You have a very odd view of the UK. The UK has a constitution, it's just not in the same form as the US one. And freedom of speech is explicitly protected under human rights law. We stopped being subjects a long long time ago. Just as we stopped saying "forsooth sire", wearing ruffs and burning witches. I can't think of anyone in the UK who actually has the same amount of concentrated power as the POTUS which also undermines the whole "under someone" point you were making.
I am really really glad you aren't coming back to Britain if you have this sort of warped opinion. Struggling to think where you might fit in though. Hicksville, Arkansas are always welcoming people.
I think you're completley wrong. Christianity, for example, was persecuted because people disagreed with their view that the son of God had turned up in the form of Jesus. Gave a different world view to others who could not accept it and reacted violently towards it.
People are persecuting Scientologists because they are part of an evil, money-grabbing cult that destroys families and harms lives. It's not just that we disagree with their view - if spreading their view was all they wanted to do then fair enough. But they do more than that - they hurt people in an emotional and material way.
True story - a work colleague of mine once made a slightly strangled "Ghostbusters" sound and asked me to guess where it was from. I guessed correctly - the C64. Then he made a more strangled, garbled noise and asked me to guess. Again I got it right - the Spectrum. Just no comparison.
Your mother said that to me last night in bed. Actually, in all seriousness, this is useful. If only because they were saying how the API would be changing in a number of ways before 1.0 and now we can breathe a sigh of relief.
I, for one, really enjoy reading these idiotic emails. It is not the people's concerns that are funny, more the fact that they bother to make them. They truly believe that sending in these emails will make a difference to someone or even matter. The best way to register a complaint against a site like Slashdot is to stop visiting and find better alternatives.
You've clearly never used Sharepoint to do much. It does a load more than you're saying but the one thing it does do is integrate well with other MS apps. That "lovely" lock-in which does so much for the MS bottom line is seen as a boon to some businesses because things just work together, or as well as MS stuff ever works.
Sounds great for sites with 3 pages. Would like to know how you cope with 10 or so. Do you use a template? What about when the time comes to change the heading on each page? OK professional web developers get this all the time and your method would never work in a professional environment, although you probably know this. It is surprising how many people use Photoshop for design without having used anything better, simply because they didn't realise that there *was* anything better.
You shouldn't have to work at all for your HTML/CSS, it's easy. If you feel there is something of a learning curve, of course there is. And once you've learned what you need you find you can do things way more powerfully than before, and more easily.
A page laid out using CSS is way more flexible. You can adjust the width of your sidebar without worrying that the widths of other parts of the page will change.
All the design elements of your page have greater independence from each other with CSS. Want to move that bit of text up? Fine if it is just a div but not so fine if it is a cell making up half a column that is spanning 4 rows...
Tables work for simple stuff fine. CSS is the only route for anything more than that.
I've done pure table-based layout and now do pure CSS-based layout. I would never ever go back. Ever. And CSS is just as quick when you know what you're doing. Even cross-browser...
I think you'll find it was actually murder. Just because you don't want to view the situation in an adult way doesn't mean the rest of the world will join in with your childish "it isn't fair" argument.
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You have a very odd view of the UK.
The UK has a constitution, it's just not in the same form as the US one. And freedom of speech is explicitly protected under human rights law.
We stopped being subjects a long long time ago. Just as we stopped saying "forsooth sire", wearing ruffs and burning witches.
I can't think of anyone in the UK who actually has the same amount of concentrated power as the POTUS which also undermines the whole "under someone" point you were making.
I am really really glad you aren't coming back to Britain if you have this sort of warped opinion. Struggling to think where you might fit in though. Hicksville, Arkansas are always welcoming people.
I think you're completley wrong. Christianity, for example, was persecuted because people disagreed with their view that the son of God had turned up in the form of Jesus. Gave a different world view to others who could not accept it and reacted violently towards it.
People are persecuting Scientologists because they are part of an evil, money-grabbing cult that destroys families and harms lives. It's not just that we disagree with their view - if spreading their view was all they wanted to do then fair enough. But they do more than that - they hurt people in an emotional and material way.
Apparently Jonathan Ross made house prices fall and Russell Brand gave Jade Goody cancer.
The BBC don't need a business model. It's funded by licence fees.
Just not seeing the connection between Google and the BBC myself though...and it isn't as if this would be a hypothecated tax.
Bush stood for scientific progress...and yet was against medical research using stem cells
I think you'll find it was Netscape who did that. They were kings of it.
Kids these days think they can get away with anything through their parents spoiling them.
Or something.
IE Tab is useful but if you're being paid for the work then you really ought to use the proper browser, not just a tab in Firefox.
True story - a work colleague of mine once made a slightly strangled "Ghostbusters" sound and asked me to guess where it was from. I guessed correctly - the C64. Then he made a more strangled, garbled noise and asked me to guess. Again I got it right - the Spectrum.
Just no comparison.
All in good humour you understand. ;)
Hope this isn't serious. Did they also want to hire you because you had nice hair?
I thought FISA had banned that sort of surface? Clever, if not.
Me too!
These are still funny.
Your mother said that to me last night in bed. Actually, in all seriousness, this is useful. If only because they were saying how the API would be changing in a number of ways before 1.0 and now we can breathe a sigh of relief.
I, for one, really enjoy reading these idiotic emails. It is not the people's concerns that are funny, more the fact that they bother to make them. They truly believe that sending in these emails will make a difference to someone or even matter. The best way to register a complaint against a site like Slashdot is to stop visiting and find better alternatives.
All overblown hyperbole is actually factually correct. Every single sweeping statement is entirely wrong, however.
You are kidding right? There are print jouirnalists who make a living out of articles just like the one Samzenpus wrote.
These book reviews are the funniest thing I've read on /. in years. I wish all book reviews could be this good.
You've clearly never used Sharepoint to do much. It does a load more than you're saying but the one thing it does do is integrate well with other MS apps. That "lovely" lock-in which does so much for the MS bottom line is seen as a boon to some businesses because things just work together, or as well as MS stuff ever works.
Sounds great for sites with 3 pages. Would like to know how you cope with 10 or so. Do you use a template? What about when the time comes to change the heading on each page?
OK professional web developers get this all the time and your method would never work in a professional environment, although you probably know this.
It is surprising how many people use Photoshop for design without having used anything better, simply because they didn't realise that there *was* anything better.
You shouldn't have to work at all for your HTML/CSS, it's easy. If you feel there is something of a learning curve, of course there is. And once you've learned what you need you find you can do things way more powerfully than before, and more easily.
A page laid out using CSS is way more flexible. You can adjust the width of your sidebar without worrying that the widths of other parts of the page will change.
All the design elements of your page have greater independence from each other with CSS. Want to move that bit of text up? Fine if it is just a div but not so fine if it is a cell making up half a column that is spanning 4 rows...
Tables work for simple stuff fine. CSS is the only route for anything more than that.
I've done pure table-based layout and now do pure CSS-based layout. I would never ever go back. Ever. And CSS is just as quick when you know what you're doing. Even cross-browser...
Because layout done with tables is a royal pain. Divs done well kick the backside of tables.
I think you'll find it was actually murder. Just because you don't want to view the situation in an adult way doesn't mean the rest of the world will join in with your childish "it isn't fair" argument.