Saying manhole covers are round because the manhole is round is just plain stupid. That's like saying keys look the way they do because they fit into keyholes. The two were designed in tandem, and the question really comes down to: why are manholes, and their covers, round?
I read down the existing replies and was surprised to not see the two biggest reasons in my mind:
1) Manhole covers are HEAVY... and round covers are easy to move around. Just roll them.
2) A circular cover CANNOT fall into the manhole. This may seem like a small point, but having to lift a non-circular metal cover back up from the bottom of the manhole would just suck. Not to mention if you happened to be in the whole at the time.
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Why assume that it doesn't do that? Just because you don't know how?
Here is the advanced help page describing the search syntax you desire (plus others).
And because you have shown yourself to be lazy.. here is the syntax (linked even!) so you can try your above query on Google.
When the absolute best things going for Mozilla for developers is its array of integrated development tools. Mozilla's DOM Inspector and JavaScript debugger are absolute heaven after coding for IE and MS's poor excuse for a browser development environment.
The DOM Inspector lets you interactively walk through the DOM of a page viewing each containers attributes and children. You can interactively change values and appearance. You can turn on the 'blink' feature to temporarily 'blink' whatever element you are selecting in the DOM. You can also view all CSS elements on the page and inspect how they are cascading. And lots more. Wow!
The JavaScript debugger is everything we have come to expect in a 'standard' development environment... but it is for JavaScript. Set breakpoints.. set watches.. step through code.. evaluate javascript in context.. change code on the fly..
And included in the JavaScript debugger app is JavaScript profiling! Turn it on and play with the page.. then save the results to a number of different formats. You get an excellent breakdown of what code was executed and for how long, how many calls were made, where the execution time was spent etc etc.. just like you would expect from a Profiler. Now I can definitively show how much overhead comes with using DynAPI!
And all of this built into the browser! I think from the development standpoint alone, it will boost productivity by an order of magnitude. Takes out so much of the guesswork that usually goes along with front-end development.
I think Microsoft should be afraid. Very afraid. Mozilla is what browsers should have been 5 years ago. I've now switched my development environment to developing under Mozilla and then testing IE later for any quirks. The dev time is radically decreased.
My experiences with IMAX movies have so far been a little disappointing. So far they come across as slow 20 minute documentaries intermixed with a few seconds of truly impressive, IMAX-exploiting, gut-wrenching fun. Show me the cool stuff! Mess with my head! Let me 'feel' like I'm doing something I wouldn't do in real life!
Maybe if the IMAX theaters are opening up to allow such 'adolescent' activities such as a video game competition, they'll start to broaden their selection of movies and relax their conservative death grip.
I listen to the radio on my way to work. I listen sometimes in the evenings. Mostly I just bounce around between about 4 stations looking for something interesting.
And I don't pay a cent.
Why would someone pay for something that is moderately better when they have a perfectly acceptable *free* version already available?
This is very comparable to the popularity of Napster. Sure you occassionally D/Led a song with a clipped ending... or the person logged off during mid D/L... but it was free. And the masses spoke.
In my view.. Radio is public, free, and analog. I just can't imagine subscribing to the radio.
I think of genetic engineering... or Biotech.. as people attempting to change some binary code in a 600 MB file using a VAIO keyboard, their elbows... and no monitor.
When we are capable of programming something even as 'simple' as an Operating System and can be sure that it is relatively bug free... (to the point that one would be willing to eat it;).. then MAYBE we are ready to start messing with vegetables.
Mind you... we are going to poke and prod and come up with new chemical reactions and genetic variants... Nothing as simple as logic, or a few lives, has stopped people in the past.
I really, really, really hope that was meant as flamebait because if it wasn't, then you are just about one of the most idiotic, arrogantly ignorant people I've read on here in a while.
Educate yourself before spewing all over yourself.
But why did they have to go and muck it up with Netscape?
If they were trying to streamline the machine they would have been better off to just cycle through some images on the desktop wallpaper. At least you would have a chance to see something before falling asleep.
Mind you.. if they had waited for Mozilla... well.. lets just not go there.
THey are VERY enticing.. but I just can't justify it. It's a toy. And I can't afford more toys! =)
There always seems to be a simpler, faster, way of doing whatever the PDA is supposed to do.
Before I get modded for being offtopic... Porting Gnome to a PDA just seems to be crying for "What the hell for??"
I can remember people in University that had their fancy HP Calculators with compilers on them! Just to create something as simple as "Hello, World!" with the HP48G interface was excruciating. It's a toy. It isn't news for nerds.
teenie weenie screens fake pencil to make things work they make my brain hurt
Are we forgetting what the biggest issue with MP3s is? It isn't the issues with Frauhauser. It isn't whether they are 'open-source' or not.
The issue is that they are being used to download copyright music. The RIAA doesn't give a rat's ass whether the name is MP3 or VORBiS... so what's the point?
Am i missing something fundamental here??
mp3 music flowing sweetly through my ears aural orgasm
Reading through the comments I am finding ignorance.
Canada has over 30 Million people now, not 25 million. Believe it or not, but Canada is extremely progressive and ahead in the telecommunications game. And how much money was IcraveTV making before?? Anything it makes under the new pay-schedule is a bonus!
Canadians do NOT eat blubber... and the beaver is a proud and noble animal. =)
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Saying manhole covers are round because the manhole is round is just plain stupid. That's like saying keys look the way they do because they fit into keyholes. The two were designed in tandem, and the question really comes down to: why are manholes, and their covers, round?
I read down the existing replies and was surprised to not see the two biggest reasons in my mind:
1) Manhole covers are HEAVY... and round covers are easy to move around. Just roll them.
2) A circular cover CANNOT fall into the manhole. This may seem like a small point, but having to lift a non-circular metal cover back up from the bottom of the manhole would just suck. Not to mention if you happened to be in the whole at the time.
Why assume that it doesn't do that? Just because you don't know how?
Here is the advanced help page describing the search syntax you desire (plus others).
And because you have shown yourself to be lazy.. here is the syntax (linked even!) so you can try your above query on Google.
(baquaspa OR "baqua spa" OR "baquacil") (plastics OR warranty) bromine
On Google the AND is implied.. and you must capitalize your ORs.
Enjoy.
When the absolute best things going for Mozilla for developers is its array of integrated development tools. Mozilla's DOM Inspector and JavaScript debugger are absolute heaven after coding for IE and MS's poor excuse for a browser development environment.
The DOM Inspector lets you interactively walk through the DOM of a page viewing each containers attributes and children. You can interactively change values and appearance. You can turn on the 'blink' feature to temporarily 'blink' whatever element you are selecting in the DOM. You can also view all CSS elements on the page and inspect how they are cascading. And lots more. Wow!
The JavaScript debugger is everything we have come to expect in a 'standard' development environment... but it is for JavaScript. Set breakpoints.. set watches.. step through code.. evaluate javascript in context.. change code on the fly..
And included in the JavaScript debugger app is JavaScript profiling! Turn it on and play with the page.. then save the results to a number of different formats. You get an excellent breakdown of what code was executed and for how long, how many calls were made, where the execution time was spent etc etc.. just like you would expect from a Profiler. Now I can definitively show how much overhead comes with using DynAPI!
And all of this built into the browser! I think from the development standpoint alone, it will boost productivity by an order of magnitude. Takes out so much of the guesswork that usually goes along with front-end development.
I think Microsoft should be afraid. Very afraid. Mozilla is what browsers should have been 5 years ago. I've now switched my development environment to developing under Mozilla and then testing IE later for any quirks. The dev time is radically decreased.
My experiences with IMAX movies have so far been a little disappointing. So far they come across as slow 20 minute documentaries intermixed with a few seconds of truly impressive, IMAX-exploiting, gut-wrenching fun. Show me the cool stuff! Mess with my head! Let me 'feel' like I'm doing something I wouldn't do in real life!
Maybe if the IMAX theaters are opening up to allow such 'adolescent' activities such as a video game competition, they'll start to broaden their selection of movies and relax their conservative death grip.
We can always hope anyway.
SOE = Standard Operating Environment
;)
Just so ya know... I had to look it up
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Or you could just walk outside and buy a paper. Likely to be a lot cheaper as well.
Can you guess that I'm not an early-adopter?
=)
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I listen to the radio on my way to work. I listen sometimes in the evenings. Mostly I just bounce around between about 4 stations looking for something interesting.
And I don't pay a cent.
Why would someone pay for something that is moderately better when they have a perfectly acceptable *free* version already available?
This is very comparable to the popularity of Napster. Sure you occassionally D/Led a song with a clipped ending... or the person logged off during mid D/L... but it was free. And the masses spoke.
In my view.. Radio is public, free, and analog. I just can't imagine subscribing to the radio.
Ugh.
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I think of genetic engineering... or Biotech.. as people attempting to change some binary code in a 600 MB file using a VAIO keyboard, their elbows... and no monitor.
;).. then MAYBE we are ready to start messing with vegetables.
When we are capable of programming something even as 'simple' as an Operating System and can be sure that it is relatively bug free... (to the point that one would be willing to eat it
Mind you... we are going to poke and prod and come up with new chemical reactions and genetic variants... Nothing as simple as logic, or a few lives, has stopped people in the past.
antidigerti.
I really, really, really hope that was meant as flamebait because if it wasn't, then you are just about one of the most idiotic, arrogantly ignorant people I've read on here in a while.
Educate yourself before spewing all over yourself.
Which brings up an interesting point (possibly OT).
/. not legitimate source? What issues might /. have with posting DeCSS references and links?
What defines a legitimate news source on the Net? Readership? Accountability? Gross negligence? =)
Is
The double-standards are irritating.
Oh, DeCSS...
purpose so provocative!
CNN was hacked
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But why did they have to go and muck it up with Netscape?
If they were trying to streamline the machine they would have been better off to just cycle through some images on the desktop wallpaper. At least you would have a chance to see something before falling asleep.
Mind you.. if they had waited for Mozilla... well.. lets just not go there.
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I've never taken the jump of buying a PDA.
THey are VERY enticing.. but I just can't justify it. It's a toy. And I can't afford more toys! =)
There always seems to be a simpler, faster, way of doing whatever the PDA is supposed to do.
Before I get modded for being offtopic... Porting Gnome to a PDA just seems to be crying for "What the hell for??"
I can remember people in University that had their fancy HP Calculators with compilers on them! Just to create something as simple as "Hello, World!" with the HP48G interface was excruciating. It's a toy. It isn't news for nerds.
teenie weenie screens
fake pencil to make things work
they make my brain hurt
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hehe... that is too funny.
Really it is quite surprising that someone hasn't done this yet... I mean.. I wonder what a bag of sand would look like on a radar display?
Hmm... my cousin, billy-bo-bob-benny-buck, lives way the hell out in the middle'a'merica... Wonder what he's doing this weekend =)
Haiku
One small bag from man
Scattered throughout the heavens
The world, she is blind
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Are we forgetting what the biggest issue with MP3s is? It isn't the issues with Frauhauser. It isn't whether they are 'open-source' or not.
The issue is that they are being used to download copyright music. The RIAA doesn't give a rat's ass whether the name is MP3 or VORBiS... so what's the point?
Am i missing something fundamental here??
mp3 music
flowing sweetly through my ears
aural orgasm
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Excellent!
I'm dying to see the latest in their adherence to the standards!
Go Mozilla Go!
quickly approaching,
open-source is trumphant
M16 is here
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This Haiku -- Aaachooooooo!
Sorry, let me start again.
My hands are yucky.
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Syllables? Too many.
Tallying words rarely works.
Count on your fingers.
Haven't written one of these babies for years. Damn they're fun! =)
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Well they got my interest!
I'm a Photoshop junkie and I want to see what the screenshots look like =)
Maybe macinsider just removed the links but not the images? Anyone see them and still maybe have the URLS in their cache?
Please oh please?
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"Hello. My name is Joe. I'm a Calistogaholic." - Joe
Reading through the comments I am finding ignorance.
Canada has over 30 Million people now, not 25 million. Believe it or not, but Canada is extremely progressive and ahead in the telecommunications game. And how much money was IcraveTV making before?? Anything it makes under the new pay-schedule is a bonus!
Canadians do NOT eat blubber... and the beaver is a proud and noble animal. =)
If you haven't seen the cool Molson Canadian ad on TV (no idea where it is broadcast to).. you can view it online here :
http://www.adcritic.com/c ontent/molson-canadian-i-am.html
It attempts to dissuade a lot of the myths that Americans have about Canadians... in a very tongue-in-cheek manner.
I hope you get it. [smirk]
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