I would contend that having a standard compliant site would be much easier to maintain than cobbled together IE crap built in Frontpage.
Not only is the standard complaint (and intelligently designed w/style sheets, db back end...) going to work on the better browsers (and maybe even work better in IE), but as other clients (hand helds, cell phones etc) become more common browsers you won't be endlessly twiddling presentation to make your site usable.
And how many folks have their Firefox "pretending" to be IE to the world so that their stupid corporate tools written to check browser version will work?
For awhile I was using IE for some of these internal workplace sites, but after new windows opened to the default browser...Firefox (and worked fine) I realized the IE version XX or high constraint was crap.
Talk about sweatshops! The bullpen I work in has been HOT for months. It was once an executives office. Now it is home to 22 workstations. Facilities say they will do something about it if over 80 degrees for 3 consective days. The log taken 3X daily since mid-summer ranges from 79 to 84 degrees...can't wait until the boilers fire up!
Informative?? I can see why someone modded that over-rated. I intended my post to be funny. Rating it informative...that is funny.
Regarding other response post...the BSOD is a virtual manifestation of blue smoke. Blue smoke is hardware..virtual blue smoke (aka the BSOD) is due to memory leeks, overwrites and what not.
smoke seems to be coming out of the back of the machine
It is a well kept secret that modern hardware requires magic blue smoke to operate correctly. When a user or system failure allows the magic blue smoke to escape then and only then the hard drive will make grinding noises, the monitor will go blank, the processor will over-heat and be destroyed.
And this is supposed to make us feel better about it? I have heard many silly reasons not to worry about election shinanigans and from people upset by international observers.
Both sides cheat (so why monitor or hold elections at all? Put 5 representatives from each party in a room with 10,000 ballots and see who comes out on top
International observers will influence our elections (the truth is not afraid of scrutiny...it is still the truth. If we want to play nation builder and be an example of democracy for the world, what have we to fear by observation?
Its just sour grapes (Regardless of your take on 2000, it did highlight many things that needed to be fixed. Were they? Somewhat, sometimes, some places...but many problems persist.)
French and Russian peasants of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries had another solution for those with too much influence due to the amount of $$$ they had in their pockets.
The problem with the modern slash and burn agriculture versus that of the last thousand years or so is that it is now done as an advancing front with development behind it. If a few acres are carved out of the middle of the forest and then abandonded (the practice in S. America for hundreds of years) the forest closes in the cleared area and life moves on.
Get those people fed and industrialized, and they'll stop cutting down their own forests
True...and a noble gesture at that...but they will also want to live in bigger houses, drive automobiles, have more stuff, use more energy etc. We Americans use energy and natural resources at a much higher rate than subsistance farmers cutting down trees. Deforestation is a huge issue, but transforming a resource extraction economy for an industrial one does not necessarily have a net decrease in impact.
As a former Aero Researcher I am now more interested in the Beowulf side. I am in the request/approval process for obtaining some NASA solvers (CFL3D, XFOIL...).
I had considered going the e-bay route with box lots of older processors/motherboards, but from what I have read on the compute cluster groups that option is is high on the Watts/(Compute Power) scale. Factoring in HD, RAM, Power, Cases, Power Supplies etc the $/(Compute Power) is not that great either.
Going the AMD socket 754 route I was stuck with $120 MOBO, with and ATX form factor. Needing some heavy duty cooling if I went dual processor...
Just as a proof of concept on a cluster older machines are an inexpensive option, but in the long haul I have come to the conclussion that being about 6 months behind the bleeding edge at the time of purchase is about right.
I was considering putting together my first Beowulf cluster. I wanted to go with 64 bit processor to run CFD codes. To maximize CPU's I was considering dual processor boards. Also of concern is energy consumption/heat etc.
The boards for the AMD64 have a lot of features a compute node would not need. A compute node needs a network connection, processor, memory and one hard-drive...I don't need 5 PCI slots etc.
Schwartz did say that any money the patents generate will be donated to charities
Donating ill gotten booty to charity doesn't make a practice any less objectionable. Suppose I hold up a bank and give all the money to "Save the Fluffy Bunnies". Am I absolved? Hardly.
The combination of 10' wall poster and the title of this thread are too much. I would be interested to hear what kind of printer you have that can print on 8'x10' media?
How about the sins of hubris and greed that the current administration seems to celebrate?
References to these sins are more numerous in the gospel than sexual immorality. As a Christian I am disgusted with the fascination with the sin of others (homosexuality / abortion etc) while deception (Enron), greed (Halliburton), professions of infallibility (President)...are somehow virtues to these "Christians".
This is simply the best question in the bunch. GW's stupid answer to this question 4 1/2 years ago shows his true colors. After signing death warrents for hundreds of prisoners, signing hundreds of bills into law, "leading" corporations...the only thing he did wrong in his adult life was trading Sammy Sosa to the Cubs?
Hubris is one of the more self destructive sins and I think this question revealed this fault in the President. After 4 years as the most powerful man in the world I would be VERY interested to hear if he has made a single mistake (in his own mind).
With a bigger house I can have more STUFF. Then of course I need a bigger SUV to haul my STUFF around. Then I stuff my ever expanding ass in my BIG chair and watch my BIG TV.
Most power plants are near water supplies for cooling anyway. If you desalinated sea water it could be a fresh water source for southern CA and they could let more water flow in the Colorado and other rivers.
One mitigation to deal with the peaks in demand and lulls in output would be to design over capacity and use any "overflow" of electricity to perform some other sort of work such as generating hydrogen for mobile fuel cells.
Combining a few news stories from the last months...
So I can be secretly held (shadow detainees)
in a secret facility (hide and seek from Red Cross)
awaiting my secret trial (military courts for civilian American and foreign nationals)
for breaking a secret law (recent slashdot)
for looking at a secret map (how do we know which ones are OK?)
derived from secret satellite data (that was formerly readily available).
Yes I suppose us Slashdoters are paranoid. If freedom is relative as the Chinese government once professed, maybe we are making the rest of the world a free and democratic society by moving the often referenced "America as a model for a free society" to a police state of Orwellian proportions. Kind of a perverse way of liberating the world isn't it?
I think the University of Wisconsin regents statement immortalized on Bascom Hall says it well:
WHATEVER MAY BE THE LIMITATIONS WHICH TRAMMEL INQUIRY ELSEWHERE, WE BELIEVE THAT THE GREAT STATE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SHOULD EVER ENCOURAGE THAT CONTINUAL AND FEARLESS SIFTING AND WINNOWING BY WHICH ALONE THE TRUTH CAN BE FOUND.
Some would consider thoughtful debate "flip-flopping". In other words "Joe Sportsman for Bush I like mercury in my fish" would rather have decisively wrong than wishy washy intellectuals wanting to think.
Slashdot Mirror
Not only is the standard complaint (and intelligently designed w/style sheets, db back end...) going to work on the better browsers (and maybe even work better in IE), but as other clients (hand helds, cell phones etc) become more common browsers you won't be endlessly twiddling presentation to make your site usable.
For awhile I was using IE for some of these internal workplace sites, but after new windows opened to the default browser...Firefox (and worked fine) I realized the IE version XX or high constraint was crap.
Talk about sweatshops! The bullpen I work in has been HOT for months. It was once an executives office. Now it is home to 22 workstations. Facilities say they will do something about it if over 80 degrees for 3 consective days. The log taken 3X daily since mid-summer ranges from 79 to 84 degrees...can't wait until the boilers fire up!
Regarding other response post...the BSOD is a virtual manifestation of blue smoke. Blue smoke is hardware..virtual blue smoke (aka the BSOD) is due to memory leeks, overwrites and what not.
It is a well kept secret that modern hardware requires magic blue smoke to operate correctly. When a user or system failure allows the magic blue smoke to escape then and only then the hard drive will make grinding noises, the monitor will go blank, the processor will over-heat and be destroyed.
Both sides cheat (so why monitor or hold elections at all? Put 5 representatives from each party in a room with 10,000 ballots and see who comes out on top
International observers will influence our elections (the truth is not afraid of scrutiny...it is still the truth. If we want to play nation builder and be an example of democracy for the world, what have we to fear by observation?
Its just sour grapes (Regardless of your take on 2000, it did highlight many things that needed to be fixed. Were they? Somewhat, sometimes, some places...but many problems persist.)
Outsourced IT professionals unite!!!!
The problem with the modern slash and burn agriculture versus that of the last thousand years or so is that it is now done as an advancing front with development behind it. If a few acres are carved out of the middle of the forest and then abandonded (the practice in S. America for hundreds of years) the forest closes in the cleared area and life moves on.
True...and a noble gesture at that...but they will also want to live in bigger houses, drive automobiles, have more stuff, use more energy etc. We Americans use energy and natural resources at a much higher rate than subsistance farmers cutting down trees. Deforestation is a huge issue, but transforming a resource extraction economy for an industrial one does not necessarily have a net decrease in impact.
I had considered going the e-bay route with box lots of older processors/motherboards, but from what I have read on the compute cluster groups that option is is high on the Watts/(Compute Power) scale. Factoring in HD, RAM, Power, Cases, Power Supplies etc the $/(Compute Power) is not that great either.
Going the AMD socket 754 route I was stuck with $120 MOBO, with and ATX form factor. Needing some heavy duty cooling if I went dual processor...
Just as a proof of concept on a cluster older machines are an inexpensive option, but in the long haul I have come to the conclussion that being about 6 months behind the bleeding edge at the time of purchase is about right.
The boards for the AMD64 have a lot of features a compute node would not need. A compute node needs a network connection, processor, memory and one hard-drive...I don't need 5 PCI slots etc.
This interesting solution offers:
Modest Power Consumption
Small form factor
Modest Price
Dual processor
This is worth a look at the detail specs.
21045.09663 to 78167.5018 furlongs/fortnight
Donating ill gotten booty to charity doesn't make a practice any less objectionable. Suppose I hold up a bank and give all the money to "Save the Fluffy Bunnies". Am I absolved? Hardly.
The combination of 10' wall poster and the title of this thread are too much. I would be interested to hear what kind of printer you have that can print on 8'x10' media?
References to these sins are more numerous in the gospel than sexual immorality. As a Christian I am disgusted with the fascination with the sin of others (homosexuality / abortion etc) while deception (Enron), greed (Halliburton), professions of infallibility (President)...are somehow virtues to these "Christians".
Hubris is one of the more self destructive sins and I think this question revealed this fault in the President. After 4 years as the most powerful man in the world I would be VERY interested to hear if he has made a single mistake (in his own mind).
Damn! There goes the Bridge club!
Little brother Bush did it again leading up to this election...shameless!!
Oxymoron of the year? Hootersworld-yankathon-reading frat brothers would be 500 times more likely!
The American way...ain't it beautiful?
Several thousand words to explain what is wrong with our government and why the current administration scares the heck out of me.
Most power plants are near water supplies for cooling anyway. If you desalinated sea water it could be a fresh water source for southern CA and they could let more water flow in the Colorado and other rivers.
One mitigation to deal with the peaks in demand and lulls in output would be to design over capacity and use any "overflow" of electricity to perform some other sort of work such as generating hydrogen for mobile fuel cells.
So I can be secretly held (shadow detainees)
in a secret facility (hide and seek from Red Cross)
awaiting my secret trial (military courts for civilian American and foreign nationals)
for breaking a secret law (recent slashdot)
for looking at a secret map (how do we know which ones are OK?)
derived from secret satellite data (that was formerly readily available).
Yes I suppose us Slashdoters are paranoid. If freedom is relative as the Chinese government once professed, maybe we are making the rest of the world a free and democratic society by moving the often referenced "America as a model for a free society" to a police state of Orwellian proportions. Kind of a perverse way of liberating the world isn't it?
I think the University of Wisconsin regents statement immortalized on Bascom Hall says it well:
Some would consider thoughtful debate "flip-flopping". In other words "Joe Sportsman for Bush I like mercury in my fish" would rather have decisively wrong than wishy washy intellectuals wanting to think.