I already have something called "checky" which tosses my page into the W3C from Firebird, but what I would REALLY like is one program to do all three tasks of letting me write, preview render, and W3 check my HTML. Currently, I'm alt-tabbing to Firebird and IE and hitting F5 in both. Multiply this action by dozens of times a hour and you can see why I hate it. Something that will automatically propagate changes I make to the HTML over to the IE and Firebird windows every few seconds, and underline any W3 no-nos I make... That would be perfect. Ahhh, I wish I were a programmer instead of an HTML script kiddie.
Now I'd like to see what kind of code it puts out for an averagely-complicated page. If that looks good, well, stick the Frontpage developers on Longhorn and Linux will have a run for its money.
Well, gotta admit, if they're confident enough to put banner ads for it on Slashdot of all places, touting its non-code-mangling, they've gotta be pretty proud of it.
I actually used to use Dreamweaver, and I loved the code it generated. However, I found myself using code view a LOT more than the actual WYSIWYG tools, so I figured, why load a whole program just to use it as notepad? So I switched to notepad instead.
Now what I want is a tool with an integrated W3 checker, like MS Word's spell check. It'll save a ton of surfing to W3.net
Well, OfficeMax was the place where I worked, but one of my friends worked at Best Buy and told me a little bit about how it worked there. They don't get commissions, and they're trained to make that one of their selling points. At OfficeMax, they get 10% commissions on extended warrantees they sell.
At both chains, employees are STRONGLY encouraged to add on to the customer's purchase. No commissions, but if you're not upselling to everyone you meet, your boss gets mad at you. In a couple cases I think it's sorta justified, like if someone buys a printer, they probably *need* paper and a cable for it, and possibly some ink. And some products are complete junk and people shouldn't waste their money on them. Sometimes the extended warrantees will be useful. But it's a very fine line, and the salesperson is trained to look for every last penny they can squeeze out of the customer, practicality thrown aside, even to the point of pushyness.
One day I sold a $20 extended warranty to someone who bought a $20 mouse, because that was what I'd been trained to do. It was probably one of those people who can't say no (and who probably buys stuff from telemarketers), and I felt bad about it afterward. It was one of the many reasons I quit, though the fact that they didn't give me any hours for several months at a time probably didn't help.
Is live television coverage of a Counterstrike tournament or something. The "camera people" can be people sitting at computers with video outputs and connected to HLTV, and they can have instant replays of cool kills at the end of the round. Imagine the color commentary:
"Now, it looks like 1337_k1ll4r is going with the MP5 this round"
"That's right Bob, he just didn't have enough money this round for the AWP."
"Well, let's see how well he does with this weapon...Here comes pwnz0rz_j00 with an AK..."
"Oooh, that was not pretty, Bob, looks like k1ll4r needs to focus on his non-AWP-whoring skills."
I used to work there, and they sold refills for a few cartridges, HP mostly, I think. I don't remember everything, mainly because I hated working there.
There are plenty of species on Earth that do that. There's alligators, or was it crocodiles? I can never remember the difference. Also consider how well species introduced to different continents here on Earth do. Rabbits in Australia, Kudzu in the southeastern US, etc. It may be that the post-mammalian reptilian offspring might even overpower the local ecosystem.
With episodes like that, plus the TNG one where LaForge gets turned into a weird blue glowing thing, and countless other similar episodes, you gotta wonder what a starfleet employment contract looks like:
By boarding this vessel you agree to hold Starfleet harmless if:
1) You are transformed into an alien species or imnplanted with millions of nanites which integrate you into a technological collective.
2a) You are involved in some kind of bizarre accident with one of our supposedly safe technologies that we use anyway despite someone getting killed or mangled by one of these technologies roughly every other episode.
2b) Transporter Accidents: Even though this technology is now over 200 years old, we haven't ironed out all the bugs. But that doesn't keep us from beaming you everywhere! The following may occur:
You may fail to materialize and become trapped in the transporter buffer with a bunch of eels.
You may fail to materialize and your body will become part of a holodeck program.
Your RNA may be cut off causing you to materialize as a 12 year old.
You may be combined with the other person who was beaming with you.
c) You are killed by a power surge through the panel you are working at because Starfleet engineers have apparently never heard of a high-tech 24th century technology known as a "fuse."
The transporter has never been said to be instantaneous as far as I've seen. I don't own the technical manual, but my wild guesswork says that it's probably bound by the speed of light. I mean, you see them completely disappear from the pad, then they cut to the planet and then they start appearing, for a delay of a second or two in the total journey.
Speaking of warp 10, did anyone else hate the episode of Voyager where they hit warp 10 and suddenly start evolving faster? What bugged me was a) Evolution is not pre-determined like they were suggesting b) Evolution doesn't even happen within a single generation and c) Isn't the point of evolution to become MORE advanced? I mean, Janeway and Paris turned into freaking LIZARDS!
And I'll say it again. LucasArts should just ditch the Star Wars license and go back to making good games. Monkey Island, the Maniac Mansion games, Loom, Indiana Jones (up to Atlantis, after that Indy was just another Lara wannabe), Sam and Max, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango. How many good Star Wars license games can you name?
And they should stop doing 3D "adaptations" of characters that simply DO NOT work in 3D. Guybrush in 3D was simply horrible, and I imagine the Full Throttle and Sam and Max sequels will look equally horrible.
Hmm, a couple weeks ago I saw Homeworld "Game of the Year" at Best Buy for $10, and I remembered playing the demo and liking it, so I bought it. I didn't get any sound track CD? Pity, too, 'cause even if I use the utility on the Relic web site to extract the in game audio, it's so horribly encoded it's not worth it. "Agnus Dei" is just RUINED by the scourge of a billion audio artifacts.
As for the Yes song, I didn't like it. I wince at the guy's high pitched singing, and the song itself sounds like 5 different songs fell into a blender.
Hmm, I got all the CG ones correct, but I mis-identified some of the real photos as CG. The CG ones gave themselves away with too-perfect reflections, off colors, and with glitches in the triangle smoothing techniques they used. The photos that looked like CG I flagged because they looked too perfect to be real. D'oh.
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Well, I'm reading Slashdot, which means I've never had any social reason to drink, plus I don't particularly like the taste of alcohol anyway, so I don't really have much of a reason to break the drinking law. Bars around here are pretty strict about checking ID, too.
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I'm underaged, so I used the next best thing. Best way to describe it: A gut bomb of sugar.
Yes! Another MM sequel! In fact, LucasArts should drop the stupid Star Wars license games (they haven't made a good one yet) and go back to adventures, it's what they're best at.
But, I don't want any more bad adaptations to 3D. The Sam and Max trailer looks simply awful. Escape from Monkey Island looked awful. Cartoons do not work in 3D, Lucasarts!
Agreed about Curse. Go back to that look, with perhaps some minor upgrades like making the sprites antialiased. The pixel shifting from a poorly resized sprite is the only complaint I have about the look, and that's just a technical thing, something that can easily be fixed with today's hardware.
Too bad Lucasarts seems to be sticking with 3D, at least with Sam and Max. {sigh}
I wish they'd go back to the old format of Indiana Jones, too. Now Indy's just another Lara wannabe.
In "Escape," Guybrush says he has an unbreakable 5 game contract, so they've gotta put one out eventually. =D
I didn't like Escape, though, the 3D characters just weren't as expressive as they were when they were cartoons.
Think about it, when do you usually play games? Your average gamer is nocturnal. I am posting this at two in the morning, and this is when I normally go to sleep (at least when I don't have morning commitments).
Small-time providers = public access television. Seriously, just go to your local cable access station, tell 'em "I wanna make a TV show," and they'll accommodate you.
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Or worse, CowboyNeal.
I already have something called "checky" which tosses my page into the W3C from Firebird, but what I would REALLY like is one program to do all three tasks of letting me write, preview render, and W3 check my HTML. Currently, I'm alt-tabbing to Firebird and IE and hitting F5 in both. Multiply this action by dozens of times a hour and you can see why I hate it. Something that will automatically propagate changes I make to the HTML over to the IE and Firebird windows every few seconds, and underline any W3 no-nos I make... That would be perfect. Ahhh, I wish I were a programmer instead of an HTML script kiddie.
Now I'd like to see what kind of code it puts out for an averagely-complicated page. If that looks good, well, stick the Frontpage developers on Longhorn and Linux will have a run for its money.
Well, gotta admit, if they're confident enough to put banner ads for it on Slashdot of all places, touting its non-code-mangling, they've gotta be pretty proud of it.
I actually used to use Dreamweaver, and I loved the code it generated. However, I found myself using code view a LOT more than the actual WYSIWYG tools, so I figured, why load a whole program just to use it as notepad? So I switched to notepad instead.
Now what I want is a tool with an integrated W3 checker, like MS Word's spell check. It'll save a ton of surfing to W3.net
Hahahaha, that's EXACTLY why I don't use any WYSIWYG editors.
How long before Thinkgeek makes a T-shirt?
Well, OfficeMax was the place where I worked, but one of my friends worked at Best Buy and told me a little bit about how it worked there. They don't get commissions, and they're trained to make that one of their selling points. At OfficeMax, they get 10% commissions on extended warrantees they sell.
At both chains, employees are STRONGLY encouraged to add on to the customer's purchase. No commissions, but if you're not upselling to everyone you meet, your boss gets mad at you. In a couple cases I think it's sorta justified, like if someone buys a printer, they probably *need* paper and a cable for it, and possibly some ink. And some products are complete junk and people shouldn't waste their money on them. Sometimes the extended warrantees will be useful. But it's a very fine line, and the salesperson is trained to look for every last penny they can squeeze out of the customer, practicality thrown aside, even to the point of pushyness.
One day I sold a $20 extended warranty to someone who bought a $20 mouse, because that was what I'd been trained to do. It was probably one of those people who can't say no (and who probably buys stuff from telemarketers), and I felt bad about it afterward. It was one of the many reasons I quit, though the fact that they didn't give me any hours for several months at a time probably didn't help.
Is live television coverage of a Counterstrike tournament or something. The "camera people" can be people sitting at computers with video outputs and connected to HLTV, and they can have instant replays of cool kills at the end of the round. Imagine the color commentary:
"Now, it looks like 1337_k1ll4r is going with the MP5 this round"
"That's right Bob, he just didn't have enough money this round for the AWP."
"Well, let's see how well he does with this weapon...Here comes pwnz0rz_j00 with an AK..."
"Oooh, that was not pretty, Bob, looks like k1ll4r needs to focus on his non-AWP-whoring skills."
I used to work there, and they sold refills for a few cartridges, HP mostly, I think. I don't remember everything, mainly because I hated working there.
Ditto. I've found that pretty much all the music on the radio sucks and NPR is the only thing worth listening to.
Prairie Home Companion is t3h r0x0rz.
There are plenty of species on Earth that do that. There's alligators, or was it crocodiles? I can never remember the difference. Also consider how well species introduced to different continents here on Earth do. Rabbits in Australia, Kudzu in the southeastern US, etc. It may be that the post-mammalian reptilian offspring might even overpower the local ecosystem.
With episodes like that, plus the TNG one where LaForge gets turned into a weird blue glowing thing, and countless other similar episodes, you gotta wonder what a starfleet employment contract looks like:
By boarding this vessel you agree to hold Starfleet harmless if:
1) You are transformed into an alien species or imnplanted with millions of nanites which integrate you into a technological collective. 2a) You are involved in some kind of bizarre accident with one of our supposedly safe technologies that we use anyway despite someone getting killed or mangled by one of these technologies roughly every other episode.
2b) Transporter Accidents: Even though this technology is now over 200 years old, we haven't ironed out all the bugs. But that doesn't keep us from beaming you everywhere! The following may occur:
You may fail to materialize and become trapped in the transporter buffer with a bunch of eels.
You may fail to materialize and your body will become part of a holodeck program.
Your RNA may be cut off causing you to materialize as a 12 year old.
You may be combined with the other person who was beaming with you.
c) You are killed by a power surge through the panel you are working at because Starfleet engineers have apparently never heard of a high-tech 24th century technology known as a "fuse."
Not that ANY of this every happens, of course!
The transporter has never been said to be instantaneous as far as I've seen. I don't own the technical manual, but my wild guesswork says that it's probably bound by the speed of light. I mean, you see them completely disappear from the pad, then they cut to the planet and then they start appearing, for a delay of a second or two in the total journey. Speaking of warp 10, did anyone else hate the episode of Voyager where they hit warp 10 and suddenly start evolving faster? What bugged me was a) Evolution is not pre-determined like they were suggesting b) Evolution doesn't even happen within a single generation and c) Isn't the point of evolution to become MORE advanced? I mean, Janeway and Paris turned into freaking LIZARDS!
And I'll say it again. LucasArts should just ditch the Star Wars license and go back to making good games. Monkey Island, the Maniac Mansion games, Loom, Indiana Jones (up to Atlantis, after that Indy was just another Lara wannabe), Sam and Max, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango. How many good Star Wars license games can you name?
And they should stop doing 3D "adaptations" of characters that simply DO NOT work in 3D. Guybrush in 3D was simply horrible, and I imagine the Full Throttle and Sam and Max sequels will look equally horrible.
Hmm, a couple weeks ago I saw Homeworld "Game of the Year" at Best Buy for $10, and I remembered playing the demo and liking it, so I bought it. I didn't get any sound track CD? Pity, too, 'cause even if I use the utility on the Relic web site to extract the in game audio, it's so horribly encoded it's not worth it. "Agnus Dei" is just RUINED by the scourge of a billion audio artifacts.
As for the Yes song, I didn't like it. I wince at the guy's high pitched singing, and the song itself sounds like 5 different songs fell into a blender.
Hmm, I got all the CG ones correct, but I mis-identified some of the real photos as CG. The CG ones gave themselves away with too-perfect reflections, off colors, and with glitches in the triangle smoothing techniques they used. The photos that looked like CG I flagged because they looked too perfect to be real. D'oh.
Well, I'm reading Slashdot, which means I've never had any social reason to drink, plus I don't particularly like the taste of alcohol anyway, so I don't really have much of a reason to break the drinking law. Bars around here are pretty strict about checking ID, too.
I'm underaged, so I used the next best thing. Best way to describe it: A gut bomb of sugar.
Yes! Another MM sequel! In fact, LucasArts should drop the stupid Star Wars license games (they haven't made a good one yet) and go back to adventures, it's what they're best at.
But, I don't want any more bad adaptations to 3D. The Sam and Max trailer looks simply awful. Escape from Monkey Island looked awful. Cartoons do not work in 3D, Lucasarts!
Agreed about Curse. Go back to that look, with perhaps some minor upgrades like making the sprites antialiased. The pixel shifting from a poorly resized sprite is the only complaint I have about the look, and that's just a technical thing, something that can easily be fixed with today's hardware.
Too bad Lucasarts seems to be sticking with 3D, at least with Sam and Max. {sigh}
I wish they'd go back to the old format of Indiana Jones, too. Now Indy's just another Lara wannabe.
In "Escape," Guybrush says he has an unbreakable 5 game contract, so they've gotta put one out eventually. =D I didn't like Escape, though, the 3D characters just weren't as expressive as they were when they were cartoons.
Think about it, when do you usually play games? Your average gamer is nocturnal. I am posting this at two in the morning, and this is when I normally go to sleep (at least when I don't have morning commitments).
Small-time providers = public access television. Seriously, just go to your local cable access station, tell 'em "I wanna make a TV show," and they'll accommodate you.
A billion PDAs beeping while I'm trying to listen to an orchestra. I hope they take the speakers out of these things.
I wonder what his character stats are like?