Am I the only one who thinks MySpace's UI is incredibly ugly and poorly-put-together?
Nope. It's about the worst-written thing on the Internet today.
Just try writing your own CSS for your profile page. There's no consistent use of classes or IDs, what classes there are are named for their default formatting characteristics rather than their usage (e.g. "whitetext12"), the whole thing is made up of generically-named or anonymous nested tables to an extent that would have made even a mid-nineties "web programmer" ashamed, and there's even completely illegal HTML. For example, your profile page probably contains this construct: <tr id=Body type:Row>. Note the lack of quotes around what I assume was supposed to be an ID.
Don't even try to run a validator against a MySpace profile page. It makes Slashdot look well-written.
And they'll never be able to fix any of these bugs, because it'll break all of the customizations that their script-kiddie user base has cut-n-pasted from some third-party website and then forgotten about.
And probably about half the times I try to log in to MySpace, I instead get an error message telling me that I must be logged in to do that. That's right: I have to be logged in to log in.
"If you want to use their other services you have to already know where they are, or look through a large group of them."
Whereas with Yahoo, if you want to use *any* of their services, you have to either know where (on the page) to look for them (and hope it hasn't moved again this week) or look through a large group of them (the entire main page.) Yeah, that's better.
I've often used SMS for medium-long conversations (ten or so messages each way) when I'm simply in a situation in which I cannot make a voice call, such as being in a theater or in a conference. I just set the phone to silent and it lights up when the message comes in. Quite handy.
The dark-acclimated people in the row behind you most emphatically do not agree. Keep it in your pants, or leave the theater. You weren't watching the movie anyway.
I have an RFID-based "Chicago Card" that's used to pay for buses and trains. It's been claimed that it will work if I wave my wallet at the reader. It's even implied in the FAQ (see "If I keep my Chicago Card Plus® in my wallet next to another smartcard, will it still work?")
The Chicago Card is the only RFID-based thing in my wallet, but I can actually touch my wallet to the reader and not have my card read. I suspect it's because I keep a spare car key in my wallet, and the large chunk of brass confuses the reader.
(My car key does have an RFID chip in it, but the spare does not, as it needs to fit in my wallet and it doesn't need to be able to start the car.)
How about the increased understanding of and accurate diagnosis of autism and autism-related disorders around that time?
Certainly a reasonable hypothesis, however no data exists to back it up. Care to demonstrate that the state of accurate diagnosis of autism and autism related disorders advanced with and mirrored only the rollout of cable-tv?
More to the point, even the abstract mentions that they did two studies, and that the first study - showing a positive correlation between rates of autism and precipitation (which they claim has been shown to be positively correlated with television viewing) - was not time-dependent. That's not to say that it's right, and I personally feel that the daisy-chaining of correlations smells a bit funny, but the strictly time-dependent explanation doesn't explain away everything in the paper.
The Free Parking Jackpot rule, together with the "let's just ignore the auction rule" rule, are largely responsible for the popular perception that Monopoly takes a long time to play.
If you want to see a quick(er) game of Monopoly, try playing it with the official rules sometime.
(Also, to answer your question: The first time I ever heard of the Free Parking Jackpot was when I saw it as an optional rule in the Commodore 64 version of Monopoly. I'd never heard of it before that. So no, not every family.)
Two maps of the county: one showing the ownership of land parcels
Those are typically called "plat books." As you imply, you can still get them, but they're not usually free anymore. Your local public library probably has a current one for your county. Here in the big (ha!) city, they're not terribly useful because they don't usually show the owners of individual lots, just the names of housing developments.
But they've become irrelevant in a lot of places anyway. See, for example, this website or this one. Both have the ability to search by parcel IDs (which are conveniently displayed in the attached maps if you select the right options), by address, or by the owner's name (or partial name.) [Note: I didn't link to my own county because their system doesn't support searching by name, not because I don't want all you kids on my lawn. I don't, though.]
"A commercial company has to build intellectual property, while the GPL, by its very nature, does not allow intellectual property to be built, making the two approaches fundamentally incompatible, Muglia said."
"Linux and open-source companies remain Microsoft competitors, and the goal is to do a better job than they do at solving customer needs, and ultimately to have customers choose Microsoft solutions." (Emphasis added.)
So which one is it, Bob?
Here, let me help: the GPL, unlike the BSD license you prefer, does allow intellectual property to be built. That's your fundamental problem with it: as long as it's still effectively someone else's property, you can't embrace and extend it and get away with it.
You just don't like the GPL because you don't get to "borrow" all that hard work from the people who wrote the code.
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So it's still Microsoft, then.
Bah. The last Macintrash I used had a 68000 processor. It sucked then, it sucks now. You can keep it.
What if you can't spell Claris?
Nope. It's about the worst-written thing on the Internet today.
Just try writing your own CSS for your profile page. There's no consistent use of classes or IDs, what classes there are are named for their default formatting characteristics rather than their usage (e.g. "whitetext12"), the whole thing is made up of generically-named or anonymous nested tables to an extent that would have made even a mid-nineties "web programmer" ashamed, and there's even completely illegal HTML. For example, your profile page probably contains this construct: <tr id=Body type:Row>. Note the lack of quotes around what I assume was supposed to be an ID.
Don't even try to run a validator against a MySpace profile page. It makes Slashdot look well-written.
And they'll never be able to fix any of these bugs, because it'll break all of the customizations that their script-kiddie user base has cut-n-pasted from some third-party website and then forgotten about.
And probably about half the times I try to log in to MySpace, I instead get an error message telling me that I must be logged in to do that. That's right: I have to be logged in to log in.
So in addition to being an asshole, he's incompetent as well? SHFileOperation too complicated for him?
Don't worry, it won't be.
April only has 30 days.
"Those people aren't really ... anti-gay. Calling people gay is the best insult some of those people can come up with."
In what universe do those two sentences not contradict each other?
Hands up everyone who saw "UP" after "Great Lakes" and had to reread it to see it as a word rather than as an abbreviation of "Upper Peninsula."
"If you want to use their other services you have to already know where they are, or look through a large group of them."
Whereas with Yahoo, if you want to use *any* of their services, you have to either know where (on the page) to look for them (and hope it hasn't moved again this week) or look through a large group of them (the entire main page.) Yeah, that's better.
One might note that, but one would be wrong. The "no apostrophes for plurals" rule doesn't go on vacation just because it's a single letter.
There are style guides that disagree on this point, granted, but the ones that disagree with me are self-evidently wrong.
I, tooo, feel moore toolerant.
"Loose" is clearly spelled with two Os. "Lose," on the other hand, is spelled with one.
The dark-acclimated people in the row behind you most emphatically do not agree. Keep it in your pants, or leave the theater. You weren't watching the movie anyway.
Yep, though it's technically in Rosemont, a suburb of Chicago.
What a lovely demonstration of why nobody is scared of the "analog hole."
Couldn't they have filmed it through a pane of frosted glass while holding the camera at an "artsy" angle, just to make it even lower quality?
You mean that bit about having to fight their way through fogs of rocks and debris was just bad grammar?
Then it will have that feature by definition, no?
I have an RFID-based "Chicago Card" that's used to pay for buses and trains. It's been claimed that it will work if I wave my wallet at the reader. It's even implied in the FAQ (see "If I keep my Chicago Card Plus® in my wallet next to another smartcard, will it still work?")
The Chicago Card is the only RFID-based thing in my wallet, but I can actually touch my wallet to the reader and not have my card read. I suspect it's because I keep a spare car key in my wallet, and the large chunk of brass confuses the reader.
(My car key does have an RFID chip in it, but the spare does not, as it needs to fit in my wallet and it doesn't need to be able to start the car.)
More to the point, even the abstract mentions that they did two studies, and that the first study - showing a positive correlation between rates of autism and precipitation (which they claim has been shown to be positively correlated with television viewing) - was not time-dependent. That's not to say that it's right, and I personally feel that the daisy-chaining of correlations smells a bit funny, but the strictly time-dependent explanation doesn't explain away everything in the paper.
2^16 is about 16000? And you're posting on Slashdot?
Every time I hit PrintScrn/SysRq on this Windows XP machine, my computer locks up.
Must be because of that remote kernel debugger...
But seriously, I find that Alt-PrintScrn is a better choice for most screen capture tasks, anyway, and it won't break to the debugger.
The Free Parking Jackpot rule, together with the "let's just ignore the auction rule" rule, are largely responsible for the popular perception that Monopoly takes a long time to play.
If you want to see a quick(er) game of Monopoly, try playing it with the official rules sometime.
(Also, to answer your question: The first time I ever heard of the Free Parking Jackpot was when I saw it as an optional rule in the Commodore 64 version of Monopoly. I'd never heard of it before that. So no, not every family.)
Those are typically called "plat books." As you imply, you can still get them, but they're not usually free anymore. Your local public library probably has a current one for your county. Here in the big (ha!) city, they're not terribly useful because they don't usually show the owners of individual lots, just the names of housing developments.
But they've become irrelevant in a lot of places anyway. See, for example, this website or this one. Both have the ability to search by parcel IDs (which are conveniently displayed in the attached maps if you select the right options), by address, or by the owner's name (or partial name.) [Note: I didn't link to my own county because their system doesn't support searching by name, not because I don't want all you kids on my lawn. I don't, though.]
"A commercial company has to build intellectual property, while the GPL, by its very nature, does not allow intellectual property to be built, making the two approaches fundamentally incompatible, Muglia said."
"Linux and open-source companies remain Microsoft competitors, and the goal is to do a better job than they do at solving customer needs, and ultimately to have customers choose Microsoft solutions." (Emphasis added.)
So which one is it, Bob?
Here, let me help: the GPL, unlike the BSD license you prefer, does allow intellectual property to be built. That's your fundamental problem with it: as long as it's still effectively someone else's property, you can't embrace and extend it and get away with it.
You just don't like the GPL because you don't get to "borrow" all that hard work from the people who wrote the code.
"It is the average, and the average voted for bush ... twice."
And that was just in the 2004 election.