Re:CSS is crap for layout
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Core CSS (2nd ed.)
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Okay. Here's a couple: AOL.com - go ahead and laugh, but their site is classy and the layout is table-free. Sprint.com - ditto. They use tables, for tabular data, like their stock quote info, but that's what tables are *for*.
Commercial sites, especially big ones, are deep and take a lot of work to redesign and recode. Most of those probably aren't being torn down and rebuilt with CSS because there isn't an enormous return in doing it yet. This doesn't mean it cannot be done, nor does it mean that if you're starting a new site, or re-doing an existing one, that CSS can't do the job.
In fact, I'll bet it can. See the Zen Garden for a hundred or so examples of what can be done with only CSS.
Perhaps that is because, as the builder says on one of the q-wing pages:
This ship is directly inspired by the Quake symbol and the Sith Infiltrator. I wanted to make one truly evil ship for the project and the letter Q seemed to be a nice choice.
Explain to me how this is any part of a Microsoft monopoly. I mean, I'm not pro-Microsoft, but if they pay ID to sit on the release until they get the xbox port running, and then id releases in their traditional, cross-platform fashion, how is that monopolistic? I mean, I'll get to play the game on my mac, it'll undoubtedly run on linux and windows, and if Microsoft really gets their way, it'll run on their console at the same time.
How is that worse than, say, Sony kicking a whole bunch of money out to square to keep the Final Fantasy series on the playstation?
Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop PC market, and depending on who you talk to, the Office Suite market for said desktop PCs. That's all. They don't have a monopoly in the console market, they're a minority player. They certainly don't have a monopoly in shady corporate behavior. It is just fine to dislike the company, it is just fine to be unhappy with the prospect of waiting for a finished product because of some corporate bribe, but at least be clear about what it is that you are upset about.
Don't just yell monopoly or down with Microsoft because it happens to be the fad. This sort of response sends the wrong message to the wrong people, and that doesn't help anyone. In this case, I'm not sure what your proposed boycott of this product actually says. Don't release on multiple platforms? Give me what's done when it is done? I am an uniformed, selfish consumer? Probably the latter.
You want to fight the monopoly? Cool, contribute to a useful project. Write some documentation if you can't code, or offer organizational or monetary support to any one of dozens of projects that could use the help.
But not buying doom3? Come on. That won't make one tiny iota of a difference. Use your head.
Well, one thing they fixed, (which is important for web-application people like me) is the form file upload method. In.67 it was broken: no file browser would appear when you clicked 'Choose File', so that is definitely an improvement. It worked in.60, but they managed to break it in between.
Not that anyone using.67 (myself included) had any right to complain about broken features in an unreleased version;)
Re:Stupid OSX - Not really.
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A Better Finder?
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Huh? Of course you can list by date:
Open finder. View->As List, or OpenApple-2, click 'Date Modified'.
Actually, according to Microsoft, the 'Only for the Xbox' slogan/logo thingy means that particular piece of software will only have a console rendition on the xbox, but does not prohibit release of the title on the PC/Windows platform.
Mind you, Halo is a *Microsoft* title, so they may not release it for the PC, but if they do not do so, it has nothing to do with the license. Only for Xbox doesn't mean no Windows version.
I would never now make any arrogant statements such as yours.
And:
I've been a DBA for over 15 years. I'm better than most of the other DBA's I've ever worked with.
Are frankly, wildly contradictory. Folks coming up through the ranks today don't necessarily *need* to know a great deal of the things you cite as important. I don't know what a quorum disk does in a vax cluster, but hey, I watched them cart away the vax when I was a freshman in college. Do you know how to troubleshoot a 3174 cluster controller? Do you know how to check an ES9000's disk arrays for problems? Maybe you do, maybe you don't. That doesn't make you 'better than most other DBA's' or sysadmins.
Perhaps you should point that 'you need a little maturity' finger at yourself.
Actually, based on personal experience, windows NT 3.51 boxes make by far the best doorstops. Especially if you can get an older model compaq, perhaps an original Prosignia, with the pentium-60 complete with the fdiv math bug. Those weigh in at 30 or 40 pounds, and make great doorstops, as well as end tables, foot rests, etc.:) caleb
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Okay. Here's a couple:
AOL.com - go ahead and laugh, but their site is classy and the layout is table-free.
Sprint.com - ditto. They use tables, for tabular data, like their stock quote info, but that's what tables are *for*.
Commercial sites, especially big ones, are deep and take a lot of work to redesign and recode. Most of those probably aren't being torn down and rebuilt with CSS because there isn't an enormous return in doing it yet. This doesn't mean it cannot be done, nor does it mean that if you're starting a new site, or re-doing an existing one, that CSS can't do the job.
In fact, I'll bet it can. See the Zen Garden for a hundred or so examples of what can be done with only CSS.
Explain to me how this is any part of a Microsoft monopoly. I mean, I'm not pro-Microsoft, but if they pay ID to sit on the release until they get the xbox port running, and then id releases in their traditional, cross-platform fashion, how is that monopolistic? I mean, I'll get to play the game on my mac, it'll undoubtedly run on linux and windows, and if Microsoft really gets their way, it'll run on their console at the same time.
How is that worse than, say, Sony kicking a whole bunch of money out to square to keep the Final Fantasy series on the playstation?
Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop PC market, and depending on who you talk to, the Office Suite market for said desktop PCs. That's all. They don't have a monopoly in the console market, they're a minority player. They certainly don't have a monopoly in shady corporate behavior. It is just fine to dislike the company, it is just fine to be unhappy with the prospect of waiting for a finished product because of some corporate bribe, but at least be clear about what it is that you are upset about.
Don't just yell monopoly or down with Microsoft because it happens to be the fad. This sort of response sends the wrong message to the wrong people, and that doesn't help anyone. In this case, I'm not sure what your proposed boycott of this product actually says. Don't release on multiple platforms? Give me what's done when it is done? I am an uniformed, selfish consumer? Probably the latter.
You want to fight the monopoly? Cool, contribute to a useful project. Write some documentation if you can't code, or offer organizational or monetary support to any one of dozens of projects that could use the help.
But not buying doom3? Come on. That won't make one tiny iota of a difference. Use your head.
Well, one thing they fixed, (which is important for web-application people like me) is the form file upload method. In .67 it was broken: no file browser would appear when you clicked 'Choose File', so that is definitely an improvement. It worked in .60, but they managed to break it in between.
.67 (myself included) had any right to complain about broken features in an unreleased version ;)
Not that anyone using
Huh? Of course you can list by date:
Open finder. View->As List, or OpenApple-2, click 'Date Modified'.
There you go.
caleb
Actually, according to Microsoft, the 'Only for the Xbox' slogan/logo thingy means that particular piece of software will only have a console rendition on the xbox, but does not prohibit release of the title on the PC/Windows platform.
Mind you, Halo is a *Microsoft* title, so they may not release it for the PC, but if they do not do so, it has nothing to do with the license. Only for Xbox doesn't mean no Windows version.
caleb
Uh, bungo, to be fair, statements like:
I would never now make any arrogant statements such as yours.
And:
I've been a DBA for over 15 years. I'm better than most of the other DBA's I've ever worked with.
Are frankly, wildly contradictory. Folks coming up through the ranks today don't necessarily *need* to know a great deal of the things you cite as important. I don't know what a quorum disk does in a vax cluster, but hey, I watched them cart away the vax when I was a freshman in college. Do you know how to troubleshoot a 3174 cluster controller? Do you know how to check an ES9000's disk arrays for problems? Maybe you do, maybe you don't. That doesn't make you 'better than most other DBA's' or sysadmins.
Perhaps you should point that 'you need a little maturity' finger at yourself.
Actually, based on personal experience, windows NT 3.51 boxes make by far the best doorstops. Especially if you can get an older model compaq, perhaps an original Prosignia, with the pentium-60 complete with the fdiv math bug. Those weigh in at 30 or 40 pounds, and make great doorstops, as well as end tables, foot rests, etc. :) caleb