Come on. We saved you??? You saved your foreign economic interests.
Yes, the U.S. did come into WWII and turn the tide (or was it just in time to see the tide turning?), but what have you done for us lately?
Protected your access to cheap oil, protected your shipping route through Central America, etc.
Hey, we benefit too, so thanks, but don't make yourselves out to be altruists.
Also, I believe it was the US military forces that performed these services to mankind, not the armed citizenry. Correct me if I'm wrong.
To paraphrase Qwerty4 from last March - someone did have a log of time on there hands.
Come on, that's not English, that's barely even American. You probably meant, "Someone did have a lot of time on their hands," but even that's not quite correct, since "someone" is singular, but "their" isn't, and "a lot" isn't really correct, since time doesn't come bundled in "lots."
We're forced to go with IE as it renders everything on our site perfectly.
I don't think you should run into holy war problems if you really are using standard CSS, and not IE proprietary extensions.
Although WASP was winging that NS6/Mozilla don't support all the standards, I'm pretty sure that these browsers come closer than IE on full standards compliance.
Another thing is that with Mozilla anyway, the browser may use an old, quirky layout engine unless you put a doctype statement at the top of your html file stating your using HTML 4.01. That should get plenty more stuff to function as specified.
So why doesn't it apply also to DVDs? --> Copy a DVD to VHS [...]
I don't know about BETA or Hi8, but I'm fairly sure that modern VCRs are supposed to have copy-protection circuitry in them. I've seen tapes that have been copied from rental copies, and they turn out all orange, unless you're recording with an old enough VCR.
Do DVD players put out this "copyright" signal as well?
Actually, this was just a musing of Ralph's. But a couple of the province's thinktanks, who thought this was reasonable idea, figured they'd have to bring in a <gasp> sales tax to make it work long-term.
If you think about it from one perspective, sales taxes are fairer than income tax. The rich, who presumably spend more, pay more, and there's no loop-holes (well, less loop-holes) to escape through. Additionally, they could offer PST rebates for those below the poverty line, similar to the federal GST rebates.
I think there's a law that says Alberta needs a referendum to bring in sales tax. It might not fly.
- get cable/dsl and set it up so that you have a static IP (even though cable/dsl uses dhcp you can generally hardcode your IP).
Careful here, before I started using DHCP on my Linux box, I just hardcoded an IP in. It worked until the cable people's DHCP server leased that IP to someone else.
You could have your dhcp client trigger a little script to propagate your new ip out to all the DNS servers if it changes, I guess, or have a little cron job that checks to see if it changed.
You usually get the same IP over again, so it wouldn't happen that often.
If you compiled Mozilla, you have to change a couple things, but then you just use its update features by hitting the large-ish button on that web page that says "Install Netscape PSM for Linux".
If you like, I can spare you any advice about reading documentation. Cheers.
Dude, I kinda enjoyed my summers away from uni digging ditches. I found that letting my brain just shut off for a while vastly improved my enjoyment of using it again later. I also did some work on the pipelines to the same effect. Better money, and you still get to badger sometimes.
Anyway, I got an IT job in a town with a mojor ski resort, and it's shaping up to be a fantastic winter! Flex time kicks ass!
I find it hard to believe mozilla is fast and stable on a 166. I've been running the builds(out of cvs) for a long time now and it chugs slowly along even on a P3 500.
I'm running it on a P120, and, while it might not be as responsive as on a P3, it difinitely performs better than the other major browsers on my machine.
Even if speed is a big issue, you can still used Java. The least platform-independant stuff to program is the user-interface. This is were Java shines, I think. I don't care how slowly it runs, Java can keep up with my mouse clicks!
For serious number-crunching, using JNI to hook into some optimised native libraries, which can be built with a minimum of platform-dependant code if you don't count Makefiles, all-but-negates any speed loss that going with a purely Java solution would give you.
My understanding is that C# can also call libraries like this, and that it's way easier for other languages to call C# methods than Java methods. But with it's heavy dependance on COM, I'm not sure how widespread C# could be outside of the Win32 system. Does it even provide it's own windowing toolkit, or does it jack into the exiisting OS calls?
They need heaps of planning, which is always a good thing to learn. Wow, an insufficiently-planned game will never be finished.
If you're looking to get some group work in there, DISCO!
Surely the artsy students could get credit from the art dept. for any of that sort of work. What student doesn't want the same project to apply for credit in more than one place? Ditto for musical-types.
But, what skills are more in demand? There's probably more <shudder>DBAs</shudder> out there than game programmers. I did a game in my Uni. Networks course, and it was super-fun, but heaps o' work too. I learned more about frame-buffer manipulation than networking though.
Also, I'm a vegetarian (vegan, actually). Why? Because in comparison to the quick, clean death of the shelter, most animals' encounter with humans is bloody and violent.
I know not too many are going to read a comment this far down the list, but I had to say something about this.
I've worked in an abattoir, and I'll be the first to admit, periodically something goes wrong, and an animal (cattle in my case) dies a painful death. But generally, they are killed as quickly and painlessly as possible.
This is due to the fact that calm cattle taste better. This is especially true when it comes to the males.
I do feel, however, that the conditions that some animals live in are pretty atrocious.
If he wanted us to eat baby back ribs, he wouldn't have made them carcinogenic and disease causing.
Of course, we have the technology (thoroughly cooked, not burnt, enjoy in moderation) to avoid these two pitfalls of including animal proteins in our diet.
Girls have the ability to learn and use computers, but they are turned off by technical careers that they view as full of geeky guys.
Quite frankly, any group of guys has a tendancy to stray toward the "geeky" side of things. Don't think that "geek" is not synonymous with "aficionado". It is. Listen to the boys talk about the big game. Listen to the connoisseurs talk about last year's Merlot. The subject doesn't change the pattern.
I looked long and hard to find a job were I couldn't describe the Devel. Dept. as "The Nerdery". Some people are willing to work in them, but I won't. I think women, in general, aren't fulfilled by the same work as men. Who expects them to be?
I should probably note that "women in general" means an assortment of girlfriends, past and present, sisters, cousins, etc. and I'm in no way claiming to speak for all woman-dom <shudder>.
The Point: Equality has nothing to do with the number of different groups in any one situation. It just means that everyone has the same access. If a woman doesn't want a job from a tech co sweating to give here one, all the power to her. I'm not going to worry about it, because she'll find another way to contribute to society.
ps. A belated Happy Canada Day, Canadians! Um... is Independence Day "happy"? Anway, a premature Happy Independence Day to those denizens of the U.S. of A.
Actually, many artist make criminally little money, and it's the record companies that are losing money from lost record sales.
Where they're really hemorrhaging cash, though, is through loss of royalties, which get paid every time a radio station plays a song. This obviously doesn't happen for MP3s.
While the Hitchhikers' Guide trilogy is very good (I own a copy of the omnibus), I couldn't help but notice that it has 5 (five) parts. For this reason, I enjoy the Dirk Gently books greatly. My question is this:
What is your favourite type of cheese for cucumber, tomato and onion sanwiches on a nice French bread?
I've had a logitech mouse for quite some time, and whenever it becomes jumpy, it just means that it's time to clean the little rollers inside, then presto, it works great. This was more of a problem when I lived at home, and my family had a cat, there'd always be gunk in there.
When I went to school though, the mice were all horrible (except the old Sun mice with LEDs and spiffy reflective mouse pads) because the techs melted the mice shut, and you couldn't clean it.
What makes an interface usable for, say, your mom is not what makes it usable for you. In fact, idiot-proofing tends to infuriate power users by making it a pain in the ass to have the system behave how they'd like.
Teething is definitely an issue that is tough to resolve. I never did see it, but isn't that what MS Bob tried to resolve? Since I don't think you can buy it any more, I'm guessing it failed.
So, ideally, you need a UI that can make the experience user happy, but will accomodate a beginner too. Perhaps there is no such thing.
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How big a cut do record stores and other middlemen take out of the price per CD. What, on average, is the profit on a CD? Just wondering...
Come on. We saved you??? You saved your foreign economic interests.
Yes, the U.S. did come into WWII and turn the tide (or was it just in time to see the tide turning?), but what have you done for us lately? Protected your access to cheap oil, protected your shipping route through Central America, etc.
Hey, we benefit too, so thanks, but don't make yourselves out to be altruists.
Also, I believe it was the US military forces that performed these services to mankind, not the armed citizenry. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Come on, that's not English, that's barely even American. You probably meant, "Someone did have a lot of time on their hands," but even that's not quite correct, since "someone" is singular, but "their" isn't, and "a lot" isn't really correct, since time doesn't come bundled in "lots."
When I was in Europe, I found that "America" was used to refer to North America, Central America, and South America as one big continent.
The point, though dull, is that the denizens of the US of A don't hold a monopoly on the name "America".
When did we stop calling them "Yanks"?
Wait, I thought that Canada ended at Moosejaw, and everything East of that was Newfoundland...
I don't think you should run into holy war problems if you really are using standard CSS, and not IE proprietary extensions.
Although WASP was winging that NS6/Mozilla don't support all the standards, I'm pretty sure that these browsers come closer than IE on full standards compliance.
Another thing is that with Mozilla anyway, the browser may use an old, quirky layout engine unless you put a doctype statement at the top of your html file stating your using HTML 4.01. That should get plenty more stuff to function as specified.
I don't know about BETA or Hi8, but I'm fairly sure that modern VCRs are supposed to have copy-protection circuitry in them. I've seen tapes that have been copied from rental copies, and they turn out all orange, unless you're recording with an old enough VCR.
Do DVD players put out this "copyright" signal as well?
From their website:
As someone living in British Columbia, Canada, I have been in dire need of this service. Hooray!
Actually, this was just a musing of Ralph's. But a couple of the province's thinktanks, who thought this was reasonable idea, figured they'd have to bring in a <gasp> sales tax to make it work long-term.
If you think about it from one perspective, sales taxes are fairer than income tax. The rich, who presumably spend more, pay more, and there's no loop-holes (well, less loop-holes) to escape through. Additionally, they could offer PST rebates for those below the poverty line, similar to the federal GST rebates.
I think there's a law that says Alberta needs a referendum to bring in sales tax. It might not fly.
Careful here, before I started using DHCP on my Linux box, I just hardcoded an IP in. It worked until the cable people's DHCP server leased that IP to someone else.
You could have your dhcp client trigger a little script to propagate your new ip out to all the DNS servers if it changes, I guess, or have a little cron job that checks to see if it changed.
You usually get the same IP over again, so it wouldn't happen that often.
Hey Dude. Netscape has released the PSM for Mozilla, as mentioned in the Crypto-FAQ.
If you compiled Mozilla, you have to change a couple things, but then you just use its update features by hitting the large-ish button on that web page that says "Install Netscape PSM for Linux".
If you like, I can spare you any advice about reading documentation. Cheers.
Depends on your partner. Dealing with my left hand is a stress reliever, dealing with my alleged girlfriend isn't.
Dude, I kinda enjoyed my summers away from uni digging ditches. I found that letting my brain just shut off for a while vastly improved my enjoyment of using it again later. I also did some work on the pipelines to the same effect. Better money, and you still get to badger sometimes.
Anyway, I got an IT job in a town with a mojor ski resort, and it's shaping up to be a fantastic winter! Flex time kicks ass!
I'm running it on a P120, and, while it might not be as responsive as on a P3, it difinitely performs better than the other major browsers on my machine.
Shouldn't that be a metric tonne?
Has anyone else noticed some creepy similarities between this court case and the court cases described in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand?
I hope this trend is soon reversed. I'd hate to see it come across the border with the strength it's building in the States.
Even if speed is a big issue, you can still used Java. The least platform-independant stuff to program is the user-interface. This is were Java shines, I think. I don't care how slowly it runs, Java can keep up with my mouse clicks!
For serious number-crunching, using JNI to hook into some optimised native libraries, which can be built with a minimum of platform-dependant code if you don't count Makefiles, all-but-negates any speed loss that going with a purely Java solution would give you.
My understanding is that C# can also call libraries like this, and that it's way easier for other languages to call C# methods than Java methods. But with it's heavy dependance on COM, I'm not sure how widespread C# could be outside of the Win32 system. Does it even provide it's own windowing toolkit, or does it jack into the exiisting OS calls?
Love, Spud.
The good things about a game are:
But, what skills are more in demand? There's probably more <shudder>DBAs</shudder> out there than game programmers. I did a game in my Uni. Networks course, and it was super-fun, but heaps o' work too. I learned more about frame-buffer manipulation than networking though.
Yeah, yeah, I know, "Don't call me Shirley."
Love, Spud.
I know not too many are going to read a comment this far down the list, but I had to say something about this.
I've worked in an abattoir, and I'll be the first to admit, periodically something goes wrong, and an animal (cattle in my case) dies a painful death. But generally, they are killed as quickly and painlessly as possible.
This is due to the fact that calm cattle taste better. This is especially true when it comes to the males.
I do feel, however, that the conditions that some animals live in are pretty atrocious.
Of course, we have the technology (thoroughly cooked, not burnt, enjoy in moderation) to avoid these two pitfalls of including animal proteins in our diet.
Quite frankly, any group of guys has a tendancy to stray toward the "geeky" side of things. Don't think that "geek" is not synonymous with "aficionado". It is. Listen to the boys talk about the big game. Listen to the connoisseurs talk about last year's Merlot. The subject doesn't change the pattern.
I looked long and hard to find a job were I couldn't describe the Devel. Dept. as "The Nerdery". Some people are willing to work in them, but I won't. I think women, in general, aren't fulfilled by the same work as men. Who expects them to be?
I should probably note that "women in general" means an assortment of girlfriends, past and present, sisters, cousins, etc. and I'm in no way claiming to speak for all woman-dom <shudder>.
The Point: Equality has nothing to do with the number of different groups in any one situation. It just means that everyone has the same access. If a woman doesn't want a job from a tech co sweating to give here one, all the power to her. I'm not going to worry about it, because she'll find another way to contribute to society.
ps. A belated Happy Canada Day, Canadians! Um... is Independence Day "happy"? Anway, a premature Happy Independence Day to those denizens of the U.S. of A.
Actually, many artist make criminally little money, and it's the record companies that are losing money from lost record sales.
Where they're really hemorrhaging cash, though, is through loss of royalties, which get paid every time a radio station plays a song. This obviously doesn't happen for MP3s.
Check out this slick poster from Modern Humourist!
Dear Mr. Adams.
While the Hitchhikers' Guide trilogy is very good (I own a copy of the omnibus), I couldn't help but notice that it has 5 (five) parts. For this reason, I enjoy the Dirk Gently books greatly. My question is this:
What is your favourite type of cheese for cucumber, tomato and onion sanwiches on a nice French bread?
Thank you for your time.
Zac
I've had a logitech mouse for quite some time, and whenever it becomes jumpy, it just means that it's time to clean the little rollers inside, then presto, it works great. This was more of a problem when I lived at home, and my family had a cat, there'd always be gunk in there.
When I went to school though, the mice were all horrible (except the old Sun mice with LEDs and spiffy reflective mouse pads) because the techs melted the mice shut, and you couldn't clean it.
Anyway, a clean mouse is a happy mouse.
What makes an interface usable for, say, your mom is not what makes it usable for you. In fact, idiot-proofing tends to infuriate power users by making it a pain in the ass to have the system behave how they'd like.
Teething is definitely an issue that is tough to resolve. I never did see it, but isn't that what MS Bob tried to resolve? Since I don't think you can buy it any more, I'm guessing it failed.
So, ideally, you need a UI that can make the experience user happy, but will accomodate a beginner too. Perhaps there is no such thing.