You have to completely change what content is shown to make that work, and CSS simply doesn't support that, not even in CSS3.
Sure it does, to a point. You can write something like:
<p>CSS won't allow you to magically show the same content on a 24 inch screen <a href="/fullarticle" class="shortenedcontent">...</a><span class="fullcontent">and a 3 inch one because it's about more than layout at that point. You have to completely change what content is shown to make that work, and CSS simply doesn't support that, not even in CSS3.</span></p>
By default, the second half of the post is hidden from visitors and replaced with a clickable link to the full article. Visitors with browsers more than 481px wide - basically everyone not on a smartphone - get to see the whole post because of the media-specific CSS.
That's obviously not the perfect solution for every situation but it'll get you a long way toward the goal.
Ugh. I went through that exact same transition. It got to the point that I started Cc'ing my boss (by his request) on every single email I sent to coworkers so that he always knew which ones were ignoring my questions. After several attempts, he'd call their bosses and stuff would magically start happening.
It didn't make our department popular with the entrenched employees, but it got stuff done and senior management loved the results.
Ace one standardized test and word gets around. I nailed the SAT in 8th grade and my parents got calls and letters from the damnedest places. And you know what? It almost worked. I nearly let myself get talked into going to Duke, for God's sake.
Because we've been using it in that role for most of a decade, it's never caused a single problem, and its performance has been completely satisfactory. nginx might be better in every other way but I've not had any reasons to replace a working, time-tested Apache installation with something new.
It happens, friend. Kudos to you for recognizing it! So, what concrete steps can you take to change your situation into one that you're more satisfied with? You owe yourself a job you enjoy! Get out there and make it happen.
God forbid I dumb the explanation down and they "catch on" to that, "I'm not stupid you know" yes yes that's why you're here talking to me.
And then:
With management, I have to say I don't get management, they seem to be baby sitters and I don't need sitting, I am autonomous and some seem threatened by that.
without the slightest trace of irony. Well played, good sir.
You're missing the point that what the users want is sometimes blanketly impossible. Want to sync files with all your machines, everywhere in the world, including mobile devices? That's great if you're a graphics designer but flat out illegal if you're in certain financial or medical sectors. You're getting hung up on the "I want to use Dropbox" trees and missing the "here's the best compromise we can legally offer" forest.
I keep having finance people tell me they want to use Dropbox! Which my department blocks, we are public company, we can't have people putting financial records on Dropbox, because we really don't know who at dropbox can get the data, under what circumstances, etc as they can change their terms whenever. We'd never survive our next SOX audit! What do the users say, "everyone else is using the cloud!", no everyone else is NOT using the cloud for M&A documents, I assure you. They sent some baby photo's to grandma though so they think they get it.
Want to be an absolute hero to your users? Give them solutions, not excuses.
Bad IT
User: I need Dropbox!
You: No.
User: Obstructive bastard.
Good IT
User: I need Dropbox!
You: I can't let you use the normal Dropbox because SOX made it illegal, but I can give you an account on our internal encrypted fileserver so you can share documents easily with your coworkers.
User: Oh, I didn't realize it was a legal issue. Can you show me that fileserver thing?
I almost never work from a server's physical console, but when I do it's because there's a hardware problem and I can't get it into an SSH-able status. At those times, a server-room-mounted KVM console is a nice thing to have.
(Serial consoles are also nifty, sure, but there are still times when I'd rather be able to look at a screen physically plugged into the ailing machine.)
It's just a fact that as you use energy, it flows into the environment. Just like a 100 watt lightbulb also warms up the room, 7 billion people worth of devices releasing energy warm up the planet faster than it can radiate the heat into space.
And that's an extremely good point, when the source of the energy is non-renewable. But renewable sources take the energy already present in the environment and move it to more convenient places.
To do so, I have to go re-stream each question video in turn until I figure out which one I got wrong.
No you don't. Click the "Progress" navbar link. Click Homework / Exams. Click the right-pointing arrow on the left edge of the Midterm header to expand a list of questions and how many sub-questions you got correct out of the number possible. Say you missed a part on Question 01. Click the Question 01 link. It will take you directly to the answer page and show your wrong answers in red.
I only got a 91%, but seem to have scored higher on the "using the web interface" section.;-)
The JOVIAL J4 compiler was itself written in JOVIAL J4.
Want something really mind-blowing? PyPy is a Python interpreter written in Python. It includes a tracing JIT compiler to optimize hotspots as it runs to get about 5 times faster than the native C Python. I've used it and I still can't quite believe it.
I've come to really appreciate my office. We outsource financial services for a bunch of companies, but only one of them is within a five-hour drive of our office and they're good friends with my company's owner. My boss's attitude is that anything which makes for happier employees without causing problems for anyone else is a good thing, and permitted. For example, our company dress code is "please wear shoes" (but it's not enforced).
I've met friends for lunch and showed up in cargo shorts, huaraches, and a t-shirt with a week's worth of whiskers. They used to ask if I had the day off but now just shake their heads and slump in their sport coats.
As an added bonus, this drives my father-in-law nuts. He retired from a company-uniform sort of place and just can't wrap his mind around the idea of wearing sandals and shorts to work.
...at providing quick recovery, which it really isn't designed for. Our servers run FreeBSD with ZFS and hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots. Need to restore/etc/motd from an hour ago?
Fridays basically are not an incremental backup. Well, the evening is, but the midday backup is a full backup and then is incrementally updated from the 1/2 day of business that night.
So if your main database drive fails two minutes after you wipe Friday's backup drive, all you have in your possession is a week's worth of incremental backups against a full backup that no longer exists. Gotcha. I think I'll stick with Amanda feeding into a stack of DLTs, thanks.
This is an article linking anyone who supports the BSA to supporting SOPA. Just because a company supports the BSA does not mean they support SOPA.
How many organizations are you an active, dominant member of that spend millions of dollars lobbying against your personal opinions? "Guilt by association" might mean "they both use the same bank" or "they have members on the same committee", not "they directly fund that group's lobbyists".
I like to give people benefit of the doubt. When they do or say strange things, I like to imagine situations where their odd opinions are reasonable and justifiable so that I can understand their position. I can't find a worldview where you can rightfully defend MS and Apple as being anti-SOPA while being some of the largest members of a lobbying organization that supports it. If either of those companies told the BSA to knock it off, the BSA would pretty much have to. It's obvious that they haven't.
I was being sarcastic. Gas is still nearly $4 per gallon. For all the righteous indignation about the US supposedly invading Iraq "for the oil", the pump prices certainly aren't reflecting any big influx of free petroleum.
the US and the big guys on the anti nuke front are actively SQUELCHING the scientific advancement of Iran.. Pushing them further into the past because USA et al wont alllow them to develop naturally (or however iran develops..russian scientists or not)
Frankly, the generalized version of your idea is retarded. Let's swap out Iran for North Korea. By what hypothesis would openly permitting Kim Jong Il to develop nuclear weapons promote a peaceful, flourishing culture? What harm to their society are we causing by not freely allowing that nutjob to mass-produce WMDs? By all accounts, Iran is a lot different from NK. But my point is that your argument is fundamentally flawed regardless of which specific country you're talking about.
Wanna make free energy? Quality pharmaceuticals? Sustainable agriculture? High-tech industries? Sure! We'll even help you do that stuff! Want to build an object with the sole purpose of killing millions and poisoning the local environment for centuries? Yeah, well, that's where we're going to part ways.
Indeed, try using google to crack open any one of the national labor relations websites, and you'll find that your union DUES money CAN'T be used in any way whatsoever for political action without your knowledge and consent TO BEGIN WITH.
And in my personal experience, you have approximately the same ability to withhold permission to use your dues for political contributions as you do not to join the union in the first place.
Postgres still requires that the developer and DBA actually talk to each other every once in a while, whereas Oracle does not.
s/requires/allows/, because as far as I can tell Oracle legally obligates the two parties to communicate through layers of upper management before the DBA can so much as add an index the developer needs.
That's their contention. To everyone else in the world, they offered me $1000 in exchange for a promise not to sue them later in connection with the accident. Suppose they'd offered me $500. Are you cool with the idea that I would have been on the hook for $300 out of my own pocket afterward, by the same logic?
I think it was because I negotiated in good faith and with the assumption that they were doing the same. I'd had a similar experience in the past when riding along with a friend who had an accident and their insurance company was quick to make good on their word, presumably so that I'd go away and they'd never have to see me again.
This is very short-term thinking on the part of GEICO-the-thieving-bastards. OK, so they "made" $800 off me. Good for them. Should I ever have to deal with them again, I'm going to hire a raging prick of a lawyer who will almost certainly cost them a lot more than that $800 (and I'm suggesting that all of my friends and a few million Slashdotters do the same).
I don't think I was tricked out of arrogance. I was tricked by being a nice guy and taking them at their word.
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You have to completely change what content is shown to make that work, and CSS simply doesn't support that, not even in CSS3.
Sure it does, to a point. You can write something like:
And then in your style.css:
By default, the second half of the post is hidden from visitors and replaced with a clickable link to the full article. Visitors with browsers more than 481px wide - basically everyone not on a smartphone - get to see the whole post because of the media-specific CSS.
That's obviously not the perfect solution for every situation but it'll get you a long way toward the goal.
Ugh. I went through that exact same transition. It got to the point that I started Cc'ing my boss (by his request) on every single email I sent to coworkers so that he always knew which ones were ignoring my questions. After several attempts, he'd call their bosses and stuff would magically start happening.
It didn't make our department popular with the entrenched employees, but it got stuff done and senior management loved the results.
Same thing.
Ace one standardized test and word gets around. I nailed the SAT in 8th grade and my parents got calls and letters from the damnedest places. And you know what? It almost worked. I nearly let myself get talked into going to Duke, for God's sake.
Because we've been using it in that role for most of a decade, it's never caused a single problem, and its performance has been completely satisfactory. nginx might be better in every other way but I've not had any reasons to replace a working, time-tested Apache installation with something new.
It happens, friend. Kudos to you for recognizing it! So, what concrete steps can you take to change your situation into one that you're more satisfied with? You owe yourself a job you enjoy! Get out there and make it happen.
First:
God forbid I dumb the explanation down and they "catch on" to that, "I'm not stupid you know" yes yes that's why you're here talking to me.
And then:
With management, I have to say I don't get management, they seem to be baby sitters and I don't need sitting, I am autonomous and some seem threatened by that.
without the slightest trace of irony. Well played, good sir.
You're missing the point that what the users want is sometimes blanketly impossible. Want to sync files with all your machines, everywhere in the world, including mobile devices? That's great if you're a graphics designer but flat out illegal if you're in certain financial or medical sectors. You're getting hung up on the "I want to use Dropbox" trees and missing the "here's the best compromise we can legally offer" forest.
I keep having finance people tell me they want to use Dropbox! Which my department blocks, we are public company, we can't have people putting financial records on Dropbox, because we really don't know who at dropbox can get the data, under what circumstances, etc as they can change their terms whenever. We'd never survive our next SOX audit! What do the users say, "everyone else is using the cloud!", no everyone else is NOT using the cloud for M&A documents, I assure you. They sent some baby photo's to grandma though so they think they get it.
Want to be an absolute hero to your users? Give them solutions, not excuses.
Bad IT
User: I need Dropbox!
You: No.
User: Obstructive bastard.
Good IT
User: I need Dropbox!
You: I can't let you use the normal Dropbox because SOX made it illegal, but I can give you an account on our internal encrypted fileserver so you can share documents easily with your coworkers.
User: Oh, I didn't realize it was a legal issue. Can you show me that fileserver thing?
I almost never work from a server's physical console, but when I do it's because there's a hardware problem and I can't get it into an SSH-able status. At those times, a server-room-mounted KVM console is a nice thing to have.
(Serial consoles are also nifty, sure, but there are still times when I'd rather be able to look at a screen physically plugged into the ailing machine.)
It's just a fact that as you use energy, it flows into the environment. Just like a 100 watt lightbulb also warms up the room, 7 billion people worth of devices releasing energy warm up the planet faster than it can radiate the heat into space.
And that's an extremely good point, when the source of the energy is non-renewable. But renewable sources take the energy already present in the environment and move it to more convenient places.
To do so, I have to go re-stream each question video in turn until I figure out which one I got wrong.
No you don't. Click the "Progress" navbar link. Click Homework / Exams. Click the right-pointing arrow on the left edge of the Midterm header to expand a list of questions and how many sub-questions you got correct out of the number possible. Say you missed a part on Question 01. Click the Question 01 link. It will take you directly to the answer page and show your wrong answers in red.
I only got a 91%, but seem to have scored higher on the "using the web interface" section. ;-)
No kidding. "Hey, guys! I was bored this weekend so I wrote a zSeries emulator in Haskell. Anyone wanna grab a beer?"
The JOVIAL J4 compiler was itself written in JOVIAL J4.
Want something really mind-blowing? PyPy is a Python interpreter written in Python. It includes a tracing JIT compiler to optimize hotspots as it runs to get about 5 times faster than the native C Python. I've used it and I still can't quite believe it.
I've come to really appreciate my office. We outsource financial services for a bunch of companies, but only one of them is within a five-hour drive of our office and they're good friends with my company's owner. My boss's attitude is that anything which makes for happier employees without causing problems for anyone else is a good thing, and permitted. For example, our company dress code is "please wear shoes" (but it's not enforced).
I've met friends for lunch and showed up in cargo shorts, huaraches, and a t-shirt with a week's worth of whiskers. They used to ask if I had the day off but now just shake their heads and slump in their sport coats.
As an added bonus, this drives my father-in-law nuts. He retired from a company-uniform sort of place and just can't wrap his mind around the idea of wearing sandals and shorts to work.
The thing is though, tape *sucks*.
...at providing quick recovery, which it really isn't designed for. Our servers run FreeBSD with ZFS and hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots. Need to restore /etc/motd from an hour ago?
We still use tape for disaster recovery, but online filesystem snapshots are so nice for more routine use.
Fridays basically are not an incremental backup. Well, the evening is, but the midday backup is a full backup and then is incrementally updated from the 1/2 day of business that night.
So if your main database drive fails two minutes after you wipe Friday's backup drive, all you have in your possession is a week's worth of incremental backups against a full backup that no longer exists. Gotcha. I think I'll stick with Amanda feeding into a stack of DLTs, thanks.
This is an article linking anyone who supports the BSA to supporting SOPA. Just because a company supports the BSA does not mean they support SOPA.
How many organizations are you an active, dominant member of that spend millions of dollars lobbying against your personal opinions? "Guilt by association" might mean "they both use the same bank" or "they have members on the same committee", not "they directly fund that group's lobbyists".
I like to give people benefit of the doubt. When they do or say strange things, I like to imagine situations where their odd opinions are reasonable and justifiable so that I can understand their position. I can't find a worldview where you can rightfully defend MS and Apple as being anti-SOPA while being some of the largest members of a lobbying organization that supports it. If either of those companies told the BSA to knock it off, the BSA would pretty much have to. It's obvious that they haven't.
I was being sarcastic. Gas is still nearly $4 per gallon. For all the righteous indignation about the US supposedly invading Iraq "for the oil", the pump prices certainly aren't reflecting any big influx of free petroleum.
the US and the big guys on the anti nuke front are actively SQUELCHING the scientific advancement of Iran .. Pushing them further into the past because USA et al wont alllow them to develop naturally (or however iran develops..russian scientists or not)
Frankly, the generalized version of your idea is retarded. Let's swap out Iran for North Korea. By what hypothesis would openly permitting Kim Jong Il to develop nuclear weapons promote a peaceful, flourishing culture? What harm to their society are we causing by not freely allowing that nutjob to mass-produce WMDs? By all accounts, Iran is a lot different from NK. But my point is that your argument is fundamentally flawed regardless of which specific country you're talking about.
Wanna make free energy? Quality pharmaceuticals? Sustainable agriculture? High-tech industries? Sure! We'll even help you do that stuff! Want to build an object with the sole purpose of killing millions and poisoning the local environment for centuries? Yeah, well, that's where we're going to part ways.
Iraq had no nukes AND OIL.
I, for one, am glad to be paying $1.37 per gallon of gas now that we've confiscated all of Iraq's oil.
Indeed, try using google to crack open any one of the national labor relations websites, and you'll find that your union DUES money CAN'T be used in any way whatsoever for political action without your knowledge and consent TO BEGIN WITH.
And in my personal experience, you have approximately the same ability to withhold permission to use your dues for political contributions as you do not to join the union in the first place.
Postgres still requires that the developer and DBA actually talk to each other every once in a while, whereas Oracle does not.
s/requires/allows/, because as far as I can tell Oracle legally obligates the two parties to communicate through layers of upper management before the DBA can so much as add an index the developer needs.
That's their contention. To everyone else in the world, they offered me $1000 in exchange for a promise not to sue them later in connection with the accident. Suppose they'd offered me $500. Are you cool with the idea that I would have been on the hook for $300 out of my own pocket afterward, by the same logic?
I think it was because I negotiated in good faith and with the assumption that they were doing the same. I'd had a similar experience in the past when riding along with a friend who had an accident and their insurance company was quick to make good on their word, presumably so that I'd go away and they'd never have to see me again.
This is very short-term thinking on the part of GEICO-the-thieving-bastards. OK, so they "made" $800 off me. Good for them. Should I ever have to deal with them again, I'm going to hire a raging prick of a lawyer who will almost certainly cost them a lot more than that $800 (and I'm suggesting that all of my friends and a few million Slashdotters do the same).
I don't think I was tricked out of arrogance. I was tricked by being a nice guy and taking them at their word.
I won't be making that mistake again.