He pretty much ignored Free Software this year.. maybe that means they will do well! After all, last year, he predicted they would make major gains, and nothing much happened.
For the sake of your eyes, take a break every hour or so. Get up, walk around, and let your eyes readjust.
Turn down the monitor brightness! I've noticed people have a tendancy to put their brightness on max--this is hard on the monitor and even harder on your eyes.
Use an LCD monitor if you can. If you must use a CRT, make sure the refresh rate is high enough not to cause flicker. (70+ Hz)
Smoking crack? Out of all the times I've installed MySQL, I've never been presented with a EULA. Of course, I've only installed the GPL version -- maybe the commercial version has restrictions?
Personally, I think whoever picked Bitstream Vera Sans for the ImageMagick home page should be shot.
The font on that site looks quite nice on my Linux box with Bitstream Vera installed, but looks hideous on my WinXP box. I think what's happening in this case is the site is falling back to an uglier font since Bitstream Vera is not available.
Font sizes should always be given as a percentage of the user's preferred height, and never specified explicitly.
The big problem with setting fonts purely with percentages is that the various browsers and operating systems have different standards for the base font size. Which perhaps is acceptable if you are building a hobby or non-professional site. Most working web developers are expected to deliver a site that looks the same in any (modern) browser, and using explicit font sizes is the easiest way to accomplish that. (or, use browser-specific tricks to feed the correct relative font size to different browsers)
Modern browsers allow the user to adjust the font size regardless, so I'm not sure what the problem is.
Sounds like an excerpt from "My dinner with Andre," when they are discussing how we get desensitized by modern life, and need to have ever more shocking/realistic/strange/violent movies to keep us entertained.
This is called induced seismicity, and I really would be surprised if a mere 700,000 tons could trigger it. It's a real problem with dams and the enormous weight of water in their reservoirs, and no doubt keeps the project managers of the Three Gorges Dam awake at night (the dam is built on a fault line).
Yeah, that's what I end up doing every time I need the shortcut, looking at the menu to see which one is underlined. (granted I don't use IE that much) A good shortcut should be intuitive. The main problem is that there's no consistency between IE shortcuts, some use ctrl and some use alt.
The term "wetlands" includes a number of water-saturated environments (bog, moor, mangrove swamp, marsh, fen, swamp, bayou, etc), although the layman may consider them all to be "swampland." However, my point stands. The only time one could truly "reclaim" a swamp is if that swamp were man-made to begin with.
Nice catch. This is one of those ways PR types love to manipulate the English language to give their product or actions a sense of nobility. Here are a few more examples:
They're not draining wetlands, they're reclaiming them.
They're not forcing creationism into public schools, they're just reaffirming their freedom of religion.
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Have you considered upgrading? Seriously..
He pretty much ignored Free Software this year.. maybe that means they will do well! After all, last year, he predicted they would make major gains, and nothing much happened.
Some tips from a 20-year computer user and coder:
I think the lava "becomes" spaghetti sauce in some sort of trans-substantiation deal. Now, where's the beer volcano and strippers?
Smoking crack? Out of all the times I've installed MySQL, I've never been presented with a EULA. Of course, I've only installed the GPL version -- maybe the commercial version has restrictions?
"Shoot to kill.. we're always right!" - VCPD
If it ever finishes, you can try compiling OpenOffice.org. Should keep your space heater running for several decades, at least..
This is a cable TV show. Viewers already pay for it.
A little incident at the Super Bowl maybe?
That is so last year.. Hell, most of the people I know didn't think it was a big deal at the time, much less two years later.
And here I thought he was trying to spell concierge..
Personally, I think whoever picked Bitstream Vera Sans for the ImageMagick home page should be shot.
The font on that site looks quite nice on my Linux box with Bitstream Vera installed, but looks hideous on my WinXP box. I think what's happening in this case is the site is falling back to an uglier font since Bitstream Vera is not available.
Font sizes should always be given as a percentage of the user's preferred height, and never specified explicitly.
The big problem with setting fonts purely with percentages is that the various browsers and operating systems have different standards for the base font size. Which perhaps is acceptable if you are building a hobby or non-professional site. Most working web developers are expected to deliver a site that looks the same in any (modern) browser, and using explicit font sizes is the easiest way to accomplish that. (or, use browser-specific tricks to feed the correct relative font size to different browsers)
Modern browsers allow the user to adjust the font size regardless, so I'm not sure what the problem is.
Sounds like an excerpt from "My dinner with Andre," when they are discussing how we get desensitized by modern life, and need to have ever more shocking/realistic/strange/violent movies to keep us entertained.
If they won't show NC-17 movies because of worries, then the terrorists have already won.
My highschool made me BRAKE THE LAW!
I guess they didn't realize what was at steak..
I use lyrics sites for two reasons:
Why, did they piss you off?
You can also disable the Referer header in Mozilla-based browsers by a setting in about:config. I'll leave the merits of doing so to the reader.
Great post, very informative. Stuff like that is what makes all the trolls and flamebait here worth putting up with.
Arrr!
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
And what is the problem with that, exactly?
This is called induced seismicity, and I really would be surprised if a mere 700,000 tons could trigger it. It's a real problem with dams and the enormous weight of water in their reservoirs, and no doubt keeps the project managers of the Three Gorges Dam awake at night (the dam is built on a fault line).
Yeah, that's what I end up doing every time I need the shortcut, looking at the menu to see which one is underlined. (granted I don't use IE that much) A good shortcut should be intuitive. The main problem is that there's no consistency between IE shortcuts, some use ctrl and some use alt.
Yes, it works. But that's got to be among the most aggravating, non-intuitive key combinations I've seen (and I've used Emacs!).
The term "wetlands" includes a number of water-saturated environments (bog, moor, mangrove swamp, marsh, fen, swamp, bayou, etc), although the layman may consider them all to be "swampland." However, my point stands. The only time one could truly "reclaim" a swamp is if that swamp were man-made to begin with.
When did they ever have legitimacy?
Nice catch. This is one of those ways PR types love to manipulate the English language to give their product or actions a sense of nobility. Here are a few more examples:
They're not draining wetlands, they're reclaiming them.
They're not forcing creationism into public schools, they're just reaffirming their freedom of religion.