This applies to "Future Browsers" as a group. Get together and make rendering and APIs consistent. Please. I really don't even care if you follow the W3 "standard" (which is certainly far from optimal). Just make it all consistent, guys. Make it so I can learn the rendering model and APIs and be done with it, instead of banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why browser X has a different behavior than browser Y and which one is correct and what I should do about it.
I wonder if this will cause a new domain rush, when all these desirable domains are flooded back on to the market (since they will no longer be cost effective for link farmers).
Who will snap up potato.com, couch.com, desk.com, etc. when the spammers let go?
What do you dislike about Time Warner? Granted, it's not exactly cheap (no cable is!)... but I do like how all non-premium channels are sent in unencrypted QAM (meaning cablecards need not apply). At least, that's the way it is in my area - and it plays really well with my HTPC. It really bums me out that I'm moving soon, and will probably have to get Cox, and will then be limited to OTA HD.
I had mod points this morning, but now they're gone. I want to mod you up, though. This seems like a profoundly good idea and a good way to educate your child about intellectual property laws. It's one thing to decide you want to shoot from the hip, use the music without permission, and hope your use will be covered by fair use; but it's quite another thing to teach your child (through your actions) that such is the way to proceed. So kudos to you.
Not that it's right for the companies to go around forcing takedowns of harmless uses of their copyrights, but it also says something that nobody even tries to secure permission before putting soundtracks in their youtube videos.
What most people here are missing is that the credit amount you get is MORE than you ever spent on google video. I spent around 8 bucks on GV and I'm getting a 15 dollar credit. A coworker only bought 1 $2.00 video and is getting a $5.00 credit.
Sure, it's on google checkout, but hey - profit is profit.
I think you missed my sarcasm. My point was that whatever language constructs you use to accomplish a certain execution flow will be largely irrelevant, as it will end up being pretty much the same once the compiler's done with it.
Of course it would be madness to drop the JMP instruction, as it is necessary for pretty much any flow control whatsoever. Using goto is essentially placing a JMP in your high-level code. Hardly the capital sin that many coders make it out to be.
Be, Inc. really epitomizes this for me. They had great ideas and great products, but their dull business moves caused them to die an ugly death.
They did have an uphill struggle - nobody's going to port their major software to a platform without a userbase, but a platform isn't going to get a userbase until it has major software ported to it. Being a late entry to the PC game put them in that chicken/egg scenario and really hurt them.
But surely they could have somehow convinced SOMEONE to port an application to BeOS. They should have poured everything they had into this. Offer Adobe a small percentage of hardware sales if they port Photoshop, for example. Get Corel to bring WordPerfect into the mix so you have a big-name competitor offering a word processor.
Instead they killed the BeBox and from there it was a downward spiral.
You WILL be happy if you go with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. It's probably the best piece of software that Microsoft has ever made. I know that's not saying much, but this is a quality product.
Stay away from Vista at all costs. I can't speak to MythTV, but I suspect MCE 2005 is a bit simpler to use and maintain. HDTV support, analog TV support, with all manner of tuners available (even QAM with the right hardware). I just have USB tuners connected to mine (one analog, one digital) and it works like a dream. The interface is really well-done and easy to setup and use. The MCE remote (which would cost you a bit extra, but I recommend) is responsive and well-configured.
I recommend going with an Intel system - dual core and pretty quick. Get an Nvidia accelerator and purchase the PureVideo codecs as well. I love AMD and ATi, but I have found that Nvidia is the way to go for the video card (better MPEG acceleration) and my intel box never BSODs after weeks of uptime while my AMD one does from time to time (although this is not necessarily related to the processor). You might even want to get a pre-built system from someone (i.e. Dell) because it will be very quiet (and this is difficult to accomplish on your own).
They didn't "take it to a professional". They used their homemade record cartridge, scraped it over the pottery, recorded the result to cassette tape and took THAT to a professional.
Garbage in, garbage out. Could a sophisticated 3D laser imaging of the pottery have recovered the yells? Maybe, maybe not. But they certainly didn't conclusively prove that it's impossible or even improbable. They only proved that if you make a homebrew phonograph cartridge out of hot glass, it doesn't do a very good job of reconstructing accidental recordings.
Yup. Since Grant, Torry and Keri couldn't do it in a few tries with a very scope-limited test and homemade reading equipment, that clearly means it could never ever happen.
font-size-adjust does this to some degree (the fallback font sizes). You specify the x-height/em-width ratio of the font you are using for your layout, and the user-agent will (or should) scale the resulting font by the ratio of the font-size-adjust property to its x/em ratio. Theoretically, this will help you ensure that the text is at least legible if a fallback font is used (although you don't have fine control over the font size).
When you take energy that has been stored for millions of years (such as oil or methane in the ground) and burn it, you are releasing its energy (which has been out of circulation for a while) as heat into the atmosphere. Do some calculations and see that since we started burning oil, we've unleashed a disturbing amount of energy into the atmosphere - enough to cause some global warming on its own without even considering the greenhouse effect.
It's like printing an enormous amount of new currency. Sure, you can spend it, but there are consequences to releasing that much new currency into the economy.
Well, judging from the fact that the default Content-Type for the request sent by an XMLHttpRequest is "text/xml", you're not quite correct. The default usage is to send an XML-encoded request in raw postdata which would be parsed by the server. You can override this and send urlencoded data (like your browser does when you submit a form), but you have to explicitly specify that this is what you're doing.
So it seems that it was intended for bidirectional XML-based communication.
Perhaps the submission's title of Comprehensive Airport Wi-Fi Guide led me to believe that they thought their listing to be accurate. No need to scold me for pointing out that it's not. The point is that if they are wrong about SNA, who knows whether or not they are correct about other airports?
In any case, next time I fly out of John Wayne, I'll make a note of who is providing the free wireless and inform TravelPost.
I happen to know that SNA has free wireless accessible. I fly out of there about twice a month and always have my laptop with me. It would surprise me if it was operating from outside the airport - it's a massive complex.
Despite the age of our species, every human on earth can trace their ancestry back to someone who may have lived as recently as the Golden Age of Greece (around 500 BC)
This fellow must have been quite busy with the ladies.
Did you miss the teaser video they posted recently? I'm pretty convinced that they're making headway - and now that Al Emmo (their bread and butter) is more or less done, we'll be seeing QFG2VGA shortly. And I am really looking forward to it - QFG2 is my favorite game of my favorite series.
Hold the phone. You can't go dissing a product because you don't like the way it works on a platform for which it's not intended. Not that I'm saying the product is great - haven't tried it - but you should at least try it on its own platform so you know it's behaving correctly before you bash its interface.
That would be like me saying *insert linux software here* stinks because it acts strangely under Cygwin.
If you're into indie games, don't forget about AGD Interactive. Not only do they re-make classic Sierra adventures with tasty VGA graphics, but they have an original adventure game (called "Al Emmo") coming out that looks pretty awesome. Any old(ish)-school fans of Sierra adventure games should check them out.
I am not affiliated with this company in any way - I just think that what they're doing is nothing short of awesome, and want to spread the word.
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Consistency.
This applies to "Future Browsers" as a group. Get together and make rendering and APIs consistent. Please. I really don't even care if you follow the W3 "standard" (which is certainly far from optimal). Just make it all consistent, guys. Make it so I can learn the rendering model and APIs and be done with it, instead of banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why browser X has a different behavior than browser Y and which one is correct and what I should do about it.
Where can I get a Space Cadet keyboard?
I wonder if this will cause a new domain rush, when all these desirable domains are flooded back on to the market (since they will no longer be cost effective for link farmers). Who will snap up potato.com, couch.com, desk.com, etc. when the spammers let go?
What do you dislike about Time Warner? Granted, it's not exactly cheap (no cable is!)... but I do like how all non-premium channels are sent in unencrypted QAM (meaning cablecards need not apply). At least, that's the way it is in my area - and it plays really well with my HTPC. It really bums me out that I'm moving soon, and will probably have to get Cox, and will then be limited to OTA HD.
I had mod points this morning, but now they're gone. I want to mod you up, though. This seems like a profoundly good idea and a good way to educate your child about intellectual property laws. It's one thing to decide you want to shoot from the hip, use the music without permission, and hope your use will be covered by fair use; but it's quite another thing to teach your child (through your actions) that such is the way to proceed. So kudos to you.
Not that it's right for the companies to go around forcing takedowns of harmless uses of their copyrights, but it also says something that nobody even tries to secure permission before putting soundtracks in their youtube videos.
Founded during the great pork shortage of 1680.
What most people here are missing is that the credit amount you get is MORE than you ever spent on google video. I spent around 8 bucks on GV and I'm getting a 15 dollar credit. A coworker only bought 1 $2.00 video and is getting a $5.00 credit. Sure, it's on google checkout, but hey - profit is profit.
I think you missed my sarcasm. My point was that whatever language constructs you use to accomplish a certain execution flow will be largely irrelevant, as it will end up being pretty much the same once the compiler's done with it.
Of course it would be madness to drop the JMP instruction, as it is necessary for pretty much any flow control whatsoever. Using goto is essentially placing a JMP in your high-level code. Hardly the capital sin that many coders make it out to be.
Don't you know that there is no circumstance under which use of goto is acceptable?
Similarly, I propose that JMP should be removed from every instruction set, because it is too much like goto and therefore is pure evil.
Be, Inc. really epitomizes this for me. They had great ideas and great products, but their dull business moves caused them to die an ugly death.
They did have an uphill struggle - nobody's going to port their major software to a platform without a userbase, but a platform isn't going to get a userbase until it has major software ported to it. Being a late entry to the PC game put them in that chicken/egg scenario and really hurt them.
But surely they could have somehow convinced SOMEONE to port an application to BeOS. They should have poured everything they had into this. Offer Adobe a small percentage of hardware sales if they port Photoshop, for example. Get Corel to bring WordPerfect into the mix so you have a big-name competitor offering a word processor.
Instead they killed the BeBox and from there it was a downward spiral.
Sigh.
You WILL be happy if you go with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. It's probably the best piece of software that Microsoft has ever made. I know that's not saying much, but this is a quality product.
Stay away from Vista at all costs. I can't speak to MythTV, but I suspect MCE 2005 is a bit simpler to use and maintain. HDTV support, analog TV support, with all manner of tuners available (even QAM with the right hardware). I just have USB tuners connected to mine (one analog, one digital) and it works like a dream. The interface is really well-done and easy to setup and use. The MCE remote (which would cost you a bit extra, but I recommend) is responsive and well-configured.
I recommend going with an Intel system - dual core and pretty quick. Get an Nvidia accelerator and purchase the PureVideo codecs as well. I love AMD and ATi, but I have found that Nvidia is the way to go for the video card (better MPEG acceleration) and my intel box never BSODs after weeks of uptime while my AMD one does from time to time (although this is not necessarily related to the processor). You might even want to get a pre-built system from someone (i.e. Dell) because it will be very quiet (and this is difficult to accomplish on your own).
They didn't "take it to a professional". They used their homemade record cartridge, scraped it over the pottery, recorded the result to cassette tape and took THAT to a professional.
Garbage in, garbage out. Could a sophisticated 3D laser imaging of the pottery have recovered the yells? Maybe, maybe not. But they certainly didn't conclusively prove that it's impossible or even improbable. They only proved that if you make a homebrew phonograph cartridge out of hot glass, it doesn't do a very good job of reconstructing accidental recordings.
Yup. Since Grant, Torry and Keri couldn't do it in a few tries with a very scope-limited test and homemade reading equipment, that clearly means it could never ever happen.
font-size-adjust does this to some degree (the fallback font sizes). You specify the x-height/em-width ratio of the font you are using for your layout, and the user-agent will (or should) scale the resulting font by the ratio of the font-size-adjust property to its x/em ratio. Theoretically, this will help you ensure that the text is at least legible if a fallback font is used (although you don't have fine control over the font size).
...please tell Senator Feinstein what you think of the DMCA and her support of it.
http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html
When you take energy that has been stored for millions of years (such as oil or methane in the ground) and burn it, you are releasing its energy (which has been out of circulation for a while) as heat into the atmosphere. Do some calculations and see that since we started burning oil, we've unleashed a disturbing amount of energy into the atmosphere - enough to cause some global warming on its own without even considering the greenhouse effect.
It's like printing an enormous amount of new currency. Sure, you can spend it, but there are consequences to releasing that much new currency into the economy.
But that trick never works!
Oh. Wait.
Well, judging from the fact that the default Content-Type for the request sent by an XMLHttpRequest is "text/xml", you're not quite correct. The default usage is to send an XML-encoded request in raw postdata which would be parsed by the server. You can override this and send urlencoded data (like your browser does when you submit a form), but you have to explicitly specify that this is what you're doing.
So it seems that it was intended for bidirectional XML-based communication.
Perhaps the submission's title of Comprehensive Airport Wi-Fi Guide led me to believe that they thought their listing to be accurate. No need to scold me for pointing out that it's not. The point is that if they are wrong about SNA, who knows whether or not they are correct about other airports?
In any case, next time I fly out of John Wayne, I'll make a note of who is providing the free wireless and inform TravelPost.
I happen to know that SNA has free wireless accessible. I fly out of there about twice a month and always have my laptop with me. It would surprise me if it was operating from outside the airport - it's a massive complex.
What?
This fellow must have been quite busy with the ladies.
Did you miss the teaser video they posted recently? I'm pretty convinced that they're making headway - and now that Al Emmo (their bread and butter) is more or less done, we'll be seeing QFG2VGA shortly. And I am really looking forward to it - QFG2 is my favorite game of my favorite series.
Your Emulator?
Hold the phone. You can't go dissing a product because you don't like the way it works on a platform for which it's not intended. Not that I'm saying the product is great - haven't tried it - but you should at least try it on its own platform so you know it's behaving correctly before you bash its interface.
That would be like me saying *insert linux software here* stinks because it acts strangely under Cygwin.
If you're into indie games, don't forget about AGD Interactive. Not only do they re-make classic Sierra adventures with tasty VGA graphics, but they have an original adventure game (called "Al Emmo") coming out that looks pretty awesome. Any old(ish)-school fans of Sierra adventure games should check them out.
I am not affiliated with this company in any way - I just think that what they're doing is nothing short of awesome, and want to spread the word.