that is a lot more authentic looking than normal.
most of them i've seen are badly worded and have spelling mistakes and are just obviously fake, and yet people still fall for those ones.
obviously there are plenty of non-technical people that don't know how to check a URL is correct.
if someone actually just wrote one that *really* looked believable, a lot more people would fall for it.
If somebody is going to commit something illegal, he'll probably enter the country illegally. Probably through the porous mexican border or the huge coastline that the US has
i think *now*, this is probably true yes (although it wasn't the case with 9/11 hijackers). the airports and immigration are locked down, so now they probably will try illegally.
but also, they could try recruiting people from a young age, from countries apart from afghanistan, and slip people through immigration that way.
which i think in turn highlights your second point. these people are clearly committing these sort of acts because they are desperate in the extreme. people wouldn't kill themselves otherwise. these people obviously feel alienated by and isolated from the rest of the (developed) world. maybe it's this core problem that needs to be the focus of any solution to terrorism.
from the linked article HTML is broken, not google :
HTML is supposed to be superior? A way to do nice formatting and "mark up" of
text and images for browsers right?
no, that's not right. mark up yes, nice formatting no. the two terms themselves are conflicting.
and the actual solution to the author's example test is to do it with css - that's what it's for.
we know it won't work in ns 3 on win 95, that's why css was introduced; to address these formatting issues.
avg free edition might also be a good choice. i haven't actually tried it cos i don't run windows, but it looks good.
i found this while looking for av software for my brother's pc, as he's recently had some virus problems. of course, i also got him using thunderbird and firefox;-)
true, it's probably more of an opportunity for oracle. but there certainly could also be some possibilities for PostgreSQL.
if some companies are feeling they're not getting their moneys worth as they describe, then this may be the thing that makes them decide to try a cheaper alternative that will still do everything they need.
i know of a medium to large company that moved from oracle to postgres recently for similar reasons.
normally, he absolutely should not be extradited to another country for crimes he clearly committed here (in australia).
however, if this is correct:
The US moved for the extradition after the US Department of Justice became dissatisfied with Australia's inability to charge Griffiths.
then i guess that explains why they are trying to extradite him in the first place.
however, in my opinion, it would set a dangerous precedent. if he's committed no crime under australian law and the act deemed a crime by the US was in fact committed in australia, then he should not be extradited.
.. conducted the study after Australian researchers announced in 1999 that they had made a computer model showing it was theoretically possible for beer bubbles to fall down the side of a glass
trust it to be australians that worked that one out first.
something tells me that experiment was most likely conducted on a friday nite after a few beers at the lab.
i agree you can write *standards compliant* css that works in any browser.
the point of my post was that, due to bugs in the rendering of some css elements in ie5 and others in ie6, i am having to use different css code for different browsers in some cases.
current project i'm working on i did all css layout (ie; no tables) and had opposite experience: same code was fine in moz / opera, needed completely different version for ie5 and ie6 due to various bugs in each.
now actually reverting to tables for a lot of the layout because of it.
that's right, and that's why all developers have the right to bitch about it and let off some steam, i myself having just spent the last 2 weeks developing 3 versions of a site design; firefox/opera (ie; standards compliant), ie5 and ie6.
at least in ie6 they've fixed that div padding and margin issue (where ms blatantly ignored w3c standards and made their own), but it's still annoying because now it means you have to do a version for ie5 and a version for ie6!
and ie6 ignores div heights, aaargh.. never ends!!
and unfortunately i can't add any comments on this actual article cos i still can't get to it!
i have the same issue with my parents pc.
i see all the money dad spends on firewalls and av software only to still have problems.
i've of course discussed many times moving to something like mandrake for their desktop but windows is just so entrenched in peoples minds it's hard to make the leap, plus the learning curve.
also with ms products so entrenched, although in many cases there may be equivalents, i think again it's the learning curve as well as the "name" that makes it hard to make the switch.
.. make Linux users feel better about the fact that 80% of setting up and using Linux still requires using arcane commands..
dude that is just not true! gnu/linux in it's current state has choices for servers and choices for the desktop. if you choose the latter, you will find that you have the *flexibility* to use a GUI from the second you put the cd in the drive to install it, but then still be able to pull up a terminal and run your favourite editor or enter commands *if* you want to.
need an example? a perfect example of an os that achieves this is mandrake.
agreed. the best thing about this will be if it makes adobe finally release a linux version.
the day i can run photoshop on linux is the day i say goodbye to the windows box on my desk (that's sole purpose is to run photoshop) forever.
really surprised macromedia is doing it first - they seem to be so aligned with ms; dreamweaver and especially that asp dreamweaver thing (name escapes me) is completely tailored towards ms technologies, one of the reasons i stopped using it.
myself and a friend of mine both actually found that on linux, the opera adware version just stopped working after a certain amount of time. thought it must be time limited or something. i liked it while it worked! but when that happened, just went back to mozilla.
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that's absolutely right, but look at the title given to it on the site:
"Introducing: The Self-Cleansing Housing Projects."
that is CLEARLY racist, and given the fact that the cop posted it somewhere on the net in the first place, he most likely is too.
that title is the most offensive part about this.
just a total lack of respect for other people.
that is a lot more authentic looking than normal.
most of them i've seen are badly worded and have spelling mistakes and are just obviously fake, and yet people still fall for those ones.
obviously there are plenty of non-technical people that don't know how to check a URL is correct. if someone actually just wrote one that *really* looked believable, a lot more people would fall for it.
If somebody is going to commit something illegal, he'll probably enter the country illegally. Probably through the porous mexican border or the huge coastline that the US has
i think *now*, this is probably true yes (although it wasn't the case with 9/11 hijackers). the airports and immigration are locked down, so now they probably will try illegally.
but also, they could try recruiting people from a young age, from countries apart from afghanistan, and slip people through immigration that way.
which i think in turn highlights your second point. these people are clearly committing these sort of acts because they are desperate in the extreme. people wouldn't kill themselves otherwise. these people obviously feel alienated by and isolated from the rest of the (developed) world. maybe it's this core problem that needs to be the focus of any solution to terrorism.
from the linked article HTML is broken, not google :
HTML is supposed to be superior? A way to do nice formatting and "mark up" of text and images for browsers right?
no, that's not right. mark up yes, nice formatting no. the two terms themselves are conflicting.
and the actual solution to the author's example test is to do it with css - that's what it's for.
we know it won't work in ns 3 on win 95, that's why css was introduced; to address these formatting issues.
and btw, the html on the page itself is invalid!
avg free edition might also be a good choice. i haven't actually tried it cos i don't run windows, but it looks good.
;-)
i found this while looking for av software for my brother's pc, as he's recently had some virus problems. of course, i also got him using thunderbird and firefox
you'd think they would at least use the basic security of a password to logon!
never actually had to think about that question before, however a quick look at their faq seemed to indicate it's in progress.
true, it's probably more of an opportunity for oracle. but there certainly could also be some possibilities for PostgreSQL.
if some companies are feeling they're not getting their moneys worth as they describe, then this may be the thing that makes them decide to try a cheaper alternative that will still do everything they need.
i know of a medium to large company that moved from oracle to postgres recently for similar reasons.
Once SQL server 2005 (now) is out, noone will even remember things like MySQL
no way! MySQL will always have it's place: it's an open source alternative and i'd also guess it would have a predominantly different market.
i think you'll find PostgreSQL is also pretty good value for money!
normally, he absolutely should not be extradited to another country for crimes he clearly committed here (in australia).
however, if this is correct:
The US moved for the extradition after the US Department of Justice became dissatisfied with Australia's inability to charge Griffiths.
then i guess that explains why they are trying to extradite him in the first place.
however, in my opinion, it would set a dangerous precedent. if he's committed no crime under australian law and the act deemed a crime by the US was in fact committed in australia, then he should not be extradited.
.. conducted the study after Australian researchers announced in 1999 that they had made a computer model showing it was theoretically possible for beer bubbles to fall down the side of a glass
trust it to be australians that worked that one out first.
something tells me that experiment was most likely conducted on a friday nite after a few beers at the lab.
yeah the div/box model issue is the main issue with using all divs/no tables.
i saw that method but it was just too "hacky" for me, so i decided to have 1 main style sheet and then just include special bits for ie5/6.
however i'm now thinking even that is too much ongoing maintenance, hence why i'm (unfortunately) reverting to tables for the layout.
really wanted this to be my first all css *layout* site but in reality i think we need at least 1 more version of ie first.
i agree you can write *standards compliant* css that works in any browser.
the point of my post was that, due to bugs in the rendering of some css elements in ie5 and others in ie6, i am having to use different css code for different browsers in some cases.
great news, thanks!
current project i'm working on i did all css layout (ie; no tables) and had opposite experience: same code was fine in moz / opera, needed completely different version for ie5 and ie6 due to various bugs in each.
now actually reverting to tables for a lot of the layout because of it.
are you using firefox?
that sounds more like ns 4.7 days.
that's right, and that's why all developers have the right to bitch about it and let off some steam, i myself having just spent the last 2 weeks developing 3 versions of a site design; firefox/opera (ie; standards compliant), ie5 and ie6.
at least in ie6 they've fixed that div padding and margin issue (where ms blatantly ignored w3c standards and made their own), but it's still annoying because now it means you have to do a version for ie5 and a version for ie6!
and ie6 ignores div heights, aaargh.. never ends!!
and unfortunately i can't add any comments on this actual article cos i still can't get to it!
i have the same issue with my parents pc.
i see all the money dad spends on firewalls and av software only to still have problems.
i've of course discussed many times moving to something like mandrake for their desktop but windows is just so entrenched in peoples minds it's hard to make the leap, plus the learning curve.
also with ms products so entrenched, although in many cases there may be equivalents, i think again it's the learning curve as well as the "name" that makes it hard to make the switch.
.. make Linux users feel better about the fact that 80% of setting up and using Linux still requires using arcane commands ..
dude that is just not true! gnu/linux in it's current state has choices for servers and choices for the desktop. if you choose the latter, you will find that you have the *flexibility* to use a GUI from the second you put the cd in the drive to install it, but then still be able to pull up a terminal and run your favourite editor or enter commands *if* you want to.
need an example? a perfect example of an os that achieves this is mandrake.
agreed. the best thing about this will be if it makes adobe finally release a linux version.
the day i can run photoshop on linux is the day i say goodbye to the windows box on my desk (that's sole purpose is to run photoshop) forever.
really surprised macromedia is doing it first - they seem to be so aligned with ms; dreamweaver and especially that asp dreamweaver thing (name escapes me) is completely tailored towards ms technologies, one of the reasons i stopped using it.
myself and a friend of mine both actually found that on linux, the opera adware version just stopped working after a certain amount of time. thought it must be time limited or something. i liked it while it worked! but when that happened, just went back to mozilla.
And guess where you are more than likely to run into an "I.E. reccomended" site? Online banking.
this is changing - i use 3 online banking sites and 2 of them support mozilla. the one that doesn't will soon be losing me as a customer.
Yes, "developers should...", but Developers should do a lot of stuff that they never will.
i develop mozilla compatible applications and so should everyone else. everyone i know does.