(it's not code it's script btw.. calling a HTML jocky a programmer is an insult to programmers everywhere)
I wouldn't describe it as a script either -- it's marked-up text, and that's all. On the other hand, writing web applications I have to do quite a bit of HTML output via templates and what not, so I guess I'm writing code to write HTML for me -- writing HTML at one remove.
As to the standards stuff -- I agree completely, I only wish more people thought it was important:/
It's not about non-whites. It's about *illegal* immigrants.
British backpackers overstay their visas: about 60,000 in the country at the latest count. Why aren't they in the camps next to the Afghanis and Iraqis? They're here *illegally*, after all.
This seeking of refugee status is not illegal according to the UN; it's illegal according to specific laws used to make seeking asylum illegal. Besides, no need to lock them up *while their cases are being decided* -- most other countries don't, why do we? If we disapprove so strongly, wouldn't it be cheaper to completely flout our international obligations and fly them back to their home countries, and dump them there?
SEND EM BACK HOME!!!!! LET EM RUIN THERE OWN COUNTRY!!!
Ah, it's that welcoming Australian attitude yet again, from someone without even the balls to back up his or her opinions with a pseudonym.
God, I get sick of Liberal-voting pricks like you.
My problem with immigrants is that they come to our country because theirs sucks, but they try and tell us our religious beliefs are crap, their god rules..
Your religious beliefs do suck... abuse children, then pay for silence? Doesn't sound right to me.
and try and turn our culture into theirs. well. my question is: if your religious system works so well. why the fuck didn't you stay in your own country!
(FWIW, my great-great-grandfather was born about 500 metres from where I sit now, in inner-suburban Adelaide. And I'm agnostic. Please troll elsewhere.)
I'm probably not the average case, but I make my purchasing decisions based on quality and price -- in terms of food and shoes, Nike and McDonalds definitely lose out there (compared to similar products in the market, Nike on price and McDonalds on quality).
Companies that pour billions into advertising a crap product just shit me -- they're polluting my entire existence. When I look around in places and there's a Coke sign every 10 metres, that's ugly. I prefer to not support behaviour like that, in the only way possible I can. I don't buy their products.
Say what you like about him, the man's a bloody good politician... i.e. he plays the game of politics very astutely. Fucked as a human being, of course, but that's no great surprise.
The democratic freedoms that have been abolished - name them? Name what I can't do now that I could do under the previous Keating Govt?
If the laws he's trying to pass get through, try belonging to an organisation the Attorney General doesn't like. Say, Resistance or Amnesty.
What can't you do now that you could under a Keating government? Belong to a union, maybe? Bring relatives over to visit from another country? Have a government working for all of the population, not just the white moneyed half? Besides, Labor weren't blameless -- they started these concentration camps up in the first place.
And really, what fucking chance is there that anyone will fly planes into Sydney buildings, and why would the rest of the world care anyway? I guess we'd better be proactive about giving up any rights we have in order to prevent a zillion to one chance ever occurring.
And whether or not you agree with mandatory detention - it's not racist. If people enter the country illegally, they're well within their rights.
OK, let's see scoops along Bondi Beach, where they lock up all the Brits overstaying their visas for years in concentration camps in the middle of the desert... oh, but they're white. Can't have that, can we.
Howard was also pretty quick to offer refuge to Zimbabwean farmers... even quicker than he was about sending the Kosovars back.
I raise this point because I think John Howard (the prime minister of Australia) is Australian for Hitler.
As an Australian, I agree, in a qualified sense. In his mind it's OK to suspend or abolish democratic freedoms in order to ensure that people he doesn't agree with can't be heard or be politically active. (Another example from recent history is Nixon -- government "by any means necessary", legal or illegal).
For many years Queensland under Joh-Bjelke Petersen had a law, intended to stop street marches, that banned the public assembly of four or more people if such assembly had not been previously cleared by the police. It looks like we're moving back to those days... along with John Howard's racist issues on immigration (lock up the non-white illegal immigrants), we should soon be the new old South Africa, if you know what I mean.
He has little to fear from copyright violations from a personal standpoint.
... except being sued by the people who own the stock for talking down its prospects. (I'm not going to get into the question of whether they'd be justified or not -- whenever people get angry, they tend to reach for their lawyers.)
He sold shares in his prospective royalties, IIRC, not specifically shares in the music (e.g. IP) itself.
This is what I really dislike about.NET - the promise of multiple langauges, with the DELIVERY of multiple crippled langauges.
MS isn't doing this to make programmers' lives easier, they're doing it to make it easier for companies with codebases in other languages (and programmers schooled in those languages) to switch to.NET. Once the MS push is underway, any complaints about missing features in the new platform's implementations get dismissed as "just more grumbling"...
It's a feature of dubious technical merit which seems to have been included more for marketing and business purposes than to enhance the actual utility of the platform.
And that gives her an hour a week when she can feel normal? NORMAL?
Normality these days is a state described and controlled by the mass media. When we're told all the time to consume, consume, consume, and look beautiful, beautiful, beautiful... sometimes the only way to feel normal is to do what you are being told everyone else does, in order to fit in.
I don't condone this, but I do understand why she says it.
Yeah, but that might not be the last thing they cared about. Depends how considerate your workmates are, I guess, and how much it's costing them not to be able to change things.:)
Am I missing something, or wouldn't it be much easier to simply click the close-box and close the ads instead of reloading the page over and over again?
Maybe they're like some of the/. ads that I get in flat mode, next to the story when you click through to read the comments: these use CSS positioning to overlay parts of the body text. Very annoying when you can't click 'Reply' or 'Change' in the comment toolbar because there's an ad in the way.
In Netscape 4.7, half the right hand column failed ot display. It to a real hack ofa workaround to make it display properly on Netscape and still maintain standards compliance.
Yes, but Netscape 4's CSS handling is buggy beyond belief. I have to say, it's just not worth it to spend the amounts of time it takes, for the people it will benefit.
"It's time for them to upgrade."
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A good portion of it was permanently deleted. This included business and personal contact lists, his most prized data.
Cry me a river.
If he prized it that highly, why didn't he keep backups?
Yeah, and by the last few Apocalypses, Larry will have shaved his head and gained a lot of weight, and he'll sit in the darkness muttering half-profound, half-obvious statements about language design. And Damian Conway can play the Dennis Hopper role, the drugged-up photographer/court jester:) But who gets to be Marlowe/Willard?
ObDisclaimer: I really like both Apocalypse Now and Perl, but they seem uncannily similar now that I think about it -- that great epic attempt to render the human condition, that falls well short (but at least tries:)...
When was the last time you went to the library, borrwed "War and Peace", photocopied it, bound it and *then* read it? Book copying doesn't happen because its a physical medium with dollar costs associated with duplication.
I photocopied most of a book once at the university library -- maybe 200 pages or so. Obviously I would have bought it if I could, to avoid RSI from operating the damn ohotocopier if nothing else:), (and I eventually did find a secondhand paperback about 3 years later) but it was at least 20 years out of print at the time, and I would have had no chance of finding it in a bookshop. Borrowing wasn't an option, for some reason I forget -- I probably needed it for longer than the two weeks I'd be able to have it, and there were other people waiting to borrow it, or something like that.
Total cost of photocopying was probably close to A$9.00, and the book must have cost me about A$2.50 when I did eventually find it.:/
Obviously, if the information is important enough, (some) people will do it... in fact I think libraries are actually allowed to, at least in this country, for out-of-print books -- I was always seeing a few of these on the shelves, with photocopied 'out of print' letters from the distributors stapled to the front.
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(it's not code it's script btw.. calling a HTML jocky a programmer is an insult to programmers everywhere)
:/
I wouldn't describe it as a script either -- it's marked-up text, and that's all. On the other hand, writing web applications I have to do quite a bit of HTML output via templates and what not, so I guess I'm writing code to write HTML for me -- writing HTML at one remove.
As to the standards stuff -- I agree completely, I only wish more people thought it was important
It's not about non-whites. It's about *illegal* immigrants.
British backpackers overstay their visas: about 60,000 in the country at the latest count. Why aren't they in the camps next to the Afghanis and Iraqis? They're here *illegally*, after all.
It's about *illegal* immigrants.
This seeking of refugee status is not illegal according to the UN; it's illegal according to specific laws used to make seeking asylum illegal. Besides, no need to lock them up *while their cases are being decided* -- most other countries don't, why do we? If we disapprove so strongly, wouldn't it be cheaper to completely flout our international obligations and fly them back to their home countries, and dump them there?
SEND EM BACK HOME!!!!! LET EM RUIN THERE OWN COUNTRY!!!
Ah, it's that welcoming Australian attitude yet again, from someone without even the balls to back up his or her opinions with a pseudonym.
God, I get sick of Liberal-voting pricks like you.
My problem with immigrants is that they come to our country because theirs sucks, but they try and tell us our religious beliefs are crap, their god rules..
Your religious beliefs do suck... abuse children, then pay for silence? Doesn't sound right to me.
and try and turn our culture into theirs. well. my question is: if your religious system works so well. why the fuck didn't you stay in your own country!
(FWIW, my great-great-grandfather was born about 500 metres from where I sit now, in inner-suburban Adelaide. And I'm agnostic. Please troll elsewhere.)
There is no Sydney.
What odds someone finds a buffer overflow exploit for it? :)
I'm probably not the average case, but I make my purchasing decisions based on quality and price -- in terms of food and shoes, Nike and McDonalds definitely lose out there (compared to similar products in the market, Nike on price and McDonalds on quality).
Companies that pour billions into advertising a crap product just shit me -- they're polluting my entire existence. When I look around in places and there's a Coke sign every 10 metres, that's ugly. I prefer to not support behaviour like that, in the only way possible I can. I don't buy their products.
Why pay for silence, when paying someone else to assure their permanent silence would be cheaper and easier?
Um, how is 16950 a 7-digit number? Is this that 'New Math' I heard about?
The Folks In Charge, in this case, are the government. If they want it, they'll take it. A principle known as 'eminent domain'.
Yes, as far as I'm concerned, what I do with my toads is my own business. :) Victimless crime and all that...
Say what you like about him, the man's a bloody good politician... i.e. he plays the game of politics very astutely. Fucked as a human being, of course, but that's no great surprise.
The democratic freedoms that have been abolished - name them? Name what I can't do now that I could do under the previous Keating Govt?
If the laws he's trying to pass get through, try belonging to an organisation the Attorney General doesn't like. Say, Resistance or Amnesty.
What can't you do now that you could under a Keating government? Belong to a union, maybe? Bring relatives over to visit from another country? Have a government working for all of the population, not just the white moneyed half? Besides, Labor weren't blameless -- they started these concentration camps up in the first place.
And really, what fucking chance is there that anyone will fly planes into Sydney buildings, and why would the rest of the world care anyway? I guess we'd better be proactive about giving up any rights we have in order to prevent a zillion to one chance ever occurring.
And whether or not you agree with mandatory detention - it's not racist. If people enter the country illegally, they're well within their rights.
OK, let's see scoops along Bondi Beach, where they lock up all the Brits overstaying their visas for years in concentration camps in the middle of the desert... oh, but they're white. Can't have that, can we.
Howard was also pretty quick to offer refuge to Zimbabwean farmers... even quicker than he was about sending the Kosovars back.
I raise this point because I think John Howard (the prime minister of Australia) is Australian for Hitler.
As an Australian, I agree, in a qualified sense. In his mind it's OK to suspend or abolish democratic freedoms in order to ensure that people he doesn't agree with can't be heard or be politically active. (Another example from recent history is Nixon -- government "by any means necessary", legal or illegal).
For many years Queensland under Joh-Bjelke Petersen had a law, intended to stop street marches, that banned the public assembly of four or more people if such assembly had not been previously cleared by the police. It looks like we're moving back to those days... along with John Howard's racist issues on immigration (lock up the non-white illegal immigrants), we should soon be the new old South Africa, if you know what I mean.
He has little to fear from copyright violations from a personal standpoint.
... except being sued by the people who own the stock for talking down its prospects. (I'm not going to get into the question of whether they'd be justified or not -- whenever people get angry, they tend to reach for their lawyers.)
He sold shares in his prospective royalties, IIRC, not specifically shares in the music (e.g. IP) itself.
This is what I really dislike about .NET - the promise of multiple langauges, with the DELIVERY of multiple crippled langauges.
.NET. Once the MS push is underway, any complaints about missing features in the new platform's implementations get dismissed as "just more grumbling"...
MS isn't doing this to make programmers' lives easier, they're doing it to make it easier for companies with codebases in other languages (and programmers schooled in those languages) to switch to
It's a feature of dubious technical merit which seems to have been included more for marketing and business purposes than to enhance the actual utility of the platform.
And that gives her an hour a week when she can feel normal? NORMAL?
Normality these days is a state described and controlled by the mass media. When we're told all the time to consume, consume, consume, and look beautiful, beautiful, beautiful... sometimes the only way to feel normal is to do what you are being told everyone else does, in order to fit in.
I don't condone this, but I do understand why she says it.
I always thought it was TSR bad, WoTC worse, Hasbro unspeakable.
As to the contest -- a usual tactic for companies wishing to scam decent ideas instead of paying going market rates for them.
Yeah, but that might not be the last thing they cared about. Depends how considerate your workmates are, I guess, and how much it's costing them not to be able to change things. :)
Am I missing something, or wouldn't it be much easier to simply click the close-box and close the ads instead of reloading the page over and over again?
/. ads that I get in flat mode, next to the story when you click through to read the comments: these use CSS positioning to overlay parts of the body text. Very annoying when you can't click 'Reply' or 'Change' in the comment toolbar because there's an ad in the way.
Maybe they're like some of the
In Netscape 4.7, half the right hand column failed ot display. It to a real hack ofa workaround to make it display properly on Netscape and still maintain standards compliance.
Yes, but Netscape 4's CSS handling is buggy beyond belief. I have to say, it's just not worth it to spend the amounts of time it takes, for the people it will benefit.
"It's time for them to upgrade."
A good portion of it was permanently deleted. This included business and personal contact lists, his most prized data.
Cry me a river.
If he prized it that highly, why didn't he keep backups?
Yeah, and by the last few Apocalypses, Larry will have shaved his head and gained a lot of weight, and he'll sit in the darkness muttering half-profound, half-obvious statements about language design. And Damian Conway can play the Dennis Hopper role, the drugged-up photographer/court jester :) But who gets to be Marlowe/Willard?
:)...
ObDisclaimer: I really like both Apocalypse Now and Perl, but they seem uncannily similar now that I think about it -- that great epic attempt to render the human condition, that falls well short (but at least tries
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Aargh, this bloody keyboard -- that's meant to be
OBL's
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When was the last time you went to the library, borrwed "War and Peace", photocopied it, bound it and *then* read it? Book copying doesn't happen because its a physical medium with dollar costs associated with duplication.
:), (and I eventually did find a secondhand paperback about 3 years later) but it was at least 20 years out of print at the time, and I would have had no chance of finding it in a bookshop. Borrowing wasn't an option, for some reason I forget -- I probably needed it for longer than the two weeks I'd be able to have it, and there were other people waiting to borrow it, or something like that.
:/
I photocopied most of a book once at the university library -- maybe 200 pages or so. Obviously I would have bought it if I could, to avoid RSI from operating the damn ohotocopier if nothing else
Total cost of photocopying was probably close to A$9.00, and the book must have cost me about A$2.50 when I did eventually find it.
Obviously, if the information is important enough, (some) people will do it... in fact I think libraries are actually allowed to, at least in this country, for out-of-print books -- I was always seeing a few of these on the shelves, with photocopied 'out of print' letters from the distributors stapled to the front.