There are some for the Latin America which usually set a suite for you in Miami, handle the customs and ship to your address in Mexico/Argentina/whatever.
Not cheap though, it's better (if you can) to order directly from the stores - Outpost.com is nice for international shipment, Crucial.com is excellent ($20 express shipping to Mexico is great).
Anti-aliasing is good, very good, especially for vector graphics, which fonts are a special case of. However, fonts usually are not pure vector graphics, they, meaning good True Type fonts like Verdana (designed by Matthew Carter), look best without anti-aliasing at small sizes (13px (9pt) and below).
However any font larger than that needs anti-aliasing.
The other problem is that X users usually look to anti-aliasing as a panacea to all their font problems, when the solution might be just using better fonts - use Times New Roman instead of Times (much better for screen, not sure about the print), Arial instead of Helvetica (better hinted) etc.
"Nobody clicks on ads anyway" argument is very old and completely incorrect. I once operated a site which would not be able to support its hosting costs (bandwidth, server etc.) if not for advertising revenues which completely covered it (it's about $120/mo just in hosting costs) and left something to create additional content. So how do you think it would exist if not for advertising?. Please tell me so I can tell the owner to make it competely free.
"White Sun of the Desert" is a film with very good sense of humour that made smart and not-transparent jokes about the whole revolution story and soviet era (although it was written and shown during the soviet era). It's one of the "cult" movies which are important part of Russian culture, independent of age. I don't think Russian cosmonauts were forced in any way to see this film - I think this is tradition without any specific purprose or reason - just a very very good film.
1) Financial Markets 2) Aviation 3) Scientific Publication 4) Popular Culture 5) The computer industry ( along with English) 6) Everything else that matters
Homesite is source-level editor. It's not ==Dreamweaver. You can edit Perl, ASP, HTML, JavaScript etc. with good syntax highlighting, code templates and via-FTP editing.
Recently I developed a shopping engine in Java first then decided to port it to Perl (actually PerlScript on ASP, however 99.99% of code is Win32-independent) and found that I can develop much faster.
I don't say that Java is bad language but it's more difficult to develop in that perl.
As for PHP, I *hate* different functions for different db types. *Why* do I need to change several dozens lines if I move from MySQL to Oracle?. Can someone explain reasoning for this?
I didn't because ASP2PHP only deals with VBScript which I stopped developing with a few months ago -I'm using JScript and PerlScript. Muchm more powerful and much more easily to port to Unix if needed (Porting in future is likely).
Hmmm.. Ever heard about CorelXARA (it's made by Xara Ltd.(xara.com))?. Corel decided to get some (most interesting) features from XARA - very streamlined, non-bloated program and put them into very very bloated CorelDRAW ( I worked with it since V4)
I grew up in Russia, parents of my grandparents were killed in Civil War of 1917 and Stalin repressions of 1937.
And those 11,000 people were Moscow's visitors and it's completely legal to be able to detain them from the capital (I'm not saying it's good but it's perfectly legal).
And Russia isn't living in horror.. in poverty - yes but not horror.
You're wrong. All sites serve some amount of static content that mostly occupies all the bandwidth (images for example) so I'm not sure Akamai will be out of business.
I agree that this should be discussion, not a game but when the objective of the game is to post good content, which is the noble path IMHO I think it's better to have some competition. It would be 'cool' to post good, informative comments so hopely quality would improve.
I have experience with several of the languages listed above: Pascal, Basic, C, C++ and also Perl,Java and x86 assembler. I started programming at about 10 with Pascal and I'm now 17. At HS's CS classes they were teaching programming using Pascal and I would say it's well suited to learning because of clear syntax and pretty good object-oriented features.
Perl/C/C++ are not suited for learning but rather for the real work.
Python's syntax is clear but I don't think it would be _really_ easy to go from Python to more traditional languages.
Because drawing each 2x2 pattern would be very slow. This is why most 'sidebar' background images aren't 1 or 2 pixels high but are more like 15-20 pixels high.
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There are some for the Latin America which usually set a suite for you in Miami, handle the customs and ship to your address in Mexico/Argentina/whatever.
Not cheap though, it's better (if you can) to order directly from the stores - Outpost.com is nice for international shipment, Crucial.com is excellent ($20 express shipping to Mexico is great).
One of the brokers is SkyBox: skybox.net
Anti-aliasing is good, very good, especially for vector graphics, which fonts are a special case of. However, fonts usually are not pure vector graphics, they, meaning good True Type fonts like Verdana (designed by Matthew Carter), look best without anti-aliasing at small sizes (13px (9pt) and below).
However any font larger than that needs anti-aliasing.
The other problem is that X users usually look to anti-aliasing as a panacea to all their font problems, when the solution might be just using better fonts - use Times New Roman instead of Times (much better for screen, not sure about the print), Arial instead of Helvetica (better hinted) etc.
"Nobody clicks on ads anyway" argument is very old and completely incorrect. I once operated a site which would not be able to support its hosting costs (bandwidth, server etc.) if not for advertising revenues which completely covered it (it's about $120/mo just in hosting costs) and left something to create additional content.
So how do you think it would exist if not for advertising?. Please tell me so I can tell the owner to make it competely free.
"White Sun of the Desert" is a film with very good sense of humour that made smart and not-transparent jokes about the whole revolution story and soviet era (although it was written and shown during the soviet era). It's one of the "cult" movies which are important part of Russian culture, independent of age. I don't think Russian cosmonauts were forced in any way to see this film - I think this is tradition without any specific purprose or reason - just a very very good film.
Ok. In Russia, Russian is used for:
1) Financial Markets
2) Aviation
3) Scientific Publication
4) Popular Culture
5) The computer industry ( along with English)
6) Everything else that matters
:)
In this case Google functions like a proxy server - so if you don't agree with the way proxy servers function sue all proxy server owners.
I used IE5 under 98 and fonts look great.
You are wrong. NT has DirectX since some service pack (don't remember which).
Homesite is source-level editor. It's not ==Dreamweaver. You can edit Perl, ASP, HTML, JavaScript etc. with good syntax highlighting, code templates and via-FTP editing.
Recently I developed a shopping engine in Java first then decided to port it to Perl (actually PerlScript on ASP, however 99.99% of code is Win32-independent) and found that I can develop much faster.
I don't say that Java is bad language but it's more difficult to develop in that perl.
As for PHP, I *hate* different functions for different db types. *Why* do I need to change several dozens lines if I move from MySQL to Oracle?. Can someone explain reasoning for this?
I didn't because ASP2PHP only deals with VBScript which I stopped developing with a few months ago -I'm using JScript and PerlScript. Muchm more powerful and much more easily to port to Unix if needed (Porting in future is likely).
Hmm.. In Mexico and in Russia local calls are free (no pay-per-minute charges).
Hmmm.. Ever heard about CorelXARA (it's made by Xara Ltd.(xara.com))?. Corel decided to get some (most interesting) features from XARA - very streamlined, non-bloated program and put them into very very bloated CorelDRAW ( I worked with it since V4)
I grew up in Russia, parents of my grandparents were killed in Civil War of 1917 and Stalin repressions of 1937.
And those 11,000 people were Moscow's visitors and it's completely legal to be able to detain them from the capital (I'm not saying it's good but it's perfectly legal).
And Russia isn't living in horror.. in poverty - yes but not horror.
Next time, know more what you talk about.
You're wrong. All sites serve some amount of static content that mostly occupies all the bandwidth (images for example) so I'm not sure Akamai will be out of business.
In case you don't know. James Bond was not shown in cinema in the Soviet era but people watched its taped version :).
Is it just me, or is anyone else wondering why the 'Americans' still have missiles aimed at us...
'we'?. We have no particular reasons to destroy the Americans (US'ans) at this point. But American paranoia runs deep.
:)
I agree that this should be discussion, not a game but when the objective of the game is to post good content, which is the noble path IMHO I think it's better to have some competition. It would be 'cool' to post good, informative comments so hopely quality would improve.
Why not add Karma statistics page. E.g. 'Your Karma is higher than Karma of 75% Slashdotters' or 'Top 10 Slashdotters by Karma' or 'Your Karma Rank'.
This would make people try to increase their Karma leading to the better posts and better signal-to-noise ratio.
Look at your User Info page. (Your karma is -1)
I have experience with several of the languages listed above: Pascal, Basic, C, C++ and also Perl,Java and x86 assembler. I started programming at about 10 with Pascal and I'm now 17. At HS's CS classes they were teaching programming using Pascal and I would say it's well suited to learning because of clear syntax and pretty good object-oriented features.
Perl/C/C++ are not suited for learning but rather for the real work.
Python's syntax is clear but I don't think it would be _really_ easy to go from Python to more traditional languages.
Because drawing each 2x2 pattern would be very slow. This is why most 'sidebar' background images aren't 1 or 2 pixels high but are more like 15-20 pixels high.
microsoft dot com :))
:)
guess what site gets more traffic
(www.mediametrix.com says microsoft dot com does
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