Ok, I'm a web designer, but not a LinuxHead. (I know, I know)
So I test my pages on IE 5 & 6, Netscape 4.x - 6, Opera, OmniWeb, iCab & that's all. So now do I have to find a box to install Linux on, install KDE, install Konqueror, to find out that it renders everything fine?
I guess my question is, is it possible to make a site which renders fine in all these browsers but somehow dies a horrible death in Konqueror? Thanks for your wisdom.
Regardless of whether you get chemical help, if you get a good doctor (I mean one who sticks with the problem until its solved) s/he will give you good advice which will help you sleep more regularly. IANAD, but I suspect that s/he will tell you to go to bed at the same time every night, avoid caffeine after noon, yada yada yada. If you're really young, you can ignore that advice. But once you start getting older, you'll get sick if you don't get a handle on your sleeping problems. Best of luck!
Regarding your tangent about hyperactivity. Typically, the more intelligent the subject, the later hyperactivity or attention deficit disorders show up. So dumb hyperactive kids get pegged with ADD/ADHD right away while smart kids often skate as "underachievers." Of course, you didn't say if you had an attention deficit. Regardless, sounds like you've got a handle on the problem.
It's not quite that simple. My friends at Cox tell me that Excite@home actually runs the network. They own the hardware. In our community, we have Roadrunner and @home. (Thankfully, we're Roadrunner) If it were just DNS and e-mail, they could just switch their @home users over to Roadrunner service. But it's not that easy. They don't own the actual network.
This is one of those posts that masquerades as "insightful" but is really a superficial and baseless attack on the United States.
The US has many flaws, just like any other country, of course. But...
A few facts to counter:
This was the case with the Anthrax, which I believe has been identified as an artificial strain, traced to a US Govt. laboratory. Nope. Just plain wrong.
The current President's view that International Law and International Treaties are only valid if convenient, and disposable otherwise, has sparked off two International incidents and is likely to fuel further crises, as the EU takes on Microsoft, the Kyoto Accords are implemented in other countries, and Germany takes the US to court.) The EU is free to take on Microsoft for Microsoft's practices in the EU. They have no juristiction in the US. The Kyoto accords require the US to make up for developing countries' inability to contain their CO2 emissions. And who exactly has ratified the Kyoto accords? What difference does it make if we ratify it if other countries don't as well? Oh, and the World Court -I'm soooo scared. The President swore an oath to the Constitution of the US, not to the UN Charter. He must uphold our sovreignty - it's his job.
We have to take care of what we have - people, fauna, flora, habitats, EVERYTHING - as well as, or better than, ourselves. Do humans not fit into the system at all? The fact is, the poorer a country is, the worse its environmental record. And communist countries (not socialist) are the worst offenders of all! If every country took care of its environment as well as the US, the worldwide environment would be in much better shape. The only countries in the world with tougher environmental laws are in the EU, so gimme a break.
In the US, we're keeping stockpiles of deadly organisms, and are conducting GM research which would be considered unethical anywhere else in the world
In 1969, Richard Nixon UNILATERALLY ended all us biological weapons research in the US. The Soviet Union agreed to do the same, but continued its research program. Soviet defector Ken Alibek states that he saw orders to build up bio-weapons stockpiles DIRECTLY FROM KRUSCHEV.
Further, if we learn to be more aware of our surroundings, we're much less likely to incite the kind of fanatical hatred that we have seen. Directly, or indirectly. Our fear incites the fear of others. Our awareness might, then, incite awareness in others, which might even reduce global suspicion and hostility. OK - I'll give you this one. We're woefully ignorant as a nation. We need to learn more about the world. I think that will happen naturally as international travel becomes more common. (I hope so, at least)
I am merely a software engineer, who knows that Output = fn(Input), that if you want to change the output, you must change the input, and that if you keep getting outputs you don't like, then don't keep changing the input the same way. Humans aren't difference engines. You can't reduce these billions of sociological and environmental variables to fn(Input) Things aren't that simple.
I'm really sorry you're having so many Firewire problems. That sucks.
I do mean this respectfully: Apple invented Firewire and does a fantastic job implementing it. Firewire is for multimedia geeks and multimedia geeks mostly go with Apple.
I have a OrangeMicro PCMCIA Firewire card and an Old PB G3 running OS X 10.1. Plugged it in and it worked, period. No fiddling w/ drivers and all that crap. Man I hate that crap. That's WHY I have a Mac.
As for JVC - if it doesn't work correctly, you should return it and get a SONY. We love ours and we don't have any Firewire problems. Best of luck and I'm really sorry you've had so many problems.
Microsoft's new PocketPC software came out today too. When will these devices start converging? They won't be ubiquitous until JoeAOL starts using them. What's it gonna take?
Obviously, they have to be very light, easy -to-use, etc.. What else to make these devices converge and become totally mainstream? I dunno, maybe PDAs and webpads will always be different devices?
Also, is more better? Should a handheld BE a fully-functional computer or supplement your computer? This is the old Palm vs. WinCE quandary.
Let's talk about preserving the networks and the resources, not necessarily the companies. If they go under, are they going to sell their resources piecemeal, destroying the functionality of their networks? What about the capital invested in these bombproof hosting centers? One would assume they should still be hosting centers for someone. They can't be easily converted to something else. How do we insure continuity if these huge companies go belly-up? Laissez-faire? OK. What are the implications of that?
Thanks for pointing out the wanton spending of these companies. I can't speak to any other companies, but when I worked for one of them, we got a weekly e-mail about "reserving the company jet." I'll bet that's not happening anymore.
It's the same old problem:
We want free content!
We don't want ads!
As someone who produces content, I have to ask, "How else am I to be paid?" I HATE pop-unders, jump-throughs, etc, but I hate bad writing and low-quality design even more.
So whaddya thing? Does anyone have anything original to say about this problem? I love the idea of micropayments, but it's such an ugly logistical nightmare. I wonder if it'll ever work.
With PSINet tanking bad, Exodus on the Rocks and Above.net far behind (Not to mention Rhythms, Northpoint, etc..) , we have to start asking ourselves: "Do we have a vital national security interest in seeing these networks survive?" I think we do.
Sure you can scream "Corporate Welfare" all day, but when the rubber hits the road (or whatever cliche' you like to use) we have got to insure the stability of these networks, notwithstanding the costs involved.
Question:
Does anyone know how close these troubled companies are to shutting down?
How do we do an effective cost-benefit analysis on bailing out these networks? (Which ones to help, etc..)
Who gets left holding the bag on these debts if the federal gov't decide to force them to keep operating and their vendors to keep supplying them?
On a more irritating point. Did anyone have problems with the transmission? We got some terrible digital "static" The screen would freeze and we'd get a field of colors. This happened a lot in the first hour, then cleared up.
I thought maybe it was a field of reversed polarizing tachyons, so I adjusted my TV's deflector and it cleared up.
I never listen to music radio, but I do listen to talk radio occasionally - at least until a week ago. My suggestions to the ClearChannel call screeners: Hang up when you hear:
1. Bomb them back to the stone age.
2.... and let God sort them out
3. Afghanistan... (How many of these ignoramuses even knew where Afghanistan was before this attack?)
4. collateral damage
some info on the collapse
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Finally, some background construction info and original trauma tolerances (WTC 1 and 2 were supposed to withstand the impact of a 707, but not the jet-fuel fire, evidently.)This info comes from the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations via icivilengineer.com. [icivilengineer.com]
The consensus seems to be that the buildings were exceptionally well designed and could not have been expected to stand longer than they did. So that's it - good engineering saves lives.
Mac folks out there - Does commodity hardware give anyone else the heebiejeebies?
While English skill has nothing to do with programming skill, I want someone who's dilligent writing my drivers, not the person who thought this translation was adequate:
"Your 10/100 Ethernet Card are featuring "Auto-negotiation" which can auto-sensed and switched between 10Mbps or 100Mpbs if your HUB can also this feature."
As a Mac guy, I have enjoyed standardized harware and true plug and play. While I think MacOS goodness should be available to all, I'm afraid of that cheap commodity hardware and its scary scary drivers.
Maybe it is a hovercraft.. But have you ever seen one in person? They're _very_ LOUD. How would he get around that?
Re:Jon Katz definately proves the point.
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I'm glad you noticed that.
I noticed:
1. I didn't defame anyone
2. I didn't call anyone a moron
3. I didn't post anonymously.
Universal Darwinian Paradigm is so tired..
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Karl Popper states that theories must be disprovable in order to be proved.
Without contesting Darwinism on the merits, I wonder why the digirati (sorry) feel the need to fit it into _every_ explanation. By shoehorning Darwin into every dialogue, they make him a parody.
Ptolemy's model could be made to explain every aspect of planetary movement, but it was wrong. The communists and creationists say all evidence --and this is important _all evidence_ - points to their worldviews also.
Natural laws have apparent contradictions which cannot be explained by current thinking, and tortured reasoning like Mr. Katz's does not help us understand.
Instead, we should focus on what we do know about information theory rather than trying to cram it into some kind of biological paradigm.
Oh my...
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"Concludes Gopnik: "There is No Regulon in the Semiosphere is a wildly abstract way of saying that there is no 'natural predator' to stop the proliferation" of media. They do and will, he suggests, overwhelm the world, and with it reality."
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Concludes Lovejoy: "Bordering on Sensicalessness is Katz's style of condescension with regard to the rest of humanity"
The emperor is nekkid. Just because you _can_ write like this doesn't mean that you should. Someone should take this essay and throw it right in the regulon!
Re:Jon Katz definately proves the point.
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You mean "definetely." You shouldn't defame a reporter if you can't spell.
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Ok, I'm a web designer, but not a LinuxHead. (I know, I know)
So I test my pages on IE 5 & 6, Netscape 4.x - 6, Opera, OmniWeb, iCab & that's all. So now do I have to find a box to install Linux on, install KDE, install Konqueror, to find out that it renders everything fine?
I guess my question is, is it possible to make a site which renders fine in all these browsers but somehow dies a horrible death in Konqueror? Thanks for your wisdom.
Regardless of whether you get chemical help, if you get a good doctor (I mean one who sticks with the problem until its solved) s/he will give you good advice which will help you sleep more regularly. IANAD, but I suspect that s/he will tell you to go to bed at the same time every night, avoid caffeine after noon, yada yada yada. If you're really young, you can ignore that advice. But once you start getting older, you'll get sick if you don't get a handle on your sleeping problems. Best of luck!
Regarding your tangent about hyperactivity. Typically, the more intelligent the subject, the later hyperactivity or attention deficit disorders show up. So dumb hyperactive kids get pegged with ADD/ADHD right away while smart kids often skate as "underachievers." Of course, you didn't say if you had an attention deficit. Regardless, sounds like you've got a handle on the problem.
It's not quite that simple. My friends at Cox tell me that Excite@home actually runs the network. They own the hardware. In our community, we have Roadrunner and @home. (Thankfully, we're Roadrunner) If it were just DNS and e-mail, they could just switch their @home users over to Roadrunner service. But it's not that easy. They don't own the actual network.
This is one of those posts that masquerades as "insightful" but is really a superficial and baseless attack on the United States.
The US has many flaws, just like any other country, of course. But...
A few facts to counter:
This was the case with the Anthrax, which I believe has been identified as an artificial strain, traced to a US Govt. laboratory.
Nope. Just plain wrong.
The current President's view that International Law and International Treaties are only valid if convenient, and disposable otherwise, has sparked off two International incidents and is likely to fuel further crises, as the EU takes on Microsoft, the Kyoto Accords are implemented in other countries, and Germany takes the US to court.)
The EU is free to take on Microsoft for Microsoft's practices in the EU. They have no juristiction in the US. The Kyoto accords require the US to make up for developing countries' inability to contain their CO2 emissions. And who exactly has ratified the Kyoto accords? What difference does it make if we ratify it if other countries don't as well? Oh, and the World Court -I'm soooo scared. The President swore an oath to the Constitution of the US, not to the UN Charter. He must uphold our sovreignty - it's his job.
We have to take care of what we have - people, fauna, flora, habitats, EVERYTHING - as well as, or better than, ourselves.
Do humans not fit into the system at all? The fact is, the poorer a country is, the worse its environmental record. And communist countries (not socialist) are the worst offenders of all! If every country took care of its environment as well as the US, the worldwide environment would be in much better shape. The only countries in the world with tougher environmental laws are in the EU, so gimme a break.
In the US, we're keeping stockpiles of deadly organisms, and are conducting GM research which would be considered unethical anywhere else in the world
In 1969, Richard Nixon UNILATERALLY ended all us biological weapons research in the US. The Soviet Union agreed to do the same, but continued its research program. Soviet defector Ken Alibek states that he saw orders to build up bio-weapons stockpiles DIRECTLY FROM KRUSCHEV.
Further, if we learn to be more aware of our surroundings, we're much less likely to incite the kind of fanatical hatred that we have seen. Directly, or indirectly. Our fear incites the fear of others. Our awareness might, then, incite awareness in others, which might even reduce global suspicion and hostility.
OK - I'll give you this one. We're woefully ignorant as a nation. We need to learn more about the world. I think that will happen naturally as international travel becomes more common. (I hope so, at least)
I am merely a software engineer, who knows that Output = fn(Input), that if you want to change the output, you must change the input, and that if you keep getting outputs you don't like, then don't keep changing the input the same way.
Humans aren't difference engines. You can't reduce these billions of sociological and environmental variables to fn(Input) Things aren't that simple.
WTC jokes are SO funny.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Walter Miller -Yes , he died recently. This book is SF literature.
I'm really sorry you're having so many Firewire problems. That sucks.
I do mean this respectfully: Apple invented Firewire and does a fantastic job implementing it. Firewire is for multimedia geeks and multimedia geeks mostly go with Apple.
I have a OrangeMicro PCMCIA Firewire card and an Old PB G3 running OS X 10.1. Plugged it in and it worked, period. No fiddling w/ drivers and all that crap. Man I hate that crap. That's WHY I have a Mac.
As for JVC - if it doesn't work correctly, you should return it and get a SONY. We love ours and we don't have any Firewire problems. Best of luck and I'm really sorry you've had so many problems.
Microsoft's new PocketPC software came out today too. When will these devices start converging? They won't be ubiquitous until JoeAOL starts using them. What's it gonna take?
Obviously, they have to be very light, easy -to-use, etc.. What else to make these devices converge and become totally mainstream? I dunno, maybe PDAs and webpads will always be different devices?
Also, is more better? Should a handheld BE a fully-functional computer or supplement your computer? This is the old Palm vs. WinCE quandary.
Let's talk about preserving the networks and the resources, not necessarily the companies. If they go under, are they going to sell their resources piecemeal, destroying the functionality of their networks? What about the capital invested in these bombproof hosting centers? One would assume they should still be hosting centers for someone. They can't be easily converted to something else. How do we insure continuity if these huge companies go belly-up? Laissez-faire? OK. What are the implications of that?
Thanks for pointing out the wanton spending of these companies. I can't speak to any other companies, but when I worked for one of them, we got a weekly e-mail about "reserving the company jet." I'll bet that's not happening anymore.
It's the same old problem:
We want free content!
We don't want ads!
As someone who produces content, I have to ask, "How else am I to be paid?" I HATE pop-unders, jump-throughs, etc, but I hate bad writing and low-quality design even more.
So whaddya thing? Does anyone have anything original to say about this problem? I love the idea of micropayments, but it's such an ugly logistical nightmare. I wonder if it'll ever work.
With PSINet tanking bad, Exodus on the Rocks and Above.net far behind (Not to mention Rhythms, Northpoint, etc..) , we have to start asking ourselves: "Do we have a vital national security interest in seeing these networks survive?" I think we do.
Sure you can scream "Corporate Welfare" all day, but when the rubber hits the road (or whatever cliche' you like to use) we have got to insure the stability of these networks, notwithstanding the costs involved.
Question:
Does anyone know how close these troubled companies are to shutting down?
How do we do an effective cost-benefit analysis on bailing out these networks? (Which ones to help, etc..)
Who gets left holding the bag on these debts if the federal gov't decide to force them to keep operating and their vendors to keep supplying them?
On a more irritating point. Did anyone have problems with the transmission? We got some terrible digital "static" The screen would freeze and we'd get a field of colors. This happened a lot in the first hour, then cleared up.
I thought maybe it was a field of reversed polarizing tachyons, so I adjusted my TV's deflector and it cleared up.
I never listen to music radio, but I do listen to talk radio occasionally - at least until a week ago. My suggestions to the ClearChannel call screeners: Hang up when you hear: ... and let God sort them out
... (How many of these ignoramuses even knew where Afghanistan was before this attack?)
1. Bomb them back to the stone age.
2.
3. Afghanistan
4. collateral damage
Found some informative links and info on icivilengineer.com:
.
A great diagram and layman's explanation of the collapses from BBC [bbc.co.uk]
A more technical explanation from Engineering News-Record.[enr.com]
Finally, some background construction info and original trauma tolerances (WTC 1 and 2 were supposed to withstand the impact of a 707, but not the jet-fuel fire, evidently.)This info comes from the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations via icivilengineer.com. [icivilengineer.com]
The consensus seems to be that the buildings were exceptionally well designed and could not have been expected to stand longer than they did. So that's it - good engineering saves lives.
While English skill has nothing to do with programming skill, I want someone who's dilligent writing my drivers, not the person who thought this translation was adequate:
"Your 10/100 Ethernet Card are featuring "Auto-negotiation" which can auto-sensed and switched between 10Mbps or 100Mpbs if your HUB can also this feature."
As a Mac guy, I have enjoyed standardized harware and true plug and play. While I think MacOS goodness should be available to all, I'm afraid of that cheap commodity hardware and its scary scary drivers.
What do you x86 people think?
Maybe it is a hovercraft.. But have you ever seen one in person? They're _very_ LOUD. How would he get around that?
I'm glad you noticed that.
I noticed:
1. I didn't defame anyone
2. I didn't call anyone a moron
3. I didn't post anonymously.
Without contesting Darwinism on the merits, I wonder why the digirati (sorry) feel the need to fit it into _every_ explanation. By shoehorning Darwin into every dialogue, they make him a parody.
Ptolemy's model could be made to explain every aspect of planetary movement, but it was wrong. The communists and creationists say all evidence --and this is important _all evidence_ - points to their worldviews also.
Natural laws have apparent contradictions which cannot be explained by current thinking, and tortured reasoning like Mr. Katz's does not help us understand.
Instead, we should focus on what we do know about information theory rather than trying to cram it into some kind of biological paradigm.
Oh my...
-------------
"Concludes Gopnik: "There is No Regulon in the Semiosphere is a wildly abstract way of saying that there is no 'natural predator' to stop the proliferation" of media. They do and will, he suggests, overwhelm the world, and with it reality."
--------------
Concludes Lovejoy: "Bordering on Sensicalessness is Katz's style of condescension with regard to the rest of humanity"
The emperor is nekkid. Just because you _can_ write like this doesn't mean that you should. Someone should take this essay and throw it right in the regulon!
You mean "definetely." You shouldn't defame a reporter if you can't spell.