I have a feeling you'd probably have to go hacking with a hex editor and a copy of the image format specification to get a 0x0 gif or jpg, and it might just crash your browser.:-)
I didn't think you could do this before I tested it, but yes. Use "width: auto!important; height: auto!important" in your userContent.css stylesheet. This will (according to my pitifully simple test) override the attributes in the tag and also override Javascript resizing of the image.
Mozilla also has attributes called "naturalHeight" and "naturalWidth" for images, but they're only available from Javascript AFAICT.
I think McCoy was a good Doctor. But he had horrible writing. Colin Baker was... interesting. I've only seen a few of his (Trial of a Time Lord series and some other one).
The law firm is in NYC. The Stones' Bill Wyman may not even know about the lawsuit. Lawyers are like that. Remember the fuss over "killustrator" in Germany?
I remember when they were the only search engine you didn't have to submit your site to, and this "spider" technology they developed was revolutionary. They had it on their school's web site, somewhere under www.cs.washington.edu.
Two words: Retro rockets
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What you need is a complicated system of instantly ignited, rapidly burning chemical propellant in a jet enclosure, with the nozzle pointing in the direction of normal travel. This may have the unintented side effect of ruining the sled run.
Or you could just use the traditional method of stopping a sled, as others have pointed out, and JUMP THE FUCK OFF!:-)
Yeah, I'm envisioning some enemy discovering the signal used to tell the paint to change color, then broadcasting a signal to turn all the US tanks hot pink.
(I mean, it's not like they're going to have frequency-hopping strong crypto in the nano-paint. Right?:-)
I agree, to the extent that "superior" is defined as "is less annoying, after hours of configuration work."
My big problem with "winXP Professional", is that, a, i can't open 5 or 6 terminal windows in one tabbed app, and b, if I ssh to a different server and start emacs, I don't get a nice pretty X window:-)
Did Swan ever sue Edison? I thought Swan only patented in England and was content to stay there. Not that that's a great excuse for Edison, but I'd be interested to find out if his patent was challenged, and what the outcome was.
That's the sort of thing that might not get into modern history books, if you know what I mean. Questioning cultural myths and all that.:-)
The same tactics (not necessarily the same abuse) have occurred over the lifetime of the patent system. There was a previous/. story (I'm too lazy to look for it) about how patent litigation stifled the development of the airplane until in WWI the US government refused to honor the affected patents. Then innovation just took off, if you'll pardon the pun.
Also, I believe Edison had several patents covering the light bulb. (And thousands of patents covering other things.) It may be obvious to you but it was certainly not obvious in 1879.
"Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen, Leisersen, Rivest, and Stein provides a much more readable, but, as always, not as in-depth alternative to Knuth.
I think that most documentation people can understand such distinctions. To drive the point home better, use different styles for each -- at least while they are editing. You can do this with the WYSIWYG editors such as Morphon -- just use a different color for each.
No doubt the best documentation people understand this, but in my experience, most either don't understand it or don't care. And if you enforce the difference between types like this, then what they see is ugly, and it'll be nothing like what they eventually get. This, reasonably, makes them resistant to using the software.
Actually, in my experience, most people working on documentation were dragged there from something else they'd rather be working on, and often even have to be shown such advanced concepts as copy and paste. Therefore creating documentation should be really easy, but worrying about structure just isn't easy. Making this bold, and that italic is easy, though. This problem won't be solved until we can create heuristics that just figure out what you mean when you make a block of text such-and-such a style, or at the very least can separate the "styled text" part of a document from the "containing layout" part, and can reliably extract the important styles from the ones that change between presentations. Either that, or every company hires expensive professional documentors.
Part of the problem, I think, is that many people who work on documentation were trained on typewriters or desktop publishing software. And though those have justifiably gone out of fashion, nobody except programmers is interested in learning what they see as the paradigm of the week.
Wow, I've been looking for a tool that does that for a long time.
What is really unfortunate is that, even if you somehow convince people to use this tool, once they discover that <citation> produces essentially the same formatting as <image_caption> (or whatever two tags), then they'll either use the two interchangeably for whatever, or they'll use one or the other exclusively for things that are unrelated to citations or captions. Nobody except programmers cares at all about document structure, and you can't force them to. All people want, and all they'll think about, is pretty layout.
To my knowledge, all internet transactions, including SSL, are proxied, cached, and even rewritten through T-Mobile's servers. Sort of an institutionalized man-in-the-middle attack. Even if SSH were possible, I wouldn't use it under those conditions. But I think you're limited to the protocols they explicitly support.
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I have a feeling you'd probably have to go hacking with a hex editor and a copy of the image format specification to get a 0x0 gif or jpg, and it might just crash your browser. :-)
I didn't think you could do this before I tested it, but yes. Use "width: auto!important; height: auto!important" in your userContent.css stylesheet. This will (according to my pitifully simple test) override the attributes in the tag and also override Javascript resizing of the image.
Mozilla also has attributes called "naturalHeight" and "naturalWidth" for images, but they're only available from Javascript AFAICT.
One way to block images and Flash by substring (not regex) is to use CSS3 selectors in your userContent.css file. For example:
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embed[src=*"doubleclick.net"] { display: none!important; }
img[src=*"ads.slashdot.org"] { display: none!important; }
*[src=*"microsoft.com"] { text-decoration: blink!important; }
You get the idea. The "!important" part means "override the author's style sheets", not "not important" which is what I initially thought it meant.
Actually, the lasers come out of their feet. :-)
I think McCoy was a good Doctor. But he had horrible writing. Colin Baker was... interesting. I've only seen a few of his (Trial of a Time Lord series and some other one).
No one's been sued. The journalist only received a cease-and-desist.
The law firm is in NYC. The Stones' Bill Wyman may not even know about the lawsuit. Lawyers are like that. Remember the fuss over "killustrator" in Germany?
I remember when they were the only search engine you didn't have to submit your site to, and this "spider" technology they developed was revolutionary. They had it on their school's web site, somewhere under www.cs.washington.edu.
There's no reason why you couldn't do both :-)
What you need is a complicated system of instantly ignited, rapidly burning chemical propellant in a jet enclosure, with the nozzle pointing in the direction of normal travel. This may have the unintented side effect of ruining the sled run.
:-)
Or you could just use the traditional method of stopping a sled, as others have pointed out, and JUMP THE FUCK OFF!
upps, nevermind. Should have read the other responses :-)
Got a reference for this?
Note that I'm a lazy slob and not a four-star general. ;-)
Yeah, I'm envisioning some enemy discovering the signal used to tell the paint to change color, then broadcasting a signal to turn all the US tanks hot pink.
:-)
(I mean, it's not like they're going to have frequency-hopping strong crypto in the nano-paint. Right?
I agree, to the extent that "superior" is defined as "is less annoying, after hours of configuration work."
:-)
My big problem with "winXP Professional", is that, a, i can't open 5 or 6 terminal windows in one tabbed app, and b, if I ssh to a different server and start emacs, I don't get a nice pretty X window
No kidding. I hosed my system this morning with a little "I'll install True Type fonts... it can't hurt anything..."
/. from within FVWM, and the gods are taunting me.
Now, KDE doesn't start, even after reinstalling it three times and reinstalling X once.
Here I am, looking at
Did Swan ever sue Edison? I thought Swan only patented in England and was content to stay there. Not that that's a great excuse for Edison, but I'd be interested to find out if his patent was challenged, and what the outcome was.
:-)
That's the sort of thing that might not get into modern history books, if you know what I mean. Questioning cultural myths and all that.
The same tactics (not necessarily the same abuse) have occurred over the lifetime of the patent system. There was a previous /. story (I'm too lazy to look for it) about how patent litigation stifled the development of the airplane until in WWI the US government refused to honor the affected patents. Then innovation just took off, if you'll pardon the pun.
Also, I believe Edison had several patents covering the light bulb. (And thousands of patents covering other things.) It may be obvious to you but it was certainly not obvious in 1879.
I believe the full name of the first book is "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland."
"Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen, Leisersen, Rivest, and Stein provides a much more readable, but, as always, not as in-depth alternative to Knuth.
My guess would be, clothed except for the important bits, and with averted eyes and lots of guilt and penance afterwards...
if the business in question is an internet cafe or an ISP. Maybe you should read the article.
No doubt the best documentation people understand this, but in my experience, most either don't understand it or don't care. And if you enforce the difference between types like this, then what they see is ugly, and it'll be nothing like what they eventually get. This, reasonably, makes them resistant to using the software.
Actually, in my experience, most people working on documentation were dragged there from something else they'd rather be working on, and often even have to be shown such advanced concepts as copy and paste. Therefore creating documentation should be really easy, but worrying about structure just isn't easy. Making this bold, and that italic is easy, though. This problem won't be solved until we can create heuristics that just figure out what you mean when you make a block of text such-and-such a style, or at the very least can separate the "styled text" part of a document from the "containing layout" part, and can reliably extract the important styles from the ones that change between presentations. Either that, or every company hires expensive professional documentors.
Part of the problem, I think, is that many people who work on documentation were trained on typewriters or desktop publishing software. And though those have justifiably gone out of fashion, nobody except programmers is interested in learning what they see as the paradigm of the week.
Wow, I've been looking for a tool that does that for a long time.
What is really unfortunate is that, even if you somehow convince people to use this tool, once they discover that <citation> produces essentially the same formatting as <image_caption> (or whatever two tags), then they'll either use the two interchangeably for whatever, or they'll use one or the other exclusively for things that are unrelated to citations or captions. Nobody except programmers cares at all about document structure, and you can't force them to. All people want, and all they'll think about, is pretty layout.
(rant mode off)
To my knowledge, all internet transactions, including SSL, are proxied, cached, and even rewritten through T-Mobile's servers. Sort of an institutionalized man-in-the-middle attack. Even if SSH were possible, I wouldn't use it under those conditions. But I think you're limited to the protocols they explicitly support.