If you're only using 26 letters are you really reproducing a book or just a stream of letters? Think punctuation, whitespace, numbers etc. You might want to expand your 26 letters to a character set.
So tell me, what exactly is wrong with that line of dialogue?
It's explained in the very next paragraph of the article:
'No performer living or dead could pronounce the word "Naboo" without sounding like a moron, and Lucas matches that
authorial infelicity with dozens of others. One of the movie's villains is named "Dooku," and it's a pity that Lucas didn't arrange for Dooku to visit Naboo, because that could have generated a truly memorable piece of dialogue, like "You should never have come to Naboo, Dooku!"'
What's wrong, is it too human for you?
For me, personally, it's not human enough... I'd say it sounds hokey.
Yeah I've worn through the metal-like coating on the right side of one mouse! Guess it's because my finger is always in contact with that side to push the mouse around while my other finger moves to click and lifts for the scroll wheel.
Thing is, even if you don't manage to fix it there's usually something worth salvaging. Even if it's only the screws - spares come in handy when you're trying to revive the next patient along. =)
Running a thin, blunt knife e.g. a small butter knife or screwdriver around the joins should reveal where the plastic lugs are. Then insert similar shims at each locked point until the container pops open. It takes a bit of practice but if you're careful you soon learn the tolerance of the material - i.e. how hard to apply pressure before anything snaps. Also - check there aren't any screws hidden behind sticky labels etc. by running your finger over them and feeling for giveaway circular depressions. When you're putting it back together bend the lugs out a bit so they catch.
You might want to consider investing in a mouse with screws - the couple of Logitech meeces I use are only secured with a couple of easily-accessible screws. Which is handy if I need to clean them or do simple maintenance such as pushing the optical sensors back in line.
Good luck isn't required to replace a microswitch. If you have a similar device e.g. a second, broken mouse that you have kept for parts then it's a trivially simple operation for those that can use a soldering iron.
Provided it's safe to work with (err on the side of caution if you're not sure) and it's not working anyway you might as well have a go at fixing it!
Even if you don't succeed you'll probably learn something in the process.
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'Mozilla's public acknowledgement of the vulnerabilities includes a chilling warning that an attacker could combine the flaws to execute malicious code without user interaction.'
What I think I did was view the screenshots then go back through the directories until I got some HTML. IIRC there wasn't a "gallery" page so I eventually ended up at the Russian version.
Rus/Eng - I see it now. But the first thing I do when I get to a page is look for the content - text, pictures - not examine the header for abbreviations! I guess it's a part of "banner blindness".
Hope I'm not the only one to miss Rus/Eng - the live CD looks interesting. I'll go read it now.
Yes, that's true. It depends on the context but it often has a snide connotation.
In this case the submitter could, and should in my opinion, have given the source the benefit of the doubt, put the mistake down to a typo and simply corrected it.
Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.
No, not 'did' _if_. I was interested to see what sort of stuff you were producing because you said you were a slashdotter who used Flash. That's on topic.
If you're looking for a fight, keep walkin', Jack.
There's no need to be so defensive. I politely asked for examples because you said you were a Flash developer. If that's fighting talk where you come from: move.
Not just ads - annoying attention grabbing techniques are irritating whether they use Flash or not. Hit the monkey or whatever is no more or less irritating than stupid fake WinXP Luna dialog boxes or flashing GIFs. I'm talking about people using Flash for websites.
I often find Flash used as an extra layer of chrome on top of the content I want to access. When it's used like this I find it typically impedes my use of the site. Flash can be effective in experienced hands but there's a lot of people using it who clearly haven't thought about usability.
Quick examples off the top of my head:
When it's used for displaying text and there's no find option implemented. I need a find dialog box! Just serve it as HTML so I can use Firefox's '/' and Ctrl+G to find stuff. This is how I use the Web because it's fast and efficient.
Badly coded widgets - e.g. scrollbars. A lot of the ones I've seen reinvent the wheel as a cube. I've seen buggy, I've seen too small, I've seen mapped to an arc-thing with seemingly random movement of text. Also breaking the mouse scroll wheel.
Blasting out music and various other assorted noises. Gimmicky in the extreme. Irritating for me and others who have to listen to it. Most of the stuff I encounter is really loud too. Is it so hard to implement a volume control widget? Nothing makes me leave a site faster than being bombarded with music and having to hunt around to see if the developer bothered to include an off button.
Pointless animation for the sake of it. Can be very distracting. Seen one spinning company logo with text flying around: seen them all. Thankfully most sites have grown out of doing that splash screen intro thing but if present even having to find the skip option is irritating in itself. I'm no longer impressed by the usual vector-based animation techniques so it's like waiting for 'Loading [|||||.....]' just to watch the equivalent of a TV commercial break.
Not bothering to provide an up-to-date HTML alternative. If you're any good you should be able to use the same source of content and display it in either format. Some devices I use to browse simply don't support Flash.
Fixed size design. It's supposed to be vector-based so why lock it in to a certain set of dimensions? When done right HTML flows when resized, Flash often doesn't.
Developers writing buggy code. I find HTML + scripting usually fails more gracefully because worse comes to worse you can see what's happening.
These are just a few things that irritate me. I'm not even going to start on potential accessibility issues. None are these are really the fault of Flash but they're that extra length of rope the inexperienced developer hangs themself with. There are innovative yet really good Flash sites out there but I think it's started to turn the way of Java applets - there's slowly a stink building on the technology. Bundling the toolbar with the download only makes it worse.
Simply click on whichever blocked pieces you want to re-enable.
Or just go somewhere else. What did you used to do when you arrived at Websites that 'must be viewed in Internet Explorer at 800x600' with broken JavaScript detection and other assorted irritations? There's usually an alternative.
Yes but unfortunately it followed Daedalus (transporter-balls) and Observer Effect (disease-balls).
Daedalus: oh no - somebody has been trapped in a transporter accident... again!
Observer Effect: oh no - some of the crew have been infected but they're major characters so they're not in any real danger... again!
It almost goes without saying that if you can't figure out exactly what happens in either of these two turkeys within the first five minutes then it doesn't really matter because you probably wouldn't be capable of switching on the "magic window" and tuning in in the first place.
After such unimaginitve, rehashed and reheated episodes that have no bearing on the main arc you'd really have to want to sit through that abysmal theme tune for the next installment. Which is a pity because the latest episode, Babel One, is saved by the entertaining presence of Shran alone. Personally, I think the all-star plucky human crews have had their day and it's time for a series based on the Andorians.
There's just no way I can see the ousting of Greg Dyke as a 'token victory'. The government and the BBC went head-to-head over a very important issue and the New Labour drew blood. Whatever your opinion of Dyke (I know I'm not his biggest fan) the result was and is profound for the BBC's journalistic integrity. The message is clear: go with the story and be decapitated.
It's interesting to hear about the Australian system. In the UK we have a strange funding system for some other terrestrial channels but it goes some way to providing the truly excellent Channel 4 News. Channel 4 is essentially a commercial channel but their news programme is the best out there by a country mile. The quality of their reporting and, most importantly, analysis is unmatched in the UK. Sadly, the BBC "dumbed down" their televisual output a long time ago, and their news coverage is no exception. Channel 4 News is the intellectual alternative over here.
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If you're only using 26 letters are you really reproducing a book or just a stream of letters? Think punctuation, whitespace, numbers etc. You might want to expand your 26 letters to a character set.
So tell me, what exactly is wrong with that line of dialogue?
It's explained in the very next paragraph of the article:
What's wrong, is it too human for you?
For me, personally, it's not human enough... I'd say it sounds hokey.
For what, a pointless remake of one of the original trilogy that makes less sense?
Alan Smithee.
Yeah I've worn through the metal-like coating on the right side of one mouse! Guess it's because my finger is always in contact with that side to push the mouse around while my other finger moves to click and lifts for the scroll wheel.
Thing is, even if you don't manage to fix it there's usually something worth salvaging. Even if it's only the screws - spares come in handy when you're trying to revive the next patient along. =)
Running a thin, blunt knife e.g. a small butter knife or screwdriver around the joins should reveal where the plastic lugs are. Then insert similar shims at each locked point until the container pops open. It takes a bit of practice but if you're careful you soon learn the tolerance of the material - i.e. how hard to apply pressure before anything snaps. Also - check there aren't any screws hidden behind sticky labels etc. by running your finger over them and feeling for giveaway circular depressions. When you're putting it back together bend the lugs out a bit so they catch.
You might want to consider investing in a mouse with screws - the couple of Logitech meeces I use are only secured with a couple of easily-accessible screws. Which is handy if I need to clean them or do simple maintenance such as pushing the optical sensors back in line.
Good luck isn't required to replace a microswitch. If you have a similar device e.g. a second, broken mouse that you have kept for parts then it's a trivially simple operation for those that can use a soldering iron.
Provided it's safe to work with (err on the side of caution if you're not sure) and it's not working anyway you might as well have a go at fixing it!
Even if you don't succeed you'll probably learn something in the process.
Sayeth the Ziff Davis e-mail:
And the linked to story Zero-Day Firefox Exploit Sends Mozilla Scrambling
Chilling. Hmmm.
Looks like Davros has been on Pimp My Ride.
Very good! If I had mod points I would MOD-ER-ATE!
Thanks! Yeah that's a lot easier to make out!
What I think I did was view the screenshots then go back through the directories until I got some HTML. IIRC there wasn't a "gallery" page so I eventually ended up at the Russian version.
Rus/Eng - I see it now. But the first thing I do when I get to a page is look for the content - text, pictures - not examine the header for abbreviations! I guess it's a part of "banner blindness".
Hope I'm not the only one to miss Rus/Eng - the live CD looks interesting. I'll go read it now.
Yes, that's true. It depends on the context but it often has a snide connotation.
In this case the submitter could, and should in my opinion, have given the source the benefit of the doubt, put the mistake down to a typo and simply corrected it.
Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.
Dictionary.com
Essentially, it indicates an error in the original that the quoter has chosen to preserve for whatever reason.
No, not 'did' _if_. I was interested to see what sort of stuff you were producing because you said you were a slashdotter who used Flash. That's on topic.
If you're looking for a fight, keep walkin', Jack.
There's no need to be so defensive. I politely asked for examples because you said you were a Flash developer. If that's fighting talk where you come from: move.
And I'm also a Flash developer...
If you rate yourself then: examples, please!
Not just ads - annoying attention grabbing techniques are irritating whether they use Flash or not. Hit the monkey or whatever is no more or less irritating than stupid fake WinXP Luna dialog boxes or flashing GIFs. I'm talking about people using Flash for websites.
I often find Flash used as an extra layer of chrome on top of the content I want to access. When it's used like this I find it typically impedes my use of the site. Flash can be effective in experienced hands but there's a lot of people using it who clearly haven't thought about usability.
Quick examples off the top of my head:
These are just a few things that irritate me. I'm not even going to start on potential accessibility issues. None are these are really the fault of Flash but they're that extra length of rope the inexperienced developer hangs themself with. There are innovative yet really good Flash sites out there but I think it's started to turn the way of Java applets - there's slowly a stink building on the technology. Bundling the toolbar with the download only makes it worse.
Personally, I've nothing against it but I find the way it's typically used to be highly irritating.
Simply click on whichever blocked pieces you want to re-enable.
Or just go somewhere else. What did you used to do when you arrived at Websites that 'must be viewed in Internet Explorer at 800x600' with broken JavaScript detection and other assorted irritations? There's usually an alternative.
Oh OK. Is there information in English about the live CD somewhere?
Russian?
Um...
Well the screenshot looked nice anyway.
Yes but unfortunately it followed Daedalus (transporter-balls) and Observer Effect (disease-balls).
Daedalus: oh no - somebody has been trapped in a transporter accident... again!
Observer Effect: oh no - some of the crew have been infected but they're major characters so they're not in any real danger... again!
It almost goes without saying that if you can't figure out exactly what happens in either of these two turkeys within the first five minutes then it doesn't really matter because you probably wouldn't be capable of switching on the "magic window" and tuning in in the first place.
After such unimaginitve, rehashed and reheated episodes that have no bearing on the main arc you'd really have to want to sit through that abysmal theme tune for the next installment. Which is a pity because the latest episode, Babel One, is saved by the entertaining presence of Shran alone. Personally, I think the all-star plucky human crews have had their day and it's time for a series based on the Andorians.
eBay!
Swing and a miss.
But don't give up - the world needs urologists to take the piss.
There's just no way I can see the ousting of Greg Dyke as a 'token victory'. The government and the BBC went head-to-head over a very important issue and the New Labour drew blood. Whatever your opinion of Dyke (I know I'm not his biggest fan) the result was and is profound for the BBC's journalistic integrity. The message is clear: go with the story and be decapitated.
It's interesting to hear about the Australian system. In the UK we have a strange funding system for some other terrestrial channels but it goes some way to providing the truly excellent Channel 4 News. Channel 4 is essentially a commercial channel but their news programme is the best out there by a country mile. The quality of their reporting and, most importantly, analysis is unmatched in the UK. Sadly, the BBC "dumbed down" their televisual output a long time ago, and their news coverage is no exception. Channel 4 News is the intellectual alternative over here.
No shine: no deal. (And certainly no shaking on it).
Tip for next time: rubber gloves!