Yeah, and how exactly do you work around the fact that display:table is not implemented at all in IE ? You just don't care about the 80+% users who will see the site look like total shit ?
I mostly agree with you, table based design is stupid. But saying that you can resolve the issue by using display:table is just unrealistic. And even if you can find workarounds most of the time, they're just that, workarounds. And they often take way too much time...
And CSS 2 is broken, in some places. How do you place a container at the bottom of the page, for example ? #container{position:absolute; bottom:0 } ? No, that will position it at the bottom of the *viewport*, which is the same if you page has no vertical scrollbar, but the bottom of the viewing area you can see when the scrollbar is up if you have one. You have no way that i know of to specify that, unless you use fixed positionning, or have a container of top with content pushing the bottom one. Both of which totally defeat the purpose of CSS since you either have to use fixed positionning, or break the separation of content and styling...
Mr president, I need such a battery in all my cool gadgets right now !
Please allow me to torture the hell of those MIT scientists and all their family to speed research up so i can save the world from $FATAL_MENACE by throwing my numerous cellphones at the face of evil terrorists.
Please hurry your ass up, i've only got 40 minuts left and 20 of those are commercials.
Summary says this technology would allow batteries to charge faster. It's a big understatement since the article says they would only need a few seconds to be fully charged...
I take exception to this. Windows desktop to desktop networking is balky, especially on Win2K or in environments that mix Win2K and Windows XP. In an office of 100 machines, in multiple workplaces I've found it is normal to see a random subset of the machines actually on the network at a given time. I remember having to transfer a file to someone's shared directory and asking the people nearby, "who can see Bob's desktop?" and then getting them to transfer the file to him.
No, desktop to desktop networking is working flawlessly, and has been since 95, really. But the networking browser (or whatever they call it) has never really worked the way it should, IIRC mainly because it polls computers at very large time intervals, and does it very poorly. Next time you can't see Bob's computer, just start/run \\bob and his share should appear right away, even if you can't "see" him. If you can't see the shares, it's off the network, for sure.
If you look at it this way, healthcare is for-profit everywhere. Unless you can find a system where all health professionals have a fixed income provided by the government, but i'd suspect this system would soon have a shortage of healthcare professionals
In france you don't pay doctors, drugs, or anything related to your health. (well not directly anyway)
But healthcare professionals still get paid when you go see them, so it's in their interest to tell you for example that you should get back to them next week to check if everything is ok. And it's well knows that some doctors have "secret" arrangments with some drug companies so they'll gain more money if they prescribe you certain medecines. I don't think they'd go as far as diagnosing a false disease to prescribe you medecine X of course, but they'll have no problem prescribing the one that costs 3x more than another which contains the exact same drug. (pharmacists now have a legal obligation to propose you the "generic" counterpart of those if they spot them. But since you can refuse the generic (because you suspect that the generic counterpart is not on par with the original, for whatever reason), doctors could easily have arrangments with pharamacists so that they don't propose you the generic i suppose...)
Letting the users judge, and have a poll to let us select what we think are the the better entries ?
In any case, as others have suggested, it would be nice to be able to select from say the top 20 entries from our profile, or just to let us specify an alternate url for the css file. But in this case some poor designer would have to pay for the bandwith, which is uncool...
If that's the case, the PowerShell is going to be somewhat inconsistent and tricky to deal with for people who are used to the (IMHO simple and elegant) idea that "ls > file; wc file" is the same as "ls | wc".
IIRC there is a text serializer which you can use with if all you want is basic text output. so ls | totext | wc would do the same as ls |wc on unix. And if they did things right (didn't tried monad myself, just read some articles about it), they'd have the "commands" have default input and ouput formats, which would call specific serializers. So in this case, wc would default to text input, forcing the command in the left hand pipe to serialize its data to text unless a special parameter is supplied to wc. But i'm just speculating on this one.
I live there, never heard of that, and it kinda feels strange to learn it from slashdot, US centric and all... I guess i should go out more. But i fear the nazis might catch me... This war is getting long, when are you guys coming to give us a hand ?
First, working on someone else's code is a nightmare, period. It's not like working on some OSS software, where the guys who released the stuff had their pride and tried to have the code easily understandable, and clean. It's nearly always absolutly shitty code, because the one who made it couldn't program, and didn't give a fuck about the simplest design rules. (Like... making functions and classes instead of copying and pasting some code. Yes, it goes that far).
Then there are the guys above you who ask you to do shitty work, and won't care if you tell them that it's not the right way to do it, and that the client can't wan't that, because it's just silly. He just couldn't express the problem himself, but it's the job of the persons who get the specs from him to spot that. But they don't care, because the client signed a contract.
I like to do my stuff the right way, be happy about it, and have the client happy too. That's how it should be, but i'm always asked to do stupid things that i know will fail, and that the client will have to complain about it in the end. And of course i don't get to interview the client to ask him what he wants, but i have to answer him when he calls back and complains...
So i'll soon be working as a contractor too, and hopefully i'll get to put my own price on things based on how i think they should be done.
In my friggin' brain.
But yeah i confess, i didn't even read the summary before posting this one;) this has nothing to do with what the poster is asking about. But still, passwordSafe is a must-have if you don't know about it.
One is connected to my cable modem, and is linked to the second one through a vlan. The second one's wifi card is in client mode, and connects itself to the AP of a little shop under my flat, using it as its default gateway. Add a little script on the first one which will change the routing tables to use the second router as gateway if my cable provider's gateway is unaccessible, and there you have it: totally transparent, free redundant connection for the whole network. Even the machines without wifi since their gateway is still the first router...
I'm going to shape the traffic on the second one to limit p2p use on that connection since the purpose is not to suck their bandwith to death though...
LOL you'd think it would make more sense to surrender to multinational companies and Uncle Sam than to a bunch of "pirates" with no legal standing... I call that fighting for keeping a sane society, instead of surrending to the power of majors like the US and others do...
And it makes for a saner society because otherwise you'd have to put 50% of the population (we do have real broadband here so the phenomenom is quite widespread) into jail because they're using a technology that happens to be here, and has no legal equivalent (no, ITMS is not equivalent to itunes until it allows to find as much content. Right now there is 1% of what you can find on emule...maybe). Besides, nobody was ever put in jail for copying records, or cds. Why should it happen for mp3s or divx, only because some smart guys found a way for peers to get together easily ?
Is pretty simple: I make dynamic views, or playlists if you like which are based on the genre, and group them
Goes like that in pseudo sql: metal : genre ilike '%trash %' or genre ilike '%metal %' or genre ilike '%hard %'
rock: (genre ilike '%rock%' and genre not ilike 'hard%'), etc etc
classical: genre ilike '%classic%' and genre not ilike '%trash%' and genre not ilike '%rock', etc etc
So 'classical trash' will be listed in metal, classical rock in rock, but classical music in classical...
Of courses there are way more criterias than that but you get the idea...
Then i ditch the genre view in the media library and use the dynamic playlists instead of it.
It works surprisingly well, in something like 95% of the cases the playlists will be enough.
And this way you can even have sub level, like metal playlist which will categorize all metal, death, trash, you name it band, and sub playlists for each genre if you really just want one of them...
It can harm, in fact you can lose your arm definitly that way...
Megadeth's singer, whatever his name is, losed his right arm for six months after having to sleep in a hospital with his arm sticked in a wrong position because there was some medications being injected in it. Strangely his body didn't waked him up when it should have. (I suppose it does wake one up most of the time when it notices their is something wrong with the blood flow...). He only got his arm back because he could afford the best neurologists on earth and even then it seems it was a miracle.
I know it happened to me twice to wake up with an arm which seemed dead for two minuts or so because i had sticked it in a bad position, and i was frigging scared. Hopefully after a moment it started to hurt a lot as the blood flew though it again, and one minut after it was definitly back. I noticed it was linked to a position i take sometimes when trying to sleep so i try not to use it now...
I bought a DS last week after reading numerous posts here and there about how great it was, and i'm not disappointed. Games are great, the system is great.
And this comes from someone who had totally given up gaming since 4 years or so, basically because of the lack of any innovation since the days of "modern gaming" (the first generation of accelerated 3D games). And i think it's way better than say, the Gamecube, because the gamecube imho lacks good games and it feels like nintendo is pushing its franchise hard while not really exploiting it in terms of gameplay. Or maybe i just didn't try the good games... But mario sunshine for example was a big let down.
That's a horrible precedent, though. If you become a popular submitter it is because you submit relevant stories. You end up in a cycle where a submitter becomes popular, someone complains, and you blackball him because of it.
Of course, that would be stupid. Adding a noref to every stories links, on the other hand, would just help with the spamming. And i don't see where the problem is with that. Slashdot is there to read and post interesting things, not earning money with your stories. As soon as you can earn money while submitting, you start to search for things to post, to sentionalize (?) things so they can get through the editors, etc etc... We don't need renumerated submitters, even if it's indirect earnings (i mean it's not slashdot who is paying them). Submitting because you have something interesting to say should be your only motive, right ?
I hear there's a new "anti-slashdot" called Digg, and I'm sure that unless they take steps, the same thing will happen.
Oh you know i tried to read digg for a few days regulary. Let me tell you, 99% of the content here is already crap. You can tell that most digg users are 14 years old or something from what is posted and popular. And the comments... the comments are worse than what you would find if you could browse slashdot with only 0ed posts, maybe with less spam and f1rst psot, but even less interesting than that.
After those few days when i came back to my beloved slashdot it really felts like i was reading some geniuses posts... And i think that there is really a small percetage of really intelligent people here after all, or at least people *really* knowing their shit, enough to teach something to most readers when it happens that the topic talks about it.
Granted 90% of the/. population seems to think they are geniuses and are all full of themselves, while they are just computer savvy. But the moderation system works well enough to keep the discussion interesting. In fact i think the moderation system works surprisingly well, even if there are a few silly mods here and there...
I'd like to pre-empt the people complaining that longer line-lengths are harder to read by pointing out that there's evidence to suggest that those studies, while perfectly fine for print, don't apply to computer displays
I think they do, i've got a widescreen with a definition of 1440x900 and if i certainly can't read sites with a lot of text for more than 5 minutes with a maximized browser...
That's ok since the purpose of the thing is to have several windows opened on the foreground at the same time anyway, but it just proves that basing a design on a definition is stupid, the user should alway be able to choose the size of the window.
I've chosen the bad door when going to my first year final exam of english language... I found the exam pretty difficult and couldn't answer some of the questions. Somehow, i noticed that I didn't know any of the people passing the exam with me but it didn't ring an alarm.
When i gave my exam papers to the professor who was supervising us, he couldn't find me in the list... he asked my who my teacher was for this dicipline, and said:
Wait... $professor doesn't teach to 4th grade students !
Me: 4th grade ? I'm in first grade !
Supervisor: (starts laughing a lot... ) Well you must have found the exam pretty difficult, this is the 4th grade exam....
Me: do'h...
He then proceeded to correct my paper just for the fun of it... and it wasn't that bad after all;)
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I mostly agree with you, table based design is stupid. But saying that you can resolve the issue by using display:table is just unrealistic. And even if you can find workarounds most of the time, they're just that, workarounds. And they often take way too much time...
And CSS 2 is broken, in some places. How do you place a container at the bottom of the page, for example ? #container{position:absolute; bottom:0 } ? No, that will position it at the bottom of the *viewport*, which is the same if you page has no vertical scrollbar, but the bottom of the viewing area you can see when the scrollbar is up if you have one. You have no way that i know of to specify that, unless you use fixed positionning, or have a container of top with content pushing the bottom one. Both of which totally defeat the purpose of CSS since you either have to use fixed positionning, or break the separation of content and styling...
Mr president, I need such a battery in all my cool gadgets right now !
Please allow me to torture the hell of those MIT scientists and all their family to speed research up so i can save the world from $FATAL_MENACE by throwing my numerous cellphones at the face of evil terrorists.
Please hurry your ass up, i've only got 40 minuts left and 20 of those are commercials.
Your sincerely,
Jack Bauer.
Summary says this technology would allow batteries to charge faster. It's a big understatement since the article says they would only need a few seconds to be fully charged...
You damn COMMUNISTS !
No, desktop to desktop networking is working flawlessly, and has been since 95, really. But the networking browser (or whatever they call it) has never really worked the way it should, IIRC mainly because it polls computers at very large time intervals, and does it very poorly.
Next time you can't see Bob's computer, just start/run \\bob and his share should appear right away, even if you can't "see" him. If you can't see the shares, it's off the network, for sure.
Unless you can find a system where all health professionals have a fixed income provided by the government, but i'd suspect this system would soon have a shortage of healthcare professionals
In france you don't pay doctors, drugs, or anything related to your health. (well not directly anyway) ...)
But healthcare professionals still get paid when you go see them, so it's in their interest to tell you for example that you should get back to them next week to check if everything is ok.
And it's well knows that some doctors have "secret" arrangments with some drug companies so they'll gain more money if they prescribe you certain medecines. I don't think they'd go as far as diagnosing a false disease to prescribe you medecine X of course, but they'll have no problem prescribing the one that costs 3x more than another which contains the exact same drug. (pharmacists now have a legal obligation to propose you the "generic" counterpart of those if they spot them. But since you can refuse the generic (because you suspect that the generic counterpart is not on par with the original, for whatever reason), doctors could easily have arrangments with pharamacists so that they don't propose you the generic i suppose
Letting the users judge, and have a poll to let us select what we think are the the better entries ?
In any case, as others have suggested, it would be nice to be able to select from say the top 20 entries from our profile, or just to let us specify an alternate url for the css file. But in this case some poor designer would have to pay for the bandwith, which is uncool...
IIRC there is a text serializer which you can use with if all you want is basic text output. so ls | totext | wc would do the same as ls |wc on unix. And if they did things right (didn't tried monad myself, just read some articles about it), they'd have the "commands" have default input and ouput formats, which would call specific serializers. So in this case, wc would default to text input, forcing the command in the left hand pipe to serialize its data to text unless a special parameter is supplied to wc. But i'm just speculating on this one.
I live there, never heard of that, and it kinda feels strange to learn it from slashdot, US centric and all...
I guess i should go out more. But i fear the nazis might catch me... This war is getting long, when are you guys coming to give us a hand ?
First, working on someone else's code is a nightmare, period. It's not like working on some OSS software, where the guys who released the stuff had their pride and tried to have the code easily understandable, and clean. It's nearly always absolutly shitty code, because the one who made it couldn't program, and didn't give a fuck about the simplest design rules. (Like... making functions and classes instead of copying and pasting some code. Yes, it goes that far).
Then there are the guys above you who ask you to do shitty work, and won't care if you tell them that it's not the right way to do it, and that the client can't wan't that, because it's just silly. He just couldn't express the problem himself, but it's the job of the persons who get the specs from him to spot that. But they don't care, because the client signed a contract.
I like to do my stuff the right way, be happy about it, and have the client happy too. That's how it should be, but i'm always asked to do stupid things that i know will fail, and that the client will have to complain about it in the end.
And of course i don't get to interview the client to ask him what he wants, but i have to answer him when he calls back and complains...
So i'll soon be working as a contractor too, and hopefully i'll get to put my own price on things based on how i think they should be done.
In my friggin' brain. ;) this has nothing to do with what the poster is asking about. But still, passwordSafe is a must-have if you don't know about it.
But yeah i confess, i didn't even read the summary before posting this one
PasswordSafe pretty good, and has several linux ports
Yes, it is. (I think I just proved my point!)
I think not, you're just trolling to keep the discussion interesting.
It's a Non Player Character, played by the master
One is connected to my cable modem, and is linked to the second one through a vlan. The second one's wifi card is in client mode, and connects itself to the AP of a little shop under my flat, using it as its default gateway. Add a little script on the first one which will change the routing tables to use the second router as gateway if my cable provider's gateway is unaccessible, and there you have it: totally transparent, free redundant connection for the whole network. Even the machines without wifi since their gateway is still the first router...
I'm going to shape the traffic on the second one to limit p2p use on that connection since the purpose is not to suck their bandwith to death though...
Dude we do wear deodorant, and lots of it. It's the single micacle that allows us to wash only once year, for valentine's day !
LOL you'd think it would make more sense to surrender to multinational companies and Uncle Sam than to a bunch of "pirates" with no legal standing... I call that fighting for keeping a sane society, instead of surrending to the power of majors like the US and others do...
And it makes for a saner society because otherwise you'd have to put 50% of the population (we do have real broadband here so the phenomenom is quite widespread) into jail because they're using a technology that happens to be here, and has no legal equivalent (no, ITMS is not equivalent to itunes until it allows to find as much content. Right now there is 1% of what you can find on emule...maybe). Besides, nobody was ever put in jail for copying records, or cds. Why should it happen for mp3s or divx, only because some smart guys found a way for peers to get together easily ?
Goes like that in pseudo sql:
metal : genre ilike '%trash %' or genre ilike '%metal %' or genre ilike '%hard %'
rock: (genre ilike '%rock%' and genre not ilike 'hard%'), etc etc
classical: genre ilike '%classic%' and genre not ilike '%trash%' and genre not ilike '%rock', etc etc
So 'classical trash' will be listed in metal, classical rock in rock, but classical music in classical... Of courses there are way more criterias than that but you get the idea...
Then i ditch the genre view in the media library and use the dynamic playlists instead of it.
It works surprisingly well, in something like 95% of the cases the playlists will be enough.
And this way you can even have sub level, like metal playlist which will categorize all metal, death, trash, you name it band, and sub playlists for each genre if you really just want one of them...
It can harm, in fact you can lose your arm definitly that way...
Megadeth's singer, whatever his name is, losed his right arm for six months after having to sleep in a hospital with his arm sticked in a wrong position because there was some medications being injected in it. Strangely his body didn't waked him up when it should have. (I suppose it does wake one up most of the time when it notices their is something wrong with the blood flow...). He only got his arm back because he could afford the best neurologists on earth and even then it seems it was a miracle.
I know it happened to me twice to wake up with an arm which seemed dead for two minuts or so because i had sticked it in a bad position, and i was frigging scared. Hopefully after a moment it started to hurt a lot as the blood flew though it again, and one minut after it was definitly back. I noticed it was linked to a position i take sometimes when trying to sleep so i try not to use it now...
I bought a DS last week after reading numerous posts here and there about how great it was, and i'm not disappointed. Games are great, the system is great.
And this comes from someone who had totally given up gaming since 4 years or so, basically because of the lack of any innovation since the days of "modern gaming" (the first generation of accelerated 3D games). And i think it's way better than say, the Gamecube, because the gamecube imho lacks good games and it feels like nintendo is pushing its franchise hard while not really exploiting it in terms of gameplay. Or maybe i just didn't try the good games... But mario sunshine for example was a big let down.
Of course, that would be stupid. Adding a noref to every stories links, on the other hand, would just help with the spamming. And i don't see where the problem is with that. Slashdot is there to read and post interesting things, not earning money with your stories. As soon as you can earn money while submitting, you start to search for things to post, to sentionalize (?) things so they can get through the editors, etc etc...
We don't need renumerated submitters, even if it's indirect earnings (i mean it's not slashdot who is paying them). Submitting because you have something interesting to say should be your only motive, right ?
Just wanted to say that i reckon i really should have watched the number of times i used the word really in the second paragraph :^)
Oh you know i tried to read digg for a few days regulary. Let me tell you, 99% of the content here is already crap. You can tell that most digg users are 14 years old or something from what is posted and popular. And the comments... the comments are worse than what you would find if you could browse slashdot with only 0ed posts, maybe with less spam and f1rst psot, but even less interesting than that.
After those few days when i came back to my beloved slashdot it really felts like i was reading some geniuses posts... And i think that there is really a small percetage of really intelligent people here after all, or at least people *really* knowing their shit, enough to teach something to most readers when it happens that the topic talks about it.
Granted 90% of the /. population seems to think they are geniuses and are all full of themselves, while they are just computer savvy. But the moderation system works well enough to keep the discussion interesting. In fact i think the moderation system works surprisingly well, even if there are a few silly mods here and there...
I think they do, i've got a widescreen with a definition of 1440x900 and if i certainly can't read sites with a lot of text for more than 5 minutes with a maximized browser...
That's ok since the purpose of the thing is to have several windows opened on the foreground at the same time anyway, but it just proves that basing a design on a definition is stupid, the user should alway be able to choose the size of the window.
I've chosen the bad door when going to my first year final exam of english language... ;)
I found the exam pretty difficult and couldn't answer some of the questions. Somehow, i noticed that I didn't know any of the people passing the exam with me but it didn't ring an alarm. When i gave my exam papers to the professor who was supervising us, he couldn't find me in the list... he asked my who my teacher was for this dicipline, and said:
Wait... $professor doesn't teach to 4th grade students !
Me: 4th grade ? I'm in first grade !
Supervisor: (starts laughing a lot... ) Well you must have found the exam pretty difficult, this is the 4th grade exam....
Me: do'h...
He then proceeded to correct my paper just for the fun of it... and it wasn't that bad after all