Web developers (and programmers in general) don't care about optimizing anymore, they just want it to be done so they can get paid. Worrying about such trivial things as a few kbytes or making valid and accessible HTML is asking too much of them.
From a web-designer standpoint, a lot of size can be reduced without altering the content.
Are you serving up nicely formatted HTML with indentations? That's wasteful. Strip whitespace and carriage returns.
Are you using HTML comments? Why? Does the customer really need to see them? Do you need to waste that bandwidth? Delete them or use comments in your server-side scripting language of choice.
Are you using GIF's where PNG's would be smaller? Or PNG's where GIF's would be smaller?
Have you optmized your PNGs, JPEGs and GIFs? (I don't remember a GIF optimizer, but there are plenty of non-destructive ones).
A 50x50 JPEG preview of an item does not need embedded comments, thumbnails, or EXIF data.
If you must use animated GIF's, be sure they are optimized and not full-frame!
Are you using pictures of words, when actual stylized text could convey the same message?
Are you using inline JavaScript or CSS, rather than calling it from a cacheable external file?
Are you using PDF, Flash or Java when it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary?
From a user's standpoint, the best solution, short of getting more bandwith: use less bandwidth. Turn off image loading or use a text-based browser. Don't browse the web as much. If you have a choice of sites to use, use the one that is smallest. Use a proxy. blah blah.
It changes from one browser to the next. I believe in Opera you need to press Shift-ESC then the access key. Others may use ALT or some kind of platform-specific modifier key.
A program theoretically shouldn't interfere with the system commands, but...
In a world where we assume ALT is the access key modifier, and Alt-F is one of the shortcuts, does that deny them the ability to press Alt-F to access the File menu? I don't think there is any consistent behavior at all.
Check out this page. It has a table of known conflicts or potential problems.
I tried using on a company intranet site, simply for my own amusement, and gave up. While I thought it was nice to press Alt-N to view the news page, nobody else knew how to use it or cared to learn. Most of them never take their hand off the mouse anyway (if they are physically able to choose).
Three things to do if you want to look like a real St. Louis driver:
1. When merging into a highway or other fast moving traffic, you must slow down to a speed of at least 20mph slower than the traffic you are merging into. This is especially important to do if there is a lot of dense traffic on the highway and a group of cars stuck behind you.
2. You must never use your blinker. Ever.
3. Stop signs with white borders are optional, right?
When it doesn't have to do with sex or nakedness, it's usually the opposite. Showing illegal things is not illegal, just doing them is (since, I would guess, being on film or not does not change the fact that an act really occurred or not). Stealing is illegal, showing looters in the act on TV is not. Kidnapping is illegal, showing a kidnap victim (say, a 13 year old girl being snatched on security camera) over and over on TV is not. Murder is illegal, showing a dead murdered body (or mass graves full of dead murdered bodies) on film is not. But, as has been pointed out, don't show a naked dead body! Even corpses are sexual objects according to the FCC. Are all autopsies performed with a sheet draped over the pubic areas of the deceased?
But when it involves sex it's all backwards. Producing, selling or even posessing straight adult penis-vagina man-doing-a-woman-in-missionary-position pornography is illegal in many (most?) parts of the US. Oral and anal sex are illegal in many US states. Same with gay sex. Does that mean any porn with straight oral or anal or any form of homosexual activity in it is illegal? I guess, but who knows. There seem to be different rules for each case.
Showing naked Africans who live without clothes is OK, because they are not really human anyway, they are savages, more like wild animals. Showing white American nudists who chose to live without clothing on TV would get blurred out for sure, though.
If they are really concerned about people shitting all over each other, they should realize how they are constantly shitting all over the American people and their freedoms.
In Firefox, the linked website is wider than the screen. Did anyone try it with IE?
No, but the site looks like it's a table-based layout and it contains a very long piece of text, which I assume would not wordwrap since it contains no spaces. If your font size/screen resolution combo isn't sufficient, you'll need to scroll.
The funny thing is, MS has a free "Remove hidden data" plug-in for Word/Excel etc that will clean up the documents, which are still usable with this "hidden data" stripped out. Why don't they just omit it in the first place?
Just like fingerprinting. When you eventually get arrested for something, they will get the digital signature of your printer, and match it against all the unidentified printed materials in their collection. If any of them match, you're busted.
Actually there was a serial killer here locally (who received no press, because he only kidnapped, tortured and killed black women, but thats a different topic). Anyway he was finally caught because he mailed the local newspaper a map of where one of the bodies was buried. The police could tell by the map that it was printed from Microsoft's map site (whatever it's called) and MS kept logs of everything, and were able to narrow it down to that exact map and get his IP address, which lead to his ISP and eventually his arrest (he killed himself in jail the next day).
So, sometimes they DO want to know who printed that map to Boston!
Is it just me, or are you just getting less screen for your money when you buy widescreen? Why would you want the top couple inches of your display area chopped off?
If you want a portable DVD player, you can buy one for a lot less than that!
Except a Formula 1 racecar costs $15 million dollars and takes a world class team of engineers and mechanics to figure it out when something goes wrong.
Let's see your wife go take an F1 car for a spin and then fix the gearbox when it breaks:)
When I was in high school (12 years ago) we started with LOGO and progressed onto Turbo Pascal. The teacher never turned off the caps lock key. The screen was a giant unreadable block of yellow text. eeck.
'Jeesus, Ben, stop sending me that gd Bonzai Buddy trash! I don't care if it's cute, that little bastard screwed up my internet settings! I lost a weeks worth of work!'
Sega Genesis/Megadrive could also play Sega Master System games and Sega Mark III games (predecessor to the Master System). You had to buy an adapter but the processing for it was all built-in to the Genesis already (they used the same CPU for the Genesis sound processor that the original SMS was based on), the adapter just remapped the pinouts for the catridge slots.
There is no rationale given. It is a non-issue. Nobody talks about it and, in general, nobody cares.
With that said, the US does use metric, just not exclusively. All food & medicine is metric (and usually has the old crappy measurements, too). In school, we learned both systems. In science classes we used only metric, in "shop" class (carpentry, architecture and so on) we never used metric. In phys-ed we would run a 100 meter race, then follow it by a 1 mile run. We got to learn fun things like fractions and use measurements like 1/8" and 3/16" rather than silly things like cm.
If you ask almost anyone how far it is from X to Y, how much they weigh, or what the temperature is, they will not respond to you in metric. I think that is the biggest reason why no officials have touched the subject--in all likelihood, they don't know metric either.
Funny you bring up Lagos. I'm on my way there next week to collect my share of a $50 MILLION USD by pretending to be from the family of the ousted ruler. A very friendly and religious Nigerian gentleman hand picked me as the best candidate for the role. As soon as they receive my passport copy & banking information I sent, they'll give me the OK to proceed. I'm on my way to living the good life!
XP isn't "safe" and the pre-XP MS OS's are not "vulnerable". MDAC 2.7 which ships with XP is safe, older versions (which shipped with older MS OS's) are not. You have been able to download and install MDAC 2.7 onto the older MS OS of your choice for quite some time already now (a year+?). The patch is for people who, for whatever reason, cannot use (or are not using) the current version of MDAC.
I thought "fuzzy logic" was an AI term dealing with presence of uncertainty in complex sets (or something). Seems to me you are talking about a paradox...
It's not that Windows XP doesn't have the problem, it's that the version of MDAC (2.7) that ships with Windows XP doesn't have the problem. You can install MDAC 2.7 on W2K or NT4 or whatever, for free (if you agree to the license, of course).
Even assuming people could immediately switch to PNG, this wouldn't solve the problem because JPEG is actually a format where the amount of compression applied to pictures can be varied on a scale of 0 to 100. The amount of compression cannot be fine tuned as well with a PNG image.
The "0 to 100" range is a figment of your software's imagination. Some software gives a smaller range (e.g. "Highest", "High", "Medium", "Low", "Lowest"). The "quality/compression" setting for saving a JPG in one program does not (necessarily) relate at all to the same setting in any other program. The true meaning of that setting depends on how the programmers decided to adjust "quality" of the saved image in relation to filesize...
PNG on the other hand uses Zlib which could pretty much give you compression levels 0 through 9, but again could be arranged however they want... Program A can give you choices of 1,2,3,4,5 and have them actually map to 1,3,5,7,9. That doesn't mean "level 5" in program A is worse than "level 9" in program B, it's just a matter of how they define quality/compression levels...
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Web developers (and programmers in general) don't care about optimizing anymore, they just want it to be done so they can get paid. Worrying about such trivial things as a few kbytes or making valid and accessible HTML is asking too much of them.
From a web-designer standpoint, a lot of size can be reduced without altering the content.
Are you serving up nicely formatted HTML with indentations? That's wasteful. Strip whitespace and carriage returns.
Are you using HTML comments? Why? Does the customer really need to see them? Do you need to waste that bandwidth? Delete them or use comments in your server-side scripting language of choice.
Are you using GIF's where PNG's would be smaller? Or PNG's where GIF's would be smaller?
Have you optmized your PNGs, JPEGs and GIFs? (I don't remember a GIF optimizer, but there are plenty of non-destructive ones).
A 50x50 JPEG preview of an item does not need embedded comments, thumbnails, or EXIF data.
If you must use animated GIF's, be sure they are optimized and not full-frame!
Are you using pictures of words, when actual stylized text could convey the same message?
Are you using inline JavaScript or CSS, rather than calling it from a cacheable external file?
Are you using PDF, Flash or Java when it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary?
From a user's standpoint, the best solution, short of getting more bandwith: use less bandwidth. Turn off image loading or use a text-based browser. Don't browse the web as much. If you have a choice of sites to use, use the one that is smallest. Use a proxy. blah blah.
It changes from one browser to the next. I believe in Opera you need to press Shift-ESC then the access key. Others may use ALT or some kind of platform-specific modifier key.
A program theoretically shouldn't interfere with the system commands, but...
In a world where we assume ALT is the access key modifier, and Alt-F is one of the shortcuts, does that deny them the ability to press Alt-F to access the File menu? I don't think there is any consistent behavior at all.
Check out this page. It has a table of known conflicts or potential problems.
I tried using on a company intranet site, simply for my own amusement, and gave up. While I thought it was nice to press Alt-N to view the news page, nobody else knew how to use it or cared to learn. Most of them never take their hand off the mouse anyway (if they are physically able to choose).
Three things to do if you want to look like a real St. Louis driver: 1. When merging into a highway or other fast moving traffic, you must slow down to a speed of at least 20mph slower than the traffic you are merging into. This is especially important to do if there is a lot of dense traffic on the highway and a group of cars stuck behind you. 2. You must never use your blinker. Ever. 3. Stop signs with white borders are optional, right?
When it doesn't have to do with sex or nakedness, it's usually the opposite. Showing illegal things is not illegal, just doing them is (since, I would guess, being on film or not does not change the fact that an act really occurred or not). Stealing is illegal, showing looters in the act on TV is not. Kidnapping is illegal, showing a kidnap victim (say, a 13 year old girl being snatched on security camera) over and over on TV is not. Murder is illegal, showing a dead murdered body (or mass graves full of dead murdered bodies) on film is not. But, as has been pointed out, don't show a naked dead body! Even corpses are sexual objects according to the FCC. Are all autopsies performed with a sheet draped over the pubic areas of the deceased?
But when it involves sex it's all backwards. Producing, selling or even posessing straight adult penis-vagina man-doing-a-woman-in-missionary-position pornography is illegal in many (most?) parts of the US. Oral and anal sex are illegal in many US states. Same with gay sex. Does that mean any porn with straight oral or anal or any form of homosexual activity in it is illegal? I guess, but who knows. There seem to be different rules for each case.
Showing naked Africans who live without clothes is OK, because they are not really human anyway, they are savages, more like wild animals. Showing white American nudists who chose to live without clothing on TV would get blurred out for sure, though.
If they are really concerned about people shitting all over each other, they should realize how they are constantly shitting all over the American people and their freedoms.
1) Line monitors or 2) Buy new hardware that has open specs
The funny thing is, MS has a free "Remove hidden data" plug-in for Word/Excel etc that will clean up the documents, which are still usable with this "hidden data" stripped out. Why don't they just omit it in the first place?
Just like fingerprinting. When you eventually get arrested for something, they will get the digital signature of your printer, and match it against all the unidentified printed materials in their collection. If any of them match, you're busted.
Actually there was a serial killer here locally (who received no press, because he only kidnapped, tortured and killed black women, but thats a different topic). Anyway he was finally caught because he mailed the local newspaper a map of where one of the bodies was buried. The police could tell by the map that it was printed from Microsoft's map site (whatever it's called) and MS kept logs of everything, and were able to narrow it down to that exact map and get his IP address, which lead to his ISP and eventually his arrest (he killed himself in jail the next day).
So, sometimes they DO want to know who printed that map to Boston!
And, given the ever exploding population numbers, I'd say that despite the acceptance of murder and violence, sex is more popular!
Is it just me, or are you just getting less screen for your money when you buy widescreen? Why would you want the top couple inches of your display area chopped off? If you want a portable DVD player, you can buy one for a lot less than that!
If you have such a busy schedule (that can't be fulfilled on the weekends, apparently), perhaps you should get a night job.
Except a Formula 1 racecar costs $15 million dollars and takes a world class team of engineers and mechanics to figure it out when something goes wrong.
:)
Let's see your wife go take an F1 car for a spin and then fix the gearbox when it breaks
You forgot:
1310400-2016000 Rods to the Hogshead
You don't need math to balance your checkbook--why do you think we have online banking?
I believe it's the other way around. The seperate programs are based on (an older version of?) Mozilla.
When I was in high school (12 years ago) we started with LOGO and progressed onto Turbo Pascal. The teacher never turned off the caps lock key. The screen was a giant unreadable block of yellow text. eeck.
Sega Genesis/Megadrive could also play Sega Master System games and Sega Mark III games (predecessor to the Master System). You had to buy an adapter but the processing for it was all built-in to the Genesis already (they used the same CPU for the Genesis sound processor that the original SMS was based on), the adapter just remapped the pinouts for the catridge slots.
There is no rationale given. It is a non-issue. Nobody talks about it and, in general, nobody cares.
With that said, the US does use metric, just not exclusively. All food & medicine is metric (and usually has the old crappy measurements, too). In school, we learned both systems. In science classes we used only metric, in "shop" class (carpentry, architecture and so on) we never used metric. In phys-ed we would run a 100 meter race, then follow it by a 1 mile run. We got to learn fun things like fractions and use measurements like 1/8" and 3/16" rather than silly things like cm.
If you ask almost anyone how far it is from X to Y, how much they weigh, or what the temperature is, they will not respond to you in metric. I think that is the biggest reason why no officials have touched the subject--in all likelihood, they don't know metric either.
Funny you bring up Lagos. I'm on my way there next week to collect my share of a $50 MILLION USD by pretending to be from the family of the ousted ruler. A very friendly and religious Nigerian gentleman hand picked me as the best candidate for the role. As soon as they receive my passport copy & banking information I sent, they'll give me the OK to proceed. I'm on my way to living the good life!
XP isn't "safe" and the pre-XP MS OS's are not "vulnerable". MDAC 2.7 which ships with XP is safe, older versions (which shipped with older MS OS's) are not. You have been able to download and install MDAC 2.7 onto the older MS OS of your choice for quite some time already now (a year+?). The patch is for people who, for whatever reason, cannot use (or are not using) the current version of MDAC.
You can download all the various MDAC versions at MS's site.
In other words, RTFA :)
I thought "fuzzy logic" was an AI term dealing with presence of uncertainty in complex sets (or something). Seems to me you are talking about a paradox...
It's not that Windows XP doesn't have the problem, it's that the version of MDAC (2.7) that ships with Windows XP doesn't have the problem. You can install MDAC 2.7 on W2K or NT4 or whatever, for free (if you agree to the license, of course).
The "0 to 100" range is a figment of your software's imagination. Some software gives a smaller range (e.g. "Highest", "High", "Medium", "Low", "Lowest"). The "quality/compression" setting for saving a JPG in one program does not (necessarily) relate at all to the same setting in any other program. The true meaning of that setting depends on how the programmers decided to adjust "quality" of the saved image in relation to filesize...
PNG on the other hand uses Zlib which could pretty much give you compression levels 0 through 9, but again could be arranged however they want... Program A can give you choices of 1,2,3,4,5 and have them actually map to 1,3,5,7,9. That doesn't mean "level 5" in program A is worse than "level 9" in program B, it's just a matter of how they define quality/compression levels...