I've been through the down times before, many times, and I have decided to STOP COUNTING the times I've fell... The only thing that matters to me is that when I pick myself up, I make sure that I'm NOT empty handed.
One wise old lady once told me -
When you fell, stand up, but don't stand up empty handed.
If you fell on a pile of sand, fill your palms with the sand when you stand up.
If you fell on a bed of loose rocks, pick two large rocks, one in each of your hand.
That is why, everytime I fell down, I don't feel bad. On the contrary, I feel GOOD.
Why ?
Because I treat each and every of my fall as A CHANCE TO GAIN SOMETHING - either sand, rocks, or experience.
It's all perspective.
One may look on failure as _FAILURE_, but another one may look at the same failure as a chance to do MUCH BETTER THING.
Yes, sometimes I do sound like those "self-help-book", and yes, I DO KNOW that I sound silly. But I can't help it.
If I were to let myself down just because I fall, then I might as well as die. As long as I am still breathing, I owe it to myself to keep fighting.
I want to creat 3D animation - the choice of animation software isn't yet set. The ones that I am looking at are Lightwave, Maya, 3DS Max, Blender and POVRay.
Which one do you recommend ?
On hardware side, which graphic card do you recommend ?
I am sticking with the X86 platform, OS can be Windoze, Linux, BSD, or BeOS.
"It would be nice to just create my own job, but when you're scraping by on temp
jobs and avoiding creditors, you can't."
You think I was borned with silver spoon in my mouth ?
You think I never suffer any financial setbacks ?!
I never let my creditors or my present income prevent me from doing what I want to do, especially, if that thing is what I _REALLY_ want to do.
Doing temp jobs is TRANSITIONAL thing, it's NOT permanent. Your sight should not stay within the limit of your nose, rather, you should look BEYOND THE HORIZON.
I mean, this is YOUR LIFE, you get to decide to do with YOUR LIFE. And if you think it's better to WASTE your life on satisfying your creditors' needs, then your life will be just that... - you live NOT for yourself but for your creditors.
And another thing, STARTING a business does NOT cost millions, if you know how to do it.
My advise to you and to all - PLEASE STOP BEHAVING LIKE THE REST (99.999%) OF THEM, because you just ain't them !
Use what you have - your skill, your talent, your will to success, and start doing whatever it is necessary to re-make your life.
Worst come the worst - and I am NOT recommending it, this is just for educational purpose - RUN AWAY FROM YOUR CREDITORS, RUN TO ANOTHER COUNTRY, AND START AFRESH !
After all, whichever country you re-start your life, IT IS STILL YOUR LIFE !
There are LOTS OF PLACES in this world - and there are places in the world where YOUR TALENT and what you know STILL MATTERS A LOT !
If you can't do it in the States, go to China or Bangladesh or Turkey or wherever, where the NEED for your skill is TREMENDOUS, and THEY WILL PAY for what you know !
Trust me - I am speaking from experience - NOT the run away thing, but go OUT of the States to FIND PARADISE elsewhere thing.
Why _searching_ for a job while there are LOTS OF CHANCES that you can create YOUR OWN JOB ?
I mean, the slashdotters who are "unemployed" due to the "dot_com_bust" are people who have the SKILLS 99.999% of the human race don't have - in other words, they are TECHIES, right ?
Now, why waiting for someone to employ you, or even searching for a job, while THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS you can do now !
For instance - CREATING YOUR OWN JOB !
Please do not try to think like the rest of the human population - you are NOT those run-of-the-mill, garden-variety type - you are the one who possess the SKILLS to create.
Why don't you utilize your skill to CREATE your own job ?
If you are skilled in doing 3d animation, for example, instead of waiting for the movie industry or whoever to employ you as their animator, you can START creating VIBRANT ANIMATION, in EXCITING SEQUENCES, share the thing with the world, and you will see people flock to what you have to offer, and they WILL offer you lots of options - including, but not limited to, STARTING YOUR OWN ANIMATION FACTORY !
The above is just an example.
I am speaking from experience here. I'm in the field - the tech field - since early '80s. First I was involved with programming - it was hot then - and when uni started to churn out millions of programming wannabes, I branch into graphics, and when there's too much competitions, I then went into dot-com, and when that's busted, I went into consultation, and so on and so forth.
Don't just wait for others to employ you. EMPLOY YOUR OWN SKILL and CREATE YOUR OWN CAREER !
"You probably already know this, but just for the record -- unless you have a defective CD
drive, it shouldn't ever try to spin an audio disc up to full speed unless you're doing digital
audio extraction. If you're merely listening to your CD, it will spin at 1X, just like any
standard CD audio player."
My experience with my CDROM and CDRW drive (Samsung 52X CDROM drive and Sony 16X/10X/40X CDRW drive) is that whenever I put a disk into it, during the SEARCH, the drives will SPIN VERY FAST - I can even hear the whrrrrrlllll sound ! - then it'll slow down, if the drive finds out that the disk is an Audio CD.
What matters is that my OLD audio CDs may NOT even survive the FAST spin during the SEARCH routine.
Would you kindly tell me what's your definition of a "society" ?
Isn't "society" a GROUPING of INDIVIDUALS ?
And if the "society" of Africans is "DIFFERENT" from the "society" of Japanese (not only Japanese, but all Asians, all Human Beings !), then, according to your insistence that the "SOCIETY" is to be blamed for whatever weaknesses the Africans are suffering from, aren't you BLAMING the INDIVIDUALS from the African Continent for their COLLECTIVE REFUSAL or INABILITY TO COMPETE WITH OTHERS ?!
Look now... Casting the Westerners aside, let's stick to the NON-WESTERN WORLD, shall we ?
The Asians were AS DIRT POOR AS the Africans, and can you please enlighten me as to why Asians like the Japanese and the Chinese are able to CLIMB THE LADDER while the Africans can't, or won't ?
Don't blame on the society, man.
If the Africans can't compete with the others, it is NOT that they can't, but they don't, or won't.
If there's a will, there's a way.
The Asians have found their way, since they are willing to compete.
On the other hand, the Africans have yet to find their will.
Stop blaming on the Society, on Slavery, or on Others.
If you really wanna place blame, blame the Africans themselves for their inability to come up with their OWN WILL to compete.
I am NOT saying that the Africans are in any way INFERIOR to others, it's just that the Africans have yet to find their WILL to pick themselves up from ground up.
Nobody can help you, but yourself. Same with the Africans.
There's even a saying - God helps those who help themselves. And if the Africans don't, or won't, want to help themselves, then, they have nobody else to blame.
I do not know if you are from Africa, or if you're of the African stock. I don't care.
I just want to say that I am SICK of those who always place blames on OTHERS for their own fault.
Blame yourself first, before blame others.
If that's what you call "ignorant", so be it.
I rather be an ignorant asshole than one who refuse to help himself.
Contrary to popular belief, plastic doesn't last forever.
And since CD is made up of two layers of clear plastic, sandwitching a thin wafer of metal media inside, the more the CD is aged, the weaker the plastics of the CD become.
And so, the maximum spinning speed for a CD depends on how old the CD is.
I do have some pretty old CDs from the early 80's, and I will NOT put them in my 52X CDROM drive. Unless of course, I want to scrap bits and pieces out of my machine.:)
You not only ashame to be called a liberal, you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
You said:
"the slave trade is alive and well, but not in the world powers"
What the hell are you trying to mean ?
If the slave trade is alive and well, and YOU BLAME the United States for the slave trade, what is that "but not in the world powers" bit ?!
And you continued:
"There is also a fundamental difference with the Jaspanese and the Africans.
Their societies are totally different, which is probably what allowed them to
develop while Africa didn't."
Aren't the Africans Homo Sapien Sapiens, just as the Japanese (and all Human Beings) ?!
If they are - that means, if the Africans are just like the others, - Human Beings, - then, the African Society should be classified as HUMAN SOCIETY - and where is the world can you justify that "totally different" bit ?
Be careful of what you are saying, liberal !
What you _ARE_ truly saying, is that somehow the Africans are _TOTALLY DIFFERENT_ to the rest of the Human Race, and because of that, the Africans' society is "totally different" from the rest of the societies made up of Human Race.
And could you elaborate on that "TOTALLY DIFFERENT" bit ?
Are you saying that the Africans are _NOT_ Human Beings ?
The one who should unpluck his head from the sand is Bleeding Heart Liberals like you.
"You forgot about the slave trade and the child labor too."
What has that to do with the issue at hand ?
Slave trade ENDED MANY MANY YEARS AGO, and please, DO NOT TRY TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE using LONG, DEAD strawman.
Those who continue to use the "slave" issue are the same ones who had difficulties to come up with EXCUSES as to why the Asians, - such as the Japanese, - who were just as dirt poor as the Africans, can climb up the ladder, while the Africans can't.
Please do not blame the "slave-owners", because there is NONE !
"Fact is that people who live in developing countries exploit each other just as much as the developed countries exploit the developing countries."
So what's the point?
Exploitation exist, it's part of Nature.
Don't you see the lions hunting down their victims - tearing their flesh and everything - don't you call that EXPLOITATION ?
Don't you feel that those animals who got their flesh torn off by their predators VICTIMS ?
If you want to be such a BLEEDING HEART, why don't you go live in Africa and stop all the lions and tigers from eating their victims ?
What you're doing is akin to blaming the rape victims for getting raped because "They ware short skirts", "They sway their butts too much", "They act sexy", et cetera, et cetera.
Those terrorists who tore down WTC are TERRORISTS, no more, no less.
NOBODY, and NOTHING can explain away their terror act.
3000 lives were lost because of the terrorists, not because of America. The United States Of America DID NOT kill the 3000 victims, the TERRORISTS DID !
Please, stop that "Oh, the third world are being fleeced by greedy first world" crap.
Do you know who are the MOST NOTORIOUS scammer in the world, in the form of "We have dirty money, we need you to launder them for us, and you can keep a percentage" ?
The first train that we have missed was when the implantable chip was introduced for household pets - to
"aid the owners in indentifying their pets,
in case their pets got lost"
So said the media.
As a member of ACLU, I tried in vain to get the attention of ACLU about this development, telling the higher-ups that if the animals are allowed to be implanted with microchips, one day the same chips will be used on humans.
But the ACLU never care. All they care is to take away the guns from the people.
The cigarette boxes have warnings - and in some countries, even grotesque pictures of what will happen if you smoke.
Still, people are suing the cigarette companies.
There are warning labels on ladders, and people fell, and they sue the ladder manufacturers.
There are BLACK ON BRIGHT YELLOW warnings on drain cleaners, and yet, the parents of some moronic kids who eat / drink the strong alkali / acid still sue the manufacturers.
If Sony thinks placing warnings on their "CD" can get them off hooks, think again.
Perhaps because Sony isn't an American company, they don't understand Americans as well as they think.
"Miguel de Icaza too has said that time is
better spent on improving OpenOffice rather
than working on say Gnumeric "
And you replied:
"Which is yet another indication that Miguel
has lost the plot. Gnumeric is a stunning
app that could seriously rival Excel."
Very true !
All Gnumeric lacks is the Pivot Table thingy. If Gnumeric acquire that thing, then Gnumeric can really be THE STAR of the Open Source Movement !
But no.... Our Senor Miguel opts for OpenOffice instead.
"OpenOffice isn't close to rivalling either
Word or Excel any time soon. But Miguel has
long ago forgotten the Unix concept of small
specialized tools, and is heading towards MS
bloat at an alarming pace."
Very true again !
Although Gnumeric is NOT small, it runs like a charm !
Over 99% of my Excel spreadsheet runs on Gnumeric without any hitch. All it needs is the extra 1%, and if that Hanscom suite thing can do Pivot Table, why can't Gnumeric ?
If you really want to work for the people,
please submit a bill for the upcoming
congressional session.
The title of the bill should be:
"Trademark Dillusional Act of 2002"
And please, help Intel accomplish their
dillusional act, in that they thought they
own the English word "inside".
With the passage of the act - and I do not
doubt the expected smooth passage, with the
support from Intel - everyone can claim they
own something, some word, some phrase,
and I would like to join the crowd to claim
that since I am a Christian, and I believe
in Jesus Christ, I own the right to the
words "Jesus Christ".
Anyone violate my right will be prosecuted,
and PERSECUTED, by all means !
Seems like the Patent Office is issuing more and more BAD PATENTS, and more and more people / companies / groups are adversely affected.
May I know if there's any possibility to sue the Patent Office for its MISCONDUCT (to say the least) in granting all these STUPID and BAD, BAD patents ?
In other words, the Patent Office needs to be ACCOUNTABLE for the actions (and/or mistakes) they have done.
You said:
"If you use html views of a message they can
prove you opened it by embeding a web-bug in
the address. That is an image that loads
remotely, if the image is loaded from that
location you opened the mail."
That's scary.
Is there a way to DOWNLOAD webmails without opening them, much like POP3 or IMAP ?
Sometimes I wonder if we have forgotten the true value of "simple is beautiful".
Why make the art of programming such a complex issue?
My personal style of programming is that I break the program down into really small, and really simple parts.
If people think that my approach leads to bloatware, think again.
If you break down your code into small and simple parts, MANY OF THOSE PARTS CAN BE RE-USE !
That is, you don't need to re-invent the wheel.
A no-brainer example:
Let's say, in one part of your program you need to add two numbers. In another part you need to add up three numbers.
You can create two different functions -
one to add two numbers,
and the other one to add three.
Or you can create one function that adds up two numbers,
and then REUSE that function to add up the additional number.
I know the above example is a no-brainer. But by applying the same principle, and RE-USE the code, you may find that your program becomes MORE efficient.
On another note, can anyone recommend any good book on writing beautiful codes? How about those "tricks and tips" books? Care to share the ones which deserve your recommendation?
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Dear Terry,
Thank you for the word of support.
I've been through the down times before, many times, and I have decided to STOP COUNTING the times I've fell
One wise old lady once told me -
When you fell, stand up, but don't stand up empty handed.
If you fell on a pile of sand, fill your palms with the sand when you stand up.
If you fell on a bed of loose rocks, pick two large rocks, one in each of your hand.
That is why, everytime I fell down, I don't feel bad. On the contrary, I feel GOOD.
Why ?
Because I treat each and every of my fall as A CHANCE TO GAIN SOMETHING - either sand, rocks, or experience.
It's all perspective.
One may look on failure as _FAILURE_, but another one may look at the same failure as a chance to do MUCH BETTER THING.
Yes, sometimes I do sound like those "self-help-book", and yes, I DO KNOW that I sound silly. But I can't help it.
If I were to let myself down just because I fall, then I might as well as die. As long as I am still breathing, I owe it to myself to keep fighting.
Anyway, thanks again for the kind words !!
I want to creat 3D animation - the choice of animation software isn't yet set. The ones that I am looking at are Lightwave, Maya, 3DS Max, Blender and POVRay.
Which one do you recommend ?
On hardware side, which graphic card do you recommend ?
I am sticking with the X86 platform, OS can be Windoze, Linux, BSD, or BeOS.
All suggestions will be very much appreciated !
Thanks in advance !!
You said:
"It would be nice to just create my own job, but when you're scraping by on temp
jobs and avoiding creditors, you can't."
You think I was borned with silver spoon in my mouth ?
You think I never suffer any financial setbacks ?!
I never let my creditors or my present income prevent me from doing what I want to do, especially, if that thing is what I _REALLY_ want to do.
Doing temp jobs is TRANSITIONAL thing, it's NOT permanent. Your sight should not stay within the limit of your nose, rather, you should look BEYOND THE HORIZON.
I mean, this is YOUR LIFE, you get to decide to do with YOUR LIFE. And if you think it's better to WASTE your life on satisfying your creditors' needs, then your life will be just that
And another thing, STARTING a business does NOT cost millions, if you know how to do it.
My advise to you and to all - PLEASE STOP BEHAVING LIKE THE REST (99.999%) OF THEM, because you just ain't them !
Use what you have - your skill, your talent, your will to success, and start doing whatever it is necessary to re-make your life.
Worst come the worst - and I am NOT recommending it, this is just for educational purpose - RUN AWAY FROM YOUR CREDITORS, RUN TO ANOTHER COUNTRY, AND START AFRESH !
After all, whichever country you re-start your life, IT IS STILL YOUR LIFE !
There are LOTS OF PLACES in this world - and there are places in the world where YOUR TALENT and what you know STILL MATTERS A LOT !
If you can't do it in the States, go to China or Bangladesh or Turkey or wherever, where the NEED for your skill is TREMENDOUS, and THEY WILL PAY for what you know !
Trust me - I am speaking from experience - NOT the run away thing, but go OUT of the States to FIND PARADISE elsewhere thing.
You said:
"Wow, based on your facts (99.999)
I am one on 100,000! I feel speacal!"
In a world of 6 Billion, you have 59,999 partners to choose from.
:)
One thing that I do not understand is -
Why _searching_ for a job while there are LOTS OF CHANCES that you can create YOUR OWN JOB ?
I mean, the slashdotters who are "unemployed" due to the "dot_com_bust" are people who have the SKILLS 99.999% of the human race don't have - in other words, they are TECHIES, right ?
Now, why waiting for someone to employ you, or even searching for a job, while THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS you can do now !
For instance - CREATING YOUR OWN JOB !
Please do not try to think like the rest of the human population - you are NOT those run-of-the-mill, garden-variety type - you are the one who possess the SKILLS to create.
Why don't you utilize your skill to CREATE your own job ?
If you are skilled in doing 3d animation, for example, instead of waiting for the movie industry or whoever to employ you as their animator, you can START creating VIBRANT ANIMATION, in EXCITING SEQUENCES, share the thing with the world, and you will see people flock to what you have to offer, and they WILL offer you lots of options - including, but not limited to, STARTING YOUR OWN ANIMATION FACTORY !
The above is just an example.
I am speaking from experience here. I'm in the field - the tech field - since early '80s. First I was involved with programming - it was hot then - and when uni started to churn out millions of programming wannabes, I branch into graphics, and when there's too much competitions, I then went into dot-com, and when that's busted, I went into consultation, and so on and so forth.
Don't just wait for others to employ you. EMPLOY YOUR OWN SKILL and CREATE YOUR OWN CAREER !
You said:
"You probably already know this, but just for the record -- unless you have a defective CD
drive, it shouldn't ever try to spin an audio disc up to full speed unless you're doing digital
audio extraction. If you're merely listening to your CD, it will spin at 1X, just like any
standard CD audio player."
My experience with my CDROM and CDRW drive (Samsung 52X CDROM drive and Sony 16X/10X/40X CDRW drive) is that whenever I put a disk into it, during the SEARCH, the drives will SPIN VERY FAST - I can even hear the whrrrrrlllll sound ! - then it'll slow down, if the drive finds out that the disk is an Audio CD.
What matters is that my OLD audio CDs may NOT even survive the FAST spin during the SEARCH routine.
Dear Bleeding Heart Liberal,
Other than placing blames, what can you do ?
First, you blame the "Slavery".
Then, you blame "Different society".
Would you kindly tell me what's your definition of a "society" ?
Isn't "society" a GROUPING of INDIVIDUALS ?
And if the "society" of Africans is "DIFFERENT" from the "society" of Japanese (not only Japanese, but all Asians, all Human Beings !), then, according to your insistence that the "SOCIETY" is to be blamed for whatever weaknesses the Africans are suffering from, aren't you BLAMING the INDIVIDUALS from the African Continent for their COLLECTIVE REFUSAL or INABILITY TO COMPETE WITH OTHERS ?!
Look now
The Asians were AS DIRT POOR AS the Africans, and can you please enlighten me as to why Asians like the Japanese and the Chinese are able to CLIMB THE LADDER while the Africans can't, or won't ?
Don't blame on the society, man.
If the Africans can't compete with the others, it is NOT that they can't, but they don't, or won't.
If there's a will, there's a way.
The Asians have found their way, since they are willing to compete.
On the other hand, the Africans have yet to find their will.
Stop blaming on the Society, on Slavery, or on Others.
If you really wanna place blame, blame the Africans themselves for their inability to come up with their OWN WILL to compete.
I am NOT saying that the Africans are in any way INFERIOR to others, it's just that the Africans have yet to find their WILL to pick themselves up from ground up.
Nobody can help you, but yourself. Same with the Africans.
There's even a saying - God helps those who help themselves. And if the Africans don't, or won't, want to help themselves, then, they have nobody else to blame.
I do not know if you are from Africa, or if you're of the African stock. I don't care.
I just want to say that I am SICK of those who always place blames on OTHERS for their own fault.
Blame yourself first, before blame others.
If that's what you call "ignorant", so be it.
I rather be an ignorant asshole than one who refuse to help himself.
Have a good day.
Contrary to popular belief, plastic doesn't last forever.
And since CD is made up of two layers of clear plastic, sandwitching a thin wafer of metal media inside, the more the CD is aged, the weaker the plastics of the CD become.
And so, the maximum spinning speed for a CD depends on how old the CD is.
I do have some pretty old CDs from the early 80's, and I will NOT put them in my 52X CDROM drive. Unless of course, I want to scrap bits and pieces out of my machine.
Whatever
You not only ashame to be called a liberal, you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
You said
"the slave trade is alive and well, but not in the world powers"
What the hell are you trying to mean ?
If the slave trade is alive and well, and YOU BLAME the United States for the slave trade, what is that "but not in the world powers" bit ?!
And you continued:
"There is also a fundamental difference with the Jaspanese and the Africans.
Their societies are totally different, which is probably what allowed them to
develop while Africa didn't."
Aren't the Africans Homo Sapien Sapiens, just as the Japanese (and all Human Beings) ?!
If they are - that means, if the Africans are just like the others, - Human Beings, - then, the African Society should be classified as HUMAN SOCIETY - and where is the world can you justify that "totally different" bit ?
Be careful of what you are saying, liberal !
What you _ARE_ truly saying, is that somehow the Africans are _TOTALLY DIFFERENT_ to the rest of the Human Race, and because of that, the Africans' society is "totally different" from the rest of the societies made up of Human Race.
And could you elaborate on that "TOTALLY DIFFERENT" bit ?
Are you saying that the Africans are _NOT_ Human Beings ?
The one who should unpluck his head from the sand is Bleeding Heart Liberals like you.
Face the real world, brother !
Yes, PC lives, and lots of slashdotters are PC-brainwashed !
I posted a message and it got moded down to "-1". If that's not enough, someone replied me with "what about slavery" thing.
As if the world still go out to Africa and capture the Africans to be their slaves.
Damn.... I thought the slashdotters are educated bunch, unfortunately, I was wrong.
You wrote:
"You forgot about the slave trade and the child labor too."
What has that to do with the issue at hand ?
Slave trade ENDED MANY MANY YEARS AGO, and please, DO NOT TRY TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE using LONG, DEAD strawman.
Those who continue to use the "slave" issue are the same ones who had difficulties to come up with EXCUSES as to why the Asians, - such as the Japanese, - who were just as dirt poor as the Africans, can climb up the ladder, while the Africans can't.
Please do not blame the "slave-owners", because there is NONE !
"Fact is that people who live in developing countries exploit each other just as much as the developed countries exploit the developing countries."
So what's the point?
Exploitation exist, it's part of Nature.
Don't you see the lions hunting down their victims - tearing their flesh and everything - don't you call that EXPLOITATION ?
Don't you feel that those animals who got their flesh torn off by their predators VICTIMS ?
If you want to be such a BLEEDING HEART, why don't you go live in Africa and stop all the lions and tigers from eating their victims ?
Thank you !
Are you blaming America for the Sep. 11 incident?
What you're doing is akin to blaming the rape victims for getting raped because "They ware short skirts", "They sway their butts too much", "They act sexy", et cetera, et cetera.
Those terrorists who tore down WTC are TERRORISTS, no more, no less.
NOBODY, and NOTHING can explain away their terror act.
3000 lives were lost because of the terrorists, not because of America. The United States Of America DID NOT kill the 3000 victims, the TERRORISTS DID !
Please, stop that "Oh, the third world are being fleeced by greedy first world" crap.
Do you know who are the MOST NOTORIOUS scammer in the world, in the form of "We have dirty money, we need you to launder them for us, and you can keep a percentage" ?
Americans ? Naaaah...
Europeans? Naaaah...
Guess what - Nigerians.
And guess where Nigeria is ?
Look at your world map, please !
You said:
"2. Microsoft engineers never thought to have
the AlphaImageLoader filter functionality
the default when loading pngs."
Is there any possibility for the users to turn on THEIR IE's alphaimageloader filter BY DEFAULT ?
In a sense, all handheld computer with a screen are eligible to be called "wireless monitors" too !
Someone said:
"(*) I'm still annoyed that IE doesn't support
alpha-transparency though."
You answered:
"It does, you just have to use the IE-
proprietary AlphaImageLoader filter (it's a
CSS extension)."
Would someone please enlighten me as to HOW to turn on that "IE-proprietary AlphaImageLoader filter", please ?
Thank you !
and now we are playing catching up.
The first train that we have missed was when the implantable chip was introduced for household pets - to
"aid the owners in indentifying their pets,
in case their pets got lost"
So said the media.
As a member of ACLU, I tried in vain to get the attention of ACLU about this development, telling the higher-ups that if the animals are allowed to be implanted with microchips, one day the same chips will be used on humans.
But the ACLU never care. All they care is to take away the guns from the people.
Now we have this
I wonder what ACLU will say now ?
The cigarette boxes have warnings - and in some countries, even grotesque pictures of what will happen if you smoke.
Still, people are suing the cigarette companies.
There are warning labels on ladders, and people fell, and they sue the ladder manufacturers.
There are BLACK ON BRIGHT YELLOW warnings on drain cleaners, and yet, the parents of some moronic kids who eat / drink the strong alkali / acid still sue the manufacturers.
If Sony thinks placing warnings on their "CD" can get them off hooks, think again.
Perhaps because Sony isn't an American company, they don't understand Americans as well as they think.
I lives in a country where the moslems are majority, and they will kill you if you utter anything close to "piggy".
I am afraid http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ may not be kosher for the moslems.
To the moslems, Osama Bin Laden is kosher, but "piggy" is not.
Blowing up others is kosher to the moslems, but when others retaliate, it's not.
Some one sez:
"Miguel de Icaza too has said that time is
better spent on improving OpenOffice rather
than working on say Gnumeric "
And you replied:
"Which is yet another indication that Miguel
has lost the plot. Gnumeric is a stunning
app that could seriously rival Excel."
Very true !
All Gnumeric lacks is the Pivot Table thingy. If Gnumeric acquire that thing, then Gnumeric can really be THE STAR of the Open Source Movement !
But no
"OpenOffice isn't close to rivalling either
Word or Excel any time soon. But Miguel has
long ago forgotten the Unix concept of small
specialized tools, and is heading towards MS
bloat at an alarming pace."
Very true again !
Although Gnumeric is NOT small, it runs like a charm !
Over 99% of my Excel spreadsheet runs on Gnumeric without any hitch. All it needs is the extra 1%, and if that Hanscom suite thing can do Pivot Table, why can't Gnumeric ?
To congresscritters,
If you really want to work for the people,
please submit a bill for the upcoming
congressional session.
The title of the bill should be:
"Trademark Dillusional Act of 2002"
And please, help Intel accomplish their
dillusional act, in that they thought they
own the English word "inside".
With the passage of the act - and I do not
doubt the expected smooth passage, with the
support from Intel - everyone can claim they
own something, some word, some phrase,
and I would like to join the crowd to claim
that since I am a Christian, and I believe
in Jesus Christ, I own the right to the
words "Jesus Christ".
Anyone violate my right will be prosecuted,
and PERSECUTED, by all means !
Thank you, congresscritter, for reading.
Waitaminit
You mean like a "yoyo" ?
Seems like the Patent Office is issuing more and more BAD PATENTS, and more and more people / companies / groups are adversely affected.
May I know if there's any possibility to sue the Patent Office for its MISCONDUCT (to say the least) in granting all these STUPID and BAD, BAD patents ?
In other words, the Patent Office needs to be ACCOUNTABLE for the actions (and/or mistakes) they have done.
You said:
"If you use html views of a message they can
prove you opened it by embeding a web-bug in
the address. That is an image that loads
remotely, if the image is loaded from that
location you opened the mail."
That's scary.
Is there a way to DOWNLOAD webmails without opening them, much like POP3 or IMAP ?
Sometimes I wonder if we have forgotten the true value of "simple is beautiful".
Why make the art of programming such a complex issue?
My personal style of programming is that I break the program down into really small, and really simple parts.
If people think that my approach leads to bloatware, think again.
If you break down your code into small and simple parts, MANY OF THOSE PARTS CAN BE RE-USE !
That is, you don't need to re-invent the wheel.
A no-brainer example:
Let's say, in one part of your program you need to add two numbers. In another part you need to add up three numbers.
You can create two different functions -
one to add two numbers,
and the other one to add three.
Or you can create one function that adds up two numbers,
and then REUSE that function to add up the additional number.
I know the above example is a no-brainer. But by applying the same principle, and RE-USE the code, you may find that your program becomes MORE efficient.
On another note, can anyone recommend any good book on writing beautiful codes? How about those "tricks and tips" books? Care to share the ones which deserve your recommendation?