What is sad is the multitudes of fixed HTML examples that Slashdot readers keep coming up with, but still haven't been used even though I remember some of them being done a year ago!
I think it is a problem with Firefox. I've noticed that it happens a lot on table layout pages, especially large ones. Livejournal can have the same problem.
Basically it guesses widths of table cells/columns at some stage, then sticks with them as more of the page loads, and doesn't compensate for the new contents, which may include more tables, which will then overflow other elements on the page. Well, it is something like that. I think it could be solved by merely re-formatting the page after it has fully loaded... although the simple Resize Font trick fixes everything anyway (ctrl+mousewheel)
Lord knows that if I owned a small business or home near one, they'd never see shit out of it.
What crimes are you committing then?
Seriously, the people manning these cameras, or a bank of said cameras, aren't interested in you sticking your trash out.
However when they catch the person that threw a brick through your store window because of the cameras, then you will change your mind.
Complain and take out the cameras when they connect them to databases, to face recognition software, to systems that use these databases to analyse your movement patterns. Because that breaches your liberty. CCTV on its own doesn't, it just provides video evidence of crimes and helps secure convictions. You might say that it is just the first step to that... maybe it is in the US, but you are the ones voting in the people in power, think about that.
Is it even possible to live free and untracked anymore? Is this just the price we pay for living in a civilized society?
You're being tracked by these cameras?
No. They are currently merely eyes in the city. They will help cut crime in the areas they are in, and crime will raise in the areas they aren't in.
When the cameras have automatic face recognition, and record all events to a database somewhere, THEN you will be being tracked. Until that time, you are not losing any liberty, but hopefully the police will be able to track those that are abusing the concept better.
The headline to this story is sensationalist and incorrect.
When you are saved from being kicked to death because of CCTV then you may change your mind. Yes, CCTV has been fucking useful to me when I was attacked by a bunch of retards in the UK.
that's like 2am dude... or 3am.. who knows what those weird people over that large ocean use.
By that time you should be only a couple of hours away from thinking about going to bed. Enough time to spend browsing userfriendly archives or coding your own content management system to rival slashdot.
There were a lot of benefits to DVD video over VHS video. Off the top of my head...
1) Smaller medium - VHS tapes were bulky. Compare the size of a VHS TV season to a DVD TV season. 11 large cassettes vs. 10 2mm thick DVDs. 2) Better quality 3) No tapes stretching/breaking/wearing - lasts longer 4) Extra features, commentaries, languages, etc
And the price for this was: Basic DRM - stops casual copying, doesn't prevent lending however. Not a terrible price to pay.
The problem for the companies is that anything newer has to have the same extent of benefits to be worthwhile to the consumer, especially if the price for that is strict DRM that probably will preclude lending the media to someone else once you've 'installed' it. The only obvious benefit at the moment is higher-quality HDTV 1080i or 720p movies. I suppose 20% of households might have a TV capable of viewing that in 10 years time.
It also doesn't negate the fact that DVD is 'good enough'. VHS wasn't 'good enough' in any way, that was obvious. DVD might not be good enough on a 100" hi-res digital screen either... when the price of these hits $1000 then maybe the next big thing will start to catch on.
That's not a problem when you edit user.js now, is it?:p
Those settings he gives are quite useful though... no more bloody popups when something goes wrong! I use Firefox for many reasons, and one of them is NO POPUPS... so this should be the standard setting surely!
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and MacOS X...
(sure, with recompilation and stuff, but a lot less work than developing a cross-platform application is these days)
Whether you'll be able to directly run an x86-64 ELF binary (linux or bsd type) on Longhorn will be the interesting part - if you can, then for a lot of things, why bother with a dedicated Windows port. Linux will have more market share in 2008 than it does now, and might be worth supporting for even more companies...
The ability to run Windows applications natively was one of the reasons that OS/2 never really took off - native application development was eschewed in favour of cross-platform development for Windows. It would be ironic indeed if this was to turn around and bite Microsoft one day.
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How fast is a Pentium 530? 360? 720?
At least AMD's Model Numbers had some grounding in the real world. It said how fast the processor ran. By 'fast' I mean in terms of processing data, not how fast its little legs were running.
AMD is number two simply because they are a fraction of the size of Intel, and have only been competing with them decently in the last 5 years, hardly enough time to get significant marketshare from an incumbent in the marketplace.
Intel were very lucky in the 80's - their processor was chosen for the system that went on to become the number one system by far. That, and the competitors at the time simply couldn't compete against PCs and clones thereof and died out (e.g., Amiga) or were marginalised (Macintosh).
but some of them look like those old Tiger handheld games.
That was the whole *point* of the competition! Hence the title of the article, Game & Watch Games...
I remember I used to have a Tomy caveman game... you had to collect the eggs from the dinosaur without dying, avoiding the pterodactyls, lava, and the dinosaurs feiry breath.
Don't you know anything about the French?!:p That's clearly how they pull! I think they are more butt people than tit people too, hence hanging it off your ass is the sensible option. if you are too cowardly to actually go up to the person and ask them if they want to go to a café and hook up.
I found the photos of poor France Telecom technical employees the best part. They looked slightly bemused with their Cyber Star Trek clothes.
I expect I'll see these in Cyberdog by next year. Must avoid. I was only talking in the pub on Tuesday about animated clothing as well...
Most plumbers and electricians are self-employed in the UK. This is because they make a load of money for knowing what to do and doing it quickly and professionally (in most cases). Also the self-employed people actually have some professional pride, whereas the mass-market companies are just trained monkeys that will charge 2x as much for a worse job.
You don't get many single-person mechanics though, although they exist, but there are more than a few small businesses, not large chains.
Yeah, our supermarkets are very American though, but have a wider selection of ale and cheese.:p But a dedicated butcher or baker will sell products that are much nicer than you can get in the supermarket. Oh, and half of Slashdot said they wouldn't shop at Best Buy again yesterday!
Yeah, I've done the "install heatsink after motherboard" thing in a tight case, and it wasn't amazingly fun but I just calmly did it. Approaching anything in a hurry will lead to a fuck up... cooking, DIY, car repair.
They are also mostly self-employed! Big difference.
Now McDonald's is just a cunt of a company. Maybe making people pay for their uniform will make them stay a little longer than otherwise.
A business should get the tools for the employee that the employee needs to do the job well. If I'm driving and selling stuff, I would get a car. If only because I would otherwise turn up in a beaten old car that gets me from A to B and is cheap to run, but otherwise wouldn't give a good impression.
For things like pagers, blackberries and mobile phones, if the company wants you to have them so that you can be on call, then they can damn well provide them and pay for them. Especially the pager.
If you can fix the problem at home over your broadband, then fine - consider it money saved on fuel getting to the workplace, and time as well (if you get mileage back for out-of-hours calls). If that means upgrading your broadband to a business package, then the company should pay the extra, but otherwise for home broadband that most IT people have these days, I suppose you have to accept that it is something that is now taken for granted, whilst back in the days it wouldn't be.
Yeah, you are losing a benefit, but only because times change.
So spend some time and money on making sure it is safe!
Even if you had a Bluray DVD burner, that would be 20 discs you'd have to burn to backup 1TB. So that is out of the question.
Really what I'd set up is:
1) Local: 1TB of hard drive space on IDE RAID (mirrored). An 8-port SATA controller would do, with 8 250GB SATA drives.
2) GigE ethernet to somewhere else (got a separate garage?), or something faster if affordable
3) A file server there with the same config for "off-site" backup. Should your PC catch fire and melt, you'll still have your data. Yeah, backing up 1TB of data over GigE will take around 15000 seconds a go, or 4 hours or so. That's okay overnight, and better than swapping 50 BluDiscs or tapes and then carrying them out there.
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ctrl-Plus and ctrl-Minus on the keyboard do the same thing if you have a dicky wheel on your mouse.
No excuse for the dodgy Slashdot code however.
Err, I know! That what I posted. Simply bad table management because Slashdot uses tables for layout instead of divs and stylesheets.
Reloading is a poor solution. Use the ctrl-mousewheel or ctrl-+ to resize the fonts which forces a repagination which sorts everything out.
What is sad is the multitudes of fixed HTML examples that Slashdot readers keep coming up with, but still haven't been used even though I remember some of them being done a year ago!
I think it is a problem with Firefox. I've noticed that it happens a lot on table layout pages, especially large ones. Livejournal can have the same problem.
... although the simple Resize Font trick fixes everything anyway (ctrl+mousewheel)
Basically it guesses widths of table cells/columns at some stage, then sticks with them as more of the page loads, and doesn't compensate for the new contents, which may include more tables, which will then overflow other elements on the page. Well, it is something like that. I think it could be solved by merely re-formatting the page after it has fully loaded
Seriously, the people manning these cameras, or a bank of said cameras, aren't interested in you sticking your trash out.
However when they catch the person that threw a brick through your store window because of the cameras, then you will change your mind.
Complain and take out the cameras when they connect them to databases, to face recognition software, to systems that use these databases to analyse your movement patterns. Because that breaches your liberty. CCTV on its own doesn't, it just provides video evidence of crimes and helps secure convictions. You might say that it is just the first step to that ... maybe it is in the US, but you are the ones voting in the people in power, think about that.
Only somebody in the UK would be asking what the time was in GMT, even if they really meant "What is the time in BST?".
I wouldn't mind an "Add a footnote to post" option though. Just append a small note to the bottom. like "Doh! Misspelt 'gerbil'! I always do that!"
It's 1.55am in the UK already, dude!
Err, dude! Damn 20 second posting limit. What am I meant to do? Like, type random crap to take up the time?
that's like 2am dude ... or 3am .. who knows what those weird people over that large ocean use.
By that time you should be only a couple of hours away from thinking about going to bed. Enough time to spend browsing userfriendly archives or coding your own content management system to rival slashdot.
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The component out is a major selling point however, for home theatre people anyway who might want to play the occasional game.
This is more interesting for being the graphics technology that will be incorporated in upcoming VIA integrated chipsets however.
I'd still get a low-end ATI or nVidia card above this however. What will S3's support be like for Linux?
There were a lot of benefits to DVD video over VHS video. Off the top of my head ...
... when the price of these hits $1000 then maybe the next big thing will start to catch on.
1) Smaller medium - VHS tapes were bulky. Compare the size of a VHS TV season to a DVD TV season. 11 large cassettes vs. 10 2mm thick DVDs.
2) Better quality
3) No tapes stretching/breaking/wearing - lasts longer
4) Extra features, commentaries, languages, etc
And the price for this was: Basic DRM - stops casual copying, doesn't prevent lending however. Not a terrible price to pay.
The problem for the companies is that anything newer has to have the same extent of benefits to be worthwhile to the consumer, especially if the price for that is strict DRM that probably will preclude lending the media to someone else once you've 'installed' it. The only obvious benefit at the moment is higher-quality HDTV 1080i or 720p movies. I suppose 20% of households might have a TV capable of viewing that in 10 years time.
It also doesn't negate the fact that DVD is 'good enough'. VHS wasn't 'good enough' in any way, that was obvious. DVD might not be good enough on a 100" hi-res digital screen either
That's not a problem when you edit user.js now, is it? :p
... no more bloody popups when something goes wrong! I use Firefox for many reasons, and one of them is NO POPUPS ... so this should be the standard setting surely!
Those settings he gives are quite useful though
and MacOS X ...
...
(sure, with recompilation and stuff, but a lot less work than developing a cross-platform application is these days)
Whether you'll be able to directly run an x86-64 ELF binary (linux or bsd type) on Longhorn will be the interesting part - if you can, then for a lot of things, why bother with a dedicated Windows port. Linux will have more market share in 2008 than it does now, and might be worth supporting for even more companies
The ability to run Windows applications natively was one of the reasons that OS/2 never really took off - native application development was eschewed in favour of cross-platform development for Windows. It would be ironic indeed if this was to turn around and bite Microsoft one day.
How fast is a Pentium 530? 360? 720?
At least AMD's Model Numbers had some grounding in the real world. It said how fast the processor ran. By 'fast' I mean in terms of processing data, not how fast its little legs were running.
AMD is number two simply because they are a fraction of the size of Intel, and have only been competing with them decently in the last 5 years, hardly enough time to get significant marketshare from an incumbent in the marketplace.
Intel were very lucky in the 80's - their processor was chosen for the system that went on to become the number one system by far. That, and the competitors at the time simply couldn't compete against PCs and clones thereof and died out (e.g., Amiga) or were marginalised (Macintosh).
but some of them look like those old Tiger handheld games.
...
... you had to collect the eggs from the dinosaur without dying, avoiding the pterodactyls, lava, and the dinosaurs feiry breath.
... maybe that wasn't a dinosaur.
That was the whole *point* of the competition! Hence the title of the article, Game & Watch Games
I remember I used to have a Tomy caveman game
Hmmm
Not with the current technology!
"Sir, you appear to have a bright square hole in your chest."
Don't you know anything about the French?! :p
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That's clearly how they pull! I think they are more butt people than tit people too, hence hanging it off your ass is the sensible option. if you are too cowardly to actually go up to the person and ask them if they want to go to a café and hook up.
I found the photos of poor France Telecom technical employees the best part. They looked slightly bemused with their Cyber Star Trek clothes.
I expect I'll see these in Cyberdog by next year. Must avoid. I was only talking in the pub on Tuesday about animated clothing as well
Most plumbers and electricians are self-employed in the UK. This is because they make a load of money for knowing what to do and doing it quickly and professionally (in most cases). Also the self-employed people actually have some professional pride, whereas the mass-market companies are just trained monkeys that will charge 2x as much for a worse job.
:p But a dedicated butcher or baker will sell products that are much nicer than you can get in the supermarket. Oh, and half of Slashdot said they wouldn't shop at Best Buy again yesterday!
You don't get many single-person mechanics though, although they exist, but there are more than a few small businesses, not large chains.
Yeah, our supermarkets are very American though, but have a wider selection of ale and cheese.
^^ Overview of the moral of the story.
... :wtf:
... cooking, DIY, car repair.
Seriously, "white doohickey"
Yeah, I've done the "install heatsink after motherboard" thing in a tight case, and it wasn't amazingly fun but I just calmly did it. Approaching anything in a hurry will lead to a fuck up
They are also mostly self-employed! Big difference.
Now McDonald's is just a cunt of a company. Maybe making people pay for their uniform will make them stay a little longer than otherwise.
A business should get the tools for the employee that the employee needs to do the job well. If I'm driving and selling stuff, I would get a car. If only because I would otherwise turn up in a beaten old car that gets me from A to B and is cheap to run, but otherwise wouldn't give a good impression.
For things like pagers, blackberries and mobile phones, if the company wants you to have them so that you can be on call, then they can damn well provide them and pay for them. Especially the pager.
If you can fix the problem at home over your broadband, then fine - consider it money saved on fuel getting to the workplace, and time as well (if you get mileage back for out-of-hours calls). If that means upgrading your broadband to a business package, then the company should pay the extra, but otherwise for home broadband that most IT people have these days, I suppose you have to accept that it is something that is now taken for granted, whilst back in the days it wouldn't be.
Yeah, you are losing a benefit, but only because times change.
UKP and Yen support has been fixed in Slash CVS 'cos I reported it after getting annoyed.
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Dunno if I'd want to pay that much to get anything that includes Matrix Revolutions
So spend some time and money on making sure it is safe!
Even if you had a Bluray DVD burner, that would be 20 discs you'd have to burn to backup 1TB. So that is out of the question.
Really what I'd set up is:
1) Local: 1TB of hard drive space on IDE RAID (mirrored). An 8-port SATA controller would do, with 8 250GB SATA drives.
2) GigE ethernet to somewhere else (got a separate garage?), or something faster if affordable
3) A file server there with the same config for "off-site" backup. Should your PC catch fire and melt, you'll still have your data. Yeah, backing up 1TB of data over GigE will take around 15000 seconds a go, or 4 hours or so. That's okay overnight, and better than swapping 50 BluDiscs or tapes and then carrying them out there.