The web-zine A List Apart wrote a great article about their journey from old-school table-based layouts to css-powered div layouts.
Taking an example from them, I've since changed my oh-so-popular home page and even-more-popular Go Metric site to div-based layouts. It's really much easier (if you ignore all the IE5 bugs).
2) The slashbox is likely based on an RSS feed from mozilla.org. If anyone's at fault, it's the Mozilla team for not updating their feed.
3) The fixed 11pt font on mozilla.org is actually the worst part of all. I finally get around to upgrading to Phoenix 0.6 and this is the reward I get? Unreadable text? Yucch.
Hey, look, an RPI alumnus from my year, on Slashdot. I never thought I'd see that!
I'm impressed, however, that you're unjaded enough to consider donating money to RPI. Based on my four years under Shirley Ann, and the lack of support from the school for Jesse Jordan, I may never donate to the school. Although I can hope that by the time I have the financial flexibility to actually consider it, the school will have become somewhere that encourages individual thought and engineering creativity.
On the other hand, the school has let Phynd and Celery (two RPI SMB network search engines) to run for years with relatively few official complaints. I wonder what these crackdowns will change..
I knew people were going to respond to this by pointing out that sometimes Yellow + Blue = Green, and sometimes it equals White. But my point was that the author was using this equation as an example of a never-questioned axiom of keyboard design. This is a bad analogy.
From the article: The standard equation for typing has always been,
Typing Equation:
Wrist movement + Finger pressing = Keystroke Even the entrants in the first round of keyboards we reviewed rarely dared to rework this basic equation. It's as simple and accepted as,
Yellow + Blue = Green
I would say that's not universally true. In my mind, Yellow + Blue = White. I call shennanigans on your analogy.
1) In 1955, meeting his young, nubile, teenage mother for the first time. (Part I) 2) In the alternate 1985, when his mother is married to zillionaire Biff Tannen, and has been the victim of bad breast enhancement surgery. (Part II) 3) In 1885, when he wakes up in the bed of Maggie McFly, his great-great-grandmother. (Part III)
I doubt it. Despite what the GNU fanatics tell everyone, free software is -- and will always be -- a niche. Don't get me wrong, free software is great, and I use it on a daily basis. But if it were also profitable, the companies that have done it on a limited scale (IBM, Sun, Compaq, to name a few) would be ramping it up. Idealism has no place in the business world.
Note: I post this with full knowledge of the hit my Karma will take.
My very first impression of Froogle is this: I'd like to see the groupings sorted a lot more finely. For example, I'm looking for a nice coffee thermos or mug or something. The closest I can get is the "Food & Gourmet > Beverages > Coffee" group. I'd really like "beans", "mugs and carrying things", "brewing machinery", etc. sub-groups. Granted, I could search for it, but I've always liked thorough directories when I'm searching for a class of things instead of an actual name of a product.
According to the Consumer Price Index, $4,000 in 1984 would be worth $6,979.79 today (their calculator made me use less than $10k).
This means that $40B would now be worth almost $70B. You ask me, those numbers are already too big to really be able to appreciate the difference between them. When you're standing between two fat women, it's hard to tell which is bigger.
I'm not entirely sure where you got this impression of Mozilla. I started using it around M8 or so, and at that point I would have agreed. But ever since it hit 1.0 (and even arguably before that), it has been as stable as MSIE. I have used Mozilla exclusively for my web browsing needs for the past couple years, and I could not be more happy with it. Cheers to asa and the rest of the Mozilla crew for making a high-quality product I'm extremely happy with!
I can't remember the last time Mozilla crashed on me.
> A 40 gig Maxtor 3.5 inch, ATA/EIDE hard drive ready to go with GNU-Darwin OS pre-installed, plus GNU-Darwin Office, plus a full ports tree and select distfiles.
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The web-zine A List Apart wrote a great article about their journey from old-school table-based layouts to css-powered div layouts.
Taking an example from them, I've since changed my oh-so-popular home page and even-more-popular Go Metric site to div-based layouts. It's really much easier (if you ignore all the IE5 bugs).
1) I guess you missed the article.
2) The slashbox is likely based on an RSS feed from mozilla.org. If anyone's at fault, it's the Mozilla team for not updating their feed.
3) The fixed 11pt font on mozilla.org is actually the worst part of all. I finally get around to upgrading to Phoenix 0.6 and this is the reward I get? Unreadable text? Yucch.
This is nothing but a Good Thing(TM). Congrats to the Mozilla team on their (apparent) independance. In other news, check out the redesigned web page.
Isn't it ironic that the top cells don't render the way they meant in Mozilla 1.4? They shouldn't be using tables for layout!
You're thinking of Rent-a-coder.
Haha, brilliant! Debug is the source of half of my DOS programming experience.
Hey, look, an RPI alumnus from my year, on Slashdot. I never thought I'd see that!
I'm impressed, however, that you're unjaded enough to consider donating money to RPI. Based on my four years under Shirley Ann, and the lack of support from the school for Jesse Jordan, I may never donate to the school. Although I can hope that by the time I have the financial flexibility to actually consider it, the school will have become somewhere that encourages individual thought and engineering creativity.
On the other hand, the school has let Phynd and Celery (two RPI SMB network search engines) to run for years with relatively few official complaints. I wonder what these crackdowns will change..
I knew people were going to respond to this by pointing out that sometimes Yellow + Blue = Green, and sometimes it equals White. But my point was that the author was using this equation as an example of a never-questioned axiom of keyboard design. This is a bad analogy.
From the article:
The standard equation for typing has always been,
Typing Equation:
Wrist movement + Finger pressing = Keystroke
Even the entrants in the first round of keyboards we reviewed rarely dared to rework this basic equation. It's as simple and accepted as,
Yellow + Blue = Green
I would say that's not universally true. In my mind, Yellow + Blue = White. I call shennanigans on your analogy.
Also, posts containing grammar or spelling mistakes is not allowed on Slashdot or anywhere near it.
> cut his writes they would heal it straight away
If they could proofread his Slashdot posts, he could very well be considered a perfect being.
Could they prevent dupe posts, too?
I can boil my response to this rant into a single Jargon entry:
Sturgeon's Law - "Ninety percent of everything is crap."
The funny thing is that "X" _IS_ a two-stroke character in Graffiti. In fact it's the only one.
But I agree, it is strange that Jot somehow doesn't infringe..
Check out CIC's web site for information on JOT, as well as a listing of the symbols.
I thought IBM's OS/2 plan for 2003 was kill it. Why has this changed?
This is the first use of the term "Farked" in a Slashdot post. This term refers to an analogue of "Slashdotting" caused by the web site Fark.com.
Too bad you were too busy posting to Slashdot to notice that the DVD is planned for release on March 25th. You can preorder on Amazon if you wish.
Other handy information on the page: "Customers who wear clothes also shop for: Clean Underwear from Amazon's Target Store"
Three times:
1) In 1955, meeting his young, nubile, teenage mother for the first time. (Part I)
2) In the alternate 1985, when his mother is married to zillionaire Biff Tannen, and has been the victim of bad breast enhancement surgery. (Part II)
3) In 1885, when he wakes up in the bed of Maggie McFly, his great-great-grandmother. (Part III)
I doubt it. Despite what the GNU fanatics tell everyone, free software is -- and will always be -- a niche. Don't get me wrong, free software is great, and I use it on a daily basis. But if it were also profitable, the companies that have done it on a limited scale (IBM, Sun, Compaq, to name a few) would be ramping it up. Idealism has no place in the business world.
Note: I post this with full knowledge of the hit my Karma will take.
My very first impression of Froogle is this: I'd like to see the groupings sorted a lot more finely. For example, I'm looking for a nice coffee thermos or mug or something. The closest I can get is the "Food & Gourmet > Beverages > Coffee" group. I'd really like "beans", "mugs and carrying things", "brewing machinery", etc. sub-groups. Granted, I could search for it, but I've always liked thorough directories when I'm searching for a class of things instead of an actual name of a product.
> Self-fullfilling prophecy?
That's self-fulfilling. Only three L's, like in gulllible.
Don't forget unfunny karma whoring "obligatory comments" lists!
According to the Consumer Price Index, $4,000 in 1984 would be worth $6,979.79 today (their calculator made me use less than $10k).
This means that $40B would now be worth almost $70B. You ask me, those numbers are already too big to really be able to appreciate the difference between them. When you're standing between two fat women, it's hard to tell which is bigger.
Goddamnit people, can't anyone use the phrase "begging the question" correctly anymore?
Educate yourself regarding idioms.
I'm not entirely sure where you got this impression of Mozilla. I started using it around M8 or so, and at that point I would have agreed. But ever since it hit 1.0 (and even arguably before that), it has been as stable as MSIE. I have used Mozilla exclusively for my web browsing needs for the past couple years, and I could not be more happy with it. Cheers to asa and the rest of the Mozilla crew for making a high-quality product I'm extremely happy with!
I can't remember the last time Mozilla crashed on me.
> A 40 gig Maxtor 3.5 inch, ATA/EIDE hard drive ready to go with GNU-Darwin OS pre-installed, plus GNU-Darwin Office, plus a full ports tree and select distfiles.
What about it? Where's the predicate?