What an unfortunate point of view. Don't you realize that your party need not win for your vote to matter? Besides, the Libertarians need not win for them to affect elections/policies. Suppose the Libertarians started getting 10% of the popular vote - don't you think the two major parties would begin to listen to what they have to say?
It really depresses me when I hear people say things like this... they have it completely wrong, and are truly the barriers to change.
The best part of Maxim is that my gf enjoys reading it as well and doesn't complain about the half-naked hotties that dot its pages.
So, the best thing about the magazine is that someone else can read it, and then not complain about it. Wow! - are you *sure* you don't work for Maxim?!?
Using Firefox 9.0, I saw the little "update" box popup, so I went to mozilla.org and downloaded/installed Firefox 9.1. Now, when I open 9.1, it still tells me that there is an update available - Firefox 9.1. Someone, please! - save my fragile little mind from this circular install cycle!
Ok, I made up a sample page... basically it hits the server (a.ASP page) with a request (in this case, a fake little "getUserInfo" request) and gets back some XML with information about that user. It then displays that information on the page, without having reloaded the page or used a hidden frame. I commented my javascript code, so if you view source you can see what it is doing.
The cross-browser wrapper to work with these XML components in IE/Firefox is something I put together for a project at work to simplify things - I can't say its 100% perfect or complete yet so use at your own risk.
Well, what I was talking about is independant of any server-side code like ASP of CF. Essentially, you embed an XML component into a web page, so it is sitting on the client machine. Using javascript, you can manipulate this component to, for example, go fetch a page on some server. That page can be a server-side page (like an ASP page) which means, it can hit a database, formulate some result XML, and return it. The XML component on the client now has this XML document loaded, and you can parse it and do with it what you will.
So essentially, a sitting HTML page can dynamically talk to a database and display results without ever refreshing using this method. The real work is being accomplished by the XML component, but that is invisible to the user (unless they are monitoring their HTTP traffic).
Again, I don't know that gmail uses this technique, but it certainly could since it requires javascript anyways.
Also - and I'm not sure that Gmail uses this - but you can hit a database and update a page dynamically via javascript without refreshing the page or using a hidden frame. This is accomplished by embedding an XML component into the page, and using this component, you can talk to a database and handle the results all in javascript. The syntax is different for IE and Firefox (W3C) but it works in both.
I sent it... word of warning, I have heard some people say that Yahoo auto filters gmail invites into a bulk/spam folder, so you might want to look for it there;)
I made a mistake and posted my offer in the wrong google-related article, so Im going to ignore my other post and do it here. I have two gmail invites if anyone is interested - first two to respond with an email address.
I can think of a more irresponsible scientific statement... allow me to paint a picture for you: Me and Other Guy are in a laboratory.
Me: *knocks petri dish off counter*
Other Guy: Did you knock that petri dish of the counter?
Me: No.
I have about 35k miles on my Honda Insight, and I am getting the mileage as advertised. It is rated, if memory serves, to get between 62 and 68 mpg. I am averaging about 63. Granted, because most of my miles are highway miles, you could argue that I should be getting 68, but I cannot exactly complain with 63.
One thing this car has taught me, however, is that I don't think any car will get the mileage as advertised if you do not drive it "correctly." Because the Insight gives me constant feedback about what sort of MPGs I am getting at any given time, I have learned and adopted different driving patterns to maximize MPGs. For example, when coming up to a red light, I tend to coast and slow down gradually, rather than accelerating right up to it, and braking more quickly. Anyone in the passenger seat does not notice the behavior as weird, and at this point I just do it naturally and without thinking. However, when I am in a friend's car with them driving, I do notice that they tend to accelerate right up until the light, and then break fairly quickly. Little behaviors like that affect what sort of MPGs you get, and unless you drive a car that gives you that sort of feedback, many people do not tend to think about such things as having a real effect on their mileage.
I have a friend that just bought a new car, and it is advertised as allegedly getting around 30mpgs... However, as he accelerates quickly on highways, passes other cars frequently, and brakes late at lights - I know he is not getting the mileage he thinks he is... Had he had a display on his dash, like the Insight, that told him his mileage, he might believe me;)
Those of you who follow U.S. media may recall "The Summer of the Shark". There was no peak in shark attacks that year. In fact I think it was a below-average year. It just became the socially-focused topic.
I agree that the "Summer of the Shark" (tm) was laughably silly. I don't, however, feel it says as much about the "ebb and flow" of "social awareness" -- moreso, a text-book example that our media controls and presents thought and perception, rather than simply reporting facts. The Summer of the Shark was a media creation, designed to sell newspapers. Not much about human nature can be derived from this, other than they pretty much do and think as they're told.
The more interesting question (also discussed by C.S. Lewis and many others) is how different religions would react to the discovery of _intelligent_ life somewhere else in the universe. Microbes on Mars... scientifically, that's amazing. From a religious point of view... well, it's "just" another example of a Creator God at work.
I don't understand distinction this at all. People that will only open their eyes when intelligent life is discovered and that would gloss over the detection of simple extraterrestrial lifeforms are, quite frankly, morons, and need not be consulted on this issue.
I agree that watching their reactions would be "interesting" in a sociological context, but not in much else.
Clipping is not a problem specific to the CD format. Clipping comes from the studio monkeys running the sound too hot for their own boards. This is not done by accident... songs that sound "louder" on the radio tend to sell better, so studios compress the hell out of the sound and cram as much of it near peak output as they possibly can. Rush's "Vapor Trails" album is a tragic example. Everything, including the vocals, sounds like it's being played through a 10W amplifier at full volume. (Too bad, because muscially, it's probably their best album in the last decade or so.)
That is really interesting - does anyone have an article or something that perhaps can go into more detail about this? (about the practice of recording music at higher levels compared to X years ago)
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What an unfortunate point of view. Don't you realize that your party need not win for your vote to matter? Besides, the Libertarians need not win for them to affect elections/policies. Suppose the Libertarians started getting 10% of the popular vote - don't you think the two major parties would begin to listen to what they have to say?
It really depresses me when I hear people say things like this... they have it completely wrong, and are truly the barriers to change.
*sigh*
The best part of Maxim is that my gf enjoys reading it as well and doesn't complain about the half-naked hotties that dot its pages.
So, the best thing about the magazine is that someone else can read it, and then not complain about it. Wow! - are you *sure* you don't work for Maxim?!?
Using Firefox 9.0, I saw the little "update" box popup, so I went to mozilla.org and downloaded/installed Firefox 9.1. Now, when I open 9.1, it still tells me that there is an update available - Firefox 9.1. Someone, please! - save my fragile little mind from this circular install cycle!
Oops, there is a space in those links... here are some direct links:
The demo page
dom-xml wrapper
Ok, I made up a sample page... basically it hits the server (a .ASP page) with a request (in this case, a fake little "getUserInfo" request) and gets back some XML with information about that user. It then displays that information on the page, without having reloaded the page or used a hidden frame. I commented my javascript code, so if you view source you can see what it is doing.
t /myPage.html
t /domXML.js
The cross-browser wrapper to work with these XML components in IE/Firefox is something I put together for a project at work to simplify things - I can't say its 100% perfect or complete yet so use at your own risk.
here is the demo page:
http://www.nextradiosolutions.com/shared/slashTes
here is the xml-wrapper for IE/Firefox that the demo page uses:
http://www.nextradiosolutions.com/shared/slashTes
Well, what I was talking about is independant of any server-side code like ASP of CF. Essentially, you embed an XML component into a web page, so it is sitting on the client machine. Using javascript, you can manipulate this component to, for example, go fetch a page on some server. That page can be a server-side page (like an ASP page) which means, it can hit a database, formulate some result XML, and return it. The XML component on the client now has this XML document loaded, and you can parse it and do with it what you will.
So essentially, a sitting HTML page can dynamically talk to a database and display results without ever refreshing using this method. The real work is being accomplished by the XML component, but that is invisible to the user (unless they are monitoring their HTTP traffic).
Again, I don't know that gmail uses this technique, but it certainly could since it requires javascript anyways.
Also - and I'm not sure that Gmail uses this - but you can hit a database and update a page dynamically via javascript without refreshing the page or using a hidden frame. This is accomplished by embedding an XML component into the page, and using this component, you can talk to a database and handle the results all in javascript. The syntax is different for IE and Firefox (W3C) but it works in both.
Considering I don't know who you are, I'm not sure I could tell the difference ;)
Sent. Again, I have heard yahoo auto-filters gmail invites into bulk/spam folder, so check there if necessary.
I sent it... word of warning, I have heard some people say that Yahoo auto filters gmail invites into a bulk/spam folder, so you might want to look for it there ;)
Ignore this - posted in wrong article by accident. Sorry!
I made a mistake and posted my offer in the wrong google-related article, so Im going to ignore my other post and do it here. I have two gmail invites if anyone is interested - first two to respond with an email address.
A bit offtopic, but I have two GMail invites to give away if anyone is interested... first two to respond with an email address.
I can think of a more irresponsible scientific statement... allow me to paint a picture for you: Me and Other Guy are in a laboratory. Me: *knocks petri dish off counter* Other Guy: Did you knock that petri dish of the counter? Me: No.
That was funny, but as another poster pointed out, it looks like it isn't true...
I have about 35k miles on my Honda Insight, and I am getting the mileage as advertised. It is rated, if memory serves, to get between 62 and 68 mpg. I am averaging about 63. Granted, because most of my miles are highway miles, you could argue that I should be getting 68, but I cannot exactly complain with 63.
;)
One thing this car has taught me, however, is that I don't think any car will get the mileage as advertised if you do not drive it "correctly." Because the Insight gives me constant feedback about what sort of MPGs I am getting at any given time, I have learned and adopted different driving patterns to maximize MPGs. For example, when coming up to a red light, I tend to coast and slow down gradually, rather than accelerating right up to it, and braking more quickly. Anyone in the passenger seat does not notice the behavior as weird, and at this point I just do it naturally and without thinking. However, when I am in a friend's car with them driving, I do notice that they tend to accelerate right up until the light, and then break fairly quickly. Little behaviors like that affect what sort of MPGs you get, and unless you drive a car that gives you that sort of feedback, many people do not tend to think about such things as having a real effect on their mileage.
I have a friend that just bought a new car, and it is advertised as allegedly getting around 30mpgs... However, as he accelerates quickly on highways, passes other cars frequently, and brakes late at lights - I know he is not getting the mileage he thinks he is... Had he had a display on his dash, like the Insight, that told him his mileage, he might believe me
Fortunately, he is not Italian, and named himself "Coolio", not "Cuolo".
Grow up, will you? Leave Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Ass Head, alone.
Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they're release the super-trilogy version with more footage.
Man... you've got problems... anything we can do to help?
Those of you who follow U.S. media may recall "The Summer of the Shark". There was no peak in shark attacks that year. In fact I think it was a below-average year. It just became the socially-focused topic.
I agree that the "Summer of the Shark" (tm) was laughably silly. I don't, however, feel it says as much about the "ebb and flow" of "social awareness" -- moreso, a text-book example that our media controls and presents thought and perception, rather than simply reporting facts. The Summer of the Shark was a media creation, designed to sell newspapers. Not much about human nature can be derived from this, other than they pretty much do and think as they're told.
Sorry - should be: I don't understand THIS DISTINCTION at all.... stupid preview/submit buttons...
The more interesting question (also discussed by C.S. Lewis and many others) is how different religions would react to the discovery of _intelligent_ life somewhere else in the universe. Microbes on Mars... scientifically, that's amazing. From a religious point of view... well, it's "just" another example of a Creator God at work.
I don't understand distinction this at all. People that will only open their eyes when intelligent life is discovered and that would gloss over the detection of simple extraterrestrial lifeforms are, quite frankly, morons, and need not be consulted on this issue.
I agree that watching their reactions would be "interesting" in a sociological context, but not in much else.
He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Wow, that is truly not helpful in the slightest.
Clipping is not a problem specific to the CD format. Clipping comes from the studio monkeys running the sound too hot for their own boards. This is not done by accident... songs that sound "louder" on the radio tend to sell better, so studios compress the hell out of the sound and cram as much of it near peak output as they possibly can. Rush's "Vapor Trails" album is a tragic example. Everything, including the vocals, sounds like it's being played through a 10W amplifier at full volume. (Too bad, because muscially, it's probably their best album in the last decade or so.)
That is really interesting - does anyone have an article or something that perhaps can go into more detail about this? (about the practice of recording music at higher levels compared to X years ago)