It's still interesting that 92% feel confident in their searching ability, when 82% can't tell the difference between an ad and a search result.
Conclusion? 8% of web searchers suck and know it, 18% don't suck at web searching, and a whopping 74% think they're good at web searching but actually suck.
That's because CSS3 is not a specification, it's a work in progress. If the drafts were to change tomorrow, and browsers supported the properties in a non-standard way, it would be more problematic than not supporting the properties at all - IE is proof enough of this. Browsers do support some parts of CSS3 - either by prefixing the properties with their vendor code (e.g. -moz-opacity) or by supporting properties of modules that are considered complete and unlikely to change.
I think the idea of lumping write permission with delete permission is that, if you can write to the file, you can write an empty file, which is the same as deleting the file. So there's no point in separating the two.
I've posted the same thing before on Slashdot, and I'm glad you agree: animation is a medium, not a genre, in the same way black and white or color are media. You can't compare two entirely different things on the ground they're animated, unless what you are comparing is the quality of the animation.
The prequel isn't directed by Miike, at least according to IMDB, nor is the animated movie. Both prequels are watchable, as long as you're a fan, but are nowhere near Miike's film. 1-Ichi in particular is quite terrible - the bullies are cool, and it does add some depth to the character, but it's still a badly filmed straight to video piece of fluff.
Except peasants will usually get rid of the girl, because peasants can't afford to pay the tax for having a second children, and they don't want a girl as their only child since a girl won't be able to provide for them, and will even require a dowry when she gets married. There's approximately 20% more men than women of a marriageable age in mainland China currently - it's so problematic that the Chinese government has recently announced they would change the system, so that people will get some rewards for raising a girl, and penalties for having a second child will be reduced or removed if the first child is of the female persuasion.
Isn't that a known law of business? As a company grows bigger and older, it becomes less and less efficient, especially at the managerial level. Why? Because incompetent managers, fearing for their job, make sure only people who are less competent than themselves get hired. Let's not forget to overpay those suckers to squelch their ambition, further improving job security.
Actually, I've seen at least one DVD that warned it was only meant for viewing with "close family members" or somesuch. I lended it to everyone I could think of, of course.
Nobody claimed he was good at it. The page doesn't validate at all - heck, he put his STYLE element outside the HEAD! Plenty of incorrect nesting of elements, and he never encloses his URLs in quotes on hrefs...it sucks, but it's still a lot better than the HTML on Slashdot.
Rob mentionned in his journal not too long ago that he had redesigned his page using HTML+CSS and that he would like to someday do the same for Slashdot.
Gmail works (mostly) by using Javascript; XHTTPREQUEST or something similar, a non-standard extension that allows to open HTTP connections using Javascript, which allows GMail to modify the page you are currently on without going to a new location or creating a page refresh - the new changes are all done through Javascript. That extension is supported in Mozilla, which is why you can use it to access GMail. GMail also uses some ActiveX in Internet Explorer, IIRC, but it does not require it to function properly (in fact, I don't think ActiveX adds any functionality in this particular case - I believe they use it as part of their authentification scheme, though I might be wrong.
All the top-rated entries have very strong accessibility scores, even though many (including the winning entry) make important mistakes. For instance, turn off image loading in a CSS2 capable browser and look at 8 or so of the top 10 entries, it's glaringly obvious: all the titles are missing. What they're doing is replacing header text with a CSS background image, meaning a CSS enabled browser gets an image and a text browser gets text. This is "accessible" on the assumption that CSS browsers always load images - that's not something you can rely on.
Many of the entries also make useability mistakes Nielsen warns against - sometimes things that appear in one of the many "top ten mistakes" lists. Granted, I think useit.com is far from perfect itself, and Nielsen doesn't *always* follow his own advice, but for the most part he does, and usually much better than any of the entries did. I had actually compounded a long review of the 10 best entries, pointing in each one every accessibility or useability mistake I came across, but I can't seem to find that right now:(.
Okay, I work customer service for Bell Mobility (largest cellphone service provider in Canada), and while I'm aware that my experience working there probably doesn't apply to other companies, and there are most certainly many providers that have a very bad customer service, there are a couple of points I'd like to make which probably apply to many places:
With sales rep, your chance of getting correct info is lessened because a) they are not trained with anything about the actual cellular service: they know how to sell, and they know the hardware. That's what their job entails. b) they have no way of verifying their information, except through ways which are available to you as well: call customer service, or look on the provider's website and hope the information can be found easily. Most of the time, they'll either tell you to call customer service, or if they are nice (or very persistent) they will call them for you.
Cellphone owners are most often victims of marketing, stuck with a piece of technology they don't understand and don't need, and to top it off, they didn't read the fucking papers they were signing when they were given their "free phone" (small print: with accompanying bajillion years contract). They appear to think "woo! free phone" as though that was absolutly normal. Then after a month, they break the damn thing or drop it in a bucket of water and then they want another one. For free. Then they get mad when they get told they have to buy one at their own expense since you can only get a free phone once per year (with contract renewal, of course, but shit, that's still a free phone) and the manufacturer's warranty doesn't cover that kind of damage, and if they want to get out of their contract, they'll have to pay the contract cancellation fee. You going to blame this on incompetent customer service? I blame it on marketing and people who should know better. If you buy a car and drive it into a wall on your way out of the dealership, you don't expect them to give you another, do you?
Here's another example of a nice kind of call - again, the kind of caller who threatens to call the CRTC. Customer gets called by the marketing department, "hey man, would you like to try out call display, I'll give it to you for two months free if you want to try it!", so the customer accepts (hey! it's free!), gets told that the feature is normally 4$ and that unless he calls in to have the option removed before the end of the promotion, he'll start getting charged automatically for the feature once the promotion ends. Then next month his invoice has a message telling him that the promotion ends next month. Then 3-4 months later he calls in, and he's irate because he's looked at his bills for the first time in half a year and notices that he's paying 4$ for his call display, and he is irate cuz he never asked for that and he didn't want it and I'm a motherfucking asshole and he'll complain to whomever and he'll get his lawyer and whatever. Well shit buddy, maybe if you'd been only slightly attentive it wouldn't have happened. Most customers in a similar situation would call once they get the first invoice on which they started paying for their call display because, yes, they kinda forgot, and they'll get those 10-15 days they were late credited anyway.
Frankly, in my experience, when you call in with an actual problem, it'll get fixed within at most 24 hours. Most of the time, especially if the error is actually user error, it'll get fixed before the call ends. The kind of customer who files a complaint is the kind of customer I've described. They'd make the same kind of complaints no matter how good service is because they have unreasonable expectations. My personal theory is that cellphones attract more idiots because only an idiot buys something he doesn't need because it's cool and his TV told him so.
Hey, while I was writing, I called Telus (a competing cellphone company) customer service on behalf of a friend. Can't say anything negative about the experience - it was exactly what I expect of customer service.
Then again, I didn't RTFA - probably the study doesn't apply to Canada anyway
Only part of them. CSS3: Presentation levels. Notice that the people working on this draft are Opera employees. It's some pretty slick stuff, yet its so simple...
Starship Troopers also manages to cram a lot of information about the world it is set in in a very few scenes. You can infer a lot of stuff from seemingly innocuous scenes, such as the newsflashes or the shower scene.
Oh, and let's not forget the Basil Poledouris soundtrack:)
If I buy their license, print out the Linux source code and use the resulting and very heavy pile of paper to beat them repeatedly, where does that put me legally?
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I believe both book and screenplay were written in parallel, and IMDB seem to confirm that.
The screenplay was written primarily by Kubrick and the novel primarily by Clarke, each working simultaneously and also providing feedback to the other. As the story went through many revisions, changes in the novel were taken over into the screenplay and vice versa. It was also unclear whether film or novel would be released first; in the end it was the film. Kubrick was to have been credited as second author of the novel, but in the end was not. It is believed that Kubrick deliberately withheld his approval of the novel as to not hurt the release of the film
GSM is more expensive to setup for a given territory than CDMA, which explains why it wasn't widely adopted in the US and Canada, where there's a lot more area to cover. Companies that offer GSM around here (Quebec & Ontario) usually offer digital service in heavily populated areas as well as major highways, and offer analog only service everywhere else.
They're all selling at a loss anyway. The higher end phones are usually much less subsidized than the lower end ones, but cellular carriers (or at the very least Bell Mobility) sell cellphones at a loss. Since what they are making their money on is the service they provide and not the cellphones themselves, they subsidize the phones people are most likely to buy to make those more attractive, to beat the competition. No point in making a 700$ phone abordable when you can make as much money selling the service on a 338$ phone subsidized to 174$... (which is then lowered to 49$ after a 125$ rebate on a 2 year contract)
MSN has "Appear Offline" and ICQ has "Invisible". I don't know about AIM, but I bet it can as well. Have you actually ever *used* another protocol than Yahoo?
The option to register global variables is off by default since PHP 4 and for a very good reason: it's potentially insecure, as you demonstrated, and it also creates very sloppy code. Ever tried to debug a program you haven't written that uses those? You get variables that have never been declared being used, and it can be a pain to determine where exactly they come from. From an included file? $_POST? $_GET? Then you can get conflicta and it becomes an horrible mess - I can't understand why register_globals is an option, much less why it was the *default*
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It's still interesting that 92% feel confident in their searching ability, when 82% can't tell the difference between an ad and a search result.
Conclusion? 8% of web searchers suck and know it, 18% don't suck at web searching, and a whopping 74% think they're good at web searching but actually suck.
That's because CSS3 is not a specification, it's a work in progress. If the drafts were to change tomorrow, and browsers supported the properties in a non-standard way, it would be more problematic than not supporting the properties at all - IE is proof enough of this. Browsers do support some parts of CSS3 - either by prefixing the properties with their vendor code (e.g. -moz-opacity) or by supporting properties of modules that are considered complete and unlikely to change.
I think the idea of lumping write permission with delete permission is that, if you can write to the file, you can write an empty file, which is the same as deleting the file. So there's no point in separating the two.
I've posted the same thing before on Slashdot, and I'm glad you agree: animation is a medium, not a genre, in the same way black and white or color are media. You can't compare two entirely different things on the ground they're animated, unless what you are comparing is the quality of the animation.
The prequel isn't directed by Miike, at least according to IMDB, nor is the animated movie. Both prequels are watchable, as long as you're a fan, but are nowhere near Miike's film. 1-Ichi in particular is quite terrible - the bullies are cool, and it does add some depth to the character, but it's still a badly filmed straight to video piece of fluff.
Except peasants will usually get rid of the girl, because peasants can't afford to pay the tax for having a second children, and they don't want a girl as their only child since a girl won't be able to provide for them, and will even require a dowry when she gets married. There's approximately 20% more men than women of a marriageable age in mainland China currently - it's so problematic that the Chinese government has recently announced they would change the system, so that people will get some rewards for raising a girl, and penalties for having a second child will be reduced or removed if the first child is of the female persuasion.
Isn't that a known law of business? As a company grows bigger and older, it becomes less and less efficient, especially at the managerial level. Why? Because incompetent managers, fearing for their job, make sure only people who are less competent than themselves get hired. Let's not forget to overpay those suckers to squelch their ambition, further improving job security.
Actually, I've seen at least one DVD that warned it was only meant for viewing with "close family members" or somesuch. I lended it to everyone I could think of, of course.
Nobody claimed he was good at it. The page doesn't validate at all - heck, he put his STYLE element outside the HEAD! Plenty of incorrect nesting of elements, and he never encloses his URLs in quotes on hrefs...it sucks, but it's still a lot better than the HTML on Slashdot.
Rob mentionned in his journal not too long ago that he had redesigned his page using HTML+CSS and that he would like to someday do the same for Slashdot.
Gmail works (mostly) by using Javascript; XHTTPREQUEST or something similar, a non-standard extension that allows to open HTTP connections using Javascript, which allows GMail to modify the page you are currently on without going to a new location or creating a page refresh - the new changes are all done through Javascript. That extension is supported in Mozilla, which is why you can use it to access GMail. GMail also uses some ActiveX in Internet Explorer, IIRC, but it does not require it to function properly (in fact, I don't think ActiveX adds any functionality in this particular case - I believe they use it as part of their authentification scheme, though I might be wrong.
All the top-rated entries have very strong accessibility scores, even though many (including the winning entry) make important mistakes. For instance, turn off image loading in a CSS2 capable browser and look at 8 or so of the top 10 entries, it's glaringly obvious: all the titles are missing. What they're doing is replacing header text with a CSS background image, meaning a CSS enabled browser gets an image and a text browser gets text. This is "accessible" on the assumption that CSS browsers always load images - that's not something you can rely on.
Many of the entries also make useability mistakes Nielsen warns against - sometimes things that appear in one of the many "top ten mistakes" lists. Granted, I think useit.com is far from perfect itself, and Nielsen doesn't *always* follow his own advice, but for the most part he does, and usually much better than any of the entries did. I had actually compounded a long review of the 10 best entries, pointing in each one every accessibility or useability mistake I came across, but I can't seem to find that right now :(.
Yes, mouse gestures are a Firefox innovation... except Opera has had mouse gestures since 2002. That's real good innovation there!
Animesuki is a great place to find new releases.
Okay, I work customer service for Bell Mobility (largest cellphone service provider in Canada), and while I'm aware that my experience working there probably doesn't apply to other companies, and there are most certainly many providers that have a very bad customer service, there are a couple of points I'd like to make which probably apply to many places:
Frankly, in my experience, when you call in with an actual problem, it'll get fixed within at most 24 hours. Most of the time, especially if the error is actually user error, it'll get fixed before the call ends. The kind of customer who files a complaint is the kind of customer I've described. They'd make the same kind of complaints no matter how good service is because they have unreasonable expectations. My personal theory is that cellphones attract more idiots because only an idiot buys something he doesn't need because it's cool and his TV told him so.
Hey, while I was writing, I called Telus (a competing cellphone company) customer service on behalf of a friend. Can't say anything negative about the experience - it was exactly what I expect of customer service.
Then again, I didn't RTFA - probably the study doesn't apply to Canada anyway
Only part of them. CSS3: Presentation levels. Notice that the people working on this draft are Opera employees. It's some pretty slick stuff, yet its so simple ...
Starship Troopers also manages to cram a lot of information about the world it is set in in a very few scenes. You can infer a lot of stuff from seemingly innocuous scenes, such as the newsflashes or the shower scene.
Oh, and let's not forget the Basil Poledouris soundtrack :)
If I buy their license, print out the Linux source code and use the resulting and very heavy pile of paper to beat them repeatedly, where does that put me legally?
GSM is more expensive to setup for a given territory than CDMA, which explains why it wasn't widely adopted in the US and Canada, where there's a lot more area to cover. Companies that offer GSM around here (Quebec & Ontario) usually offer digital service in heavily populated areas as well as major highways, and offer analog only service everywhere else.
They're all selling at a loss anyway. The higher end phones are usually much less subsidized than the lower end ones, but cellular carriers (or at the very least Bell Mobility) sell cellphones at a loss. Since what they are making their money on is the service they provide and not the cellphones themselves, they subsidize the phones people are most likely to buy to make those more attractive, to beat the competition. No point in making a 700$ phone abordable when you can make as much money selling the service on a 338$ phone subsidized to 174$... (which is then lowered to 49$ after a 125$ rebate on a 2 year contract)
MSN has "Appear Offline" and ICQ has "Invisible". I don't know about AIM, but I bet it can as well. Have you actually ever *used* another protocol than Yahoo?
Yes, because we all know Jude from Slashdot.
The option to register global variables is off by default since PHP 4 and for a very good reason: it's potentially insecure, as you demonstrated, and it also creates very sloppy code. Ever tried to debug a program you haven't written that uses those? You get variables that have never been declared being used, and it can be a pain to determine where exactly they come from. From an included file? $_POST? $_GET? Then you can get conflicta and it becomes an horrible mess - I can't understand why register_globals is an option, much less why it was the *default*
You'll probably get birds to land on the damn thing and either cook themselves or get cancer or something.
Back in the day, we called that 'natural selection'.