"more consistent", well, it depends on what they're trying to be consistent with. Consistent with other browsers, that means they're working towards standards compliance. Consisten with past versions of IE, well, that's not so good...
This is exactly why I never use those stupid parsing bugs to "trick" IE into rendering the right thing... I'm scared to death that the resulting non-standard "tag soup" will break some obscure browser somewhere -- like IE7.
What I do is, I design a very simple design in Firefox, then I check it against IE that it renders "nicely" (nicely meaning, if IE renders it wrong, the mistake doesn't affect readability or anything). The idea is, my website designs are "so simple, not even IE could screw them up".
It really limits the possibilities, but at least the resulting pages are simple & elegant.
I've had comp sci students roll their eyes at me when I had to recompile my kernel to add support for a printer so we could print data off in Linux.
Well, not many people still run Red Hat 5. Try using a distro that was released some time in this millenium. I've been using Ubuntu 5.04 happily without needing a kernel recompile for anything, and before that I was a user of Fedora Core 3, and before that FC2, and before that FC1, and I didn't have to compile a single kernel on any of them.
Public tax money pays for this weather data to be collected. The public has the RIGHT to access this information, because they've already PAID FOR IT.
If a private company can not survive doing "value-add" with this free information, then that company does not deserve to exist. Plain and simple. You can't ban that information from being free and then charge people for it!
There are only two ways to procede with this problem. Either the government stops spending tax money recording the weather information, leaving the corporations to set up and maintain their own weather stations, or the entire board of directors of AccuWeather is drawn and quartered. Either one is fine with me.
well, the path of least resistance is bittorrent. just get on whatever torrent looks good, and seed it for a few days. make sure you upload twice what you download. they'll love you.
Yeah, burn:/// is a virtual location in the filesystem (eg, it's a "folder" that you can browse with nautilus, but it's not actually mounted into the normal filesystem heirarchy like you'd expect unix to do... This is normal for gnome, it's called the gnome-vfs layer (KDE has something similar called kio_slaves), you get all kinds of fancy stuff like smb:// for browsing windows shares, ftp:// for ftp, etc etc.
By default, when you put a blank CD in the burner, burn:/// just pops up and then you can drag files into it, and click burn, then it burns.
I apologize in advance, but I felt like having some fun;)
Any statement... can be used against you... and that's OK. Pretending otherwise is just lame... and everyone accepts that statement at face value.... a dickless politician... is pretty stupid, but dickless politicians can be identified...
You didn't explain that right. The correct explanation is: By definition half your customers have above average usage. By their reasoning, half their customers are doing something illegal.
That's not remotely true. A handful of people download 5+ GBs/mo, and rest are happy Sheeple who only use it for email and surfing, and use maybe 100MBs in a month (if that). The average works out somewhere inbetween 5GBs and 100MBs, depending on the actual numbers. But the number of people above the average is actually far less than half.
Nautilus astounds me and I am an Apple fanboy. There is no comparison between Nautilus and the Finder (and it was created by the same person)
I'm having a hard time understanding what you're saying here, the meaning could go either way... are you saying nautilus is astoundingly good, or astoundingly bad, relative to the Apple Finder?
I've never used the Finder, so I have no frame of reference on which to base an interpretation... though I do quite like Nautilus.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
AT YOUR OPTION. So when the FSF releases v4, and it says "You must give us all your money, sacrifice your first born child, and then stand on your head and bark like a chicken in your underwear", you think people are going to choose this license, voluntarily, in droves? Riiiiiight...
"cupe local 917" was probably the most specific giveaway, but my name is also written plainly on my website if you care to poke in the HTML source. Not to mention that a simple google for "feztaa" reveals my real name pretty quickly.
Yeah, that's my biggest complaint with FC3. If I try to uninstall qt, then it wants to basically uninstall half of gnome due to some weird bug in the dependencies.
It'll be nice if ubuntu allows me to have a gnome desktop with only gtk2 and no qt. It's promising that there's only one ISO! FC3 of course has 4 but I've yet to actually use anything on the 4th CD during an install.
I tried out the release candidate of the hoary livecd a few weeks ago and I was very impressed, I'm downloading the install ISO now, hopefully I'll find time to install it soon. If it's as good as the livecd was, I'll definitely donate some money.
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"more consistent", well, it depends on what they're trying to be consistent with. Consistent with other browsers, that means they're working towards standards compliance. Consisten with past versions of IE, well, that's not so good...
This is exactly why I never use those stupid parsing bugs to "trick" IE into rendering the right thing... I'm scared to death that the resulting non-standard "tag soup" will break some obscure browser somewhere -- like IE7.
What I do is, I design a very simple design in Firefox, then I check it against IE that it renders "nicely" (nicely meaning, if IE renders it wrong, the mistake doesn't affect readability or anything). The idea is, my website designs are "so simple, not even IE could screw them up".
It really limits the possibilities, but at least the resulting pages are simple & elegant.
I would have called it Keep on Pullin' Bits
and as you can see it's just flaking away.
Yes, as I can see you have a very nice ImageShack bandwidth warning frog.
I've had comp sci students roll their eyes at me when I had to recompile my kernel to add support for a printer so we could print data off in Linux.
Well, not many people still run Red Hat 5. Try using a distro that was released some time in this millenium. I've been using Ubuntu 5.04 happily without needing a kernel recompile for anything, and before that I was a user of Fedora Core 3, and before that FC2, and before that FC1, and I didn't have to compile a single kernel on any of them.
It needs to be said.
Public tax money pays for this weather data to be collected. The public has the RIGHT to access this information, because they've already PAID FOR IT.
If a private company can not survive doing "value-add" with this free information, then that company does not deserve to exist. Plain and simple. You can't ban that information from being free and then charge people for it!
There are only two ways to procede with this problem. Either the government stops spending tax money recording the weather information, leaving the corporations to set up and maintain their own weather stations, or the entire board of directors of AccuWeather is drawn and quartered. Either one is fine with me.
well, the path of least resistance is bittorrent. just get on whatever torrent looks good, and seed it for a few days. make sure you upload twice what you download. they'll love you.
The problem is "Quis custodiet ipso custodes".
I understand perfectly. The problem is, that we didn't pay enough attention in Latin class.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Did they skip Star Wars: Reloaded, or what?
You verses diety? Prabobly rediculos, but launch missiel with nickle kernal... amandemtn, speach highrarchy... you lose, soully!
Yeah, burn:/// is a virtual location in the filesystem (eg, it's a "folder" that you can browse with nautilus, but it's not actually mounted into the normal filesystem heirarchy like you'd expect unix to do... This is normal for gnome, it's called the gnome-vfs layer (KDE has something similar called kio_slaves), you get all kinds of fancy stuff like smb:// for browsing windows shares, ftp:// for ftp, etc etc.
By default, when you put a blank CD in the burner, burn:/// just pops up and then you can drag files into it, and click burn, then it burns.
I apologize in advance, but I felt like having some fun ;)
... can be used against you ... and that's OK. Pretending otherwise is just lame ... and everyone accepts that statement at face value. ... a dickless politician ... is pretty stupid, but dickless politicians can be identified ...
Any statement
you watch my adds and I provide you with e/i"
But what if my website isn't about selling employment insurance?
I have to say "Look at the picture!"
;)
All this map proves is that Canadians are more conscious of light pollution...
preferably one with under-18 children
*whew*! As a father of 19 children, it's good to know that you won't be coming after me.
(I challenge you to find a household fitting step #2 that can prove they haven't downloaded anything copyrighted, ever)
You're right, the moment that 18th child is born, all downloading ceases.
Lol, Bell and Rogers? The cellphone companies? Over here in the west, the telephone and cable monopolies are called "Telus" and "Shaw", respectively.
You didn't explain that right. The correct explanation is: By definition half your customers have above average usage. By their reasoning, half their customers are doing something illegal.
That's not remotely true. A handful of people download 5+ GBs/mo, and rest are happy Sheeple who only use it for email and surfing, and use maybe 100MBs in a month (if that). The average works out somewhere inbetween 5GBs and 100MBs, depending on the actual numbers. But the number of people above the average is actually far less than half.
You're thinking of the median.
No, he meant Elmer Fudd.
Lol, that's too funny. You have to wonder if maybe some of those misspellings were actually trying to find something else.
"briottany spears?"
"blimey, no! All I have is this pocket knife."
Powers: "Someone stole my moho!"
Nautilus astounds me and I am an Apple fanboy. There is no comparison between Nautilus and the Finder (and it was created by the same person)
I'm having a hard time understanding what you're saying here, the meaning could go either way... are you saying nautilus is astoundingly good, or astoundingly bad, relative to the Apple Finder?
I've never used the Finder, so I have no frame of reference on which to base an interpretation... though I do quite like Nautilus.
Congradulations, but you are not impressive. ;)
"cupe local 917" was probably the most specific giveaway, but my name is also written plainly on my website if you care to poke in the HTML source. Not to mention that a simple google for "feztaa" reveals my real name pretty quickly.
It's more re-assuring than betting the farm on small, flaccid panes of glass.
Try it yourself:It'll be nice if ubuntu allows me to have a gnome desktop with only gtk2 and no qt. It's promising that there's only one ISO! FC3 of course has 4 but I've yet to actually use anything on the 4th CD during an install.
I tried out the release candidate of the hoary livecd a few weeks ago and I was very impressed, I'm downloading the install ISO now, hopefully I'll find time to install it soon. If it's as good as the livecd was, I'll definitely donate some money.