I can assure you that the company I work for ran it completely on accident... We bought a few companies that ran on SCO UNIX 4, and we have been stuck with these Beasts ever since.
Say what you will about TISysV, but it's at least not as laughable as SCO.
More cult of greenspun rederick. Of course MySQL is good enough for most sites out there. I wouldn't run TerraServer off of it, but things like phorum and so on don't do bad by it./. runs it, and/. is high volume. However, if the database were to corrupt tomorrow, I hope they have thier dump files on hand. My company uses Informix for some of their newer products, but they are trying to get to straight SQL controlled remotely. Why, you may ask? Because independence means adaptibility. But Oracle is great for its features, which include a very powerful internal scripting system. It is nice that you can check data integrity as a given with the system. That said, It may not be that important to you. If not, then run MySQL. It's good enough for 90% of the tasks put in front of it. May I also remind you that Phillip used to work for Oracle, and as such may be a bit biased. Why do I keep mentioning him? This article is written by an arsDigita affiliate. The same stances are taken against perl and apache, and for AOLServer and TCL. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and everyone IS welcome to his/her own opinion, but this sometimes rises to the level of cultism with Phillip's crew.
One thing Microsoft does wrong, and kde 'borrows', is the [X] button on windows. The [X] should not be next to the maximize and minimize button! The default should be on the left, or otherwise out of the way. It is the wrong place for a close target.
Not to bright. You have failed to pick out that I obviously agree with you. I don't like them either. I like the NAACP even less. My eyes are open, I don't need a group going around with toothpicks to prop them up.
That was pretty much what I was trying to say, without sounding like a gun-toting redneck. It is quite easy to do so, considering how sensitive our society is. Your right to not get shot is likewise not guaranteed due to the fact that murders and attempted-murders happen regardless of the act being criminal. Perhaps I should bring up the "right not to be offended" that everybody thinks they are entitled to. That right, enforced by political correctness, Saturday morning indoctrination for the kids, and "hate crime" laws, I a bunch of crap. To limit speech, even "hate speech" is to anull the first amendment.
(In 1988, George Bush called Mike Dukakis a "card-carrying member of the ACLU", in effect comparing the Bill of Rights with Communism and its defenders with Communists. This insult to the US Constitution inspired me, as it did many others, to join the ACLU. Let's hope the Shrub will not be president; one Bush was too many.)
The bill of rights guarantees that all are equal under law (despite its wording) and the ACLU tries to force the distinction on people. Constitutional rights are guaranteed, and Civil rights are assumed. I'm not saying that the ACLU is wrongheaded or evil or something, I am simply making a distinction.
BTW, a good example of this is the second amendment. It guarantees the right to keep and bear arms, but a "civil" right is the right not to get shot. The constitutional right would be the right to shoot back. Which is more important, and which is more feasable to guarantee?
It is interesting that should mention the net as a possible saviour. It is interesting because on the net, you can just rip files yourself and send them at a lower cost to others than they can. They have to Scheme on all kins of fancy encryptions, where you can just borrow and post a cd on usenet. If two copies of the latest ICP CD are out there, one legit, encrypted one, and a basement-ripped copy from j0e hax0r, people will pick j0e's version, and never ever consider PAYING for the download, which is likely to fail anyway.
I see this in a lot of "e-commerce" models. They tout their method is like "X" in the real world, but on the net, and they don't think through to the logical (if not pessimistic) conclusion that nobody needs "X" on the web.
I can copy my CDs for others, given: a) I have the time to do so (it's automated) and b) I own the means of production (2 cd drives, one being a burner, and a burnable silver CD) plus one original. Bam! Kick it up a notch with instant piracy! No net required. No download times. With the net out of the loop, even sending encrypted/tagged mp3s becomes pointless. Unfuck seemed to do the trick on Mickeysoft files, as DeCSS can do it to DVDs. The net is, as usual, a transport medium, and not a saviour.
I am writing this letter to express my frustration over the design of your web site. My main point involves the use of a great evil to the Internet, known as Java.
The method by which you display lyrics becomes not only untimely, but also frustrating to users like myself who just want fast access to the lyrics we need. I do not want a little timed singalong, I do not want a 5 minute wait for 1k of TEXTUAL data, and I certainly don't want your web page keeping me from achieving my goal of reading the lyrics to a song. I think that there are others like me out there, but they have likely said nothing and gone elsewhere.
I want to read lyrics to songs I like, and with a name like lyrics.ch, I hope that it is your intent to provide them. I hope you see the error in your ways.
I hope you post your lyrics in plaintext.
Their response:
Quoting ILS Webmaster : > Dear Eli:
We were able to bring the lyrics back only when we instituted technology to protect the copyrights of the music publishers, who own the rights to display and print lyrics. The java technology, which includes scrolling the lyrics in successive pages, allows people to view the lyrics, but not to print or to save the lyrics, which was part of the copyright protection requirements.
There is a great deal of difference between someone simply writing the lyrics for themselves, and displaying them in a digital manner which is easily and perfectly reproduced. As the "distributor" of lyrics in a digital environment, ILS chose the only option available which allowed protected lyrics and allowed users to view those lyrics without requiring them to actually install software. The Java applet is signed with a digital certificate, verifying it is the same applet that was written by Fox Agency International, to assure users they are not getting a bad or malicious applet. Like most things, Java in and of itself is not evil, it is its misuse that causes problems.
If you're interested in learning more about the issues of copyright and music, you may want to visit http://www.face-copyright.org/music/index.htm.
Thank you for visiting ILS.
ILS Webmaster
None less, the site still takes approximately 5 minutes to load what would be 2 minutes of text. Copyright does have acceptable use clauses, and they should be taken into consideration. Copying the lyrics (which would be in the best interests of bands and record companies to include anyway) for the purposes of singing along is most likely acceptable in the eyes of the governments overseeing the copyright rules. That is why acceptable use is included in the copyright law, because without it, we wouldn't be technically allowed to even memorize the lyrics.
By the way, it has been 10 minutes since I have started downloading the applet for one of your pages, and it appears to have hung it self. Perhaps a single, permanent viewer applet with some CONTROLs for forward, backward, page up and down will do. Have the applet download first, then fire up the lyric from a secure server. Let people scroll. Let them know it will scroll automatically.
Also, If I type www.lyrics.ch into my browser, I do not want to redirect to songfile.snap.com! I wanted to go to lyrics.ch. Post a link if you must, add a link to songfile.snap.com in the REAL lyrics.ch site if you must, but stop hijacking my browser. By the way, A lot of people can't stand popup windows as well.
These little niggling points may not seem significant to one who has become used to viewing his/her own site continually, but to new users, it can be the point of no return. They may not visit you again.
You may want to check out sites such as:
http://www.asktog.com or
http://www.useit.com or perhaps
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
for more information on compliance with a solid user experience.
I also want to let you know that http://srogers.com/lyrics/ has a clause that states:
"CONDITIONS & TERMS: for the use of the Classic Lyric Server By consulting this archive or copying documents the user acknowledges the following conditions:
The lyrics in the files contained herein are an interpretation of the represented musical piece. They are not intended to replace any commercially available publishing, nor is it guaranteed to represent an exact transcription of any commercially or otherwise released piece. In fact, I urge you to support the artists by buying one of the lyrics books above. These files are for private, scholarly, or research use only. The documents are subject to different license and copyright regulations. As far as no particular regulation is indicated, the documents are not (available) in the 'Public Domain' . The user acknowledges and agrees that the lyrics are copyrighted and protected under the copyright law. The copyrights remain with the authors respectively with the indicated Institutions Passing documents to third persons presumes, that these persons previously were informed about and are liable for compliance of the regulations. "
It is not your site's problem if an end user re-distributes the copied datum to another location. They can and may do so, as I am sure you are aware, completely without your knowledge.
BTW, srogers.com/lyrics gave me what I needed (behind blue eyes by the Who) in a matter of seconds. I doubt you can afford to lose out.
as of today, Monday, May 1, I have not received, nor do I expect to receive a response. Also, I will go to any other site with the cajones to post something that doesn't take 5 minutes to download via applet.
It looks nice, and it looks more like Ultima Online than it does diablo. The graphics are about on par with the current mode, where a least common denominator is needed.
I'd like to see more of this, since Middle Earth was cancelled by Sierra, and UO/Diablo/EQ/AC are all played out and very 'sploitable. It is nice to see this in an opensource model, if not to simply to find all 'sploits in code, instead of through cheat sites.
This also helps fledgling MMORPG authors to understand the structure for the creation of even more ambitious projects. I'll have to grab this tonite.
Wow, I'd wager that completing that checklist would make you quite suited to work at ars digita. It would also make you a tool for AOLserver and tcl, two things that are somewhat outside the mainstream. I'm a PHP/apache, ASP/IIS person myself, depending on the project, and I cannot see the need for either tcl or AOLserver in the job market. More likely, I see a need for PERL, Apache, PHP, XML, SQL, and sundry other supporting technologies. Tcl is obviously a favourite to Phil, and as such colours things already.
Actually, the monitor is the only part that looks like the iMAC to me. the PC itself is definitely seperate, and not an all-in-one. Yes, the colours are similar, but as you recall, they only have a patent on the "bondi blue" colour. As I'm against patenting a certain pigment or wavelength of light, I'd have to say Apple has no moral authority over this company, and if any company, they should sue AMD.
When they released the Apple I, they had to contend with the Altair and the Timex Sinclairs during that time. Thereafter, they had won that market for a while when the twin dominars of Atari and Commodore rather trounced them in the early 80s. Everyone I know had either a C=64 or an Atari. Only schools could afford an Apple. I know people that have several C=64s in their closets, stacked like munitions. Very strange folks. Apple had a big following with the release of the Macintosh, but the pc momentum relegated them to a footnote by 1990. Then again, Atari and Commodore are no more. This could mean tha the PC may one day disappear, though that is unlikely...
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that Apple is suing for a manufacturing process (that's all there is to clear plastic, sorry..) or the fact that Roland considers clear plastic "futuristic"..
That's css2, and it isn't really necessary. I rarely find a use for tables except for placing a table of data on a page. For layouts, I set borders in css, and keep it simple. You could, however, use a span or division to achieve a modest sidebar. The tr-td combinations in slashdot's layout are superflous if you use a nested div tag. You define two css classes:
div.top { margin-left:.5em;} #this is the top layer of ea thread div.sub { margin-left: 1em;} #for every nested thread
The result is a set of nested articles, much like the slash code.
<div class="top"> top thread text <div class="sub"> second thread text </div> <div class="sub"> third, parallel thread text </div> </div>
no table/tr/td combinations, just divisions. the slasdot front page would be defined as 4 divs: A top for the ads and logo, one for the left column, one for stories, and one for the right. Without css, everything would fall straight down the page, and as such, be available in next generation WAP devices.
It would make a lighter light mode... I think I'll get the slash code and make up some patches. (dusts off perl books) Or maybe I'll try out the code to some of the php-based systems. I'd actually like to see this all run from XML+XSLT on the backend to generate a better experience based on client. This would rock.
Predictions like those and These make some sense at the time based on current technology. They were often based on fantasy in their day. Personal robots didn't catch on due to many impractalities, starting with keeping them powered. The "Pushbutton Society" they predicted in the 50s and so forth have not been wholly realised, but some of the technologies have. PCs are also a part of the equation left out in the 50s, but they developed anyways!
While the conversion of ALL books seems ludicrious, MOST of them can be translated to machine code. A great deal of the books out there can be OCR-ed and formatted into a usable format and some stories are only available online.
Besides, the prediction of all books being available online are more limited by publishers than technology. Until you have some sort of cross-platform (fie on Microsoft!) book-reading solution where payments for material are made, you won't see everything online. This is more societal than anything else.
Perhaps the icons are logical, but when given mystery meat navigation, she is most likely confused. That's the thing with icons, they have to be targeted, and they have to mean the same thing to all people. This fellow is talking about an international effort, and therefore must not only translate, but localise his content.
Localisation involves matching culture to the point that an add doesn't give the wrong impression.
Nav bars are fine in any language if they are horizontal. You have 10 seconds to keep someone rapt (some would argue less) and extra bars and rollovers really tick some people off. Also, if you internationalise your data, you will be better off not creating graphical buttons. What would you rather have, a site that is accessable and clean in every language, or one that is good looking? remember, you can't search/replace text in a graphic if you make a translation mistake!
Damn straight! that may very well be out of my personal design theory! Tables are logical elements for organising data, not a tool to lay out your webpage! I couldn't put this better myself! Maybe if people paid attention to content, the internet would be a far better place. I suppose I'll go back to dreaming.
PS: I tried to come up with an alternate layout for/., and made it in css. not only did it look sweet, but it was changable from a stylesheet! whoot!
Where does my time go? I've been trying to observe the passage of time with more scrutiny than in the past. I drive the speed limit, and enjoy the view. Since I run early hours (7:00 - 3:45) I rarely get stuck in traffic. However, noticing the travel time makes it last a little longer, and it also proves to be relaxing. I don't tense up when I drive at a reasonable pace. This helps me feel more relaxed as I delve into my daily work. This is a good thing.
As for the close button on elevators, I don't use them myself. If I can, I'll take the stairs. I used to take it up ~10 stories with ~40 lbs of luggage on my back. It felt good. I was still on time, and there were no worries.
I slow down other ways. I get plenty of sleep, since it is: a) unavoidable, and b) The only way I can get up at 5:30 am. I don't miss the time I spend dreaming. In fact, I find it worthwhile to get a good night's rest, else I am a grump.
Still, my weeks fly by. I have been meaning to get back into the martial arts, but that would take up 2 of the 6 hours I am home at night. I am uncertain if I can afford this timewise.
Also, when all is said and done, I end up working 9 hours a day. Whatever happened to 9-5? To me it seems more like 9-5:45. I couldn't see spending all the hours of sunlight indoors. Nor could I see waiting in rush hour traffic. I'd rather trade sleep to come in early rather than leave late.
No wonder you get a degree in one year! 12*6 is 72 credit/hours each week! And if you consider the average college student takes time off for summer, they only take 2/3 of a year in school. This assumes about 50 weeks for the online program times the 72 hours/week, or 3600 hours per year! damn straight that's a four year education!
Current implementations of flywheels in production for things like cars and buses have a spherical flywheel wound with wire, a wire wound high-impact polycarbon shell, and a balancing mechanism. It pitches, rolls and yaws with the car itself. the spin at 70,000 rpm, and can stay up for a week. yummy. A company called Rosen motors (article in redherring) has been working on a car containing this and a 2 moving part turbogenerator. It is pretty sweet, and may invalidate previous motors right off the line!
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I can assure you that the company I work for ran it completely on accident... We bought a few companies that ran on SCO UNIX 4, and we have been stuck with these Beasts ever since.
Say what you will about TISysV, but it's at least not as laughable as SCO.
More cult of greenspun rederick. Of course MySQL is good enough for most sites out there. I wouldn't run TerraServer off of it, but things like phorum and so on don't do bad by it. /. runs it, and /. is high volume. However, if the database were to corrupt tomorrow, I hope they have thier dump files on hand. My company uses Informix for some of their newer products, but they are trying to get to straight SQL controlled remotely. Why, you may ask? Because independence means adaptibility. But Oracle is great for its features, which include a very powerful internal scripting system. It is nice that you can check data integrity as a given with the system. That said, It may not be that important to you. If not, then run MySQL. It's good enough for 90% of the tasks put in front of it. May I also remind you that Phillip used to work for Oracle, and as such may be a bit biased. Why do I keep mentioning him? This article is written by an arsDigita affiliate. The same stances are taken against perl and apache, and for AOLServer and TCL. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and everyone IS welcome to his/her own opinion, but this sometimes rises to the level of cultism with Phillip's crew.
One thing Microsoft does wrong, and kde 'borrows', is the [X] button on windows. The [X] should not be next to the maximize and minimize button! The default should be on the left, or otherwise out of the way. It is the wrong place for a close target.
<sarcasm>But clearly they meant "the military" when they wrote that!</sarcasm>
And clearly they meant only newspapers have the right to free speech. As usual the Anonymous coward collective is correct.
Not to bright. You have failed to pick out that I obviously agree with you. I don't like them either. I like the NAACP even less. My eyes are open, I don't need a group going around with toothpicks to prop them up.
That was pretty much what I was trying to say, without sounding like a gun-toting redneck. It is quite easy to do so, considering how sensitive our society is. Your right to not get shot is likewise not guaranteed due to the fact that murders and attempted-murders happen regardless of the act being criminal. Perhaps I should bring up the "right not to be offended" that everybody thinks they are entitled to. That right, enforced by political correctness, Saturday morning indoctrination for the kids, and "hate crime" laws, I a bunch of crap. To limit speech, even "hate speech" is to anull the first amendment.
(In 1988, George Bush called Mike Dukakis a "card-carrying member of the ACLU", in effect comparing the Bill of Rights with Communism and its defenders with Communists. This insult to the US Constitution inspired me, as it did many others, to join the ACLU. Let's hope the Shrub will not be president; one Bush was too many.)
The bill of rights guarantees that all are equal under law (despite its wording) and the ACLU tries to force the distinction on people. Constitutional rights are guaranteed, and Civil rights are assumed. I'm not saying that the ACLU is wrongheaded or evil or something, I am simply making a distinction.
BTW, a good example of this is the second amendment. It guarantees the right to keep and bear arms, but a "civil" right is the right not to get shot. The constitutional right would be the right to shoot back. Which is more important, and which is more feasable to guarantee?
It is interesting that should mention the net as a possible saviour. It is interesting because on the net, you can just rip files yourself and send them at a lower cost to others than they can. They have to Scheme on all kins of fancy encryptions, where you can just borrow and post a cd on usenet. If two copies of the latest ICP CD are out there, one legit, encrypted one, and a basement-ripped copy from j0e hax0r, people will pick j0e's version, and never ever consider PAYING for the download, which is likely to fail anyway.
I see this in a lot of "e-commerce" models. They tout their method is like "X" in the real world, but on the net, and they don't think through to the logical (if not pessimistic) conclusion that nobody needs "X" on the web.
I can copy my CDs for others, given: a) I have the time to do so (it's automated) and b) I own the means of production (2 cd drives, one being a burner, and a burnable silver CD) plus one original. Bam! Kick it up a notch with instant piracy! No net required. No download times. With the net out of the loop, even sending encrypted/tagged mp3s becomes pointless. Unfuck seemed to do the trick on Mickeysoft files, as DeCSS can do it to DVDs. The net is, as usual, a transport medium, and not a saviour.
I am writing this letter to express my frustration over the design of your web site. My main point involves the use of a great evil to the Internet, known as Java.
The method by which you display lyrics becomes not only untimely, but also frustrating to users like myself who just want fast access to the lyrics we need. I do not want a little timed singalong, I do not want a 5 minute wait for 1k of TEXTUAL data, and I certainly don't want your web page keeping me from achieving my goal of reading the lyrics to a song. I think that there are others like me out there, but they have likely said nothing and gone elsewhere.
I want to read lyrics to songs I like, and with a name like lyrics.ch, I hope that it is your intent to provide them. I hope you see the error in your ways.
I hope you post your lyrics in plaintext.
Their response:
Quoting ILS Webmaster : > Dear Eli:We were able to bring the lyrics back only when we instituted technology to protect the copyrights of the music publishers, who own the rights to display and print lyrics. The java technology, which includes scrolling the lyrics in successive pages, allows people to view the lyrics, but not to print or to save the lyrics, which was part of the copyright protection requirements.
There is a great deal of difference between someone simply writing the lyrics for themselves, and displaying them in a digital manner which is easily and perfectly reproduced. As the "distributor" of lyrics in a digital environment, ILS chose the only option available which allowed protected lyrics and allowed users to view those lyrics without requiring them to actually install software. The Java applet is signed with a digital certificate, verifying it is the same applet that was written by Fox Agency International, to assure users they are not getting a bad or malicious applet. Like most things, Java in and of itself is not evil, it is its misuse that causes problems.
If you're interested in learning more about the issues of copyright and music, you may want to visit http://www.face-copyright.org/music/index.htm.
Thank you for visiting ILS.
ILS Webmaster
None less, the site still takes approximately 5 minutes to load what would be 2 minutes of text. Copyright does have acceptable use clauses, and they should be taken into consideration. Copying the lyrics (which would be in the best interests of bands and record companies to include anyway) for the purposes of singing along is most likely acceptable in the eyes of the governments overseeing the copyright rules. That is why acceptable use is included in the copyright law, because without it, we wouldn't be technically allowed to even memorize the lyrics.
By the way, it has been 10 minutes since I have started downloading the applet for one of your pages, and it appears to have hung it self. Perhaps a single, permanent viewer applet with some CONTROLs for forward, backward, page up and down will do. Have the applet download first, then fire up the lyric from a secure server. Let people scroll. Let them know it will scroll automatically.
Also, If I type www.lyrics.ch into my browser, I do not want to redirect to songfile.snap.com! I wanted to go to lyrics.ch. Post a link if you must, add a link to songfile.snap.com in the REAL lyrics.ch site if you must, but stop hijacking my browser. By the way, A lot of people can't stand popup windows as well.
These little niggling points may not seem significant to one who has become used to viewing his/her own site continually, but to new users, it can be the point of no return. They may not visit you again.
You may want to check out sites such as:
http://www.asktog.com or
http://www.useit.com or perhaps
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
for more information on compliance with a solid user experience.
I also want to let you know that http://srogers.com/lyrics/ has a clause that states:
"CONDITIONS & TERMS: for the use of the Classic Lyric Server By consulting this archive or copying documents the user acknowledges the following conditions:
The lyrics in the files contained herein are an interpretation of the represented musical piece. They are not intended to replace any commercially available publishing, nor is it guaranteed to represent an exact transcription of any commercially or otherwise released piece. In fact, I urge you to support the artists by buying one of the lyrics books above. These files are for private, scholarly, or research use only. The documents are subject to different license and copyright regulations. As far as no particular regulation is indicated, the documents are not (available) in the 'Public Domain' . The user acknowledges and agrees that the lyrics are copyrighted and protected under the copyright law. The copyrights remain with the authors respectively with the indicated Institutions Passing documents to third persons presumes, that these persons previously were informed about and are liable for compliance of the regulations. "
It is not your site's problem if an end user re-distributes the copied datum to another location. They can and may do so, as I am sure you are aware, completely without your knowledge.
BTW, srogers.com/lyrics gave me what I needed (behind blue eyes by the Who) in a matter of seconds. I doubt you can afford to lose out.as of today, Monday, May 1, I have not received, nor do I expect to receive a response. Also, I will go to any other site with the cajones to post something that doesn't take 5 minutes to download via applet.
It looks nice, and it looks more like Ultima Online than it does diablo. The graphics are about on par with the current mode, where a least common denominator is needed.
I'd like to see more of this, since Middle Earth was cancelled by Sierra, and UO/Diablo/EQ/AC are all played out and very 'sploitable. It is nice to see this in an opensource model, if not to simply to find all 'sploits in code, instead of through cheat sites.
This also helps fledgling MMORPG authors to understand the structure for the creation of even more ambitious projects. I'll have to grab this tonite.
Wow, I'd wager that completing that checklist would make you quite suited to work at ars digita. It would also make you a tool for AOLserver and tcl, two things that are somewhat outside the mainstream. I'm a PHP/apache, ASP/IIS person myself, depending on the project, and I cannot see the need for either tcl or AOLserver in the job market. More likely, I see a need for PERL, Apache, PHP, XML, SQL, and sundry other supporting technologies. Tcl is obviously a favourite to Phil, and as such colours things already.
Actually, the monitor is the only part that looks like the iMAC to me. the PC itself is definitely seperate, and not an all-in-one. Yes, the colours are similar, but as you recall, they only have a patent on the "bondi blue" colour. As I'm against patenting a certain pigment or wavelength of light, I'd have to say Apple has no moral authority over this company, and if any company, they should sue AMD.
When they released the Apple I, they had to contend with the Altair and the Timex Sinclairs during that time. Thereafter, they had won that market for a while when the twin dominars of Atari and Commodore rather trounced them in the early 80s. Everyone I know had either a C=64 or an Atari. Only schools could afford an Apple. I know people that have several C=64s in their closets, stacked like munitions. Very strange folks. Apple had a big following with the release of the Macintosh, but the pc momentum relegated them to a footnote by 1990. Then again, Atari and Commodore are no more. This could mean tha the PC may one day disappear, though that is unlikely...
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that Apple is suing for a manufacturing process (that's all there is to clear plastic, sorry..) or the fact that Roland considers clear plastic "futuristic"..
Man, he was on Reading rainbow before startrek!
(oh, and follow the link. This post is NOT redundant)
That's css2, and it isn't really necessary. I rarely find a use for tables except for placing a table of data on a page. For layouts, I set borders in css, and keep it simple. You could, however, use a span or division to achieve a modest sidebar. The tr-td combinations in slashdot's layout are superflous if you use a nested div tag. You define two css classes:
div.top { margin-left:div.sub { margin-left: 1em;} #for every nested thread
The result is a set of nested articles, much like the slash code.
<div class="top">top thread text
<div class="sub">
second thread text
</div>
<div class="sub">
third, parallel thread text
</div>
</div>
no table/tr/td combinations, just divisions. the slasdot front page would be defined as 4 divs: A top for the ads and logo, one for the left column, one for stories, and one for the right. Without css, everything would fall straight down the page, and as such, be available in next generation WAP devices.
It would make a lighter light mode... I think I'll get the slash code and make up some patches. (dusts off perl books) Or maybe I'll try out the code to some of the php-based systems. I'd actually like to see this all run from XML+XSLT on the backend to generate a better experience based on client. This would rock.
Predictions like those and These make some sense at the time based on current technology. They were often based on fantasy in their day. Personal robots didn't catch on due to many impractalities, starting with keeping them powered. The "Pushbutton Society" they predicted in the 50s and so forth have not been wholly realised, but some of the technologies have. PCs are also a part of the equation left out in the 50s, but they developed anyways!
While the conversion of ALL books seems ludicrious, MOST of them can be translated to machine code. A great deal of the books out there can be OCR-ed and formatted into a usable format and some stories are only available online.
Besides, the prediction of all books being available online are more limited by publishers than technology. Until you have some sort of cross-platform (fie on Microsoft!) book-reading solution where payments for material are made, you won't see everything online. This is more societal than anything else.
It is unfortunate that they should pick this name. The name is currently used by the WAP Forum in their Wireless markup language.
I figure they are aware of this.
Perhaps the icons are logical, but when given mystery meat navigation, she is most likely confused. That's the thing with icons, they have to be targeted, and they have to mean the same thing to all people. This fellow is talking about an international effort, and therefore must not only translate, but localise his content.
Localisation involves matching culture to the point that an add doesn't give the wrong impression.
Nav bars are fine in any language if they are horizontal. You have 10 seconds to keep someone rapt (some would argue less) and extra bars and rollovers really tick some people off. Also, if you internationalise your data, you will be better off not creating graphical buttons. What would you rather have, a site that is accessable and clean in every language, or one that is good looking? remember, you can't search/replace text in a graphic if you make a translation mistake!
Damn straight! that may very well be out of my personal design theory! Tables are logical elements for organising data, not a tool to lay out your webpage! I couldn't put this better myself! Maybe if people paid attention to content, the internet would be a far better place. I suppose I'll go back to dreaming.
PS: I tried to come up with an alternate layout for /., and made it in css. not only did it look sweet, but it was changable from a stylesheet! whoot!
Where does my time go? I've been trying to observe the passage of time with more scrutiny than in the past. I drive the speed limit, and enjoy the view. Since I run early hours (7:00 - 3:45) I rarely get stuck in traffic. However, noticing the travel time makes it last a little longer, and it also proves to be relaxing. I don't tense up when I drive at a reasonable pace. This helps me feel more relaxed as I delve into my daily work. This is a good thing.
As for the close button on elevators, I don't use them myself. If I can, I'll take the stairs. I used to take it up ~10 stories with ~40 lbs of luggage on my back. It felt good. I was still on time, and there were no worries.
I slow down other ways. I get plenty of sleep, since it is: a) unavoidable, and b) The only way I can get up at 5:30 am. I don't miss the time I spend dreaming. In fact, I find it worthwhile to get a good night's rest, else I am a grump.
Still, my weeks fly by. I have been meaning to get back into the martial arts, but that would take up 2 of the 6 hours I am home at night. I am uncertain if I can afford this timewise.
Also, when all is said and done, I end up working 9 hours a day. Whatever happened to 9-5? To me it seems more like 9-5:45. I couldn't see spending all the hours of sunlight indoors. Nor could I see waiting in rush hour traffic. I'd rather trade sleep to come in early rather than leave late.
No wonder you get a degree in one year! 12*6 is 72 credit/hours each week! And if you consider the average college student takes time off for summer, they only take 2/3 of a year in school. This assumes about 50 weeks for the online program times the 72 hours/week, or 3600 hours per year! damn straight that's a four year education!
Current implementations of flywheels in production for things like cars and buses have a spherical flywheel wound with wire, a wire wound high-impact polycarbon shell, and a balancing mechanism. It pitches, rolls and yaws with the car itself. the spin at 70,000 rpm, and can stay up for a week. yummy. A company called Rosen motors (article in redherring) has been working on a car containing this and a 2 moving part turbogenerator. It is pretty sweet, and may invalidate previous motors right off the line!