I hate to point this out, but *both* of those are in the current CSS3 draft. So instead, wouldn't it be --CSS-- #annoyingshit {
marquee: horizontal;
display: blink; }
I work for the University of Texas as a web designer. I have recently completed a project to be accessible by the general public so they can learn American Sign Language. I spent much effort designing the website the way my bosses wanted it, all while maintaining web standards, and using browser hacks where necessary to make it work. Following standards is, as counterintuitive as it sounds, essential in order to maintain freedom from corporate control over the net. If we only code to IE, then Microsoft gets to dictate what works and what doesn't. There are many nice features to CSS3 that I fear will never get used if Microsoft decides they don't care about W3C standards.
Also, UT has recently been auditing all their pages for compliance. They are even very grateful when I point out old javascript code that assumes a user has IE or Netscape. It's great when a university cares enough to support browsers that are used by well under 5% (I guess) of the student population.
Disclaimer: I'm an Opera fanboy, so I actually care about web standards;)
in today's world. 'Fancy' usually amounts to an Olive Garden or some other such chain restaurant, whose prices are reasonable. If we were talking about the 1600's, this would be a different story, of course. Fancy restaurants were all the rage No, they weren't. Restaurants as we know them today (customers sit down, order their own food) did not exist until 1785. They didn't really show up until the French Revolution, when the aristocracy got their shit ruined, and a lot of private cooks were unemployed. Now, private cooks were all the rage in the 1600s. Every king had a few;)
Is there any hope that support for iTunes videos will be coming? I subscribe to a free video podcast through iTunes called Happy Tree Friends. I wish I could watch these podcasts on my hacked XBox (XBox Media Center is based off of MPlayer), but this codec is not supported. iTunes does not play video on my computer (my laptop isn't powerful enough), so I'm left without a way to watch these podcasts. As I don't think free podcasts are encrypted with a FairPlay-type system, I don't think there would be a legal issue here.
About two weeks ago the direct connect hub at the university of texas was shut down due to outside pressure from the **aa.
This is incorrect. According to the admin (and ITS, and the university president, and the university newspaper), there was no contact with the "content industries". Instead, the admin had been dumb enough to put information about the hub on the internet, so that ITS was able to find these pages via Google. They were worried about sue-happy people finding the information and suing, so they cracked down on it. According to one of the three aforementioned sources, if the websites (Facebook and the CS department's website) had no mention, then there would have been no action taken by the university.
Our ITS department already imposed strict bandwidth restrictions on amount of bandwidth used (4gb-12gb a week with more bandwidth costing more money).
This is misleading. It should be noted that the 4GB-12GB/wk limit was for communication with off-campus networks. No intra-LAN activity counted toward this limit.
The University of Texas (and I'd imagine other universities have similar policies) forbids running any kind of wireless within the dormitories. The only wireless you are allowed to use in dorms is the university-provided Resnet (and why would you, when you have a wired connection to multiple T3s in your room as long as you pay 20 bucks or whatever for it). I have a friend who got fined a hefty sum for having a wireless signal up from a router in his room.
Why not run a bit torrent server behind something like Hamachi or a VPN? Then your traffic is encrypted, and you can have a whitelist that only allows certain people on the network. Then you don't have to sit around waiting for someone to write TNT (TNT's Not Tor).
Japanese can't pronounce "Revolution", either. There is, after all, no 'r', 'v', 'l', nor schwa in Japanese. They can, however, pronounce 'wii'. After all, if you are going to say 'wii' is a homophone for 'oui' in French, you also have to say 'wii' can be represented as 'u'+'little i'+'vowel-extension' in Japanese.
That Japanese people cannot pronounce 'wii' is idiotic.
You wouldn't expect to find one in Britannica or Encarta. There are a lot of things I wouldn't expect to find in those encyclopedias that Wikipedia has (and should keep). I'd be willing to bet there aren't Encarta entries about most of the Japanese prime ministers from the last hundred years in English, but they are there in Wikipedia in English, for me to read about. By your requirement, they would be stricken from Wikipedia!
Because something you care about but the editors think is inconsequential could be removed next. It's the law of zero, one or infinity. You either remove zero, one, or all of them (as close to infinity as you can get).
He's also famous on 4chan and, presumably, on a site related to 4chan, Something Awful. 4chan is full of geeks who are into tech on the web. There is a dark underbelly of the internet that is YTMND, Something Awful, and 4chan (and its many spinoffs).
Everyone has to have seen the owl with "O rly?" written below him! That originated on one of these sites. These three sites are to memes as Paris is to fashion.
Actually, to be fair, they might have done a Caesar-like cipher on the Bopomofo system. However, there is a risk of ambiguities cropping up due to the existance of so many homophones in Chinese. In any case, if a Chinese speaker here knows of a Caesar-like cipher for the Chinese language, I'd be interested in knowing.
How the hell do you do a Caesar cipher on a written language that has no alphabet? There is no one order to the characters (no alphabetical order, etc.). I'd be interested in knowing!
attorney generals This is just a pet peeve of mine, but it's attorneys general. They are not generals with an adjective "attorney," they are attorneys described by the adjective "general." Attorneys general have no military power, and thus are not "generals."
It does not consider the risk the label takes in publishing the music (which the artist does not have to take), or the cash advance paid by the label to the artist at signing. The artist actually has to pay back the cash advance: they are under contract to do so, and if they don't hit it big (read: the label fails in their duty to promote them), the artists will spend the next ten years under a contract that kills all chance of ever making money producing art attempting to pay back that initial investment. The artists are completely screwed, plain and simple. Independent is the only good way to go, because only a very select few lucky actually succeed with a major label. A very, very few.
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I hate to point this out, but *both* of those are in the current CSS3 draft.
So instead, wouldn't it be
--CSS--
#annoyingshit {
marquee: horizontal;
display: blink;
}
--HTML--
<div id="annoyingshit">nope.</div>
I work for the University of Texas as a web designer. I have recently completed a project to be accessible by the general public so they can learn American Sign Language. I spent much effort designing the website the way my bosses wanted it, all while maintaining web standards, and using browser hacks where necessary to make it work. Following standards is, as counterintuitive as it sounds, essential in order to maintain freedom from corporate control over the net. If we only code to IE, then Microsoft gets to dictate what works and what doesn't. There are many nice features to CSS3 that I fear will never get used if Microsoft decides they don't care about W3C standards.
;)
Also, UT has recently been auditing all their pages for compliance. They are even very grateful when I point out old javascript code that assumes a user has IE or Netscape. It's great when a university cares enough to support browsers that are used by well under 5% (I guess) of the student population.
Disclaimer: I'm an Opera fanboy, so I actually care about web standards
in today's world. 'Fancy' usually amounts to an Olive Garden or some other such chain restaurant, whose prices are reasonable. If we were talking about the 1600's, this would be a different story, of course. Fancy restaurants were all the rage ;)
No, they weren't. Restaurants as we know them today (customers sit down, order their own food) did not exist until 1785. They didn't really show up until the French Revolution, when the aristocracy got their shit ruined, and a lot of private cooks were unemployed. Now, private cooks were all the rage in the 1600s. Every king had a few
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurants
There is a Firefox extension that downloads Youtube videos: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
Remember the rootkit! Don't buy this shit!
Is there any hope that support for iTunes videos will be coming? I subscribe to a free video podcast through iTunes called Happy Tree Friends. I wish I could watch these podcasts on my hacked XBox (XBox Media Center is based off of MPlayer), but this codec is not supported. iTunes does not play video on my computer (my laptop isn't powerful enough), so I'm left without a way to watch these podcasts. As I don't think free podcasts are encrypted with a FairPlay-type system, I don't think there would be a legal issue here.
Except maybe this one.
"Except" is the verb in that sentence. I think it's an imperative sentence requesting that the reader "except" the sentence from the rule.
About two weeks ago the direct connect hub at the university of texas was shut down due to outside pressure from the **aa.
This is incorrect. According to the admin (and ITS, and the university president, and the university newspaper), there was no contact with the "content industries". Instead, the admin had been dumb enough to put information about the hub on the internet, so that ITS was able to find these pages via Google. They were worried about sue-happy people finding the information and suing, so they cracked down on it. According to one of the three aforementioned sources, if the websites (Facebook and the CS department's website) had no mention, then there would have been no action taken by the university.
Our ITS department already imposed strict bandwidth restrictions on amount of bandwidth used (4gb-12gb a week with more bandwidth costing more money).
This is misleading. It should be noted that the 4GB-12GB/wk limit was for communication with off-campus networks. No intra-LAN activity counted toward this limit.
The University of Texas (and I'd imagine other universities have similar policies) forbids running any kind of wireless within the dormitories. The only wireless you are allowed to use in dorms is the university-provided Resnet (and why would you, when you have a wired connection to multiple T3s in your room as long as you pay 20 bucks or whatever for it). I have a friend who got fined a hefty sum for having a wireless signal up from a router in his room.
Why not run a bit torrent server behind something like Hamachi or a VPN? Then your traffic is encrypted, and you can have a whitelist that only allows certain people on the network. Then you don't have to sit around waiting for someone to write TNT (TNT's Not Tor).
*sigh* The hub at UT was great, wasn't it?
Japanese can't pronounce "Revolution", either. There is, after all, no 'r', 'v', 'l', nor schwa in Japanese. They can, however, pronounce 'wii'. After all, if you are going to say 'wii' is a homophone for 'oui' in French, you also have to say 'wii' can be represented as 'u'+'little i'+'vowel-extension' in Japanese.
That Japanese people cannot pronounce 'wii' is idiotic.
So let me get this straight: martial arts is a valid topic for /. now?
Holy crap, man, learn to use anchor tags and not stuff. I couldn't even read your post.
You wouldn't expect to find one in Britannica or Encarta.
There are a lot of things I wouldn't expect to find in those encyclopedias that Wikipedia has (and should keep). I'd be willing to bet there aren't Encarta entries about most of the Japanese prime ministers from the last hundred years in English, but they are there in Wikipedia in English, for me to read about. By your requirement, they would be stricken from Wikipedia!
Because something you care about but the editors think is inconsequential could be removed next. It's the law of zero, one or infinity. You either remove zero, one, or all of them (as close to infinity as you can get).
Peppers is a guy with a deformed skull & a conviction of sexual assault against him.
Fixed.
4chan is full of geeks who are into tech on the web.
That actually should read, "Slashdot is full of geeks who are into tech on the web."
He's also famous on 4chan and, presumably, on a site related to 4chan, Something Awful. 4chan is full of geeks who are into tech on the web. There is a dark underbelly of the internet that is YTMND, Something Awful, and 4chan (and its many spinoffs).
Everyone has to have seen the owl with "O rly?" written below him! That originated on one of these sites. These three sites are to memes as Paris is to fashion.
Actually, to be fair, they might have done a Caesar-like cipher on the Bopomofo system. However, there is a risk of ambiguities cropping up due to the existance of so many homophones in Chinese. In any case, if a Chinese speaker here knows of a Caesar-like cipher for the Chinese language, I'd be interested in knowing.
How the hell do you do a Caesar cipher on a written language that has no alphabet? There is no one order to the characters (no alphabetical order, etc.). I'd be interested in knowing!
attorney generals
This is just a pet peeve of mine, but it's attorneys general. They are not generals with an adjective "attorney," they are attorneys described by the adjective "general." Attorneys general have no military power, and thus are not "generals."
It does not consider the risk the label takes in publishing the music (which the artist does not have to take), or the cash advance paid by the label to the artist at signing.
The artist actually has to pay back the cash advance: they are under contract to do so, and if they don't hit it big (read: the label fails in their duty to promote them), the artists will spend the next ten years under a contract that kills all chance of ever making money producing art attempting to pay back that initial investment. The artists are completely screwed, plain and simple. Independent is the only good way to go, because only a very select few lucky actually succeed with a major label. A very, very few.
If Japanese trends and fads like Sudoku
Except that Sudoku is American:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
I know I'm being pedantic, and you merely meant that Sudoku was something very popular in Japan, but I couldn't resist.
I have one word for you about flipping and jumping: PowerPad.
And I have an acronym and a word for you about flipping and jumping: DDR Pad.