While this may have been true at one time, IE/Mac hasn't been updated in even longer than IE/Win and does a far worse job at rendering modern, CSS-based web sites. Hopefully Safari will catch on, and quickly.
I'm going to hazard a guess and say you've never done any web design/development. If you had, you would have a better understanding of the difference between bad technology and bad designers. Hell, that applies to a lot more than web development, come to think of it.
What you also fail to realize is that someone specifiying too-small fonts (for example) in CSS is fundamentally no different than someone specifying too-small fonts in their <font> tags. They're unreadable either way, and it's not because CSS was used, it's because the designer is an amateur and doesn't know how to size text properly. You can continue complaining about IE not letting you change your text size, but realize that's an IE bug; it works fine in every other browser out there. Maybe you could complain to Microsoft?
CSS is not only used to make sites look interesting (although in the right hands it can do that too, while still being perfectly usable), it's used to make the process of creating and maintaining web sites faster and more efficient, while allowing the designer to do things like create print-friendly versions simply by applying a different stylesheet, or changing a color over the entire site in a single place instead of in multiple places throughout every page on their site. Which one of these sounds better to you? I suggest you try to get a better understanding of things like this before ranting about wanting them banned.
Your problem with CSS seems to be with the way bad web designers implement it, not CSS itself. CSS is a godsend for web design/development if you care anything about, say, saving bandwidth or making the design simple to modify. Don't blame the technology, blame the people misusing it. Doing otherwise makes you sound like a luddite.
I return to slashdot, it doesn't need flash, java, css or that crap to be interesting.
You've probably already seen it, but if you haven't, take a look at Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards to see how using CSS instead of a nightmare of tables and font tags could help save Slashdot an enormous amount of bandwidth and money.
Do yourself a favor and learn how to read mail headers, as you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
Please note that searching n.a.n-a.sightings for just "earthlink" will also give you a ton of examples of spam that was sent to Earthlink accounts, spam that was sent using a forged Earthlink return address, and completely non-Earthlink-related spam sightings posted by people with Earthlink e-mail addresses.
For example, please actually look at the first result of your search and explain to me how it came from Earthlink.
A few years ago I gave up using a dedicated machine as a firewall on my DSL line in favor of a hardware router. You lose a bit in flexability, but the space savings, the lower power requirements, and the lower heat output immediately make up for it. And I've decided I like my home office looking a little neater, more like an office and less like a low-rent data center.
At first I used one of those crappy Linksys things. I don't remember what model it was, but the thing was a heap of shit. I had to hard reset it once a month or so and it would regularly stop routing packets for a minute or two for no readily apparent reason. I finally had enough and replaced it with a Cisco SOHO 91 and I've never been happier (well, with a hardware purchase, anyway). It runs IOS and so can be configured via SSH, does stateful packet filtering and pretty much everything you'd expect from a real router (except VLANs, dammit). It costs a little more than your typical home router, but not by too much. Mine was around $250 new and I'm sure you can find used one cheaper.
You joke, but a few years ago a friend of mine was in jail for a little while (don't ask). While he was there, he spent his time learning XML and some other stuff from books I sent him. Unfortunately, he didn't have a computer to work on, so he sent me letters hand-written in XML. Needless to say,they were a little difficult to read and took twice as many pages as would have been needed for a regular letter.
Actually that isn't true. I still get updates for everything I've moved out of the top level applications folder. True, software update puts the new ones in the top level, not the subdirectory, but it does install them.
System Profiler shows all the "iApps" I have installed, and shows the correct path to where I have them:
iTunes:
Version: 4.6
Last Modified: 6/11/04 8:28 AM
Location:/Applications/iApps/iTunes.app
I do this too. I try to organize my Applications directory so that the list never becomes too long. For example, I put all of Apple's i* applications (iCal, iTunes, etc) in a subfolder called iApps, and so on. It helps keep your application list to a managable size (and Windows users will be amazed that you can actually move programs around like this without breaking them).
Right next to the Applications alias in my dock is an alias to my home directory. Same reason, I can right click (or Ctrl-click, or click and hold) and get fast access to anything in my home directory via the cascading menu. Awesome.
While I applaud them for writing valid HTML for a change, I wonder why they wrote the site in HTML 4 instead of the current recommendation. XHTML has been around since what, early 2000? What year is it now?
On the contrary, placing images with CSS is extremely useful, especially for excluding images from print versions or providing pages that degrade to nothing but the most basic layout (the way the new Mozilla site does). Positioning can also be a lot easier this way.
Personally, I think it's much more elegant than a bunch of inline floated or, god forbid, align="right"ed image tags.
Add the optional internal Bluetooth module to enjoy a wireless keyboard and mouse
(emphasis mine)
I'm not in the market for an iMac, but this is a really nice machine. It's got me thinking that maybe we'll see a G5 in a Powerbook (which I am in the market for, or will be soon) by January after all.
Come on, you really think this kind of Microsoft fanboy is going to run Linux? $ lynx -head -dump http://blogs.coreygouker.com/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:03:44 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
What the hell is Microsoft Office Web Server? Surprisingly, he is on a Speakeasy DSL line, not MSN or something.
Then send your report to the offending network's upstream provider. Most large networks have the required role addresses (abuse, postmaster, etc) but small businesses often don't, usually due to clueless part-time network admins. Contact thier ISP and they'll contact their customer.
Seriously, I haven't owned a floppy drive in years now and haven't used one in longer than that. One of my two Debian machines has a floppy drive in the case, but that's only because I didn't have a cover for that space and didn't want a gaping hole in the front of the case; I didn't bother connecting the drive to the power or mainboard.
I beg to differ. Dreamweaver is the best web development environment I've tried for OS X, and second only to Homesite on Windows (IMO, YMMV). You can learn XHTML/CSS just as easily using Dreamweaver as you can in Notepad. Better actually, because DW does syntax highlighting and validation.
Oh, you didn't know DW can be used in a 100% hand-edited text, non-WYSIWYG fashion? You've never actually used it, have you?
Book prices have gone thru the roof in the past 10 years.
Combine that with more Internet use and a 500 channel cable TV system (with a DVR, of course) and it's no wonder I hardly read anymore.
Well there's your problem right there. How much are you paying per month for cable TV? How many books would you be able to buy if you didn't have that expense every month?
Drop the cable and you'll a) have more money for books and b) more time to read them.
Voting against someone usually means voting for the candidate most likely to defeat him. In this case, voting against Bush means voting for Kerry.
I happen to agree. Voting for the lesser of two evils rather than the candidate you think would do the best job is really throwing your vote away, IMO. But this year, for the first time, I'm going to do it and vote for Kerry, mainly because of his "I'm not Bush" platform.
As a supporting example, I know at least 30-40 people who have told me "Oh, I read this thing on Google Groups" to which I sometimes replied "Yeah, Usenet can be great" and their response is "What is Usenet? This was on Google!"
You don't remember people saying the exact same thing back in the Dejanews days? I sure do.
If MS was doing this, everyone here would be screaming for vengence.
I doubt it. Why would anyone get upset about MS or anyone else creating their own discussion groups/forums? There's no reason to. Do you know anyone who's upset about Yahoo Groups existing? If you don't want to use it, don't. It doesn't affect anyone but the people using it.
In fact, I'm pretty sure MSN does have something like this. I can't be arsed to look for it now but I'm sure I've heard of it or seen it in the past.
Slashdot Mirror
the Mac version does very well
While this may have been true at one time, IE/Mac hasn't been updated in even longer than IE/Win and does a far worse job at rendering modern, CSS-based web sites. Hopefully Safari will catch on, and quickly.
You're right, this is completely unreadable.
I'm going to hazard a guess and say you've never done any web design/development. If you had, you would have a better understanding of the difference between bad technology and bad designers. Hell, that applies to a lot more than web development, come to think of it.
What you also fail to realize is that someone specifiying too-small fonts (for example) in CSS is fundamentally no different than someone specifying too-small fonts in their <font> tags. They're unreadable either way, and it's not because CSS was used, it's because the designer is an amateur and doesn't know how to size text properly. You can continue complaining about IE not letting you change your text size, but realize that's an IE bug; it works fine in every other browser out there. Maybe you could complain to Microsoft?
CSS is not only used to make sites look interesting (although in the right hands it can do that too, while still being perfectly usable), it's used to make the process of creating and maintaining web sites faster and more efficient, while allowing the designer to do things like create print-friendly versions simply by applying a different stylesheet, or changing a color over the entire site in a single place instead of in multiple places throughout every page on their site. Which one of these sounds better to you? I suggest you try to get a better understanding of things like this before ranting about wanting them banned.
As far as i'm concerned, CSS should be banned.
Your problem with CSS seems to be with the way bad web designers implement it, not CSS itself. CSS is a godsend for web design/development if you care anything about, say, saving bandwidth or making the design simple to modify. Don't blame the technology, blame the people misusing it. Doing otherwise makes you sound like a luddite.
I return to slashdot, it doesn't need flash, java, css or that crap to be interesting.
You've probably already seen it, but if you haven't, take a look at Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards to see how using CSS instead of a nightmare of tables and font tags could help save Slashdot an enormous amount of bandwidth and money.
Do yourself a favor and learn how to read mail headers, as you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
Please note that searching n.a.n-a.sightings for just "earthlink" will also give you a ton of examples of spam that was sent to Earthlink accounts, spam that was sent using a forged Earthlink return address, and completely non-Earthlink-related spam sightings posted by people with Earthlink e-mail addresses.
For example, please actually look at the first result of your search and explain to me how it came from Earthlink.
A few years ago I gave up using a dedicated machine as a firewall on my DSL line in favor of a hardware router. You lose a bit in flexability, but the space savings, the lower power requirements, and the lower heat output immediately make up for it. And I've decided I like my home office looking a little neater, more like an office and less like a low-rent data center.
At first I used one of those crappy Linksys things. I don't remember what model it was, but the thing was a heap of shit. I had to hard reset it once a month or so and it would regularly stop routing packets for a minute or two for no readily apparent reason. I finally had enough and replaced it with a Cisco SOHO 91 and I've never been happier (well, with a hardware purchase, anyway). It runs IOS and so can be configured via SSH, does stateful packet filtering and pretty much everything you'd expect from a real router (except VLANs, dammit). It costs a little more than your typical home router, but not by too much. Mine was around $250 new and I'm sure you can find used one cheaper.
You joke, but a few years ago a friend of mine was in jail for a little while (don't ask). While he was there, he spent his time learning XML and some other stuff from books I sent him. Unfortunately, he didn't have a computer to work on, so he sent me letters hand-written in XML. Needless to say,they were a little difficult to read and took twice as many pages as would have been needed for a regular letter.
System Profiler shows all the "iApps" I have installed, and shows the correct path to where I have them:
And if you feel the need to bring attention to your .sig, I will do the same for mine.
Aren't we bombarded with enough advertising as it is? Why do you feel the need to post more?
I do this too. I try to organize my Applications directory so that the list never becomes too long. For example, I put all of Apple's i* applications (iCal, iTunes, etc) in a subfolder called iApps, and so on. It helps keep your application list to a managable size (and Windows users will be amazed that you can actually move programs around like this without breaking them).
Right next to the Applications alias in my dock is an alias to my home directory. Same reason, I can right click (or Ctrl-click, or click and hold) and get fast access to anything in my home directory via the cascading menu. Awesome.
While I applaud them for writing valid HTML for a change, I wonder why they wrote the site in HTML 4 instead of the current recommendation. XHTML has been around since what, early 2000? What year is it now?
On the contrary, placing images with CSS is extremely useful, especially for excluding images from print versions or providing pages that degrade to nothing but the most basic layout (the way the new Mozilla site does). Positioning can also be a lot easier this way.
Personally, I think it's much more elegant than a bunch of inline floated or, god forbid, align="right"ed image tags.
(emphasis mine)
I'm not in the market for an iMac, but this is a really nice machine. It's got me thinking that maybe we'll see a G5 in a Powerbook (which I am in the market for, or will be soon) by January after all.
Come on, you really think this kind of Microsoft fanboy is going to run Linux?
$ lynx -head -dump http://blogs.coreygouker.com/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:03:44 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
What the hell is Microsoft Office Web Server? Surprisingly, he is on a Speakeasy DSL line, not MSN or something.
Then send your report to the offending network's upstream provider. Most large networks have the required role addresses (abuse, postmaster, etc) but small businesses often don't, usually due to clueless part-time network admins. Contact thier ISP and they'll contact their customer.
What year is this?
Seriously, I haven't owned a floppy drive in years now and haven't used one in longer than that. One of my two Debian machines has a floppy drive in the case, but that's only because I didn't have a cover for that space and didn't want a gaping hole in the front of the case; I didn't bother connecting the drive to the power or mainboard.
I beg to differ. Dreamweaver is the best web development environment I've tried for OS X, and second only to Homesite on Windows (IMO, YMMV). You can learn XHTML/CSS just as easily using Dreamweaver as you can in Notepad. Better actually, because DW does syntax highlighting and validation.
Oh, you didn't know DW can be used in a 100% hand-edited text, non-WYSIWYG fashion? You've never actually used it, have you?
What's really a sign of armageddon is the article summary:
Actually, Slashdot posting a story devoid of spelling and grammatical errors is the real sign of the apocalypse.
1998 called, they want their Java craplets back.
Client-side Java is dead, and good riddance. Java is much bigger server-side than it ever was on the client (think JSP, Servlets, etc).
I'm still wondering when the English language will completely devolve into caveman-talk
You don't use IRC much, do you?
If they're taking them from your site at downshift.org, this could be because you haven't asked them not to.
Book prices have gone thru the roof in the past 10 years.
Combine that with more Internet use and a 500 channel cable TV system (with a DVR, of course) and it's no wonder I hardly read anymore.
Well there's your problem right there. How much are you paying per month for cable TV? How many books would you be able to buy if you didn't have that expense every month?
Drop the cable and you'll a) have more money for books and b) more time to read them.
Voting against someone usually means voting for the candidate most likely to defeat him. In this case, voting against Bush means voting for Kerry.
I happen to agree. Voting for the lesser of two evils rather than the candidate you think would do the best job is really throwing your vote away, IMO. But this year, for the first time, I'm going to do it and vote for Kerry, mainly because of his "I'm not Bush" platform.
As a supporting example, I know at least 30-40 people who have told me "Oh, I read this thing on Google Groups" to which I sometimes replied "Yeah, Usenet can be great" and their response is "What is Usenet? This was on Google!"
You don't remember people saying the exact same thing back in the Dejanews days? I sure do.
Death of Usenet predicted, film at 11:00.
If MS was doing this, everyone here would be screaming for vengence.
I doubt it. Why would anyone get upset about MS or anyone else creating their own discussion groups/forums? There's no reason to. Do you know anyone who's upset about Yahoo Groups existing? If you don't want to use it, don't. It doesn't affect anyone but the people using it.
In fact, I'm pretty sure MSN does have something like this. I can't be arsed to look for it now but I'm sure I've heard of it or seen it in the past.
Those "one or two more" includes people with disabilities, which substance abuse problems are often considered.