A good place to begin would be to examine the robots.txt of large sites to see what they're blocking. Sometimes they leave helpful comments in the text files as well. The most interesting I've come across so far is Wikipedia's robots.txt file which has comments for every disallow or series of disallows.
Sounds just like Whirl-Mart, which is where people protest by showing up to stores in huge groups and aimlessly walk around the store without putting any items in their carts to make it harder for actual shoppers to spend money there.
Though, I think that the best way to go about things successfully would be to inform the public why they should participate in a legitimate boycott without resorting to jackassery if at all possible.
Reminds me of when people would post chain messages on MySpace's bulletins saying how that on some special day, they were going to boycott oil corporations and not fill up at a pump. Those people posting didn't realize how stupid and pointless it was considering that it's only for a day, you continue to drive, and you are still going to fill your tank before and after that event.
Why have a physical location at all, then? If the books are going to be digital, just host them online. A library is a brick-and-mortar place that contains archives of actual text, often of things that aren't available online.
I understand that the User gets sucked into the machine and is experiencing everything from the inside, but I'd argue that it's similar to how cyberspace was depicted 30+ years ago in stories like William Gibson's Neuromancer or Vernor Vinge's True Names: here, cyberspace was a heavy flow of data that was given imagery by the human mind to identify it through abstraction.
For example, in True Names, the equivalent of a login screen becomes a tame dragon that asks specific questions and notices if you move in particular ways. It only becomes hostile if you do something incorrectly. Yet nothing in the code suggests the image of a dragon (or the image of anything for that matter); that's all invented by the human's mind based on the behavior and function of that code.
I imagine that this is what happens in Tron as well. Dots on the screen become lightcycles. Processes that want to detect and terminate the users become hostile enemies. Maybe even CLU's personality was an interpretation of the mind.
You need an e-mail address to get a Facebook account, but not everyone who has an e-mail address uses Facebook. So the real question should be, Are we obsessed with E-mail?
That's basically what Facebook did to MySpace. It improved on social networking beyond what MySpace offered because it was more personalized and less childish (using real names and not allowing horrible page layouts, for starters. Facebook also didn't stop loading pages within every five internal links like MySpace often did). Facebook also monetizes more intelligently and less intrusively, aiming ads at users who may be interested in seeing them using a small box on the side panel rather than Flash popups on music players and whatever else MySpace did.
Needless to say, I think that Facebook is going to be around for some time. They've known what they're doing since they started.
Or if you ever went to the bathroom because you were thirsty, kicked the toilet until the porcelain shattered, and drank the water spraying out, you might have played too much Duke Nukem.
On the contrary, he makes and packages his own TV dinners. Rumor has it that he uses found Lunchables trays and fills them with mushrooms and potatoes that he grows in his back yard. These dinners are a part of his open dieting plan that he calls "Gnutrition".
Turns out the aliens were using Windows 98 SE, which explains why it was so easy for them to destroy their ship. All Goldblum had to do was install RealPlayer.
Probably because there would need to be additional coding to support a caption attribute. Browsers would need to determine the correct size and placement for the caption because it could throw off the image size. And it could be a headache for developers who want precision in their layouts. Would <img src="photo.jpg" caption="This is my caption" width="200" height="200"> still display an image that's 200x200px, or would it need to stretch/skew the image for the caption to be shown? Would the page's developer need to know how big the line/font height is of the caption to get that exact size?
The alt/title attributes can really help out with that because they replace the caption with mouseover text. Though, with CSS and HTML today, you can also simply add your image and a caption inside of a div element which can have specific sizing and placement which gives more control over how the caption is displayed.
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Sure, if you ignore the fact that the second instance of C is an octave above the first, which isn't as minor of a detail as you may be inclined to believe.
So your argument is basically saying that because the refinement of knowledge can be hindered by fraud or accident and can take decades to correct that its conclusions should always be distrusted?
I thought that was exactly what science was supposed to be; question everything.
That sounds more like a motto for teenage rebellion. Science is about drawing conclusions and being able to make predictions based on reproducible observations and measurements of and within our environment. Were it strictly about questioning as you imply, there would be no room left for answering and we'd be left with paranoia.
I think you're missing the point of what a demo is. This is to demonstrate the new features that HTML5 will enable for web developers. Just because the demo has spinning icons, scrolling bars, music, video, 3D, etc, all packed into a couple of pages, does not at all mean that this is how most future pages will look or behave. The point is that some of these features will be useful for different applications.
A couple of decades ago, the demoscene was making programs that didn't do anything but show 3D objects, image manipulations, and played music at times. I haven't heard of anyone complaining that "people don't use programs for crazy 3D shit or really anything like that". Those coders were showcasing what the machines were capable of and generated interest in computing.
And depending on your definition, this demo page is loaded with content. Not everything has to be pedantically categorized into a text file, an audio file, or a video to be considered content (for example, why don't you feel that book covers contain content?). On a website, content can be a game, a graphical demonstration, even an experience of the site itself, no matter if it sucks or not.
Frankly, I thought that the image tracking demo with the papers being pushed around on the table was pretty cool, and so did a lot of other people. That demo is good content.
"Seventeen is very young, and I am not sure if, at that age, people are ready to use such an application. It's very fast, you know, and it has a lot of features."
And right around the time when those kids turn of-age, the other browsers will finally be implementing all of those features
I hope you never discover Facebook because if what this study is saying is true, you'd overload on positive self-esteem and your brain's hypothalamus may explode. Beware!
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A good place to begin would be to examine the robots.txt of large sites to see what they're blocking. Sometimes they leave helpful comments in the text files as well. The most interesting I've come across so far is Wikipedia's robots.txt file which has comments for every disallow or series of disallows.
"Look! I can even adjust the speed and make it really fast!" *Turns up the brightness*
Sounds just like Whirl-Mart, which is where people protest by showing up to stores in huge groups and aimlessly walk around the store without putting any items in their carts to make it harder for actual shoppers to spend money there.
Though, I think that the best way to go about things successfully would be to inform the public why they should participate in a legitimate boycott without resorting to jackassery if at all possible.
Reminds me of when people would post chain messages on MySpace's bulletins saying how that on some special day, they were going to boycott oil corporations and not fill up at a pump. Those people posting didn't realize how stupid and pointless it was considering that it's only for a day, you continue to drive, and you are still going to fill your tank before and after that event.
Don't forget the number of trees that get replanted every year. We have more trees now than we did 100 years ago.
Why have a physical location at all, then? If the books are going to be digital, just host them online. A library is a brick-and-mortar place that contains archives of actual text, often of things that aren't available online.
I understand that the User gets sucked into the machine and is experiencing everything from the inside, but I'd argue that it's similar to how cyberspace was depicted 30+ years ago in stories like William Gibson's Neuromancer or Vernor Vinge's True Names: here, cyberspace was a heavy flow of data that was given imagery by the human mind to identify it through abstraction.
For example, in True Names, the equivalent of a login screen becomes a tame dragon that asks specific questions and notices if you move in particular ways. It only becomes hostile if you do something incorrectly. Yet nothing in the code suggests the image of a dragon (or the image of anything for that matter); that's all invented by the human's mind based on the behavior and function of that code.
I imagine that this is what happens in Tron as well. Dots on the screen become lightcycles. Processes that want to detect and terminate the users become hostile enemies. Maybe even CLU's personality was an interpretation of the mind.
You need an e-mail address to get a Facebook account, but not everyone who has an e-mail address uses Facebook. So the real question should be, Are we obsessed with E-mail?
I've been waiting for the Facebook feature that oscillates sections so I can meet romantic sheep!
My head isn't happy with 3D. My head is ache.
That's basically what Facebook did to MySpace. It improved on social networking beyond what MySpace offered because it was more personalized and less childish (using real names and not allowing horrible page layouts, for starters. Facebook also didn't stop loading pages within every five internal links like MySpace often did). Facebook also monetizes more intelligently and less intrusively, aiming ads at users who may be interested in seeing them using a small box on the side panel rather than Flash popups on music players and whatever else MySpace did.
Needless to say, I think that Facebook is going to be around for some time. They've known what they're doing since they started.
Or if you ever went to the bathroom because you were thirsty, kicked the toilet until the porcelain shattered, and drank the water spraying out, you might have played too much Duke Nukem.
The LHC hits atoms so hard that it knocks them into next week!
Then why do we even have museums at all? According to your definition, anyone visiting a gallery looking for art is just wasting their time.
On the contrary, he makes and packages his own TV dinners. Rumor has it that he uses found Lunchables trays and fills them with mushrooms and potatoes that he grows in his back yard. These dinners are a part of his open dieting plan that he calls "Gnutrition".
That was a lot of fun. This version of Tetris was not stingy on the line pieces :)
Then I pray you never see the sequels.
Every time I see this, I want to bash my own skull in with a brick
Turns out the aliens were using Windows 98 SE, which explains why it was so easy for them to destroy their ship. All Goldblum had to do was install RealPlayer.
Probably because there would need to be additional coding to support a caption attribute. Browsers would need to determine the correct size and placement for the caption because it could throw off the image size. And it could be a headache for developers who want precision in their layouts. Would <img src="photo.jpg" caption="This is my caption" width="200" height="200"> still display an image that's 200x200px, or would it need to stretch/skew the image for the caption to be shown? Would the page's developer need to know how big the line/font height is of the caption to get that exact size?
The alt/title attributes can really help out with that because they replace the caption with mouseover text. Though, with CSS and HTML today, you can also simply add your image and a caption inside of a div element which can have specific sizing and placement which gives more control over how the caption is displayed.
Sure, if you ignore the fact that the second instance of C is an octave above the first, which isn't as minor of a detail as you may be inclined to believe.
So your argument is basically saying that because the refinement of knowledge can be hindered by fraud or accident and can take decades to correct that its conclusions should always be distrusted?
I thought that was exactly what science was supposed to be; question everything.
That sounds more like a motto for teenage rebellion. Science is about drawing conclusions and being able to make predictions based on reproducible observations and measurements of and within our environment. Were it strictly about questioning as you imply, there would be no room left for answering and we'd be left with paranoia.
I think you're missing the point of what a demo is. This is to demonstrate the new features that HTML5 will enable for web developers. Just because the demo has spinning icons, scrolling bars, music, video, 3D, etc, all packed into a couple of pages, does not at all mean that this is how most future pages will look or behave. The point is that some of these features will be useful for different applications.
A couple of decades ago, the demoscene was making programs that didn't do anything but show 3D objects, image manipulations, and played music at times. I haven't heard of anyone complaining that "people don't use programs for crazy 3D shit or really anything like that". Those coders were showcasing what the machines were capable of and generated interest in computing.
And depending on your definition, this demo page is loaded with content. Not everything has to be pedantically categorized into a text file, an audio file, or a video to be considered content (for example, why don't you feel that book covers contain content?). On a website, content can be a game, a graphical demonstration, even an experience of the site itself, no matter if it sucks or not.
Frankly, I thought that the image tracking demo with the papers being pushed around on the table was pretty cool, and so did a lot of other people. That demo is good content.
And right around the time when those kids turn of-age, the other browsers will finally be implementing all of those features
I hope you never discover Facebook because if what this study is saying is true, you'd overload on positive self-esteem and your brain's hypothalamus may explode. Beware!