And I've made a fortune with my patent for a right click e-commerce checkout. Another one for clicking the scroll button. Yet another one for pressing the space bar.
Yes, but notice that all the leading, herding and poking are overheads and should be minimized. If you're having a herd of mad cows and mad sheep, it's time to thin the herd.
Your leave fingerprints everywhere every day, it's basically public information. Same with your retina (it could be captured with a good enough camera), your voice, your face, etc.
Even the Mythbusters have managed to break one of those high tech fingerprint scanners and shown the method on TV, do you really think something broken on the TV is secure?!
They've been engineering Duke Nukem Forever, the Coming of Godot and Jesus, and the heat death of the Universe - and they'll actually deliver one of these things eventually.
And there's the Microsoft Script Editor for script debugging as well, but...
IE development toolbar does not update the DOM tree display automatically if you have modified its structure in JavaScript, you need to close and open the toolbar to view the updated tree - that's just fucking convenient for debugging AJAX apps is it?
The Script Editor loses the stack trace if you've looked at enough steps - that's just fucking great isn't it?
Actually transparent PNGs aren't really properly fixed in IE7 - try applying an Alpha filter to a transparent PNG and suddenly the transparency does not work anymore.
This is the nature of Microsoft's software and APIs - if you use it in uncommon ways, it breaks. I can give you such examples all day - JavaScript memory leaks in IE6 and IE7? How window.openPopup() requires weird hacks to work with domain relaxation? Flickering images at page load in IE6? The first BR tag in a block tag does not appear when the block tag has a background image? document.selection returns gives you a selection object from a different document object than the one you specified?
Add these to the fact that IE does not have free developer tools like Firebug, Safari Inspector and Drosera, and Opera Dragonfly available (notice how every significant competitor to IE has one)... I'd take the opinion of anyone who says "IE is easy to develop for" with huge pinch of salt. And please... trying to bully people with "I'm an experienced developer" in the technology world isn't a very smart thing to do.
Beta 5 on Mac crashed very often for me as well, but I found the culprit to be the Firebug 1.1 beta plugin. After removing the plugin, Beta 5 never crashed on my Mac.
Step 1: Store 1kJ in a tank of capacitors
Step 2: Short the terminals
Step 3: ???
Step 4: You just consumed the total power output of a power plant for a very small fraction of a second.
(The ??? step can be anything, your capacitors might explode and kill you if you have bad karma.)
The western media is censoring a lot of good things happening in China as well, unfortunately.
Say, look at the coverage of the Sichuan earthquake on the western news media. Yes a lot of people died and were injured, yes a lot of buildings collapsed... The western media reported those. But is that all? If you've read the news from Hong Kong or Shanghai, you'll notice they're reporting the progress of the rescuing effort as well - the Chinese Premier Wen going straight into the scene the first day the quake happened and he's still there, at the epicenter, right now, giving commands and calling for donations; roads filled with PLA trucks carrying supplies into the area; PLA helicopters flying non-stop transporting supplies; PLA men carrying supplies in backpacks to hard-to-reach areas; PLA men and equipment digging for survivors everywhere; millions of people in surrounding areas being evacuated... Compare that to the rescuing effort of Katrina, it really puts the American government to shame. Did the western media report that?
Say, if you word your censorship question to an American and describe it as an obstacle to his freedom of speech, you can expect almost everyone to disapprove it.
However, if you word your censorship question to the same people and describe it as "think of the children!" and mention pedophiles and violent video games, you'll probably get a whole lot of people approving it.
Handcoding allows preview easily too. It's called Alt-Tab to Firefox then F5. There's an easier way to do that - use two monitors, move your mouse over and F5. You won't even lose sight of the code for a moment.;)
WYSIWYG is just a form of abstraction - all the underlying (X)HTML, JavaScript and CSS are abstracted away by WYSIWYG graphics. There's nothing preventing you from trying other kinds of abstraction with code. Saying WYSIWYG web authoring is always faster/cheaper than web authoring by coding is like saying modern programming is a waste of time because every programmer has to write in machine code.
Software engineers can afford an honest living in South Asia? That's news to me. I'm living in Hong Kong and software engineers are treated like shit here. CS or CE graduates here are typically looking at a HK$11,000/month (that is only about US$17,000/year) or lower when they're finding jobs, not to mention the horrible overtime and midnight support calls. And that number is already hugely improved compared to a few years ago when CS grads were looking at HK$8k/month or lower. Also, it is widely accepted that software engineering have no prospect here - I've seen lots of skillful programmers with 5+ years of experience here still cannot make HK$20k per month.
Compare these numbers with business graduates here. A smart business graduate in Hong Kong can easily get HK$50k+/month in an investment bank as the first job, and that's not counting the million+ bonus they get after one year. How about the mediocre business graduates? Sure they're gonna get the same HK$11k/month job, but they have far better prospects then any software engineer - it's almost impossible for a business graduate to be unable to make HK$20k/month after working for 5 years.
It's in my impression that Google Docs lacks many often-used features in Word or OOo Writer.
Say, how do you write a numbered list like the following in Google Docs?
1. Point one
1.1. Point one point one
1.1.1. Point one point one point one
(I don't really know how I can emulate the indenting here but just imagine the above list items were properly indented)
AFAIK, even simple things like the above are often impossible with Google Docs.
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And I've made a fortune with my patent for a right click e-commerce checkout. Another one for clicking the scroll button. Yet another one for pressing the space bar.
You realize this is Slashdot don't you?
Oh, you must be new here. Welcome.
Yes, but notice that all the leading, herding and poking are overheads and should be minimized. If you're having a herd of mad cows and mad sheep, it's time to thin the herd.
There, we shall see all those religious nutcases at the nearest zebra crossing.
Your leave fingerprints everywhere every day, it's basically public information. Same with your retina (it could be captured with a good enough camera), your voice, your face, etc.
Even the Mythbusters have managed to break one of those high tech fingerprint scanners and shown the method on TV, do you really think something broken on the TV is secure?!
Since when do women matter? Now, browsers on the other hand can give us a lot pictures and videos of nude women.
Why would the Chinese want their own stuff back?
"Trees' leaves grow at a cool 70 iCelsius all over the world."
See? Imaginary units make a lot of sense here.
They've been engineering Duke Nukem Forever, the Coming of Godot and Jesus, and the heat death of the Universe - and they'll actually deliver one of these things eventually.
They're trying to pull 1000 times your lab's results.
What happens when Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks a galactic black hole?
Oh, line breaks and spaces aren't working here. What I meant is a numbered list like this... with indentation.
1. Point 1
1.1. Point 1.1
1.1.1. Point 1.1.1
1.1.2. Point 1.1.2
1.1.3. Point 1.1.3
1.2. Point 1.2
Say... how do you make a list in Google Docs like the following?
1. Point 1 1.1. Point 1.1 1.1.1. Point 1.1.1 1.1.2. Point 1.1.2 1.1.3. Point 1.1.3 1.2. Point 1.2
AFAIK, it's not possible right now.
Actually transparent PNGs aren't really properly fixed in IE7 - try applying an Alpha filter to a transparent PNG and suddenly the transparency does not work anymore.
This is the nature of Microsoft's software and APIs - if you use it in uncommon ways, it breaks. I can give you such examples all day - JavaScript memory leaks in IE6 and IE7? How window.openPopup() requires weird hacks to work with domain relaxation? Flickering images at page load in IE6? The first BR tag in a block tag does not appear when the block tag has a background image? document.selection returns gives you a selection object from a different document object than the one you specified?
Add these to the fact that IE does not have free developer tools like Firebug, Safari Inspector and Drosera, and Opera Dragonfly available (notice how every significant competitor to IE has one)... I'd take the opinion of anyone who says "IE is easy to develop for" with huge pinch of salt. And please... trying to bully people with "I'm an experienced developer" in the technology world isn't a very smart thing to do.
I guess the woman at the security checkpoint did it purposefully just to entertain herself.
Beta 5 on Mac crashed very often for me as well, but I found the culprit to be the Firebug 1.1 beta plugin. After removing the plugin, Beta 5 never crashed on my Mac.
Step 1: Store 1kJ in a tank of capacitors
Step 2: Short the terminals
Step 3: ???
Step 4: You just consumed the total power output of a power plant for a very small fraction of a second.
(The ??? step can be anything, your capacitors might explode and kill you if you have bad karma.)
The western media is censoring a lot of good things happening in China as well, unfortunately.
Say, look at the coverage of the Sichuan earthquake on the western news media. Yes a lot of people died and were injured, yes a lot of buildings collapsed... The western media reported those. But is that all? If you've read the news from Hong Kong or Shanghai, you'll notice they're reporting the progress of the rescuing effort as well - the Chinese Premier Wen going straight into the scene the first day the quake happened and he's still there, at the epicenter, right now, giving commands and calling for donations; roads filled with PLA trucks carrying supplies into the area; PLA helicopters flying non-stop transporting supplies; PLA men carrying supplies in backpacks to hard-to-reach areas; PLA men and equipment digging for survivors everywhere; millions of people in surrounding areas being evacuated... Compare that to the rescuing effort of Katrina, it really puts the American government to shame. Did the western media report that?
It depends on how the question is asked.
Say, if you word your censorship question to an American and describe it as an obstacle to his freedom of speech, you can expect almost everyone to disapprove it.
However, if you word your censorship question to the same people and describe it as "think of the children!" and mention pedophiles and violent video games, you'll probably get a whole lot of people approving it.
WYSIWYG is just a form of abstraction - all the underlying (X)HTML, JavaScript and CSS are abstracted away by WYSIWYG graphics. There's nothing preventing you from trying other kinds of abstraction with code. Saying WYSIWYG web authoring is always faster/cheaper than web authoring by coding is like saying modern programming is a waste of time because every programmer has to write in machine code.
Also, a brand name takes time to develop.
Software engineers can afford an honest living in South Asia? That's news to me. I'm living in Hong Kong and software engineers are treated like shit here. CS or CE graduates here are typically looking at a HK$11,000/month (that is only about US$17,000/year) or lower when they're finding jobs, not to mention the horrible overtime and midnight support calls. And that number is already hugely improved compared to a few years ago when CS grads were looking at HK$8k/month or lower. Also, it is widely accepted that software engineering have no prospect here - I've seen lots of skillful programmers with 5+ years of experience here still cannot make HK$20k per month.
Compare these numbers with business graduates here. A smart business graduate in Hong Kong can easily get HK$50k+/month in an investment bank as the first job, and that's not counting the million+ bonus they get after one year. How about the mediocre business graduates? Sure they're gonna get the same HK$11k/month job, but they have far better prospects then any software engineer - it's almost impossible for a business graduate to be unable to make HK$20k/month after working for 5 years.
It's in my impression that Google Docs lacks many often-used features in Word or OOo Writer.
Say, how do you write a numbered list like the following in Google Docs?
1. Point one
1.1. Point one point one
1.1.1. Point one point one point one
(I don't really know how I can emulate the indenting here but just imagine the above list items were properly indented)
AFAIK, even simple things like the above are often impossible with Google Docs.