Try setting apache/whatever to serve a different css file depending on the browser, that way you can tweek for different browsers without upsetting the rest. If you dont want to have to write an entire css file for each browser then serve a main css file for all browsers and an additional file that adds or subtracts css style for each separate browser, it works wonders. Ofcourse, sometimes all browsers are equally crap so you have to just hack it:(
yeah, i think people are turned off by css because they don't realise that they are making 2 jumps: 1 from tables/etc to css and the other from bad mark-up to good mark-up. Also you can fix allot of bad browser bugs by giving an extra 'patch' css file to different browsers that contains your specific fix for that browsers issues.
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Not true, a div can be positioned anywhere with pixel, percentage or em/ex accuracy. It can overlap others, and basically do anything a table can do but better. The only reason you hear people spending hours on basic formatting is because they want to do it absolutely correctly, collapse well (which tables don't) and want it to work in all browsers (which would be made easier if browsers bloody well worked properly). If you don't care about W3C correctness, then a div can be positioned anywhere and anyhow, i cant see how your logic works: a div can be positioned anywhere like a table cell, but with the added advantage of being able to specify exact co-ordinates, its as simple as that, it can make use of all the same hacks and dirty work-arounds that tables can use if they want.
Screw that, if you want football pay for it your self. BBC should be putting money into actual useful things, not wasting it on over-inflated royalty fees and eventually footballers wallets. Just because the masses want something doesnt mean the BBC has to listen, it doesnt work like that, thats what a commercial station is for.
People stop worrying, the ads can easily be defeated and if you cant be bothered to write a filter-rule for it, someone will be making some nice "QwikBar" blocking plug-ins. This business model is aimed at Internet Explorer users only. I love the little "Closing this window disconnects FreeFi" caption on the top of the explorer window, and the name is just brilliant! Combining two words into one with capitalised first letters (as is the poncy fashion these days) as well as managing to totally fuck the spelling! I'm not trolling, seriously, when companies do this it just makes me think they're run by idiots.
I don't mind adverts, banners are fine, but when someone assumes that they can objectionably control my browser in any way, that's when they have crossed the line. The user has the last say in what their computer does and that's final. I don't know what other people think about this, but when the public says we don't like pop-ups i think what they really mean is 'we don't like things happening on our computers that we don't want'?
You don't actually explain why it doesnt work. QC might work very differently from other systems but correct me if im wrong, it still works on the premise that A sends something to B through an insecure channel X? unless im wrong and A & B somehow know what they wanted to transmit before hand and X is some randomly chosen other-dimension. Can you explain?
Why not directly base a patent on the ammount of R&D done and some 'market time' value: eg a stupid web patent such as donations on the net which obviously took someone back in the early days of the net all of 3 minutes to figure out would have a very low 'R&D value' and a very low chance of being granted or upheld aditionally the internet/computing industry moves very fast, so the patent would only be granted for say 1 or 2 years if it was granted at all.
If a company had spent 5 years and billions in R&D of an innovative new type of engine it would get a high R&D value (dont ask me how thats calculated:P ) and because the car industry moves abit slower (lots of people still drive cars from the 90's) it would get a value of say 8 years and the R&D value would be taken into consideration in upholding its patents and charging royalties.
The patent system is to give incentive and it does that by giving just enough time for someone to use a patent as an advantage before its open to everyone.
What if someone patents the only cure for cancer? (or something along those lines). Maybe the developement of major lifesaving drugs should be left to an international body, and drug companies barred from patenting it (they can sell it without paying any royalties but if its a very important drug they cannot patent it)?
What about patenting new geneticly engineered species? Thats pretty obviously stupid and is going to lead to allot of abuse.
I downloaded 6 of the demos on the site (yes including the nurse). I was impressed by the quality (lovely lighting on the walkthrough and nice hoverboard game) but i thought they were probably pretty clunky and not very effiecient like java, so i thought id run all of them at the same time to see if the performance took a hit.. it didnt:P (on a 1.6ghz)
While this is great news, id much rather play a poor graphics game that had amazing gameplay than a rendering masterpiece with gameplay that makes me want to rip my hair out and smash something. Actually, no, id rather have amazing jaw dropping woody-making graphics and amazing gameplay!
Hopefully we can put some of that cpu power into some sweet damage models, good ai, and open maps too?
Yes i know, but don't worry, soon we will come to your aid. We will save America from censorship!
Im sure they had other countries in mind, but you gotta start with your country first - its like they say on planes: please fit your own mask before helping others.
A countdown timer telling me windows is going to shut down in 1 minute is great for keeping me on my toes in the morning, managed to do a quick search and was half-way reading through a forum when it restarted:( installed the 'patch and it seems to have been fixed, but i thought windows update was supposed to be automatic?!?! it regularly reminds me to install new patches, why not this?
If jobs are outsourced to say india, then surely that will boost their economy and they will start demanding more money, eventully it wont be worth outsourcing anymore. Or maybe im talking crap (im was always bad at economics!) Can anyone explain exactly how a global economy could work? are there actually enough jobs for everybody? surely atleast some proportion of the world must live in total poverty for the rest of the world to be able to enjoy themselves? whats the natural tendency of things? will all the wealth just end up in the hands of a dozen people? can the world survive if everyone is smarter?
AFAIK it lakes depth of field and motion blur and afew other things (photons/caustics?). The radiosity interface seemd cumbersome (last time i used it in 2.32) and destructive to the geometry if i remember correctly (reapplying things all the time is a hassle and doesnt make a good interface). You're right its an internal renderer thats best suited for somethings not others, i have no problem with it, and the good thing about these things being free/open is that they can use another projects renderer aswell.
Blenders internal rendering engine isnt great, i think they would be better off to do what they are currently doing - integrating with YafRay, and PovRay (PovRay is very mature)
Woohoooh!!! ive been checking the blender site almost everyday for the next point release. 2.32 seems to have a very annoying memory leak in win2k. This program is really showing great potential, if you start it up for the first time you'll be lost, but once you hit the learning curve its great. Theres layers and layers of functionality all inside that tiny binary, oh wait.. its slashdotted.:(
Erm unless I misunderstood your comment, your saying you actually like having to click twice every time you want to do something? what benifit could it possibly have? no other mac OSX apps work that way. if you wanted to focus a window you could either use the X-windows method of just moving your mouse over, or the windows method of just clicking or clicking the title bar, but having to click twice every time?!?
I've noticed one annoyence on the OSX version, maybe its a config issue, but clicking on a window (and gimp has many) only focuses it, you have to click again to actually draw/click a button.
But the real real killer feature thats lacking from gimp (and i cant for the life of me understand why its not there) is photoshops ability to apply an effect - ie drop shadow, and then go back later and adjust its settings or remove it, and the same with applying a filter - such as brightness/contrast adjust and then go back at any time and adjust that without loosing image quality because its a non-destructive filter. Yes i know you can have the effect on another layer, its totally not the same though. Audio applications have direct-x plugins and such and now days non-destructive filtering is just a cannot-do-without feature. Gimp could even go further than photoshop and allow any arbitrary filter to have re-editable settings so you can go back and tweek it later, this wouldnt even mean re-writing the filters, just make the effects non-destructive and stackable and you will have photoshop users drooling. As it stands, destructive filters are just not an option for modern designerss, when you want to tweek, you need the power to tweek lots of different settings at ease and see the results almost instantly, and when you apply something like level correction or brightness and contrast it is destructive to the image if you want to adjust it later. The idea of digital graphics is a total abstraction from the problems of the physical world and having to worry about generation loss etc.
Other issues such as 16 bit colour, CMYK, easy macro recording etc are going to get there in the end, but all in all its a great program!
Unlike the american way which does almost the same thing but in a much more civilised and slowly built-up manner (with abit less of the in-your-face rules to begin with). American freedom is slowly getting smaller and smaller.
maybe allot developement will be done out-side at no cost - since its open source. But part of the BBC's job apart from making programmes AFAIK is to provide a service for education and research to the public.
Im neither a lawyer or an american, but even i can see that this whole thing is totally unconstitutional to the point where you have to wonder: if bush came right out tomorrow and said "the bill of rights is null and void" would there be mass protest? or would there be a little poll on the cnn website?
30 people were killed today in a motorway pile-up caused by a software bug in a robotic bollard. Confused by a passing car playing gangsta-rap music the robot had begun dancing accross 3 lanes of traffic, ending up attached to the front of a mini-van.
"Nope; the filter-cracking techniques of spammers are instead equivalent to bypassing a door-man by wearing a forged badge that makes you appear to be a legitimate visitor when you aren't."
Thats two different systems. In one, only specific people have 'access' and they are actually pre-chosen, thats like authorising someone to send you an email. The second is where you say anyone can enter/send email aslong as it fits the purpose of the system - i.e you're not a trouble maker or your email isnt spam. Theres a distinct difference, look at real life examples: you wont get arrested for turning up at the door, even if you pretend to be good until you get inside and start making trouble you'll be kicked out but thats all. If you forged a company ID card to get in then you would be invading private property, or as clinton might have put it "invading privates". Similarly if you run a shop, it is a semi public place - anyone can walk in, but you can kick them out at will or stand at the door screening them. But theres a difference between someone forcing themselves past your screening and just pretending to be legit. i learnt english from the best!;)
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Try setting apache/whatever to serve a different css file depending on the browser, that way you can tweek for different browsers without upsetting the rest. If you dont want to have to write an entire css file for each browser then serve a main css file for all browsers and an additional file that adds or subtracts css style for each separate browser, it works wonders. Ofcourse, sometimes all browsers are equally crap so you have to just hack it :(
yeah, i think people are turned off by css because they don't realise that they are making 2 jumps: 1 from tables/etc to css and the other from bad mark-up to good mark-up. Also you can fix allot of bad browser bugs by giving an extra 'patch' css file to different browsers that contains your specific fix for that browsers issues.
Not true, a div can be positioned anywhere with pixel, percentage or em/ex accuracy. It can overlap others, and basically do anything a table can do but better. The only reason you hear people spending hours on basic formatting is because they want to do it absolutely correctly, collapse well (which tables don't) and want it to work in all browsers (which would be made easier if browsers bloody well worked properly). If you don't care about W3C correctness, then a div can be positioned anywhere and anyhow, i cant see how your logic works: a div can be positioned anywhere like a table cell, but with the added advantage of being able to specify exact co-ordinates, its as simple as that, it can make use of all the same hacks and dirty work-arounds that tables can use if they want.
Screw that, if you want football pay for it your self. BBC should be putting money into actual useful things, not wasting it on over-inflated royalty fees and eventually footballers wallets. Just because the masses want something doesnt mean the BBC has to listen, it doesnt work like that, thats what a commercial station is for.
People stop worrying, the ads can easily be defeated and if you cant be bothered to write a filter-rule for it, someone will be making some nice "QwikBar" blocking plug-ins. This business model is aimed at Internet Explorer users only. I love the little "Closing this window disconnects FreeFi" caption on the top of the explorer window, and the name is just brilliant! Combining two words into one with capitalised first letters (as is the poncy fashion these days) as well as managing to totally fuck the spelling! I'm not trolling, seriously, when companies do this it just makes me think they're run by idiots.
I don't mind adverts, banners are fine, but when someone assumes that they can objectionably control my browser in any way, that's when they have crossed the line. The user has the last say in what their computer does and that's final. I don't know what other people think about this, but when the public says we don't like pop-ups i think what they really mean is 'we don't like things happening on our computers that we don't want'?
+3 insightful??
You don't actually explain why it doesnt work. QC might work very differently from other systems but correct me if im wrong, it still works on the premise that A sends something to B through an insecure channel X? unless im wrong and A & B somehow know what they wanted to transmit before hand and X is some randomly chosen other-dimension. Can you explain?
Why not directly base a patent on the ammount of R&D done and some 'market time' value: eg a stupid web patent such as donations on the net which obviously took someone back in the early days of the net all of 3 minutes to figure out would have a very low 'R&D value' and a very low chance of being granted or upheld aditionally the internet/computing industry moves very fast, so the patent would only be granted for say 1 or 2 years if it was granted at all.
:P ) and because the car industry moves abit slower (lots of people still drive cars from the 90's) it would get a value of say 8 years and the R&D value would be taken into consideration in upholding its patents and charging royalties.
If a company had spent 5 years and billions in R&D of an innovative new type of engine it would get a high R&D value (dont ask me how thats calculated
The patent system is to give incentive and it does that by giving just enough time for someone to use a patent as an advantage before its open to everyone.
What if someone patents the only cure for cancer? (or something along those lines). Maybe the developement of major lifesaving drugs should be left to an international body, and drug companies barred from patenting it (they can sell it without paying any royalties but if its a very important drug they cannot patent it)?
What about patenting new geneticly engineered species? Thats pretty obviously stupid and is going to lead to allot of abuse.
I downloaded 6 of the demos on the site (yes including the nurse). I was impressed by the quality (lovely lighting on the walkthrough and nice hoverboard game) but i thought they were probably pretty clunky and not very effiecient like java, so i thought id run all of them at the same time to see if the performance took a hit.. it didnt :P (on a 1.6ghz)
er no.. Debian! you sick-minded perve, i was talking about the rendering engine that comes with woody
While this is great news, id much rather play a poor graphics game that had amazing gameplay than a rendering masterpiece with gameplay that makes me want to rip my hair out and smash something. Actually, no, id rather have amazing jaw dropping woody-making graphics and amazing gameplay!
Hopefully we can put some of that cpu power into some sweet damage models, good ai, and open maps too?
Yes i know, but don't worry, soon we will come to your aid. We will save America from censorship!
Im sure they had other countries in mind, but you gotta start with your country first - its like they say on planes: please fit your own mask before helping others.
had number 2 set, although come to think of it, it hasnt asked me for permission to download for several weeks now, is that normal?
A countdown timer telling me windows is going to shut down in 1 minute is great for keeping me on my toes in the morning, managed to do a quick search and was half-way reading through a forum when it restarted :( installed the 'patch and it seems to have been fixed, but i thought windows update was supposed to be automatic?!?! it regularly reminds me to install new patches, why not this?
If jobs are outsourced to say india, then surely that will boost their economy and they will start demanding more money, eventully it wont be worth outsourcing anymore. Or maybe im talking crap (im was always bad at economics!) Can anyone explain exactly how a global economy could work? are there actually enough jobs for everybody? surely atleast some proportion of the world must live in total poverty for the rest of the world to be able to enjoy themselves? whats the natural tendency of things? will all the wealth just end up in the hands of a dozen people? can the world survive if everyone is smarter?
AFAIK it lakes depth of field and motion blur and afew other things (photons/caustics?). The radiosity interface seemd cumbersome (last time i used it in 2.32) and destructive to the geometry if i remember correctly (reapplying things all the time is a hassle and doesnt make a good interface). You're right its an internal renderer thats best suited for somethings not others, i have no problem with it, and the good thing about these things being free/open is that they can use another projects renderer aswell.
Blenders internal rendering engine isnt great, i think they would be better off to do what they are currently doing - integrating with YafRay, and PovRay (PovRay is very mature)
Woohoooh!!! ive been checking the blender site almost everyday for the next point release. 2.32 seems to have a very annoying memory leak in win2k. This program is really showing great potential, if you start it up for the first time you'll be lost, but once you hit the learning curve its great. Theres layers and layers of functionality all inside that tiny binary, oh wait.. its slashdotted. :(
Erm unless I misunderstood your comment, your saying you actually like having to click twice every time you want to do something? what benifit could it possibly have? no other mac OSX apps work that way. if you wanted to focus a window you could either use the X-windows method of just moving your mouse over, or the windows method of just clicking or clicking the title bar, but having to click twice every time?!?
I've noticed one annoyence on the OSX version, maybe its a config issue, but clicking on a window (and gimp has many) only focuses it, you have to click again to actually draw/click a button.
But the real real killer feature thats lacking from gimp (and i cant for the life of me understand why its not there) is photoshops ability to apply an effect - ie drop shadow, and then go back later and adjust its settings or remove it, and the same with applying a filter - such as brightness/contrast adjust and then go back at any time and adjust that without loosing image quality because its a non-destructive filter. Yes i know you can have the effect on another layer, its totally not the same though. Audio applications have direct-x plugins and such and now days non-destructive filtering is just a cannot-do-without feature. Gimp could even go further than photoshop and allow any arbitrary filter to have re-editable settings so you can go back and tweek it later, this wouldnt even mean re-writing the filters, just make the effects non-destructive and stackable and you will have photoshop users drooling. As it stands, destructive filters are just not an option for modern designerss, when you want to tweek, you need the power to tweek lots of different settings at ease and see the results almost instantly, and when you apply something like level correction or brightness and contrast it is destructive to the image if you want to adjust it later. The idea of digital graphics is a total abstraction from the problems of the physical world and having to worry about generation loss etc.
Other issues such as 16 bit colour, CMYK, easy macro recording etc are going to get there in the end, but all in all its a great program!
Unlike the american way which does almost the same thing but in a much more civilised and slowly built-up manner (with abit less of the in-your-face rules to begin with). American freedom is slowly getting smaller and smaller.
maybe allot developement will be done out-side at no cost - since its open source. But part of the BBC's job apart from making programmes AFAIK is to provide a service for education and research to the public.
Im neither a lawyer or an american, but even i can see that this whole thing is totally unconstitutional to the point where you have to wonder: if bush came right out tomorrow and said "the bill of rights is null and void" would there be mass protest? or would there be a little poll on the cnn website?
30 people were killed today in a motorway pile-up caused by a software bug in a robotic bollard. Confused by a passing car playing gangsta-rap music the robot had begun dancing accross 3 lanes of traffic, ending up attached to the front of a mini-van.
"Nope; the filter-cracking techniques of spammers are instead equivalent to bypassing a door-man by wearing a forged badge that makes you appear to be a legitimate visitor when you aren't."
;)
Thats two different systems. In one, only specific people have 'access' and they are actually pre-chosen, thats like authorising someone to send you an email. The second is where you say anyone can enter/send email aslong as it fits the purpose of the system - i.e you're not a trouble maker or your email isnt spam. Theres a distinct difference, look at real life examples: you wont get arrested for turning up at the door, even if you pretend to be good until you get inside and start making trouble you'll be kicked out but thats all. If you forged a company ID card to get in then you would be invading private property, or as clinton might have put it "invading privates". Similarly if you run a shop, it is a semi public place - anyone can walk in, but you can kick them out at will or stand at the door screening them. But theres a difference between someone forcing themselves past your screening and just pretending to be legit. i learnt english from the best!