Oh man, I think I'm going to puke if I see one more person point me to EMACS as an HTML development environment.;) EMACS is my Unix editor of choice, and I use it for programming, but even with all those cool add-ins for HTML and web browsing, it doesn't do what the Dreamweaver products do. Here's just a few of the important features I need:
WYSIWYG (sort-of)
On-the-fly syntax checking
Javascript Behaviors
Template library
Integration with Graphics editor that automatically generates (and inserts) javascript code for rollovers and navigation
I have not found anything on Linux that resembles Dreamweaver MX on windows.
Agreed. Actually, I'm still on Dreamweaver 3. This is the *ONLY* thing that makes me keep my old Windows machine around. I want a fully integrated web design studio like Dreamweaver / Fireworks, and I don't want to have to run it through WINE. Maybe there is an existing HTML builder that could be integrated with GIMP. If I had the time, this is the project I'd work on, but these days my day job is already stealing what little time I had left in my personal life.
News Flash: Slashdot adds new "sarcasm" flag to articles that are posted.
I'm actually ashamed to admit it, but the first TWO times I saw this posted, I actually thought it was real and that somebody was smoking some seriously bad weed. It wasn't until the third posting that I realized that today is April 1st. I think my German colleagues are going to have to give me the Depp award today....
Yah, but repeating the lies about Iraq caused more than 40% of Americans to actually believe that ban man Saddam was behind the 9/11 attack.
Would you care to cite sources that provide that figure? I'm not aware of anybody who thinks this. As far as I know, the two arguments are:
There is a possibility that an Iraqi diplomat met with one of Bin Laden's operatives and that something might have been exchanged. There no information on whether that something had anything to do with what happened in the US.
If Iraq does possess weapons of mass destruction, there's a good chance that sometime in the future they may provide terrorist groups with some of these weapons.
If you survey Americans to find out whether they think Saddam *could* have had anything to do with 9/11, you might get 40% positive responses. However, that's a far cry from asking people if they think he *did* have anything to do with it. I think most people would answer this question: "I don't know. Maybe."
Its obviously transparent proxying and compression of data.
I think you're probably correct. You can always enable HTML compression at the web server and web clients that "understand" it will see better performance. We started using it where I work for mobile devices connected to our intranet, but we were disappointed by the results -- mostly because the images being downloaded (the bulk of the data) were already compressed and the HTML compression had a negligible impact on performance. I would anticipate similar issues if the technology Earthlink is using is the same. Redhat.com and Yahoo.com will download pretty fast. Viewing the latest photos on your family website will still be an exercise in patience.
What tool/program/technique do you use to determine this?
Just human observation. Minimize the Mozilla window or bring another in front of it, wait a few minutes, and then bring it back to the front (or restore) and after the title bar shows up you get to sit for about 15 - 20 seconds while listening to the hard drive crunch.
We could log into an IBM mainframe, or a VAX running VMS, or a PDP-11 running 7th Edition Unix (later a VAX running 4.2BSD).
Yeah yeah. Same here. We had an IBM 370, VMS and Ultrix. I think we probably had a PDP-11 somewhere, but I never used that in college. I did all my PDP-11 stuff in high school.
What college did you go to? I thought every college had a Mac lab?!
Apparently, they all along had two Macs that I was unaware of sitting down in the computer operations center. However, by my third year there were a number of Mac labs.
Since my computer started getting infected with all kinds of ActiveX exploits, I've switched to browsing the internet only with Mozilla. (I use IE for work stuff that requires ActiveX) Popup management alone would have been a good reason to switch. However, I haven't noticed it being any slower than IE lately. I _HAVE_ noticed that Windows tries to swap Mozilla out of memory the first chance it gets. It's almost uncanny. I'll have a bunch of applications running, and Mozilla is always the first one to get swapped out when I'm working on something else. Obviously, this rarely happens with IE (presumably because 9/10 of it is loaded when you boot Windows). Anybody have any idea why it seems to be so much worse with Mozilla? (Running Windows 2000).
You register it so you can prove you paid your tax.
That's not how it works in Germany. VAT is usually included in the listed prices of things. You MUST pay it regardless of who you are. If you are a tourist from another country, you can have the place where you bought the object provide you with a form that you can use to get back your VAT -- when you leave the country.
Anyway, there wouldn't be any registration required because EVERYBODY pays. The burden on you is to prove that you SHOULDN'T be required to pay.
In the end, this guy's grandfather would be restricting CHOICE!
And how is this different than when I was in college and presented with rows and rows of PS/2s? Looking for a Macintosh? Not a single one to be found. Sorry, but in many cases the student never HAD a choice. All they are doing in this case is changing the lack of choice from one mandate to another.
However, I agree with some of your other points. Microsoft is definitely not despised by everybody.
I've had exactly 1 blue screen with XP, and it happened after 6 days of operation using the suspend mode every evening.
But you have to ask yourself, "why should it matter how many days of operation you've had?" After all, you're just telling me that XP is 6 times more stable than Windows 95, and just a shade more stable than Windows 2000 (just based on my experience). My Windows 95 laptop showed me the BSOD once a day. My Windows 2000 laptop crashes after about 5 days of use with hibernate in between. Obviously, this anecdotal evidence is worth about zilch, but, to get back to my original question, why should you be able to justify a crash after your system has been running for six days? That means that there's a small problem that gets bigger over time. I frequently let my primary server at home double as a workstation. That means that not only does it have stay up and running for months at a time, I also have to be able to run user applications on it. Not once has any of these applications crashed it. I expect the same performance from my laptop OS.
Another thing I always wonder about is why there are some people out there with Windows 2000 server that have uptimes of many months, but we frequently encounter crashes on desktops and laptops. What's the reason behind this? Anybody know?
For "things" they simply either don't buy them, or tend to buy the cheapest ones available.
Or in many cases don't manage what money they have very well. Don't get me wrong -- I know that the rich have some nice "perks" based on who they know and what they do. But I also know from experiences in my own family that the poor frequently make decisions that make them stay that way. I have many nice examples, but I'll only give one. One of my uncles has been out of work (with various excuses) for the last 30 years. My aunt has had to work to keep the family fed. Fortunately, they inherited land from my aunt's father and were able to put a trailer on it, otherwise I don't know where they'd live. Despite the fact that they could barely put food on the table, my uncle still managed to cough up the money for a 48" color TV and a nice Lazy Boy recliner. At the time, that TV was $500 minimum, and the recliner would have been close to that. Despite all of this, they continued to beg other members of the family for loans to "get them by."
Like I said, don't get me wrong. I also know many people who scrape to make ends meet through no fault of their own. But on close examination, it's pretty easy to tell who makes good decisions. Interestingly enough, telemarketers frequently target the elderly and poor for some of their scams because they know they are likely to be gullible.
Bush and the US media tried oh-so-hard to get across the idea that somehow Canadian customs agents were to blame...
I, personally, was never under any impression that Canadian customs agents were to blame, nor did I get the impression that Bush felt that way. As I recall, most of the blame was aimed at lack of coordination between the CIA and the FBI, which was one of the primary excuses for the Homeland Security department. The CIA knew that at least two of the perpetrators had entered the country and were dangerous. The FBI had been notified, and they'd even done a little poking around, but never took it seriously. Maybe the news media attempted to implicate Canadian customs, but I never buy into anything the media says until I've read opinions from several sources whos political motivations differ.
Now that I've said all of that, I do believe that extra dilligence on the part of Canadian customs will only help. In general, both Canadian and US Customs at our shared border have been pretty relaxed, and people like it that way. However, if terrorists ARE entering through Canada, one of two things has to happen. Either Canadian Customs has to get tougher and coordinate with the US, or US Customs will have to start being a real pain in the rear at the Canadian border.
I'll probably settle for razor blades on the back of the deck.
Nah, you'll just risk hurting yourself. Go for the battery and capacitor idea. Hook it up so that it'll only nail somebody who actually tries to remove the radio. Also, make sure you have some other device in the car that would require power from those extra batteries so that when the homicide investigators inquire about their purpose, you have a good defense. Then sound thankful that you never tried to remove the radio yourself.:-)
I wasn't strictly talking about eating pork. One of the more interesting pieces of information is credit card information. Not only does this help to identify where finances are coming from, it is also well known that many terrorists pay in CASH, rather than use credit cards. This information can help drastically. However, looking on the list of people who refuse to eat pork drastically narrows the list of potentials down to those on a special diet (including vegetarians) and those in a handful of religions that don't allow pork, including Islam. Like it or not, it is one of many identifiers, each narrowing the result set further.
Oh, and don't forget that other than 9/11 almost all of your terrorist attacks have been committed by americans.
First off, I wasn't even living in the United States when the 9/11 attack took place. I was living in Germany, so I'd hardly call them "my" terrorist attacks. Second off, perhaps you aren't aware of the attempted attacks that have been thwarted before and since then. These were not attempted by Americans. Third, there have been numerous attempted (some successful) attacks on American property outside of the United States. None of these were committed by Americans, although that's hardly a surprising fact. Fourth, an isolated bombing or shooting by some nutcase is not a terrorist attack. Terrorist attacks generally have some sort of political motivation. Finally, although there have been some attacks perpetrated by American groups in the past, the focus now is on terrorist attacks coordinated from outside the country. Prior to 9/11, there was not much concern about this. Now there is. That pretty much leaves the argument about past terrorist attacks as a moot point.
You may be right, but I seem to remember that the ones who hijacked the planes on 11/7 lived in the US
You are correct. They had been living in the US for some months prior to the hijacking. However, had the kind of profiling mentioned in the article taken place, they'd probably have never been permitted to enter the country. (Most of them, anyway) Never mind the fact that the CIA had already informed the FBI about a couple of them....
And we all now what kind of terrorists those EU citizens are; we should all watch them!
I know this was intended to be funny (and it was), but let me point out that most terrorists flying to the United States will end up at least changing planes in one of the EU countries. Also remember that there are a number of terrorist cell groups who are located in EU countries, and that Frankfurt and Hamburg are major airports used for transatlantic flights. I would expect to see similar agreements coming in from Asia.
Kasparov had his ass handed to him a few years ago. He literally had a goddamn tantrum when it happened, and stormed off the stage in a hissy-fit.
If you're referring to being beaten by a human opponent, feel free to skip everything else below, as it doesn't apply. However, if you are referring to his match with Deep Blue, his animosity may be justified. For starters, the whole thing was so mysterious from the beginning. But most importantly, Kasparov believed (and still does today) that some human intervention took place during the match.
Remember that chess is a battle simulation game. Just like a real battle, part of the game is studying your opponent and his previous "battles" for weaknesses that you can exploit. To really put a chess computer to the ultimate test, its human opponent must have the opportunity to study how it has performed in the past. I would suspect that the builder's of Deep Blue used studies of Kasparov to refine their machine prior to the competition, whereas Kasparov was not given the same courtesy.
Near philly, any decent apartment will be around 1200.
This is true. I actually live about 50 miles from Philly. Actually, I've found that even in the same area, it is frequently more expensive to rent than own. I used to live in Delaware, and I owned a townhouse that cost me less than $800 / month for the Mortgage. My next door neighbors were renting and paying over $1000 / month + utilities. I was shocked when I found out what they were paying, as they weren't financially very well off.
When you factor in the tax deductions from mortgage interest, it is almost always cheaper to own than rent. However, coming up with that initial 10% down plus closing costs can be a bit burdensome. Plus, if you move around a lot, it doesn't really make sense to buy.
Anyhow, if the pros can't get it right, I can't really say that we'd trust the software to get it right either -- and with the IRS, mistakes can be expensive.
Well, here's something in favor for the software -- many of the packages offer a guarantee. If you get nailed on an audit because of a mistake in their software, they pay the bill. That sounds like an advertisement for the software to me.
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Agreed. Actually, I'm still on Dreamweaver 3. This is the *ONLY* thing that makes me keep my old Windows machine around. I want a fully integrated web design studio like Dreamweaver / Fireworks, and I don't want to have to run it through WINE. Maybe there is an existing HTML builder that could be integrated with GIMP. If I had the time, this is the project I'd work on, but these days my day job is already stealing what little time I had left in my personal life.
I'm actually ashamed to admit it, but the first TWO times I saw this posted, I actually thought it was real and that somebody was smoking some seriously bad weed. It wasn't until the third posting that I realized that today is April 1st. I think my German colleagues are going to have to give me the Depp award today....
So, will the vibrations do pretty much the same thing as anti-aliasing and make all of your fonts look smooth around the edges? ;)
Would you care to cite sources that provide that figure? I'm not aware of anybody who thinks this. As far as I know, the two arguments are:
If you survey Americans to find out whether they think Saddam *could* have had anything to do with 9/11, you might get 40% positive responses. However, that's a far cry from asking people if they think he *did* have anything to do with it. I think most people would answer this question: "I don't know. Maybe."
I think you're probably correct. You can always enable HTML compression at the web server and web clients that "understand" it will see better performance. We started using it where I work for mobile devices connected to our intranet, but we were disappointed by the results -- mostly because the images being downloaded (the bulk of the data) were already compressed and the HTML compression had a negligible impact on performance. I would anticipate similar issues if the technology Earthlink is using is the same. Redhat.com and Yahoo.com will download pretty fast. Viewing the latest photos on your family website will still be an exercise in patience.
Just human observation. Minimize the Mozilla window or bring another in front of it, wait a few minutes, and then bring it back to the front (or restore) and after the title bar shows up you get to sit for about 15 - 20 seconds while listening to the hard drive crunch.
Yeah yeah. Same here. We had an IBM 370, VMS and Ultrix. I think we probably had a PDP-11 somewhere, but I never used that in college. I did all my PDP-11 stuff in high school.
Apparently, they all along had two Macs that I was unaware of sitting down in the computer operations center. However, by my third year there were a number of Mac labs.
Since my computer started getting infected with all kinds of ActiveX exploits, I've switched to browsing the internet only with Mozilla. (I use IE for work stuff that requires ActiveX) Popup management alone would have been a good reason to switch. However, I haven't noticed it being any slower than IE lately. I _HAVE_ noticed that Windows tries to swap Mozilla out of memory the first chance it gets. It's almost uncanny. I'll have a bunch of applications running, and Mozilla is always the first one to get swapped out when I'm working on something else. Obviously, this rarely happens with IE (presumably because 9/10 of it is loaded when you boot Windows). Anybody have any idea why it seems to be so much worse with Mozilla? (Running Windows 2000).
That's not how it works in Germany. VAT is usually included in the listed prices of things. You MUST pay it regardless of who you are. If you are a tourist from another country, you can have the place where you bought the object provide you with a form that you can use to get back your VAT -- when you leave the country.
Anyway, there wouldn't be any registration required because EVERYBODY pays. The burden on you is to prove that you SHOULDN'T be required to pay.
And how is this different than when I was in college and presented with rows and rows of PS/2s? Looking for a Macintosh? Not a single one to be found. Sorry, but in many cases the student never HAD a choice. All they are doing in this case is changing the lack of choice from one mandate to another.
However, I agree with some of your other points. Microsoft is definitely not despised by everybody.
Well, thank goodness there are no such things as replicans. :-)
But you have to ask yourself, "why should it matter how many days of operation you've had?" After all, you're just telling me that XP is 6 times more stable than Windows 95, and just a shade more stable than Windows 2000 (just based on my experience). My Windows 95 laptop showed me the BSOD once a day. My Windows 2000 laptop crashes after about 5 days of use with hibernate in between. Obviously, this anecdotal evidence is worth about zilch, but, to get back to my original question, why should you be able to justify a crash after your system has been running for six days? That means that there's a small problem that gets bigger over time. I frequently let my primary server at home double as a workstation. That means that not only does it have stay up and running for months at a time, I also have to be able to run user applications on it. Not once has any of these applications crashed it. I expect the same performance from my laptop OS.
Another thing I always wonder about is why there are some people out there with Windows 2000 server that have uptimes of many months, but we frequently encounter crashes on desktops and laptops. What's the reason behind this? Anybody know?
Or in many cases don't manage what money they have very well. Don't get me wrong -- I know that the rich have some nice "perks" based on who they know and what they do. But I also know from experiences in my own family that the poor frequently make decisions that make them stay that way. I have many nice examples, but I'll only give one. One of my uncles has been out of work (with various excuses) for the last 30 years. My aunt has had to work to keep the family fed. Fortunately, they inherited land from my aunt's father and were able to put a trailer on it, otherwise I don't know where they'd live. Despite the fact that they could barely put food on the table, my uncle still managed to cough up the money for a 48" color TV and a nice Lazy Boy recliner. At the time, that TV was $500 minimum, and the recliner would have been close to that. Despite all of this, they continued to beg other members of the family for loans to "get them by."
Like I said, don't get me wrong. I also know many people who scrape to make ends meet through no fault of their own. But on close examination, it's pretty easy to tell who makes good decisions. Interestingly enough, telemarketers frequently target the elderly and poor for some of their scams because they know they are likely to be gullible.
I, personally, was never under any impression that Canadian customs agents were to blame, nor did I get the impression that Bush felt that way. As I recall, most of the blame was aimed at lack of coordination between the CIA and the FBI, which was one of the primary excuses for the Homeland Security department. The CIA knew that at least two of the perpetrators had entered the country and were dangerous. The FBI had been notified, and they'd even done a little poking around, but never took it seriously. Maybe the news media attempted to implicate Canadian customs, but I never buy into anything the media says until I've read opinions from several sources whos political motivations differ.
Now that I've said all of that, I do believe that extra dilligence on the part of Canadian customs will only help. In general, both Canadian and US Customs at our shared border have been pretty relaxed, and people like it that way. However, if terrorists ARE entering through Canada, one of two things has to happen. Either Canadian Customs has to get tougher and coordinate with the US, or US Customs will have to start being a real pain in the rear at the Canadian border.
Nah, you'll just risk hurting yourself. Go for the battery and capacitor idea. Hook it up so that it'll only nail somebody who actually tries to remove the radio. Also, make sure you have some other device in the car that would require power from those extra batteries so that when the homicide investigators inquire about their purpose, you have a good defense. Then sound thankful that you never tried to remove the radio yourself. :-)
I wasn't strictly talking about eating pork. One of the more interesting pieces of information is credit card information. Not only does this help to identify where finances are coming from, it is also well known that many terrorists pay in CASH, rather than use credit cards. This information can help drastically. However, looking on the list of people who refuse to eat pork drastically narrows the list of potentials down to those on a special diet (including vegetarians) and those in a handful of religions that don't allow pork, including Islam. Like it or not, it is one of many identifiers, each narrowing the result set further.
Oh, and don't forget that other than 9/11 almost all of your terrorist attacks have been committed by americans.
First off, I wasn't even living in the United States when the 9/11 attack took place. I was living in Germany, so I'd hardly call them "my" terrorist attacks. Second off, perhaps you aren't aware of the attempted attacks that have been thwarted before and since then. These were not attempted by Americans. Third, there have been numerous attempted (some successful) attacks on American property outside of the United States. None of these were committed by Americans, although that's hardly a surprising fact. Fourth, an isolated bombing or shooting by some nutcase is not a terrorist attack. Terrorist attacks generally have some sort of political motivation. Finally, although there have been some attacks perpetrated by American groups in the past, the focus now is on terrorist attacks coordinated from outside the country. Prior to 9/11, there was not much concern about this. Now there is. That pretty much leaves the argument about past terrorist attacks as a moot point.
You are correct. They had been living in the US for some months prior to the hijacking. However, had the kind of profiling mentioned in the article taken place, they'd probably have never been permitted to enter the country. (Most of them, anyway) Never mind the fact that the CIA had already informed the FBI about a couple of them....
How many extra batteries do you have in there now, and how big is the capacitor you're using?
I know this was intended to be funny (and it was), but let me point out that most terrorists flying to the United States will end up at least changing planes in one of the EU countries. Also remember that there are a number of terrorist cell groups who are located in EU countries, and that Frankfurt and Hamburg are major airports used for transatlantic flights. I would expect to see similar agreements coming in from Asia.
Agreed, although in this case, I think Kasparov was suspicious that the coding went something like:
Meaning that it didn't rely completely on AI. However, the world will probably never know.
I'd be pretty pissy too.
Yeah, me too. :-)
If you're referring to being beaten by a human opponent, feel free to skip everything else below, as it doesn't apply. However, if you are referring to his match with Deep Blue, his animosity may be justified. For starters, the whole thing was so mysterious from the beginning. But most importantly, Kasparov believed (and still does today) that some human intervention took place during the match.
Remember that chess is a battle simulation game. Just like a real battle, part of the game is studying your opponent and his previous "battles" for weaknesses that you can exploit. To really put a chess computer to the ultimate test, its human opponent must have the opportunity to study how it has performed in the past. I would suspect that the builder's of Deep Blue used studies of Kasparov to refine their machine prior to the competition, whereas Kasparov was not given the same courtesy.
This is true. I actually live about 50 miles from Philly. Actually, I've found that even in the same area, it is frequently more expensive to rent than own. I used to live in Delaware, and I owned a townhouse that cost me less than $800 / month for the Mortgage. My next door neighbors were renting and paying over $1000 / month + utilities. I was shocked when I found out what they were paying, as they weren't financially very well off.
When you factor in the tax deductions from mortgage interest, it is almost always cheaper to own than rent. However, coming up with that initial 10% down plus closing costs can be a bit burdensome. Plus, if you move around a lot, it doesn't really make sense to buy.
Well, here's something in favor for the software -- many of the packages offer a guarantee. If you get nailed on an audit because of a mistake in their software, they pay the bill. That sounds like an advertisement for the software to me.