such nonsense is not what one would expect form a 5 digit slashdotter.
Because they must've registered in the last century? And that would mean..... that they're at least 5 years old? I'm sorry, but I really don't understand your logic!;)
I think you're stuck with the catch all *.*;q=0.5 and the same goes for Opera 8 (which has a similar accept header). But isn't a bigbger problem going to be that some browsers (MSIE for example) won't support SVG at all (ignoring the Adobe plugin), so you can't even raise the server side quality level to 1.0 for SVG so it might override bitmaps since you can't be sure the client can accept SVG at all?
I might be completely wrong here, but I think the problem is more apparent on lower spec CPUs. I was running with an old 466MHz Celeron as my main machine until a few months ago and that used to throw the problem up quite a bit.... I guess 'cos Firefox decides to try to fix the page layout before it has all the data available, whereas with a faster machine, the data becomes available earlier?
Whatever, the problem certainly *did* exist and caused the page to be rendered incorrectly!
I still get some problems on New Scientist (with their all new design!), so hopefully 1.1 will fix that!
I believe the anticipated life time of the A380 is 30 - 40 years. Given that the market for huge aircraft is unlikely to support more than 1 player, then I would've thought the A380 being profitable at some point is as near a certainty as is possible for an aircraft.
I kind of agree, although I'll cut it some slack 'cos it is a kids programme really!
Did anyone notice it getting a little bit political with the alien-PM using the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction against the Earth, and being able to deploy them in 45 seconds**?
**In the UK, the "intelligence" information that Iraq was able to deploy WMD in 45 minutes was used as a pro-war agruement by the government, but the evidence turned out to be very flimsy. Long story, but the government and the BBC were very much at logger-heads. So someone at the beeb obviously thought this would be fun!
I might be completly wrong here (and please *do* correct me if I am), but I think junctions only allow you to link a "folder" to a logical drive. So, if I created a folder named "example" in the root of C:, I could then convert it to a "junction" to link it to my D: partition, thus C:\example\file.txt and D:\file.txt would point to the same file.
I'd venture that as regards Photoshop, this program will be resolved. However, I can't understand _why_ they're encrypting this information? And unless they make the encryption method public with an open licence, then won't the Gimp (and any other FOSS tool) be locked out.
How exactly does this benefit Nikon?
I can see how this is an issue to you on a practical level, however, I would have to ask _why_ you want to migrate (presumably) from MSIE/MS-Office to Moz(or Firefox)/OOo?
If it is for the security benefits, then I would hope you could see that these benefits exist in no small part _because_ the FOSS community ignores technologies that are inferior to existing FOSS implementations, or that have legal issues that prevents their use.
The other reason you might wish to switch from MS or FOSS could be to save money on licence fees. In which case, I feel you pain. But by the same token, I'm sorry to say that that's life! You made your own bed and now you've got to lie in it (or possibly your predecessor did... but same difference!).
So back to the practical, if you have that much code that requires ActiveX you can either:
Create wrappers for the ActiveX components. I'd imagine this would be easy in Moz/Firefox but might be harder in OOo.
Use the MS and FOSS products side-by-side. Again, using IE for intranet and Moz for extranet might be easier than using MS-Office and OOo side-by-side.
But basically you need to look at where you are now and where you want to go. If the MS software is working for you then maybe you stick with it until you such time as a major revamp of your existing code. Otherwise, look at how you manage a migration. But either way, take care with your technology choices.
I'm in the US, I perceive flicker on 70hz and below refresh rate monitors...
I'm in the UK and I'm the same! I also notice it more on TV now (prolly due to having a largish wide-screen one now). And bizarrely, I perceive it more out of the corner of my eye than when looking directly at something.
(FYI there's no actual point to my post.... I just felt compeled to share!)
Metronet in the UK do this. Not a major ISP... but they are by a huge margin, the best ISP I've ever had the pleasure to use.
They do expect their users to be reasonably sensible and they are more than happy to tell people to look else where if the user is being unreasonably stupid. A breath of fresh air!!:D
I people have a tendancy to throw up their arms and say they can't compete, but really its just a question of adjusting to different rules.
It is simply that employees in America have to pay American prices for rent, housing, transportation, food, clothing, education and health care
Health care excepted, I think all those other expenses are far lower for Americans than they are for Europeans, but somehow Europeans manage to survive, earn money, eat, etc. I guess its a question of learning to compete on a level other than price... 'cos that probably isn't going to work so well? Maybe?
Whilst keeping in mind that this is all totally hypothetical and it absolutely won't get to this point....
The Software market and diamond market are not the same. Diamonds are diamonds are diamonds, now, 50 years ago, or 50 years in the future, but if MS did pull out of the EU, Europeans would need updates to take account of other technology changes. European governments couldn't really use unsupported OEM products however, so they would have to find an alternative.
Also, MS would never pull out anyway since if they did and Europe was forced to find alternatives, exactly how long would it be before the rest of the world followed suit. Asia isn't likely to continue paying the same rates for MS software? So in that scenario, MS would loose all European revenue, and likely then face reduced revenues from their remaining customers.
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such nonsense is not what one would expect form a 5 digit slashdotter.
;)
Because they must've registered in the last century? And that would mean..... that they're at least 5 years old?
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand your logic!
I think you're stuck with the catch all *.*;q=0.5 and the same goes for Opera 8 (which has a similar accept header). But isn't a bigbger problem going to be that some browsers (MSIE for example) won't support SVG at all (ignoring the Adobe plugin), so you can't even raise the server side quality level to 1.0 for SVG so it might override bitmaps since you can't be sure the client can accept SVG at all?
The nightly build I'm using sends:
x t/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,te
I guess SVG is included in the XML types.
Opera 8 (for Windows) sends:
text/html, application/xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1
So again, no specific mention of SVG.
IE will support SVG natively or via Adobe's horribly outdated SVG plugin?
:(
I'm guessing Adobe won't be in any hurry to produce an update given that they now own Macromedia.
I might be completely wrong here, but I think the problem is more apparent on lower spec CPUs. I was running with an old 466MHz Celeron as my main machine until a few months ago and that used to throw the problem up quite a bit.... I guess 'cos Firefox decides to try to fix the page layout before it has all the data available, whereas with a faster machine, the data becomes available earlier?
Whatever, the problem certainly *did* exist and caused the page to be rendered incorrectly!
I still get some problems on New Scientist (with their all new design!), so hopefully 1.1 will fix that!
I the looks of a plane affected its economic viability, then Concorde would've won hands down!
I believe the anticipated life time of the A380 is 30 - 40 years. Given that the market for huge aircraft is unlikely to support more than 1 player, then I would've thought the A380 being profitable at some point is as near a certainty as is possible for an aircraft.
At least now Jobs has something valid to complain about MS copying them.
Why?
I think the parent was refering to MS copying Apple in forcing websites to take down screen shots!
XP (aka NT 5.1) *is* Windows 2000 (aka NT 5.0) with a makeover!
I kind of agree, although I'll cut it some slack 'cos it is a kids programme really!
Did anyone notice it getting a little bit political with the alien-PM using the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction against the Earth, and being able to deploy them in 45 seconds**?
**In the UK, the "intelligence" information that Iraq was able to deploy WMD in 45 minutes was used as a pro-war agruement by the government, but the evidence turned out to be very flimsy. Long story, but the government and the BBC were very much at logger-heads. So someone at the beeb obviously thought this would be fun!
Surely if there's only one Dalek, then there's not much point in it saying "Exterminate" at all?
Not only did they know....they trained him! Aren't we great?
:D
If you'd just thought to train him in graphic design, then this whole problem could've been avoided!!
[wearing humble-hat], ahem, I have now read your sysinternals link and I'm mistaken!
I never understand why MS doesn't provide any access to some Windows features!!
I might be completly wrong here (and please *do* correct me if I am), but I think junctions only allow you to link a "folder" to a logical drive. So, if I created a folder named "example" in the root of C:, I could then convert it to a "junction" to link it to my D: partition, thus C:\example\file.txt and D:\file.txt would point to the same file.
I don't think he went quite that far.... though, it would've been funny as hell if he had called it "fucking twatty cunt".
It even found my local chippy. Go Google!
Yeah, except it'll be slashdotted so you won't be able to buy any until next week!
More evidence of the "Council of Elders" if you ask me!
I'd venture that as regards Photoshop, this program will be resolved. However, I can't understand _why_ they're encrypting this information? And unless they make the encryption method public with an open licence, then won't the Gimp (and any other FOSS tool) be locked out.
How exactly does this benefit Nikon?
If it is for the security benefits, then I would hope you could see that these benefits exist in no small part _because_ the FOSS community ignores technologies that are inferior to existing FOSS implementations, or that have legal issues that prevents their use.
The other reason you might wish to switch from MS or FOSS could be to save money on licence fees. In which case, I feel you pain. But by the same token, I'm sorry to say that that's life! You made your own bed and now you've got to lie in it (or possibly your predecessor did... but same difference!).
So back to the practical, if you have that much code that requires ActiveX you can either:
- Create wrappers for the ActiveX components. I'd imagine this would be easy in Moz/Firefox but might be harder in OOo.
- Use the MS and FOSS products side-by-side. Again, using IE for intranet and Moz for extranet might be easier than using MS-Office and OOo side-by-side.
But basically you need to look at where you are now and where you want to go. If the MS software is working for you then maybe you stick with it until you such time as a major revamp of your existing code. Otherwise, look at how you manage a migration. But either way, take care with your technology choices.Best of luck!
...after sitting outside...
Outside?
I'm in the US, I perceive flicker on 70hz and below refresh rate monitors...
I'm in the UK and I'm the same! I also notice it more on TV now (prolly due to having a largish wide-screen one now). And bizarrely, I perceive it more out of the corner of my eye than when looking directly at something.
(FYI there's no actual point to my post.... I just felt compeled to share!)
Metronet in the UK do this. Not a major ISP... but they are by a huge margin, the best ISP I've ever had the pleasure to use. :D
They do expect their users to be reasonably sensible and they are more than happy to tell people to look else where if the user is being unreasonably stupid. A breath of fresh air!!
I people have a tendancy to throw up their arms and say they can't compete, but really its just a question of adjusting to different rules.
It is simply that employees in America have to pay American prices for rent, housing, transportation, food, clothing, education and health care
Health care excepted, I think all those other expenses are far lower for Americans than they are for Europeans, but somehow Europeans manage to survive, earn money, eat, etc. I guess its a question of learning to compete on a level other than price... 'cos that probably isn't going to work so well? Maybe?
Whilst keeping in mind that this is all totally hypothetical and it absolutely won't get to this point....
The Software market and diamond market are not the same. Diamonds are diamonds are diamonds, now, 50 years ago, or 50 years in the future, but if MS did pull out of the EU, Europeans would need updates to take account of other technology changes. European governments couldn't really use unsupported OEM products however, so they would have to find an alternative.
Also, MS would never pull out anyway since if they did and Europe was forced to find alternatives, exactly how long would it be before the rest of the world followed suit. Asia isn't likely to continue paying the same rates for MS software? So in that scenario, MS would loose all European revenue, and likely then face reduced revenues from their remaining customers.
No one in their right mind refuses to comply with the people who direct the army and police.
I can't help thinking that declaring war against Microsoft is a tiny bit OTT.... but then again....