All right let me explain a few things about web design and what "customers" actually want.
Now I know and you know what users want as far as usability, and that's all fine and dandy. But I honestly don't care all that much about you as a user. I mean beyond the fact that I can reasonably be sure that you're seeing my page as I intended you to see it. See, you and your weird-browser-configurations don't pay my salary. My client does. And my client wants a web page that looks like a page from a magazine, and looks pretty much the same on 90% of the machines looking at it. They don't want me to spend a lot of time checking for web-safe colors, making sure everything is ISO compliant, that the code is W3C compliant, coding everything using CSS instead of tables... that crap doesn't generally make me money.
Understand that I am making a generalization.
So what's the problem? With a web page, you have statically-sized images in terms of pixels, but you have scalable text. Those two don't mix easily as far as format goes.
So I'm forced to make a decision: If the text is inherent to the design, then I'm going to make the text be an image; otherwise it is going to ruin the visual effect.
I can spend all day breaking up my design in Photoshop and trying to make everything so that when you resize the browser it stretches the content to fit. Great. But my client doesn't really care about that, and there's a point to what they are willing to pay for.
So am I going to spend all day doing that if I don't get another dime for it? Or am I going to make something that my customer is generally happy with and move on to get more projects?
Yeah. Most of this crap is like building sand-castles for a living anyway. Very temporary things.
Here's my suggestion to a partial solution: Let EVERYTHING be scalable. As a user, if I want to make the font bigger, fine--let it be bigger, but then make EVERY object bigger by the same factor.
I'm curious if the Milky Way is a part of the alignment. Yes...when I took my car into the shop to get a new set of tires, the wheel balancing tech was eating a Milky Way. Does that mean it was part of the alignment?
And why should I? I'm really not much of a gamer; having problems with my arms, wrists, and fingers, I can't really play games anymore. I still have and use on my main home computer, Windows 2000! And it works just fine for what I need, thank you! It's fast, solid, reliable. XP is an OK OS, and I use it at work.
I've seen and used Vista, and it just frustrates me to move around in. I don't like it, and I'll likely end up buying a Mac before I ever get Vista.
I hear people balking at a $25.00 cable bill. heh.
My cable bill last month was just over $178.00 USD.
Yeah, OK, so I have the package with digital phone, internet access, a DVR/cable box rental, every single channel (and every premium channel they have to offer)...
The funny thing is... I'm never home to watch it:-/
Oh yeah! That's right!... isn't what they used when they drilled down several thousands of years and found a lost fighter from 1942? Oops. Guess they forgot ice can melt and freeze many times throughout a single day. For some reason I have doubts that that ice was really 135,000 years old...
I say let them fade away, I know I certainly won't be sorry. This may not be a popular opinion, but let me tell ya... I gave TiVo an chance way back in the day. At the time, a life-time subscription was tied to the box, and was not transferrable. I don't know how it is now.
So we bought a TiVo, life-time subscription. It was great. Then the telephone modem died. They did replace the unit, but then I had to buy *another* subscription? HuH? OK whatever.
Second TiVo developed a problem with the harddrive. Again, under warranty, but I had to buy *another* subscription.
When the third one died, I said "fuck it." Now I'm with the cable company, and it's just part of my package. If the unit dies, I just get a new one.
Yeah, the features aren't as great as what the TiVo had, but it meets my needs and I don't feel like I'm getting ripped off quite as much.
Just my $.02, YMMV. IANAL. Other limitations apply. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Not valid in any state or country. Beware of EGRESS.
By the time Robert Palmer took over, it was not clear to anyone at the time that DEC would ever again be relevant. But DEC was simply irresistible! It's so fine, there's no telling where the market went. (Duh!)
and for those who dont have the time to read the paper...
it works by avoiding running during the exact moment of a clock tick (which would be the moment when CPU usage...
--Uhm... (looks at watch...) Say, I really don't have time for wordy summaries... could you maybe cut this down into about 10 words or less? Hurry it up! I ain't got all day!
I think every animal should be grown in little vats and spaces and harvested en masse. Whales especially. I can't even imagine what kind of tasty products must come from whale meat. Whale hamburger patties, whale jerky, whale steaks... yum!
Free range... pfffft! Who cares how they "feel" about it. Animals are either FOOD or PETS. They are meant to make my belly feel warm and full, not to discuss their feelings.
You just haven't lived until you've gone on a turkey harvest. Literally hundreds of these stupid-ass gobblers walking around in a big ol' bunch. They're so close together they can't move, they can't even walk without crapping on each other. But anyway, we like to make a contest out of it. They turn a few of us loose (like a race), and you try and grab as many necks as you can! Snap! Snap! Snap! Wriggly turkey bodies flopping around everywhere. It's freakin' hilarious!
I can't wait until this winter. I'm going out on a friend's ranch and we're gonna "thin out the herd" -- you know, to humanely control the population. It just isn't right for them to starve. This time I'm bringing some "semi"-automatic weapons. Deer meat makes *excellent* jerky.
Why is it called a robot? I didn't read anything about it being AI-controlled, or being able to maneuver itself under its own direction. That is always irritating. "A robot that can defuse a bomb." No! A remote-controlled mechanical device that can defuse bombs as long as a human controls it. "A robot that can fly around for surveillance." No! A remote-controlled plane. "A robot that can scout for missing people trapped under rubble." No! A remote-controlled car with a camera mounted on it.
Still clever... but misleading. It ain't no robot.
YES! I've seen this device many years ago. You worked on this? When I saw this, I had never seen anything that could handle stairs or balancing as well as the Ibot could. Didn't the Segway get it's balancing scheme from the Ibot? Or am I just making that up.
Kudos to you on this machine, it is truly a work of art.
We can only guess what Zonk meant to say. But I'll try to make some sense.
First, hard drive manufacturers have always calculated drive space differently than the rest of the entire computing world. It allows them to say that a drive is bigger than it really truly is. They've been able to do it for years, and lawsuits have been lost and won on this very issue. But essentially, their use of the metric words "kilo," "mega," and "giga" are the literal meanings of "1000," "1,000,000" and "1,000,000,000" instead of the computing world's 1024 multiplier.
Therefore, a "kilobyte" to them is 1,000 bytes (as opposed to 1,024 bytes in real life), and a "megabyte" is "1,000,000" bytes (as opposed to 1,048,576 bytes [1024 x 1024]), and a "gigabyte" is 1,000,000,000 bytes (instead of 1,073,741,824 [1024 x 1024 x 1024] bytes in real life).
The real difference in a terabyte? Divide 1,000,000,000,000 by 1024/1024/1024 and you get 931.32 gigabytes. That's a theoretical limit, mind you, and there is overhead for cluster size, partition info, FAT tables, etc., so you really don't even get that.
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All right let me explain a few things about web design and what "customers" actually want.
Now I know and you know what users want as far as usability, and that's all fine and dandy. But I honestly don't care all that much about you as a user. I mean beyond the fact that I can reasonably be sure that you're seeing my page as I intended you to see it. See, you and your weird-browser-configurations don't pay my salary. My client does. And my client wants a web page that looks like a page from a magazine, and looks pretty much the same on 90% of the machines looking at it. They don't want me to spend a lot of time checking for web-safe colors, making sure everything is ISO compliant, that the code is W3C compliant, coding everything using CSS instead of tables... that crap doesn't generally make me money.
Understand that I am making a generalization.
So what's the problem? With a web page, you have statically-sized images in terms of pixels, but you have scalable text. Those two don't mix easily as far as format goes.
So I'm forced to make a decision: If the text is inherent to the design, then I'm going to make the text be an image; otherwise it is going to ruin the visual effect.
I can spend all day breaking up my design in Photoshop and trying to make everything so that when you resize the browser it stretches the content to fit. Great. But my client doesn't really care about that, and there's a point to what they are willing to pay for.
So am I going to spend all day doing that if I don't get another dime for it? Or am I going to make something that my customer is generally happy with and move on to get more projects?
Yeah. Most of this crap is like building sand-castles for a living anyway. Very temporary things.
Here's my suggestion to a partial solution: Let EVERYTHING be scalable. As a user, if I want to make the font bigger, fine--let it be bigger, but then make EVERY object bigger by the same factor.
I knew you were going to say that.
...sure, Grandpa.
Not everyone makes programming errors. My programs never have any bugs because I am careful not to make any mitsakes.
Can you imagine a bee or wolf cluster of these?
I'll be here all week.
NSF-Funded?
Ohhhh... that NSF. I couldn't figure out how my bad cheques (Insufficient Funds) were going to fund the War on Terrorism.
I think Snickers is, too.
(I'm sorry. Really, I am.)
Why the hell does my computer keep clicking the modem when I get to this post?
And why should I? I'm really not much of a gamer; having problems with my arms, wrists, and fingers, I can't really play games anymore. I still have and use on my main home computer, Windows 2000! And it works just fine for what I need, thank you! It's fast, solid, reliable. XP is an OK OS, and I use it at work.
I've seen and used Vista, and it just frustrates me to move around in. I don't like it, and I'll likely end up buying a Mac before I ever get Vista.
"Ugly bags of mostly water!!!"
I say we darken their suns, just to be mean. >:)
I hear people balking at a $25.00 cable bill. heh.
:-/
My cable bill last month was just over $178.00 USD.
Yeah, OK, so I have the package with digital phone, internet access, a DVR/cable box rental, every single channel (and every premium channel they have to offer)...
The funny thing is... I'm never home to watch it
Oh yeah! That's right!... isn't what they used when they drilled down several thousands of years and found a lost fighter from 1942? Oops. Guess they forgot ice can melt and freeze many times throughout a single day. For some reason I have doubts that that ice was really 135,000 years old...
I say let them fade away, I know I certainly won't be sorry. This may not be a popular opinion, but let me tell ya... I gave TiVo an chance way back in the day. At the time, a life-time subscription was tied to the box, and was not transferrable. I don't know how it is now.
So we bought a TiVo, life-time subscription. It was great. Then the telephone modem died. They did replace the unit, but then I had to buy *another* subscription? HuH? OK whatever.
Second TiVo developed a problem with the harddrive. Again, under warranty, but I had to buy *another* subscription.
When the third one died, I said "fuck it." Now I'm with the cable company, and it's just part of my package. If the unit dies, I just get a new one.
Yeah, the features aren't as great as what the TiVo had, but it meets my needs and I don't feel like I'm getting ripped off quite as much.
Just my $.02, YMMV. IANAL. Other limitations apply. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Not valid in any state or country. Beware of EGRESS.
I heard they couldn't get it to work exactly right, so they'll have to push an alternate Agena.
(wah wah wah)
(Duh!)
it works by avoiding running during the exact moment of a clock tick (which would be the moment when CPU usage...
--Uhm... (looks at watch...) Say, I really don't have time for wordy summaries... could you maybe cut this down into about 10 words or less? Hurry it up! I ain't got all day!
I think every animal should be grown in little vats and spaces and harvested en masse. Whales especially. I can't even imagine what kind of tasty products must come from whale meat. Whale hamburger patties, whale jerky, whale steaks... yum!
Free range... pfffft! Who cares how they "feel" about it. Animals are either FOOD or PETS. They are meant to make my belly feel warm and full, not to discuss their feelings.
You just haven't lived until you've gone on a turkey harvest. Literally hundreds of these stupid-ass gobblers walking around in a big ol' bunch. They're so close together they can't move, they can't even walk without crapping on each other. But anyway, we like to make a contest out of it. They turn a few of us loose (like a race), and you try and grab as many necks as you can! Snap! Snap! Snap! Wriggly turkey bodies flopping around everywhere. It's freakin' hilarious!
I can't wait until this winter. I'm going out on a friend's ranch and we're gonna "thin out the herd" -- you know, to humanely control the population. It just isn't right for them to starve. This time I'm bringing some "semi"-automatic weapons. Deer meat makes *excellent* jerky.
Sim City: XXX? Oooh! now *there's* a SC I might actually buy!
Why is it called a robot? I didn't read anything about it being AI-controlled, or being able to maneuver itself under its own direction. That is always irritating. "A robot that can defuse a bomb." No! A remote-controlled mechanical device that can defuse bombs as long as a human controls it. "A robot that can fly around for surveillance." No! A remote-controlled plane. "A robot that can scout for missing people trapped under rubble." No! A remote-controlled car with a camera mounted on it.
Still clever... but misleading. It ain't no robot.
YES! I've seen this device many years ago. You worked on this? When I saw this, I had never seen anything that could handle stairs or balancing as well as the Ibot could. Didn't the Segway get it's balancing scheme from the Ibot? Or am I just making that up.
Kudos to you on this machine, it is truly a work of art.
...Is that because you don't need a brain to be president?
Of course... it could also be said that "modern security could have prevented the weapon being anywhere near the president in the first place."
Because sometimes I want to send my gf to the store to buy me beer! I'll be damned if she has to take my arm with me.
I *know* why you didn't think of that one.
We can only guess what Zonk meant to say. But I'll try to make some sense.
First, hard drive manufacturers have always calculated drive space differently than the rest of the entire computing world. It allows them to say that a drive is bigger than it really truly is. They've been able to do it for years, and lawsuits have been lost and won on this very issue. But essentially, their use of the metric words "kilo," "mega," and "giga" are the literal meanings of "1000," "1,000,000" and "1,000,000,000" instead of the computing world's 1024 multiplier.
Therefore, a "kilobyte" to them is 1,000 bytes (as opposed to 1,024 bytes in real life), and a "megabyte" is "1,000,000" bytes (as opposed to 1,048,576 bytes [1024 x 1024]), and a "gigabyte" is 1,000,000,000 bytes (instead of 1,073,741,824 [1024 x 1024 x 1024] bytes in real life).
The real difference in a terabyte? Divide 1,000,000,000,000 by 1024/1024/1024 and you get 931.32 gigabytes. That's a theoretical limit, mind you, and there is overhead for cluster size, partition info, FAT tables, etc., so you really don't even get that.
Doesn't that byte?
Yes, I think there is some truth to this. Wait...Huh? What did he say? This summary is incomprehensible.