I too am a web-developer, but I don't feel the CSS support is horrid - the problem with IE6 is that there are documented bugs rendering CSS, and that because of its closed-source nature and focus on clearing up security issues only, these bugs have been left unfixed.
Remember that IE had the lead in CSS for many years, and was a pioneer in supporting early incarnations. Anyway, even the Mozilla project doesn't have full support for CSS2.
Though Firefox is my default browser, IE still does many things better (and, ironically, crashes less...)
Or it could be that they don't want someone to use the domain to create a shady business. I thought this was common practice. If they brought this domain in 2001, likelihood is that they brought it more for safety's sake.
If it wasn't for job boards, I most likely wouldn't have had anything like the good time I had on my year out between school and university.
I found my first job as a temp through reed.co.uk, the online outpost of an established job agency. That job, though only 7/hour, allowed me to expand my skills and add to my portfolio. I ended up staying in that job for three months.
Ironically my job was to develop a job board application. But the difference to the big ones was that this board was much more local to the area.
Using skills and confidence I had aquired, I was then able to scout for work more effectively, landing myself a 3-month contract.
I love job boards.
Don't just think about inate browser support...
I know that flash is a dirty word, but musicXML + flash + hardcore programming could potentially mean a neat application that would allow people to browse sheet music online and print good reproductions.
Don't condemn it just for being verbose...
This is what knighthoods are about - accepting official appreciation of the work done to create the internet, an apolitical act. The poster above ridicules TB-L for accepting the award - it would be right and proper to decline for political reasons, but in this case there are none.
Anyway, he's a nice guy.
Matthew
I disagree. Services like itunes offer wonderful quality and the ability to listen to previews. Yes, at the moment most of the money goes straight to the record companies. This is the thing that needs to be challenged... but honestly, the availibility of legally downloadable music can only be a good thing - it has the potential to celebrate good music, so we don't keep buying the manufactured trash that dominate the charts nowadays.
If only they could find a way of taxing annoying e-mails - I think we would all be happy. A filter searches for words "virus warning" or "enlarge" or "microsoft" would get most of them. Then I could sit back and enjoy a clutter-free inbox.
A nice old lady I know who was in Britain's MI5 realised after throwing away her computer that it was not wise to leave a hard drive full of sensitive information.
She and her son then drove back to the rubbish dump and pelted the hard drive with bricks until it gave in.
>I think it's time Britain woke up. I make a habit of reading the Weekly Telegraph
Thank you... I'm glad America has "woken up". The weekly telegraph, whilst mostly full of intelligent commentary, has a tendency to the right. To get a balanced picture, read something with a tendency to the left like the Guardian weekly.
The Telegraph, in general, wants the Conservatives back in power. Thus articles which depict the country as going down the drain (under New Labour) might be given greater prominence.
Had he been armed in the first place would mean crimes like that of this topic would not be front page national news. Make no mistake, the gun-less culture is a much healthier one.
The case of Tony Martin? That man shot an unarmed teenager in the back, and said that he would do it again in the same circumstances. He cannot claim self defence. In America, those burglars would be more likely to be armed, thus his case would have some standing. But it's because we don't allow our people the "right" to have guns that people feel generally safer.
Britain's laws aren't perfect. Though the story was tragic, the sentencing was only fair IMO.
a) going to bring back their loved ones? b) going to stop take two making GTA? c) going to address the much wider issue of the availibility of guns to people?
I read this story about a week ago. It worried me a lot at the time for the precedent it sets.
From the story, either someone was out to incriminate this guy by planting child porn on his computer or this guy really did download it and he is up against some really pathetic prosecutors. We read that he has been attacked in his neighbourhood, and that he is an all round family man. Fine. But that in itself doesn't make the story more credible...
Either way, the guy responsible has got away free. Isn't that the most worrying thing...
Many of these new features have the effect of making Gnome appear to be more like M$ XP.
My very humble opinion, having had gnome for a very short period of time, is that there are a wide range of features that have been available in commercial products like OSX and XP for some time that Gnome is now slowly adding. Yes, gnome has a lot of attractive features, and reaps the rewards of being open source, but are there any major benefits to a seasoned windows user like myself of using a system that seems only to replicate Windows, not surpass it. For example, the font smoothing technology microsoft calls cleartype has been around for over a decade. Why couldn't it have been included as an option in earlier versions of gnome?
Until I see an OS that is truly worth the hassle of spending 2 hours installing, I don't see how Linux can succeed against a beast like Microsoft. A worthy battle, but I don't think linux can win.
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I too am a web-developer, but I don't feel the CSS support is horrid - the problem with IE6 is that there are documented bugs rendering CSS, and that because of its closed-source nature and focus on clearing up security issues only, these bugs have been left unfixed.
Remember that IE had the lead in CSS for many years, and was a pioneer in supporting early incarnations. Anyway, even the Mozilla project doesn't have full support for CSS2.
Though Firefox is my default browser, IE still does many things better (and, ironically, crashes less...)
Says the latest virus to XP.
This won't be big until its actually useful for something other than technical visualisation. But it's still cool...
Or it could be that they don't want someone to use the domain to create a shady business. I thought this was common practice. If they brought this domain in 2001, likelihood is that they brought it more for safety's sake.
Step 1: Google takes over search engines
Step 2: Google takes over webmail services
Step 3: Tomorrow - the world!
What next? The Google OS?
... the do-it-yourself Turing bombe
If it wasn't for job boards, I most likely wouldn't have had anything like the good time I had on my year out between school and university. I found my first job as a temp through reed.co.uk, the online outpost of an established job agency. That job, though only 7/hour, allowed me to expand my skills and add to my portfolio. I ended up staying in that job for three months. Ironically my job was to develop a job board application. But the difference to the big ones was that this board was much more local to the area. Using skills and confidence I had aquired, I was then able to scout for work more effectively, landing myself a 3-month contract. I love job boards.
Don't just think about inate browser support... I know that flash is a dirty word, but musicXML + flash + hardcore programming could potentially mean a neat application that would allow people to browse sheet music online and print good reproductions. Don't condemn it just for being verbose...
This is what knighthoods are about - accepting official appreciation of the work done to create the internet, an apolitical act. The poster above ridicules TB-L for accepting the award - it would be right and proper to decline for political reasons, but in this case there are none. Anyway, he's a nice guy. Matthew
I disagree. Services like itunes offer wonderful quality and the ability to listen to previews. Yes, at the moment most of the money goes straight to the record companies. This is the thing that needs to be challenged... but honestly, the availibility of legally downloadable music can only be a good thing - it has the potential to celebrate good music, so we don't keep buying the manufactured trash that dominate the charts nowadays.
If only they could find a way of taxing annoying e-mails - I think we would all be happy. A filter searches for words "virus warning" or "enlarge" or "microsoft" would get most of them. Then I could sit back and enjoy a clutter-free inbox.
A nice old lady I know who was in Britain's MI5 realised after throwing away her computer that it was not wise to leave a hard drive full of sensitive information. She and her son then drove back to the rubbish dump and pelted the hard drive with bricks until it gave in.
>I think it's time Britain woke up. I make a habit of reading the Weekly Telegraph
Thank you... I'm glad America has "woken up". The weekly telegraph, whilst mostly full of intelligent commentary, has a tendency to the right. To get a balanced picture, read something with a tendency to the left like the Guardian weekly.
The Telegraph, in general, wants the Conservatives back in power. Thus articles which depict the country as going down the drain (under New Labour) might be given greater prominence.
Had he been armed in the first place would mean crimes like that of this topic would not be front page national news. Make no mistake, the gun-less culture is a much healthier one.
The case of Tony Martin? That man shot an unarmed teenager in the back, and said that he would do it again in the same circumstances. He cannot claim self defence. In America, those burglars would be more likely to be armed, thus his case would have some standing. But it's because we don't allow our people the "right" to have guns that people feel generally safer. Britain's laws aren't perfect. Though the story was tragic, the sentencing was only fair IMO.
Evil can come about by good men doing the wrong thing. Advocating the right to bear arms is one of them.
How is this
a) going to bring back their loved ones?
b) going to stop take two making GTA?
c) going to address the much wider issue of the availibility of guns to people?
Star wars Episode I? I know... not based on a videogame. But so much of it seemed like an extended plug for lucasarts tie-ins.
In other news: Eddy Marin appointed head of the Presidential Postal Commission...
I read this story about a week ago. It worried me a lot at the time for the precedent it sets. From the story, either someone was out to incriminate this guy by planting child porn on his computer or this guy really did download it and he is up against some really pathetic prosecutors. We read that he has been attacked in his neighbourhood, and that he is an all round family man. Fine. But that in itself doesn't make the story more credible... Either way, the guy responsible has got away free. Isn't that the most worrying thing...
Many of these new features have the effect of making Gnome appear to be more like M$ XP. My very humble opinion, having had gnome for a very short period of time, is that there are a wide range of features that have been available in commercial products like OSX and XP for some time that Gnome is now slowly adding. Yes, gnome has a lot of attractive features, and reaps the rewards of being open source, but are there any major benefits to a seasoned windows user like myself of using a system that seems only to replicate Windows, not surpass it. For example, the font smoothing technology microsoft calls cleartype has been around for over a decade. Why couldn't it have been included as an option in earlier versions of gnome? Until I see an OS that is truly worth the hassle of spending 2 hours installing, I don't see how Linux can succeed against a beast like Microsoft. A worthy battle, but I don't think linux can win.