To solve my PNG support problem I had to have some javascript do a browser check and load a gif version if it was Windows IE. I've noticed that Windows IE doesn't support transparent PNGs but it can handle most other simpler PNGs. A quick Google search should give you more specific compatability details.
I've been working on a new layout for the website at work. The entire office uses Macs, so it's difficult to test on a Windows machine. The only Windows machines are down the hall in a windowless room!
After the last few months, my experience is that Windows IE is the hardest browser to satisfy. The content could look good in every other browser (Safari, MacIE, mozilla, netscape, etc.) but look like complete shit in Windows IE. And don't even get me started about them not having decent png support.
Worry more about making it look nice in IE. I would go home and check the site with mozilla and it looked fine every time.
I've been corresponding through my gmail account with a distant friend who has a hotmail address for about 2 months. He has had no trouble receiving any of my e-mails. The submitter's situation, however, seems legitimate.
The article is a little light on the details, but who exactly would pay for this? In my apartment building there are about 4 wireless routers that DO NOT restrict connections. I guess no one bothered to properly configure their easy-to-use linksys/netgear router. So why pay for it when you can get it for free?
I for one, know a few people (me included) that are open to jobs abroad after college. Right after college is a great time to do something new and interesting in a new environment. In a decade, having global experience will be a very valuable trait.
As for the retirement aspect or moving back to the U.S. In a decade or two India's economy will grow big enough to match many of those around the world.
Many people think India is 3rd world, but from what I've heard about their big cities, they're pretty much exactly like our metropolitan hubs. Yeah, the rest of the country needs to catch up, but don't you think Wyoming needs to catch up the rest of the U.S. too?
On college campuses it's extremely easy to get someone's ss#. Everything we get from the school (that includes small things like phone bills) has our ss numbers on them. At the end of the year I saw lots of people just throwing them into the garbage with out even tearing them up. I tried to tear mine up best I could, but it's not that difficult to put them back together.
I'm considering contacting the proper person and advising them to take off our ss numbers from all mailings. It's definitely not necessary. I could have had 10 people's ss numbers by the end of the day last May.
If your a college student, beware. One of the last things you want to happen is your credit history being destroyed before you even enter the real world.
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NASA's Sensor Web
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"Part of the problem with searching for life on Mars," Delin continues, "is that the conditions for life aren't always present. We know from earth that sometimes the air temperature gets just right and you go into the sunlight, liquid water forms, and all of a sudden things bloom very quickly. It's hard to be there for that kind of event unless you put in place a sort of continual virtual presence. That's what the Sensor Web on Mars will be."
Ok, to me this quote seems to not make sense. Do they expect life on Mars to suddenly appear at some moment and have their sensors catch it and then it dies? If you believe in evolution, it takes LOTS of time for life to appear and many, many years of ideal conditions. Yes, there might be life on mars (some bacteria can survive extreme temperatures and conditions. we know that) but if it exists it should have been because the conditions were just right for many years not because all of a sudden it was the perfect temperature and conditions for bacteria to grow. IMOHO, This article makes it sound like life on Mars is going to suddenly appear and we want to catch it. It's not like the Mars climate has changed in thousands (millions?) of years.
On the other hand, this technology does have great potential for use on Earth. Maybe we should focus on that first.
Ok, so it can parse things at the word level but what about the sentence level understanding (semantics) and odd exceptions such as idioms that could totally screw up the statistical learning process.
After taking a linguistics class I realized language is very very complex and we are many years away from being able to create decent language translation systems (babelfish is not really decent at least in my eyes), speech synthesis, etc.
I agree. The slashdot community may gripe that bittorent was used as an iso distributer, but in reality anyone outside of this community uses it only for downloading the hulk or 'fitty' cent album. Geeks are the minority. Same with the campus search engines in the news. I don't support what the RIAA did, but, truthfully, I've been on a college campus long enough and I can tell you 90% of the population only cares about getting music and/or movies off the net. We may not like that we can't get our linux isos any easier, but what can you do? Most people are pirating. plain and simple. --- no troll intended.
So the author wanted to find out why copyright registrations declined after 1991? Well, there was a big depression shortly after that time. The article's author was pointing out how the Great Depression and the different major wars of the last century negatively affected copyright registrations, so it makes sense. I know he/she was probably 8-10 yrs. old in the early 90's so maybe he/she never really grasped how bad times were. And look! registrations start rebounding around '95-96 when IT started taking off.
I currently work for $7.25 / hour doing small time web development for a department while I'm in school. It's not that much, but I don't do much either. A friend visiting from India says that a middle class person makes about 1,000-1,500 rupies a month (and that's full time out of college) You get about 46 rupees per dollar now. So, if I work 4 hours I've already made enough to live decently for a month in India. If I worked fulltime (8 hrs / day) I'd be filthy rich for 1 days work. They work long hours all month long and make what I (a cheap college web developer) make in 2 days. How can we compete with this?
This person spammed a forum which is wrong, but what do they really expect to happen this company? Do they want their domain revoked, a reprimand, a fine? Do they have proof that they spam on a massive scale or send massive bulk e-mails. It's one thing to send 1,000 e-mails a day and another to post an ad in a forum (on the same subject for that matter).
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Unless they are trying to pass off freedb support as cddb, it looks like it does.
.31 release features
From the site under
CDDB support (from http protocol)
I use easyTag and it's working out great. It supports changing ID3 tags, changing filename to match ID3 tag, CDDB searches, etc.
To solve my PNG support problem I had to have some javascript do a browser check and load a gif version if it was Windows IE. I've noticed that Windows IE doesn't support transparent PNGs but it can handle most other simpler PNGs. A quick Google search should give you more specific compatability details.
I've been working on a new layout for the website at work. The entire office uses Macs, so it's difficult to test on a Windows machine. The only Windows machines are down the hall in a windowless room!
After the last few months, my experience is that Windows IE is the hardest browser to satisfy. The content could look good in every other browser (Safari, MacIE, mozilla, netscape, etc.) but look like complete shit in Windows IE. And don't even get me started about them not having decent png support.
Worry more about making it look nice in IE. I would go home and check the site with mozilla and it looked fine every time.
I've been corresponding through my gmail account with a distant friend who has a hotmail address for about 2 months. He has had no trouble receiving any of my e-mails. The submitter's situation, however, seems legitimate.
The article is a little light on the details, but who exactly would pay for this? In my apartment building there are about 4 wireless routers that DO NOT restrict connections. I guess no one bothered to properly configure their easy-to-use linksys/netgear router. So why pay for it when you can get it for free?
..oh yeah, it's probably wrong or something...
I for one, know a few people (me included) that are open to jobs abroad after college. Right after college is a great time to do something new and interesting in a new environment. In a decade, having global experience will be a very valuable trait.
As for the retirement aspect or moving back to the U.S. In a decade or two India's economy will grow big enough to match many of those around the world.
Many people think India is 3rd world, but from what I've heard about their big cities, they're pretty much exactly like our metropolitan hubs. Yeah, the rest of the country needs to catch up, but don't you think Wyoming needs to catch up the rest of the U.S. too?
On college campuses it's extremely easy to get someone's ss#. Everything we get from the school (that includes small things like phone bills) has our ss numbers on them. At the end of the year I saw lots of people just throwing them into the garbage with out even tearing them up. I tried to tear mine up best I could, but it's not that difficult to put them back together.
I'm considering contacting the proper person and advising them to take off our ss numbers from all mailings. It's definitely not necessary. I could have had 10 people's ss numbers by the end of the day last May.
If your a college student, beware. One of the last things you want to happen is your credit history being destroyed before you even enter the real world.
"Part of the problem with searching for life on Mars," Delin continues, "is that the conditions for life aren't always present. We know from earth that sometimes the air temperature gets just right and you go into the sunlight, liquid water forms, and all of a sudden things bloom very quickly. It's hard to be there for that kind of event unless you put in place a sort of continual virtual presence. That's what the Sensor Web on Mars will be."
Ok, to me this quote seems to not make sense. Do they expect life on Mars to suddenly appear at some moment and have their sensors catch it and then it dies? If you believe in evolution, it takes LOTS of time for life to appear and many, many years of ideal conditions. Yes, there might be life on mars (some bacteria can survive extreme temperatures and conditions. we know that) but if it exists it should have been because the conditions were just right for many years not because all of a sudden it was the perfect temperature and conditions for bacteria to grow. IMOHO, This article makes it sound like life on Mars is going to suddenly appear and we want to catch it. It's not like the Mars climate has changed in thousands (millions?) of years.
On the other hand, this technology does have great potential for use on Earth. Maybe we should focus on that first.
- Mod the drunk guy up!
Ok, so it can parse things at the word level but what about the sentence level understanding (semantics) and odd exceptions such as idioms that could totally screw up the statistical learning process.
After taking a linguistics class I realized language is very very complex and we are many years away from being able to create decent language translation systems (babelfish is not really decent at least in my eyes), speech synthesis, etc.
I wonder if the commercials are gonna be anything like the anti-drug campaign. "Buying pot funds terrorism." blah blah
I can see it now. "When you steal the Hulk you're helping the terrorists!!! So unless you want the FBI interrogating your ass, stop pirating!"
I agree. The slashdot community may gripe that bittorent was used as an iso distributer, but in reality anyone outside of this community uses it only for downloading the hulk or 'fitty' cent album. Geeks are the minority. Same with the campus search engines in the news. I don't support what the RIAA did, but, truthfully, I've been on a college campus long enough and I can tell you 90% of the population only cares about getting music and/or movies off the net. We may not like that we can't get our linux isos any easier, but what can you do? Most people are pirating. plain and simple. --- no troll intended.
you're right. The other word might have been better, but as the definition below states, a recession lasts for a rather short time.
recession n 1: the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year.
Hmm...I guess then we are officially in a depression now. How uplifting.
So the author wanted to find out why copyright registrations declined after 1991? Well, there was a big depression shortly after that time. The article's author was pointing out how the Great Depression and the different major wars of the last century negatively affected copyright registrations, so it makes sense. I know he/she was probably 8-10 yrs. old in the early 90's so maybe he/she never really grasped how bad times were. And look! registrations start rebounding around '95-96 when IT started taking off.
I currently work for $7.25 / hour doing small time web development for a department while I'm in school. It's not that much, but I don't do much either. A friend visiting from India says that a middle class person makes about 1,000-1,500 rupies a month (and that's full time out of college) You get about 46 rupees per dollar now. So, if I work 4 hours I've already made enough to live decently for a month in India. If I worked fulltime (8 hrs / day) I'd be filthy rich for 1 days work. They work long hours all month long and make what I (a cheap college web developer) make in 2 days. How can we compete with this?
This person spammed a forum which is wrong, but what do they really expect to happen this company? Do they want their domain revoked, a reprimand, a fine? Do they have proof that they spam on a massive scale or send massive bulk e-mails. It's one thing to send 1,000 e-mails a day and another to post an ad in a forum (on the same subject for that matter).