What I usually do in my role as webmaster when I receive a Word doc for presentation: Open it in OpenOffice, export as PDF and upload it to the website. The PDFs are very slim. And it's easy.
I bet the PDFs written with MS Office will be very bloated (like the HTML format is).
Too bad I have no modpoints... I totally agree with the parent post.
The search interface was for me too the reason why I switched back to Mozilla (and I use the browser only, nothing else) after having given Firefox a try.
Maybe it's possible to configure Mozilla's original behaviour in Firefox with about:config, but why not implement it like Mozilla in the first place?
So many times a day I type some words in the URL field (and I want the whole width of the field), hit Tab+Return and I have the Google results.
When I observe an MSIE user, loading google.com first, I almost can't believe it.
I love Mozilla as a browser, and the search interface is a brilliant thing for it's simplicity!
It's a smaller region (a part of Switzerland), and on older implementation. The scrolling is not so nice, but it is also a Javascript only implementation and has a lot of functionality (e.g. areas can be measured).
It's a very nice example, what can be done with DHTML.
Another example of an excellent online map
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I want to point you to another example of an online map:
I want one! The Temptation is too big. Apple was Touched by the Hand of God when they designed that device. I have True Faith that I will not Regret buying one. No more Blue Monday! Having a Fine Time...
Just to make that clear: the second laser and photo diode is used to verify the position of the mirror.
Not to verify the projected image. That's what I understood when I read the summary first.
That would be a good idea: a control system (CCD or something) verifies the projected image, such that even on non-flat or not uniformly bright projection surfaces the image appears correct to the viewers.
I like Mozilla very much, it's a great browser and I'm very happy that it exists - thanks to all who have contributed!
I would use Firefox, but there is one thing I prefer in Mozilla: The URI field in the navigation bar allows to search for keywords by entering the keywords and pressing Tab and Enter. I don't like the seperate search field like it is in Firefox.
Might seem like a detail, but often the details count.
Since everything is programmable and extensible, please enlight me ignorant user, if there is a way to mimic that behaviour in Firefox.
And don't understand me wrong, it's great that Firefox exists. It's lightweight, a joy to install, and I will recommend it to every MSIE user.
And I had a telephone, that had a scroll wheel to dial numbers. There were 10 holes in the wheel with digits printed underneath. There was even a mechanism to rotate the wheel back into its rest position, after you moved it.
Tabbed browsing *rocks*. I have about 10 tabs open in Mozilla all the time. The sites I'm reading regularily, plus some articles, man pages etc. I'm currently reading.
I couldn't imagine having distinct windows open for all of these. I cannot understand why people stick to MSIE. It's almost impossible to persuade my co-workers to switch to another browser.
Mozilla usally runs for *weeks* on my home workstation (Linux) without restarts. It's not slow at all. At work (Win XP) Mozilla gets really slow after a day of usage. It's better to restart it from time to time, and to reboot the XP every couple of days.
I'm Swiss and unlike 99.9% of the people living here I don't use a keyboard with the Swiss(-German/-French/-Italian) layout. I prefer the US layout because most special characters used for programming are accessible in an easier way, and for entering accents etc. there are other ways, in LaTeX use \"a or in HTML ä or else use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.
I can imagine that there are situations where typing special characters in the URL can be difficult, say when you're travelling or you have the "wrong" keyboard.
The article talks about the domain name (that is the 2nd level domain name). Will the same encoding be used for other parts of the URL, e.g. the 3rd level name?
> TRS-80 PC-2/SHARP ??? - the first pocket computers, they had a BASIC interpreter and could do normal computing functions and yet fit in your pocket. Link here [obsoleteco...museum.org]. The precursors to PDA and 'smart phones'
God, it was such a fabulous time. I started programming on the Sharp PC-1500 pocket computer twenty years ago. In BASIC and in Assembler. It had 1850 Bytes of program memory and that was enough for many many things. Not to mention the hardware hacks. I've never had a PDA since then. The technique for that time was just great. And the feeling wasn't repeated afterwards.
One thing we did was connecting two of them and playing an assembler written game called "double snake". Oh nostalgia!
Sorry, PCM might be fine when you connect through wired ethernet, but it's not a good idea when using it with 802.11b. The 1.5mbit/s of the PCM stream might be less than the practical max of 5mbit/s, but take non ideal signal conditions or other users on the same network into account, and it won't work.
Transcoding might be a solution, but the superior coding quality of ogg or other codecs certainly gets lost by this additional coding/decoding step.
And as another poster mentioned it takes some computing power on the server.
A more powerful controller that could implement different decoders in software would be an advantage.
Disclaimer: I'm working for a company that develops a (yet to announce) audio player device.
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What I usually do in my role as webmaster when I receive a Word doc for presentation: Open it in OpenOffice, export as PDF and upload it to the website. The PDFs are very slim. And it's easy.
I bet the PDFs written with MS Office will be very bloated (like the HTML format is).
Too bad I have no modpoints ... I totally agree with the parent post.
The search interface was for me too the reason why I switched back to Mozilla (and I use the browser only, nothing else) after having given Firefox a try.
Maybe it's possible to configure Mozilla's original behaviour in Firefox with about:config, but why not implement it like Mozilla in the first place?
So many times a day I type some words in the URL field (and I want the whole width of the field), hit Tab+Return and I have the Google results.
When I observe an MSIE user, loading google.com first, I almost can't believe it.
I love Mozilla as a browser, and the search interface is a brilliant thing for it's simplicity!
Thanks, I was staring at these pages, not seeing any difference.
Mod parent up.
True, it works:
http://www.google.com/search?q=tittney+spears
Or a "I agree" and "Cancel" button changing order in a random fashion ...
It's not that I like so much replying to my own postings :-), but I wan't to point out another online map:
GIS Kanton Zürich
It's a smaller region (a part of Switzerland), and on older implementation. The scrolling is not so nice, but it is also a Javascript only implementation and has a lot of functionality (e.g. areas can be measured).
It's a very nice example, what can be done with DHTML.
I want to point you to another example of an online map:
map.search.ch
This is Switzerland and not the US and it uses aerial photos with an overlay of vector street data. The resolution is amazingly good.
Furthermore:
For me it's one of the most fascinating applications of web/html/javascript technique.
That's what I thought too!
And as such it's >15 years dead. It was an interesting architecture though. CS is moving in circles ...
What does it say on that iPod shuffle page?
"What will it play next? ... New Order"
I want one! The Temptation is too big. Apple was Touched by the Hand of God when they designed that device. I have True Faith that I will not Regret buying one. No more Blue Monday! Having a Fine Time ...
Just to make that clear: the second laser and photo diode is used to verify the position of the mirror.
Not to verify the projected image. That's what I understood when I read the summary first.
That would be a good idea: a control system (CCD or something) verifies the projected image, such that even on non-flat or not uniformly bright projection surfaces the image appears correct to the viewers.
Let me ask maybe a dumb question:
I like Mozilla very much, it's a great browser and I'm very happy that it exists - thanks to all who have contributed!
I would use Firefox, but there is one thing I prefer in Mozilla: The URI field in the navigation bar allows to search for keywords by entering the keywords and pressing Tab and Enter. I don't like the seperate search field like it is in Firefox.
Might seem like a detail, but often the details count.
Since everything is programmable and extensible, please enlight me ignorant user, if there is a way to mimic that behaviour in Firefox.
And don't understand me wrong, it's great that Firefox exists. It's lightweight, a joy to install, and I will recommend it to every MSIE user.
For me, I will stick to the dinosaur.
The director of the London Science Museum has a solution for this: "poo power".
What the visitors leave in the toilets is collected and used to generate energy.
The German translation is really funny:
"Poo Power", sagte Tucker - zu Deutsch etwa: "Kraft aus Kacke"
Link in German (sorry to the English speaking readers ...)
And I had a telephone, that had a scroll wheel to dial numbers. There were 10 holes in the wheel with digits printed underneath. There was even a mechanism to rotate the wheel back into its rest position, after you moved it.
Thanks for the link to geocaching. I didn't know about this activity. It's fascinating to dig into it.
I also took a picture with amateur means.
venus_transit.jpg
It was taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5700 camera with maximum tele zoom. Photographed through "eclipse observation" glasses (aluminized plasitic foil).
> reported about a rise in ISS-usage
...
[insert ISS joke here]
Just to note: ISS is the space station, IIS the webserver.
They both leak anyway
Tabbed browsing *rocks*. I have about 10 tabs open in Mozilla all the time. The sites I'm reading regularily, plus some articles, man pages etc. I'm currently reading.
I couldn't imagine having distinct windows open for all of these. I cannot understand why people stick to MSIE. It's almost impossible to persuade my co-workers to switch to another browser.
Mozilla usally runs for *weeks* on my home workstation (Linux) without restarts. It's not slow at all. At work (Win XP) Mozilla gets really slow after a day of usage. It's better to restart it from time to time, and to reboot the XP every couple of days.
Not to mention C. F. Gauss (1777-1855)
I'm Swiss and unlike 99.9% of the people living here I don't use a keyboard with the Swiss(-German/-French/-Italian) layout. I prefer the US layout because most special characters used for programming are accessible in an easier way, and for entering accents etc. there are other ways, in LaTeX use \"a or in HTML ä or else use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.
I can imagine that there are situations where typing special characters in the URL can be difficult, say when you're travelling or you have the "wrong" keyboard.
The article talks about the domain name (that is the 2nd level domain name). Will the same encoding be used for other parts of the URL, e.g. the 3rd level name?
God, it was such a fabulous time. I started programming on the Sharp PC-1500 pocket computer twenty years ago. In BASIC and in Assembler. It had 1850 Bytes of program memory and that was enough for many many things. Not to mention the hardware hacks. I've never had a PDA since then. The technique for that time was just great. And the feeling wasn't repeated afterwards.
One thing we did was connecting two of them and playing an assembler written game called "double snake". Oh nostalgia!
Sorry, PCM might be fine when you connect through wired ethernet, but it's not a good idea when using it with 802.11b. The 1.5mbit/s of the PCM stream might be less than the practical max of 5mbit/s, but take non ideal signal conditions or other users on the same network into account, and it won't work.
Transcoding might be a solution, but the superior coding quality of ogg or other codecs certainly gets lost by this additional coding/decoding step.
And as another poster mentioned it takes some computing power on the server.
A more powerful controller that could implement different decoders in software would be an advantage.
Disclaimer: I'm working for a company that develops a (yet to announce) audio player device.
A firewire audio interface with 4ch in, 10ch out, up to 192kHz and mixing capabilities is available from M-audio.
It can even be completely bus-powered.
A good example of a firewire application (not a storage device) using isochronous transfer.
That's funny!!! Har har har ... ROFL
Where have my mod points gone ...
That are animated gifs on that page.They render even in Netscape 4.75.
That's what it says on the page: "These are in animated gif format. in mng format they crash all but the latest mozilla (as of 03/18/2003)."
Given that most geeks have their PC cases open all the time anyway:
A clear case cannot give worse shielding than no case at all ...