This is *so* evil. What are we still talking about, let's get hacking!;)
I imagine something that does such a texture map, and adds a big "DO NOT COPY THIS" to the printout. Of course, the goatse image is subtitled "TOLD YOU SO".
I think SPF addresses a real problem, and does it well So do I. We enabled SPF for all our mail one year ago and it really made an amazong difference. Sure, you've got the occasional mail that won't get through because of shitty forwarding somewhere in the recipient's mail chain, but those can usually be resolved by resending to the *real* address which comes with the error message.
I don't know US law, but I'm pretty sure this is illegal in one way or another.
If I were someone who loses a legitimate domain name I wanted to register to such fraud, I'd go to court and demonstrate how NSI systematically abuses its power of being able to register domains for free in order to force people to register domains through them. I'm sure even if it's not extortion, it's anti-competitive at least...
And the posting is correctly tagged as concerning schaar, not scharr[1]. I know, because I tagged it as such, and I guess several others followed me in this, either because they're German and know Mr Schaar, too, or because they've read my comment.
I think Peter Schaar's name stems from Schar, which means group of people. Might be, then again I went to school with someone whose name was also Schaar, and he told me it was of Dutch origin and had to do with some medieval profession, but I don't remember which it was. Maybe someone from Benelux can elaborate.;)
I doubt that any KDE app would ever integrate well enough with the rest of my OS X desktop to make me want to use it. Oh, there is one app I'm eagerly waiting for, but it seems it doesn't compile at the moment. That app is Amarok.
I don't know what people are smoking who praise iTunes for being "great". I can only imagine they have lower expectations than I have and/or have never used something better. Personally I find iTunes a complete annoyance and a really shitty media player. It lacks real library management (such as automagically detecting new files, file movement, duplicates with different file names), it doesn't display ID3 tags properly and truncates long titles, it doesn't have advanced search apart from intelligent folders, it cannot sort results by filename and sorting by album also doesn't work properly, it lacks cover management if you're unwilling to make business with CC companies or FraudPal, it has no lyrics support, no wikipedia support for artist info, and generally performs like a pig.
I have several hundred CD's and ripped them all to MP3s over the years, resulting in a 60 GB library which loads instantly in Amarok on a PIII-800, but takes almost 30 seconds to load in iTunes at 100% CPU usage on my G4 1,25 GHz. Handling those in iTunes is virtually impossible, handling them in Amarok is a breeze.
The public opinion on this is a different one, I know, but I for one can't wait to get Amarok on my Mac. iTunes is a cunt, and a smelly one at that. Amarok, OTOH, is one of the best OSS applications I've seen in the last years.
For example a result set from an SQL query that in rare occasions is empty Ok, I see where you're coming from. Still bad programming in my book, because checking for empty result sets is trivial and the empty ul element will still look shitty (producing a visual gap) even in browsers which render the output.
Yeah, I know that we're talking about a level of sophistication most people can't afford given the usual deadlines for projects, but if one has decided to output to XHTML, it's an extra mile one has to go. Even better if the *client* has decided (or has been persuaded) to output to XHTML, the extra hours can be billed. Which PHB's like.
Either that, or don't declare your output XHTML. There isn't "a little pregnant", neither. You're standards-compliant or you aren't.
Aren't we being magnificently scientific today?
I'm coding for the web for 10+ years now. It sucked then, it sucks now. First it's been Microsoft's fault, then Netscape's (4.7 anyone?), then Microsoft's again. Maybe next year it will be Mozilla's. I don't care. I just want to be able to code to a standard THAT WORKS and gives me simple tools to accomplish every day's tasks.
Hey, W3C! Usable forms would be DA KILLER! It's not as if weren't asking for them for 10+ years now.
How is that supposed to help anyone that every scripted page needs to be tested against every possible input condition? I beg your pardon? Every single bit of user input must be inspected and thoroughly tested, always, unless you don't give a fuck about the security of your application. Never trust user input, remember?
The way I see it: If the programmer can't even be bothered to write code that properly escapes/sanitizes stuff before returning it to the user (or any internal function or db query, FWIW), it's correct for the UA to not display the result. It may as well contain malicious code or whatnot.
Be my guest. It's only approx. 250 km, so don't tempt me.;)
You are a courageous man! You have no idea. You don't even *know* my wife yet.
I keed, I keed! My wife is great, but she's also got a special kind of humour that has pushed most of my former friends off. They can't take being confronted with their own stupidity. *g*
I like the idea, but seriously dude, how can you look at those misaligned frames and not go crazy about that? I'd align them or die trying... (I'd rather trash them all than die, but you get the picture. *g*)
Do you seek to enter the United States to engage in export control violations, subversive or terrorist activities, or any other unlawful purpose? Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization as currently designated by the U.S. Secretary of State? Have you ever participated in persecutions directed by the Nazi government of Germany; or have you ever participated in genocide? [ ] Yes [ ] No I picked this one out, but my question applies to all of those ridiculous questions: Please help me out, why would anyone ever check "yes" on such a question?
Q: Are you a terrorist? A: Yes, of course, why do you ask?
This is ridiculous.
When I ordered my last Dell some years ago, the order form had a question which went along the lines of "Are you going to use this computer for terrorism, in a nuclear power plant, for developing ABC weapons or for building cruise missiles? yes/no", and I really was tempted to check "yes" just to see what happens, considering I'm German and the USA have no jurisdiction here. Then I remembered how the USA have been collecting "terrorists" in Germany already and left the idea alone. But hell, this is SO ridiculous. I'd really love to know whether some of those questions have been answered with "yes" at all, ever, especially the ones that go "are you a terrorist?".
Bonus question: Why do Americans put up with this shit? I once adored the USA for their understanding of freedom and democracy. Nowadays one can only feel sorry. I'd expect people to be in the streets, furiously demonstrating against all this BS, yet I see nothing.
And the worst part is that the EU is imitating all this neo-totalitarism, see Germany's laws concerining online raiding...
I wonder... did said PowerPoint presentation have the obligatory last slide proclaiming "WALLA!" ?
I thought the always ended with the bullet point: "have fun"
Nah, that depends on the type of presentation. When it's about something *everyone else* is supposed to do, it's "have fun". If it's about something the presenter wants praise, or a raise, or a promotion for, it's "WALLA!".
Then again, given that we have to take care of this world as this Jehova guy doesn't show up anymore, you might be correct in assuming "have fun".
Try using Photoshop on a Mac. You can do everything you complain about up there. I threw out Windows almost five years ago at home and we only have Macs at work - can't you on Windows? My father uses his old copy of Photoshop 7 under Windows 2000 Professional and can drag the palettes around just fine, and Fullscreen and Tab work just as expected. Has this changed with the CS suite? (I see it has MDIesque elements in CS2 and CS3 so they might have fucked up the interface in Windows in the meantime...)
However, on a multi-monitor setup, Photoshop itself is constrained to one screen. You can not, for example, have two different images on different screens. Or multiple views of the same image across the different screens. Photoshop itself is limited to a single monitor. You're correct. It's one of my pet peeves, too. Having said feature would allow for easy comparing of colors in different portions of an image (e.g. skin tones of chest and chin at high zoom levels) or among different shots of the same object/model.
This is insane - the app is nearly unusable on a single monitor, but wastes all the available screen space on a multi-monitor system. Dunno. Having all relevant palettes directly available isn't "waste" in my book, but I see how this might be subject to personal preference.
Oh, and stop using the word "professional" in that condescending way. It makes you sound like an elitist moron - only "professional" graphics guys could possibly know anything about GUI design, after all. I'm using "professional" in contrast to "hobbyist". As I'm not a native speaker, would you enlighten me on how to express that otherwise? I might also add that if it vexes you, that's in your mind, not in my words, but this is not the Buddhist discussion board.;)
The whole floating windows and palettes system is fiddly and pointless. Quoth the guy who obviously is working on a single-screen layout. Most professionals use two or three screens, and if I can't place the palettes on the second screen, all that space is unused. Floating palettes are *good*, but I agree it should be an option for those left in the dark ages or working on the road on their Macbooks.
I used to use TV Paint on the Amiga, when you opened up an image it opened pretty much full screen except for a palette on the right. You could hide this with one keypress. To get fullscreen in Photoshop, press F. Hide/show palettes with Tab. I'm sure there are menu entries, but I do most commands via the keyboard.
Professional systems in the past have had this approach, full screen canvass with a palette. Think Quantel Paintbox and the like. And Photoshop, see above. Then again, comparing Photoshop to a Paintbox is like comparing a Lada to a Ferrari.
An artist does not want to have to keep shifting windows around. I agree, and I haven't seen anyone shifting windows around for years, except for the initial setup after getting a new machine with a new version of Photoshop. Then again, I'm only working with professionals who have professional screen setups. Even the road warriors with their notebooks leave their preferred palette positions alone and switch them on/off via Tab.
If you drag a folder called "Documents" into your home directory and click on "OK", the Mac OS will happily delete your entire documents folder. Oh boy. You click "OK" on the dialog that FUCKING ASKS YOU TO CONFIRM THE OVERWRITE and it DOES IT?
The HORROR!
I can already see the headlines: "USER TELLS COMPUTER TO DELETE STUFF AND COMPUTER DELETES STUFF".
This must be among the most stupid things I've ever read on Slashdot. And while we're at it, your statement applies to Windows, Konqueror and Nautilus, too - which file manager does merge the contents? None that *I* know does. No, Windows doesn't, no matter you are claiming in your post.
All of their new apps for OS X are supporting Intel Mac only, as opposed to "Universal binaries" that work with PPC Macs too. Bull. We've just bought a volume license of CS3 Design Premium, and all apps work just fine on the non-Intel Macs. What "new apps" are you talking about? You can't mean Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Flex, Premiere and After Effects, so I'm curious what you're coming up with. Oh, I forgot Lightroom, which also runs nicely on my old Powerbook G4.
So, basically, you tell us that people don't know Vista's great new features, and fail to mention even a single one? No, "running multiple 3D games and applications" doesn't count, because it's a simple necessity created by the stupid idea of having a 2D desktop run via a 3D environment. If they did stuff like Compiz, yeah, that makes sense, but they don't.
While I can say that the Migration Assistant always worked flawlessly for me, I'd recommend that if you have a fucked up OSX installation that even needs rebooting you better not migrate that mess to a new HDD. I'd rather set up a fresh 10.5 and install the needed applications from scratch, then migrate over the user data, and reformat the old HDD to use it for whatever. (BTW, are you sure that it's not a HDD defect fucking up your old system? How old is the HDD? Nowadays, drives fail much quicker than they used to, and often silently.)
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This is *so* evil. What are we still talking about, let's get hacking! ;)
I imagine something that does such a texture map, and adds a big "DO NOT COPY THIS" to the printout. Of course, the goatse image is subtitled "TOLD YOU SO".
...as if a million people cried out, and were suddenly silenced.
SCNR.
On the bright side, that will mean a lot less spam for the time being...
I don't know US law, but I'm pretty sure this is illegal in one way or another.
If I were someone who loses a legitimate domain name I wanted to register to such fraud, I'd go to court and demonstrate how NSI systematically abuses its power of being able to register domains for free in order to force people to register domains through them. I'm sure even if it's not extortion, it's anti-competitive at least...
Hey, that's exactly the combination I've got on my luggage!
I don't know what people are smoking who praise iTunes for being "great". I can only imagine they have lower expectations than I have and/or have never used something better. Personally I find iTunes a complete annoyance and a really shitty media player. It lacks real library management (such as automagically detecting new files, file movement, duplicates with different file names), it doesn't display ID3 tags properly and truncates long titles, it doesn't have advanced search apart from intelligent folders, it cannot sort results by filename and sorting by album also doesn't work properly, it lacks cover management if you're unwilling to make business with CC companies or FraudPal, it has no lyrics support, no wikipedia support for artist info, and generally performs like a pig.
I have several hundred CD's and ripped them all to MP3s over the years, resulting in a 60 GB library which loads instantly in Amarok on a PIII-800, but takes almost 30 seconds to load in iTunes at 100% CPU usage on my G4 1,25 GHz. Handling those in iTunes is virtually impossible, handling them in Amarok is a breeze.
The public opinion on this is a different one, I know, but I for one can't wait to get Amarok on my Mac. iTunes is a cunt, and a smelly one at that. Amarok, OTOH, is one of the best OSS applications I've seen in the last years.
His name is Peter Schaar, not Scharr. One would think the editors would at least *skim* TFA.
Oh, and he's a great guy BTW, responding to email in a timely and thoughtful manner, and investigating the questions he's being asked.
You can gain the good feeling of coding to a standard that was *supposed* to have strict syntax checking and not failing at it.
;)
Oh, and I don't want to be proof for people who go "see how many people still use HTML4? it's good enough!", because it isn't.
Yeah. Not everyone ticks like this, I know. But for those, there's still the billable hours.
Yeah, I know that we're talking about a level of sophistication most people can't afford given the usual deadlines for projects, but if one has decided to output to XHTML, it's an extra mile one has to go. Even better if the *client* has decided (or has been persuaded) to output to XHTML, the extra hours can be billed. Which PHB's like.
Either that, or don't declare your output XHTML. There isn't "a little pregnant", neither. You're standards-compliant or you aren't.
Aren't we being magnificently scientific today?
I'm coding for the web for 10+ years now. It sucked then, it sucks now. First it's been Microsoft's fault, then Netscape's (4.7 anyone?), then Microsoft's again. Maybe next year it will be Mozilla's. I don't care. I just want to be able to code to a standard THAT WORKS and gives me simple tools to accomplish every day's tasks.
Hey, W3C! Usable forms would be DA KILLER! It's not as if weren't asking for them for 10+ years now.
The way I see it: If the programmer can't even be bothered to write code that properly escapes/sanitizes stuff before returning it to the user (or any internal function or db query, FWIW), it's correct for the UA to not display the result. It may as well contain malicious code or whatnot.
I keed, I keed! My wife is great, but she's also got a special kind of humour that has pushed most of my former friends off. They can't take being confronted with their own stupidity. *g*
It's an occupational disease for me, I see the slightest misalignment, so your mom and I would be good friends in this respect.
;)
Then again, I'd rather meet your sister. She has a beautiful smile.
I like the idea, but seriously dude, how can you look at those misaligned frames and not go crazy about that? I'd align them or die trying... (I'd rather trash them all than die, but you get the picture. *g*)
That one's easy. Enter Fast Flux.
Q: Are you a terrorist?
A: Yes, of course, why do you ask?
This is ridiculous.
When I ordered my last Dell some years ago, the order form had a question which went along the lines of "Are you going to use this computer for terrorism, in a nuclear power plant, for developing ABC weapons or for building cruise missiles? yes/no", and I really was tempted to check "yes" just to see what happens, considering I'm German and the USA have no jurisdiction here. Then I remembered how the USA have been collecting "terrorists" in Germany already and left the idea alone. But hell, this is SO ridiculous. I'd really love to know whether some of those questions have been answered with "yes" at all, ever, especially the ones that go "are you a terrorist?".
Bonus question: Why do Americans put up with this shit? I once adored the USA for their understanding of freedom and democracy. Nowadays one can only feel sorry. I'd expect people to be in the streets, furiously demonstrating against all this BS, yet I see nothing.
And the worst part is that the EU is imitating all this neo-totalitarism, see Germany's laws concerining online raiding...
I thought the always ended with the bullet point: "have fun"
Nah, that depends on the type of presentation. When it's about something *everyone else* is supposed to do, it's "have fun". If it's about something the presenter wants praise, or a raise, or a promotion for, it's "WALLA!".Then again, given that we have to take care of this world as this Jehova guy doesn't show up anymore, you might be correct in assuming "have fun".
I wonder... did said PowerPoint presentation have the obligatory last slide proclaiming "WALLA!" ?
The HORROR!
I can already see the headlines: "USER TELLS COMPUTER TO DELETE STUFF AND COMPUTER DELETES STUFF".
This must be among the most stupid things I've ever read on Slashdot. And while we're at it, your statement applies to Windows, Konqueror and Nautilus, too - which file manager does merge the contents? None that *I* know does. No, Windows doesn't, no matter you are claiming in your post.
So, basically, you tell us that people don't know Vista's great new features, and fail to mention even a single one? No, "running multiple 3D games and applications" doesn't count, because it's a simple necessity created by the stupid idea of having a 2D desktop run via a 3D environment. If they did stuff like Compiz, yeah, that makes sense, but they don't.
While I can say that the Migration Assistant always worked flawlessly for me, I'd recommend that if you have a fucked up OSX installation that even needs rebooting you better not migrate that mess to a new HDD. I'd rather set up a fresh 10.5 and install the needed applications from scratch, then migrate over the user data, and reformat the old HDD to use it for whatever. (BTW, are you sure that it's not a HDD defect fucking up your old system? How old is the HDD? Nowadays, drives fail much quicker than they used to, and often silently.)