I half agree with you. I generally use NVu, Emacs and TopStyle Pro (running under wine with the help of winetools). A couple of posters have mentioned Bluefish, so that's compiling right now (Gentoo).
Generally, I'll use NVu to rough out a page, then switch to TopStyle to work out how I want the CSS to work, do the bulk of the coding in Emacs, then back to TopStyle to polish up the CSS. So far, I haven't found an equal to TopStyle for CSS. Especially the immediate feedback. NVu's CSS is painfully modal by comparision. I've done CSS in Emacs, but it's a lot more work (Change, save, refresh browser, change, save, refresh). Yuck.
I do have to agree with your comment on WYSIWYG's adding stuff that doesn't belong. NVu seems particularly fond of break tags (<BR>) and non breaking spaces ( ).
Done right, pierced ears and long hair can look very classy. In the early '90s I applied for a job at Blue Cross (very traditional, very straight-laced). My hair was ~1/3 of the way down my back, but pulled back into a very neat ponytail. I was wearing 3 earrings 2 1" 12-ga CBR and 1 3/4" 16-ga CBR. And my outfit was a bit avant garde (compared to their typical dark blue suit, white shirt, red tie). I wore a dark teal double breasted suit, with a pale yellow shirt and a tie designed by Jerry Garcia.
I got the job. I believe that at least part of it was the suit and shirt. I had both tailored, so they fit perfectly. (That I knew my stuff in, out and sideways, undoubtedly helped.)
I tell anyone looking for work: pay to have the shirt and suit altered. It doesn't cost that much (generally $30-50) and it looks so much better than just grabbing something off the rack.
Heh, I got the same reaction when I shaved it all off except for a Vandyke. Bald depends a lot on the head shape though. I worked with a guy who shaved his head, but it just looked so wrong on him. It gave him the creepy look of a child's dolly with the hair removed.
Also, they had elections before for a candidate that was not imposed by a foreign power and backed by that foreign power's military capacity, his name was Saddam and he received almost 100% of the votes...
That might work provided there's no way to either circumvent the remote control or hack in and seize control remotely.
My twisted mind keeps imagining an air traffic controller, PS2 game pad in hand, asking: "Is it R1 Triangle or R1 Square for flaps?"
Some years ago I had to deal with "Scary Security Guy" (SSG). SSG was reviewing the access control requirements for our data center when my boss chimed in with "we're thinking of thumbprint readers to secure the production machine room." SSG, never looking up from the document he was reading, just shook his head and said in a totally flat voice, "fingers can be cut off."
Well, what happens today? If a fire in the cockpit is bad enough that the crew has to evacuate, ie the fire suppression system cannot handle it, you probably have a dead plane. The accessible cockpit doesn't really change anything.
In a non-isolated cockpit, what happens if the pilot has a heart attack? He'll yield the controls and be given O2 while the copilot diverts for a medical emergency. No major difference here.
The other poster raised the issue of sick crew or passengers. Again, no real difference. The TV/movie scenario where the private pilot lands the plane, or Leslie Nielson rushes forward to treat the pilot is just a TV/movie plot element.
Mind you, I'm not talking about just walling off a cockpit as it is today, but creating a crew cabin. Think a space shuttle size cabin with room for 6-8, not today's teensy cockpit for 2 plus a jumpseat. It only sounds paranoid until you see what airport personnel go through to access restricted areas: swipe card, punch code, biometric scan (I've seen thumbprint, iris scan, and voiceprint used).
What would be the effect of just eliminating the cockpit door altogether? Enlarge the cockpit area to include its own head and galley. Expand the flight crew to include the usual cockpit personnel (pilot, co, nav) plus 1, maybe 2, attendants. Then, physically isolate the cockpit from the rest of the plane. Have the flight crew board through a separate entrance.
A hijacker might convince them to make an unscheduled landing, but without cockpit access, the plane cannot be turned into a weapon.
Luser: Hey, what's this hole in the side of my house?
MS: That's our new invention! We call it a "door way". It lets you enter and leave your house!
Luser: And lets anyone walk right in and nick my telly!
MS: (smiling) Not to fear! We care about your security! That's why we offer MS House Professional! When you upgrade to MS House Pro, you get a device that closes the hol..., er, "door way", and protects your stuff! We call it... the "Door"! Juse close the "Door" and your MS House Pro is safe and secure!
Luser: That sounds all well and good, but what happens if someone walks up and opens my "Door"?
But, I guarantee that it will have all kinds of bells and whistles. (some may really like 45 deg tilt views).
And, if you zoom in the way, when you press Control-Left Windows and use the mouse wheel to tilt, you can actually see the occupants slide out the windows and hang on for dear life!
P2p is illegal because it can be used to violate copyrights.
Yup, p2p is illegal, sure, right.
As are cars (can be used when robbing banks) and pens (need to write that note with something). And those ski masks, yup, illegal.
Hmm, maybe we should just make CD/DVDs illegal, and, and those broadcasts. Someone might record 'em! And, if we close all the theaters, no one can sneak in and record our movies! Brilliant!
Tab and Window Extensions Full control of tab behavior. Specifically, TabX and Tab Browser Preferences.
# Ctrl-T in Firefox opens up a new and utterly blank tab...even more useless than the Ctrl-N behavior!
And what would you have it do? Behave like IE where Ctrl-T does nothing at all?
Personally, I dislike IE's "Ctrl-N clones the window" as 90% of the time, that is not what I want.
# Ctrl-O in firefox is the normal file open dialog...not as useful as IE's URL-or-file-browse feature
In Firefox, Ctrl-L sets the focus to the address bar for entering a URL. Ctrl-O opens the file browser. In IE to open a url I can tyle Ctrl-O; Same number of keystrokes as Firefox's Ctrl-L. But, to open local file, I need to type Ctrl-O, TAB, TAB, TAB, Enter (or, I can switch from kbd to mouse to click Browse, then switch back to kbd) to achieve what I can do with Ctrl-O in Firefox.
# I wish Firefox had an option to let each tab have its own close button...often I want to quickly close a bunch of tabs based on their title, but instead I have to switch to each one and close it seperately.
TabX will add a close widget to each tab. Personally, that's too busy to suit me. Plus it's aggravating to click on a tab I wanted to see, only to have it close because I clicked too close to the edge. (Of course, that's why I have UndoCloseTab extension.) Have you tried middle-clicking (scroll wheel) on a tab? It does exactly what you're asking for and is less prone to fumble fingers.
Use Firefox exclusively for a few weeks and I think you'll find that those "usability pluses" are really familiarity and not usability. And if something seems difficult, take a look at the online help, you may be going about things the wrong way. Or, there may be an extension that will do what you want.
[*] The IE installer only looks small; it downloads another 12-60MB when run.
Its a caching proxy server for crying out loud. It caches web pages and feeds you the cached version. This is not new nor is it surprising, especially for a new service offering.
Actually, it is a bit surprising. Proxies are nothing new. All of the issues are well defined and have long since been worked through. Google really has little excuse for caching pages that should not be cached.
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My car is a heisenmobile. Every time I look at the speedometer, I get lost.
Generally, I'll use NVu to rough out a page, then switch to TopStyle to work out how I want the CSS to work, do the bulk of the coding in Emacs, then back to TopStyle to polish up the CSS. So far, I haven't found an equal to TopStyle for CSS. Especially the immediate feedback. NVu's CSS is painfully modal by comparision. I've done CSS in Emacs, but it's a lot more work (Change, save, refresh browser, change, save, refresh). Yuck.
I do have to agree with your comment on WYSIWYG's adding stuff that doesn't belong. NVu seems particularly fond of break tags (<BR>) and non breaking spaces ( ).
I got the job. I believe that at least part of it was the suit and shirt. I had both tailored, so they fit perfectly. (That I knew my stuff in, out and sideways, undoubtedly helped.)
I tell anyone looking for work: pay to have the shirt and suit altered. It doesn't cost that much (generally $30-50) and it looks so much better than just grabbing something off the rack.
Heh, I got the same reaction when I shaved it all off except for a Vandyke. Bald depends a lot on the head shape though. I worked with a guy who shaved his head, but it just looked so wrong on him. It gave him the creepy look of a child's dolly with the hair removed.
Presumably, you are refering to this election.
Not sure what search engine or terms you used, but google found lots of vendors.
Even for the EOD version.
FYI, the CMU article describes an 800 micrometer bot. That works out to 800,000 nm.
Dude! That's what the subscription service is for. Filtering the 1 out of a 1000 hotties from the rest of us.
My twisted mind keeps imagining an air traffic controller, PS2 game pad in hand, asking: "Is it R1 Triangle or R1 Square for flaps?"
Some years ago I had to deal with "Scary Security Guy" (SSG). SSG was reviewing the access control requirements for our data center when my boss chimed in with "we're thinking of thumbprint readers to secure the production machine room." SSG, never looking up from the document he was reading, just shook his head and said in a totally flat voice, "fingers can be cut off."
In a non-isolated cockpit, what happens if the pilot has a heart attack? He'll yield the controls and be given O2 while the copilot diverts for a medical emergency. No major difference here.
The other poster raised the issue of sick crew or passengers. Again, no real difference. The TV/movie scenario where the private pilot lands the plane, or Leslie Nielson rushes forward to treat the pilot is just a TV/movie plot element.
Mind you, I'm not talking about just walling off a cockpit as it is today, but creating a crew cabin. Think a space shuttle size cabin with room for 6-8, not today's teensy cockpit for 2 plus a jumpseat. It only sounds paranoid until you see what airport personnel go through to access restricted areas: swipe card, punch code, biometric scan (I've seen thumbprint, iris scan, and voiceprint used).
A hijacker might convince them to make an unscheduled landing, but without cockpit access, the plane cannot be turned into a weapon.
But don't all MS products start at version 3? I mean, it worked for NT, right?
Yup, p2p is illegal, sure, right.
As are cars (can be used when robbing banks) and pens (need to write that note with something). And those ski masks, yup, illegal.
Hmm, maybe we should just make CD/DVDs illegal, and, and those broadcasts. Someone might record 'em! And, if we close all the theaters, no one can sneak in and record our movies! Brilliant!
Hey, who turned off the music?
No, lawyers produce bullshit. It's the SCO investors who swallow it.
Whoot!
More beans please!
When did Microsoft buy the RIAA? I must have missed that story. And the dupe. And the other dupe.
Have you ever looked at the Firefox extensions? The Firefox download is tiny, under 5MB[*], because Firefox leaves the "extras" to individual choice.
Most (if not all) of the functionality you are asking for is available. For example:
- FireFTP XUL FTP Client
- Tab and Window Extensions Full control of tab behavior. Specifically, TabX and Tab Browser Preferences.
# Ctrl-T in Firefox opens up a new and utterly blank tab...even more useless than the Ctrl-N behavior!And what would you have it do? Behave like IE where Ctrl-T does nothing at all?
Personally, I dislike IE's "Ctrl-N clones the window" as 90% of the time, that is not what I want.
# Ctrl-O in firefox is the normal file open dialog...not as useful as IE's URL-or-file-browse feature
In Firefox, Ctrl-L sets the focus to the address bar for entering a URL. Ctrl-O opens the file browser. In IE to open a url I can tyle Ctrl-O; Same number of keystrokes as Firefox's Ctrl-L. But, to open local file, I need to type Ctrl-O, TAB, TAB, TAB, Enter (or, I can switch from kbd to mouse to click Browse, then switch back to kbd) to achieve what I can do with Ctrl-O in Firefox.
# I wish Firefox had an option to let each tab have its own close button...often I want to quickly close a bunch of tabs based on their title, but instead I have to switch to each one and close it seperately.
TabX will add a close widget to each tab. Personally, that's too busy to suit me. Plus it's aggravating to click on a tab I wanted to see, only to have it close because I clicked too close to the edge. (Of course, that's why I have UndoCloseTab extension.) Have you tried middle-clicking (scroll wheel) on a tab? It does exactly what you're asking for and is less prone to fumble fingers.
Use Firefox exclusively for a few weeks and I think you'll find that those "usability pluses" are really familiarity and not usability. And if something seems difficult, take a look at the online help, you may be going about things the wrong way. Or, there may be an extension that will do what you want.
[*] The IE installer only looks small; it downloads another 12-60MB when run.
Actually, it is a bit surprising. Proxies are nothing new. All of the issues are well defined and have long since been worked through. Google really has little excuse for caching pages that should not be cached.
Yeah, it's all fun until the artificial gravity gives out. Then you want the energy weapons without any recoil.
Nah, that only happens in Soviet Russia.
Wait a minute! Slashdotters? Sex?
In other news, Indiana University students found to be whiners.
With this kind of progress, we should have FTL engines by the end of next year.
You've obviously never opened a romance novel.