he fundamental reason for CSS is to separate structure and display. I suspect that if you had to modify HTML to correct display issues, then you hadn't completely separated structure (which belongs in HTML) from display (using CSS).
Try a fickle user. Constant change meant revisiting both, which was one of the reasons for the CSS becoming such a fiasco.
To me, the Mario and Kirby games are the ones that are supposed to be cartoony, not Zelda games. Looks like Nintendo has realized that a lot of people would at least agree with the third part of that statement.
I'll take Game-Play over artwork style anyday, but I guess what you mean by "cartoony" is at the heart.
To borrow from Bill Griffith's Zippy The Pinhead, years back, there's levels of detail that disappear as you move from Realism to Terminal Cuteness (Zeepee!) like Hello Kitty, no fingers, no mouth, etc. When I'm playing my high level Mage in a game I see him in my mind's eye as a crusty old geezer with fire in his eyes, not some Merlin-esque guy with a puffy white beard and stars and moons on a pointy baby-blue hat.
I think we expect a level of grit and grime to match the level of seriousness of the game.
Disabling taskbar... There was something which used to send those irritating messages about some useless crap -- I figured out which binary started it and renamed it, so the messenger wouldn't start, then replaced it with a copy of Notepad.exe. When the laptop starts up I just close the popped up notepad and I'm left unbothered, by that one pest anyway.
Cutesy Tooltips -- Whenever possible I check 'Never show this again on start-up' which works for some apps. More apps need this and it would be wonderful if there were some simple way to disable lots of the annoyances in Windows behaviour.
My major gripes:
The Pop-Up Key Stealer - This is one of the biggest flaws in Windows, bar none. Your typing in your spreadsheet, wordprocessor, or entering that crucial high bid with seconds to spare on eBay and something pops up, if the key you hit in that instance is acceptable input to the pop-up, it steals the keystroke and vanishes -- damned if you know what that was about unless you've got great visual retention.
Packages ship with every irritation known to man enabled. So instead of an install which asks something helpful like "Do you want to be treated like an 1d107 n00b on startup?" and lets you answer NO you waste a half hour or more digging through various preferences turning all that junk off.
Any application which requires the hand to be removed from the keyboard to the mouse and back as a matter of course.
Of course I know what HTML is. I was trying to be funny (appearently wasted effort). The joke is that HTML is old. For slashdot to only be using HTML makes it old. Something so old that people forgot about it.
Not exactly funny. I still do development to a 3.2 specification whenever practicable. For a large site, such as slashdot.org it makes sense to be moving to CSS based code, but for many of the smaller sites I develop, some of which are application generated, I find developing a CSS for each to be a pain in the tuckus and beyond the needs anyway. I once worked on a CSS which was bigger and more unwieldy than I was happy with, and some changes meant revisiting the HTML side to redesign (very painstaking work.) If you want to set up simple pages and worry not about what's impacted by changes to a CSS straight HTML works very well. Remember, Keep It Simple, Stupid.
It's sad to see people send out viruses, and spam, and other things in the wake of a disaster such as this. Same goes for the idiots in New Orleans who are walking around with guns, looting, raping, and whatever.
It's also sad to see people killing others by the hundreds or thousands in the name of some faith and the belief that it's somehow going to create a better world.
People like these should be tracked down, flogged, and then prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
No, they should be tried, then flogged when found guilty. To do otherwise would bypass all peoples rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. We need less Gitmos, thanks.
There is a special place in hell for scammers taking advantage of this disaster. It's too bad.
The problem is not where they go in their afterlife (or lack thereof) but that we have to contend with them in this life.
On another track, it's great to be giving so much when these sorts of disasters hit, but where's the love the rest of the time? When I give blood, it's not because there's some horrible disaster in dire need, it's because there might be. The American Redcross and other agencies can only so so much if their coffers are low and something like this hits. It's a good thing to give before disasters so they have money and resources at the ready. Fewer scammers are likely to trip you up if you actually contact your favorite agency proactively and give.
They will just claim, as they have in the past, that they are understaffed and overwhelmed by the number of patents that they have to deal with.
Well, tough shit. Get more people on board and raise the application fees. The number of rejected patents due to proof of prior art will make defensive patents disappear.
The USPTO office has been recently identified as a department which desperately needs reorg and increase in staffing, the odds are it'll continue to get worse until the country, and then the world, are crushed beneath the weight of billions of stupid useless patents which prevent any innovation whatsoever -- exactly the sort of thing patents were meant to protect and encourage.
In November, Creative boss Sim Wong Hoo said he aimed to
out market his
competitors, saying the MP3 war had started.
From the NYT
Creative Technology, which is based
in Singapore and has United States operations in Milpitas,
Calif., said it would consider every option available to
defend the patent, including possible legal action.
So the translation of "out market" in the particular Singapore dialect
of English could be extended to "suing the pants off of" in American English.
Considering Apple holds the lion's share of the MP3 player market, though a late comer,
it's not surprising to see the legal threat, but perhaps Creative Technologies should be
looking at their own failure to capitalise on the market which left the door open for Apple.
Hahaha, nice Shatner rip. What movie was that from? Or was that from a Saturday Night Live skit?
SNL, back in the 80's IIRC. Some guy comes out whispers in his ear and points very deliberately at something which looks like a contract. Shatner then says something to the effect of it was an example of when his mind was controlled by some creatures of some planet and then will happily sign anything they've brought and regale the convention with more Star Trek tales of adventure. It was pretty funny and I only saw it the once, the original showing.
Linus is a good guy, but in this instance I metamoderate him over the head with a rancid carp.
Yes, but is he wrong?
Ok, you're posting as an AC so I can't see your history of postings and moderation, but I've been clubbed like a baby harp seal by negative mods when not only have I been right, but informative or even insightful, simply for the fact that someone disagreed with me. I've also seen outright fabrications moderated up to +5 informative.
One enduring legacy of/. is that it's another democracy (kinda-sorta, with the heavy hand of the owners getting in now and then) and not much gets in the way of a good drubbing with a dead fish, deserved or not.;-)
Since he's already won one case, he's got some precident on his side. Now they just seem to be leaving him alone.
Could be, but this is Microsoft he's now diddling with. Their approach could be either Open the Bucket o' Lawyers or Come up with a new Windows Media format, ecoding, etc.
Some say as soon as someone figures out Microsoft's strategy, it will immediately be replaced by a new one even more confusing and inexplicable. Others say this has already happened.
Exactly right... Why don't they just leave this kind of thing open for everyone to impliment with their own player and let the best player win? Argh!
Ok, maybe I'm just stupid ignorant, but I haven't found a way to record Windows Media streams to my HD to watch again later. Maybe it's there and I'm such a git I can't find it. But if it's not there, maybe one reason why is to prevent people from doing that very thing. Nothing like a proprietary format to ensure you only get to see what the provider wants you to see and when they want to make it available to you.
Thanks DVD Jon. Keep the interoperbility clause of the DMCA alive!
What's he got anyway, a red phone to the EFF? I certainly admire what he's doing, but you know he's not just knocking on the door asking for trouble, but banging with both fists.
i wonder if i can get this to fit on a t-shirt, like my DeCSS shirt...
Gaah. I don't tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own "insightful" comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not.
Quoted for truth.
Linus is a good guy, but in this instance I metamoderate him over the head with a rancid carp.
I can't post from home because some crud-bucket on my ISP has misbehaved and slashdot is blocking me from posting there. Such creativity and innovation! Examples:
Bar posting due to a spate of negative mods (never mind net total is positive.)
Time delay for initial post
Time delay between posts, longer for AC
Content check for CAPS, too few letters per line, oddball characters appear too often, etc.
YET(!) no dupe checking code to help the editors avoid this common pitfall. You can see where the priorities lay.
"... General Motors is working on the prototype of the self-driving car.... The car uses updated technology combined with several existing innovations and,... while the technology takes some of the boring bits out of driving, it falls far short of an automatic taxi service and, anyway, various legal, technical and social barriers to its introduction remain.
Make something Fool Proof and a better class of fool will come along and proove you wrong.
Still, we can dream of jumping into the car for a relaxing nap on a 12 hour drive, eh?
Of course the system failed. The cities have flooded, there is no power in much of the area, and a good number of towers and other infrastructure has been damaged.
One of the city levees has been leaking and without power they estimate the homes of hundreds of thousands will be flooded. Without power there's also the lack of pumps running. Much of the city is 6 ft below the level of the Misssissippi River.
This is pretty much your worst case scenario in the Gulf Coast happening. Nice weather now, but people won't even be allowed back to some neighborhoods for at least one week. Others are still being evacuated, by boat, as flood waters rise.
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I think they Dutch Boy found better pay selling paints and posing for Meiji Thrifty Acres...
Really, if you've seen the dykes they have in the netherlands it's a wonder a boat actually managed the job. Dutch engineering firms rule big jobs.
Try a fickle user. Constant change meant revisiting both, which was one of the reasons for the CSS becoming such a fiasco.
I'll take Game-Play over artwork style anyday, but I guess what you mean by "cartoony" is at the heart.
To borrow from Bill Griffith's Zippy The Pinhead, years back, there's levels of detail that disappear as you move from Realism to Terminal Cuteness (Zeepee!) like Hello Kitty, no fingers, no mouth, etc. When I'm playing my high level Mage in a game I see him in my mind's eye as a crusty old geezer with fire in his eyes, not some Merlin-esque guy with a puffy white beard and stars and moons on a pointy baby-blue hat.
I think we expect a level of grit and grime to match the level of seriousness of the game.
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Disabling taskbar... There was something which used to send those irritating messages about some useless crap -- I figured out which binary started it and renamed it, so the messenger wouldn't start, then replaced it with a copy of Notepad.exe. When the laptop starts up I just close the popped up notepad and I'm left unbothered, by that one pest anyway.
- Cutesy Tooltips -- Whenever possible I check 'Never show this again on start-up' which works for some apps. More apps need this and it would be wonderful if there were some simple way to disable lots of the annoyances in Windows behaviour.
My major gripes:Not exactly funny. I still do development to a 3.2 specification whenever practicable. For a large site, such as slashdot.org it makes sense to be moving to CSS based code, but for many of the smaller sites I develop, some of which are application generated, I find developing a CSS for each to be a pain in the tuckus and beyond the needs anyway. I once worked on a CSS which was bigger and more unwieldy than I was happy with, and some changes meant revisiting the HTML side to redesign (very painstaking work.) If you want to set up simple pages and worry not about what's impacted by changes to a CSS straight HTML works very well. Remember, Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Oh nevermind.
I believe the proper phrase is 'Oh, bugger!'
It's also sad to see people killing others by the hundreds or thousands in the name of some faith and the belief that it's somehow going to create a better world.
People like these should be tracked down, flogged, and then prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
No, they should be tried, then flogged when found guilty. To do otherwise would bypass all peoples rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. We need less Gitmos, thanks.
The problem is not where they go in their afterlife (or lack thereof) but that we have to contend with them in this life.
On another track, it's great to be giving so much when these sorts of disasters hit, but where's the love the rest of the time? When I give blood, it's not because there's some horrible disaster in dire need, it's because there might be. The American Redcross and other agencies can only so so much if their coffers are low and something like this hits. It's a good thing to give before disasters so they have money and resources at the ready. Fewer scammers are likely to trip you up if you actually contact your favorite agency proactively and give.
has anyone done a full 3d treatment of nethack?
The USPTO office has been recently identified as a department which desperately needs reorg and increase in staffing, the odds are it'll continue to get worse until the country, and then the world, are crushed beneath the weight of billions of stupid useless patents which prevent any innovation whatsoever -- exactly the sort of thing patents were meant to protect and encourage.
Considering Apple holds the lion's share of the MP3 player market, though a late comer, it's not surprising to see the legal threat, but perhaps Creative Technologies should be looking at their own failure to capitalise on the market which left the door open for Apple.
Patent 6,928,433
SNL, back in the 80's IIRC. Some guy comes out whispers in his ear and points very deliberately at something which looks like a contract. Shatner then says something to the effect of it was an example of when his mind was controlled by some creatures of some planet and then will happily sign anything they've brought and regale the convention with more Star Trek tales of adventure. It was pretty funny and I only saw it the once, the original showing.
Yes, but is he wrong?
Ok, you're posting as an AC so I can't see your history of postings and moderation, but I've been clubbed like a baby harp seal by negative mods when not only have I been right, but informative or even insightful, simply for the fact that someone disagreed with me. I've also seen outright fabrications moderated up to +5 informative.
One enduring legacy of /. is that it's another democracy (kinda-sorta, with the heavy hand of the owners getting in now and then) and not much gets in the way of a good drubbing with a dead fish, deserved or not. ;-)
Oh, sure! Put it into context, just when we're metadmoderating with dead fish (and just before we get around to the lutefisk!) You trouble maker!
honestly, I do hope Linus sees this ;-)
Could be, but this is Microsoft he's now diddling with. Their approach could be either Open the Bucket o' Lawyers or Come up with a new Windows Media format, ecoding, etc.
Some say as soon as someone figures out Microsoft's strategy, it will immediately be replaced by a new one even more confusing and inexplicable. Others say this has already happened.
Ok, maybe I'm just stupid ignorant, but I haven't found a way to record Windows Media streams to my HD to watch again later. Maybe it's there and I'm such a git I can't find it. But if it's not there, maybe one reason why is to prevent people from doing that very thing. Nothing like a proprietary format to ensure you only get to see what the provider wants you to see and when they want to make it available to you.
Actually, I think he's the only one who has...
What's he got anyway, a red phone to the EFF? I certainly admire what he's doing, but you know he's not just knocking on the door asking for trouble, but banging with both fists.
i wonder if i can get this to fit on a t-shirt, like my DeCSS shirt...
Previous link Linus on /. is interesting.
Linus is a good guy, but in this instance I metamoderate him over the head with a rancid carp.I'm disgustipated.
I can't post from home because some crud-bucket on my ISP has misbehaved and slashdot is blocking me from posting there. Such creativity and innovation! Examples:
- Bar posting due to a spate of negative mods (never mind net total is positive.)
- Time delay for initial post
- Time delay between posts, longer for AC
- Content check for CAPS, too few letters per line, oddball characters appear too often, etc.
YET(!) no dupe checking code to help the editors avoid this common pitfall. You can see where the priorities lay.Make something Fool Proof and a better class of fool will come along and proove you wrong.
Still, we can dream of jumping into the car for a relaxing nap on a 12 hour drive, eh?
Depends upon whom the peer is.
or didn't you mean that kind of peer...
Your ancestors may have been designed by Kang, but *mine* were designed by Kodos!
Anyone who has followed the dinosaur debates over the past few years should not be surprised by this statement. A few examples:
One of the city levees has been leaking and without power they estimate the homes of hundreds of thousands will be flooded. Without power there's also the lack of pumps running. Much of the city is 6 ft below the level of the Misssissippi River.
This is pretty much your worst case scenario in the Gulf Coast happening. Nice weather now, but people won't even be allowed back to some neighborhoods for at least one week. Others are still being evacuated, by boat, as flood waters rise.
My dad, 85, still participates in local Field Day, in Michigan. The ARRL seems to be easily forgotten in this age of designer cell phones.