I read the paper regularly from 1974 till about 2000
For starters, the Chicago Tribune twice endorsed George Bush would for president. That lack of common sense makes anything else they might write about highly suspect.
I get sad when I think of the number of trees that died to print 26yrs worth of sports sections that I threw in the recycling bin without looking at. Most of the crap that gets reported on is of no interest to me. Too often the stories are about stuff that doesn't matter - questionable trends, celebrity blather and/or is some thinly veiled gushing over an advertiser's upcoming event.
Their new lite versions of the paper are even more vacuous and stupid than the regular version.
Third, the stuff that does interest me has been watered down for a general audience to the point that what they are saying is is no longer informative or engaging.
I would buy the paper just for the daily comics, but they are so afraid of offending someone that all they publish now is pablum. I can catch Dilbert & Doonebury online and will never have to waste another second passing over the Garfield mediocrity that the comics page has sunk to.
Fifth, I used to deal with their production dept and was treated so shabbily that I wouldn't buy their rag anymore even if it was quality. Mass media can't die fast enough to suit me.
"This reality is not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer.
I'm not a writer, but I use both platforms every day. Windows is clunky and irritating. Every time I am forced to move to my Win box, I am reminded of why I am such an Apple fan. Maybe that's where all the gushing writers are coming from too. Come to think of it, Dvorak is clunky and irritating too. Maybe he's too identified with MS products and the distortion lies in him.
Network affiliates are the roadkill of the information superhighway.
OhNOES!!1!
Now where will I get my quality local new programming? How wil I manage without the nightly fire or robbery on the west side? What will I do without my weekly diet tips and Xmas toy fad pablum? How will I manage without Biff Jockitch's insightful sports highlights? How will I know if the expressways are passable without my fearmongering winter weather updates? Woe and doom are upon us!
I'm a graphic designer, at least I was trained as one, too often these days I am a code monkey and sometimes project manager. My office is split about 50-50 between Macs & PCs because even though I greatly prefer my G4, I know that the great unwashed tend to use Windows so all my work has to be be tested on that platform. I absolutely loathe walking across the room and sitting down at the PC to do anything. It is clunky in ways that are literally painful.
If Windows is Microsoft's idea of aesthetics and craftsmanship, I'm not even curious enough to look at this.
If $100 Million dollars won't make you want to switch to Vista, what will?"
Just go ahead and send that check to me registered mail. Right after it clears, I'll go get in line.
So that's why she quit returning my calls. I thought she was still pissed about that china I broke.
I argued about increased business and royalty
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I argued about increased business and royalty and proposed that the infrastructure cost these days is reasonable
Lemme get this straight - You put in WiFi and suddenly royalty wants to patronize your coffee shop? Who knew the Queen Mum was into wireless? Is she a java junky and the whole tea thing is just for the tourists? Hell, she's probably lurking on Shashdot as we speak, waiting to drag out some "In Soviet Russia..." cliche.
will aparently all wear balloons on their heads. I enjoyed myself. After my free subscription renewal, it only cost me like, $3 service charge and I got to talk to PK Dick, sorta.
As someone who spent from 88-94 dealing with Xpress 5hrs+ a day, those pricks can't die fast enough to suit me. No - I take that back. I want them to suffer a slow, painful, humiliating death. Drag it out so that Macrodobe does get fat and arrogant too fast.
Try calling their customer "service" and look forward to being trated like a criminal. Wait and wait and wait for an OS upgrade that isn't worth a crap. Pay for multiple film outputs because their color management blows chunks. If it weren't for the momentum they had with service bureaus and Pagemaker dropping the ball back around 1990, their customer base would have abandoned them ages ago.
Does it matter? Having done my time, I walked away with the impression that after basic math and reading skills, a public education was largely about indoctrinating the masses to sit quietly in straight rows and do what they are told.
All my TPS reports do come with the new cover sheet, but I'm still waiting for a client or boss to ask me about the significance of the Council of Trent.
Re:Inquireing minds want to know,
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The same thing we do every day, Pinkie. Try to take over the world!
Right up there with reading tea leaves and goat entrails.
I've heard that sometimes you can read goat entrails cruelty free simply by looking directly into the goatse
Here's a handful of good CSS resources
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I spent about 30 hrs this week working the CSS. Here are some of the couple dozen sites I visit regularly. They're not all tutorials, but all are useful. There are a lot of place where standards and the real world usage clash.
A couple of tips from me -
Build and test your pages in Mozilla first. Even though MSIE still has a huge lead in mkt share, Slashdotters will be surprised to find out that Explorer is a stagnant sun dried dog turd, full of buggy, half-assed standards implementation.
It's much easier to do it right first, then insert workarounds so the CSS displays correctly in Explorer.
It's easier to achieve the results you want if you start at zero. Null the defaults so that all the implicit layout collapses.
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; borders: 0; }
If you find these links useful, please pay me back by checking your work on a Mac too. As a website user, I get really sick of seeing display wackiness - especially lines of type with squashed leading or running beyond the container div because nobody bothered to test in a Mac environment too.
Web designers don't want to design for IE only, we hate it at least as much as you do, but our pointy haired bosses and clients tell us to that there is no budget to make things work for such a small percentage of users. Just for the record, for the last year and 1/2 I've been building my pages to work with Gecko engines first, then hacking backwards to get some reasonably consistant result in the crap Microsoft products known as 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0. (Still the majority browser even on Slashdot)
I just want my layouts to look similar across platforms, monitors and browser brands and degrade gracefully without spending 3 days per page massaging for every last glitch. Nobody blames the browser bugs or willful lack of standards support, it's always the site designer.
I have a great idea. We'll pump out a bunch of lame content, increase the amount of time spent on commercials and start fuxxing with the start times of the programs people are most likely to watch. Decreasing user satisfaction is a sure way to bring them back to the couch.
Feel free to go here and tell them to get on the stick.
I should bill them for all the unpaid hours I put in trying to make their buggy CSS work.
I hates them
hates them
hates them
This jackass sent me a spam yesterday. The entire website consists of the same message I got in the email plus a form that doesn't validate submissions. About once an hour I've been dropping by to tell this dude what a worthless scumbag he is. Maybe you'd like to send him your own message.
http://seo-profits.com/
Slashdot Mirror
Let's make him president of some bumblefuck island in the middle of nowhere where he and jackass accomplices can't do any more damage.
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
- Matt Groening
I read the paper regularly from 1974 till about 2000 For starters, the Chicago Tribune twice endorsed George Bush would for president. That lack of common sense makes anything else they might write about highly suspect. I get sad when I think of the number of trees that died to print 26yrs worth of sports sections that I threw in the recycling bin without looking at. Most of the crap that gets reported on is of no interest to me. Too often the stories are about stuff that doesn't matter - questionable trends, celebrity blather and/or is some thinly veiled gushing over an advertiser's upcoming event. Their new lite versions of the paper are even more vacuous and stupid than the regular version. Third, the stuff that does interest me has been watered down for a general audience to the point that what they are saying is is no longer informative or engaging. I would buy the paper just for the daily comics, but they are so afraid of offending someone that all they publish now is pablum. I can catch Dilbert & Doonebury online and will never have to waste another second passing over the Garfield mediocrity that the comics page has sunk to. Fifth, I used to deal with their production dept and was treated so shabbily that I wouldn't buy their rag anymore even if it was quality. Mass media can't die fast enough to suit me.
"This reality is not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer. I'm not a writer, but I use both platforms every day. Windows is clunky and irritating. Every time I am forced to move to my Win box, I am reminded of why I am such an Apple fan. Maybe that's where all the gushing writers are coming from too. Come to think of it, Dvorak is clunky and irritating too. Maybe he's too identified with MS products and the distortion lies in him.
Network affiliates are the roadkill of the information superhighway. OhNOES!!1! Now where will I get my quality local new programming? How wil I manage without the nightly fire or robbery on the west side? What will I do without my weekly diet tips and Xmas toy fad pablum? How will I manage without Biff Jockitch's insightful sports highlights? How will I know if the expressways are passable without my fearmongering winter weather updates? Woe and doom are upon us!
I'm a graphic designer, at least I was trained as one, too often these days I am a code monkey and sometimes project manager. My office is split about 50-50 between Macs & PCs because even though I greatly prefer my G4, I know that the great unwashed tend to use Windows so all my work has to be be tested on that platform. I absolutely loathe walking across the room and sitting down at the PC to do anything. It is clunky in ways that are literally painful.
If Windows is Microsoft's idea of aesthetics and craftsmanship, I'm not even curious enough to look at this.
If $100 Million dollars won't make you want to switch to Vista, what will?" Just go ahead and send that check to me registered mail. Right after it clears, I'll go get in line.
So that's why she quit returning my calls. I thought she was still pissed about that china I broke.
I argued about increased business and royalty and proposed that the infrastructure cost these days is reasonable Lemme get this straight - You put in WiFi and suddenly royalty wants to patronize your coffee shop? Who knew the Queen Mum was into wireless? Is she a java junky and the whole tea thing is just for the tourists? Hell, she's probably lurking on Shashdot as we speak, waiting to drag out some "In Soviet Russia..." cliche.
You get PNG support, but most of the rest of the CSS fixes aren't there. You can read up on the details here
will aparently all wear balloons on their heads. I enjoyed myself. After my free subscription renewal, it only cost me like, $3 service charge and I got to talk to PK Dick, sorta.
As someone who spent from 88-94 dealing with Xpress 5hrs+ a day, those pricks can't die fast enough to suit me. No - I take that back. I want them to suffer a slow, painful, humiliating death. Drag it out so that Macrodobe does get fat and arrogant too fast. Try calling their customer "service" and look forward to being trated like a criminal. Wait and wait and wait for an OS upgrade that isn't worth a crap. Pay for multiple film outputs because their color management blows chunks. If it weren't for the momentum they had with service bureaus and Pagemaker dropping the ball back around 1990, their customer base would have abandoned them ages ago.
The real threat isn't sheep with human brains, it's cows with guns
Does it matter? Having done my time, I walked away with the impression that after basic math and reading skills, a public education was largely about indoctrinating the masses to sit quietly in straight rows and do what they are told. All my TPS reports do come with the new cover sheet, but I'm still waiting for a client or boss to ask me about the significance of the Council of Trent.
The same thing we do every day, Pinkie. Try to take over the world!
Ajax links Keep hitting the 'earlier' link in the lower left corner. There are about 20 links so far.
Right up there with reading tea leaves and goat entrails.
I've heard that sometimes you can read goat entrails cruelty free simply by looking directly into the goatse
- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
- http://css.maxdesign.com.au/
- Layout-o-matic
- firdamatic
- http://www.quirksmode.org/index.html?/css/condcom
. html - http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/css/quickref/
c ss_index.html - CSS Quick Reference
- 181 Manually selected references
A couple of tips from me - Build and test your pages in Mozilla first. Even though MSIE still has a huge lead in mkt share, Slashdotters will be surprised to find out that Explorer is a stagnant sun dried dog turd, full of buggy, half-assed standards implementation. It's much easier to do it right first, then insert workarounds so the CSS displays correctly in Explorer. It's easier to achieve the results you want if you start at zero. Null the defaults so that all the implicit layout collapses. * { margin: 0; padding: 0; borders: 0; } If you find these links useful, please pay me back by checking your work on a Mac too. As a website user, I get really sick of seeing display wackiness - especially lines of type with squashed leading or running beyond the container div because nobody bothered to test in a Mac environment too.Web designers don't want to design for IE only, we hate it at least as much as you do, but our pointy haired bosses and clients tell us to that there is no budget to make things work for such a small percentage of users. Just for the record, for the last year and 1/2 I've been building my pages to work with Gecko engines first, then hacking backwards to get some reasonably consistant result in the crap Microsoft products known as 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0. (Still the majority browser even on Slashdot) I just want my layouts to look similar across platforms, monitors and browser brands and degrade gracefully without spending 3 days per page massaging for every last glitch. Nobody blames the browser bugs or willful lack of standards support, it's always the site designer.
I have a great idea. We'll pump out a bunch of lame content, increase the amount of time spent on commercials and start fuxxing with the start times of the programs people are most likely to watch. Decreasing user satisfaction is a sure way to bring them back to the couch.
I like osx.hyperjeff.net/
Lists
Floats
Filtering
Type Issues
Feel free to go here and tell them to get on the stick. I should bill them for all the unpaid hours I put in trying to make their buggy CSS work. I hates them hates them hates them
This jackass sent me a spam yesterday. The entire website consists of the same message I got in the email plus a form that doesn't validate submissions. About once an hour I've been dropping by to tell this dude what a worthless scumbag he is. Maybe you'd like to send him your own message. http://seo-profits.com/
He's another jerk that spams recruiter.