing I thought of when I read this news item... Not so say that I'm not strange, but at least he's not alone!
-If
The right question is: Do you know the xor swap trick? That's all you are asking.
-If
Unfortunately, I've seen people with lots of experience and education that couldn't do anything practical at all. I've seen people with no experience and no (or little) education that were bright and capable and adaptable, and could get the job done. So the formula isn't so straightforward as you make it seem. Of course there ARE people with lots of experience and Education that blow your socks off.
I've found, though, if I have to pick favorites, that a proper education in the field is worth a lot more than experience, because experience will teach you very specific things about very specific topics, whereas an education teaches you how to approach any problem. And the reality is that when entering a new job, you are rarely, if ever, doing the exact same thing the exact same way.
So I would disagree and say that education is more valuable than experience.
-If
"I could go down to Fry's and buy a 6.022 x 10^23 Gig drive for $20, but NOOOO I have be a SCSI snob."
...
:) Point is: IDE Hard drives are insanely cheap these days.
You might want to check your units there
Yeah, well... it was a bit of an exaggeration.
Pretty soon we will have some persistant storage with a Mole of bytes. Molar storage, it will be called. You will be able to go to a dentist, get a Molar removed, and then buy a Molar Disk to make yourself feel better. Better than local anesthetic, I bet.
-If
This sucks... I'm still living with a 18Gig drive because I'm 100% SCSI. I remember like 6-7 years ago (or was it longer?) when I decided to move to all SCSI at great expense... before there was anything like ATA-66 or better. Of course, "at great expense" meant something different at the time, because I was in High School, and only had an allowance + birthday money.
!
Anyway, my SCSI drives are still pretty sweet, they are just very, very small in capacity. If I wanted to add an IDE drive, I could go down to Fry's and buy a 6.022 x 10^23 Gig drive for $20, but NOOOO I have be a SCSI snob. I really need that support for the 11 other SCSI devices, too... I actually have 1 8x burner, 1 40x CD rom, and THREE scsi hard drives. But, since I can't fit the third one in my case anyway, I'm not using it. Just in case, though, I have the option of adding 11 other devices. Yaaay!
Ahh, back in the day when I thought I'd get a SCSI scanner and laugh at those people with Parallel scanners. Nobody told me about USB, or FireWire, or digital cameras, for that matter.
Damn you Adaptec! Daaaaaaaammmmmmmnnnnnnnnnn yyyyyyooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!
-If
The only reason I know anything about Philosopher's Stones is thanks to a computer game from Microprose called Darklands, which seemed to try to be as faithful to German history as possible. There was a whole alchemy portion of the game where you could mix potions using fairly authentic-sounding ingredients. Of course the game assumed that all the legends and stuff was all true. You also had to take down Robber-barons and other things of the region/period. You can find it for download on some abandonware sites, like maybe the-underdogs.org
Anyway, sure it's obscure, but there's no reason to change stuff like "Philosopher's Stone," especially if it has SOME basis in old legends. Maybe people would learn something! I like learning things...
-If
I think Dreamweaver is great for mockups by graphics designers.... keeps mockups realistic, but also keeps implementation details from bogging them down... then you hand off to a HTML producer, and they should code it from scratch... You would never want to actually use dreamweaver HTML, unless you really don't care about readability or maintainability. But that doesn't make it a useless tool. It's powers can be used for good, and not evil!
-If
This is a good idea. At one point, classifieds2000 was the only money-making division of Excite. Perhaps slashdot should build out a classifieds section... just for the appropriate categories... tech jobs, computer stuff, personals.... everyone's doing it! And it might actually make money or something.
It would be fun, anyway.
-If
On the other hand, we do have a recent example of an out-and-out blatant lie, from a certain Democratic President. Does "I did not had sexual relations with that woman" ring any bells?
Fortunately, the truth, or lack thereof, of that statement has no real bearing on life as we know it for 99.999% of The World's population (approx.). Whew! Close one!
-If
Berkeley, CA is now considering a bill to put people in jail for buying/selling the "wrong" brand of coffee.
Berkeley is a sell-out, too: they opened up a Starbucks in Berkeley while I was there. The coffee's half as good as most of the other cafes in the area, and costs at least twice as much. But it's always crowded...
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AFAIK, you only really need a warrant to get something where the person in control of that something doesn't want to give it to you. The government does not need a warrant to buy this information. They need a warrant to take the information forcefully, assuming that the company won't just throw the information at them anyway to avoid any hassle. As long as the source is willing to sell the information to the government, why would they need a warrant?
If the police come and knock on your door, and want to search your house, and you say, "OK," then they don't need a warrant. If you say, "No, where's your warrant?" then they have to show one. You can let anyone search your house, it's your perogative. It might be unethical (depending on the situation) to ask you for permission to search your house without a warrant, but I don't think it's illegal. You could say, "Well, I'll let you search my house for 50 bucks." If they didn't have a warrant, they might take you up on that offer!
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PS: All this I gathered mainly from watching cop movies, so what do I know, really?
I always find it amazing how much crap we put up with in computer games of yore. I was playing ACS on a commodore emulator, to relive my youth and all that, and it was a frustrating interface! But even more professional games like Curse of the Azure Bonds had hideous interfaces. But I played them for hours as a kid.
One of my favorite interfaces on an early game was Might and Magic. Once you played for a while, everything was easily accessed, viewing characters, transferring items, casting spells... you just learned the key sequences by rote. And MM2 had the first automap that I ever remember. An RPG without automap these days would be pretty miserable.
Interplay released a Bard's Tale Construction Set a long time ago. It was exactly that, a tool to make Bard's Tale. The construction sets never interested me for too long because you could dump a ton of time into them, but you were still fairly limited in your output.
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