AFAIK there is no browser available that correctly renders CSS 2.0 -- the entire spec.
IIRC Moz and Opera do render all of CSS 1.0 correctly and nearly all of CSS 2.0 correctly. But doing some advanced things with CSS 2.0 (especially doing all formatting with it, instead of old table hacks) you really run into problems with both Moz and Opera.
Am I the only one to be tired of being able to find a constant multiplicator for the number of orcish soldiers present at each successive battle
That's actually in the books. At each succesive battle the company faces greater and greater odds, much like sam/frodo faced greater and greater odds in trying to dispose of the ring. I'm sure there is some fancy smancy literary term for it like, um,... parallelllism.:)
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Like most people you miss the single greatest point of heat loss for any house -- the windows. Get some decents windows people!
Now, if you are me, you live in a apartment located partway underground and you love mother earth. Thanks to being mostly underground my heating/cooling bills are 1/3 of my upstairs friends. Viva La Basments!
Every civiliasation that has tried to supress technology has fallen. Civilisation is now global.
Also that statement is wrong. Make me some greek fire ok? Or some baghdad steel? There's plenty more examples throughout history of technology that has been kept secret to this very day.
Building a nuclear bomb is not very easy, only 9 countries have accomplished it in the history of the world: US, Soviet Union, China, GB, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and South Africa. It requires extesnive manufacturing compacity and large amounts of very good scientists.
As for "Wrap in cobalt" you must've been watching too much star trek...
Civilization might be global but there's absolutely no reason why the US should share technology as advanced as some of the space tech is with the rest of the world and expect nothing in return or exercise no control over it.
Not when you consider that NASA deals with things like, oh I don't know, ROCKETS. Specifically extremely powerful rocket engines and the like as well as advanced aeronautical designs.
If you could copy NASA's designs freely without restrictions then we would be, in effect, giving any 3rd-rate pissant dictator the means to launch Intercontinental Ballistic Missles. Not A Good Idea (tm). Also the fact that some of NASA's research into aueronautical stuff could be used to build advanced fighter aircraft is also Not A Good Idea (tm).
I adminster over 250+ windows 2000 boxes. Not a single one has EVER been infected with any virus or worm and this is despite the fact that they are all public computers.
Well you could only freeze the api for each stable release (i.e. 2.6, 2.8, etc). This wouldn't be all that different from what microsoft does, freezing the api for each major architectural switch (95/98/me had same drivers but nt/2k/xp used different).
Humans have free fallen from as high as 19 miles with nothing more than a pressure suite and a hypersonic drag/parachute system.
Yeah but they weren't travelling at Mach 19 when they did it. IIRC, fastest free-fall parachute jump was made at just over the speed of sound. Also note that the increased weight of such an ejection system would make the shuttle virtually worthless as a cargo-carrying platform.
That ejection system in the B-1B was extremely complex and prone to failure as was a similar system in the F-111. Also note that the main reason for not having an ejectable crew compartment is the fact that the extra weight increase of thousands of pounds would make the shuttle worthless.
Ejecting at hypersonic speeds would neccesitate heat shielding, some device to slow you down, etc, etc. You would basically have to build a mini-shuttle inside a shuttle.
Which brings up a good point for the 2.7 kernel. You might have better SATA support if they would actually freeze a kernel driver api.
How about we stop politicizing the kernel and actualy make a stable Driver API? One that doesn't change with every point release of the kernel?
I know that people want open source drivers but it's extremely hypocritical to complain about companies lack of support for linux then do absoultey *nothing* to help them out by changing the api every point release. Listen, besides some fanatics nobody cares about open source drivers. People would rather their stuff just work.
I understand that, fundamentally, open source drivers are technically a better solution but there is no chance in hell of convincing Nvidia or any other company that has substantial IP and reserach in their drivers of publishing them open source. Same thing with Intel's Centrino drivers.
I was in england last semester and nearly everything was still refered to as stones. Nobody knew either kilograms or pounds, I always had to convert everything to stones for them.
Pints, I understand. It would be near-sacrosanct to get rid of pints.
Hey! You can try to lie to us americans but I know better, I just spent a year in england doing study abroad and you guys are more fucked up than americans when it comes to measurements. At least we consistently ignore the metric system.
Let's see here. Ok, distance is in miles and miles per hour. Liquid measurements are liters except when talking about beer, then it's a pint. Weight is in *stones* for christsake, a person's height is talked about in feet but a building/mountain height is usually in meters. A football field is yards though. Tempature is in celsius I suppose.
So, while you can be a self-righteous snob to us, some of us know better - england isn't really any better than the US.
While X has alot of features it is also missing a HUGE amount. Just a few examples of the top of my head:
Why in gods name do I need to specify my monitor's vertical and horizontal sync rates? Monitors have been plug n play for years now, why does X not use this info?
Why, to change the refresh rate, do I have to run xconfig instead of just being able to change it through X like windows? If you think this isn't a problem try using X when you have a fixed-freq monitor.
Why are there so many problems with different mice/smooth scrolling?
My final question is wheter anybody on slashdot is running freedesktop's new xserver and, if they are, their experiences with it. I was thinking about installing it on my fedora core install.
I have a friends who work at a local ISP and pretty much their entire shop is sun machines. He uses them because
a.) they are cheap (get em used off ebay from the dot-com bust companies)
b.) easy to secure
c.) last forever. They still use old sparc station 4's for the tech desk staff.
As the original submitter I thought about just submitting the messenger mission but the other are so damm cool as well:).
Really there is ALOT going on right now that people should be excited about. Keppler to search for terrestrial planets, and the two missions to planets we haven't really touched yet (Pluto/mercury) are going to bring back some really interesting results I think.
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AFAIK there is no browser available that correctly renders CSS 2.0 -- the entire spec.
IIRC Moz and Opera do render all of CSS 1.0 correctly and nearly all of CSS 2.0 correctly. But doing some advanced things with CSS 2.0 (especially doing all formatting with it, instead of old table hacks) you really run into problems with both Moz and Opera.
Agreed. I'm sitting at work right now doing tech support... on the line with some guy who has problems figuring out what exactly a "browser" is.
People? Meatbags. Meatbags I say.
Am I the only one to be tired of being able to find a constant multiplicator for the number of orcish soldiers present at each successive battle
... parallelllism. :)
That's actually in the books. At each succesive battle the company faces greater and greater odds, much like sam/frodo faced greater and greater odds in trying to dispose of the ring. I'm sure there is some fancy smancy literary term for it like, um,
Like most people you miss the single greatest point of heat loss for any house -- the windows. Get some decents windows people!
Now, if you are me, you live in a apartment located partway underground and you love mother earth. Thanks to being mostly underground my heating/cooling bills are 1/3 of my upstairs friends. Viva La Basments!
Not to mention games like morrowind are only possible on the xbox because its harddrive gives them enough space to store the savegames.
Not to be a spoiler but the last episode in teh 6th season revealed that the ancients where in fact ancient humans ;).
yes, obviously, because unfair punishment laws like "three strikes and your out" and all the war on drugs stuff has caused an enormous backlash...
Every civiliasation that has tried to supress technology has fallen. Civilisation is now global.
Also that statement is wrong. Make me some greek fire ok? Or some baghdad steel? There's plenty more examples throughout history of technology that has been kept secret to this very day.
Building a nuclear bomb is not very easy, only 9 countries have accomplished it in the history of the world: US, Soviet Union, China, GB, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and South Africa. It requires extesnive manufacturing compacity and large amounts of very good scientists.
As for "Wrap in cobalt" you must've been watching too much star trek...
Civilization might be global but there's absolutely no reason why the US should share technology as advanced as some of the space tech is with the rest of the world and expect nothing in return or exercise no control over it.
That is well fucked up.
Not when you consider that NASA deals with things like, oh I don't know, ROCKETS. Specifically extremely powerful rocket engines and the like as well as advanced aeronautical designs.
If you could copy NASA's designs freely without restrictions then we would be, in effect, giving any 3rd-rate pissant dictator the means to launch Intercontinental Ballistic Missles. Not A Good Idea (tm). Also the fact that some of NASA's research into aueronautical stuff could be used to build advanced fighter aircraft is also Not A Good Idea (tm).
It's not the system, it's who administers it.
I adminster over 250+ windows 2000 boxes. Not a single one has EVER been infected with any virus or worm and this is despite the fact that they are all public computers.
Do you work at UNL?
If you are really interested check out the encyclopedia of arda. It's invaluable resource, you can lose yourself for hours in that thing.
Well you could only freeze the api for each stable release (i.e. 2.6, 2.8, etc). This wouldn't be all that different from what microsoft does, freezing the api for each major architectural switch (95/98/me had same drivers but nt/2k/xp used different).
Humans have free fallen from as high as 19 miles with nothing more than a pressure suite and a hypersonic drag/parachute system.
Yeah but they weren't travelling at Mach 19 when they did it. IIRC, fastest free-fall parachute jump was made at just over the speed of sound. Also note that the increased weight of such an ejection system would make the shuttle virtually worthless as a cargo-carrying platform.
That ejection system in the B-1B was extremely complex and prone to failure as was a similar system in the F-111. Also note that the main reason for not having an ejectable crew compartment is the fact that the extra weight increase of thousands of pounds would make the shuttle worthless.
Ejecting at hypersonic speeds would neccesitate heat shielding, some device to slow you down, etc, etc. You would basically have to build a mini-shuttle inside a shuttle.
Which brings up a good point for the 2.7 kernel. You might have better SATA support if they would actually freeze a kernel driver api.
:)
How about we stop politicizing the kernel and actualy make a stable Driver API? One that doesn't change with every point release of the kernel?
I know that people want open source drivers but it's extremely hypocritical to complain about companies lack of support for linux then do absoultey *nothing* to help them out by changing the api every point release. Listen, besides some fanatics nobody cares about open source drivers. People would rather their stuff just work.
I understand that, fundamentally, open source drivers are technically a better solution but there is no chance in hell of convincing Nvidia or any other company that has substantial IP and reserach in their drivers of publishing them open source. Same thing with Intel's Centrino drivers.
Make a stable api darnit!
Nope, wasn't london - lancaster university in lancashire.
I understand the reasons, I just find it.. somewhat hypocritical when the english make fun of americans for using imperial units.
I was in england last semester and nearly everything was still refered to as stones. Nobody knew either kilograms or pounds, I always had to convert everything to stones for them.
Pints, I understand. It would be near-sacrosanct to get rid of pints.
Oh yeah? So stones is a metric measurement? And pints? ANd miles, miles per hour?
You guys are worse than americans! we consistently ignore the metric system but you guys just use parts of it.. kindof.. sometimes.
Hey! You can try to lie to us americans but I know better, I just spent a year in england doing study abroad and you guys are more fucked up than americans when it comes to measurements. At least we consistently ignore the metric system.
Let's see here. Ok, distance is in miles and miles per hour. Liquid measurements are liters except when talking about beer, then it's a pint. Weight is in *stones* for christsake, a person's height is talked about in feet but a building/mountain height is usually in meters. A football field is yards though. Tempature is in celsius I suppose.
So, while you can be a self-righteous snob to us, some of us know better - england isn't really any better than the US.
X can detect monitor refresh rates about 1/3 of the time, it has especially bad problems with LCD's.
I upgrade to the latest xfree/gnome just now and realized that, yes, they have fixed this problem. gracias.
While X has alot of features it is also missing a HUGE amount. Just a few examples of the top of my head:
Why in gods name do I need to specify my monitor's vertical and horizontal sync rates? Monitors have been plug n play for years now, why does X not use this info?
Why, to change the refresh rate, do I have to run xconfig instead of just being able to change it through X like windows? If you think this isn't a problem try using X when you have a fixed-freq monitor.
Why are there so many problems with different mice/smooth scrolling?
My final question is wheter anybody on slashdot is running freedesktop's new xserver and, if they are, their experiences with it. I was thinking about installing it on my fedora core install.
I have a friends who work at a local ISP and pretty much their entire shop is sun machines. He uses them because
a.) they are cheap (get em used off ebay from the dot-com bust companies)
b.) easy to secure
c.) last forever. They still use old sparc station 4's for the tech desk staff.
Seems like valid enough reasons to me.
As the original submitter I thought about just submitting the messenger mission but the other are so damm cool as well :).
Really there is ALOT going on right now that people should be excited about. Keppler to search for terrestrial planets, and the two missions to planets we haven't really touched yet (Pluto/mercury) are going to bring back some really interesting results I think.