Cheap widescreen laptops would suck less if websites realised that most people use widescreen displays these days. In fact it is hard to buy a non-widescreen display. I know, long lines of text are not as easy to read, but newspapers and magazines figured out how to get around that 200 years ago.
Duly noted, my friend. I've been looking into this with regard to responsive grid-based design. Problem is, there are still peeps out there with lower resolution/4:3 ratio screens. It's stultifying, but it's also LCD (lowest common denominator). Yeah, I wish we could ignore them too...
1. We're absolutely not "practically one of you". That's not only a false statement, but it makes me puke in my mouth just a bit. That's just an asinine thing to even aver.
2. Xenophobe: a person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs, etc. Yeah, that sounds about right. Sorry if you got your wordy-things wrong, but yep, that's what I meant to say.
3. See all of the above if you still have any questions as to why I'm so friggin' proud I'm not an "American" like you.
This is just a cover for their excessive spending of their research grant on booze.
Hmm... interesting. I think I'll start pitching website design for, let's see... Iron Horse Champagne, Stella Artois... let's add some Sony displays and, er, what's a good caviar? Toss in some Ashlynn Brooke...
Even though I haven't really messed with the printers too much (I'm usually ops side but recently cross trained over at the simulation facility) I'm sure there's something in there to make sure the ink droplets don't float off. I recently had to make a bunch of custom VGA cables that used the same connectors for the simulator.
I officially want to switch employers now. Sounds like an uber cool job, man!
Try and figure out how to get Explorer to recognize a Dreamweaver template file as a valid HTML document. In my case (Win7) it was a friggin' registry hack.
Y'know, Microsoft, there ARE still designers who use templates out here. For those shitty little sites that don't deserve more than a few hours work to get them live. And no... people don't use Frontpage anymore. We've moved on. Play well with others, guys. Sheesh.
How about just not posting stupid shit on your facebook page? If you're an idiot that routinely gets blasted on Tuesday nights and ends up on-stage at the local strip club in a meth-induced black-out, I'm not sure you're management material. Oh, and re-posting every single iteration of "This is what my [blank] thinks I do for a living" cartoons is another great method of showcasing your inherent superiority.
1. If you like it and use it, they'll change it. 2. If they change it, you'll learn to use it, but perhaps not like it. 3. If you still don't like it, you'll kludge to get it back.
Usually minor details, and 10 minutes of work to do so, if it's that important to you. I know Photoshop previews were a bitch for me when I lost them in Win 7 Explorer... so I got them back. Happy now.;-)
Say what you will but I live close enough to Waltham that I'm now worried about these things coming to my house in the middle of the night. It's like a prototype for the Rat Things in Snow Crash...
So you made the connection too... thought of them as soon as I saw it!
Thankfully, didn't see any hint of organics in there...;-)
I'd like to see more sci-fi win the big ticket, but I don't think we need, nor even want, a new category. Whether a movie is set in Cow-tip, New Hampshire or a galaxy far, far away, it's the merit of the movie itself, the characterization, cinematography, direction etc. that makes a great movie. Let the science fiction be graded on the same merits as other movies. If it's good, it'll be rewarded as such. Otherwise, perhaps the musical numbers from Mr. Lucas might be compared to "Chicago"?
Screw whether it works or not... like I NEED another fucking plug-in/language/idiotic "standard" to add to my page-builds. Let's just add even more to the design/developer's plate... especially when it sounds like it's going to be another flash-in-the-pan, oops, that didn't work out either kind of solution.
Get your heads out of your asses, you morons, and stop heaping more crap on the pile. If you're going to do it, do it right the first time, not with MORE server calls, MORE code, MORE to break, and MORE friggin' reins being tightened on our use and design.
In case you didn't get it, I've just about lost it with these so-called "standards". Fucking wankers.
It should be interesting to see what happens in the next few years. SInce following the trend now leads to subatomic 200pm process sizes in 20 years or so. Apparently the current lithography technology has limits around 10nm.
I'm not going to get behind the line on this one; I always seem to get lazy, and then lose out. Not this time, by gods! I'm placing my hold on "The Young Man's Illustrated Primer" at the library right now!
...before you can be honored with a high stress, low pay job teaching a room full of ignorant, arrogant, hormone imbalanced people who are not yet answerable to the adult criminal justice system.
He already reads slashdot. That qualifies him for at least a post at the rural version of Fort Apache, the Bronx. How much worse can it get?
The resolution on all existing tablets (including ipad2) requires downscaling for 1080p content. And it looks bad. I have my fingers crossed that the upscaling for this resolution will look better. And that one of Apples competitors will get a 1080P+ android device out soon.
Working off a 1600x900 laptop, I always start my desktop pages at a large (1218px) container size. This scales down to a 960 container just fine.
I'm glad we'll eventually get rid of at least one media query, then, when the tablets all get this larger rez. Will take time, of course, but it'll be less CSS to code and less stylesheets to get trundled up in eventually. I say great, and Android? Please catch up!
Step 1: Offer a new software function.
Step 2: Wait for two new generations of the software to be released, and the function mainstreamed.
Step 3: Remove the function.
Step 4: See how many bitch.
Step 5: Don't reinistate the function. The little geeks will just work up a kludge on their own.
a) Canada has no culture. We've always been parasitic in our cultural identity; what little concept we have of a "Canadian culture" sprouted between 1916 and about 1975. Before then, culture immigrated with the masses; since then, it's been subsumed by global influences -- and yes, mostly from the U.S. That's mainly proximity, and puts us in company with a shitload of other countries.
b) The CRTC sucks. Sucks balls, as a matter of fact. I used to be a long-distance reseller; I've dealt with the CRTC on a person-to-committee basis many times. As a body, it's antiquated, stone-aged in its thinking, and yes, usually takes the easy way out by bending to the whims of the big telecom and media entities. It, like it's affiliates in the States and overseas, needs to get their asses in gear and up to speed with what's really happening in the tech world today. It doesn't just risk reputation or stagnation on its current route: it jeopardizes the Canadian public and its technological future in the same way that SOPA and PIPA affect domestic Internet users. Which brings me to...
c) If we're arguing that Canada has become Americanized, then the biggest risk of this is that Canada will adopt the same type of idiotic, tech-blind, censorious legislation that is represented by SOPA and PIPA. If we can import and be influenced by Jersey Shore, Mitt Romney, Kelly Ripa, and Mickey Mouse, how much influence will bills of this magnitude have on our weak-kneed politicos when the U.S. turns around and threatens to increase border security or stop buying natural resources if we don't toe the line?
Re:Too late? About 4 years too late, in my case...
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it seem's the decision they made is about a year too late.
Oh sure, take me down with you!
Ironically, I just posted two Blackberry videos onto my YouTube portfolio channel yesterday that I had forgotten about (http://www.youtube.com/user/seanmurphydesign/featured#). I like the vids, but I tell you... my timing sucks!;-/ If they had held off until I was gainfully employed again, I could at least try to forgive them. RIM was sinking anyways... why not give an old supplier a break, huh?
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Cheap widescreen laptops would suck less if websites realised that most people use widescreen displays these days. In fact it is hard to buy a non-widescreen display. I know, long lines of text are not as easy to read, but newspapers and magazines figured out how to get around that 200 years ago.
Duly noted, my friend. I've been looking into this with regard to responsive grid-based design. Problem is, there are still peeps out there with lower resolution/4:3 ratio screens. It's stultifying, but it's also LCD (lowest common denominator). Yeah, I wish we could ignore them too...
1. We're absolutely not "practically one of you". That's not only a false statement, but it makes me puke in my mouth just a bit. That's just an asinine thing to even aver.
2. Xenophobe: a person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs, etc. Yeah, that sounds about right. Sorry if you got your wordy-things wrong, but yep, that's what I meant to say.
3. See all of the above if you still have any questions as to why I'm so friggin' proud I'm not an "American" like you.
Wearing Guy Fawkes mask on the street all the time suddenly seems like a VERY good idea...
Actually, I think I'm going to use that as my Facebook photo. Good idea.
This is just a cover for their excessive spending of their research grant on booze.
Hmm... interesting. I think I'll start pitching website design for, let's see... Iron Horse Champagne, Stella Artois... let's add some Sony displays and, er, what's a good caviar? Toss in some Ashlynn Brooke...
"No, boss! It's all for research! Really!"
that will kill them
The pedophiles? Yeah, I can get behind that. But castrate them before we spew them all over the inside of the microwave...
Even though I haven't really messed with the printers too much (I'm usually ops side but recently cross trained over at the simulation facility) I'm sure there's something in there to make sure the ink droplets don't float off. I recently had to make a bunch of custom VGA cables that used the same connectors for the simulator.
I officially want to switch employers now. Sounds like an uber cool job, man!
Canada is largely thought of as "North Wisconsin".
By who ? My tired, puckered ass, you idiot.
Instead of a long rant, one line from north of the border: "You, my friend, are a xenophobic fucking cunt."
Or you can do what I do: don't add people to your circles in Google+. Huge positive side effect: no friends = no G+ results muddying up my searches.
Sometimes it pays to be a misanthrope! :-D
Have you ever seen a fruit fly? Up close? If I was rejected by something that fugly, I'd hit the booze too!
Try and figure out how to get Explorer to recognize a Dreamweaver template file as a valid HTML document. In my case (Win7) it was a friggin' registry hack.
Y'know, Microsoft, there ARE still designers who use templates out here. For those shitty little sites that don't deserve more than a few hours work to get them live. And no... people don't use Frontpage anymore. We've moved on. Play well with others, guys. Sheesh.
How about just not posting stupid shit on your facebook page? If you're an idiot that routinely gets blasted on Tuesday nights and ends up on-stage at the local strip club in a meth-induced black-out, I'm not sure you're management material. Oh, and re-posting every single iteration of "This is what my [blank] thinks I do for a living" cartoons is another great method of showcasing your inherent superiority.
Then again, it is Darwinian, isn't it?
1. If you like it and use it, they'll change it.
2. If they change it, you'll learn to use it, but perhaps not like it.
3. If you still don't like it, you'll kludge to get it back.
Usually minor details, and 10 minutes of work to do so, if it's that important to you. I know Photoshop previews were a bitch for me when I lost them in Win 7 Explorer... so I got them back. Happy now. ;-)
Say what you will but I live close enough to Waltham that I'm now worried about these things coming to my house in the middle of the night. It's like a prototype for the Rat Things in Snow Crash...
So you made the connection too... thought of them as soon as I saw it!
Thankfully, didn't see any hint of organics in there... ;-)
I'd like to see more sci-fi win the big ticket, but I don't think we need, nor even want, a new category. Whether a movie is set in Cow-tip, New Hampshire or a galaxy far, far away, it's the merit of the movie itself, the characterization, cinematography, direction etc. that makes a great movie. Let the science fiction be graded on the same merits as other movies. If it's good, it'll be rewarded as such. Otherwise, perhaps the musical numbers from Mr. Lucas might be compared to "Chicago"?
Ugh. Just grossed myself out there.
Screw whether it works or not... like I NEED another fucking plug-in/language/idiotic "standard" to add to my page-builds. Let's just add even more to the design/developer's plate... especially when it sounds like it's going to be another flash-in-the-pan, oops, that didn't work out either kind of solution.
Get your heads out of your asses, you morons, and stop heaping more crap on the pile. If you're going to do it, do it right the first time, not with MORE server calls, MORE code, MORE to break, and MORE friggin' reins being tightened on our use and design.
In case you didn't get it, I've just about lost it with these so-called "standards". Fucking wankers.
It should be interesting to see what happens in the next few years. SInce following the trend now leads to subatomic 200pm process sizes in 20 years or so. Apparently the current lithography technology has limits around 10nm.
I'm not going to get behind the line on this one; I always seem to get lazy, and then lose out. Not this time, by gods! I'm placing my hold on "The Young Man's Illustrated Primer" at the library right now!
...before you can be honored with a high stress, low pay job teaching a room full of ignorant, arrogant, hormone imbalanced people who are not yet answerable to the adult criminal justice system.
He already reads slashdot. That qualifies him for at least a post at the rural version of Fort Apache, the Bronx. How much worse can it get?
The resolution on all existing tablets (including ipad2) requires downscaling for 1080p content. And it looks bad. I have my fingers crossed that the upscaling for this resolution will look better. And that one of Apples competitors will get a 1080P+ android device out soon.
Working off a 1600x900 laptop, I always start my desktop pages at a large (1218px) container size. This scales down to a 960 container just fine.
I'm glad we'll eventually get rid of at least one media query, then, when the tablets all get this larger rez. Will take time, of course, but it'll be less CSS to code and less stylesheets to get trundled up in eventually. I say great, and Android? Please catch up!
Step 1: Offer a new software function.
Step 2: Wait for two new generations of the software to be released, and the function mainstreamed.
Step 3: Remove the function.
Step 4: See how many bitch.
Step 5: Don't reinistate the function. The little geeks will just work up a kludge on their own.
...was to point out the facts that
a) Canada has no culture. We've always been parasitic in our cultural identity; what little concept we have of a "Canadian culture" sprouted between 1916 and about 1975. Before then, culture immigrated with the masses; since then, it's been subsumed by global influences -- and yes, mostly from the U.S. That's mainly proximity, and puts us in company with a shitload of other countries.
b) The CRTC sucks. Sucks balls, as a matter of fact. I used to be a long-distance reseller; I've dealt with the CRTC on a person-to-committee basis many times. As a body, it's antiquated, stone-aged in its thinking, and yes, usually takes the easy way out by bending to the whims of the big telecom and media entities. It, like it's affiliates in the States and overseas, needs to get their asses in gear and up to speed with what's really happening in the tech world today. It doesn't just risk reputation or stagnation on its current route: it jeopardizes the Canadian public and its technological future in the same way that SOPA and PIPA affect domestic Internet users. Which brings me to...
c) If we're arguing that Canada has become Americanized, then the biggest risk of this is that Canada will adopt the same type of idiotic, tech-blind, censorious legislation that is represented by SOPA and PIPA. If we can import and be influenced by Jersey Shore, Mitt Romney, Kelly Ripa, and Mickey Mouse, how much influence will bills of this magnitude have on our weak-kneed politicos when the U.S. turns around and threatens to increase border security or stop buying natural resources if we don't toe the line?
There. There's the fodder. Have at it, Slashers!
But for crystal meth.
Odd: degraded social interaction... loss of personal hygene... insular, self-interested attitude... nutrition and basic needs diminished...
Yep. Different drug. Same results.
..."underground data hall."
it seem's the decision they made is about a year too late.
Oh sure, take me down with you!
Ironically, I just posted two Blackberry videos onto my YouTube portfolio channel yesterday that I had forgotten about (http://www.youtube.com/user/seanmurphydesign/featured#). I like the vids, but I tell you... my timing sucks! ;-/ If they had held off until I was gainfully employed again, I could at least try to forgive them. RIM was sinking anyways... why not give an old supplier a break, huh?
new keyboard?
Nope. Just excited. Blowws ogff somme steeam, tyou knoooooow?
It probably will get expensive (but when you involve render farms what isn't) but you can certainly do it...
Things don't get more expensive. Cost reduces as usage increases.