You hear a sound reminiscent of an elephant stepping on a peanut.
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PSP And DS Duke It Out
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Although initially sceptical about the DS's touchscreen, I played Metroid DS briefly and was impressed by the mouse-like controls. It's probably a personal preference, but those midget analog sticks (found on pratically all modern consoles) just don't agree with me. I hope we'll see future consoles making use of the touchscreen technology.
That's a great idea, empowering homebrew developers by making the PSP user-progammable. I suggest an easy to use scripting language that will allow even novice programmers to get results. Can you imagine running PHP on the PSP, without needing a PHD?
I think you're overstating the case for browser differences in regards to emerging web technologies (XMLHttpRequest, etc.). At least 95% of today's web sites can easily be made cross browser compliant without resorting to the insanity of UserAgent sniffing.
By using a valid DOCTYPE, modern browsers will be placed into standards compliance mode. This will eliminate most rendering differences. Next, define CSS whitespace attributes for block level tags, which will eliminate any differences in spacing. For scripting, usage of getElementById and getElementsByTagName will allow cross-browser DHTML with few browser-specific hacks.
So you see, it's really not that hard to achive standards compliance. When I am forced to include some browser-specific code due to lack of standardization or differing implementations, I try to make it as generic as possible, and provide a fallback method.
You're rationalizing. Suppose IE gets down to 60% market share. Are you prepared to go back and fix all those non standards-compliant sites? It's much better to write to the standards to begin with.
The upshot of developing with Mozilla/Firefox, is that cross-browser compliance is a breeze. But if you develop your site with IE, then try to fix it for other browsers.. good luck!
I think their claim about CSS 2.0 is a copout. To fully support CSS 2.0, they would probably have to rewrite large parts of the browser. IE7 is looking more and more like a few bits of tacked on functionality, just like IE6 was.
Besides, the TPM has to be enabled to be used. It is not required.
Yes, at first. History shows us that measures such as this are phased in gradually. First TC will be optional, later it will be mandatory. I predict it will eventually spell the end of general purpose computing, with personal computers becoming locked down like today's video game systems, complete with mod chips and the brouhaha surrounding them.
You're right. I checked the book, and they don't actually write out the song. The bard announces the song title, then "..the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold.." (RotK silver anniversary edition, p232). So to the grandparent, nyah!;)
By the way, I too have seen the animated RotK, and it is indeed cheesier than muenster. As if skipping directly from Bag End to Mordor wasn't bad enough, the 70's-style music is way too self-indulgent. (unlike the tolerable soundtrack to the Hobbit, probably because those were mostly based on Tolkien's work)
If MS is developing it this quickly (public beta by summer), we can assume that IE 7 is not a rewrite of the browser, but simply more functionality tacked onto the old Trident engine (which originated in IE 3 or 4).
I'm really glad about the PNG support, and hopeful that they will get the CSS box model right this time. But I will expect that security will continue to be an issue for IE until MS takes the plunge and does a full rewrite.
Xandros did build out functionality that Linux normally lacks: e.g. remote application installation.
How does Linux normally lack "remote application installation"? One can ssh into any random box and install software (assuming sufficient permissions), so I think you must be referring to something different from what your words suggest.
I agree with you about the Silmarillion being dry and hard to digest, although there truly are some great stories in there. For a much more fleshed out rendition of some of these (such as the fall of Gondolin), see Tolkien's "Unfinished Tales."
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You hear a sound reminiscent of an elephant stepping on a peanut.
Although initially sceptical about the DS's touchscreen, I played Metroid DS briefly and was impressed by the mouse-like controls. It's probably a personal preference, but those midget analog sticks (found on pratically all modern consoles) just don't agree with me. I hope we'll see future consoles making use of the touchscreen technology.
All I can say is, your friends could desperately use a visit from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Juarez?
Bueller?
Even more amazing: A naked woman on a 30" Cinema..
That's a great idea, empowering homebrew developers by making the PSP user-progammable. I suggest an easy to use scripting language that will allow even novice programmers to get results. Can you imagine running PHP on the PSP, without needing a PHD?
I work with XML every day.
I'm sorry..
I agree, there's no excuse for so many spelling and grammatical misteaks!
So what do you do if you need to put > in a filename? (granted, it's not likely to come up often)
I knew some smartass would come up with an exception.. Give me a break, it was a joke.
Thunderbird will never render Slashdot correctly because it's a mail client, not a browser. ;)
Hmm, I guess that showed me. So is it ego or incompetence which prevents Microsoft from integrating these fixes?
I think you're overstating the case for browser differences in regards to emerging web technologies (XMLHttpRequest, etc.). At least 95% of today's web sites can easily be made cross browser compliant without resorting to the insanity of UserAgent sniffing.
By using a valid DOCTYPE, modern browsers will be placed into standards compliance mode. This will eliminate most rendering differences. Next, define CSS whitespace attributes for block level tags, which will eliminate any differences in spacing. For scripting, usage of getElementById and getElementsByTagName will allow cross-browser DHTML with few browser-specific hacks.
So you see, it's really not that hard to achive standards compliance. When I am forced to include some browser-specific code due to lack of standardization or differing implementations, I try to make it as generic as possible, and provide a fallback method.
You're rationalizing. Suppose IE gets down to 60% market share. Are you prepared to go back and fix all those non standards-compliant sites? It's much better to write to the standards to begin with.
The upshot of developing with Mozilla/Firefox, is that cross-browser compliance is a breeze. But if you develop your site with IE, then try to fix it for other browsers.. good luck!
I think their claim about CSS 2.0 is a copout. To fully support CSS 2.0, they would probably have to rewrite large parts of the browser. IE7 is looking more and more like a few bits of tacked on functionality, just like IE6 was.
Besides, the TPM has to be enabled to be used. It is not required.
Yes, at first. History shows us that measures such as this are phased in gradually. First TC will be optional, later it will be mandatory. I predict it will eventually spell the end of general purpose computing, with personal computers becoming locked down like today's video game systems, complete with mod chips and the brouhaha surrounding them.
Write Sony a letter.
And be sure to tell them that you will not buy their products again, ever. And encourage friends and family to do the same.
You're right. I checked the book, and they don't actually write out the song. The bard announces the song title, then "..the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold.." (RotK silver anniversary edition, p232). So to the grandparent, nyah! ;)
By the way, I too have seen the animated RotK, and it is indeed cheesier than muenster. As if skipping directly from Bag End to Mordor wasn't bad enough, the 70's-style music is way too self-indulgent. (unlike the tolerable soundtrack to the Hobbit, probably because those were mostly based on Tolkien's work)
If MS is developing it this quickly (public beta by summer), we can assume that IE 7 is not a rewrite of the browser, but simply more functionality tacked onto the old Trident engine (which originated in IE 3 or 4).
I'm really glad about the PNG support, and hopeful that they will get the CSS box model right this time. But I will expect that security will continue to be an issue for IE until MS takes the plunge and does a full rewrite.
Ok, I haven't read the book for awhile, so sue me. ;)
/Hands over Tolkien geek card
You have a four-digit UID and you don't recognize that quote? Inconceivable!
I'm a Ranger, you know what I mean,
And I'm dating a real hot Elf girl
Somebody better tell Aragorn that Legolas isn't a girl.. ;)
My eyes! What is that hideous clash of colored text supposed to be?
Xandros did build out functionality that Linux normally lacks: e.g. remote application installation.
How does Linux normally lack "remote application installation"? One can ssh into any random box and install software (assuming sufficient permissions), so I think you must be referring to something different from what your words suggest.
I agree with you about the Silmarillion being dry and hard to digest, although there truly are some great stories in there. For a much more fleshed out rendition of some of these (such as the fall of Gondolin), see Tolkien's "Unfinished Tales."