Are there any CSS refactoring tools that you can recommend? I am looking for something that will draw the repeated attribute values out of my HTML and create a CSS stylesheet that replaces it.
Since both Hebrew and Arabic read from right-to-left and produce similar software issues, do you ever work with Israeli software engineers?
Some enthusiasts, such as British actress Emma Thompson and the "Boycott Israeli Goods" campaign (http://www.labournet.org.uk/so/47boycottisrael.ht ml) advocate boycotting Israeli products, including software. Some even proposed boycotting PHP for its supposed Israeli connections.
Others argue that such boycotts of films, software, people, etc. do far more damage than good. In addition, sometimes the boycotter can become the boycottee. If Emma Thompson won't buy Israeli films on DVD then I can not buy Emma Thompson films on DVD.
How do you feel about such boycotts? Are you in favor of a blanket refusal to purchase Israeli products or services? Do you in Jordan sometimes purchase Israeli software, products or services?
If all of my variables are class attributes then many of the problems with typos seem to fix themselves. Python won't recognize self.myvar if there is no myvar attribute.
Why did he give $10K to a terrorist organization? What kind of programmer can support three kids and still give that much money to a terrorist organization?
I hope that Hawash will repent and testify against the other terrorists.
In the mean time, I no longer wish to purchase computers with Intel inside, since Intel hires terrorists.
My home is in Fairfax County, Virginia, Zip Code 22315. In other words, I am in the center of the Washington, DC area, a world-wide telecommunications nexus that includes the headquarters of America Online.
Guess what? The only kind of broadband access I can get is by satellite! I might as well be living in Borneo, except I suspect that some individuals there have better access than I do.
The local cable company advertises its broadband access on a special channel 24/7. But when you log on to actually order the broadband service, they tell you that access for cable modems is only available in some areas, and guess what, being a few miles south of Washington, DC doesn't qualify.
Similarly, if you call up a DSL provider they will eventually tell you that you must be within 2.5 miles of a central exchange, and I am not that close.
So to get broadband I would need to buy a satellite dish and pay a service fee about double what I would pay for DSL or cable.
As Lenin would say, What is to be done? I say take away the cable and phone company monopolies. What good are monopolies that are literally five years behind the times in what is supposedly the most advanced country (well, one of them, anyway) on earth?
Instead of investigating President Clinton, Congress should be investigating my lack of broadband access!
How damaging has the Bono Copyright Protection act been to Project Gutenberg?
This idiotic piece of legislation retroactively increased length of copyright protection for works written in the 1920s, so that Robert Frost's poetry and many other works will now be kept out of the public domain for another generation.
Is there any possibility this act could be repealed?
How the hell is it possible that the wife of a dead man is appointed Senator when he 'wins' the election...
There was a U.S. state court ruling some years ago that a vote for a dead candidate is an affirmative vote for someone other than the living candidates. In other words, if more people had supported John Ashcroft in Missouri then he would have won. A vote for the dead candidate was a vote for "Anybody but John Ashcroft."
Didnt everyone who voted for this dead person invalidate their ballot...?
I agree with you that this project does not seem ready to be announced. Neither of its first two demos ran in my IE5 browser, even though I have the most recent version of Flash installed and can view other Flash sites.
When I click on the Perl::Flash site's demos my browser churns its wheels for a minute or two and then I get an error message saying that my browser cannot display this type of content. Apparently my browser does not recognize Perl::Flash content as being proper Flash.
Babbage, I also want to commend you for the "Dubya is not my President" message on your posting. This man probably lost the election (i.e., failed to receive a plurality of the legally cast votes in Florida) but was appointed on the basis of an incomplete count by judges who were themselves unelected.
Interesting. I am pretty sure that I did a standard LM 7.2 install also, but playing against the computer generates an error message. Just one of life's unexplainable mysteries, I guess.
Mandrake 7.2 is my favorite distro as well, due to its ability to see my laptop's ATI card when S.u.S.E 6.4, Red Hat and other distros could not.
But one feature is rather odd. By default, several of the games and other applications installed on the KDE and Gnome menus don't work. For instance, if you try to play against the machine using the GNU chess game then Mandrake 7.2 will tell you that there is no chess engine.
What is the point of pre-installing games in KDE and Gnome if one cannot play them?
Perhaps I should explain my reasoning on why a link is like a quote.
If I place a site's URL in my website but do not make the reference a hyperlink then clearly I am only doing what bibliographers have been doing for centuries.
However, when I turn the URL into a hyperlink I am then making the actual content of the URL appear inside my web application. The hyperlink is more than just the ASCII text of the URL, such as one might find in a printed bibliography.
Several posters noted that if a hyperlink is placed inside an HTML frame then the address bar will not change after the user clicks on the link, so the user may not know she is at a different site.
In addition, it is fairly common for users to run the browsers in Full Screen mode, in which case the user will not see any address bar.
Lastly, I would mention that the XLink XML Linking Language can make the distinction between a hyperlink and a quote irrelevant, since web sites will be able to link to specific portions of other HTML pages without the pages needing to contain anchors or other special tags.
This is a fair use issue. Is the linker unfairly taking credit for work not his own? For instance, if I say, read this great article I wrote and then link to Commander Taco's essay on honeybuns, then I may be stealing Commander Taco's estimable work as my own.
There was a case several years ago in which, as I recall, Ticketmaster complained that Microsoft was burying Ticketmaster content pages deep in the Microsoft site.
Ticketmaster claimed that its content was losing its identity buried deep in a Microsoft web application, and that furthermore Ticketmaster wanted people to navigate to the content by first visiting the main Ticketmaster web page.
I don't remember how the case turned out, but Ticketmaster's case had some merit. One criteria might be whether the linked to material is clearly identified as external, and the owner of the material is identified in the text of the hyperlink.
Legally, a hyperlink is probably similar to a quote. I can usually quote David Letterman without his permission and not violate his copyright, but there are certain circumstances where I cannot quote him without paying him.
It is possible that occasionally some types of links are in fact a copyright infringement.
I once got promoted to supervisor and it was a disaster. People want to promote you because of your technical expertise, but once you become a supervisor you will spend your time fielding calls from the customer and writing status reports on other people's work. Your technical skills will atrophy.
Whether you want to refuse the promotion up front or play along for awhile is up to you, but in the new economy you are better off being a skilled programmer than a so-so low-level manager.
Actually, in spite of what I wrote, there are cases in which Linux is an easier install than Windows. For instance, today I upgraded my dual boot Win 98/Mandrake 7.2 laptop to Windows Me/Mandrake 7.2.
The Mandrake partition works as great as ever, but Windows Me now cannot see my CD-ROM. It says that the Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) is defective. I used one of my two free support calls to MS on that one, hope they send me the drivers I need.
So in this instance Mandrake was less of a hassle than windows. I doubt that my next Mandrake upgrade will break my CD-ROM access.
Even so I still remain convinced, based on being a regular user of Windows and Linux, that Linux has more gotchas than does Windows, although Mandrake deserves credit for what I think is the easiest-to-use Linux installer yet.
They did not have a hand recount. Five members of the Supreme Court prevented it.
Scalia is at least more upfront about the reasons why than were O'Connor and Kennedy. Scalia said:
1. A hand recount might cause people to question the legitimacy of the winner, meaning that if the hand recount said Gore won and the Supreme Court overruled the result then people would say that Gore actually won the election.
2. It was possible that the hand recounts would turn up legally cast votes which had never been counted for any candidate.
The Supreme Court's ruling was unjust and resulted in the loser of the election being declared the winner by his own campaign manager Kathleen Harris. A travesty. I hope people still remember in 2002 and that Florida will do away with punch card ballots which lose about one percent of the legally cast votes.
You need to educate yourself about punch card. Sometimes one person's chad ends up in another person's hole. The second person, through no fault of her own, is thus denied her right to vote.
Voter error? Supervisor of Voters error in my opinion for having such junk. Just because a system is automated doesn't make it reliable. If Florida had used paper ballots then every valid vote would have been counted, and Al Gore would have been president.
Admit it. The voting machine companies are palming off junk on the public. What if Microsoft sold you MS-DOS 2.0 and claimed it was state-of-the-art. That is what the voting machine companies are doing when they sell these horrid, unreliabel machines that steal people's votes. And install an imposter as President.
Even you are not sure that Dubya won Florida. So why not have a recount and find out for sure? Scalia said it was because if there were a recount people might conclude that Dubya was not the legitimate President.
It is a sad day when someone becomes the President and no one knows whether he deserves to be there. Even his supporters are not sure.
The person who receives the most votes in Florida is SUPPOSED to win Florida's 27 electoral votes. Al Gore probably received the most votes in Florida. (Scalia halted the counting because he didn't want us to know for sure.)
Antonin Scalia of the Filthy Five openly admitted in questioning Klock that some of the votes rejected by machines as unreadable may in fact have had valid votes for a candidate on them.
Scalia distinguished between the right to cast a vote and the right to have that vote counted. It is a false distinction. By refusing to permit the Florida Supreme Court to supervise a counting of the rejected ballots Scalia negated the right to vote by virtue of negating the right to have one's vote counted.
Is that a democracy? Is that a republic? I think it is neither. It is a dictatorship, in which Scalia and O'Connor and the others are able to make Dubya the winner in Florida even though Dubya probably got fewer votes than Bush there.
Linux distros typically do not install perfectly everywhere. Even Mandrake, which I think is the best, cannot use my external CDRW.
Linux distros can ship a product faster because if it installs properly 95 percent of the time that is good enough. 95 percent may not be good enough for Windows, though.
So MS would wisely wait a few weeks or months to make sure their OS installs 99+ percent of the time. Linux users are a forgiving bunch with respect to features that don't install or work. I installed a half dozen Linux's until finally Mandrake 7.2 worked with my ATI graphics chipset.
My 78 year old father is not so forgiving. If a piece of electronics doesn't work right out of the box he returns it and buys something else. That is the target market for Windows. (Maybe not quite, but I think that Windows aspires to more hardware compatibility than Linux does.)
>>For one thing, nobody can describe what.NET really is. It's a framework! No, it's a protocol! No, it's a platform! No, it's a floor cleaner! No, it's a dessert topping!
People used to say that about Windows. It's an operating system! No, DOS is the operating system, Windows is a GUI.
A lot of great ideas start out as one thing and end up something else. And yes, I think Windows was a great idea. No one forced all those people to prefer it over Mac OS or OS/2.
And no one stopped Sun from coming out with an affordable version of Solaris that could run on Intel.
So just because.NET doesn't have a clear vision of what it will be doesn't mean it won't be worthy.
According to a Disney videotaping ruling from the 80s, your ownership of The White Album gives you the right to burn a CD, for your own use, of your own vinyl copy of the White Album.
You can also, without even owning the White Album, tape its songs off the radio and burn a CD of your tapes.
Since you want a fresh CD produced direct from the master tapes, you are buying a new product that you don't yet own. The record company has the right to charge whatever the market will bear, in this case, about 20 dollars.
I work for DynCorp (www.dyncorp.com). We have an intern now from George Mason University who works with UNIX most of the time, but he also does some Windows NT stuff. If you go to college in the Washington DC area then have your placement office contact DynCorp or me personally at jmark@#nospam#dyncorp.com
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Are there any CSS refactoring tools that you can recommend? I am looking for something that will draw the repeated attribute values out of my HTML and create a CSS stylesheet that replaces it.
Since both Hebrew and Arabic read from right-to-left and produce similar software issues, do you ever work with Israeli software engineers?
t ml) advocate boycotting Israeli products, including software. Some even proposed boycotting PHP for its supposed Israeli connections.
Some enthusiasts, such as British actress Emma Thompson and the "Boycott Israeli Goods" campaign (http://www.labournet.org.uk/so/47boycottisrael.h
Others argue that such boycotts of films, software, people, etc. do far more damage than good. In addition, sometimes the boycotter can become the boycottee. If Emma Thompson won't buy Israeli films on DVD then I can not buy Emma Thompson films on DVD.
How do you feel about such boycotts? Are you in favor of a blanket refusal to purchase Israeli products or services? Do you in Jordan sometimes purchase Israeli software, products or services?
Hold on. Do you really think that recipients of email from supposed Nigerian middlemen believe that the email is from their own bank?
Oops. You are correct. Mistyping the class name creates an error, but mistyping the attribute name does not.
If all of my variables are class attributes then many of the problems with typos seem to fix themselves. Python won't recognize self.myvar if there is no myvar attribute.
Why did he give $10K to a terrorist organization? What kind of programmer can support three kids and still give that much money to a terrorist organization?
I hope that Hawash will repent and testify against the other terrorists.
In the mean time, I no longer wish to purchase computers with Intel inside, since Intel hires terrorists.
Guess what? The only kind of broadband access I can get is by satellite! I might as well be living in Borneo, except I suspect that some individuals there have better access than I do.
The local cable company advertises its broadband access on a special channel 24/7. But when you log on to actually order the broadband service, they tell you that access for cable modems is only available in some areas, and guess what, being a few miles south of Washington, DC doesn't qualify.
Similarly, if you call up a DSL provider they will eventually tell you that you must be within 2.5 miles of a central exchange, and I am not that close.
So to get broadband I would need to buy a satellite dish and pay a service fee about double what I would pay for DSL or cable.
As Lenin would say, What is to be done? I say take away the cable and phone company monopolies. What good are monopolies that are literally five years behind the times in what is supposedly the most advanced country (well, one of them, anyway) on earth?
Instead of investigating President Clinton, Congress should be investigating my lack of broadband access!
How damaging has the Bono Copyright Protection act been to Project Gutenberg?
This idiotic piece of legislation retroactively increased length of copyright protection for works written in the 1920s, so that Robert Frost's poetry and many other works will now be kept out of the public domain for another generation.
Is there any possibility this act could be repealed?
There was a U.S. state court ruling some years ago that a vote for a dead candidate is an affirmative vote for someone other than the living candidates. In other words, if more people had supported John Ashcroft in Missouri then he would have won. A vote for the dead candidate was a vote for "Anybody but John Ashcroft."
Only in Palm Beach.
I agree with you that this project does not seem ready to be announced. Neither of its first two demos ran in my IE5 browser, even though I have the most recent version of Flash installed and can view other Flash sites.
When I click on the Perl::Flash site's demos my browser churns its wheels for a minute or two and then I get an error message saying that my browser cannot display this type of content. Apparently my browser does not recognize Perl::Flash content as being proper Flash.
Babbage, I also want to commend you for the "Dubya is not my President" message on your posting. This man probably lost the election (i.e., failed to receive a plurality of the legally cast votes in Florida) but was appointed on the basis of an incomplete count by judges who were themselves unelected.
What a fraud!
Interesting. I am pretty sure that I did a standard LM 7.2 install also, but playing against the computer generates an error message. Just one of life's unexplainable mysteries, I guess.
Mandrake 7.2 is my favorite distro as well, due to its ability to see my laptop's ATI card when S.u.S.E 6.4, Red Hat and other distros could not.
But one feature is rather odd. By default, several of the games and other applications installed on the KDE and Gnome menus don't work. For instance, if you try to play against the machine using the GNU chess game then Mandrake 7.2 will tell you that there is no chess engine.
What is the point of pre-installing games in KDE and Gnome if one cannot play them?
Perhaps I should explain my reasoning on why a link is like a quote.
If I place a site's URL in my website but do not make the reference a hyperlink then clearly I am only doing what bibliographers have been doing for centuries.
However, when I turn the URL into a hyperlink I am then making the actual content of the URL appear inside my web application. The hyperlink is more than just the ASCII text of the URL, such as one might find in a printed bibliography.
Several posters noted that if a hyperlink is placed inside an HTML frame then the address bar will not change after the user clicks on the link, so the user may not know she is at a different site.
In addition, it is fairly common for users to run the browsers in Full Screen mode, in which case the user will not see any address bar.
Lastly, I would mention that the XLink XML Linking Language can make the distinction between a hyperlink and a quote irrelevant, since web sites will be able to link to specific portions of other HTML pages without the pages needing to contain anchors or other special tags.
This is a fair use issue. Is the linker unfairly taking credit for work not his own? For instance, if I say, read this great article I wrote and then link to Commander Taco's essay on honeybuns, then I may be stealing Commander Taco's estimable work as my own.
There was a case several years ago in which, as I recall, Ticketmaster complained that Microsoft was burying Ticketmaster content pages deep in the Microsoft site.
Ticketmaster claimed that its content was losing its identity buried deep in a Microsoft web application, and that furthermore Ticketmaster wanted people to navigate to the content by first visiting the main Ticketmaster web page.
I don't remember how the case turned out, but Ticketmaster's case had some merit. One criteria might be whether the linked to material is clearly identified as external, and the owner of the material is identified in the text of the hyperlink.
Legally, a hyperlink is probably similar to a quote. I can usually quote David Letterman without his permission and not violate his copyright, but there are certain circumstances where I cannot quote him without paying him.
It is possible that occasionally some types of links are in fact a copyright infringement.
I once got promoted to supervisor and it was a disaster. People want to promote you because of your technical expertise, but once you become a supervisor you will spend your time fielding calls from the customer and writing status reports on other people's work. Your technical skills will atrophy.
Whether you want to refuse the promotion up front or play along for awhile is up to you, but in the new economy you are better off being a skilled programmer than a so-so low-level manager.
I am currently pissed off at Microsoft because I sent them a customer support user request on Saturday and it is now Tuesday and I am still waiting.
So maybe in the Microsoft world people don't call help lines and receive it in a timely manner either.
"In this life, you're on your own" --Prince
Actually, in spite of what I wrote, there are cases in which Linux is an easier install than Windows. For instance, today I upgraded my dual boot Win 98/Mandrake 7.2 laptop to Windows Me/Mandrake 7.2.
The Mandrake partition works as great as ever, but Windows Me now cannot see my CD-ROM. It says that the Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) is defective. I used one of my two free support calls to MS on that one, hope they send me the drivers I need.
So in this instance Mandrake was less of a hassle than windows. I doubt that my next Mandrake upgrade will break my CD-ROM access.
Even so I still remain convinced, based on being a regular user of Windows and Linux, that Linux has more gotchas than does Windows, although Mandrake deserves credit for what I think is the easiest-to-use Linux installer yet.
They did not have a hand recount. Five members of the Supreme Court prevented it.
Scalia is at least more upfront about the reasons why than were O'Connor and Kennedy. Scalia said:
1. A hand recount might cause people to question the legitimacy of the winner, meaning that if the hand recount said Gore won and the Supreme Court overruled the result then people would say that Gore actually won the election.
2. It was possible that the hand recounts would turn up legally cast votes which had never been counted for any candidate.
The Supreme Court's ruling was unjust and resulted in the loser of the election being declared the winner by his own campaign manager Kathleen Harris. A travesty. I hope people still remember in 2002 and that Florida will do away with punch card ballots which lose about one percent of the legally cast votes.
You need to educate yourself about punch card. Sometimes one person's chad ends up in another person's hole. The second person, through no fault of her own, is thus denied her right to vote.
Voter error? Supervisor of Voters error in my opinion for having such junk. Just because a system is automated doesn't make it reliable. If Florida had used paper ballots then every valid vote would have been counted, and Al Gore would have been president.
Admit it. The voting machine companies are palming off junk on the public. What if Microsoft sold you MS-DOS 2.0 and claimed it was state-of-the-art. That is what the voting machine companies are doing when they sell these horrid, unreliabel machines that steal people's votes. And install an imposter as President.
>>Maybe he got more votes, maybe he didn't.
Even you are not sure that Dubya won Florida. So why not have a recount and find out for sure? Scalia said it was because if there were a recount people might conclude that Dubya was not the legitimate President.
It is a sad day when someone becomes the President and no one knows whether he deserves to be there. Even his supporters are not sure.
The person who receives the most votes in Florida is SUPPOSED to win Florida's 27 electoral votes. Al Gore probably received the most votes in Florida. (Scalia halted the counting because he didn't want us to know for sure.)
Antonin Scalia of the Filthy Five openly admitted in questioning Klock that some of the votes rejected by machines as unreadable may in fact have had valid votes for a candidate on them.
Scalia distinguished between the right to cast a vote and the right to have that vote counted. It is a false distinction. By refusing to permit the Florida Supreme Court to supervise a counting of the rejected ballots Scalia negated the right to vote by virtue of negating the right to have one's vote counted.
Is that a democracy? Is that a republic? I think it is neither. It is a dictatorship, in which Scalia and O'Connor and the others are able to make Dubya the winner in Florida even though Dubya probably got fewer votes than Bush there.
Linux distros typically do not install perfectly everywhere. Even Mandrake, which I think is the best, cannot use my external CDRW.
Linux distros can ship a product faster because if it installs properly 95 percent of the time that is good enough. 95 percent may not be good enough for Windows, though.
So MS would wisely wait a few weeks or months to make sure their OS installs 99+ percent of the time. Linux users are a forgiving bunch with respect to features that don't install or work. I installed a half dozen Linux's until finally Mandrake 7.2 worked with my ATI graphics chipset.
My 78 year old father is not so forgiving. If a piece of electronics doesn't work right out of the box he returns it and buys something else. That is the target market for Windows. (Maybe not quite, but I think that Windows aspires to more hardware compatibility than Linux does.)
>>For one thing, nobody can describe what .NET really is. It's a framework! No, it's a protocol! No, it's a platform! No, it's a floor cleaner! No, it's a dessert topping!
.NET doesn't have a clear vision of what it will be doesn't mean it won't be worthy.
People used to say that about Windows. It's an operating system! No, DOS is the operating system, Windows is a GUI.
A lot of great ideas start out as one thing and end up something else. And yes, I think Windows was a great idea. No one forced all those people to prefer it over Mac OS or OS/2.
And no one stopped Sun from coming out with an affordable version of Solaris that could run on Intel.
So just because
According to a Disney videotaping ruling from the 80s, your ownership of The White Album gives you the right to burn a CD, for your own use, of your own vinyl copy of the White Album.
You can also, without even owning the White Album, tape its songs off the radio and burn a CD of your tapes.
Since you want a fresh CD produced direct from the master tapes, you are buying a new product that you don't yet own. The record company has the right to charge whatever the market will bear, in this case, about 20 dollars.
I work for DynCorp (www.dyncorp.com). We have an intern now from George Mason University who works with UNIX most of the time, but he also does some Windows NT stuff. If you go to college in the Washington DC area then have your placement office contact DynCorp or me personally at jmark@#nospam#dyncorp.com