if by "adheres quite reasonably" you mean "enough errors on the main page that the w3c validator gave up and stopped counting after the first 50", then yes, slashdot adheres quite reasonably to HTML 3.2.
you're still going to have to test your sites on Netscape 4.7, IE 5, etc. or you're going to have issues with the 30-40% of the market who hasn't upgraded yet.
your current browser apparently has a bug which causes it to insert spurious 0's into textareas while typing. i believe you meant to type "3-4% of the market".
you might want to check if there's a patch available for that, it could really mess you up if you do any kind of bill payment online.
my suspicion is that they will implement most/all of the new css properties that weren't implemented in ie6, but all existing incorrect behaviors (e.g. float model, boxes auto-expanding to hold contents) will stay as they are in the name of backwards compatibility.
which would suck, but it would be inline with the way they normally do things like this. unless they add a new render mode switch for documents that are served as application/xml+xhtml.....
it probably would have a positive impact, if any. already, most of the load on an office hvac system is compensating for the heat put off by the lighting systems. in all but the coldest climates, many offices dont even have central heating systems, because the lighting systems (and now, in many places, computer monitors) put off enough heat to cover a building's heating requirements.
if they filter off at least some of the infrared spectrum when they pipe the light in from the outside, which should be a trivial task, i would expect these lights to produce substantially less heat than your typical incandescent bulb or fluorescent ballast.
ok, so the slashdot summary makes it sound like only people who have VOIP service would have to worry about this, but as far as I can tell from reading the article, the problem is that if the spammers get VOIP service, it makes it cost effective for them to spam anyone, so once this catches on, we would all be at risk, right? i don't see anything in tfa about whether the spamee has to have VOIP for this to be a problem. or am i misreading something?
while i have no idea where the logic behind including "anymore" came from, as for the claim that most users don't use linux: some time ago, Taco posted a lot of stats generated from the slashdot log files showing that, among other things, something like 70%-80% of slashdot's traffic was from Windows/IE.
of course, there's still some faulty logic there, because saying that most/. users use windows (which is true) is not the same thing as saying that most/. users don't use linux, although i wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.
You missed a spot. the full wording is "by posting Content on an AIM Product"
Unless you are using DirectIM, which most people don't
It's been a long, long, long time since i've used an official aim client, but last i did, this was the default, whenever possible. obviously it's not always possible, as with firewalls, as another poster pointed out (which is why i said the majority of message, rather than all). maybe things have changed since then....
Even if these things *weren't* true, this "tinhatting" is necessary. It's time for people to start using encryption. Have people forgotten that AIM convs are plain text?
of course, it would be great if more people would start using encryption for online communications. i'd love it. of course, almost all email and the majority of web traffic is unencrypted as well, and i don't seem to see anyone getting all worked up about that. i don't think the tinfoil hat routine is going to help you convince a lot of people to start using encryption. most people who take the time to listen will just write you off as a nut, especially after they read the part of the terms of service that everyone is up in arms about.
so, out of some 200 comments rated 2 or higher as i write this (not counting one comment i made in the bottom of some thread somewhere) it seems that almost everyone here has missed the point....
a) only 2 people have mentioned that these terms of service are over a year old.
b) only 2 people have pointed out that these terms of service apply to posts on message boards and forums, which they reserve the right to replicate, duplicate, etc, and not to instant messages.
c) no one has pointed out that the vast majority of the messages sent through aim are sent client to client, and never travel through aol's central server, so even if they did reserve the right to use your im's any way they saw fit, and they had the desire to, there's no way that they ever could.
man, talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. one person yells "0 my g0d. teh AOL r stealing our pr1v4cy!1!!" and the whole army of slashdotters goes running for their tinfoil hats. get a grip people.
You can bet everything you own that AOL archive every message that's routed through their system
which is of course something like 2% of all AIM traffic, as almost all communication happens client to client. but hey, this is slashdot, why let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, right?
not to mention, as a couple other people here have already pointed out, the new TOS covers 'posts', not messages, but it seems almost everyone here missed that part completely....
So why, exactly, should I be pining for a format war?
All that means to me is several years of incompatible hardware, price fluctuation,
Well, I'm not sure about you, but I'm looking forward to laughing at all the idiots who get stuck paying too much for crappy hardware that may not even last for two years if they pick the wrong format.
Meanwhile, I'll be happily watching my dvd's (which hopefully will drop to a much more reasonable price) while I wait until the whole mess settles out. Once there is an obvious successor to DVD, I'll start to consider upgrading.... Not that I would see any difference on my TV anyway, but maybe by that time, I'll be in the market for a newer one.
what name recognition? mozilla never had any name recognition outside the techy community. firefox has more name recognition with the general public than mozilla ever had. most people barely remember netscape anymore...
good grief, how often do people need to trot out this complaint? copy and paste works fine in ~95% of modern linux applications (yes, i pulled that number out of my ass). even if you mix toolkits. even if you use applications with custom toolkits. pick a random kde app, and copy something to the clipboard. try to paste it into a random gnome app. if both applications handle the same type of data (i.e. you're not trying to paste a vector drawing into a texfield) i'd guess there's at least a 95% chance that it will work just fine.
yes, there are some applications that use funky key combinations (can't think of any modern cases of this off the top of my head, but iirc, netscape 4 used alt+c/v instead of ctrl+c/v). yes, there are some applications that don't use the copy buffer (different from the selection buffer) appropriately. those applications are borken. you know what? there are broken applications on windows as well that don't use the right key strokes for copy/paste, or don't even support the copy/paste buffer properly. there probably are for mac, too. this is the fault of the application, not the windowing system.
the big problem with X is that too many people assume that select == copy, and middle click == paste. IT DOESN'T. if the application you are using is written correctly, copy and paste will work exactly as you expect. if not, submit a bug report to the developers, because it's broken. X is working just fine, thank you...
when i was in college, one of the guys who i lived with hated the toilet paper that they purchased for our bathrooms, so he kept his own roll in his room and would take it to the bathroom with him when he would go.
it was great fun to irritate him by hiding his toilet paper roll, or swapping it with one of the rolls from the bathroom...
also, their inkjets were good back around the 500's or so. my dad had a Deskjet 500C that he used for almost eight years, maybe more. in fact, from what i remember most hp products from before 1998 or so (not counting their pcs, which i don't think have ever been any good) were pretty good, but the quality of pretty much all of their product lines started declining within a year or two after that.
call it whatever you want. why does every new (or not so new as the case may be) software devlopment need a flashy buzzword compliant acronym? at my current job most people just call it content buffering (after contentBuffer, the library we use to do the server interaction)
i don't see any reason why you would ever have to call it by a name when speaking to anyone who you are not working on the project with anyway. if you give it a flashy acronym name, you'll just have dumb clients asking "will this site have AJAX" (even for pages where it makes no sense) because they read the term it in a trade rag or somesuch.
i wasn't saying it was a lame name (i actually like it), just a stupid acronym for a web technology that doesn't (imo) need a flashy buzzword compliant acronym.
notice "outgoing smtp". she is probably not trying to run a server. she's probably trying to use a different outgoing mail server than the oe verizon has set up. i've had this issue before with the mail server i used to run for my consulting company. the solution is simple: use the submission port (5??) instead of the standard port 25.
can we please ditch this acronym? it was lame last week when whats-his-name had to write a big article about this cool new technology (which has been around in one form or another since at least 1998), it's still lame now, and it will continue to be lame in the future...
i was under the impression that a powerful sith had died on degobah long before yoda went there, and the 'shadow' of the dark side that was left behind helped mask yoda's presence. of course i may be wrong, i never read any of the books myself.
basically, though, as yoda briefly explains in empire strikes back, the force is present in all living things. in the books, they explain further that if someone in whom the force is particularly strong wants to mask his presence there are basically two ways to go about it. 1) go to a place that is so overflowing and abundant with life that it is impossible for anyone to sense the presense any individual life form. 2) go to a place that is so deserted and devoid of life that the presence of the force as a whole is almost unnoticeable.
of course, given what we now know about anakin/vader's history, it seems a litle absurd that no one had ever thought to look for luke on tatooine, and if they had looked, they probably would have noticed obi-wan's presence as well.
as far as the whole balance of the force thing, i had always wondered about that myself, although there are different ways to interpret what the prophecies about balance would actually refer to. (wonderful thing about prophecies- make one vague enough and it could refer to anything) the impression i got is that the majority of the council expects 'balance' to refer to the elimination of the dark side of the force- balance in this case referring more to the eliminiation of the ongoing struggle than the balance between light/dark. a few of the more senior jedi have their doubts about this interpretation (hence the odd glances between yoda and windu) but prefer to keep their suspicions to themselves rather than shouting down obi-wan in front of the council.
and in the end, anakin may have fulfilled the prophesy by either interpratiation- first by hunting down and killing all of the jedi except 2, thus balancing out the jedi and the sith, and then, years later, by throwing palpatine down the chute, shortly before dying himself, thus eliminating the sith, and leaving luke as the sole surviving jedi.
i personally would be all for a service like this. there are several shows on cable that i would like to watch, but i don't because i won't pay $40+ per month for cable just to get 4 channels that i would actually watch. i have said in the past that i would like the ability to choose specific channels that i could pay for- i would pay $5-$10 for 4 channels that i like, but not $30 for 1000 channels when i only like 5. but this would be even better, because even some of those channels that i would be willing to pay for only have 1 or 2 shows that i would want to watch on a regular basis.
heck, it wouldn't even have to be download- just a cable box with no built in channels. they have all of the on-demand stuff available now. let me pay $5 a month for 0 cable channels and let me pick the shows/movies/whatever that i want to watch at ~$0.50 an hour, and i'd sign up in a second.
of course, it's been over a month since i turned on the tv at all, and i don't think i've watched an actual tv show on it since the election debates, so i doubt the cable companies will be swayed much one way or another by my support....
hence the qualifiers "usually" in my statement. i would say that yes, you are in the minority.
either way, my point was that, to many people, the difference between 20k and 60k is the difference between having enough to get by without constantly stretching paychecks or going into debt and not having enough. to just about any normal person the difference between 60k and 180k is having enough and having more than enough. which of those do you consider to be a bigger difference?
at any rate, i make less than 60k, i just bought a house and do some investing in stocks, and although i'm not interested in buying investment property right now (my own property is more work than i can handle at the moment) i see no reason why i couldn't in a few years if i was so inclined. so saying that you bought a house and are considering buying an investment property doesn't necessarily make you substantially any different than the majority of middle class america.
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if by "adheres quite reasonably" you mean "enough errors on the main page that the w3c validator gave up and stopped counting after the first 50", then yes, slashdot adheres quite reasonably to HTML 3.2.
you're still going to have to test your sites on Netscape 4.7, IE 5, etc. or you're going to have issues with the 30-40% of the market who hasn't upgraded yet.
your current browser apparently has a bug which causes it to insert spurious 0's into textareas while typing. i believe you meant to type "3-4% of the market".
you might want to check if there's a patch available for that, it could really mess you up if you do any kind of bill payment online.
my suspicion is that they will implement most/all of the new css properties that weren't implemented in ie6, but all existing incorrect behaviors (e.g. float model, boxes auto-expanding to hold contents) will stay as they are in the name of backwards compatibility.
which would suck, but it would be inline with the way they normally do things like this. unless they add a new render mode switch for documents that are served as application/xml+xhtml.....
it probably would have a positive impact, if any. already, most of the load on an office hvac system is compensating for the heat put off by the lighting systems. in all but the coldest climates, many offices dont even have central heating systems, because the lighting systems (and now, in many places, computer monitors) put off enough heat to cover a building's heating requirements.
if they filter off at least some of the infrared spectrum when they pipe the light in from the outside, which should be a trivial task, i would expect these lights to produce substantially less heat than your typical incandescent bulb or fluorescent ballast.
ok, so the slashdot summary makes it sound like only people who have VOIP service would have to worry about this, but as far as I can tell from reading the article, the problem is that if the spammers get VOIP service, it makes it cost effective for them to spam anyone, so once this catches on, we would all be at risk, right? i don't see anything in tfa about whether the spamee has to have VOIP for this to be a problem. or am i misreading something?
while i have no idea where the logic behind including "anymore" came from, as for the claim that most users don't use linux: some time ago, Taco posted a lot of stats generated from the slashdot log files showing that, among other things, something like 70%-80% of slashdot's traffic was from Windows/IE.
/. users use windows (which is true) is not the same thing as saying that most /. users don't use linux, although i wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.
of course, there's still some faulty logic there, because saying that most
The wording is "AIM product", not "forums".
You missed a spot. the full wording is "by posting Content on an AIM Product"
Unless you are using DirectIM, which most people don't
It's been a long, long, long time since i've used an official aim client, but last i did, this was the default, whenever possible. obviously it's not always possible, as with firewalls, as another poster pointed out (which is why i said the majority of message, rather than all). maybe things have changed since then....
Even if these things *weren't* true, this "tinhatting" is necessary. It's time for people to start using encryption. Have people forgotten that AIM convs are plain text?
of course, it would be great if more people would start using encryption for online communications. i'd love it. of course, almost all email and the majority of web traffic is unencrypted as well, and i don't seem to see anyone getting all worked up about that. i don't think the tinfoil hat routine is going to help you convince a lot of people to start using encryption. most people who take the time to listen will just write you off as a nut, especially after they read the part of the terms of service that everyone is up in arms about.
so, out of some 200 comments rated 2 or higher as i write this (not counting one comment i made in the bottom of some thread somewhere) it seems that almost everyone here has missed the point....
a) only 2 people have mentioned that these terms of service are over a year old.
b) only 2 people have pointed out that these terms of service apply to posts on message boards and forums, which they reserve the right to replicate, duplicate, etc, and not to instant messages.
c) no one has pointed out that the vast majority of the messages sent through aim are sent client to client, and never travel through aol's central server, so even if they did reserve the right to use your im's any way they saw fit, and they had the desire to, there's no way that they ever could.
man, talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. one person yells "0 my g0d. teh AOL r stealing our pr1v4cy!1!!" and the whole army of slashdotters goes running for their tinfoil hats. get a grip people.
You can bet everything you own that AOL archive every message that's routed through their system
which is of course something like 2% of all AIM traffic, as almost all communication happens client to client. but hey, this is slashdot, why let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, right?
not to mention, as a couple other people here have already pointed out, the new TOS covers 'posts', not messages, but it seems almost everyone here missed that part completely....
So why, exactly, should I be pining for a format war?
All that means to me is several years of incompatible hardware, price fluctuation,
Well, I'm not sure about you, but I'm looking forward to laughing at all the idiots who get stuck paying too much for crappy hardware that may not even last for two years if they pick the wrong format.
Meanwhile, I'll be happily watching my dvd's (which hopefully will drop to a much more reasonable price) while I wait until the whole mess settles out. Once there is an obvious successor to DVD, I'll start to consider upgrading.... Not that I would see any difference on my TV anyway, but maybe by that time, I'll be in the market for a newer one.
what name recognition? mozilla never had any name recognition outside the techy community. firefox has more name recognition with the general public than mozilla ever had. most people barely remember netscape anymore...
funny how this didn't happen (for me) when i used to use gnome back around 2.2/2.4
good grief, how often do people need to trot out this complaint? copy and paste works fine in ~95% of modern linux applications (yes, i pulled that number out of my ass). even if you mix toolkits. even if you use applications with custom toolkits. pick a random kde app, and copy something to the clipboard. try to paste it into a random gnome app. if both applications handle the same type of data (i.e. you're not trying to paste a vector drawing into a texfield) i'd guess there's at least a 95% chance that it will work just fine.
yes, there are some applications that use funky key combinations (can't think of any modern cases of this off the top of my head, but iirc, netscape 4 used alt+c/v instead of ctrl+c/v). yes, there are some applications that don't use the copy buffer (different from the selection buffer) appropriately. those applications are borken. you know what? there are broken applications on windows as well that don't use the right key strokes for copy/paste, or don't even support the copy/paste buffer properly. there probably are for mac, too. this is the fault of the application, not the windowing system.
the big problem with X is that too many people assume that select == copy, and middle click == paste. IT DOESN'T. if the application you are using is written correctly, copy and paste will work exactly as you expect. if not, submit a bug report to the developers, because it's broken. X is working just fine, thank you...
Serers will have a firewall.
In order for a server to be of any use whatsoever, you have to open the firewall to the ports where they are running services....
when i was in college, one of the guys who i lived with hated the toilet paper that they purchased for our bathrooms, so he kept his own roll in his room and would take it to the bathroom with him when he would go.
it was great fun to irritate him by hiding his toilet paper roll, or swapping it with one of the rolls from the bathroom...
also, their inkjets were good back around the 500's or so. my dad had a Deskjet 500C that he used for almost eight years, maybe more. in fact, from what i remember most hp products from before 1998 or so (not counting their pcs, which i don't think have ever been any good) were pretty good, but the quality of pretty much all of their product lines started declining within a year or two after that.
call it whatever you want. why does every new (or not so new as the case may be) software devlopment need a flashy buzzword compliant acronym? at my current job most people just call it content buffering (after contentBuffer, the library we use to do the server interaction)
i don't see any reason why you would ever have to call it by a name when speaking to anyone who you are not working on the project with anyway. if you give it a flashy acronym name, you'll just have dumb clients asking "will this site have AJAX" (even for pages where it makes no sense) because they read the term it in a trade rag or somesuch.
i wasn't saying it was a lame name (i actually like it), just a stupid acronym for a web technology that doesn't (imo) need a flashy buzzword compliant acronym.
notice "outgoing smtp". she is probably not trying to run a server. she's probably trying to use a different outgoing mail server than the oe verizon has set up. i've had this issue before with the mail server i used to run for my consulting company. the solution is simple: use the submission port (5??) instead of the standard port 25.
yeah, 'cause BeOS and MS-DOS are crucial platforms to support when you're developing an enterprise framework.
can we please ditch this acronym? it was lame last week when whats-his-name had to write a big article about this cool new technology (which has been around in one form or another since at least 1998), it's still lame now, and it will continue to be lame in the future...
if it's a cable internet provider, then it most likely is a government delegated monopoly...
i was under the impression that a powerful sith had died on degobah long before yoda went there, and the 'shadow' of the dark side that was left behind helped mask yoda's presence. of course i may be wrong, i never read any of the books myself.
basically, though, as yoda briefly explains in empire strikes back, the force is present in all living things. in the books, they explain further that if someone in whom the force is particularly strong wants to mask his presence there are basically two ways to go about it.
1) go to a place that is so overflowing and abundant with life that it is impossible for anyone to sense the presense any individual life form.
2) go to a place that is so deserted and devoid of life that the presence of the force as a whole is almost unnoticeable.
of course, given what we now know about anakin/vader's history, it seems a litle absurd that no one had ever thought to look for luke on tatooine, and if they had looked, they probably would have noticed obi-wan's presence as well.
as far as the whole balance of the force thing, i had always wondered about that myself, although there are different ways to interpret what the prophecies about balance would actually refer to. (wonderful thing about prophecies- make one vague enough and it could refer to anything) the impression i got is that the majority of the council expects 'balance' to refer to the elimination of the dark side of the force- balance in this case referring more to the eliminiation of the ongoing struggle than the balance between light/dark. a few of the more senior jedi have their doubts about this interpretation (hence the odd glances between yoda and windu) but prefer to keep their suspicions to themselves rather than shouting down obi-wan in front of the council.
and in the end, anakin may have fulfilled the prophesy by either interpratiation- first by hunting down and killing all of the jedi except 2, thus balancing out the jedi and the sith, and then, years later, by throwing palpatine down the chute, shortly before dying himself, thus eliminating the sith, and leaving luke as the sole surviving jedi.
i personally would be all for a service like this. there are several shows on cable that i would like to watch, but i don't because i won't pay $40+ per month for cable just to get 4 channels that i would actually watch. i have said in the past that i would like the ability to choose specific channels that i could pay for- i would pay $5-$10 for 4 channels that i like, but not $30 for 1000 channels when i only like 5. but this would be even better, because even some of those channels that i would be willing to pay for only have 1 or 2 shows that i would want to watch on a regular basis.
heck, it wouldn't even have to be download- just a cable box with no built in channels. they have all of the on-demand stuff available now. let me pay $5 a month for 0 cable channels and let me pick the shows/movies/whatever that i want to watch at ~$0.50 an hour, and i'd sign up in a second.
of course, it's been over a month since i turned on the tv at all, and i don't think i've watched an actual tv show on it since the election debates, so i doubt the cable companies will be swayed much one way or another by my support....
hence the qualifiers "usually" in my statement. i would say that yes, you are in the minority.
either way, my point was that, to many people, the difference between 20k and 60k is the difference between having enough to get by without constantly stretching paychecks or going into debt and not having enough. to just about any normal person the difference between 60k and 180k is having enough and having more than enough. which of those do you consider to be a bigger difference?
at any rate, i make less than 60k, i just bought a house and do some investing in stocks, and although i'm not interested in buying investment property right now (my own property is more work than i can handle at the moment) i see no reason why i couldn't in a few years if i was so inclined. so saying that you bought a house and are considering buying an investment property doesn't necessarily make you substantially any different than the majority of middle class america.