The problem is that unlike images those scripts prevent the browser from doing certain things while the script is downloading (because you never know when that 200kb script you're waiting on will decide to do a document.write and compeletely change what you're supposed to do with all the HTML that follows it). So the cost of downloading scripts is _very_ palpable...
All the more reason to avoid document.write and use JavaScript with the DOM to update the content of your pages instead.
New lines have never been a substitute for a closing tag in HTML. Context, such as starting another <p> before formally closing the previous one, has. (Paragraphs, by the specification, cannot contain other block-level elements, including other paragraphs. The specifications allow for the omission of certain elements when other parts of the specification preclude ambiguity.)
Of course, most authors would put a new line in their code at this point for readability, but that's another story.
If you read the linked page (from Google cache), you'll see that this feature was slated for Snow Leopard Server, not the consumer version. I do not recall Apple ever advertising fll ZFS support as a feature for the consumer verison of 10.6, and neither does Wikipedia.
(Yes, consumer 10.5 does have read-only support for ZFS from the command-line; I imagine this would be still present in 10.6. In any case, it's not like this project is a secret, as Apple has released it open-source.)
I know you're trying to be funny, but there is actually no point in "translating" from Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese in your process; they are not different languages, only different scripts (both usually represent Standard Mandarin or occasionally other varieties). Babelfish will likely just convert the simplified characters that are different from their traditional counterparts back to traditional, so you might as well just pick one.:)
Problem: floppy drives were not plug-and-play, so the computer could not tell when one was swapped for another. In fact, I think Windows only gets information about whether there is or is not a floppy drive (but no more information) from the BIOS. Anyway, suppose you have a (let's call it) "Type A" drive on which Windows was trained and then replaced it with a "Type B" one that reported disk status differently. Now all of a sudden Windows thinks you have a disk in when you don't and thinks you don't when you do. The user will then complain about how Windows is broken and can't recognize that a floppy disk is inserted.
About the only thing this would have been useful for is "autorun" like what they did with CDs. But given the prevalance of floppy-transmitted viruses in this day, this probably ended up being a good thing!
Great idea, although I think you might be giving Microsoft too much credit with regards to being able to even make a new operating system that's better than Windows. But if they did, that would definitely be a great way to do it--and perhaps the.NET Framework can be something like Carbon that, if used without native Win32 (or 64) API calls, will run on either without the need for a VM (well, other than.NET:)).
Firefox has keyword searches, too, and they are easy to set up from the search engine manager. You don't need a bookmark keyword to do that.
That being said, bookmark keywords, while they can also be used as search keywords, are different and more powerful because you can use them for things that aren't really "searches," like Google Maps (Google doesn't have a Sherlock or OpenSearch plugin for maps; browers like Firefox, Safari, and IE 7/8 need this because that is what you need to add a search engine).
There is options to change the font size, so really the only complaint you can have is how much/little text fits on the screen before you have to flip a page.
And the fact that the Kindle is ePaper, while the iPod/iPhone is a backlit LCD (staring into a lamp for an extended period of time is not the most strain-free way to read), and the Kindle gets significantly longer battery life...and, as you said, has a bigger screen.
That screenshot comes from documentation, which is often one of the last things to be updated. I don't really think that's all that surprising.
In a related example, the "Create New Shortcut" (or something) screen in Windows 98 still showed a miniature screenshot of the Windows 95 Start menu (including the words "Windows 95") on the side. Does that mean Windows 98 was just Windows 95 rebranded? No, but it's hardly surprising that they are based on the same code.
This question is more appropriate for someone at your school. Do you have a Study Abroad Office or something similar? They could help you out. Or ask your academic advisor (please tell me it's not just small schools like mine that have them)--he or she would be able to figure out if something could work for you.
I'm assuming you're going to a big university or technical school. I am a computer science major at a small liberal arts college in the midwest, and at my school studying abroad is really no big deal no matter what your major. I, in fact, am leaving for a Spanish-language immersion trip to Mexico in about a week. I won't be doing any computer science, but, as others have said, there's no that reason you (like I will be doing) couldn't do some of your gen ed requirements while you're away. Again, your school or your advisor would be able to figure out what would work for you.
Additionally, you could look into a summer program, such as ones offered by ISA (or other organizations whose names I have forgotten...), or perhaps a January program if your school has a long enough winter break (no such luck here, as we have January term). Good luck!
Are you sure Thunderbird supports cached IMAP (well, at least usable for the purposes we're talking about)? This MozillaZine KB article suggests otherwise.
If they were going to implement resizing, why even have an option? Why not just put a splitter there, make the text box resize automatically as you type (which is what it currently does), but also allow you to change it yourself (hence the splitter) if you feel the need?
That being said, I was slightly jarred by this feature at first because I'm used to bigger text areas; then I realized I really didn't need that, and it gets bigger if you type more, anyway. Not a big deal for me. But I feel a splitter would both allow them to keep this feature as well as make people who want to resize it happy--all without having to add another option.
For simple projects (or even complex, if you're a masochist), you can compile at the command line using javac. No need to fire up an IDE or make a build file.
He said rural area. (Newsflash: not everybody lives in a city. I live in the country about a 5 miles away from the nearest town, which has less than 400 people. They have DSL as an option, but if you live more than a couple miles out, no such luck.)
Am I the only one who actually likes the new address bar drop-down in Firefox 3? I think it's most helpful in that it allows you to search for page titles in addition to addresses--helpful for a page I want to find again, where I remember what it might have been called but not the address (this happens frequently after Google searches).
Yeah, the fonts could be a bit smaller, but it's not terrible, especially as you type more and narrow down the results. And the one I want is usually one of the first, if not the very first result.
Internet Explorer 6, when it was released was probably the best browser around when it came to supporting CSS.
Err, pretty sure I was using Mozilla back in 2001 when IE 6 was released (it was in the 0.9 versions at this time), and I'm sure it had better standards support than any version of IE did until recently.
If you follow the link to the Sourceforge project and look at any of the screenshots (including the one on the front page--at the time when I visited it, anyway), you'll see that they're actually training the software with German. So, it looks like the answer to your question is, yes, it supports more than English.
Wasn't there a story on Slashdot a while back about how multimedia apps in Vista would take priority over others whether you wanted to or not? This summary (you'll actually have to RTFA since it's not in the summary, sorry... or just look through some of the comments) might be the one I'm looking for...
But then, if it was the resulting flood of log-ons that caused the problem, either a whole lot of people all got on their computers and logged in to Skype at the same time, or a whole lot of people had their computers reboot after applying the patches all at the same time and had them set up to automatically log in to Windows and Skype (and last time I checked, you needed TweakUI for the former). Either one seems pretty unlikely to me...
Well, it only affects two models of the Core 2 Duos, which is the only processor that Apple uses for all its Intel Macs except the Xserve (Xeon) and the Mac mini (first-generation Core Duo, which is not affected). So, assuming Apple didn't use either the E4000 or the E6000 Core 2 Duo processors, that would explain why they are not affected.
However, I do think the situation is interesting when we look at the Xserve, since they use Xeons. The article notes several affected models of them, which it says is just about every model ever made in the second-generation of Core processors. That kinda makes you wonder.
But if this issue is so easily fixed with a software patch... whose fault was it? (Apple also recently released a security update, but I don't think that had anything to do with this, since they seemed to be just Webcore/Webkit issues and it was issued for both PowerPC and Intel.)
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The problem is that unlike images those scripts prevent the browser from doing certain things while the script is downloading (because you never know when that 200kb script you're waiting on will decide to do a document.write and compeletely change what you're supposed to do with all the HTML that follows it). So the cost of downloading scripts is _very_ palpable...
All the more reason to avoid document.write and use JavaScript with the DOM to update the content of your pages instead.
New lines have never been a substitute for a closing tag in HTML. Context, such as starting another <p> before formally closing the previous one, has. (Paragraphs, by the specification, cannot contain other block-level elements, including other paragraphs. The specifications allow for the omission of certain elements when other parts of the specification preclude ambiguity.)
Of course, most authors would put a new line in their code at this point for readability, but that's another story.
If you read the linked page (from Google cache), you'll see that this feature was slated for Snow Leopard Server, not the consumer version. I do not recall Apple ever advertising fll ZFS support as a feature for the consumer verison of 10.6, and neither does Wikipedia.
(Yes, consumer 10.5 does have read-only support for ZFS from the command-line; I imagine this would be still present in 10.6. In any case, it's not like this project is a secret, as Apple has released it open-source.)
A better question is: what on earth is PLplot?!
...or maybe I'm the only person on Slashdot who had no idea what this software was before finding this article on the home page.
I know you're trying to be funny, but there is actually no point in "translating" from Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese in your process; they are not different languages, only different scripts (both usually represent Standard Mandarin or occasionally other varieties). Babelfish will likely just convert the simplified characters that are different from their traditional counterparts back to traditional, so you might as well just pick one. :)
Problem: floppy drives were not plug-and-play, so the computer could not tell when one was swapped for another. In fact, I think Windows only gets information about whether there is or is not a floppy drive (but no more information) from the BIOS. Anyway, suppose you have a (let's call it) "Type A" drive on which Windows was trained and then replaced it with a "Type B" one that reported disk status differently. Now all of a sudden Windows thinks you have a disk in when you don't and thinks you don't when you do. The user will then complain about how Windows is broken and can't recognize that a floppy disk is inserted.
About the only thing this would have been useful for is "autorun" like what they did with CDs. But given the prevalance of floppy-transmitted viruses in this day, this probably ended up being a good thing!
Great idea, although I think you might be giving Microsoft too much credit with regards to being able to even make a new operating system that's better than Windows. But if they did, that would definitely be a great way to do it--and perhaps the .NET Framework can be something like Carbon that, if used without native Win32 (or 64) API calls, will run on either without the need for a VM (well, other than .NET :)).
Firefox has keyword searches, too, and they are easy to set up from the search engine manager. You don't need a bookmark keyword to do that.
That being said, bookmark keywords, while they can also be used as search keywords, are different and more powerful because you can use them for things that aren't really "searches," like Google Maps (Google doesn't have a Sherlock or OpenSearch plugin for maps; browers like Firefox, Safari, and IE 7/8 need this because that is what you need to add a search engine).
There is options to change the font size, so really the only complaint you can have is how much/little text fits on the screen before you have to flip a page.
And the fact that the Kindle is ePaper, while the iPod/iPhone is a backlit LCD (staring into a lamp for an extended period of time is not the most strain-free way to read), and the Kindle gets significantly longer battery life...and, as you said, has a bigger screen.
That screenshot comes from documentation, which is often one of the last things to be updated. I don't really think that's all that surprising.
In a related example, the "Create New Shortcut" (or something) screen in Windows 98 still showed a miniature screenshot of the Windows 95 Start menu (including the words "Windows 95") on the side. Does that mean Windows 98 was just Windows 95 rebranded? No, but it's hardly surprising that they are based on the same code.
This question is more appropriate for someone at your school. Do you have a Study Abroad Office or something similar? They could help you out. Or ask your academic advisor (please tell me it's not just small schools like mine that have them)--he or she would be able to figure out if something could work for you.
I'm assuming you're going to a big university or technical school. I am a computer science major at a small liberal arts college in the midwest, and at my school studying abroad is really no big deal no matter what your major. I, in fact, am leaving for a Spanish-language immersion trip to Mexico in about a week. I won't be doing any computer science, but, as others have said, there's no that reason you (like I will be doing) couldn't do some of your gen ed requirements while you're away. Again, your school or your advisor would be able to figure out what would work for you.
Additionally, you could look into a summer program, such as ones offered by ISA (or other organizations whose names I have forgotten...), or perhaps a January program if your school has a long enough winter break (no such luck here, as we have January term). Good luck!
Are you sure Thunderbird supports cached IMAP (well, at least usable for the purposes we're talking about)? This MozillaZine KB article suggests otherwise.
If they were going to implement resizing, why even have an option? Why not just put a splitter there, make the text box resize automatically as you type (which is what it currently does), but also allow you to change it yourself (hence the splitter) if you feel the need?
That being said, I was slightly jarred by this feature at first because I'm used to bigger text areas; then I realized I really didn't need that, and it gets bigger if you type more, anyway. Not a big deal for me. But I feel a splitter would both allow them to keep this feature as well as make people who want to resize it happy--all without having to add another option.
Do you have a source for this claim?
For simple projects (or even complex, if you're a masochist), you can compile at the command line using javac. No need to fire up an IDE or make a build file.
He said rural area. (Newsflash: not everybody lives in a city. I live in the country about a 5 miles away from the nearest town, which has less than 400 people. They have DSL as an option, but if you live more than a couple miles out, no such luck.)
Am I the only one who actually likes the new address bar drop-down in Firefox 3? I think it's most helpful in that it allows you to search for page titles in addition to addresses--helpful for a page I want to find again, where I remember what it might have been called but not the address (this happens frequently after Google searches).
Yeah, the fonts could be a bit smaller, but it's not terrible, especially as you type more and narrow down the results. And the one I want is usually one of the first, if not the very first result.
Actually, as of today, Safari is also at 98/100. See today's entry in the WebKit blog for more.
Err, pretty sure I was using Mozilla back in 2001 when IE 6 was released (it was in the 0.9 versions at this time), and I'm sure it had better standards support than any version of IE did until recently.
Months in Iraq? I want some standard units, like Libraries of Congress!
If you follow the link to the Sourceforge project and look at any of the screenshots (including the one on the front page--at the time when I visited it, anyway), you'll see that they're actually training the software with German. So, it looks like the answer to your question is, yes, it supports more than English.
I just went to the Apple Education Store, looked at Leopard, and it is indeed showing up at the higher price of $116.00 for me.
Wasn't there a story on Slashdot a while back about how multimedia apps in Vista would take priority over others whether you wanted to or not? This summary (you'll actually have to RTFA since it's not in the summary, sorry ... or just look through some of the comments) might be the one I'm looking for...
But then, if it was the resulting flood of log-ons that caused the problem, either a whole lot of people all got on their computers and logged in to Skype at the same time, or a whole lot of people had their computers reboot after applying the patches all at the same time and had them set up to automatically log in to Windows and Skype (and last time I checked, you needed TweakUI for the former). Either one seems pretty unlikely to me...
Well, it only affects two models of the Core 2 Duos, which is the only processor that Apple uses for all its Intel Macs except the Xserve (Xeon) and the Mac mini (first-generation Core Duo, which is not affected). So, assuming Apple didn't use either the E4000 or the E6000 Core 2 Duo processors, that would explain why they are not affected.
However, I do think the situation is interesting when we look at the Xserve, since they use Xeons. The article notes several affected models of them, which it says is just about every model ever made in the second-generation of Core processors. That kinda makes you wonder.
But if this issue is so easily fixed with a software patch ... whose fault was it? (Apple also recently released a security update, but I don't think that had anything to do with this, since they seemed to be just Webcore/Webkit issues and it was issued for both PowerPC and Intel.)