Funny, I build my sites to look good in Opera/Firefox and then fire up MSIE to fix just enough to make it functional.
Good news is I'm seeing nearly 20% of the people use MSIE 7 which isn't too bad. About 20% use Firefox. So that is a good solid 40% of my viewers seeing the site the way I intended (Looks fine in MSIE7). It's slighly borked in IE6 which makes up 59% of my traffic and it is pretty crappy looking in Safari which accounts for about 1/4%. The rest is bots running around indexing things or strange people using Linux.
Yeah this nailed me for a few minutes until I found that MSIE 6, 7, Firefox, etc will all pass the X-Y locations of where you pressed a button. Not as elegant when looking at source nor is it as easy but it works.
Firefox passes a descrete X and Y value. MSIE passes submissionlabel_x and submissionlabel_y.
Going back nearly 20 years ago when these things started to first show up my mother had purchased a toy for me. After spending a great deal of time, my 10 year old brain decided to locate a knife. Now, I had used pocket knife quite a bit, I carved stuff with chisels and such without injury but the infernal plastic was something else.
I grabbed a Staysharp knife and stabbed the package and pulled the knife though it. Unlike wood though there isn't grain to follow so instead of going away from me in a straight line, it curved down and into my waiting thumb. It took 5 stitches and a very panicked mother to fix.
I'll be the first to admit it wasn't a smart way to open the packaging and I am much more careful know but I can see where issue might arise.
I recently purchased a cheap camera. The entire back was perforated so that you could easily rip it open by hand. Ha! A solution exists.
In 1997 I was in a computer science class. Our final assignment was to write a version of the Game of Live in C. A week after turning it in the professor stands at the front of the class and says:
"Isn't the internet a great thing? All those answers at your fingertips in seconds. Just a few words to the wise. If your going to cheat on an assignment, don't cut and paste then hand it in. Of the 120 of you sitting here, 18 will no longer be attending the university and another 15 will not be attending lectures anymore but will get an F for this course.
Just as easy as you can search for the answers, I can search for your code."
Granted this is going back nearly 10 years where the volume of information was less than it is now. I think professors need to tailor their requirements to something that isn't easily googled and downloaded.
I only block ads that annoy me. High motion and blinking gets the block. Pop-ups are ALWAYS blocked if possible.
Static ads I don't care about and will happily let be. Unfortunatly for most websites, the static ads are served from the same location as the blinky junk.
Same goes for TV. I watch most TV live because I want to see it at 9pm, not 9:22 when the buffer is sufficiently full to skip ads, however on some stations they repeat ads so much or play ads so annoying that I 'block' them. There are a few that I won't even watch until my HTPC has filtered the ads automatically because they insist on showing the same ad 8 times in one hour.
Number of products/services purchased in the last 9 years due to seeing a banner: 1 popup: 0 Google text ad: 8 Word of mouth (or keyboard) on the net: >25
It is exactly what I want in a portable computer but I couldn't justify spending $2000 on it. $1000 would probably having me check for change in the couch.
$750 and there would be no question about me buying one.
On average I purchase about eight games a year. Roughly one every six weeks or so.
Between November 2004 and May 2005 I played WoW. I didn't buy a single title in that time. Infact didn't do much beyond keep my seat warm. I invested just over 1100 hours of my life into WoW which I enjoyed for the most part but grew bored and quit.
Since I have quit I have already purchased two games and there are a few titles coming up that I will buy as well.
Maybe it's different with Canadian banks (or just the Royal Bank?). To get a PIN number on your ATM card you have to physically goto a bank and type it in on a terminal at the bank. They don't mail them, nobody but you knows that number (unless you tell them).
I asked a few people and apparently PIN mailers are common to non-canadians. The three Canadians I asked thought it was incredibly silly that your PIN number would ever be actually printed on paper and more incredible that it would be mailed.
As a person who often reviews resumes I can tell you one thing that will land a resume in the trash faster than anything else is spelling. Incorrect use of grammer is bad enough, but spelling errors mean to me that this person doesn't care enough to actually use a spell check or have a friend read the resume.
Greatest hits:
1. "I werked at Macdonalds for 3 years" 2. "...teh use of a hydrolic jack..." 3. "Resoomay"
Found nothing better than a dedicated low-end PC running a linux install like Smoothwall.
There are many versions of a linux firewall out there now and you can use an old PC or just purchased a cheapo used one. I've a PPro200 with 96MB of RAM and a 2GB HDD protecting me for four years now. Only thing that brings it down is a power failure (61 days since that happened). It protects 16 PCs now without much issue.
It is ment to prosecute you in the event you pass fake money. Police suspect you and have counterfeits in hand which they have extracted a serial number from. They get a warrent and check your printer if the number matches they know that that printer printed the money. At this point you can bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
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Funny, I build my sites to look good in Opera/Firefox and then fire up MSIE to fix just enough to make it functional.
Good news is I'm seeing nearly 20% of the people use MSIE 7 which isn't too bad. About 20% use Firefox. So that is a good solid 40% of my viewers seeing the site the way I intended (Looks fine in MSIE7). It's slighly borked in IE6 which makes up 59% of my traffic and it is pretty crappy looking in Safari which accounts for about 1/4%. The rest is bots running around indexing things or strange people using Linux.
Yeah this nailed me for a few minutes until I found that MSIE 6, 7, Firefox, etc will all pass the X-Y locations of where you pressed a button. Not as elegant when looking at source nor is it as easy but it works.
Firefox passes a descrete X and Y value. MSIE passes submissionlabel_x and submissionlabel_y.
Going back nearly 20 years ago when these things started to first show up my mother had purchased a toy for me. After spending a great deal of time, my 10 year old brain decided to locate a knife. Now, I had used pocket knife quite a bit, I carved stuff with chisels and such without injury but the infernal plastic was something else.
I grabbed a Staysharp knife and stabbed the package and pulled the knife though it. Unlike wood though there isn't grain to follow so instead of going away from me in a straight line, it curved down and into my waiting thumb. It took 5 stitches and a very panicked mother to fix.
I'll be the first to admit it wasn't a smart way to open the packaging and I am much more careful know but I can see where issue might arise.
I recently purchased a cheap camera. The entire back was perforated so that you could easily rip it open by hand. Ha! A solution exists.
Since when did BBSpot start posting real stories? Come on, linking to that as fact is like linking to the Onion for facts.
IE7, native XP SP2
I bought XP when it first came out. About 3 months into using it I decided to get a faster CPU and RAM. Had to reactivate.
Then about a week later I was playing around with a RAM drive program. It forced me to reactivate.
Five months later I bought a new video card. Had to reactivate.
To date I've reactivated nine times and only twice was that justified (total system replacement).
In 1997 I was in a computer science class. Our final assignment was to write a version of the Game of Live in C. A week after turning it in the professor stands at the front of the class and says:
"Isn't the internet a great thing? All those answers at your fingertips in seconds. Just a few words to the wise. If your going to cheat on an assignment, don't cut and paste then hand it in. Of the 120 of you sitting here, 18 will no longer be attending the university and another 15 will not be attending lectures anymore but will get an F for this course.
Just as easy as you can search for the answers, I can search for your code."
Granted this is going back nearly 10 years where the volume of information was less than it is now. I think professors need to tailor their requirements to something that isn't easily googled and downloaded.
Alright, I shall sleep on an inflated platic bag. Suffocate? Well gotta be better than the spores I've been inhaling for 28 years without issue.
I only block ads that annoy me. High motion and blinking gets the block. Pop-ups are ALWAYS blocked if possible.
Static ads I don't care about and will happily let be. Unfortunatly for most websites, the static ads are served from the same location as the blinky junk.
Same goes for TV. I watch most TV live because I want to see it at 9pm, not 9:22 when the buffer is sufficiently full to skip ads, however on some stations they repeat ads so much or play ads so annoying that I 'block' them. There are a few that I won't even watch until my HTPC has filtered the ads automatically because they insist on showing the same ad 8 times in one hour.
Number of products/services purchased in the last 9 years due to seeing a
banner: 1
popup: 0
Google text ad: 8
Word of mouth (or keyboard) on the net: >25
It is exactly what I want in a portable computer but I couldn't justify spending $2000 on it. $1000 would probably having me check for change in the couch.
$750 and there would be no question about me buying one.
Old Hags Always Have Old Apples
SIN = Opposite/Hypotenuse
COS = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
TAN = Opposite/Adjacent
On average I purchase about eight games a year. Roughly one every six weeks or so.
Between November 2004 and May 2005 I played WoW. I didn't buy a single title in that time. Infact didn't do much beyond keep my seat warm. I invested just over 1100 hours of my life into WoW which I enjoyed for the most part but grew bored and quit.
Since I have quit I have already purchased two games and there are a few titles coming up that I will buy as well.
Maybe it's different with Canadian banks (or just the Royal Bank?). To get a PIN number on your ATM card you have to physically goto a bank and type it in on a terminal at the bank. They don't mail them, nobody but you knows that number (unless you tell them).
I asked a few people and apparently PIN mailers are common to non-canadians. The three Canadians I asked thought it was incredibly silly that your PIN number would ever be actually printed on paper and more incredible that it would be mailed.
FYI - Neutrons and protons are matter, not energy.
You most certianly can convert mass to energy. This is the heart of an atomic bomb which converts a lump of matter into energy very very quickly.
The same works in reverse.
As a person who often reviews resumes I can tell you one thing that will land a resume in the trash faster than anything else is spelling. Incorrect use of grammer is bad enough, but spelling errors mean to me that this person doesn't care enough to actually use a spell check or have a friend read the resume.
Greatest hits:
1. "I werked at Macdonalds for 3 years"
2. "...teh use of a hydrolic jack..."
3. "Resoomay"
Found nothing better than a dedicated low-end PC running a linux install like Smoothwall.
There are many versions of a linux firewall out there now and you can use an old PC or just purchased a cheapo used one. I've a PPro200 with 96MB of RAM and a 2GB HDD protecting me for four years now. Only thing that brings it down is a power failure (61 days since that happened). It protects 16 PCs now without much issue.
You missed the point of the idea.
It is ment to prosecute you in the event you pass fake money. Police suspect you and have counterfeits in hand which they have extracted a serial number from. They get a warrent and check your printer if the number matches they know that that printer printed the money. At this point you can bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
The bug is horribly annoying. I thought perhaps it was my system but it appears that is not the case.
All they needed to fool people were some cotton swabs, a flashlight, a mirror and two squirrels.
For now. Don't think that it isn't being tried though.
Virtual Boy
Using Powerstrip you can force XP to run even at 320x200, although it is basically impossible to use.
Delete your profiles diectory. Problem solved.
Nope, not Windowblinds.
How did this lame duck become a release?
No but I do have Window Blinds running. I wonder...