That means no erratic driving, and no way for a police officer to potentially head off an accident from a drowsy or drunk driver.
And I admit, I have been one of those people who have fallen asleep at the wheel, and have realized that I was in a different lane than I remembered having been in. I have probably been saved by the little rumble strips along the edge of the highway at least half a dozen times.
But I'm not comfortable with this if it means that drowsy people are more likely to drive, because their car will warn them if something might go wrong. And there's no way in hell that I want rich alcoholics having an extra excuse for throwing back a few extra before they hit the road.
In some ways, I'd almost prefer that they just took the driving completely away from humans. [well, all animals... I don't want there to be some monkey driving, even though I know in Cannonball Run [2, I think], he wasn't really driving]
Randal: It's times like this it occurs to me that we were lied to by "The Jetsons". Dante: What are you talking about? Randal: According to that show we were suppose to be tooling around in flying cars by now. You see any flying cars lately? That's the problem with TV, it always lies to us.
I've only been back to work for 3 months, after spending 7 months unemployed, but I'm not of the holier than thou belief that someone owed me a job. [yes, I was fired because of someone's napoleon complex, but I didn't think that meant I should just get an instant job out of it...more that he should lose his for having done it].
There will always be a need for a wide variety of professions, and we can't just go shooting telephone sanitizers out into space, and we're not all going to get jobs playing video games.
I think it's a problem with both society, in thinking that people are 'owed' a job, and in education, for teaching fixed subjects, without focusing on how to improve an individual person in a way that will make them a more productive person in society. [oooh....he can add...and can write papers.... sure, that's useful, but if they don't care, they're not going to apply themselves well... find a way to center the curriculum around them...maybe 'math for people who enjoy fixing cars' or such]
I'd like to see programs in training people fix those important, but overlooked jobs in society. Sure, there are classes for learning computer programming, or even system administration -- but what about manning a helpdesk? [and I don't mean, get them off the phone anyway possible], or even computer operations [handling computer backups, monitoring systems for oddities, aka. playing computer games while babysitting computers]
However, you'll have to find a hardware company that delivers, or for those without a good set of tools, you can look into kits and I'd suggest changing to heavier trash bags.
But really, in the whole scheme of things, one trip outside to make your own would save countless other trips.
My other thought was to dig a tunnel to the edge of my property, and installing an elevator there that I can lower, put the trash on, and raise back into position, but I still need something to dispose of all of the dirt that I'd accumulate.
For now, I just take out my trash in the middle of the night, when that big glowy thing isn't in the sky, trying to burn me.
Actually.... it's been used before.
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alt.binaries used to be a major source of music (not just porn and warez), before the advent of napster.
In the days when ripping a CD with your desktop might've taken the better part of a day, there were folks sending MP3s over usenet. Sure, you had to re-combine 20 articles to get a file, and they weren't recorded at all that high of a quality, but it was a start.
Of course, only a few new songs came by each day/week, and if you didn't grab them before your server purged them, they were gone. [which for some places, might be as low as one day for alt.binary] And it wasn't nearly as easy to recombine the files, either, as they were multipart UUencoded, if I recall. (which was a pain, when I was using trn) It was sort of like TV, where you had to get the stuff when it was being sent, or you missed out.
Or you could go to some IRC channels, but I was never big on IRC.
And then, ICQ came along, and people started sending files to each other through that.... and then, napster, so you could find files, and get them easily, etc. These days, it's not worth the hastle.
Hell, I even listen to talk radio for the most part. (WTOP, sometimes WIYY's morning show). Most of my entertainment money is going into DVDs these days, not CDs.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the show, but besides Fox's crappy timeslot placement and such, there were two major flaws.
Anyone who speaks, dies.
If you weren't a main character, and you had a speaking part, you could expect to die this episode. There was an exception -- there was a two parter, where the person with the speaking role lasted through a second episode before dying
The commercial breaks gave away the ending
The little bit that they'd play as a teaser right before (during?after?it's been a few years) would give away the ending of the episode without fail The second one shouldn't be an issue on a DVD release, however, and was probably an issue with Fox more than with the show itself.
The Export Administration Regulations, aka 15 CFR PART 768-799, which is controled by the Bureau of Industry and Security (part of the Department of Commerce)
"the physical movement of all hardware and/or technical data to another country for any purpose, whether or not the hardware and/or technical data is explicitly listed on the Commerce Control List (CCL). It includes domestic disclosures of technical data and software to foreign nationals, and domestic transfers with the knowledge or intent that the transferred hardware, software, or technical data will be provided to a foreign party."
Depending on how everything is handled, it might fall under any of the following:
Category 0 - Nuclear Materials, Facilities and Equipment and Misc
Category 3 - Electronics
Category 4 - Computers
Category 7 - Navigation and Avionics
Category 9 - Propulsion Systems, Space Vehicles and Related Equipment
Typically, EAR is used for 'dual use' systems, which covers things that have both a military and non-military application, while ITAR is for those things that are considered to not have as a significant non-military application.
Those interested should see the following websites:
The problem is in execution. There always seem to be those people out there who think that if they talk louder, their ideas gain more credibility.
I've always just viewed it as a similar to Munchausen Syndrome, in that it's a person who just wants attention, but there methods of going about it vary.
But in all, he seems right up there as the type of thing that Penn and Teller would make fun of on their show, but there's no full listing of what's going to be in season 2.
I used to work in a place that was primarily running on Sun hardware for a few years. In February 2003, we had some major problems, and they had to bring in a whole string of folks from Sun Professional Services to work around the clock to get us back up and running.
Of the 6 folks who brought portables with them, 3 of them were Powerbooks. [I got confused on the first day one of them was in, as I thought he was mucking with my personal laptop] One of the folks said he was working with some other folks on getting his powerbook to work as a JumpStart server, so he could configure and load new sun systems from it.
Our company had some sparc notebooks (Tadpole), but not a single one of the guys from Sun used one -- they were all macs or wintel.
I haven't been in a Sun shop for almost a year now, but their push before was towards the whole 'smart terminal' concept, not really at true workstations.
If you have a collision free hash, then there is a possibility that someone could back the data out of the system. (and as systems become more powerful, it becomes more and more likely).
If you intentionally use a system that is not collision free, so that you can ensure that the data can't be reliably gotten from the input, you're just making it so that there are multiple sets that could produce the hash. But most likely, very few are going to make 'sense' given the context of the data. [out of 'asd!@#$VS', 'JSfgsdE sdf' and 'John Smith', which one is a name?] However, you now have the possibility of a false positive.
So, you either have to make it so that there are multiple pieces of legitimate data that would create the same hash value, and thereby run the risk of false positives, or you have to use a collision free hash, and run the possibility that as processing power improves, someone could get a definite value out.
And so, all this really does is come down to basic concepts of information security -- every methoid of obscuring data is only useful for a limited time. This is why SSL doesn't use a constant key through the life of a session. This is why DES and 3DES have been replaced with AES. You have to balance the cost of the processes (both time and dollars), with the cost of the data being compromised. Unfortunately, different people base costs on different items, and a risk assessment is only valid if you know and agree with the assumptions being made, and even then, it's a point in time analysis, and may be invalid before it hits circulation.
I just think about the Guiness book being about things that are done almost solely for getting into the book, with no significant redeeming qualities other than getting someone's name in print. You know -- longest toenails. Worst smelling shoes -- the types of things that the average person could pull off with a bit of dedication, and not needing a multi-million dollar research facility, and not being directly linked to a company's product development.
How about 'shortest MTBF' for the next hard drive record?
It's the basic mechanic who is getting screwed on this whole thing. Yes, you, as a consumer are getting screwed, but you're just paying a percentage more than you would have. [Assuming you don't have the mechanical ability to fix it yourself].
It's the independant mechanics who are losing all of their profit, in that they just can't fix things.
Other companies still make low-cost DVD players, it's just that the general consumer doesn't have the access. I'd compare that to a general locksmith -- a locksmith knows how to cut a master key, based on a sub master, but the general public doesn't. [Of course, there are probably some criminals out there who know as well].
I'd compare this car issue to be closer in relationship to putting computer chips in ink cartridges, so that you might get a minor performance gain, but it results in a company being able to lock out any competition.
6a. Drink lots of fluids. This forces you to make bathroom breaks, which causes you to not look at your computer screen for a few minutes, and to focus on things that are further away. Caffeine or alcohol can help speed up the urgency for bathroom breaks, but I find I'm more productive with caffeine in me, as opposed to alcohol.
And of course, sugared sodas and alcohol also include extra calories, so you'll have to adjust your diet to compensate for the extra intake. Yes, water works, but I'm not just all that big on drinking water. And there have been studies that show links from nutrasweet and short term memory loss.
If you're going to take a web design class, make sure it's actually focusing on current technology, and not 4+ year old 'use a table to format your pages' crap.
For most browsers, CSS works. But it's not just about formatting the page with CSS, it's about designing your pages so that when the CSS fails, it doesn't look like a load of crap.
[I did a lot of coding in the days when <TABLE> was new, and you'd have to do some extra tricks to make sure that Mosaic and Lynx wouldn't display a bunch of run-on text.]
CSS also works rather well with
A few starting points --
Design Graphics Magazine I'm not sure if it's still in print, but it's Australian, so they might give pointers to some user groups of interest in your area
A List Apart, articles on doing tricky things with CSS
Eric Meyer's writings. Links to articles and such by the author of ORA's CSS: The Definitive Guide. [read the Web Review articles from 2000 for some of the real power of CSS]
Westciv courses on-line courses on CSS, CSS2 and some free resources.
Of course, knowing how to make things look good is completely different from actually doing it -- Lots of people know how to use a paint brush, but not all of our work makes it past our parent's fridges.
With a bit of reading, the average programmer should be able to at the very least, keep their pages from looking like complete crap. As always, if you see a cool website out there, look at the source, and see if you can figure out how they did it. [but just because it worked, doesn't mean that it's not a complete hack, and that it won't break in every other browser out there].
Try things. Make mistakes. Learn from them. That's the best way that I've found to improve over the years.
oh -- and don't forget -- design is design. For the most part, design concepts work in both print and on the screen. There are people who think HTML should be able to do everything they can do in a PDF, and make pages that are nothing but one big picture when they're too lazy to learn good HTML, but the design concepts are still there, even if they fail on implementation.
Much of Disney's works were based on existing stories that never had, or no longer fell under copyright laws.
Here's a few that I can think of off the top of my head --
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Beauty and the Beast
Alladin
Snow White
Tarzan
Alice in Wonderland
20000 Leagues under the Sea
That doesn't include derivitive works, such as Anastasia, Swiss Family Robinson or The Jungle Book, or 'historical' work, such as Pocahantus or Davy Crockett.
However, it's my understand that they're the ones who keep lobbying for the extension of copyright length, and it seems to get extended right when Mickey's almost in the public domain.
That's not to say that there are other companies out there who don't base their movies off of other people's content whom they haven't compensated for doing so, but that Disney in particular seems interested in preserving the status quo, and making sure that other people can't make a profit off of the work they've done, even though that's how they made it in the first place. (Alice came before Mickey)
Let me start by saying that I did well in all classes in grade school -- except for 'penmanship' and 'behavior'.
I learned to write by a left handed person, but I'm right handed. So I wrap my whole hand around writing implements. They tried those little triangular things to force me to hold my pencil correctly when I was a kid, and I'd just wrap my whole hand around them.
I'm 28, and I still can't hold a pencil correctly. After time, you can learn to write things legibly if you want to. I've given up on cursive. I print everything these days, and I use almost exclusively upper case [the exception is when I'm writing down passwords or file names that are mixed-case.]
I've had three years of drafting, and having to learn to write ANSI compliant lettering, so I know letters should look, but I also have a grandfather who does handwriting analysis on the side, and so I know just how hard it is to change your handwriting. [I preface christmas cards to him with 'stop analyzing my writing']
The only thing that I've found that makes me want to write neater is to force it on someone. I could read my class notes well enough -- but if the teacher couldn't read an essay question on a test in college... you're screwed.
As it is now, I trade off between speed and neatness. If I know someone else is going to read something, I slow it down, and take my time. For most of my notes, I can get those words I can't read by context. Learning to write neatly for other tasks hasn't improved my normal everyday writing significantly, that I've noticed.
Oh... and on the handwriting analysis side, there's a subjective line between 'hastily written' and 'smeary', which are indicators that might suggest 'quick mind that gets down to essentials' vs. 'deceptive'... one of these days, I'll digitize those notes.
A flashdrive that security will take away.
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For some reason, that just doesn't seem practical in the long run, if you ever have to go through a security checkpoint, such as airports, courthouses, whatever. 'Well, I tried smuggling the data in, but they took it away.' 'They found it?' 'No, they didn't like the knife'.
But I want to know why the SwissFlame isn't allowed for sale in the US.
Take a look at Speakeasy. They offer a number of different packages for residential DSL, and they cater to the sysadmin and gamer crowd. (multiple static IPs, allow NAT, allow servers, etc)
It's rather stupid, but it has to do with legal practices.
If you have no warnings, then someone can claim that you forced your content on them, and they didn't know what they were getting into, and it was offensive.
By putting up warnings, which inform the user that they shouldn't enter your site if it's illegal for them to do so shifts part of the burden of responsibility to them, and away from you.
So, if you're sued for having distributed offensive material, you can claim that you provided warnings, and that the person chose to disregard them. [Sort of like putting up 'wet floor' signs -- if someone gets hurt, they made an active decision to ignore the sign]
Of course, it's nice to know that the content's there, but how many children are now going to be able to bypass the disclaimer pages on porn sites because of deep linking?
I could care less about Ticketmaster whining out their deep linking, but there's probably some stuff out there that if it isn't taken in context to their intended point of entry may have other problems.
I'm afraid that this is going to give people more reason to go back to using frames, and 'detecting' if their content has been hijacked, and writing more bad code that causes multiple windows to pop up all over the place, and/or crash browsers.
Bob Slidell:
What.. what would you say... you do here?
Tom Smykowski:
Look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
I freely admit that I have some problems with my people skills -- but when I'm combined with a good manager, most people would never know it. I had one manager who made sure to control how I interacted with people, so make sure that he got the best possible work out of me.
I remember on one project, I was so pissed off that someone had given us something completely stupid, and practically impossible to do. Mark knew exactly how to handle it -- he told me that they were expecting me to fail, and that I should do it just to prove them wrong. He knew exactly how to turn my anti-social tendancies into a benefit, not a handicap. [and I turned my part of the project in on time... too bad the contractor never did, and walked with over 50% of the hardware, and never produced any of the software, that he was supposedly 'working on in [his] test lab'.]
In a small company, yes, everyone will probably have to do a little bit of customer relations. In a large company, with good managment, they will know how to deal with various personality quirks, and how to get the most of each person. [And likewise, if a particular person is worth the trouble]. Unfortunately, Mark got promoted, and I was hung out to dry by a completely 'hands off' manager, and was fired by his boss for pointing out his mistakes repeatedly.
degree in Civil Engineering, and I will never intentionally set foot in a building that I know was designed by one of my classmates. [There's a problem when someone in their junior year doesn't understand that 10kPa compression = -10kPa tension]
The only good thing is that an engineering degree is not enough to be a person who can sign off on the design of m
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Especially the 'auto correct' bit.
That means no erratic driving, and no way for a police officer to potentially head off an accident from a drowsy or drunk driver.
And I admit, I have been one of those people who have fallen asleep at the wheel, and have realized that I was in a different lane than I remembered having been in. I have probably been saved by the little rumble strips along the edge of the highway at least half a dozen times.
But I'm not comfortable with this if it means that drowsy people are more likely to drive, because their car will warn them if something might go wrong. And there's no way in hell that I want rich alcoholics having an extra excuse for throwing back a few extra before they hit the road.
In some ways, I'd almost prefer that they just took the driving completely away from humans. [well, all animals... I don't want there to be some monkey driving, even though I know in Cannonball Run [2, I think], he wasn't really driving]
April on Despair's 2004 calendar is 'Potential'
I've only been back to work for 3 months, after spending 7 months unemployed, but I'm not of the holier than thou belief that someone owed me a job. [yes, I was fired because of someone's napoleon complex, but I didn't think that meant I should just get an instant job out of it...more that he should lose his for having done it].
There will always be a need for a wide variety of professions, and we can't just go shooting telephone sanitizers out into space, and we're not all going to get jobs playing video games.
I think it's a problem with both society, in thinking that people are 'owed' a job, and in education, for teaching fixed subjects, without focusing on how to improve an individual person in a way that will make them a more productive person in society. [oooh....he can add...and can write papers.... sure, that's useful, but if they don't care, they're not going to apply themselves well... find a way to center the curriculum around them...maybe 'math for people who enjoy fixing cars' or such]
I'd like to see programs in training people fix those important, but overlooked jobs in society. Sure, there are classes for learning computer programming, or even system administration -- but what about manning a helpdesk? [and I don't mean, get them off the phone anyway possible], or even computer operations [handling computer backups, monitoring systems for oddities, aka. playing computer games while babysitting computers]
However, you'll have to find a hardware company that delivers, or for those without a good set of tools, you can look into kits and I'd suggest changing to heavier trash bags.
But really, in the whole scheme of things, one trip outside to make your own would save countless other trips.
My other thought was to dig a tunnel to the edge of my property, and installing an elevator there that I can lower, put the trash on, and raise back into position, but I still need something to dispose of all of the dirt that I'd accumulate.
For now, I just take out my trash in the middle of the night, when that big glowy thing isn't in the sky, trying to burn me.
alt.binaries used to be a major source of music (not just porn and warez), before the advent of napster.
In the days when ripping a CD with your desktop might've taken the better part of a day, there were folks sending MP3s over usenet. Sure, you had to re-combine 20 articles to get a file, and they weren't recorded at all that high of a quality, but it was a start.
Of course, only a few new songs came by each day/week, and if you didn't grab them before your server purged them, they were gone. [which for some places, might be as low as one day for alt.binary] And it wasn't nearly as easy to recombine the files, either, as they were multipart UUencoded, if I recall. (which was a pain, when I was using trn) It was sort of like TV, where you had to get the stuff when it was being sent, or you missed out.
Or you could go to some IRC channels, but I was never big on IRC.
And then, ICQ came along, and people started sending files to each other through that.... and then, napster, so you could find files, and get them easily, etc. These days, it's not worth the hastle.
Hell, I even listen to talk radio for the most part. (WTOP, sometimes WIYY's morning show). Most of my entertainment money is going into DVDs these days, not CDs.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the show, but besides Fox's crappy timeslot placement and such, there were two major flaws. Anyone who speaks, dies. If you weren't a main character, and you had a speaking part, you could expect to die this episode. There was an exception -- there was a two parter, where the person with the speaking role lasted through a second episode before dying The commercial breaks gave away the ending The little bit that they'd play as a teaser right before (during?after?it's been a few years) would give away the ending of the episode without fail The second one shouldn't be an issue on a DVD release, however, and was probably an issue with Fox more than with the show itself.
- Category 0 - Nuclear Materials, Facilities and Equipment and Misc
- Category 3 - Electronics
- Category 4 - Computers
- Category 7 - Navigation and Avionics
- Category 9 - Propulsion Systems, Space Vehicles and Related Equipment
Typically, EAR is used for 'dual use' systems, which covers things that have both a military and non-military application, while ITAR is for those things that are considered to not have as a significant non-military application.Those interested should see the following websites:
The problem is in execution. There always seem to be those people out there who think that if they talk louder, their ideas gain more credibility.
I've always just viewed it as a similar to Munchausen Syndrome, in that it's a person who just wants attention, but there methods of going about it vary.
But in all, he seems right up there as the type of thing that Penn and Teller would make fun of on their show, but there's no full listing of what's going to be in season 2.
I used to work in a place that was primarily running on Sun hardware for a few years. In February 2003, we had some major problems, and they had to bring in a whole string of folks from Sun Professional Services to work around the clock to get us back up and running.
Of the 6 folks who brought portables with them, 3 of them were Powerbooks. [I got confused on the first day one of them was in, as I thought he was mucking with my personal laptop] One of the folks said he was working with some other folks on getting his powerbook to work as a JumpStart server, so he could configure and load new sun systems from it.
Our company had some sparc notebooks (Tadpole), but not a single one of the guys from Sun used one -- they were all macs or wintel.
I haven't been in a Sun shop for almost a year now, but their push before was towards the whole 'smart terminal' concept, not really at true workstations.
If you have a collision free hash, then there is a possibility that someone could back the data out of the system. (and as systems become more powerful, it becomes more and more likely).
If you intentionally use a system that is not collision free, so that you can ensure that the data can't be reliably gotten from the input, you're just making it so that there are multiple sets that could produce the hash. But most likely, very few are going to make 'sense' given the context of the data. [out of 'asd!@#$VS', 'JSfgsdE sdf' and 'John Smith', which one is a name?] However, you now have the possibility of a false positive.
So, you either have to make it so that there are multiple pieces of legitimate data that would create the same hash value, and thereby run the risk of false positives, or you have to use a collision free hash, and run the possibility that as processing power improves, someone could get a definite value out.
And so, all this really does is come down to basic concepts of information security -- every methoid of obscuring data is only useful for a limited time. This is why SSL doesn't use a constant key through the life of a session. This is why DES and 3DES have been replaced with AES. You have to balance the cost of the processes (both time and dollars), with the cost of the data being compromised. Unfortunately, different people base costs on different items, and a risk assessment is only valid if you know and agree with the assumptions being made, and even then, it's a point in time analysis, and may be invalid before it hits circulation.
It's one thing to have a book of records that's based on bar bets, and things that just involve getting a bunch of semi-skilled people together to do.
Does anyone care about corporate achievements in the Guiness record books? (other than the corporations, that is).
If they want in to the book, get 1139 people with golf carts, and break the record for longest golf cart parade.
I just think about the Guiness book being about things that are done almost solely for getting into the book, with no significant redeeming qualities other than getting someone's name in print. You know -- longest toenails. Worst smelling shoes -- the types of things that the average person could pull off with a bit of dedication, and not needing a multi-million dollar research facility, and not being directly linked to a company's product development.
How about 'shortest MTBF' for the next hard drive record?
It's the basic mechanic who is getting screwed on this whole thing. Yes, you, as a consumer are getting screwed, but you're just paying a percentage more than you would have. [Assuming you don't have the mechanical ability to fix it yourself].
It's the independant mechanics who are losing all of their profit, in that they just can't fix things.
Other companies still make low-cost DVD players, it's just that the general consumer doesn't have the access. I'd compare that to a general locksmith -- a locksmith knows how to cut a master key, based on a sub master, but the general public doesn't. [Of course, there are probably some criminals out there who know as well].
I'd compare this car issue to be closer in relationship to putting computer chips in ink cartridges, so that you might get a minor performance gain, but it results in a company being able to lock out any competition.
6a. Drink lots of fluids. This forces you to make bathroom breaks, which causes you to not look at your computer screen for a few minutes, and to focus on things that are further away. Caffeine or alcohol can help speed up the urgency for bathroom breaks, but I find I'm more productive with caffeine in me, as opposed to alcohol.
And of course, sugared sodas and alcohol also include extra calories, so you'll have to adjust your diet to compensate for the extra intake. Yes, water works, but I'm not just all that big on drinking water. And there have been studies that show links from nutrasweet and short term memory loss.
For most browsers, CSS works. But it's not just about formatting the page with CSS, it's about designing your pages so that when the CSS fails, it doesn't look like a load of crap.
[I did a lot of coding in the days when <TABLE> was new, and you'd have to do some extra tricks to make sure that Mosaic and Lynx wouldn't display a bunch of run-on text.]
CSS also works rather well with
A few starting points --
- Design Graphics Magazine I'm not sure if it's still in print, but it's Australian, so they might give pointers to some user groups of interest in your area
- CSS Tutorial by W3Schools Something to get you started on CSS
- A List Apart, articles on doing tricky things with CSS
- Eric Meyer's writings. Links to articles and such by the author of ORA's CSS: The Definitive Guide. [read the Web Review articles from 2000 for some of the real power of CSS]
- Learning CSS a list of books and online resources
- Westciv courses on-line courses on CSS, CSS2 and some free resources.
Of course, knowing how to make things look good is completely different from actually doing it -- Lots of people know how to use a paint brush, but not all of our work makes it past our parent's fridges.With a bit of reading, the average programmer should be able to at the very least, keep their pages from looking like complete crap. As always, if you see a cool website out there, look at the source, and see if you can figure out how they did it. [but just because it worked, doesn't mean that it's not a complete hack, and that it won't break in every other browser out there].
Try things. Make mistakes. Learn from them. That's the best way that I've found to improve over the years.
oh -- and don't forget -- design is design. For the most part, design concepts work in both print and on the screen. There are people who think HTML should be able to do everything they can do in a PDF, and make pages that are nothing but one big picture when they're too lazy to learn good HTML, but the design concepts are still there, even if they fail on implementation.
I have no idea what the postage rates are like, but I'd think that if you really want one, it'd be something to look into.
Here's a few that I can think of off the top of my head --
- Cinderella
- Sleeping Beauty
- Beauty and the Beast
- Alladin
- Snow White
- Tarzan
- Alice in Wonderland
- 20000 Leagues under the Sea
That doesn't include derivitive works, such as Anastasia, Swiss Family Robinson or The Jungle Book, or 'historical' work, such as Pocahantus or Davy Crockett.However, it's my understand that they're the ones who keep lobbying for the extension of copyright length, and it seems to get extended right when Mickey's almost in the public domain.
That's not to say that there are other companies out there who don't base their movies off of other people's content whom they haven't compensated for doing so, but that Disney in particular seems interested in preserving the status quo, and making sure that other people can't make a profit off of the work they've done, even though that's how they made it in the first place. (Alice came before Mickey)
Let me start by saying that I did well in all classes in grade school -- except for 'penmanship' and 'behavior'.
I learned to write by a left handed person, but I'm right handed. So I wrap my whole hand around writing implements. They tried those little triangular things to force me to hold my pencil correctly when I was a kid, and I'd just wrap my whole hand around them.
I'm 28, and I still can't hold a pencil correctly. After time, you can learn to write things legibly if you want to. I've given up on cursive. I print everything these days, and I use almost exclusively upper case [the exception is when I'm writing down passwords or file names that are mixed-case.]
I've had three years of drafting, and having to learn to write ANSI compliant lettering, so I know letters should look, but I also have a grandfather who does handwriting analysis on the side, and so I know just how hard it is to change your handwriting. [I preface christmas cards to him with 'stop analyzing my writing']
The only thing that I've found that makes me want to write neater is to force it on someone. I could read my class notes well enough -- but if the teacher couldn't read an essay question on a test in college... you're screwed.
As it is now, I trade off between speed and neatness. If I know someone else is going to read something, I slow it down, and take my time. For most of my notes, I can get those words I can't read by context. Learning to write neatly for other tasks hasn't improved my normal everyday writing significantly, that I've noticed.
Oh... and on the handwriting analysis side, there's a subjective line between 'hastily written' and 'smeary', which are indicators that might suggest 'quick mind that gets down to essentials' vs. 'deceptive'... one of these days, I'll digitize those notes.
But I want to know why the SwissFlame isn't allowed for sale in the US.
Take a look at Speakeasy. They offer a number of different packages for residential DSL, and they cater to the sysadmin and gamer crowd. (multiple static IPs, allow NAT, allow servers, etc)
That's documenation.
Now, if course, if you broke the CDs up, and then taped them onto the books so they had sharp pointy bits, then maybe you could claim software.
It's rather stupid, but it has to do with legal practices.
If you have no warnings, then someone can claim that you forced your content on them, and they didn't know what they were getting into, and it was offensive.
By putting up warnings, which inform the user that they shouldn't enter your site if it's illegal for them to do so shifts part of the burden of responsibility to them, and away from you.
So, if you're sued for having distributed offensive material, you can claim that you provided warnings, and that the person chose to disregard them. [Sort of like putting up 'wet floor' signs -- if someone gets hurt, they made an active decision to ignore the sign]
Of course, it's nice to know that the content's there, but how many children are now going to be able to bypass the disclaimer pages on porn sites because of deep linking?
I could care less about Ticketmaster whining out their deep linking, but there's probably some stuff out there that if it isn't taken in context to their intended point of entry may have other problems.
I'm afraid that this is going to give people more reason to go back to using frames, and 'detecting' if their content has been hijacked, and writing more bad code that causes multiple windows to pop up all over the place, and/or crash browsers.
I remember on one project, I was so pissed off that someone had given us something completely stupid, and practically impossible to do. Mark knew exactly how to handle it -- he told me that they were expecting me to fail, and that I should do it just to prove them wrong. He knew exactly how to turn my anti-social tendancies into a benefit, not a handicap. [and I turned my part of the project in on time... too bad the contractor never did, and walked with over 50% of the hardware, and never produced any of the software, that he was supposedly 'working on in [his] test lab'.]
In a small company, yes, everyone will probably have to do a little bit of customer relations. In a large company, with good managment, they will know how to deal with various personality quirks, and how to get the most of each person. [And likewise, if a particular person is worth the trouble]. Unfortunately, Mark got promoted, and I was hung out to dry by a completely 'hands off' manager, and was fired by his boss for pointing out his mistakes repeatedly.
degree in Civil Engineering, and I will never intentionally set foot in a building that I know was designed by one of my classmates. [There's a problem when someone in their junior year doesn't understand that 10kPa compression = -10kPa tension]
The only good thing is that an engineering degree is not enough to be a person who can sign off on the design of m