Sorry, I meant *good* PNG support. IE5 for the Mac displayed PNGs with alpha transparency. Without alpha transparency, you may as well be using a JPEG. So rather than being able to see NGs like everyone else, we could see them better than everyone else. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngstatus.html#brows ers
As for the support for third-party certification authorities, I never ran into that one but I can see it would be a problem for some organisations.
Considering what was around at the time (Netscape 4.7), IE5 or the Mac was a godsend. It worked well on the Mac, even rendered PNGs, had the best CSS support at the time and, quite importantly, had the MS seal of approval. That was important for mac users then.
It would have been interesting to see how good Tantek could have made IE for the Mac if given a chance. His contributions to the Mac platform, and the web community at large, are often unappreciated by those who benefit the most from them.
>>If you think otherwise, try reading a "fluid columns" layout on a high resolution screen (1600x1200 for ex.). The paragraphs become so wide, since they stretch of course, that you can't follow to the next text line
You can use "max-width" to limit how wide the column goes. Of course, one particular browser doesn't understand it. (hint: it begins with 'internet explorer')
Disclaimers aren't worth shit if they (Encyclopaedia Britannica) have broken the law. For instance, if EB has defamed someone, then that someone would be entitled to seek redress regardless of any disclaimer. The disclaimer is so you don't sue EB because you didn't get an A+ on your book report.
If the inflation got too out of hand, the money markets would devalue the US$ so you'd need more of them to repay the debt. With a devalued US$, the cost of imports to the US would rise (because you are much more dependent on stuff imported from 3rd world countries) thus wages would be devalued. Then workers would strike for higher wages. Then the fun really begins. And so the cycle continues...
Thsi is why current economic practice seems to be "avoid inflation at all costs - keep inflation down and the market will take care of everything else".
Wikipedia calls itself an encyclopedia. It should at least resemble what it claims to be: An encyclopedia is a written compendium of knowledge.
Even if it's not to be accepted as the last word on something, the entries in it should at least wobble somewhere around the truth.
While individuals, corporations, governments, etc tend to be bullshitters, that's because they're probably trying to sell you something. Encyclopaedia Britannica sells us a reasonable compendium of knowledge. Wikipedia isn't trying to so much sell us a compendium of knowledge as sell us on the idea that people power will change the world. Man. It seems that people power can't really be trusted.
And that witty aphorism your granddad pinched from Marvin Gaye isn't really applicable. Think about it, if you really believed half of what you hear, and nothing that you saw, you wouldn't even pick up a software manual.
He's complaining he can't watch a video linked to from/. , a site which espouses open standards and cross platform stuff and you know the deal.
If he was making this complaint from inside MS, fair enough, he's a dick. But he's making this complaint from the WWW, a wild and wooly place where platform shouldn't matter as much.
When I gave up the cancer sticks for the first time, I had the worst mouth ulcers. Took it up again, ulcers went away. When I gave up again, bad ulcers came back even though I was using nicotine patches (the pathches were on my arm, not my mouth...).
I persevered and eventually they went away, but when I get ulcers now, I get them bad, much worse and much longer than I ever did before I gave up.
And it's only in the last month that I have ever heard of Poincare. He seems (like so many others) to have been on the cusp of greatness, but not quite made it. Still, reading his story, and how he compares to Einstein, reminds me that Einstein is great because he stood on the shoulders of giants. I am also reminded that science and philosophy are intertwined much more than most people realise.
Not all bugs are mozzies. If it kills all bugs, what happens to the critters that live by eating bugs?
I remember reading (somewhere on the innanet, so it must be true...) that the so-called mozzie zappers weren't too discriminatory. ~95% of the bugs caught in them weren't mosquitoes, but were bugs that had been attracted by the zapper's (deliberately attractant) light. This in turn was adversely affecting the local frogs. Less frogs meant more mosquitoes... and so on.
OTOH, my fly catching bottle smells like poo but catches nothing but flies:-)
But within the drug trade, there are most certainly regulations and these are definitely enforced. You mightn't see this at the street level, but it is there just a little higher up.
Try competing with a well established dealership in a city crowded with dealers. You'll find that the territory has been carved up. Sounds more like a cartel than free market to me. Try competing on price. HAH! Prices are fixed. Prices may be stable but they're incredibly high - that's why they aren't going up.
These regulations are not consistent, nor are they there for all to see. They are enforced violently. The drug trade is no more an example of a free market than OPEC is.
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So if I store my razor blades under this, will they remain eternally sharp?
Sorry, I meant *good* PNG support. IE5 for the Mac displayed PNGs with alpha transparency. Without alpha transparency, you may as well be using a JPEG. So rather than being able to see NGs like everyone else, we could see them better than everyone else.s ers
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngstatus.html#brow
As for the support for third-party certification authorities, I never ran into that one but I can see it would be a problem for some organisations.
Considering what was around at the time (Netscape 4.7), IE5 or the Mac was a godsend. It worked well on the Mac, even rendered PNGs, had the best CSS support at the time and, quite importantly, had the MS seal of approval. That was important for mac users then.
It would have been interesting to see how good Tantek could have made IE for the Mac if given a chance. His contributions to the Mac platform, and the web community at large, are often unappreciated by those who benefit the most from them.
Couldn't you have renamed your browser of choice "Click here to browse the web.app"?
Oh, and be careful that trying to get IE removed doesn't get the Macs removed altogether...
>>If you think otherwise, try reading a "fluid columns" layout on a high resolution screen (1600x1200 for ex.). The paragraphs become so wide, since they stretch of course, that you can't follow to the next text line
You can use "max-width" to limit how wide the column goes. Of course, one particular browser doesn't understand it. (hint: it begins with 'internet explorer')
Move it, I say. THEN we can finally sing those songs about Frosty the Snowman and one-horse open sleighs without feeling like total dills.
Besides, I'd rather work over the December-January period in air-conditioned comfort, not have to socialise all hot and sweaty.
Disclaimers aren't worth shit if they (Encyclopaedia Britannica) have broken the law. For instance, if EB has defamed someone, then that someone would be entitled to seek redress regardless of any disclaimer. The disclaimer is so you don't sue EB because you didn't get an A+ on your book report.
If the inflation got too out of hand, the money markets would devalue the US$ so you'd need more of them to repay the debt. With a devalued US$, the cost of imports to the US would rise (because you are much more dependent on stuff imported from 3rd world countries) thus wages would be devalued. Then workers would strike for higher wages. Then the fun really begins. And so the cycle continues...
Thsi is why current economic practice seems to be "avoid inflation at all costs - keep inflation down and the market will take care of everything else".
Disclaimer: IANAeconomist.
Wikipedia calls itself an encyclopedia. It should at least resemble what it claims to be: An encyclopedia is a written compendium of knowledge.
Even if it's not to be accepted as the last word on something, the entries in it should at least wobble somewhere around the truth.
While individuals, corporations, governments, etc tend to be bullshitters, that's because they're probably trying to sell you something. Encyclopaedia Britannica sells us a reasonable compendium of knowledge. Wikipedia isn't trying to so much sell us a compendium of knowledge as sell us on the idea that people power will change the world. Man. It seems that people power can't really be trusted.
And that witty aphorism your granddad pinched from Marvin Gaye isn't really applicable. Think about it, if you really believed half of what you hear, and nothing that you saw, you wouldn't even pick up a software manual.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170621&c id=14216021 seems to indicate that GoDaddy is blaming Apple.
Mmmm, Coopers Pale Ale. Just Lion Nathan keep their damn mitts off the company.
Then when Reuters licences the material, they make it a condition of that licence that the licencee has an appropriate robots.txt file in place.
He's complaining he can't watch a video linked to from /. , a site which espouses open standards and cross platform stuff and you know the deal.
If he was making this complaint from inside MS, fair enough, he's a dick. But he's making this complaint from the WWW, a wild and wooly place where platform shouldn't matter as much.
Nicotine helps prevent aphthous ulcers, too.
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When I gave up the cancer sticks for the first time, I had the worst mouth ulcers. Took it up again, ulcers went away. When I gave up again, bad ulcers came back even though I was using nicotine patches (the pathches were on my arm, not my mouth
I persevered and eventually they went away, but when I get ulcers now, I get them bad, much worse and much longer than I ever did before I gave up.
That's even better than just learning from other people's mistakes - you're actually benefitting from them too!
and I try to stretch both sides of me.
I think i've seen that photo.
And it's only in the last month that I have ever heard of Poincare. He seems (like so many others) to have been on the cusp of greatness, but not quite made it. Still, reading his story, and how he compares to Einstein, reminds me that Einstein is great because he stood on the shoulders of giants. I am also reminded that science and philosophy are intertwined much more than most people realise.
BTW, is your sig a quote from "Benson"?
Not all bugs are mozzies. If it kills all bugs, what happens to the critters that live by eating bugs?
:-)
I remember reading (somewhere on the innanet, so it must be true...) that the so-called mozzie zappers weren't too discriminatory. ~95% of the bugs caught in them weren't mosquitoes, but were bugs that had been attracted by the zapper's (deliberately attractant) light. This in turn was adversely affecting the local frogs. Less frogs meant more mosquitoes... and so on.
OTOH, my fly catching bottle smells like poo but catches nothing but flies
He may have been dressed up like an elf and carrying his staff, but he could have been thrown off a building by the local bullies.
Where's Gil Grissom when you need him?
Subliminal messages don't work anyway
i didn't read it either, but somehow I think black on black on black probably isn't "general office good fashion". unless you live in melbourne.
You didn't RTFA did you...
But within the drug trade, there are most certainly regulations and these are definitely enforced. You mightn't see this at the street level, but it is there just a little higher up.
Try competing with a well established dealership in a city crowded with dealers. You'll find that the territory has been carved up. Sounds more like a cartel than free market to me. Try competing on price. HAH! Prices are fixed. Prices may be stable but they're incredibly high - that's why they aren't going up.
These regulations are not consistent, nor are they there for all to see. They are enforced violently. The drug trade is no more an example of a free market than OPEC is.
Apple hasn't actually delivered anything yet, nor have they announced imminent delivery. This is on a rumour site.
"What the dealio"?