I agree, given those options, "B" is definitely the better of the two. (I don't know what AIDS has to do with it...) But "A" is a poorly designed site. A well-designed site improves navigation TO the content, which is important if you have more than a few pages.
Try the page I get paid to maintain. I think it's an example of a table-based page (the images are even integrated with the background color! and it doesn't use any wimpy 216 colors either:-) that aids rather than hinders navigation -- you might disagree.
(That welcome from the president crap is there under duress. Don't blame me for it:-)
Good graphic design is better than no graphic design.
Useful != plain.
Useful != ugly.
Well designed sites include, but are not limited to, brochure sites.
Default background with text at the full width IS a design choice, and usually a bad one.
You can have a useful, well-organized site that people return to, AND doesn't look like it was designed by programmers who spend 14 hour days in their caves reading nothing but man pages.
Good analogy, but the connotation is more negative than I think is necessary...:-)
I don't think that using the phrase generically has any moral implications although you can (as the previous poster pointed out) make that leap. It merely expresses a tendency, which, you're right, isn't inherently good or bad.
Saying "information wants to be free" is like saying "water wants to run downhill". Sure there's a force behind it (people want information). But IMO the saying just means that stored data will tend to become free.
I don't think this would be a GPL violation. Plugins are under the category of dynamically linked code which RMS has stated is not a violation of the GPL.
If the string in question comes from an outside source, it can contain % commands which, because the appropriate variables weren't passed to printf, can cause your program to dump core or jump to a predictable location. This is known as a buffer overflow...
Rateup ERROR: mrtg found that apache's log file time of (time) was greater than now (time)
ERROR: Let's not do the time warp, again. Logfile unchanged.
The EDGE (in the oregonian) ran a contest in that spirit a year or so ago soliciting ideas for another sign. The winning entry was "OREGON: If you didn't live here, I'd be home by now."
I agree, but using their hardware for purposed they didn't intend can't do anything but void the hypothetical warranty. It's certainly not theft of intellectual property.
Yeah, and they spent paragraphs swooning over how configurable iCab is, but they only thing they said about Opera's configurability (which is truly impressive) was that you have to look through several pages of preferences before you find the cookie manager. What would you call that, praising with faint damnation?:-)
but why does it refuse to support Slackware? There is nothing in a Slackware system that won't support Helix Gnome, yet the installer crashes with the message "Unable to detect your operating system."
What do they want? KDE explicitly includes Slackware in the "supported" list AND doesn't come with an "installer" that does more to prevent installation than anything else.
I *was* a Gnome fan before this... and don't say it's just Helix, because if you go to gnome.org, they tell you to grab the Helix packages if you don't want to compile it yourself.
Actually AMD went to Digital's Slot A because Intel patented their Slot 1 and was charging obscene licensing fees for it. And since people are *already* buying a different mobo built specifically for Athlons, I don't buy the argument that this form factor switch is meant to tip the scales against AMD. The mobo/processor is so much more expensive than a $40 power supply that it really doesn't make a damn bit of difference WHAT case you use. The vast majority of people purchase their computers prebuilt anyway, and don't care whether the case will fit their old motherboard.
Sure you will. In July, I had 14 hits from Netscape 1 and a good 867 from IE 2 (one hit from IE 1... did that ever really exist? I also got one hit from Explorer 54x) out of just over a million total:-)
This guy may be wrong, but you guys have got to admit that you've got pretty good odds picking a word at random from a Slashdot story and calling it a typo:-)
Uh, let me just take a wild guess and say maybe the USA. Sure, we're friendly with Russia now, but we were friendly with Russia in 1915. We were (hesitant) allies with the USSR in 1944. If you want a more recent example, we were friendly with Iraq in 1989. The more things change...
Not only that, but China does in fact have a navy. Wars aren't fought only on land even if you border the country in question.
It would be nice to have a paper *and* and electronic copy of the book. That way you could use the paper version for reading and the electronic version for *searching* -- I think searchability (and to a lesser extent, the ability to cut and paste) outweighs the negative aspects of online books.
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I thought you meant Promise Keeper. I was all prepared to lose all respect for the guy :-)
I agree, given those options, "B" is definitely the better of the two. (I don't know what AIDS has to do with it...) But "A" is a poorly designed site. A well-designed site improves navigation TO the content, which is important if you have more than a few pages.
:-) that aids rather than hinders navigation -- you might disagree.
:-)
Try the page I get paid to maintain. I think it's an example of a table-based page (the images are even integrated with the background color! and it doesn't use any wimpy 216 colors either
(That welcome from the president crap is there under duress. Don't blame me for it
Good graphic design is better than no graphic design.
Useful != plain.
Useful != ugly.
Well designed sites include, but are not limited to, brochure sites.
Default background with text at the full width IS a design choice, and usually a bad one.
You can have a useful, well-organized site that people return to, AND doesn't look like it was designed by programmers who spend 14 hour days in their caves reading nothing but man pages.
Good analogy, but the connotation is more negative than I think is necessary... :-)
I don't think that using the phrase generically has any moral implications although you can (as the previous poster pointed out) make that leap. It merely expresses a tendency, which, you're right, isn't inherently good or bad.
Saying "information wants to be free" is like saying "water wants to run downhill". Sure there's a force behind it (people want information). But IMO the saying just means that stored data will tend to become free.
I don't think this would be a GPL violation. Plugins are under the category of dynamically linked code which RMS has stated is not a violation of the GPL.
If the string in question comes from an outside source, it can contain % commands which, because the appropriate variables weren't passed to printf, can cause your program to dump core or jump to a predictable location. This is known as a buffer overflow...
Rateup ERROR: mrtg found that apache's log file time of (time) was greater than now (time)
ERROR: Let's not do the time warp, again. Logfile unchanged.
The EDGE (in the oregonian) ran a contest in that spirit a year or so ago soliciting ideas for another sign. The winning entry was "OREGON: If you didn't live here, I'd be home by now."
I agree, but using their hardware for purposed they didn't intend can't do anything but void the hypothetical warranty. It's certainly not theft of intellectual property.
This'll bring even MORE californians north of the border :-)
The U.S. has had a policy of messing around with other country's affairs since about five years after we became a country.
I don't suppose that's related to the buggy and now defunct, but interesting, Oracle product of the same name?
Yeah, and they spent paragraphs swooning over how configurable iCab is, but they only thing they said about Opera's configurability (which is truly impressive) was that you have to look through several pages of preferences before you find the cookie manager. What would you call that, praising with faint damnation? :-)
Forbes Magazine, in connection with hardball buisness maneuvers... who would have thought? :-)
It just occurred to me I might be more specific. :-)
Slackware 7.1. Glibc 2.1.3. RPM is installed. strace didn't reveal anything obvious (to me) that the installer was looking for.
but why does it refuse to support Slackware? There is nothing in a Slackware system that won't support Helix Gnome, yet the installer crashes with the message "Unable to detect your operating system."
What do they want? KDE explicitly includes Slackware in the "supported" list AND doesn't come with an "installer" that does more to prevent installation than anything else.
I *was* a Gnome fan before this... and don't say it's just Helix, because if you go to gnome.org, they tell you to grab the Helix packages if you don't want to compile it yourself.
But the dust justifies playing with the can of compressed air!
:-)
Well, ok, that's true enough
Canned air is even more fun to hold upside down and freeze spiders.
It sits wide open with various parts hanging out of it at any given time.
... hence the large quantities of dust. Don't spill your Mountain Dew...
Actually AMD went to Digital's Slot A because Intel patented their Slot 1 and was charging obscene licensing fees for it. And since people are *already* buying a different mobo built specifically for Athlons, I don't buy the argument that this form factor switch is meant to tip the scales against AMD. The mobo/processor is so much more expensive than a $40 power supply that it really doesn't make a damn bit of difference WHAT case you use. The vast majority of people purchase their computers prebuilt anyway, and don't care whether the case will fit their old motherboard.
Sure you will. In July, I had 14 hits from Netscape 1 and a good 867 from IE 2 (one hit from IE 1... did that ever really exist? I also got one hit from Explorer 54x) out of just over a million total :-)
Not to mention Peter Cushing...
This guy may be wrong, but you guys have got to admit that you've got pretty good odds picking a word at random from a Slashdot story and calling it a typo :-)
Uh, let me just take a wild guess and say maybe the USA. Sure, we're friendly with Russia now, but we were friendly with Russia in 1915. We were (hesitant) allies with the USSR in 1944. If you want a more recent example, we were friendly with Iraq in 1989. The more things change...
Not only that, but China does in fact have a navy. Wars aren't fought only on land even if you border the country in question.
It would be nice to have a paper *and* and electronic copy of the book. That way you could use the paper version for reading and the electronic version for *searching* -- I think searchability (and to a lesser extent, the ability to cut and paste) outweighs the negative aspects of online books.