I agree! Of course I use tables, it all has to do with Murpheys law: if anything can go wrong it will at some point.
If I have to do xhtml + css the zen garden way i might get a beautifull site but they are using a lot of energy in finding tricks to render their sites in all browsers the way they want them to and those tricks may or may not work in future browser releases.
But i can do most of it if not all while using tables and a minumum amount of energy to get it rendered correctly in all browsers for years to come.
I have a disease called Colitis Ulcerosa which went unnoticed for 25 years because of smoking (If you smoke and have the symptoms I have they will not think of Colitis Ulcerosa first because smoking cigarettes stops it).
And then I quit and started bleeding internally.
What I have come to understand though is that smoking cigarettes has a better effect as smoking cigars or pipe or even using skin patches with nicotine or nicotine chewing gum. My doctor said it probably is not the nicotine but one of the other things that are in there. He mentioned there have been clinical tests with skin patches and that did never work as good as cigarettes do.
So there I am: at what point will my disease become so bad that I start smoking again (I smoke cigarillos and did smoke pipe but as I said, that does not have the same effect as cigarettes, alas). And yes you can take cortisone and even heavier hormones (Immuran) - but the side effects are to heavy for my taste: a different mood every 30 minutes or needing to have your blood checked every week...
From a European point of view: Would you please differentiate between socialism and communism?
Socialism has been very good to us - and we all know what harm was done in the name of communism in some countries. Although I must say that since the fall of the wall things are changing here for the worse.
There are professional ink jet printers that promise your pictures will last 100 years or more provided you use the right ink and the right paper. It is used for photo archiving - wich isn't such a bad idea because some paper snippets have have been around longer than the western civilization so a paper printout at the right quality certainly will last longer as any of my computers and harddisks - not to mention the brief lifespan of cds and dvds.
The Epson Photo R1800 comes to mind (but there are no doubt others) - I can use one from a company I work for. It is mainly used to do colour testing for professional print jobs. It can do A3 and also panorama printing on long stretches of paper.
Does anyone have any experience with one of those professional printers? Do they live up to their promise or is it just bogus because you need to keep them in dark storage below 0 degrees celcius or so?
This judging machine has to be given the right data in order to perform.
So the power of verdict has been transferred from a real judge to the person hammering the keyboard in order to feed the right parameters to the program. If the data typist likes you the parameters will be not so outspoken.
2p? You think we are British or something? Heaven forbid... No, we got cents just like the rest of... the USA. Our civilization is developing nice and slowly towards higher standards now.
The problem with for instance the Adobe Font Folio is that you cannot buy them used: the right to use them dies with your company annd you take it into your grave with you.
I know someone who bought a copy of the adobe font folio still shrinkwrapped from some bankruptcy auction, paid a couple of hundred EUR for the thing (it is about 6000 EUR + when bought from adobe). But according to adobe - who went apeshit when they heard about it - she has no right to use the fonts.
Newton messagepads- the old handheld form apple - have webservers for almost 10 years now, and one of the main uses today is a mechanism to get data on and off your handset because the communication software has not been updated in a long time.
The government can't imprison you unless you are committing crime, that's why we have judges.
Why don't you tell that to the people in Guatama Bay? Next it could be you. But - OMG - all the people who could have protested against it are already in there.
Using flash to do a navigation tool might in 99% of the cases be a very bad idead. But an swf file created in '97 still works in the browsers used in 2006. Try that with javascript. For me javescript is tainted by the browser wars. That's why I have allways chosen flash over most other alternatives when doing something freaky.
I realy don't understand the I hate flash bias on this forum. I like the net-art side of the internet and it is amusing - and sometimes bad, but I like it. And a lot of it is done in flash, and a great many of the links I get for it come from Rhizome - an organisation linked to the NY museum of Modern Art.
This is the multimedia, arty, entertainment side of the internet, not the informative - where Flash indeed can be a pain. Now if the Internet is a democracy there should at least be room for modern art.
There is a bigger issue I guess since apple is a hardware company and their OS is provided as a means to use that hardware.
Only since the birth of the IBM comptatible and DOS - and later Windows - we tend to seperate OS and hardware. Wether or not you think these should be two seperate entities is not the issue here. For apple they are not. And for a whole lot of other hardware providers they are not. The way Billy boy treats you by letting you choose your hardware of choice - as long as it is a pc compatible - is a unique situation.
But the big difference is that they are into the hardware business and the OS is just a way to use the hardware. With that hardware you can use what ever content/software from whatever supplier you want. The content for the iPod on the other hand comes from the same supplier as the hardware.
The use of the word 'theory' is ideology, just like the word 'proletariat' or 'class-struggle' was for Marxism.
By using it, people try to undermine its validity. If official scientific research calls it theory, it is easier to start a campaign claiming other theories are more valid.
On a personal note: I don't understand why ID is needed for someone to see the hand of god in the creation - even if the origins of life would be traced back to phosphorous parts brought to earth by comets from another solar system: it will always be an amazing accident. But I am an atheist (four generations and counting), so who am I to judge.
The anti GLBT-friendly teambuilding decision from Blizard sounds like blaming a woman for the fact she was raped based on the clothes she was wearing at the time.
Sorry, I am not going to repeat anything, because I learned all those lessons a long time ago and I never create anything like the sites you describe. But I do like to create sites that are as compatible and as light as possible and there is something to see (as in visual content). Therefor I will probably never design for text only systems. And please, don't asume I am running windows when I am not.
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I agree! Of course I use tables, it all has to do with Murpheys law: if anything can go wrong it will at some point. If I have to do xhtml + css the zen garden way i might get a beautifull site but they are using a lot of energy in finding tricks to render their sites in all browsers the way they want them to and those tricks may or may not work in future browser releases. But i can do most of it if not all while using tables and a minumum amount of energy to get it rendered correctly in all browsers for years to come.
I have a disease called Colitis Ulcerosa which went unnoticed for 25 years because of smoking (If you smoke and have the symptoms I have they will not think of Colitis Ulcerosa first because smoking cigarettes stops it).
...
And then I quit and started bleeding internally.
What I have come to understand though is that smoking cigarettes has a better effect as smoking cigars or pipe or even using skin patches with nicotine or nicotine chewing gum. My doctor said it probably is not the nicotine but one of the other things that are in there. He mentioned there have been clinical tests with skin patches and that did never work as good as cigarettes do.
So there I am: at what point will my disease become so bad that I start smoking again (I smoke cigarillos and did smoke pipe but as I said, that does not have the same effect as cigarettes, alas). And yes you can take cortisone and even heavier hormones (Immuran) - but the side effects are to heavy for my taste: a different mood every 30 minutes or needing to have your blood checked every week
From a European point of view: Would you please differentiate between socialism and communism?
Socialism has been very good to us - and we all know what harm was done in the name of communism in some countries. Although I must say that since the fall of the wall things are changing here for the worse.
There are professional ink jet printers that promise your pictures will last 100 years or more provided you use the right ink and the right paper. It is used for photo archiving - wich isn't such a bad idea because some paper snippets have have been around longer than the western civilization so a paper printout at the right quality certainly will last longer as any of my computers and harddisks - not to mention the brief lifespan of cds and dvds.
The Epson Photo R1800 comes to mind (but there are no doubt others) - I can use one from a company I work for. It is mainly used to do colour testing for professional print jobs. It can do A3 and also panorama printing on long stretches of paper.
Does anyone have any experience with one of those professional printers? Do they live up to their promise or is it just bogus because you need to keep them in dark storage below 0 degrees celcius or so?
I believe that this was explained in detail in "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" by Julian Barnes:
...
...)
The dinosaurs shared their boat with some aggressive woodworm no one ever heard from since
(But this could also have been another book
This judging machine has to be given the right data in order to perform.
So the power of verdict has been transferred from a real judge to the person hammering the keyboard in order to feed the right parameters to the program. If the data typist likes you the parameters will be not so outspoken.
2p? You think we are British or something? Heaven forbid... No, we got cents just like the rest of ... the USA. Our civilization is developing nice and slowly towards higher standards now.
The problem with for instance the Adobe Font Folio is that you cannot buy them used: the right to use them dies with your company annd you take it into your grave with you.
I know someone who bought a copy of the adobe font folio still shrinkwrapped from some bankruptcy auction, paid a couple of hundred EUR for the thing (it is about 6000 EUR + when bought from adobe). But according to adobe - who went apeshit when they heard about it - she has no right to use the fonts.
Newton messagepads- the old handheld form apple - have webservers for almost 10 years now, and one of the main uses today is a mechanism to get data on and off your handset because the communication software has not been updated in a long time.
Since when did Opera stop making a Mac version of their browser?
Just checked, it is still there. Clicked on the free download link at opera.com and the download of a nice mac disk image started.
So those people who can not understand the theory of evolution simply have to believe in it? :-p
my iphoto library (XML) is 15 + megs in size for 15.000+ photo's so that should in theory not be the problem.
But seriously, even if a tenth of the stuff I hear about what is going on over there is true, it is about time to resurect the Weather Report.
Using flash to do a navigation tool might in 99% of the cases be a very bad idead. But an swf file created in '97 still works in the browsers used in 2006. Try that with javascript. For me javescript is tainted by the browser wars. That's why I have allways chosen flash over most other alternatives when doing something freaky.
This is the multimedia, arty, entertainment side of the internet, not the informative - where Flash indeed can be a pain. Now if the Internet is a democracy there should at least be room for modern art.
eh ... I never said that. It is just a reply to hardware and OS being diffrent entities.
Well then, go fit the software used to run a Roll Royce to upgrade your little Volkswagen. That's gonna give quite a rush!
Only since the birth of the IBM comptatible and DOS - and later Windows - we tend to seperate OS and hardware. Wether or not you think these should be two seperate entities is not the issue here. For apple they are not. And for a whole lot of other hardware providers they are not. The way Billy boy treats you by letting you choose your hardware of choice - as long as it is a pc compatible - is a unique situation.
In the end this will probably be hard to control.
But the big difference is that they are into the hardware business and the OS is just a way to use the hardware. With that hardware you can use what ever content/software from whatever supplier you want. The content for the iPod on the other hand comes from the same supplier as the hardware.
It almost sounds like a Pratchett novel.
By using it, people try to undermine its validity. If official scientific research calls it theory, it is easier to start a campaign claiming other theories are more valid.
On a personal note: I don't understand why ID is needed for someone to see the hand of god in the creation - even if the origins of life would be traced back to phosphorous parts brought to earth by comets from another solar system: it will always be an amazing accident. But I am an atheist (four generations and counting), so who am I to judge.
... so it must be real, is what a friend of mine - a theater-play director - used to say.
The anti GLBT-friendly teambuilding decision from Blizard sounds like blaming a woman for the fact she was raped based on the clothes she was wearing at the time.
Sorry, I am not going to repeat anything, because I learned all those lessons a long time ago and I never create anything like the sites you describe. But I do like to create sites that are as compatible and as light as possible and there is something to see (as in visual content). Therefor I will probably never design for text only systems. And please, don't asume I am running windows when I am not.