You've gotten mixed up, I hope you meant to respond to the other post because my page is clearly, http://www.andrewvc.com and the bluerobot page is the one i cite as wrong. I'm just clearning this up for any readers who get teh wrong idea.
That size does pixels and percents not percents alone. The box sizes on that site are hard coded to the browser width with a width:100%. This is WRONG. Why? if you were to try and make extra large font sizes (for a sight disabled person) the font sizes increase, but the boxes take up the same portion of space on the page. With tables, the whole page physically expands. meaning some horizontal scrolling action goes on. Additionally, that page does not work in reverse. If you narrow down your browser window the right column goes in back of the center column! That is EXTREMELY broken. So yes, fonts can increase with percents, but on that site the containers are percent specified based on a pixel (browser width) value. This leaves them effectively pixel specified. specified creating problems. This was all observed on mozilla firebird.
Hate to reply twice. But a normal HTML table gets larger as the text inside of it gets larger. The linked to CSS table stays a fixed pixel size regardless of font size (i'm using firebird atm, as i mentioned above it resizes not at all in IE). Table resizing is of course NECESSARY because what use are increased font sizes if they must be stuffed into tiny boxes! Good attempt, but a table replacement it is not.
Good link, but broken. It works better than any other 3 column CSS layout I've seen. Unfortuanately, it doesn't let fonts resize in IE (at least trying on my IE 6, which does resize fonts correctly on other sites). It's nice that they've gotten so much farther. I dont' have time to check out there CSS or anything, but thanks for the link, and I hope that there will be a solution.
Ok, I like ALA, I'm a bit of standards guy even, my whole website is XHTML 1.0 strict. Unfortuanately slashdot has a table based layout, which, to put it simply, CSS cannot handle. I've spent days researching correct CSS tables in the past and it is an impossibility. The problem? Font overlapping. Try a text zoom to as little as 200% (yes, doubling the text size is not that extreme) and most CSS table based designs instantly break. Much like this one. My site works fine with it as everything is position ed such that font size only breaks at absurdly high magnification, but if it were any more complex I'd HAVE to use tables. I don't know if this si a browser issue, or a problem with the CSS spec, but text overflow is a serious issue, one which breaks nearly every CSS page with complex layout in existance. There needs to be a way to style tables in CSS without having to use a table tag. In short, CSS boxes are just that, boxes, they don't link together to correctly handle font sizes. The new slashdot is more broken than the current slashdot in a functional sense.
As a side note to this media stunt. What is the state of wearable computing goggles. Personally, I'm goddamn sick of looking at my CRT but don't want to pay for a 19" LCD. Would buying goggles keep the price down (I figure two tiny LCDs must be cheaper than one big one). Where could I buy such goggles? Google is turning up nothing.
the FX series has full Direct X 9 support. This is mroe than just a little bit more ram. The new high end nVidia cards are not targeted toward 5900 owners, they're targeted at GeForce 4 owners who want more performance, and more new features.
Most of the problems you mention are not percieved to be problems at all by most people. I don't know where you got this business about fluid animation, can you tell me where it is written down that animation must be fluid? Is it in a book? some proclamation? Comic book animation is much less fluid, but no one complains about that. Maybe you can artfully tell a scene without 24 frames per second even, god forbid!
As for your complaint about story line and it being too wrapped up in its own visual beauty. You could look at those as plusses. GitS as a story is not 'Original' in the same sense that the godfather is not 'original'. It's appeal transcends its lack of originality in the same way the godfather does. It engages you in its world, it has well built characters. Who draw you into the story in GitS own curious way. It draws on various motifs to bring about a cohesive impression and explanation of the universe in which GitS is placed. Finally it gives you a story you can latch onto. What are you looking for!
As for cinematic effects I think you're completely off your rocker. FX in anime as well as in normal cinema are equal with the arival of CG. The matrix was in fact based on anime! Good animation takes a lot of time, and a lot of money. I'm just as impressed when I view a big budget anime that went all out on certain scenes with intense detail as I am when I see a big budget hollywood flick with SFX, more even because big budget anime scenes tend to be more aesthetic than gee whiz.
Lastly, downcast angst poses and other such cliches are present in SOME not ALL anime. Just as they are present in SOME not ALL 35mm films. In fact, since most films suck, they are about as common in both!
It seems that everything you've named that's bad about anime is either totally subjective (your hatred of the low FPS) or totally bullshit because you name characteristics that are common to both schools of cinema.
What if you get a $100 processor (barton 2600+) spend $50 on cooling (Slk 947 U plus fan) and overclock it to the performance of a $250 (barton 3200+) processor with no problems? The same can be said of video cards. It seems that cooling has a higher ROI than just buying the better chip.
I've got a 2600+ barton running right now at 3200+ (2.21 GHz) with a 400 Mhz FSB on a a7n8x with PC3200 and it's solid as a rock. Temperature doesn't seem to be an issue at all, but then i'm using a massive Thermalright SLK-947U
That kind of thing is silly. Something like that should be user transparent. These kinds of things seeping into userspace are a Bad Thing(tm). Users don't need to know about your CMS. This kind of thing should be solved with proper architecture. In the worst case mod rewrite could serve as a bandage.
On each article page, there is a link labeled Permanent URL which you click to permanently bookmark the page. Now, i can't figure out how to get to a page in such a way where the permanent bookmark url is different than the page I'm viewing, but I'm sure that this is not good UI design. Why are all these URLs having to be reused? there is no good reason, especially with things like modrewrite. I've always found ALA to be useful, but often out of step with the true philosophy of the W3C. That being said, I think W3C HTML standards suck and are philosophically broken in the first place, so maybe he has a point.
If you notice, the shop for music online feature leads to several different music retailers. One of which is buymusic.com; a site which ONLY accepts internet explorer. Of course that doesn't make what they're doing right at all. BuyMusic.com's IE on Windows only policy is just MS trying to further lock people into the windows platform.
Well, on the one hand a few catholic cancer survivors get to live past their life expectancy. They're probably in first world countries anyway and have allready outlived most of the world pop. But it's nice because more people are alive cuz of prayer. Then they go back home, and continue to fund a murderous organization taht perpetuates spread of the aids virus in africa. And last time I checked, all the praying they were doing didn't help a damn soul. Religion carries too much baggage. It's a dangerous tool, can be used for good or evil. But mostly evil it seems.
if you know it works that way. Why not go and visit them everyday, without praying like you used to. Share your love and hope for them, and bond with them in a non-religious way. At least then you don't get the wackos screaming that god is dead after their dear are dead and departed. Just cuz religion works doesn't mean it's the only solution. In fact, religion carry's a lot of baggage, so it'd be my last solution.
I'm curious if anyone knows this (I know nothing about chips). But do transmeta processors use the cache to cache code before or after it has been code morphed? I saw the large cache and assumed that must be the reason as it would seem that increasing the amount of code that need not be recompiled would probably help out the transmeta chips quite a bit
2) SVG should not be used for the entire UI, that's overkill, but for many areas it makes life a lot easier. For instance, icons in SVG make them infinitely scalable, so that people can resize their screens or their icons to whatever they find comfortable with no loss of quality. (Think handicapped.) Also, no more need for Small and Large versions of icons. Just have one icon, and the system scales it to whatever size is needed.
Ummmm, yeah, if we're gonna go for infinitely resizable screens, let's go all the way. Considering how simple most UI themes are, the rendering time difference between raster and vector should be negligible. I remember librsvg rendering some simple graphics faster than bitmaps. The performance is there, let's do it once, and do it right. Make it last longer. 3) Hopefully, this will mean better support for SVG creation. KDE's SVG editing tools are still not the best. What I really want is to be able to use SVG as an editing format natively, not have to use a program-specific format (Illustrator, Kontour, Karbon14, anything) and then export to SVG. I want to work natively in SVG. With luck, this will let us do that.
Adobe Illustrator can import and export SVG easily, as can many other programs. it's a decent interchange format (even macromedia flash imports it) But you forget that a good vector program probably won't have SVG as it's only goal. When I use Illustrator for print design for instance, I'd be angry if I ran into an SVG imposed wall. Why would we need a special tool just for SVG graphics? It works fine as a subset of other vector programs There are some potential downsides, of course. Most notably, the risk that KDE will become like Mozilla. An all-XML UI, which while flexible also makes it considerably slower than just using compiled widgets. KSVG will have to be very very fast to avoid that problem, unless things are precompiled in memory cleanly.
Ummmm yeah. Well even these bitmapped UIs can be slow. Try out some of the more intense bitmap themes for say ThemeXP in winXP, and even bitmaps can slow it down. A well designed vector graphic that is simple could load neglibly slower than bitmap.
Great way of handling it. I'd still use an image or spam armored text for the actual address though. Not all browsers have JS turned on. But killer way to implement it. I knew my JScript knowledge was substandard.
or maybe you could have a non-clickable email link that is just an image. I believe that is what poster was referring to.or if you really wanted to have it clickable, have it look like this
See it works. Note, it is important to concatenate the email address as i'm willing to bet mailto harvesters don't parse it out as being javascript. The extra obfuscation is necessary. (apologies for any javascript mistakes, i suck at javascript).
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You've gotten mixed up, I hope you meant to respond to the other post because my page is clearly, http://www.andrewvc.com and the bluerobot page is the one i cite as wrong. I'm just clearning this up for any readers who get teh wrong idea.
That size does pixels and percents not percents alone. The box sizes on that site are hard coded to the browser width with a width:100%. This is WRONG. Why? if you were to try and make extra large font sizes (for a sight disabled person) the font sizes increase, but the boxes take up the same portion of space on the page. With tables, the whole page physically expands. meaning some horizontal scrolling action goes on. Additionally, that page does not work in reverse. If you narrow down your browser window the right column goes in back of the center column! That is EXTREMELY broken. So yes, fonts can increase with percents, but on that site the containers are percent specified based on a pixel (browser width) value. This leaves them effectively pixel specified. specified creating problems. This was all observed on mozilla firebird.
Hate to reply twice. But a normal HTML table gets larger as the text inside of it gets larger. The linked to CSS table stays a fixed pixel size regardless of font size (i'm using firebird atm, as i mentioned above it resizes not at all in IE). Table resizing is of course NECESSARY because what use are increased font sizes if they must be stuffed into tiny boxes! Good attempt, but a table replacement it is not.
Good link, but broken. It works better than any other 3 column CSS layout I've seen. Unfortuanately, it doesn't let fonts resize in IE (at least trying on my IE 6, which does resize fonts correctly on other sites). It's nice that they've gotten so much farther. I dont' have time to check out there CSS or anything, but thanks for the link, and I hope that there will be a solution.
Ok, I like ALA, I'm a bit of standards guy even, my whole website is XHTML 1.0 strict. Unfortuanately slashdot has a table based layout, which, to put it simply, CSS cannot handle. I've spent days researching correct CSS tables in the past and it is an impossibility. The problem? Font overlapping. Try a text zoom to as little as 200% (yes, doubling the text size is not that extreme) and most CSS table based designs instantly break. Much like this one. My site works fine with it as everything is position ed such that font size only breaks at absurdly high magnification, but if it were any more complex I'd HAVE to use tables. I don't know if this si a browser issue, or a problem with the CSS spec, but text overflow is a serious issue, one which breaks nearly every CSS page with complex layout in existance. There needs to be a way to style tables in CSS without having to use a table tag. In short, CSS boxes are just that, boxes, they don't link together to correctly handle font sizes. The new slashdot is more broken than the current slashdot in a functional sense.
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:)
What the hell kind of pedant uses HTML 4 syntax? Quote all of your attribute elements! And don't forget your doctype either
There aren't matrices within matrices. There's just one matrix running windows that keep crashing and rebooting.
As a side note to this media stunt. What is the state of wearable computing goggles. Personally, I'm goddamn sick of looking at my CRT but don't want to pay for a 19" LCD. Would buying goggles keep the price down (I figure two tiny LCDs must be cheaper than one big one). Where could I buy such goggles? Google is turning up nothing.
How can we keep corporate America honest?"
Bush or Time magazine?
the FX series has full Direct X 9 support. This is mroe than just a little bit more ram. The new high end nVidia cards are not targeted toward 5900 owners, they're targeted at GeForce 4 owners who want more performance, and more new features.
Most of the problems you mention are not percieved to be problems at all by most people. I don't know where you got this business about fluid animation, can you tell me where it is written down that animation must be fluid? Is it in a book? some proclamation? Comic book animation is much less fluid, but no one complains about that. Maybe you can artfully tell a scene without 24 frames per second even, god forbid!
As for your complaint about story line and it being too wrapped up in its own visual beauty. You could look at those as plusses. GitS as a story is not 'Original' in the same sense that the godfather is not 'original'. It's appeal transcends its lack of originality in the same way the godfather does. It engages you in its world, it has well built characters. Who draw you into the story in GitS own curious way. It draws on various motifs to bring about a cohesive impression and explanation of the universe in which GitS is placed. Finally it gives you a story you can latch onto. What are you looking for!
As for cinematic effects I think you're completely off your rocker. FX in anime as well as in normal cinema are equal with the arival of CG. The matrix was in fact based on anime! Good animation takes a lot of time, and a lot of money. I'm just as impressed when I view a big budget anime that went all out on certain scenes with intense detail as I am when I see a big budget hollywood flick with SFX, more even because big budget anime scenes tend to be more aesthetic than gee whiz.
Lastly, downcast angst poses and other such cliches are present in SOME not ALL anime. Just as they are present in SOME not ALL 35mm films. In fact, since most films suck, they are about as common in both!
It seems that everything you've named that's bad about anime is either totally subjective (your hatred of the low FPS) or totally bullshit because you name characteristics that are common to both schools of cinema.
What if you get a $100 processor (barton 2600+) spend $50 on cooling (Slk 947 U plus fan) and overclock it to the performance of a $250 (barton 3200+) processor with no problems? The same can be said of video cards. It seems that cooling has a higher ROI than just buying the better chip.
I've got a 2600+ barton running right now at 3200+ (2.21 GHz) with a 400 Mhz FSB on a a7n8x with PC3200 and it's solid as a rock. Temperature doesn't seem to be an issue at all, but then i'm using a massive Thermalright SLK-947U
That kind of thing is silly. Something like that should be user transparent. These kinds of things seeping into userspace are a Bad Thing(tm). Users don't need to know about your CMS. This kind of thing should be solved with proper architecture. In the worst case mod rewrite could serve as a bandage.
On each article page, there is a link labeled Permanent URL which you click to permanently bookmark the page. Now, i can't figure out how to get to a page in such a way where the permanent bookmark url is different than the page I'm viewing, but I'm sure that this is not good UI design. Why are all these URLs having to be reused? there is no good reason, especially with things like modrewrite. I've always found ALA to be useful, but often out of step with the true philosophy of the W3C. That being said, I think W3C HTML standards suck and are philosophically broken in the first place, so maybe he has a point.
If you notice, the shop for music online feature leads to several different music retailers. One of which is buymusic.com; a site which ONLY accepts internet explorer. Of course that doesn't make what they're doing right at all. BuyMusic.com's IE on Windows only policy is just MS trying to further lock people into the windows platform.
Ummmmmmmmmmmm,
Why, the following is a classic from Slashdot's vaults circa October 1993...
Slashdot was not founded in 1993. It was founded in 1998 I believe. Although I would like a Gopher version of slashdot.
I've got a mroe beefy system than yours, but itunes runs fine. Quite good for a 1.0 release.
Well, on the one hand a few catholic cancer survivors get to live past their life expectancy. They're probably in first world countries anyway and have allready outlived most of the world pop. But it's nice because more people are alive cuz of prayer. Then they go back home, and continue to fund a murderous organization taht perpetuates spread of the aids virus in africa. And last time I checked, all the praying they were doing didn't help a damn soul. Religion carries too much baggage. It's a dangerous tool, can be used for good or evil. But mostly evil it seems.
if you know it works that way. Why not go and visit them everyday, without praying like you used to. Share your love and hope for them, and bond with them in a non-religious way. At least then you don't get the wackos screaming that god is dead after their dear are dead and departed. Just cuz religion works doesn't mean it's the only solution. In fact, religion carry's a lot of baggage, so it'd be my last solution.
I'm curious if anyone knows this (I know nothing about chips). But do transmeta processors use the cache to cache code before or after it has been code morphed? I saw the large cache and assumed that must be the reason as it would seem that increasing the amount of code that need not be recompiled would probably help out the transmeta chips quite a bit
2) SVG should not be used for the entire UI, that's overkill, but for many areas it makes life a lot easier. For instance, icons in SVG make them infinitely scalable, so that people can resize their screens or their icons to whatever they find comfortable with no loss of quality. (Think handicapped.) Also, no more need for Small and Large versions of icons. Just have one icon, and the system scales it to whatever size is needed.
Ummmm, yeah, if we're gonna go for infinitely resizable screens, let's go all the way. Considering how simple most UI themes are, the rendering time difference between raster and vector should be negligible. I remember librsvg rendering some simple graphics faster than bitmaps. The performance is there, let's do it once, and do it right. Make it last longer.
3) Hopefully, this will mean better support for SVG creation. KDE's SVG editing tools are still not the best. What I really want is to be able to use SVG as an editing format natively, not have to use a program-specific format (Illustrator, Kontour, Karbon14, anything) and then export to SVG. I want to work natively in SVG. With luck, this will let us do that.
Adobe Illustrator can import and export SVG easily, as can many other programs. it's a decent interchange format (even macromedia flash imports it) But you forget that a good vector program probably won't have SVG as it's only goal. When I use Illustrator for print design for instance, I'd be angry if I ran into an SVG imposed wall. Why would we need a special tool just for SVG graphics? It works fine as a subset of other vector programs
There are some potential downsides, of course. Most notably, the risk that KDE will become like Mozilla. An all-XML UI, which while flexible also makes it considerably slower than just using compiled widgets. KSVG will have to be very very fast to avoid that problem, unless things are precompiled in memory cleanly.
Ummmm yeah. Well even these bitmapped UIs can be slow. Try out some of the more intense bitmap themes for say ThemeXP in winXP, and even bitmaps can slow it down. A well designed vector graphic that is simple could load neglibly slower than bitmap.
Great way of handling it. I'd still use an image or spam armored text for the actual address though. Not all browsers have JS turned on. But killer way to implement it. I knew my JScript knowledge was substandard.
or maybe you could have a non-clickable email link that is just an image. I believe that is what poster was referring to.or if you really wanted to have it clickable, have it look like this
/>
<a href="wewillnevergethere.html" onclick="alert('myreal' + 'addy@site.com'); return false;">
<img src="pictureofemailaddy.png"
</a>
See it works. Note, it is important to concatenate the email address as i'm willing to bet mailto harvesters don't parse it out as being javascript. The extra obfuscation is necessary. (apologies for any javascript mistakes, i suck at javascript).
ummm, that's exactly what I said. Read my post again.