I never claimed the entire HTML/CSS is valid. I'm saying the CSS/HTML definitions they're using (to accomplish the fixed background) are perfectly valid CSS/HTML definitions to use. Another responder was arguing that they shouldn't be using them because of FireFox having issue with them. My point is that _FireFox_ is to blame for the poor rendering, not Bungie or Microsoft. Those two bugs I linked to show it's a common problem/known bug, that hasn't been fixed in years (and should be.)
A browser should actually ignore the property/tag if it doesn't understand it.
Does that answer your question?
P.S. - The FlowLayout tag is a property for Visual Studio, not the web. I'd argue they should have removed the Visual Studio-specific code before putting it live, but it doesn't hurt anything. Certainly not FireFox's rendering..
Your logic doesn't make any sense-- they're perfectly valid HTML/CSS commands. Internet Explorer doesn't choke on them (and it happens to be the most popular browser right now, and has been for quite some time..)
FireFox should fix this soon, as it isn't just bungie.net that is affected.
Lucas has stated (and it's been in the books) that Anakin lost some of his dark-side abilities when he became Vader, such as his ability to "stop" or collect force lightning (because his arms are both fake.)
Just look online for the plethora of previews and beta reviews, such as this one from PCWorld. Sorry, Symantec, I don't want to install 314MB of files, 11 services, 3 startup items, 2 toolbars, and 2 BHOs (Browser Helper Objects) just to "prevent spyware".
Symantec lost the game a long time ago-- there are much better (and cheaper) ways to keep your PC afloat.
Supports any audio format you can think of, supports scripting, online tagging/album art tagging, batch renaming/re-tagging, etc... too many features to list here. And for FREE!
That way if I'm using something OTHER than iTunes or my iPod, maybe something that only reads filenames, I'll know what the song is.
Something that only reads filenames? Welcome to 2005, where 99% of the players out there support ID3 v1 or v2!
I don't seem a point to even putting your files in a Artist\Album\ folder structure if you're just going to duplicate the Artist information in the filename. The only time I put the artist name in the filename is when it's a compilation/various artist album.
So, what if I play a movie in random chapter order?
What if my DVD has scratches and cannot play a certain chapter, so I skip it?
What if I close my eyes during a pivotal moment of the film?
What if I watch a "modified for public broadcast" version of the film, with major scenes/language/etc. cut out?
What if I watch a movie halfway through, then shut it off because it's crap (*cough*Butterfly Effect*cough*)?
Gimme a break.
You also argue that you won't know what's been removed-- I beg to differ. See, they'll still be releasing/making the regular DVDs, VHSs, etc.. and I'm sure there will be information somewhere about what was removed or questionable; if not by this company than by the numerous other websites on the internet that detail film gore/language/sexuality.
Windows 2000/XP has always had "administrative" shares, automatically sharing your fixed disks, like
\\computername\c$ \\computername\d$
etc.
The $ in the share name indicates it's a "hidden" share, and not visible to anyone browsing your machine via \\computername\ -- it must be implicitly typed in to be accessed, and even then, it will require an administrator's username/password to connect.
Also very annoying if you hit a web page where the image server is down. 10 images you can't load?
Viewing a webpage with 10 images from the same down domain shouldn't hit the limit-- Internet Explorer limits it's connections to 2 per server for HTTP 1.1, and 4 for an HTTP 1.0 server.
Also, there is a legal tool going around to change the maximum number of outgoing TCP connection imposed (only 50(!) by default), so you can keep using bittorent.
Incorrect; the limit is 10 outgoing incomplete connections, not total outgoing connections.
You can have all the complete outgoing connection's you'd like.
This shouldn't be noticable, really, to mom & pop type users.. but to power users (P2P, network admins, etc.) it can be a pain. There is an unofficial patch available, but no guarantees.
Norton 2003 works on SP2, with a patch supplied by Norton themselves.
Yay.
However, if you work in the tech. field at all, you know that Norton has pretty much sucked for anything for the past 10 years. They were cool back in the day, but now are just grasping at straws.
Uninstall Norton, and use Windows' SP2's built in firewall. If you need anti-virus, install something like F-Prot. Problem solved.
It'd be curious to see the statistics; in my own little bubble, maybe 1% of the SP2 installations have had some sort of problem, with half of them being minor issues, other half being major.
I've successfully upgraded about 30 different computers (with a variety of software/hardware configurations) to SP2, without incident. To me, that reflects highly on SP2 in general.
eMule always logs me on with a lowID, even if I plug the computer directly into the cable modem
Probably due to changes regarding the number of outbound and incomplete connections the TCP/IP stack can make; pre-SP2, it was unlimited, in SP2 it's limited to 10 connections. That's not 10 connections at once, that's 10 _incomplete_ connections, something P2P apps like to make all the time.
Ok, well it's one way or the other-- Microsoft did the information bar first or FireFox did the information bar first.. and I'm telling you that Microsoft did it first. I don't care about pop-up blocking, nor was that mentioned anywhere in my original post.
I'll also note that the information bar does more than handle blocked popped up windows in IE; it handles ActiveX warnings and installation notifications, something FireFox also borrowed the information bar for (ie, installing Extensions without authorizing the domain/site first, missing plug-ins.)
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I never claimed the entire HTML/CSS is valid. I'm saying the CSS/HTML definitions they're using (to accomplish the fixed background) are perfectly valid CSS/HTML definitions to use. Another responder was arguing that they shouldn't be using them because of FireFox having issue with them. My point is that _FireFox_ is to blame for the poor rendering, not Bungie or Microsoft. Those two bugs I linked to show it's a common problem/known bug, that hasn't been fixed in years (and should be.)
A browser should actually ignore the property/tag if it doesn't understand it.
Does that answer your question?
P.S. - The FlowLayout tag is a property for Visual Studio, not the web. I'd argue they should have removed the Visual Studio-specific code before putting it live, but it doesn't hurt anything. Certainly not FireFox's rendering..
Welcome to 99.9% of the internet (no doctype, not valid HTML..)
:)
The issue still stands-- FireFox doesn't render it correctly!
Define "common browsers" -- Internet Explorer still has the majority of the market :)
My original point still stands. It's valid CSS/HTML, and there's no reason for IE, Safari, FireFox, etc. to be choking on it.
Don't get me wrong, I love FireFox and use it as my main browser, but it's not without it's issues.
Your logic doesn't make any sense-- they're perfectly valid HTML/CSS commands. Internet Explorer doesn't choke on them (and it happens to be the most popular browser right now, and has been for quite some time..)
FireFox should fix this soon, as it isn't just bungie.net that is affected.
Blame FireFox-- it's the one rendering it slowly. These bugs have been known about for quite some time:
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Fixed background makes scrolling painfully slow
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9019
slow scrolling in pages with position:fixed elements
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2013
Yay!
Lucas has stated (and it's been in the books) that Anakin lost some of his dark-side abilities when he became Vader, such as his ability to "stop" or collect force lightning (because his arms are both fake.)
I am such a friggin' geek.
Maybe you missed this news.. the creator of BitTorrent got hired by Valve to help improve their networking/downloading..
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/6278
Might want to read this and this about SpinRite.
Steve Gibson is a wacko, man.
But given that Jedi can parry gunfire with their lightsabres (neat trick, that - how do you practice?)
:)
I guess you've never seen Star Wars, where Luke trains with a hovering droid on the Millenium Falcon?
Just look online for the plethora of previews and beta reviews, such as this one from PCWorld. Sorry, Symantec, I don't want to install 314MB of files, 11 services, 3 startup items, 2 toolbars, and 2 BHOs (Browser Helper Objects) just to "prevent spyware".
Symantec lost the game a long time ago-- there are much better (and cheaper) ways to keep your PC afloat.
No offense, but after trying ID3-TagIt and The Godfather.. The Godfather wins, hands down:
http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
Supports any audio format you can think of, supports scripting, online tagging/album art tagging, batch renaming/re-tagging, etc... too many features to list here. And for FREE!
Shouldn't do that if they're properly tagged; iTunes defaults to a structure like this for Compilations:
\Compilations\Album Name\Artist - Title
That way if I'm using something OTHER than iTunes or my iPod, maybe something that only reads filenames, I'll know what the song is.
Something that only reads filenames? Welcome to 2005, where 99% of the players out there support ID3 v1 or v2!
I don't seem a point to even putting your files in a Artist\Album\ folder structure if you're just going to duplicate the Artist information in the filename. The only time I put the artist name in the filename is when it's a compilation/various artist album.
Dell's website has always sucked-- regardless of ASP.Net or not.
Their problem is one of quantity.. methinks they don't have enough servers to handle the load sometimes.
The better educated you are the more likely you are to side with the left.
I don't understand this connection at all-- or even agree with your theory. What led you to that conclusion?
So, what if I play a movie in random chapter order?
What if my DVD has scratches and cannot play a certain chapter, so I skip it?
What if I close my eyes during a pivotal moment of the film?
What if I watch a "modified for public broadcast" version of the film, with major scenes/language/etc. cut out?
What if I watch a movie halfway through, then shut it off because it's crap (*cough*Butterfly Effect*cough*)?
Gimme a break.
You also argue that you won't know what's been removed-- I beg to differ. See, they'll still be releasing/making the regular DVDs, VHSs, etc.. and I'm sure there will be information somewhere about what was removed or questionable; if not by this company than by the numerous other websites on the internet that detail film gore/language/sexuality.
Windows 2000/XP has always had "administrative" shares, automatically sharing your fixed disks, like
\\computername\c$
\\computername\d$
etc.
The $ in the share name indicates it's a "hidden" share, and not visible to anyone browsing your machine via \\computername\ -- it must be implicitly typed in to be accessed, and even then, it will require an administrator's username/password to connect.
Also very annoying if you hit a web page where the image server is down. 10 images you can't load?
Viewing a webpage with 10 images from the same down domain shouldn't hit the limit-- Internet Explorer limits it's connections to 2 per server for HTTP 1.1, and 4 for an HTTP 1.0 server.
1) Install Windows XP from scratch.
:)
2) Install SP2 right away.
3) Install Dell updates/driver updates.
There, problem solved
I have a Dell Inspiron 8000, and it's been upgraded without incident.
Also, there is a legal tool going around to change the maximum number of outgoing TCP connection imposed (only 50(!) by default), so you can keep using bittorent.
Incorrect; the limit is 10 outgoing incomplete connections, not total outgoing connections.
You can have all the complete outgoing connection's you'd like.
This shouldn't be noticable, really, to mom & pop type users.. but to power users (P2P, network admins, etc.) it can be a pain. There is an unofficial patch available, but no guarantees.
Man, talk about FUD.
Norton 2003 works on SP2, with a patch supplied by Norton themselves.
Yay.
However, if you work in the tech. field at all, you know that Norton has pretty much sucked for anything for the past 10 years. They were cool back in the day, but now are just grasping at straws.
Uninstall Norton, and use Windows' SP2's built in firewall. If you need anti-virus, install something like F-Prot. Problem solved.
It'd be curious to see the statistics; in my own little bubble, maybe 1% of the SP2 installations have had some sort of problem, with half of them being minor issues, other half being major.
I've successfully upgraded about 30 different computers (with a variety of software/hardware configurations) to SP2, without incident. To me, that reflects highly on SP2 in general.
Just my two cents..
eMule always logs me on with a lowID, even if I plug the computer directly into the cable modem
Probably due to changes regarding the number of outbound and incomplete connections the TCP/IP stack can make; pre-SP2, it was unlimited, in SP2 it's limited to 10 connections. That's not 10 connections at once, that's 10 _incomplete_ connections, something P2P apps like to make all the time.
There is an unofficial patcher available, but use at your own risk..
Ok, well it's one way or the other-- Microsoft did the information bar first or FireFox did the information bar first.. and I'm telling you that Microsoft did it first. I don't care about pop-up blocking, nor was that mentioned anywhere in my original post.
I'll also note that the information bar does more than handle blocked popped up windows in IE; it handles ActiveX warnings and installation notifications, something FireFox also borrowed the information bar for (ie, installing Extensions without authorizing the domain/site first, missing plug-ins.)
There, end of story!