We got into the current mess of text in images because Microsoft wouldn't support Mozilla's font files. Is IE going with the standard this time around, or do we have another browser incompatibility issue?
Actually, we got into the mess of text in images because "web designers" (read: graphic artists) weren't satisfied with the limited number of font faces that could be counted on to be displayed across different platforms. They needed to express their "artistic vision", but Times New Roman, Arial, and generic "sans-serif" font declarations couldn't scratch that itch. They used Photoshop to embed their favorite font faces into graphic elements on the page (buttons, logos, headers, etc). in order to satisfy their artistic vision. It had nothing to do with Microsoft not supporting Mozilla's font files (whatever that even means). This was happening long before the advent of Mozilla. The modern equivalent would be designers using Flash to develop their interfaces. It gives the designer complete control over the design but it breaks the way the web was intended to work. With this new @font-face method, you can still get the very specific look and feel you want, but can still have your content indexed, select, copy, paste still works, etc.
I had one from Cuisinart almost exactly as you describe. Built in grinder with a tight-fitting lid to keep the beans fresh, water reservoir with an activated charcoal filter, and a programmable timer to start the grind/brew process. It had several design flaws, though. You had to dis-assemble the thing completely after each pot to clean it, otherwise the grounds would plug it up and secondly, the electronics were located at the bottom of the unit, beneath the hotplate. It worked for a while, but the electronics eventually succumbed to coffee/water spills seeping in under the hot plate. Very expensive, poorly engineered hunk of junk.
Originally, they were a distributor of 3.5" floppies that could be re-formatted and re-used. They changed their business model when floppies fell out of favor and CDs became popular. It was then that they became the #1 polluter in the US by distributing millions of useless shiny plastic coasters to every man, woman, and child in the country, overwhelming landfills across the nation.
However, until then, I am fairly sure that someone will reverse engineer the software and figure out how to emulate a server on their own.
It was done in the past (see bnetd). Blizzard didn't take kindly to it as it removed the need for a CD Key in order to play the game. They sued the developers under the DMCA and won.
Trade shows are where this device would be very cost effective. The last one I was at charged hundreds of dollars for a single IP address. This device would have paid for itself on the first day of the show. We could of had our two demo machines set up on it plus our sales weasels on their laptops. The only problem, as mentioned in an earlier post, might have been from interference on the wifi channel. The show floor was filled with wifi devices all competing for a signal.
To me, it is worth not receiving that $50 in order to stay of off the bookstore's spam/junk-mail/telemarketer/whatever list, especially if they were to sell that info to some third-party marketer. I'll pay the street price please, in cash, just leave me alone and keep me off your crap-flood junk list.
Seems to be the Javascript the site uses. Page Up and Page Down and arrow keys worked when NoScript was blocking the domain, but as soon as I white-listed it, they broke.
Interesting read, thanks for the link. I'm having a very similar problem installing Adobe Illustrator 8.0 on Vista Home Premium x64 (I know, spend some money and upgrade, blah, blah). Thanks to the article, I now believe it is related to the fact that Illustrator uses a 16-bit installer, but unfortunately there is no 32-bit equivalent for it to swap out for. I wonder if I copy the.exe and any supporting.dlls off of my old XP x86 machine if I could get it running, bypassing the installer.
However, for someone like Microsoft distributing something like a Windows 7 beta build, you're still going to want to spread the load across multiple servers on multiple continents and so on and so forth, which, yeah, is sort of what services like Akamai are all about. If Microsoft doesn't want to contract out like that, they could probably just do something similar with their own resources. I'm pretty sure they're big enough to be able to handle that.
Microsoft (at least through the MSDN download site) uses their own transfer protocol and file transfer management tool (Microsoft File Transfer Manager) to access the content. They do indeed use Akamai to host and distribute the content.
A List Apart has some very good pure CSS layout guides. This particular link is for a layout with header and footer, fixed width left and right columns, and a "fluid" center content section.
Thanks for clarifying, I was under the impression that the ads would be injected into sites on the fly. In this case, if we could figure out the user-agent and/or IP addresses for their spiders, we could still do some interesting and mischievous things like keyword injection or replacing the normal content with random strings of garbage text. This would have the effect out poisoning their keyword scraping process, at least for your site. I know Google frowns on this practice and can knock you down in the SERPS or even de-list you, but who cares about these Phorm bastards.
What site owners need to do is to identify the HTML that Phorm is injecting and inject some JavaScript/CSS of their own to hide or deface these ads. Something like:
.phorm{display: none;}
or similar should do it. For extra bonus points, inject your own links and/or images into the ads. How long before advertisers pull out of Phorm if the goatse guy or something equally horrific keeps appearing in their ads? It is, after all, your content and you should be able to do with it what you please.
In MA, that $85 surcharge would add points to your driving record and stay on your record for a number of years (six years, I believe). So, total cost would be more like: $25 + (6 x $85) = $535
MA treats an expired sticker the same as a speeding ticket, it is considered a moving violation and is a surcharge-able event.
The Trailer Park Boys where shown here in the States on BBC America for a while. They showed all of season 1 but then dropped it for some reason. Now I have to use TPB or YouTube to get my fix.
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We got into the current mess of text in images because Microsoft wouldn't support Mozilla's font files. Is IE going with the standard this time around, or do we have another browser incompatibility issue?
Actually, we got into the mess of text in images because "web designers" (read: graphic artists) weren't satisfied with the limited number of font faces that could be counted on to be displayed across different platforms. They needed to express their "artistic vision", but Times New Roman, Arial, and generic "sans-serif" font declarations couldn't scratch that itch. They used Photoshop to embed their favorite font faces into graphic elements on the page (buttons, logos, headers, etc). in order to satisfy their artistic vision. It had nothing to do with Microsoft not supporting Mozilla's font files (whatever that even means). This was happening long before the advent of Mozilla. The modern equivalent would be designers using Flash to develop their interfaces. It gives the designer complete control over the design but it breaks the way the web was intended to work. With this new @font-face method, you can still get the very specific look and feel you want, but can still have your content indexed, select, copy, paste still works, etc.
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You have too many "r"s in there, it's actually pronounced wu-stah.
I had one from Cuisinart almost exactly as you describe. Built in grinder with a tight-fitting lid to keep the beans fresh, water reservoir with an activated charcoal filter, and a programmable timer to start the grind/brew process. It had several design flaws, though. You had to dis-assemble the thing completely after each pot to clean it, otherwise the grounds would plug it up and secondly, the electronics were located at the bottom of the unit, beneath the hotplate. It worked for a while, but the electronics eventually succumbed to coffee/water spills seeping in under the hot plate. Very expensive, poorly engineered hunk of junk.
I'm sure it's more than GBP 10, but still:
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Brilliant!
Add intellitxt.com to your hosts file and point it to 127.0.0.1, those annoying-ass pop-up link things will go away forever.
Originally, they were a distributor of 3.5" floppies that could be re-formatted and re-used. They changed their business model when floppies fell out of favor and CDs became popular. It was then that they became the #1 polluter in the US by distributing millions of useless shiny plastic coasters to every man, woman, and child in the country, overwhelming landfills across the nation.
Not sure about the Win 7 file copy thing (or what it has to do with Office 10), but Excel has had 1,048,576 rows since Office 2007.
Been listening to Michael Savage, eh?
However, until then, I am fairly sure that someone will reverse engineer the software and figure out how to emulate a server on their own.
It was done in the past (see bnetd). Blizzard didn't take kindly to it as it removed the need for a CD Key in order to play the game. They sued the developers under the DMCA and won.
Ya, but IE4 had that cool little easter egg in it!
Trade shows are where this device would be very cost effective. The last one I was at charged hundreds of dollars for a single IP address. This device would have paid for itself on the first day of the show. We could of had our two demo machines set up on it plus our sales weasels on their laptops. The only problem, as mentioned in an earlier post, might have been from interference on the wifi channel. The show floor was filled with wifi devices all competing for a signal.
To me, it is worth not receiving that $50 in order to stay of off the bookstore's spam/junk-mail/telemarketer/whatever list, especially if they were to sell that info to some third-party marketer. I'll pay the street price please, in cash, just leave me alone and keep me off your crap-flood junk list.
Seems to be the Javascript the site uses. Page Up and Page Down and arrow keys worked when NoScript was blocking the domain, but as soon as I white-listed it, they broke.
Interesting read, thanks for the link. I'm having a very similar problem installing Adobe Illustrator 8.0 on Vista Home Premium x64 (I know, spend some money and upgrade, blah, blah). Thanks to the article, I now believe it is related to the fact that Illustrator uses a 16-bit installer, but unfortunately there is no 32-bit equivalent for it to swap out for. I wonder if I copy the .exe and any supporting .dlls off of my old XP x86 machine if I could get it running, bypassing the installer.
However, for someone like Microsoft distributing something like a Windows 7 beta build, you're still going to want to spread the load across multiple servers on multiple continents and so on and so forth, which, yeah, is sort of what services like Akamai are all about. If Microsoft doesn't want to contract out like that, they could probably just do something similar with their own resources. I'm pretty sure they're big enough to be able to handle that.
Microsoft (at least through the MSDN download site) uses their own transfer protocol and file transfer management tool (Microsoft File Transfer Manager) to access the content. They do indeed use Akamai to host and distribute the content.
A List Apart has some very good pure CSS layout guides. This particular link is for a layout with header and footer, fixed width left and right columns, and a "fluid" center content section.
Apparently This guy needs some more Ninja lessons!
Thanks for clarifying, I was under the impression that the ads would be injected into sites on the fly. In this case, if we could figure out the user-agent and/or IP addresses for their spiders, we could still do some interesting and mischievous things like keyword injection or replacing the normal content with random strings of garbage text. This would have the effect out poisoning their keyword scraping process, at least for your site. I know Google frowns on this practice and can knock you down in the SERPS or even de-list you, but who cares about these Phorm bastards.
or similar should do it. For extra bonus points, inject your own links and/or images into the ads. How long before advertisers pull out of Phorm if the goatse guy or something equally horrific keeps appearing in their ads? It is, after all, your content and you should be able to do with it what you please.
Because they look better than you. Seriously, a large part of politics is about PR - and actors are useful for that.
Then why Edward James Olmos? He's a fine actor, but he looks like someone set his face on fire and then put it out with a pitchfork.
In MA, that $85 surcharge would add points to your driving record and stay on your record for a number of years (six years, I believe). So, total cost would be more like:
$25 + (6 x $85) = $535
MA treats an expired sticker the same as a speeding ticket, it is considered a moving violation and is a surcharge-able event.
The Trailer Park Boys where shown here in the States on BBC America for a while. They showed all of season 1 but then dropped it for some reason. Now I have to use TPB or YouTube to get my fix.
To Pay you parking ticket online now, please fill out the following:
Name:______________
SSN:______________
Credit Card Number:_______________
Wouldn't matter what OS you were using if you hand over your info.