Mod this post up... aftk2 is right. We should be moving away from using (X)HTML for presentation. A simple H1 { font-size: large; } setting in a CSS file is all that's necessary.
A website with a simple database to gather snail mail addresses for the most annoying spammers would benefit the community. But it would be easy to abuse the system and submit anybody's address so it would only work well if each address was checked and verified by three or four people before being posted. After I while I imagine the checking process would get easier if the people doing it share tips and accept corrections.
It may take hundreds or thousands of years of searching to find a signal from an alien civilizaion. The odds are just as likely that we may find one the first day but take hundreds or thousands of years to decipher it.
If you feel a twinge of guilt when a salesperson asks you for your phone number, give them the local weather phone. In Boston the number is (617)936-xxxx (replace x with any four digits). A contributor to PRI's Marketplace radio show recommended that tactic in a funny story a half year ago and it works well.
Does Slashdot have to post something about every oddball story that involves technology, no matter how far-fetched it is? No shit, this website is turning into Popular Science.
Whether or not it is deserved, how does it feel to go through life knowing the first phrase people around the world think of after hearing your name is "bad acting"? Do you ever want to crawl back under the covers and never leave the house again?
I knew this day would come. Slashdot has been skirting the ultimate question everyone here has an opinion on, namely "Do you think Windows sucks?". This is the closest brush yet to that query and as a result this site has been Slashdotted itself.
Anyway, games are the main reason why most people use Windows but they aren't mine. I don't play many games anymore and the ones I do try tend to be crossplatform like bzFlag and Quake.
I use it simply because I'm an interface bigot who still finds the Unix/Linux file structure and GUI options far too archaic and complicated. I can accept Windows' many faults because most things work right out of the box without the need for much configuration. I'd switch to Linux in a heartbeat if it were made friendlier for grandmothers and also developers like me who have better things to do than endlessly tweak our boxes.
Emulators like Power 64 (OS 9) and VICE (Win32, etc.) work very well if you feel nostalgic and would like to play with a virtual Commodore 64 again.
There is also a plethora of Commodore links over at dmoz that includes dozens of software archives containing everything ever released for the computer.
And if you just feel like talking about stuff like this the best place to hang out with the current Commodore community is over at the newsgroup comp.sys.cbm.
Nice review. I was Googling the web yesterday trying to figure out if any DHTML techniques have become standards. Can anyone point me to a site or two that answers this question? I have my heart set on not writing another line of code that won't work in one browser or another. Within reason.
NPS Internet Solutions. Except for one minor billing mixup which was partly my fault I have nothing but good things to say about them. Their e-mail support gets back to me the same day when I have a question. I haven't tried any other methods of support.
$7.99/month for the web hosting I described and there's a deal to pay for one year and receive 12 months for the price of 10.
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Mod this post up... aftk2 is right. We should be moving away from using (X)HTML for presentation. A simple H1 { font-size: large; } setting in a CSS file is all that's necessary.
A website with a simple database to gather snail mail addresses for the most annoying spammers would benefit the community. But it would be easy to abuse the system and submit anybody's address so it would only work well if each address was checked and verified by three or four people before being posted. After I while I imagine the checking process would get easier if the people doing it share tips and accept corrections.
It may take hundreds or thousands of years of searching to find a signal from an alien civilizaion. The odds are just as likely that we may find one the first day but take hundreds or thousands of years to decipher it.
If you feel a twinge of guilt when a salesperson asks you for your phone number, give them the local weather phone. In Boston the number is (617)936-xxxx (replace x with any four digits). A contributor to PRI's Marketplace radio show recommended that tactic in a funny story a half year ago and it works well.
Does Slashdot have to post something about every oddball story that involves technology, no matter how far-fetched it is? No shit, this website is turning into Popular Science.
Whether or not it is deserved, how does it feel to go through life knowing the first phrase people around the world think of after hearing your name is "bad acting"? Do you ever want to crawl back under the covers and never leave the house again?
I knew this day would come. Slashdot has been skirting the ultimate question everyone here has an opinion on, namely "Do you think Windows sucks?". This is the closest brush yet to that query and as a result this site has been Slashdotted itself.
Anyway, games are the main reason why most people use Windows but they aren't mine. I don't play many games anymore and the ones I do try tend to be crossplatform like bzFlag and Quake.
I use it simply because I'm an interface bigot who still finds the Unix/Linux file structure and GUI options far too archaic and complicated. I can accept Windows' many faults because most things work right out of the box without the need for much configuration. I'd switch to Linux in a heartbeat if it were made friendlier for grandmothers and also developers like me who have better things to do than endlessly tweak our boxes.
Emulators like Power 64 (OS 9) and VICE (Win32, etc.) work very well if you feel nostalgic and would like to play with a virtual Commodore 64 again.
There is also a plethora of Commodore links over at dmoz that includes dozens of software archives containing everything ever released for the computer.
And if you just feel like talking about stuff like this the best place to hang out with the current Commodore community is over at the newsgroup comp.sys.cbm.
Some other excellent Commodore magazine archives:
ftp://oasiscomm.net/Gazette/ - Scans of the type-in program articles from COMPUTE!'s Gazette and almost all of the companion disks
The Transactor Online Archive - Complete scans of every magazine (in progress but impressive so far)
These profit jokes appear on every single story and they stopped being funny long ago.
Nice review. I was Googling the web yesterday trying to figure out if any DHTML techniques have become standards. Can anyone point me to a site or two that answers this question? I have my heart set on not writing another line of code that won't work in one browser or another. Within reason.
NPS Internet Solutions. Except for one minor billing mixup which was partly my fault I have nothing but good things to say about them. Their e-mail support gets back to me the same day when I have a question. I haven't tried any other methods of support. $7.99/month for the web hosting I described and there's a deal to pay for one year and receive 12 months for the price of 10.
In true open source fashion, the book is also available in online form at http://books.mozdev.org/chapters/