With a line of PHP (or your preferred web scripting language) you could always change which style sheet to use based on the user agent, or even make your CSS sheet in PHP so you can do:
<? if ($ie): ?>// IE specific CSS <? else: ?>// Standards compliant code <? endif; ?>
and such.
Yeah it's a pain in the ass, and I prefer to code my site (above) by allowing things to deprecate in such a way that the site still works alright in IE; I also try to encourage my viewers to upgrade to something better. But obviously my home page is not a mission critical web site.
Slashdot doesn't use "Times New Roman." It uses absolutely no font at all. This means that your browser renders it using its default proportional font. Proportional usually maps to one of "sans-serif" or "serif," and then you can change your default sans-serif or serif font.
I'm not sure if this is settable in IE, but Mozilla, Safari, etc etc have these settings.
Personally, I use serif, and then my serif font is Georgia. It looks great to me. But feel free to use sans-serif and Comic Sans if it suits you.
Unless you're running RAID, it is highly unlikely that you will fill the bandwidth of Firewire 400, let alone Firewire 800. The fastest 7200 RPM hard drive on the market does 55 MBps tops, just 5 more than 50 MBps, and not even close to 100 MBps. I guess its good to have headroom for firewire hard drives or something, but seriously, its not even going to come close.
Let alone what the iPod has in it. A 3600 RPM drive if you're lucky. Probably not. 20 MBps? 10? My roommate says he can transfer at 2 MBps; highest report are 7-8 MBps.
These standalone releases are temporary, of sorts. In time, the Mozilla 1.x suite will be this very suite of applications -- Firebird ("Mozilla Browser"), Thunderbird ("Mozilla Mail"), etc. You will be able to choose them separately at install time. I think you will still be able to download Firebird separately too, if you wish.
To be honest, it's all very complicated, and I probably have it wrong. I highly recommend you take a look at the Mozilla Roadmap. They clearly have a much better grasp of this than I do.
Overall, I'm sure this will solve some of the version number problems you describe.
AIM is no longer a near monopoly, and MSN is paying the bill.
That's odd, I don't know anyone on MSN anymore. I think I had as many as 2 people on there, once, a few years ago, that I actually wanted to talk to. Now, everyone I know (tech savvy to end-users) -- my mom, my sisters, everyone -- uses AIM. After all, its what AOL users use. I guess someone uses it...
(Perhaps it doesn't help that I pretty much mandate that anyone who wants to talk online gets and uses AIM. Then they stick with it.)
Otherwise, I won't disagree with you. Clearly, one unified/open/interconnected chat network would benefit all end users. I hope that this backwards act by Microsoft will causes their network to (continue?) downhill...
This is an XP 1700 (1.46GHz), easily but poorly overclocked on a ECS K7S5A (not an O/C-friendly motherboard) to 147 * 11 = 1647 MHz. For reference, BIOS recognizes it as a XP 2000, and I have DDR memory, not SDRAM (this board supports both).
Total computation time : 32.03 seconds
I paid $50 for this CPU several months ago. I don't use the retail fan for my 10% overclock, since I have much higher goals in time. This CPU is extremely cool at stock, I'm sure 10% on a retail sink would be fine.
Here is the method used: Computation of 4194304 digits of Pi Method used : Chudnovsky Size of FFT : 512 K Physical memory used : ~ 29536 K Disk memory used : ~ 0.00 Meg
Or, the power is already in the hand of the people. Its called trial by jury, a jury of your peers. All they jury has to do is say that these people are innocent, regardless of evidence.
It's not double jeopardy because double jeopardy is getting re-prosecuted for the same crime after being prosecuted/convicted.
If you watched the movie Double Jeopardy, you would know that the heroine (played by Ashley Judd) could not be retried and convicted for the murder of her husband (who was actually still alive) because she was already convicted (wrongly) and did the time for it. This allowed her to go after him, with lethal force and without fear of repercussions, in the movie. This is (amazingly) an accurate portayal of this concept.
However, in the US your 'definition' applies as well, as far as I can tell. (I doubt it is officially called double jeopardy, however.) Only the defense is allowed to appeal a conviction; I believe if overturned on appeal, it may be able to appealed by the prosecution at that point only. I'm going off my poor memory of a law class I took last semester.
The line from the Constitution reads,
...nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb;...
Interpretation is left up to lawyers, judges, and lots of other laws, I'm sure. Sorry, but I don't feel like doing any more research on this.
In not-really-related Matrix news, there are now several very well written essays up on the "Philosophy and the Matrix". They're good reads if you're interested in that sorta thing.
Then there are the guys sitting behind [Kazaa's] attorneys, from Tech-9 - an industrial rock band that distributes its music online. They're wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the letters FTI. Fuck the industry.
Damn straight.
An awesome article. I recommend you actually (*gasp*) read it.
OT but, which one? I've been looking for a good one.
MUDs are really in a different class as modern MMORPG, they attract a much smaller class of people. I'm sure only a small percentage of people who play a MMORPG have ever heard of MUDs, less played one, and less played one for a long time.
This is, however, a Good Thing(TM), in most cases.
You contradict yourself in your post, saying you have to write down the barcode, but you can remember the data if you were to look at his barcode...
Contradiction aside, most people, and especially common thieves, would have no idea how to make a barcode. I personally know you can do it with some software, but I'm not familiar with any of it and have never done it. I do know there are several types of bar codes so that throws another hardball at you; you have to get the right type.
In this case, also, if this person lost his bar code, it's his video rental card. It doesnt exactly scream "this is the key to my house." *No one* is going to think its the key to his house. That. Is. Cool. Of course, if he doesnt have a copy or cant get another copy of from the video store, he's also screwed, etc etc.
On the other hand, if a thief were to somehow get your pin, I bet he would be able to remember the pin long enough to write it down, and entering it into your numpad is trivial.
I think its at least more secure then you give it credit.
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Oh, I believe... ITS ON.
Tiny font before an eye exam? What a combination! I wonder how many people that come in couldn't read it anyway.
I'd like to congratulate the author of this snippet on their ability to work in a link to HOT or NOT.
HOT or NOT on slashdot. I never thought I'd see the day...
> Ask Slashdot: Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases?
No.
I'm sure if you had used miles they wouldn't have noticed.
;-)
Try it with me now...
"I'm just over 30 miles north of the border..."
Good! Now we can move on to step 2, using real money...
(Just kidding, of course.
Or, bandwidth doesn't cost that much, at least not where I will likely buy my next server.
1,000,000 hits/day = 365,000,000 hits/year @ 1kb/ea =
365 GB.
I can transfer 365 GB for as little as $25.19. Alternately, this is $0.07 a day.
So yes, you are probably wasting your time.
With a line of PHP (or your preferred web scripting language) you could always change which style sheet to use based on the user agent, or even make your CSS sheet in PHP so you can do:
// IE specific CSS // Standards compliant code
<? if ($ie): ?>
<? else: ?>
<? endif; ?>
and such.
Yeah it's a pain in the ass, and I prefer to code my site (above) by allowing things to deprecate in such a way that the site still works alright in IE; I also try to encourage my viewers to upgrade to something better. But obviously my home page is not a mission critical web site.
Slashdot doesn't use "Times New Roman." It uses absolutely no font at all. This means that your browser renders it using its default proportional font. Proportional usually maps to one of "sans-serif" or "serif," and then you can change your default sans-serif or serif font.
I'm not sure if this is settable in IE, but Mozilla, Safari, etc etc have these settings.
Personally, I use serif, and then my serif font is Georgia. It looks great to me. But feel free to use sans-serif and Comic Sans if it suits you.
Since we're all suspected terrorists anyway.
/. before (link). And there's also more links.)
(Also this is a very good follow-up read if you're interested. This has also been posted on
I, for one, welcome our new Ashcroft overlords.
Unless you're running RAID, it is highly unlikely that you will fill the bandwidth of Firewire 400, let alone Firewire 800. The fastest 7200 RPM hard drive on the market does 55 MBps tops, just 5 more than 50 MBps, and not even close to 100 MBps. I guess its good to have headroom for firewire hard drives or something, but seriously, its not even going to come close.
Let alone what the iPod has in it. A 3600 RPM drive if you're lucky. Probably not. 20 MBps? 10? My roommate says he can transfer at 2 MBps; highest report are 7-8 MBps.
These standalone releases are temporary, of sorts. In time, the Mozilla 1.x suite will be this very suite of applications -- Firebird ("Mozilla Browser"), Thunderbird ("Mozilla Mail"), etc. You will be able to choose them separately at install time. I think you will still be able to download Firebird separately too, if you wish.
To be honest, it's all very complicated, and I probably have it wrong. I highly recommend you take a look at the Mozilla Roadmap. They clearly have a much better grasp of this than I do.
Overall, I'm sure this will solve some of the version number problems you describe.
Instead, we need to try to change that which is being abused: the DMCA.
Perhaps we should write to your congressperson or favorite supreme justice about how you think the DMCA is bad or unconstitutional (respectively).
You can't blame Google for following a crooked law.
AIM is no longer a near monopoly, and MSN is paying the bill.
That's odd, I don't know anyone on MSN anymore. I think I had as many as 2 people on there, once, a few years ago, that I actually wanted to talk to. Now, everyone I know (tech savvy to end-users) -- my mom, my sisters, everyone -- uses AIM. After all, its what AOL users use. I guess someone uses it...
(Perhaps it doesn't help that I pretty much mandate that anyone who wants to talk online gets and uses AIM. Then they stick with it.)
Otherwise, I won't disagree with you. Clearly, one unified/open/interconnected chat network would benefit all end users. I hope that this backwards act by Microsoft will causes their network to (continue?) downhill...
...and I don't have a plan for world domination!
This is an XP 1700 (1.46GHz), easily but poorly overclocked on a ECS K7S5A (not an O/C-friendly motherboard) to 147 * 11 = 1647 MHz. For reference, BIOS recognizes it as a XP 2000, and I have DDR memory, not SDRAM (this board supports both).
Total computation time : 32.03 seconds
I paid $50 for this CPU several months ago. I don't use the retail fan for my 10% overclock, since I have much higher goals in time. This CPU is extremely cool at stock, I'm sure 10% on a retail sink would be fine.
Here is the method used:
Computation of 4194304 digits of Pi
Method used : Chudnovsky
Size of FFT : 512 K
Physical memory used : ~ 29536 K
Disk memory used : ~ 0.00 Meg
I pressed: 0, 0, 4194304, 512, 1.
Just to sap AOL for all its worth... make sure to pick up the Animatrix if you haven't already.
/. (I'm sure it was); the download link is here.
For whatever reason I missed the 3rd episode of the Animatrix being announced on
What, haven't heard? (Too many blue pills?) It's an animated series done by several famous film directors. It's good too. Check it:
1st Episode: The Second Renaissance - Part 1
2nd Episode: Program
3rd Episode: Detective Story
Get all the details at theanimatrix.com.
Looks like its time to sue Google. That and those pesky college kids. How dare you search/index/store illegal data!
Or you could read the FAQ on this issue; then accept the /. effect, and either prepare for it, don't care about it, or don't put up a web site.
Or, the power is already in the hand of the people. Its called trial by jury, a jury of your peers. All they jury has to do is say that these people are innocent, regardless of evidence.
This is called jury nullification. Here's some information on it:
http://www.friesian.com/nullif.htm
It's not double jeopardy because double jeopardy is getting re-prosecuted for the same crime after being prosecuted/convicted.
If you watched the movie Double Jeopardy, you would know that the heroine (played by Ashley Judd) could not be retried and convicted for the murder of her husband (who was actually still alive) because she was already convicted (wrongly) and did the time for it. This allowed her to go after him, with lethal force and without fear of repercussions, in the movie. This is (amazingly) an accurate portayal of this concept.
However, in the US your 'definition' applies as well, as far as I can tell. (I doubt it is officially called double jeopardy, however.) Only the defense is allowed to appeal a conviction; I believe if overturned on appeal, it may be able to appealed by the prosecution at that point only. I'm going off my poor memory of a law class I took last semester.
The line from the Constitution reads,Interpretation is left up to lawyers, judges, and lots of other laws, I'm sure. Sorry, but I don't feel like doing any more research on this.
In not-really-related Matrix news, there are now several very well written essays up on the "Philosophy and the Matrix". They're good reads if you're interested in that sorta thing.
Yea; sad, isnt it.
An awesome article. I recommend you actually (*gasp*) read it.
OT but, which one? I've been looking for a good one.
MUDs are really in a different class as modern MMORPG, they attract a much smaller class of people. I'm sure only a small percentage of people who play a MMORPG have ever heard of MUDs, less played one, and less played one for a long time.
This is, however, a Good Thing(TM), in most cases.
You contradict yourself in your post, saying you have to write down the barcode, but you can remember the data if you were to look at his barcode...
Contradiction aside, most people, and especially common thieves, would have no idea how to make a barcode. I personally know you can do it with some software, but I'm not familiar with any of it and have never done it. I do know there are several types of bar codes so that throws another hardball at you; you have to get the right type.
In this case, also, if this person lost his bar code, it's his video rental card. It doesnt exactly scream "this is the key to my house." *No one* is going to think its the key to his house. That. Is. Cool. Of course, if he doesnt have a copy or cant get another copy of from the video store, he's also screwed, etc etc.
On the other hand, if a thief were to somehow get your pin, I bet he would be able to remember the pin long enough to write it down, and entering it into your numpad is trivial.
I think its at least more secure then you give it credit.