I'll second that: I was listening to the MySpace version on my 100 dollar Logitech 5.1 speakers, and the popping in the MP3 is either due to the low bitrate, or Al added one more reason he is a genius: making "Don't Download This Song" sound like it was downloaded on Napster back in the day!
Correction: I just listened to the higher bitrate version, and the pops are still there. Al is truly a genius.
Recall that I said equal length columns. I ended up having to use JavaScript to grab the height of the columns and choose the tallest one and set the CSS height of all three to that height.
Also, I would have thought that using tables for structural layout would render the page non-ADA compliant, as screenreaders would think the information was tabular data instead of just layout.
Whoops. I forgot to mention that tables were a big no-no as well. If you have suggestions, by all means please give them to me; I'm only a student (and not even in the web design field), so any advice would be greatly appreciated (you obviously know a great deal more than I). I could make some of the sites I've worked on even better, then.
I work in the private sector as well, infact e-government, and all our websites work in both and we EXPLICITLY develope on firefox - all our developers are running linux (most of us fedora) on our workstations - we use laptops and non-developer computers for IE testing
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the government the public sector, not private? Furthermore, having the powers that be (professors) dictate how a website should look (3 columns of equal length, preferably no JavaScript, to work most importantly on IE, designed to be accessible to all, blind and deaf alike) means that much time will be spent trying to find non-JavaScript hacks that make it work. For the reference of all reading this, such a solution does not exist, or at least, I could not come up with one for a month or so as a part-timer.
Until the box model is not broken in IE (and from what I hear, it's still broken in IE 7), hacks will be necessary to ensure that many sites can be made cross-browser compatible.
I'm confused. So Real Networks is going to release a solution that allows Linux users to watch Windows Media files? I could have sworn VideoLAN Client played Windows Media files already (and iTunes music files as well!).
if they hadn't been retards and used microsoft-hax and used standards compliant multi-browser html/css and javascript they wouldn't have a problem.
Then how, pray tell, can someone make a fancy website work in the browser with 85% percent market share? I'm lucky in that I have a lot more time to make my sites cross-browser compliant than those in the private sector (I work for the Liberal Arts IT department of the University of Texas); I designed a standards-compliant site that worked completely in Opera and Firefox, and then spent twice the time the original design took forcing a hacked-version to work in IE. That's three times the time cost merely because Microsoft bundles a crappy browser with Windows.
Oh, and for proof that I'm not just making up the concept of proto-Japonic, here's a page that lists some scholarly articles written about it by people at Oxford, Hawaii, National Institute for Japanese Language, etc.
Yes, that did indeed go whooshing over my head. For future reference, proto-Japonic is a language similar to classical Japanese, but older, that linguists hypothesize about. I'm not sure about the name, but it's like proto-Germanic in that there are no written records of it, but theories can be derived based on links between Korean and Japanese, and perhaps some Turkish (an Altaic language, as Japanese is hypothesized to be as well).
As far as my assertion that "guguru" is a shortening of "guuguru suru", I came across a page with the etymology of the word (it is posted in another comment I made in this discussion about these legal threats) that stated that "guguru" came about in this manner: "guuguru suru"-->"guuguru"-->"guguru".
Yeah, just like others call them "soda water" even though there is no water in them, or "pop" even though the drinks are not my father, or "soft drink" even though they are, in fact, high in mineral content (hard water).
And, in fact, others call them soda, which is just as bad as calling them "coke". "Soda" is merely an ingredient. This is similar to calling all cookies "butters" because they have butter in them! Then they might get sued for trademark violation by South Park!
Possibly from proto-Japonic '*gugumi', c.f. Goryeo '*g-g-o'.
Nice examples of usage, but where did you get this notion that "guguru" descends from proto-Japonic? I mean, you even called it a loanword from English at the beginning of your post! It obviously is a shortening of "guuguru suru", ("to Google") and last time I checked, "Google" was not proto-Japonic. Check ALC, Jim Breen's WWWJDic, or here.
As a side note, I've seen other "loans" from English such as "guuguru bakudan" (Google bomb), meaning the same thing as its English equivalent (with dictionaries even citing "miserable failure" on Google as an example.
I also wish I could have found information about "guuguru" (in katakana, of course) being trademarked, but alas, I failed. "GOOGLE" and "Google" are trademarked there, as you can find out by searching for "google" here. I think it would be interesting to know this: if Pepsi trademarked, say, "pepushi-" in katakana, could another company use it in hiragana, or does syllabary matter?
What I think is interesting is that languages other than English have begun to do this as well. In Japanese, "Guuguru/Guguru" is used both as the Japanization (Japanese phoneticization?) of "Google" and as a verb (the "-ru" ending signifies a verb in dictionary form). Here is an example of a page using it, in case you read Japanese. I'm not sure how generic the verb has become, but the fact that it has become a verb is interesting.
Once I was feeling artistic, so I googled how best to xerox my head onto a Playboy Bunny, maybe using some Scotch Tape, but found out I could photoshop it instead. So, I had a coke, grabbed some kleenex, and got to work.. but was disturbed by my mom coming in to hoover. So I quickly shut down the PC, and decided to use Crayolas and Play-Doh instead.
I actually think, when using the terms generically, they should not be capitalized;) And does anyone use "crayolas" to mean "crayons"? I mean, it's a longer word, less-known, and sounds funny. I've never heard that used generically in my entire life.
If you interview a random sample of programmers in the world today I bet a lot of the 25-30 aged ones will have got started by writing cheesy games as kids for their {Commodore 64/Sinclair Spectrum/BBC Micro}
I'm a little bit younger than that generation (I'm 22), but I learned to program by taking apart a BASIC game where you were a ping pong paddle with super powers (called "Killer Pong" or "Pong Kombat" or something similar). The facts that BASIC programs came open source (since it is an interpreted language, sort-of) and that QuickBasic 4.5 came with a good built-in manual were great for me back when the internet was very, very young; and online documentation was scarce; and a seven year-old could not buy $30 programming books on zero allowance.
Gaming is the reason most home systems use Microsoft.
Wow, way to drink that Kool Aid! I'm pretty sure the fact that most home systems come with Windows pre-installed is the reason most home systems use Microsoft.
Is it just me, or did the screenshots make Windows 3.0 look nicer than any other Windows version except XP? Of course, Windows ME and Windows 2000 and all Windows NT versions are missing from the blog, but still...3.0 definitely looked nicer than 3.1.
The real thing here is that at these ages we expect that most people will be mature enough to be responsible about their usage of these 'items' but in reality some people should never use these things because they will never be mature enough to be responsible with it, be it alcohol, violent images (games or movies), or drugs/tobacco.
You are absolutely correct here, but should we make a test to license people to drink and smoke? How would one test for maturity empirically. Furthermore, what percentage of the populace would find this test biased in one way or another (hint: a lot)? How much money would deriving a test like this waste (hint: a lot)?
Also, at any age, one can argue that the line should be lower or higher, because nothing magical happens to your body or mind when you reach the legal age for an activity. Unfortunately we lack the technology to accurately detect if someone is responsible enough to drink alcohol or smoke nicotine.
Note: I really don't like this line of questioning, because it only takes a novice logician and a mildly afraid populace to arrive at the next conclusion: laws governing the playing of video games and viewing of films and reading of books and so on.
NC-17 movies exist, as do R movies (which require a parent).
I will dispute this, inasmuch as movie ratings are more contractual. The chain is basically: The MPAA has de facto control over most movie theatres in the US (Cinemark, etc.) through contracts (i.e. a movie theatre which shows first-run MPAA films may not show non-MPAA-certified films, or something to that effect). Thus, films must (if they want strong revenues) pretty much have to get MPAA certification (including receiving a rating) to appear in most movie theatres in the US. Additionally, movie theatres showing these films are contractually obligated, for the most part, to enforce the film ratings by MPAA requirements. There is no legality involved (pornography is a different story, of course). Thus, when you were carded by a theatre before seeing an R-rated film, it was purely based on contracts and societal pressures, not by any legal requirement to do so.
What about cigerettes and alcohol?
These have age requirements because it is almost incontrovertible that these substances have either a deleterious effect on one's health or influence minors negatively (and minors in particular have less maturity to deal with these effects, or make the decisions themselves).
I don't have a great argument about pornography restrictions aside from the fact that the US is a particularly prudish country in regards to sex and nudity.
And 10,000 years from now, humans might say the same thing about our PC games. However, I doubt cavemen looked at what they did, and said, "This is art." I doubt the thought even crossed their mind.
Considering that video games are not even near a century-old form of expression, I think we must compare the current works with those of cave paintings: would anyone consider those art in the same way they consider the Cistene Chapel a work of art? Of course not, because cave paintings are some of the first man-made forms of visual expression. Do we really consider any visual depictions older than 2-3000 years "highbrow" or even "art"? Likewise, we shouldn't be worried that there are no true works of video game art (there may be, but if not the inexistance of them should not be a cause for concern).
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I'll second that: I was listening to the MySpace version on my 100 dollar Logitech 5.1 speakers, and the popping in the MP3 is either due to the low bitrate, or Al added one more reason he is a genius: making "Don't Download This Song" sound like it was downloaded on Napster back in the day!
Correction: I just listened to the higher bitrate version, and the pops are still there. Al is truly a genius.
Recall that I said equal length columns. I ended up having to use JavaScript to grab the height of the columns and choose the tallest one and set the CSS height of all three to that height.
Also, I would have thought that using tables for structural layout would render the page non-ADA compliant, as screenreaders would think the information was tabular data instead of just layout.
Whoops. I forgot to mention that tables were a big no-no as well. If you have suggestions, by all means please give them to me; I'm only a student (and not even in the web design field), so any advice would be greatly appreciated (you obviously know a great deal more than I). I could make some of the sites I've worked on even better, then.
Until the box model is not broken in IE (and from what I hear, it's still broken in IE 7), hacks will be necessary to ensure that many sites can be made cross-browser compatible.
I'm confused. So Real Networks is going to release a solution that allows Linux users to watch Windows Media files? I could have sworn VideoLAN Client played Windows Media files already (and iTunes music files as well!).
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And if regex syntax is off topic on Slashdot, then I don't know what is on topic
Oh, and for proof that I'm not just making up the concept of proto-Japonic, here's a page that lists some scholarly articles written about it by people at Oxford, Hawaii, National Institute for Japanese Language, etc.
Yes, that did indeed go whooshing over my head. For future reference, proto-Japonic is a language similar to classical Japanese, but older, that linguists hypothesize about. I'm not sure about the name, but it's like proto-Germanic in that there are no written records of it, but theories can be derived based on links between Korean and Japanese, and perhaps some Turkish (an Altaic language, as Japanese is hypothesized to be as well).
As far as my assertion that "guguru" is a shortening of "guuguru suru", I came across a page with the etymology of the word (it is posted in another comment I made in this discussion about these legal threats) that stated that "guguru" came about in this manner: "guuguru suru"-->"guuguru"-->"guguru".
Yeah, just like others call them "soda water" even though there is no water in them, or "pop" even though the drinks are not my father, or "soft drink" even though they are, in fact, high in mineral content (hard water).
And, in fact, others call them soda, which is just as bad as calling them "coke". "Soda" is merely an ingredient. This is similar to calling all cookies "butters" because they have butter in them! Then they might get sued for trademark violation by South Park!
As a side note, I've seen other "loans" from English such as "guuguru bakudan" (Google bomb), meaning the same thing as its English equivalent (with dictionaries even citing "miserable failure" on Google as an example.
I also wish I could have found information about "guuguru" (in katakana, of course) being trademarked, but alas, I failed. "GOOGLE" and "Google" are trademarked there, as you can find out by searching for "google" here. I think it would be interesting to know this: if Pepsi trademarked, say, "pepushi-" in katakana, could another company use it in hiragana, or does syllabary matter?
What I think is interesting is that languages other than English have begun to do this as well. In Japanese, "Guuguru/Guguru" is used both as the Japanization (Japanese phoneticization?) of "Google" and as a verb (the "-ru" ending signifies a verb in dictionary form). Here is an example of a page using it, in case you read Japanese. I'm not sure how generic the verb has become, but the fact that it has become a verb is interesting.
Is it just me, or did the screenshots make Windows 3.0 look nicer than any other Windows version except XP? Of course, Windows ME and Windows 2000 and all Windows NT versions are missing from the blog, but still...3.0 definitely looked nicer than 3.1.
Also, at any age, one can argue that the line should be lower or higher, because nothing magical happens to your body or mind when you reach the legal age for an activity. Unfortunately we lack the technology to accurately detect if someone is responsible enough to drink alcohol or smoke nicotine.
Note: I really don't like this line of questioning, because it only takes a novice logician and a mildly afraid populace to arrive at the next conclusion: laws governing the playing of video games and viewing of films and reading of books and so on.
The MPAA has de facto control over most movie theatres in the US (Cinemark, etc.) through contracts (i.e. a movie theatre which shows first-run MPAA films may not show non-MPAA-certified films, or something to that effect). Thus, films must (if they want strong revenues) pretty much have to get MPAA certification (including receiving a rating) to appear in most movie theatres in the US. Additionally, movie theatres showing these films are contractually obligated, for the most part, to enforce the film ratings by MPAA requirements. There is no legality involved (pornography is a different story, of course). Thus, when you were carded by a theatre before seeing an R-rated film, it was purely based on contracts and societal pressures, not by any legal requirement to do so.
These have age requirements because it is almost incontrovertible that these substances have either a deleterious effect on one's health or influence minors negatively (and minors in particular have less maturity to deal with these effects, or make the decisions themselves).
I don't have a great argument about pornography restrictions aside from the fact that the US is a particularly prudish country in regards to sex and nudity.
Considering that video games are not even near a century-old form of expression, I think we must compare the current works with those of cave paintings: would anyone consider those art in the same way they consider the Cistene Chapel a work of art? Of course not, because cave paintings are some of the first man-made forms of visual expression. Do we really consider any visual depictions older than 2-3000 years "highbrow" or even "art"? Likewise, we shouldn't be worried that there are no true works of video game art (there may be, but if not the inexistance of them should not be a cause for concern).
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