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  1. Re:Keep it simple stupid... on 10 Best Resources for CSS · · Score: 1

    When the n-th child pseudo class (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-css3-selectors-20011 113/#nth-child-pseudo) becomes available, you will be able to text-align a particular column of tds without having to type class="numerical".

  2. Re:CSS tables on 10 Best Resources for CSS · · Score: 1

    Would you please give some examples of dynamic content that could not be styled with shiny cssgardenesque images? Are you referring to things like variable length texts that are not known to the designer in advance, like a slashdot comment?

  3. Re:CSS tables on 10 Best Resources for CSS · · Score: 1

    Is the complaint that the author presents the menu using divs rather than ul/li pairs? Do you advocate authors deploy site specific DTDs so they can write instead of ?

  4. Re:CSS tables on 10 Best Resources for CSS · · Score: 1

    I understand that you were ranting, but what is the substance of your objection to using divs for page layout?
    Is csszengarden not doing exactly that to superb effect?

  5. Re:Thank You Firefox! on Update on Standards and CSS in IE7 · · Score: 1

    Want Firefox to pass Acid2? The source code is available, and you are welcome to contribute the necessary changes.

  6. Re:If the fix their bugs they'll break web sites on Update on Standards and CSS in IE7 · · Score: 1

    The number of web sites already built is a tiny fraction of the web sites that will be built in the future. They are doing by far the greater harm by leaving the erroneous behavior in place.

  7. Re:A Ph.D ?? on Got Spyware? Throw out the Computer! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Professor Gelernter's software company in the past refused on principle to support any products except Microsoft's, on the grounds that "Microsoft has won the battle of the marketplace." Live by the monoculture, die by the monoculture.

  8. Re:The Name... on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    You mean gMonad? Or ... Gonad?

  9. Re:A little offtopic question: on Security Fears Over Google Accelerator · · Score: 1

    GWA is useful when a site you're interested in is suffering from the Slashdot Effect. You can install it and turn it off, only turning it on when you want to read a page whose server is struggling, on the chance that the page is in Google's cache.

  10. Re:Google is becoming a threat on Security Fears Over Google Accelerator · · Score: 1

    Note that a webmaster who chooses to block GWA sitewide rather than judiciously mark pages private may find this affects the site's pagerank.

  11. Re:Does this surprise anyone? on Security Fears Over Google Accelerator · · Score: 1

    It would only download TFA if enough other slashdotters had clicked through to TFA for its heuristics to notice.

    Fat chance.

  12. "Hard Work" ? on Permormance-Enhancing Contact Lenses · · Score: 1

    The activity that most closely resembles a contest of "hard work" is conventional massive multiplayer online gaming. The highest ratings go to those who carry out the most repetitions.

    If you do not want to see a competition based on the athlete's innate biological ability plus his or her hard work plus the hard work of his or her doctors and technicians, I think you will need to publish a Standard Athlete specification analogous to Formula One racing.

  13. Re:Test flawed? on New IE7 Information Announced · · Score: 1
    The test authors explain in painstaking detail here what the purpose of those lines are:

    The two ancestor object elements should both display their fallback contents -- which is the inner object element. The fallback content of the inner object element should not be displayed as the data attribute returns a valid PNG image (depicting the eyes).


    They are testing the ability of the browser to display fallback content.

    Please explain how you propose to test a browser's ability to display fallback content if you rule out deliberately specifying invalid content which it should reject.
  14. History Is Available in Opera, But Not Updated on Google Adds Search History Feature · · Score: 1

    Alas, I wrote too soon. Opera does show the Google search history, but it does not appear to update with new searches. Hmm. Untracked searches with one browser, tracked ones with another.

    Or private searches with one Firefox profile, tracked with another.

    Many variations.

  15. A9 does it with a plugin on Google Adds Search History Feature · · Score: 1

    A9 implemented search history with a plugin. Google does it cross-browser. That makes server-side search history available for Opera.

  16. Gelernter's LifeStreams on Jef Raskin's Humane Interface Released · · Score: 1

    LifeStreams requires Outlook and Office. The overlap between "users of Outlook and Office" and "early adopters of novel ways to use computers" is slim. Targeting that sliver made the whole project seem dimwitted to me.

  17. Re:...okay... on Open Source Social Bookmarking Service · · Score: 1
    It's the network effect of many people using a common resource. Split that resource up into disjoint sites, and the value is diminished.

    The value is not necessarily diminished. One of the disjoint sites (del.irio.us) is likely to be highly populated by members who assign open source principles a high value. Consequently, the data they provide to their fellow collaborators will (it is reasonable to think) be biased toward open source, Creative Commons, and other freedom-valuing content. Arguably this increases the value of both sets, since freedom lovers and freedom fairweather friends will not trip over each others' inappropriate recommendations.

    See (the Google cache of) Mark Pilgrim's essay Freedom 0 for other arguments supporting a policy of prefering free solutions in advance of necessity.

  18. Re:...okay... on Open Source Social Bookmarking Service · · Score: 1

    If del.icio.us changes its terms of service, you are stuck. If del.irio.us changes its terms of service, you (or someone else) can fork.

  19. Re:Traffic Costs Money! on BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash · · Score: 1

    You have my deep sympathy. I hope you switch to a vendor with a time & bandwidth based pricing model in the near future. Traffic based pricing is e-peonage.

  20. Re:It's all about you on BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are claiming (anonymously) that, for two instances, Wal*Mart's lower prices are not due to Wal*Mart's lower labor costs and that VOIP vendors lower prices are not due to their lower traffic costs.

    This is an extraordinary claim, and requires extraordinary evidence to support it.

  21. It's all about you on BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your upstream has no value to you when it idle.

    Putting it to use to distribute content you like means the content you like can be distributed to you without the vendor having to bundle in the cost to you of building a distribution infrastructure that duplicates resources you are already paying for in the form of your idle upstream capacity.

  22. Re:Mirror on 3D Sphere Interface for XP · · Score: 1

    The Coralized link to your mirror is working:

    http://li3-33.members.linode.com.nyud.net:8090/~ su nny/slashdot-mirror/www.hamar.sk/sphere/screenshot s.htm

  23. Re:Coralized link to Goauld Eyes on Simple Special Effects? · · Score: 1

    Where did that space come from?

    Here's the corrected version:

    http://blog.durdle.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/Go auldTest.jpg

  24. Coralized link to Goauld Eyes on Simple Special Effects? · · Score: 1

    In order to spare this guy's bandwidth, here's the link, Coralized for your convenience:

    http://blog.durdle.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/ Go auldTest.jpg

  25. Re:Exit polls would throw the election on Slate Posts Top-Secret Exit Polling Numbers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tricksy anonymous Republican hobbitses!