You see... due to the unique way the BBC is funded (In other words rip off everyone in the UK who owns anything with a tuner in it) this means that us licence paying Brits are paying for this (Admittedly cool) technology to be provided to everyone. Screw that... you want access to it abroad? Pay. As far as I'm concerned, you shouldn't have access to anything the BBC does until you've entered your TV licence number (Yeah, I know that's not feasible). Grrr! Sorry, I know this is a rant, but this is the company that will happily jail people AND fine them heavily for not having a licence.
The money, of course goes into massive director wages as usual and providing "dubious" programming for the masses (and now, not just for the UK masses).
The BBC are not as benevolent as people like to make out.
Write out the letters with your tongue (Obviously you need to put your tongue somewhere useful first!)... it's a fairly well known technique. Basically used to stop repetitive movements which don't work that well. So now you all know.:)
Sorry, but this has to be said - Get a girl/boyfriend! I can't believe anyone would sit there and type out a comment that long.......oh, and if you have a girl/boyfriend - Likelyhood is that they're banging your best mate cos you obviously aren't paying them enough attention!:)
I've noticed a large number of pages loading very slowly with Firefox but that seemed to sort them out. Nice job. However, I'm a little concerned as to why they weren't in there to start with - Any side effects we should be knowing about?
I have to ask... but he does it for a living and he's sending YOU links to test? First point, let him test it himself, he gets paid for it! Second point, experienced / good developers shouldn't really be making cross browser errors anymore - Those days should have died with the end of the browser wars!
Finally though, he could just start designing compatible websites using XHTML transitional and CSS. Bit of a learning curve to start with, but these days I just have to make 1 site with perhaps two or three css files to cover pretty much every platform eventuality (including screen readers, mobile phones, web tv).
ISBN: 0-7357-1201-8 Advise him to go and pick up a copy, it'll be worth it in the end.
Personally I've always felt it is best to work back from the answers (otherwise known as cheating mostly) but it really is the most efficient way of learning.
University taught me to agree with that statement completely. I thought I knew pretty much everything on the subjects I was taking, so I didn't really bother looking at the past papers and solutions. Big mistake. It turns out that they weren't interested in well constructed conclusions backed by evidence - They were more interested in the answers as they (The lecturers) saw them. Just as a note, these were management / business questions so there weren't really any exact answers - Only opinion.
The next few years I didn't bother doing any work at all. I just made sure I knew the previous years questions and answers verbatim. Strangely I never failed another exam. I can only imagine that this electronic system is even worse than that due to its reliance on scripted logic.
Just as a quick reply to this. I just built a rather nice dual Opteron 248 workstation with 2gb ram, five 72gb 10k SATA raptors (Raid 0 / 5) and a Winnov Videum Duo capture card in it. It's used for video capture / editing / encoding / streaming.
Total cost, 3200GBP / 4750EUR. Could I be any happier? Not a chance, this thing has been able to handle pretty much everything I've thrown at it.
I, personally, twice in the last 6 years, have witnessed gasoline spilling out of a vehicle when the nozzle failed to kick off. One was a few spots over from me, I ran over and shut off the nozzle. About 2 gallons of gas on the ground.
Luckily in the UK, the pumps do not work unless you keep your hand pressed on the trigger (At least in the hundreds I've seen). Given how many morons there are in this world I can't imagine how many accidents get caused by the US method (Valves or not).
Besides, you'd never see someone in the UK leaving their pump unattended anyway - With the amount fuel costs over here you'd need a second mortgage if you spilt too much!
What I especially like about the W3C CSS example site is that if you have your browser window fairly small the "Cascading Style Sheets home page" text completely covers the header links on the page. It's probably their intention I'm sure, but that doesn't strike me as particularly good practice and I'm sure as hell my customers wouldn't like it if I gave them a site that did that (It's not too hard to ensure that text doesn't overlap).
On a completely unrelated note, with no offence to your site which I actually like, but why do almost all the sites that I see with CSS layouts look like that (3 Column, overlap and centred)? Is this the new blog look or something? One thing I do like about sites like yours though is the way they handle user preferences related to fonts. I'd be interested if anyone had found a good way of scaling images properly to suit though.
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You see... due to the unique way the BBC is funded (In other words rip off everyone in the UK who owns anything with a tuner in it) this means that us licence paying Brits are paying for this (Admittedly cool) technology to be provided to everyone. Screw that... you want access to it abroad? Pay. As far as I'm concerned, you shouldn't have access to anything the BBC does until you've entered your TV licence number (Yeah, I know that's not feasible). Grrr! Sorry, I know this is a rant, but this is the company that will happily jail people AND fine them heavily for not having a licence.
The money, of course goes into massive director wages as usual and providing "dubious" programming for the masses (and now, not just for the UK masses).
The BBC are not as benevolent as people like to make out.
Write out the letters with your tongue (Obviously you need to put your tongue somewhere useful first!)... it's a fairly well known technique. Basically used to stop repetitive movements which don't work that well. So now you all know. :)
I'm not sure I actually need to comment on that!
Sorry, but this has to be said - Get a girl/boyfriend! I can't believe anyone would sit there and type out a comment that long.... ...oh, and if you have a girl/boyfriend - Likelyhood is that they're banging your best mate cos you obviously aren't paying them enough attention! :)
Again, only allow editing until a comment is moderated or replied to. Is that really so difficult? Nope!
As other suggest - How about only allowing editing until your comment has been moderated or someone has posted a reply. Real, real simple.
Don't suppose you're going to add editing posts as an option are you? Ah, no - Didn't think so, it's only 2004 after all!
Thanks for that. :)
I've noticed a large number of pages loading very slowly with Firefox but that seemed to sort them out. Nice job. However, I'm a little concerned as to why they weren't in there to start with - Any side effects we should be knowing about?
Oh thanks for that... I'm not going to be getting any decent sleep for well, the rest of my lifetime probably!
I have to ask... but he does it for a living and he's sending YOU links to test? First point, let him test it himself, he gets paid for it! Second point, experienced / good developers shouldn't really be making cross browser errors anymore - Those days should have died with the end of the browser wars!
Finally though, he could just start designing compatible websites using XHTML transitional and CSS. Bit of a learning curve to start with, but these days I just have to make 1 site with perhaps two or three css files to cover pretty much every platform eventuality (including screen readers, mobile phones, web tv).
ISBN: 0-7357-1201-8
Advise him to go and pick up a copy, it'll be worth it in the end.
Thanks for those links, very interesting reading.
Arrgghhh... where are my mod points? Someone mod this up!
You know... I never saw myself ever wanting to see this film, but now I have a reason. Oh yes, a very good reason. (Insert evil laugh here)
Have seen that, but it's hardly GTA now is it. I want to see homer capping a couple of pimps!
Personally, I can't wait for someone to make the first GTA mission expansion using this map! :-)
HOMER MAD! HOMER SMASH!
Hey, thanks for that! :-)
This might sound like a stupid question... but how big a glass are you supposed to use for this? :-)
Personally I've always felt it is best to work back from the answers (otherwise known as cheating mostly) but it really is the most efficient way of learning.
University taught me to agree with that statement completely. I thought I knew pretty much everything on the subjects I was taking, so I didn't really bother looking at the past papers and solutions. Big mistake. It turns out that they weren't interested in well constructed conclusions backed by evidence - They were more interested in the answers as they (The lecturers) saw them. Just as a note, these were management / business questions so there weren't really any exact answers - Only opinion.
The next few years I didn't bother doing any work at all. I just made sure I knew the previous years questions and answers verbatim. Strangely I never failed another exam. I can only imagine that this electronic system is even worse than that due to its reliance on scripted logic.
Just as a quick reply to this. I just built a rather nice dual Opteron 248 workstation with 2gb ram, five 72gb 10k SATA raptors (Raid 0 / 5) and a Winnov Videum Duo capture card in it. It's used for video capture / editing / encoding / streaming.
Total cost, 3200GBP / 4750EUR. Could I be any happier? Not a chance, this thing has been able to handle pretty much everything I've thrown at it.
Of course, you could just wear gloves! :-)
I, personally, twice in the last 6 years, have witnessed gasoline spilling out of a vehicle when the nozzle failed to kick off. One was a few spots over from me, I ran over and shut off the nozzle. About 2 gallons of gas on the ground.
Luckily in the UK, the pumps do not work unless you keep your hand pressed on the trigger (At least in the hundreds I've seen). Given how many morons there are in this world I can't imagine how many accidents get caused by the US method (Valves or not).
Besides, you'd never see someone in the UK leaving their pump unattended anyway - With the amount fuel costs over here you'd need a second mortgage if you spilt too much!
Well well well... doesn't this look familiar? Just how they managed to screw up the formatting so badly is another thing altogether!
What I especially like about the W3C CSS example site is that if you have your browser window fairly small the "Cascading Style Sheets home page" text completely covers the header links on the page. It's probably their intention I'm sure, but that doesn't strike me as particularly good practice and I'm sure as hell my customers wouldn't like it if I gave them a site that did that (It's not too hard to ensure that text doesn't overlap).
On a completely unrelated note, with no offence to your site which I actually like, but why do almost all the sites that I see with CSS layouts look like that (3 Column, overlap and centred)? Is this the new blog look or something? One thing I do like about sites like yours though is the way they handle user preferences related to fonts. I'd be interested if anyone had found a good way of scaling images properly to suit though.
Of course... you could just use the pump based liquid soaps and avoid all of that hassle altogether! :-)