Re:What about Slashdot?
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CSS for the LDP?
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IE mac has problems with some specific elements of css, mainy positioning elements. However, these are not so hard to avoid, even when one wants to build a page formatted entirely with css - I know, because I like to make sure most of my designs work cross-browser.
Really, it doesn't matter. Either that browser can be abandoned, or decent code can be written that works on it. If the rest of us want more complex formatting, we can change to a different stylesheet.
In any case, it seems that the version of slashdot rebuild with CSS works fine for me in IE 5.2 for mac. So it's a bit of a moot point then, no?
Google's definitions of unique include the following:
highly unusual or rare but not the single instance; "spoke with a unique accent"; "had unique ability in raising funds"; "a frankness unique in literature"; "a unique dining experience"
As such, even when copied, the interface can still be described as "unique"
If someone, after using a competing online store, buys an iPod to play their WMAs on, they then have to use iTunes to sync said WMAs to the 'pod. That's direct exposure to apple's store - essentially a potential for direct conversion of users to expand the itunes store.
Appleworks only comes on the "consumer" model macs: that is, the iMac, the eMac and the iBook. The "pro" macs (the powermac towers and the powerbooks) don't have it, as it assumed that those people can buy it if they want it, but most likely that they will use word, which is more likely in a work or office situation, the type that these computers are aimed at.
Of course, the version of textedit that ships with panther can import word documents and can do a decent job itself in rtf. However, it is not as streamlined in terms of usage as the real office solutions. That, and it doesn't like me using it to edit html - it seems to want to try to render it all.
Denethor's posession of the Palantir of Minas Tirith is implied in the movie. After all, he already knows all about Aragorn and the fellowship and everything else that is going on, albeit only the parts that seem bad from his point of view. I always interpreted this (after both the book and the movie) as being due to his use of the globe. Of course, it's not explained - at least not in the theatrical version. We can hope that it will be on the extended dvd.
The difference from walkmen (walkmans?)
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iPod-Jacked
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There is something of a culture attached to iPods, and it is not quite the same as the culture attached to macs. It overlaps a bit with the hipster community; some have even suggested that there is a style of dress associated with it.
The result of this culture is that, in general, iPod owners are somewhat more likely to have a greater degree of refinement in their musical taste than the general population. Their tastes are diverse enough that CDs become a drag and they want lots of choice, and in general are unlikely to want to listen to commercial radio. People who don't have these values are less likely to want the specific advantages of the iPod over other music media.
There is something more to this, as well. Both the iPod and hipster groups overlap with the blogging community, which of course has been publicizing its listening habits online for ages now.
Result? You have an unusually large portion of the groups most likely to want to share their music with others represented among iPod users. Hence the plugging.
The issues with safari and flash are not new to panther - I get the same issue regularly on jaguar, where the cursor doesn't update properly. Occasionally, with large flash files (streaming music in particular seems to do it, like cbc radio 3), Safari will unexpectedly quit.
It makes it difficult to find easter eggs in homestarrunner animations without resorting to the tab key.
More than landing - which was a reasonably straightforward affair of a controlled descent and then ascent, at low speed, Voyager has flown at high speed through an atmosphere.
When did this occur? Earth, 1996. It was a two-part season finale/opener, in which voyager ran into a time traveling ship from the 29th century. The pair in which the doctor got his portable transmitter.
Anyway, thanks to various systems problems due to the unexpected time travel, Voyager had to descend into the atmosphere in order to transport up crew-members. In the process, the ship was captured on an amateur video and made it onto the news.
One of the few really good eps of that series, a funny one - probably because of the doctor. Why did I post on this topic, anyway?
You can just grab a little 1/8th inch headphone jack to RCA adapter for a couple of bucks and plug that into the headphone port on a laptop. I do this quite regularly from my machine to hook it into better, non-computer-intended speaker/stereo systems.
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IE mac has problems with some specific elements of css, mainy positioning elements. However, these are not so hard to avoid, even when one wants to build a page formatted entirely with css - I know, because I like to make sure most of my designs work cross-browser.
Really, it doesn't matter. Either that browser can be abandoned, or decent code can be written that works on it. If the rest of us want more complex formatting, we can change to a different stylesheet.
In any case, it seems that the version of slashdot rebuild with CSS works fine for me in IE 5.2 for mac. So it's a bit of a moot point then, no?
Google's definitions of unique include the following:
As such, even when copied, the interface can still be described as "unique"
Yes, quite easily.
1. Put the album into your computer.
2. Select all of the tracks.
3. Go to the advanced menu.
4. Select "Join CD Tracks."
5. Rip and transfer to iPod.
This is, for example, how I am able to listen to King Crimson's "Lizard" in it's proper form on my iPod.
If someone, after using a competing online store, buys an iPod to play their WMAs on, they then have to use iTunes to sync said WMAs to the 'pod. That's direct exposure to apple's store - essentially a potential for direct conversion of users to expand the itunes store.
Appleworks only comes on the "consumer" model macs: that is, the iMac, the eMac and the iBook. The "pro" macs (the powermac towers and the powerbooks) don't have it, as it assumed that those people can buy it if they want it, but most likely that they will use word, which is more likely in a work or office situation, the type that these computers are aimed at. Of course, the version of textedit that ships with panther can import word documents and can do a decent job itself in rtf. However, it is not as streamlined in terms of usage as the real office solutions. That, and it doesn't like me using it to edit html - it seems to want to try to render it all.
Denethor's posession of the Palantir of Minas Tirith is implied in the movie. After all, he already knows all about Aragorn and the fellowship and everything else that is going on, albeit only the parts that seem bad from his point of view. I always interpreted this (after both the book and the movie) as being due to his use of the globe. Of course, it's not explained - at least not in the theatrical version. We can hope that it will be on the extended dvd.
There is something of a culture attached to iPods, and it is not quite the same as the culture attached to macs. It overlaps a bit with the hipster community; some have even suggested that there is a style of dress associated with it.
The result of this culture is that, in general, iPod owners are somewhat more likely to have a greater degree of refinement in their musical taste than the general population. Their tastes are diverse enough that CDs become a drag and they want lots of choice, and in general are unlikely to want to listen to commercial radio. People who don't have these values are less likely to want the specific advantages of the iPod over other music media.
There is something more to this, as well. Both the iPod and hipster groups overlap with the blogging community, which of course has been publicizing its listening habits online for ages now.
Result? You have an unusually large portion of the groups most likely to want to share their music with others represented among iPod users. Hence the plugging.
The issues with safari and flash are not new to panther - I get the same issue regularly on jaguar, where the cursor doesn't update properly. Occasionally, with large flash files (streaming music in particular seems to do it, like cbc radio 3), Safari will unexpectedly quit.
It makes it difficult to find easter eggs in homestarrunner animations without resorting to the tab key.
More than landing - which was a reasonably straightforward affair of a controlled descent and then ascent, at low speed, Voyager has flown at high speed through an atmosphere. When did this occur? Earth, 1996. It was a two-part season finale/opener, in which voyager ran into a time traveling ship from the 29th century. The pair in which the doctor got his portable transmitter. Anyway, thanks to various systems problems due to the unexpected time travel, Voyager had to descend into the atmosphere in order to transport up crew-members. In the process, the ship was captured on an amateur video and made it onto the news. One of the few really good eps of that series, a funny one - probably because of the doctor. Why did I post on this topic, anyway?
Maybe like, here. Or here. Someday indeed.
You can just grab a little 1/8th inch headphone jack to RCA adapter for a couple of bucks and plug that into the headphone port on a laptop. I do this quite regularly from my machine to hook it into better, non-computer-intended speaker/stereo systems.
Actually, MPEG-4 does support it's own DRM model.