Re:Great examples as to why they SHOULD NOT use CS
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In all fairness, when it debuted, Internet Explorer for OS 9 was the most standards compliant browser on the web. It still does a pretty decent job. The trouble is that it's a dead browser, and will do an increasingly poor job at rendering the web, as web developers start using more advanced CSS techniques.
There is a difference between using CSS for text styling, kerning, background images, and styling lists, and using it for every facet of layout. While I've created a couple table-less websites that still display quite nicely in NS4 (albeit without styles), this is much harder than applying a few line-height, background, font and color attributes.
You don't need floats or clears for this project. You don't even need to worry about the difference between IE's interpretation of width (width = box width, + padding, margin and border attributes) and the W3C definition (width = box width, and any padding, margin and border attributes are applied separately and in addition). All you need CSS for is to make it so that reading the documentation isn't such a godawful experience. Just choose a subtle background that's easy on the eyes, add some height between each line of text, use a font other than Times New Roman, and you're done (and I'm only half kidding.)
Re:Here is what needs to be done
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Best post ever. Let's check the scoreboard.
"professional" anything. +10 points
Advocates using "Lynx/Links", "Dillo", "Netpositive" and, my favorite, "Geckos" to test websites. +15 points
"CCS'ed" documents. +5 points
"also include the FONT SIZE, bgcolor and Bold or Italics tags." + 50 points. (apparently Slashdot subscribes to this ideology)
"use HTML markup for heavy layout stuff, because most of the browsers above won't be able to handle it." +1,000 points
As of my previewing, being scored at +3 insightful, +1,000,000 points
You're saying that Tom Cruise doing movies like "Rain Man" (complete with the frequently flashed trademark smile) are attempts to "elevate himself" but some of his latter-day movies like, oh, let's see...Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky, Minority Report and The Last Samurai are an attempt at an "Aging Heartthrob?"
Yeah, you've got the Mission Impossible movies in there, and I'm not making any claims about the quality of the movies I just listed, but to say he's stuck in the same kinds of roles is pretty ridiculous. I think Tom Cruise has recently tried a lot of dark, challenging roles about disfigurement, disillusionment and failure. He just may not be talented enough to consistently succeed at them.
Netscape didn't get the nickname "Nutscrape" from users who know what they were talking about, it got the name from people who preferred the glitz and galmour of all the cool, new, RFC breaking features that IE provided.
Bwahaha. Does 'document.layers' mean anything to you? Netscape was a standards nightmare, and tried just as fervently as Internet Explorer to shove its proprietary tags and JavaScript down your throat. IE at version 4 was decent, and IE at version 5 (released in early 1999, I believe) was so much better than Netscape.
Initially, Netscape was great. Indeed, it was pretty much the only useable option for awhile in the mid-90s. But they got complacent, and then they just got terrible. There was a reason the Mozilla folks decided to completely rewrite the core of the browser for Netscape 6. Yes, IE's dominance of the browser market was accelerated by the fact that the browser shipped as the operating system's default, but it was so much better that it's victory was inevitable.
History repeats itself. No sooner than IE is declared the victor in this latest browser war, its development grows stagnant. The trouble this time is that Netscape never had an operating system Monopoly against which to leverage itself.
Au contraire...I think the one button approach works better on a laptop than a two-button touchpad (and better than a one button mouse works on a desktop.)
The reason? When using a desktop, your hand is positioned on the mouse in such a way that right-clicking is quick and simple. However, when using a touchpad, it's far easier to keep your thumb placed permanently over the left touchpad button (or the only touchpad button on an ibook/powerbook) and use your lefthand to press control when you need to get a contextual menu.
Regarding this...I have a mid-level Gateway laptop running Windows 2000...any idea of a utility that will allow me to map control-click to my second mouse button (basically Mac OS in reverse?)
The salary, standard benefits, payroll taxes, office overhead, etc. for a developer -- just the basic cost to have a programmer or computer graphics artist or the like on staff -- is a bare minimum of $200,000 a year. So a creating team of 15, working two years to produce the Mac version of the title is going to cost $9,000,000. Assume, just as a rule of thumb, that everything else the company needs to do for the game, including support, QA, advertising, the works, about doubles its cost.
Dude...really?
Hmm...so I'm checking out Mobygames' s Credits for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. It was, obviously, a huge production, and - unlike so many other games - was released simultaneously for the Mac and for Windows. I scrolled through the listing, expecting a large section to appear with the 15 or so individuals involved in creating the specific Mac code/content.
I was shocked!
There was one person credited with doing Macintosh programming, and three credited with additional Macintosh programming. And you know what else?! Two of those four total programmers were also listed in the generic Programming category.
So we've gone from 15 full time developers, costing upwards of 9 million dollars (WTF?!), to two Mac-only programmers.
Two. For a game with great production values, and a simultaneous cross-platform release. HIBT?
First off...Prescott is not 65nm. Prescott is 90nm. It's Intel's first 90nm chip, beaten to market (although only barely) by the G5 that's inside Apple's newly updated Xserve.
Now, as far as Prescott consuming more than it's predecessor, and the 90nm G5 consuming less...it's true. From The Register...
While Intel continues to have problems with the power consumed by its 90nm 'Prescott' processor - 100W at around 3.2GHz - IBM's own documentation claims the 90nm 970 eats 24.5W at 2GHz. By comparison, the 130nm 970, currently used by Apple in its Power Mac G5 desktop line, consumes 51W at 1.8GHz.
You'd expect the smaller process to yield a power reduction at close clock speeds, but the issue of current leakage at the smaller transistor size can counter that assumption. Certainly that's what Intel has been forced to accept - Prescott consumes more power clock-for-clock than its 130nm predecessor, 'Northwood'.
While you can use Perl to write CGI, Perl doesn't really have anything to do with CGI coding. You talk alot about CGI, not Perl, I don't see your point? CGI is totally irrelevant to mobile phones...?
Yes, it is totally irrelevant. This makes the statement referencing CGI in the body of the Slashdot article (to which the grandparent was obviously replying) all the more mistifying.
When icons are dragged off the dock, instead of going *poof* they should be moved to the desktop, unless they are dragged into the trash (and of course, the trash can't be removed)
A bunch of people, myself included, griped about the fact that you can't drag-and-drop app icons from the Dock as though they were aliases to the apps themselves. The only thing you can do with them is poof them off the Dock.
But it ends up you can drag-and-drop app icons from the Dock if you hold down the Command key while dragging. You even get a solid (instead of translucent) icon during the drag. And so this works perfectly for dragging app icons from the Dock onto your favorite AppleScript editor's icon to open its scripting dictionary. (Or try dragging an app onto BBEdit, if you want to peak inside the ".app" package using a BBEdit disk browser.)
So you can treat dock documents and apps like aliases, instead of the weird hybrid app/alias/pointer things that they seem to have become.
Actually, I would disagree (although you are correct that rumor sites haven't really been speculating too much). The reason I would disagree is that Jobs is actually giving the Keynote speech this year. At this past Macworld (the name of which was changed to something else, I believe) he didn't.
It is true that Apple wanted to break the linkage between product announcements and Macworlds, if only for more flexibility. But if Jobs is giving the keynote, I would imagine that at least something marginally interesting is going to come out.
Since the program was available solely for OS 9 at that point, and has gone on to become quite successful on OS X and Windows, your "local band" analogy is actually quite apropos.
Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Logic Audio Platinum, Digidesign Protools, Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Apple Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Shake, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Propellerheads Reason, TC Spark, Ableton Live, Corel Painter, Avid Xpress, Symphony, Media Composer...
...to name a few.
These are programs which people use every day to get work done. They are available on Mac OS X. They are not available on Linux.
Apple used to hold an important niche in the DTP market. Maybe they still do. At least, it's a more important market then commercial desktop unices...
Agreed. Being on top in commercial desktop publishing, graphic design, professional video and audio is much more important than being on top in commercial desktop unices.
I think that those billions of American taxpayer dollars that Bush pledged for aid and AIDS relief in Africa would be better spent on this program, don't you?
I don't think persistent connections would help here, since every different user would require their own connection to the database. The connection for that particular user's session would remain open and useful for subsequent pages, but this would actually be counterintuitive for combatting a slashdotting, since most visits will hit one page and exit.
At least, this is the case with PHP (which I assume they're using, since I believe 'TEP STOP' refers to "The Exchange Project", which is a PHP e-commerce/content management system thing. This is purely a guess.)
Instead, what they should have used was a simple, drop-in, automated content cache.
I seem to recall a scene in Phantasmagoria where the main bad guy kills a woman in a greenhouse by knocking her to the ground, taking out a trowel, and using it to shovel dirt into her mouth. This goes on for quite some time.
Slashdot Mirror
In all fairness, when it debuted, Internet Explorer for OS 9 was the most standards compliant browser on the web. It still does a pretty decent job. The trouble is that it's a dead browser, and will do an increasingly poor job at rendering the web, as web developers start using more advanced CSS techniques.
There is a difference between using CSS for text styling, kerning, background images, and styling lists, and using it for every facet of layout. While I've created a couple table-less websites that still display quite nicely in NS4 (albeit without styles), this is much harder than applying a few line-height, background, font and color attributes.
You don't need floats or clears for this project. You don't even need to worry about the difference between IE's interpretation of width (width = box width, + padding, margin and border attributes) and the W3C definition (width = box width, and any padding, margin and border attributes are applied separately and in addition). All you need CSS for is to make it so that reading the documentation isn't such a godawful experience. Just choose a subtle background that's easy on the eyes, add some height between each line of text, use a font other than Times New Roman, and you're done (and I'm only half kidding.)
- "professional" anything. +10 points
- Advocates using "Lynx/Links", "Dillo", "Netpositive" and, my favorite, "Geckos" to test websites. +15 points
- "CCS'ed" documents. +5 points
- "also include the FONT SIZE, bgcolor and Bold or Italics tags." + 50 points. (apparently Slashdot subscribes to this ideology)
- "use HTML markup for heavy layout stuff, because most of the browsers above won't be able to handle it." +1,000 points
- As of my previewing, being scored at +3 insightful, +1,000,000 points
I am very impressed.Any Conservative or Libertarian will tell you that liberals have owned the American media since the sixties.
Whether or not this is actually true is another matter entirely....
With the Dell Axim, their Ipod clone
Aah, Dell...where an iPod clone counts as R&D...
So, let me get this straight.
You're saying that Tom Cruise doing movies like "Rain Man" (complete with the frequently flashed trademark smile) are attempts to "elevate himself" but some of his latter-day movies like, oh, let's see...Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky, Minority Report and The Last Samurai are an attempt at an "Aging Heartthrob?"
Yeah, you've got the Mission Impossible movies in there, and I'm not making any claims about the quality of the movies I just listed, but to say he's stuck in the same kinds of roles is pretty ridiculous. I think Tom Cruise has recently tried a lot of dark, challenging roles about disfigurement, disillusionment and failure. He just may not be talented enough to consistently succeed at them.
Netscape didn't get the nickname "Nutscrape" from users who know what they were talking about, it got the name from people who preferred the glitz and galmour of all the cool, new, RFC breaking features that IE provided.
Bwahaha. Does 'document.layers' mean anything to you? Netscape was a standards nightmare, and tried just as fervently as Internet Explorer to shove its proprietary tags and JavaScript down your throat. IE at version 4 was decent, and IE at version 5 (released in early 1999, I believe) was so much better than Netscape.
Initially, Netscape was great. Indeed, it was pretty much the only useable option for awhile in the mid-90s. But they got complacent, and then they just got terrible. There was a reason the Mozilla folks decided to completely rewrite the core of the browser for Netscape 6. Yes, IE's dominance of the browser market was accelerated by the fact that the browser shipped as the operating system's default, but it was so much better that it's victory was inevitable.
History repeats itself. No sooner than IE is declared the victor in this latest browser war, its development grows stagnant. The trouble this time is that Netscape never had an operating system Monopoly against which to leverage itself.
Au contraire...I think the one button approach works better on a laptop than a two-button touchpad (and better than a one button mouse works on a desktop.)
The reason? When using a desktop, your hand is positioned on the mouse in such a way that right-clicking is quick and simple. However, when using a touchpad, it's far easier to keep your thumb placed permanently over the left touchpad button (or the only touchpad button on an ibook/powerbook) and use your lefthand to press control when you need to get a contextual menu.
Regarding this...I have a mid-level Gateway laptop running Windows 2000...any idea of a utility that will allow me to map control-click to my second mouse button (basically Mac OS in reverse?)
The PC world had that back in the 80's too... so what.
I thought that the first Windows to offer dual monitor support was Windows 98?
Hmm...so I'm checking out Mobygames' s Credits for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. It was, obviously, a huge production, and - unlike so many other games - was released simultaneously for the Mac and for Windows. I scrolled through the listing, expecting a large section to appear with the 15 or so individuals involved in creating the specific Mac code/content.
I was shocked!
There was one person credited with doing Macintosh programming, and three credited with additional Macintosh programming. And you know what else?! Two of those four total programmers were also listed in the generic Programming category.
So we've gone from 15 full time developers, costing upwards of 9 million dollars (WTF?!), to two Mac-only programmers.
Two. For a game with great production values, and a simultaneous cross-platform release. HIBT?
First off...Prescott is not 65nm. Prescott is 90nm. It's Intel's first 90nm chip, beaten to market (although only barely) by the G5 that's inside Apple's newly updated Xserve.
Now, as far as Prescott consuming more than it's predecessor, and the 90nm G5 consuming less...it's true. From The Register...
Careful. He might shoot you.
While you can use Perl to write CGI, Perl doesn't really have anything to do with CGI coding. You talk alot about CGI, not Perl, I don't see your point? CGI is totally irrelevant to mobile phones...?
Yes, it is totally irrelevant. This makes the statement referencing CGI in the body of the Slashdot article (to which the grandparent was obviously replying) all the more mistifying.
Why don't you try El Gato's EyeHome? It's small, and the interface looks pretty slick.
- Buy lots of music at the store (slight profit, mostly inconsequential)
- Need a larger device to carry it all
- Realize they have protected AAC files for all of these, and can't play them on anything but an iPod
- Buy a the 40-gig model
Granted, they could burn them to CDs...but as an owner of a failing portable CD player, I can certainly see why they wouldn't want to do that.Actually, I would disagree (although you are correct that rumor sites haven't really been speculating too much). The reason I would disagree is that Jobs is actually giving the Keynote speech this year. At this past Macworld (the name of which was changed to something else, I believe) he didn't.
It is true that Apple wanted to break the linkage between product announcements and Macworlds, if only for more flexibility. But if Jobs is giving the keynote, I would imagine that at least something marginally interesting is going to come out.
[cringe] God, I'm such a fanboy. [/cringe]
January 9th, 2001 (And SoundJam before that)
Since the program was available solely for OS 9 at that point, and has gone on to become quite successful on OS X and Windows, your "local band" analogy is actually quite apropos.
I seriously doubt that. Ever heard of linux?
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...to name a few.
Ever heard of...(ahem)...
Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Logic Audio Platinum, Digidesign Protools, Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Apple Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Shake, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Propellerheads Reason, TC Spark, Ableton Live, Corel Painter, Avid Xpress, Symphony, Media Composer
These are programs which people use every day to get work done. They are available on Mac OS X. They are not available on Linux.
Apple used to hold an important niche in the DTP market. Maybe they still do. At least, it's a more important market then commercial desktop unices...
Agreed. Being on top in commercial desktop publishing, graphic design, professional video and audio is much more important than being on top in commercial desktop unices.
Offtopic, I know, but...
I don't think persistent connections would help here, since every different user would require their own connection to the database. The connection for that particular user's session would remain open and useful for subsequent pages, but this would actually be counterintuitive for combatting a slashdotting, since most visits will hit one page and exit.
At least, this is the case with PHP (which I assume they're using, since I believe 'TEP STOP' refers to "The Exchange Project", which is a PHP e-commerce/content management system thing. This is purely a guess.)
Instead, what they should have used was a simple, drop-in, automated content cache.
Wonder where they got that idea...?
(Albeit on a somewhat larger scale...)
And, of course, Halo and KOTOR are no longer exclusive to the Xbox. So that means the $179 paperweight near your TV is good for what, exactly?
For playing Project Gotham Racing 2, Top Spin, Sudeki, BC, Halo 2, Jade Empire and Fable? (Off the top of my head).
Is Manhunt really worse than that? Damn.