Whereas Buttars, apparently, is not from Gilford as he originally claimed but a small planet near Beetlegeus.
But seriously, anyone who makes the "decended from apes" claim is patently trolling (or ignorant). Humans share a common ancestor with apes, we're not decended from them.
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Careful, "PC" stands for Personal Computer, not IBM-Compatible Personal Computer. (Although people do tend to make that assumption)
Åre you making the claim that the Atari ST and Amiga were not "Personal Computers"?
I still use WineX 3.x to play games like GTA:VC, Baldur's Gate 2, and Deus Ex. It's been years since I bought a new game, so who knows how well that would work. But you can keep running old versions indefinately.
In the case of "hate crimes," the act expresses hostility toward an entire group of people, causing a real injury to their ability to freely pursue life, liberty, and happiness. For example, the burning crosses of the KKK and the murder of Matthew Shepard were intended not just to hurt the person(s) directly involved but entire classes of people. This is similar to legislation for crimes against humanity.
Enchanter was an awesome game.. I was "missing" the documentation for my copy back in the day, and played it for years through trial and error. There was something magical about those Infocom games.:)
Been there, done that. The Javascript library "IE7" does work, but it also increases the page load significantly and slows the rendering, at least in my experience. Even the author states that the code is yet alpha-quality, so it's hard to justify using it on a production site.
No, it wasn't. Don't get me wrong, I was a big fan of Netscape in the 2.0 and 3.x days. Unfortunately NS 4.x was pile of steaming dung in all of it's many incarnations. Thank the internet goddess I no longer have to support it.
I run Opera 8.51 and turn off CSS, popups, javascript, cookies and images. I define all the fonts and colors for the web page...
I suspect you're trolling, but for the sake of argument 90% of the sites I build will work with your setup. They don't retain the original formatting, but the content should be very accessible. In the case of the other 10%, they will require at least cookies to be enabled. I wonder if you're able to use anything beyond the most primitive web application with your setup?
I don't understand why some sites go to extremes to make themselves hard to read.
Hmm, I don't understand why you go to extremes to make websites unreadable. But really, it's by your own choice.
The web is different from the notion of traditional software because of the possibility for graceful degradation. When I write standards-compliant pages that look great in modern browsers, they also degrade so that older or limited browsers are still able to use the site, albeit without the exact same presentation.
As a professional web developer, I target all current browsers for identical rendering (or at least very similar). This includes Firefox 1.5, Safari 2, Opera 8, IE 6. For previous-generation browsers such as Firefox 1.0, IE 5.5, and Opera 7 an effort is made to achieve identical rendering, but this is secondary. Some variance is tolerated, but major rendering issues must be fixed. Going back even further to Pre-1.0 Firefox, IE 5, and IE 5 Mac even more variance is tolerated, and by the time we get to Netscape 4.x I'm pretty comfortable with simply showing them an unstyled page.
Really, there is a formula which can represent the browser support for a project, and it's simply not worth spending much time fixing sites for minority browsers which have been discontinued. Of course, if support for a particular browser is requested by the client then I am happy to oblige. But they don't usually want to pay extra for that service, and for good reason. The web has moved on from HTML 3.2, and there are simply too many benefits to developing with XHTML+CSS to ignore.
Indeed, it is a skill. It's called technical management, which is a very different field of study from computer science. Outsourcing homework is not the point of computer science studies, and most likely violates the academic integrity policy of all legitimate colleges and universities.
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Whereas Buttars, apparently, is not from Gilford as he originally claimed but a small planet near Beetlegeus.
But seriously, anyone who makes the "decended from apes" claim is patently trolling (or ignorant). Humans share a common ancestor with apes, we're not decended from them.
Careful, "PC" stands for Personal Computer, not IBM-Compatible Personal Computer. (Although people do tend to make that assumption)
Åre you making the claim that the Atari ST and Amiga were not "Personal Computers"?
Considering it's Dell, shouldn't we be asking "Yes, but does it run AMD?"
I concur.
Very nice! Who needs a renderer, you can get used to it after a while.
All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead..
Good point.
I still use WineX 3.x to play games like GTA:VC, Baldur's Gate 2, and Deus Ex. It's been years since I bought a new game, so who knows how well that would work. But you can keep running old versions indefinately.
Joking, I wasn't actually using a Commodore. But the code snippit will actually crash a C64 due to a bug in the BASIC interpreter.
PRINT ""+-0
Hey! You just crashed my Commodore..
In the case of "hate crimes," the act expresses hostility toward an entire group of people, causing a real injury to their ability to freely pursue life, liberty, and happiness. For example, the burning crosses of the KKK and the murder of Matthew Shepard were intended not just to hurt the person(s) directly involved but entire classes of people. This is similar to legislation for crimes against humanity.
Whippersnapper! Some of us are still clicking on icons of 5.25" disks..
Its all about the might $!
Are you a Perl programmer by any chance?
WTF, Axl is gay?
That would explain a few things..
Better Yet..
In summary, we love the way your IT organization is today, and wouldn't change a single thing.
Hugs, Your Competition
Nice Gnome footprint menu.. were you running this under Linux by any chance?
A Ruthless, Abrasive , Arrogent Talk Show Host..who longs to take over the world.
Tucker Carlson?
Enchanter was an awesome game.. I was "missing" the documentation for my copy back in the day, and played it for years through trial and error. There was something magical about those Infocom games. :)
Netscape 4's browser share is probably in the single decimal digits at this point
Netscape 4.x usage is currently at about 0.07% from a statistics summary compiled from three major sources.
Been there, done that. The Javascript library "IE7" does work, but it also increases the page load significantly and slows the rendering, at least in my experience. Even the author states that the code is yet alpha-quality, so it's hard to justify using it on a production site.
netscape 4.7 ... was a good browser
No, it wasn't. Don't get me wrong, I was a big fan of Netscape in the 2.0 and 3.x days. Unfortunately NS 4.x was pile of steaming dung in all of it's many incarnations. Thank the internet goddess I no longer have to support it.
Good point. I recently wrote a journal entry on this very topic.
I run Opera 8.51 and turn off CSS, popups, javascript, cookies and images. I define all the fonts and colors for the web page...
I suspect you're trolling, but for the sake of argument 90% of the sites I build will work with your setup. They don't retain the original formatting, but the content should be very accessible. In the case of the other 10%, they will require at least cookies to be enabled. I wonder if you're able to use anything beyond the most primitive web application with your setup?
I don't understand why some sites go to extremes to make themselves hard to read.
Hmm, I don't understand why you go to extremes to make websites unreadable. But really, it's by your own choice.
The web is different from the notion of traditional software because of the possibility for graceful degradation. When I write standards-compliant pages that look great in modern browsers, they also degrade so that older or limited browsers are still able to use the site, albeit without the exact same presentation.
As a professional web developer, I target all current browsers for identical rendering (or at least very similar). This includes Firefox 1.5, Safari 2, Opera 8, IE 6. For previous-generation browsers such as Firefox 1.0, IE 5.5, and Opera 7 an effort is made to achieve identical rendering, but this is secondary. Some variance is tolerated, but major rendering issues must be fixed. Going back even further to Pre-1.0 Firefox, IE 5, and IE 5 Mac even more variance is tolerated, and by the time we get to Netscape 4.x I'm pretty comfortable with simply showing them an unstyled page.
Really, there is a formula which can represent the browser support for a project, and it's simply not worth spending much time fixing sites for minority browsers which have been discontinued. Of course, if support for a particular browser is requested by the client then I am happy to oblige. But they don't usually want to pay extra for that service, and for good reason. The web has moved on from HTML 3.2, and there are simply too many benefits to developing with XHTML+CSS to ignore.
Indeed, it is a skill. It's called technical management, which is a very different field of study from computer science. Outsourcing homework is not the point of computer science studies, and most likely violates the academic integrity policy of all legitimate colleges and universities.
Indeed--in fact, today's college dropout is now only the educational equivalent of yesteryear's high school dropout!
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