But to be fair it also stated in very big bold type that this default master password should be changed. The fact the master password remains unchanged is a user error in the setup and not a design flaw.
I would say that's incorrect. It should be a trivial matter for the software to be written to REQUIRE the default password to be changed before the machine will actually give out money. Rather like having to immediately change your password when you first login to an account. It's not a difficult concept, and while this is technically a 'lack' of a feature rather than a bug, it's certainly a flaw in design, and a pretty basic one at that.
I'd hardly call that 'cancelled'. It's more accurate to state that 'it ended it's run' or 'completed' or simply just 'finished'.
Or:
1) exhausted itself 2) ran out of steam 3) long since jumped the shark 4) shot it's wad 5) went down hill seasons ago 6) went out with a whimper, not a bang 7) finally traveled through that giant Chaapa-ai in the sky (yeah, I had to look up the spelling) 8) Outgoing wormhole established! 9) one too many episodes of Wormhole Xtreme! 10) and they still haven't gotten it on?! Oh right, he's Air Force, not Marine (See the hill, TAKE the hill, dipshit! Two l's for lloser. The one-l'd O'Neil from the movie woulda bagged Carter long ago...) 11) Ten is a good season to die. (Oh wait, wrong series.) 12) never did meet the Furlings...(for real) 13) finally ran out of ex-Star Trek/Farscape/Andromeda actors to guest star (shoulda hooked up some Bablyon 5 peeps) 14) Hardly any Lexa Doig - good riddance to ya, ya bastards! 15) hey, aren't those Replicators just Lego Mindstorms? 16) sometimes the very old (tv shows) don't do as they're told (and die, already). 17) already re-used every other sci-fi tv show/movie plotline in the history of sci-fi/fantasy. 18) Atlantis will still suck 19) Budge. I don't know why they keep reprinting him...
Tidy, as others have already mentioned, will be your very best new friend.
Install the 'Web Developer' extension for Firefox, and use some of the HTML/CSS validators in the Tools submenu.
Get a good handle on regex searching & replacing (if you're doing this from Windows, I suggest Funduc's "Search & Replace").
If you're migrating your GIFs to PNG (which I would recommend), then you need to get yourself pngout, to compress them to their smallest possible size (Photoshop SUCKS at this).
And as someone else said, make an empty new standards compliant template, and get to cutting and pasting; it can be a *brutal* initial process, but you'll probably save yourself time in the long run, depending on how clean you want to eventually get the code. If you just want it to be standards compliant, then you can just do a clean up job. If you want to do it 'right,' you'll want to develop a new template and coding style to properly integrate the HTML and CSS. Things like not putting everything in a DIV (a sure sign you're a newbie to CSS), just to style something. Figure out why you should be using H1, H2 tags (& TBODY & TH tags if you're using tables for outer layout), etc, without having to use a lot of unnecessary DIVs all over the place. Inline styles = bad.
Figure out why XHTML may not be the best choice over HTML. Know which DTDs to specify. Know the difference in IE6 between standards mode and quirks mode, and which DTD to use to make IE6 behave. Know that IE7's quirks mode is supposedly identical to IE6's; you supposedly won't get the new 'more-standards compliancy' in IE7 without a DTD.
Oh yeah - the guy who posted about replacing spacer gifs with 'spacer DIVs'? Don't do that to yourself, okay? Yikes.
Learn about usability and readability. Learn about typography, and how light-on-black text should be sized differently from black-on-light. Thinking about grey text on black or grey text on white? Don't be stupid. Make the stuff readable! Learn that sans serif fonts are more easily read at screen density (opposite of print). Learn why Verdana is usually not your friend (go for Trebuchet MS or even Arial).
You may be able to drop *browser-detection* for IE6, but unless you're using a (correct) DTD, IE7 will still pop into quirks mode, which is supposedly essentially unchanged from IE6, and will thus act 'badly'.
So, all you programmers who write crappy HTML, guess what - you finally have to learn proper HTML!:)
Also note: Users on Win 2000 or below won't be getting IE7. *shrug* Fug 'em, I say. Fug 'em up their stupid...well, you know the quote.
Without the SG-1 lead-in, Atlantis is gonna die a horrible yet well-deserved death.
Eureka is fun, though. I like the new Dr Who quite a lot, but I'm not willing to wait a whole season just to see it on Sci-Fi. Fortunately, I've already watched the latest season via Bittorrent. Maybe they could show all 13 eps of the new season and be in time to play the new season in time with its appearance in the UK? And what's up with a measley 13 ep season? Lazy bastards.
Okay, the bit about Omnivores who hit IMDb all the time hits a little too close to home here.:)
I use IMDb as much as I use Google. A merging of those two would be quite convenient for me.
Oh, and let's throw in Wikipedia while we're at it. While it may not be as accurate as a paper-published encyclopedia, it's still a zillion times more accurate than the average one-off webpage you're likely to find on any given topic.
Have you tried upconverting to 720p, rather than 1080i, and if so, what did you think? I *cannot stand* interlaced displays, but that's just me. I pick out the dampening wires on aperture grille CRTs immediately, too, whilst most people don't seem to notice them at all, or aren't bothered by them.
I didn't say they DO that, but that they CAN do that. I'm sure they're perfectly capable of reverse engineering the drivers without having to look at the chip under a microscope. I just don't think that the reason they don't open source their drivers has anything to do with the competition figuring out how they do things. Both camps are extremely competent, and probably have little need to bother stealing from each other in that regard. I just think they don't own all the IP in either their drivers, and/or in their hardware, (licensed or not).
I'd be willing to bet the REAL reason they don't open their drivers is because they're using stuff they know is the intellectual property of others. Just a guess, though; I have no real information on this, but I'd be very surprised if they can't dig into each other's hardware under a microscope to figure out what the other guy is doing, and reverse engineer each other's drivers. These are some very smart folks we're talking about here.
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But to be fair it also stated in very big bold type that this default master password should be changed. The fact the master password remains unchanged is a user error in the setup and not a design flaw.
I would say that's incorrect. It should be a trivial matter for the software to be written to REQUIRE the default password to be changed before the machine will actually give out money. Rather like having to immediately change your password when you first login to an account. It's not a difficult concept, and while this is technically a 'lack' of a feature rather than a bug, it's certainly a flaw in design, and a pretty basic one at that.
Oh, man, a _Perl_ programmer talking about the _elegance_ of another language.
...but that thing looks like it goes, "boing! boing! boing!" in operation. :)
Hardly. Everyone knows it's all ball bearings nowadays!
re: 10 seasons of Stargate SG-1
I'd hardly call that 'cancelled'. It's more accurate to state that 'it ended it's run' or 'completed' or simply just 'finished'.
Or:
1) exhausted itself
2) ran out of steam
3) long since jumped the shark
4) shot it's wad
5) went down hill seasons ago
6) went out with a whimper, not a bang
7) finally traveled through that giant Chaapa-ai in the sky (yeah, I had to look up the spelling)
8) Outgoing wormhole established!
9) one too many episodes of Wormhole Xtreme!
10) and they still haven't gotten it on?! Oh right, he's Air Force, not Marine (See the hill, TAKE the hill, dipshit! Two l's for lloser. The one-l'd O'Neil from the movie woulda bagged Carter long ago...)
11) Ten is a good season to die. (Oh wait, wrong series.)
12) never did meet the Furlings...(for real)
13) finally ran out of ex-Star Trek/Farscape/Andromeda actors to guest star (shoulda hooked up some Bablyon 5 peeps)
14) Hardly any Lexa Doig - good riddance to ya, ya bastards!
15) hey, aren't those Replicators just Lego Mindstorms?
16) sometimes the very old (tv shows) don't do as they're told (and die, already).
17) already re-used every other sci-fi tv show/movie plotline in the history of sci-fi/fantasy.
18) Atlantis will still suck
19) Budge. I don't know why they keep reprinting him...
Tidy, as others have already mentioned, will be your very best new friend.
Install the 'Web Developer' extension for Firefox, and use some of the HTML/CSS validators in the Tools submenu.
Get a good handle on regex searching & replacing (if you're doing this from Windows, I suggest Funduc's "Search & Replace").
If you're migrating your GIFs to PNG (which I would recommend), then you need to get yourself pngout, to compress them to their smallest possible size (Photoshop SUCKS at this).
And as someone else said, make an empty new standards compliant template, and get to cutting and pasting; it can be a *brutal* initial process, but you'll probably save yourself time in the long run, depending on how clean you want to eventually get the code. If you just want it to be standards compliant, then you can just do a clean up job. If you want to do it 'right,' you'll want to develop a new template and coding style to properly integrate the HTML and CSS. Things like not putting everything in a DIV (a sure sign you're a newbie to CSS), just to style something. Figure out why you should be using H1, H2 tags (& TBODY & TH tags if you're using tables for outer layout), etc, without having to use a lot of unnecessary DIVs all over the place. Inline styles = bad.
Figure out why XHTML may not be the best choice over HTML. Know which DTDs to specify. Know the difference in IE6 between standards mode and quirks mode, and which DTD to use to make IE6 behave. Know that IE7's quirks mode is supposedly identical to IE6's; you supposedly won't get the new 'more-standards compliancy' in IE7 without a DTD.
Oh yeah - the guy who posted about replacing spacer gifs with 'spacer DIVs'? Don't do that to yourself, okay? Yikes.
Learn about usability and readability. Learn about typography, and how light-on-black text should be sized differently from black-on-light. Thinking about grey text on black or grey text on white? Don't be stupid. Make the stuff readable! Learn that sans serif fonts are more easily read at screen density (opposite of print). Learn why Verdana is usually not your friend (go for Trebuchet MS or even Arial).
Oh, and learn to intent your freaking HTML!
Some nice resources:
Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration
Quirksmode - a GREAT resource. Awesome info here. Memorize it.
WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY?
> So this version will actually let me punch internet trolls in the face remotley?
I'm sorry, but that would infringe on my intellectual property - the "Remote Bitch Slap Protocol", or RBSP/IP, which I came up with in 1994.
You may be able to drop *browser-detection* for IE6, but unless you're using a (correct) DTD, IE7 will still pop into quirks mode, which is supposedly essentially unchanged from IE6, and will thus act 'badly'.
:)
So, all you programmers who write crappy HTML, guess what - you finally have to learn proper HTML!
Also note: Users on Win 2000 or below won't be getting IE7. *shrug* Fug 'em, I say. Fug 'em up their stupid...well, you know the quote.
... where's the multithreaded UI?! Gah.
(Yes, 'Gah.' I went there.)
I heard it was going to boil down to a battle between Firefox and Airwolf.
but call me when they entirely replace Shatner.
So instead of doing
... yeah. Clearly.
movb (%rax),%bl
You'd have to do
movq (%rax),%rbx
andq $255,%rbx
Worse yet, if you want the [say] 5th byte of a 64-bit word...
movq (%rax),%rbx
shrq $40,%rbx
andq $255,%rbx
That's clearly a winning idea!
Uhm
>> whereas Windows is an animal which continues to be re-invented
> I'm not sure that 're-invented' is how I'd describe windows, or their efforts at security.
Re-innovated?
Without the SG-1 lead-in, Atlantis is gonna die a horrible yet well-deserved death.
Eureka is fun, though. I like the new Dr Who quite a lot, but I'm not willing to wait a whole season just to see it on Sci-Fi. Fortunately, I've already watched the latest season via Bittorrent. Maybe they could show all 13 eps of the new season and be in time to play the new season in time with its appearance in the UK? And what's up with a measley 13 ep season? Lazy bastards.
Free as in beer or free as in speech?
...not as cool as the one the Warbears use .
Okay, the bit about Omnivores who hit IMDb all the time hits a little too close to home here. :)
I use IMDb as much as I use Google. A merging of those two would be quite convenient for me.
Oh, and let's throw in Wikipedia while we're at it. While it may not be as accurate as a paper-published encyclopedia, it's still a zillion times more accurate than the average one-off webpage you're likely to find on any given topic.
Have you tried upconverting to 720p, rather than 1080i, and if so, what did you think? I *cannot stand* interlaced displays, but that's just me. I pick out the dampening wires on aperture grille CRTs immediately, too, whilst most people don't seem to notice them at all, or aren't bothered by them.
Would it be possible to the community to layout the specifications, fabrication methods of the next generation of media?
Sure, once we know what the next generation of media will BE, we'll get back to you on that.
Fortunately, there's a format that will kill Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and it's already here: DVD.
Do these come in short- and tall-stack versions?
Are maple syrup and butter options?
I'm more into grid computing, where it's all about the waffles!
Since the dawn of time, the x86 FPU has been organized as a stack
No no no, since the dawn of time, Man has yearned to destroy the Sun!
x86 came much later, right after the COBOL and the other dinosaurs.
I didn't say they DO that, but that they CAN do that. I'm sure they're perfectly capable of reverse engineering the drivers without having to look at the chip under a microscope. I just don't think that the reason they don't open source their drivers has anything to do with the competition figuring out how they do things. Both camps are extremely competent, and probably have little need to bother stealing from each other in that regard. I just think they don't own all the IP in either their drivers, and/or in their hardware, (licensed or not).
Still, this might have a positive effect on Linux Laptop users, wouldnt it?
Excellent point. Have they released drivers for their wifi components yet?
I'd be willing to bet the REAL reason they don't open their drivers is because they're using stuff they know is the intellectual property of others. Just a guess, though; I have no real information on this, but I'd be very surprised if they can't dig into each other's hardware under a microscope to figure out what the other guy is doing, and reverse engineer each other's drivers. These are some very smart folks we're talking about here.