What is pissing off the Nokias, Ericcsons and Broadcomms of the world is that in the CDMA space,
they have no patents at all. None. That is because they fought CDMA every step of the way until Qualcomm
demonstrated conclusively that it is a commercially practical technology. Not entirely true... ok, they don't have any CDMA patents, but both Nokia and Ericsson have strong W-CDMA portfolios. The reason GSM is based on TDMA is that CDMA didn't even exist when GSM was being deployed; let alone when GSM was being designed. And considering that CDMA is overkill for voice traffic anyway, it's not so strange that they would push for their own solution (GSM) instead.
The problem with your example is that the CSS layout, unlike a table, cannot automatically resize the columns to be the same height.
I know. However, it's not clear from the original poster that that's what he wants. Also, it's only an issue if you want borders between the columns. If you want all columns to be of equal height while remaining "fluid", then yes: css leaves you high and dry.
Say I want a page with a header, three columns of content, and a footer that gets pushed down according to whichever column has the longest content.
This is actually fairly simple, but rather unintuitive due to the broken nature of the CSS box model. Whoever decided that width equals width minus padding and border, must have been smoking crack. That person needs to be identified and suitably punished for his/her transgression against web developers everywhere.
Anyway; a solution to your layout problem will need to nest boxes in order for you to be able to specify both width, border and padding, as well as maintaining the flow of your page:
When GNOME's HIG adopted a new Okay/Cancel button order, apps had to change their code to adopt to the new format.
You've misunderstood the Gnome HIG. Don't feel bad, many people do. The HIG covers so much more than simple pixelpushing and the physical layout of a program gui. Case in point: the HIG specifically recommends against the use of Okay/Cancel-buttons, and suggests the following: "Write button labels as imperative verbs, for example Save, Print."
Comprehensive UI design decisions such as the HIG aren't possible to enforce as a desktop-wide policy -- they need to be carefully crafted.
Some studios are finally getting it -- there's no reason to keep the non-USA world waiting for popular movies. Especially with the ease of downloading movies off the internet. Fox has wisened up considerably in the past years ("Star Wars Episode 1" took three months to travel across the atlantic, while "Episode II" premiered almost simultaneously). The story also mentions X2 premiering simultaneously in 80 countries. Nice.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, the infamous Lone Gunmen episode of the X-files aired this week in Sweden (18 months after the US network premiere), but in this case I hold the swedish network responsible (wankers).
I don't understand why people think it's somehow wrong to offer financial incentives to loyal customers.
Huh? Loyal how? Am I less loyal because I call someone who uses a different provider? Rubbish!
The current scheme skews everything because you never know how much any given call is going to cost. Also, the providers only advertise their lowest price (the amount it costs to call a subscriber of that same provider), thereby making price comparisons more difficult.
Any organization or person is welcome to contribute to KDE, and anybody is permitted to distribute modified versions of KDE under the permissions granted by the individual licenses of the KDE components.
This should be food for thought for all the KDE zealots who have their panties up in a bunch over the latest Red Hat beta.;)
Why do a lot of people whine about Microsoft when a patent issue comes up? Sure, Microsoft has a lot of patents, but have they ever tried to enforce any of them? Their tactics usually involve creating a new standard (or embrace/extend an existing one) and not publishing complete specifications in order to hinder competing products.
I had a Toshiba Portegé 300 with a widescreen about a year ago. The resolution was 1024x600, but I could hook up an external monitor and crank it all the way up to 1280x1024x256. It was a nice little machine, but ultimately wasn't powerful enough so I changed it.
Toshiba dropped the widescreen for the new 3010 and 3110 series because there aren't any widescreens of that size available.
I just wanted to point out that not all discs are created equal. The region 2 versions are often superior to their region 1 counterparts in terms of audio/video quality (reg2 is more often anamorphic than reg1 for the same titles). However, the reg1 discs often have more special features included on the discs. Check out http://www.dvdweb.co.uk/ for comparisons. Some discs are not available in reg2, but that goes both ways ("Jackie Brown" is for instance not available in reg1).
If you have a multi-region dvd: research the titles you buy to make sure that you get top quality.
Maybe I fundamentally misunderstand the situation, but couldn't the effort that created Gnome have created a GPL work-alike to QT?
The Gnome-team offered to do just this, but the KDE team refused to give any guarantees that they would use the new gpl Qt-workalike product. Therefore, the Gnome-project was started.
This is in fact the international standard, and is used extensively in Sweden. All other date formats (mm/dd/yy, dd/mm/yy, dd/mm-yy, etc) are just plain goofy by comparison.
I'm passionate about Panasonic. I simply love their dvd hardware. Simple, easy-to-use remotes and on-screen menus. I myself own a Panasonic A350 (european model) with Euroscart (true RGB) and onboard Dolby Digital and MPEG multichannel decoders. It's an excellent machine and the only problem I have with it is that it doesn't play CDR (well, it's not a big problem). It's region-agnostic (of course) but that ran me an extra $100. It can output both NTSC, PAL, and PAL-30.
The new american model A310 also has DTS digital out (so far a fairly extraneous feature) but it doesn't have true RGB or MPEG multichannel (yet another extraneous feature).
It looks as if they're still using the same old crappy keyboard as in the series5. I've been using a Series5 for the past couple of months, and it's mostly a very impressive piece of machinery. It's fast, has excellent built-in software, excellent battery time, and the screen is ok. But the keyboard just plain sucks.
Touch typing would be doable if it weren't for two things:
Swedish keyboard layout which forces me to do double-key presses for three very common swedish letters.
If you don't hit a key dead-on or you don't press it all the way down, nothing happens (this obviously goes double for the swedish keys).
Hopefully Nikon makes a Video for Linux driver for their camera. It's nice to have all the devices under a single device.
Sure, but by the looks of it, there are at least three such interfaces in development: Video for Linux (for video input), SANE (for scanner input), and gPhoto (for input from digital cameras). The three of them have different foci, so a project merge is somewhat inadvisable. But there are also instances where it would be convenient to use the same interface to different devices.
I doubt that there is a simple solution to this, and I don't know if these projects are working together, but I do know that it would save a lot of work if you only had to write one driver to a common interface, instead of three.
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I know. However, it's not clear from the original poster that that's what he wants. Also, it's only an issue if you want borders between the columns. If you want all columns to be of equal height while remaining "fluid", then yes: css leaves you high and dry.
This is actually fairly simple, but rather unintuitive due to the broken nature of the CSS box model. Whoever decided that width equals width minus padding and border, must have been smoking crack. That person needs to be identified and suitably punished for his/her transgression against web developers everywhere.
Anyway; a solution to your layout problem will need to nest boxes in order for you to be able to specify both width, border and padding, as well as maintaining the flow of your page:
It's DMCA, not DCMA. It's a copyright act, not a millennium act.
In your previous interview, you made the offhand comment "(because I look for things...things to make me go...)"
That sounds eerily familiar... where's that from?
You've misunderstood the Gnome HIG. Don't feel bad, many people do. The HIG covers so much more than simple pixelpushing and the physical layout of a program gui. Case in point: the HIG specifically recommends against the use of Okay/Cancel-buttons, and suggests the following: "Write button labels as imperative verbs, for example Save, Print."
Comprehensive UI design decisions such as the HIG aren't possible to enforce as a desktop-wide policy -- they need to be carefully crafted.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, the infamous Lone Gunmen episode of the X-files aired this week in Sweden (18 months after the US network premiere), but in this case I hold the swedish network responsible (wankers).
Huh? Loyal how? Am I less loyal because I call someone who uses a different provider? Rubbish!
The current scheme skews everything because you never know how much any given call is going to cost. Also, the providers only advertise their lowest price (the amount it costs to call a subscriber of that same provider), thereby making price comparisons more difficult.
Why do a lot of people whine about Microsoft when a patent issue comes up? Sure, Microsoft has a lot of patents, but have they ever tried to enforce any of them? Their tactics usually involve creating a new standard (or embrace/extend an existing one) and not publishing complete specifications in order to hinder competing products.
I had a Toshiba Portegé 300 with a widescreen about a year ago. The resolution was 1024x600, but I could hook up an external monitor and crank it all the way up to 1280x1024x256. It was a nice little machine, but ultimately wasn't powerful enough so I changed it.
Toshiba dropped the widescreen for the new 3010 and 3110 series because there aren't any widescreens of that size available.
I just wanted to point out that not all discs are created equal. The region 2 versions are often superior to their region 1 counterparts in terms of audio/video quality (reg2 is more often anamorphic than reg1 for the same titles). However, the reg1 discs often have more special features included on the discs. Check out http://www.dvdweb.co.uk/ for comparisons. Some discs are not available in reg2, but that goes both ways ("Jackie Brown" is for instance not available in reg1).
If you have a multi-region dvd: research the titles you buy to make sure that you get top quality.
Maybe I fundamentally misunderstand the situation, but couldn't the effort that created Gnome have created a GPL work-alike to QT?
The Gnome-team offered to do just this, but the KDE team refused to give any guarantees that they would use the new gpl Qt-workalike product. Therefore, the Gnome-project was started.
Does the software/hardware enforce zones, or is it zone-free?
Nonono... the hardware accelleration is only for certain parts of the mpeg2-decoding. CSS has nothing to do with this.
> the One True Date Format: YYYY-MM-DD
This is in fact the international standard, and is used extensively in Sweden. All other date formats (mm/dd/yy, dd/mm/yy, dd/mm-yy, etc) are just plain goofy by comparison.
August 19 is the premiere date for TPM in Sweden. If Lucas just would have released it sooner in Europe, this problem would never have occurred.
I'm passionate about Panasonic. I simply love their dvd hardware. Simple, easy-to-use remotes and on-screen menus. I myself own a Panasonic A350 (european model) with Euroscart (true RGB) and onboard Dolby Digital and MPEG multichannel decoders. It's an excellent machine and the only problem I have with it is that it doesn't play CDR (well, it's not a big problem). It's region-agnostic (of course) but that ran me an extra $100. It can output both NTSC, PAL, and PAL-30.
The new american model A310 also has DTS digital out (so far a fairly extraneous feature) but it doesn't have true RGB or MPEG multichannel (yet another extraneous feature).
Touch typing would be doable if it weren't for two things:
Hopefully Nikon makes a Video for Linux driver for their camera. It's nice to have all the devices under a single device.
Sure, but by the looks of it, there are at least three such interfaces in development: Video for Linux (for video input), SANE (for scanner input), and gPhoto (for input from digital cameras). The three of them have different foci, so a project merge is somewhat inadvisable. But there are also instances where it would be convenient to use the same interface to different devices.
I doubt that there is a simple solution to this, and I don't know if these projects are working together, but I do know that it would save a lot of work if you only had to write one driver to a common interface, instead of three.