Granted it's not JUST an email client, it's a full client/server setup with groupware and unified messaging, but FirstClass is pretty awesome. If you're using Novell or MS solutions, check out FC. Better by at least an order of magnitude by pretty much any criterion you care to name.
You know, I was talking with my brother about the 407, and he pointed out something interesting. He uses it fairly often, and has never paid a bill. Every time he is asked to pay, he raises the same point:
Under Canadian law, you cannot assume a contract exists unless the full price has been clearly stated - up front - and agreed to. From what my bro says, the toll on the 407 is not clearly stated up front.
Every time they threaten to sue him, he says, "Sure, go ahead - I'd love to see this in court." And he hasn't been sued yet.
Maybe he's just lucky - but somehow I think he's onto something. Any Canadian contract lawyers out there in/.land?
Huh, that's funny. Yeah, Dandelion Wine is a folk/filk band in Winnipeg, and I know all the members (being a folkie musician myself). I was trying to figure which one you might be... Goes to show how wrong you can be. Cheers!
I noticed a big difference between Winnipeg and Vancouver when I was out on the Wet Coast last month. Those flashing greens are just plain confusing - I'm glad I wasn't driving! Have to agree on the pedestrian corridors in the 'Peg, though, they're great. My Driver Ed. teacher made a point of teaching us to scan both sidewalks when we approached on, just to check whether someone was getting ready to push the button.
I was in the UK about three months ago, and the most disconcerting thing for me was the fact that vehicles apparently don't have to cede right-of-way to pedestrians at stop signs or uncontrolled intersections. I almost got run down in Liverpool. I was walking along the sidewalk on street A, Buddy stopped his van at the stop sign where side street B ran into street A, I stepped out to cross street B. Buddy didn't like it much and chewed me out proper. Sign me up as another ignorant Canuck abroad, I guess.
Dandelion Wine, hmmm? Like the band? I must know you...
To be sure, the scalability at Zen Garden sucks. That's not what it's there for, though, and that's not why I pointed the questioner that way. It succeeds fairly well at being a good demonstration of the wide variety of designs you can implement without changing the underlying HTML.
That said, I don't disagree with your underlying theme, that being the importance of scalability. CSS has a way to go yet, but it's an improvement over the bad old days!
Run that by me one more time slowly, because I'd really love to know how to fix this. By "display option", do you mean the display applet in the control panel, or something within Photoshop? 'Cause in the control panel, I can't access the second monitor when it's not present. Been there, tried that.
I routinely switch between a single monitor (think notebook) and multiple monitors (think notebook with nice big monitor at work). When I'm only using the single, Photoshop often leaves certain dialogue boxes on the non-existant monitor. The effect is that the app is broken until the next time I'm at work.
I'm pretty careful, now, about where I use and leave dialogue boxes, but it still happens. The "Reset palette locations" command works for palettes, but not for dialogue boxes. Adobe confirms that this is a known bug; I can only hope they'll fix it in the next release. Otherwise, I loooooove Photoshop. Cheers!
I'd love to see my cable company do that, too. Not because I get bad cable service (actually, it's pretty good IIRC), but because I *don't* watch TV. Period. If there's something I absolutely have to see, I'll watch it somewhere else.
Now, I don't have a landline, either, though my roommate does (nobody calls me there). So I'm forced to choose between paying ~$20 a month for useless cable service and ~$20 a month for useless phone service. And that sucks.
Can't think of one, offhand. I've always used hand-tooled HTML (with CSS when it came along) and equally hand-tooled graphics. I haven't found a WYSIWYG web editor yet that produced even half-decent code.
I don't do much web stuff anymore, though, so there may be better tools out there these days. If you're determined to automate the process at the _possible_ expense of less-than-optimal code, I've heard that Macromedia's Studio MX integrates pretty well. But I haven't used it enough to say either way. Cheers!
Totally. That's where I'm coming from with (vector apps) Illustrator/Freehand and (photo app) Photoshop (Fireworks too, for the MX crowd). I just read his comment about mucking though HTML to change fonts, colours, and images and thought, "Man, here's a candidate for CSS. If he's not using it to potential, it'll make his life easier by far."
But I agree completely with what you're saying. Did you see the comment on crayons someone posted later, though? I'm gonna have to try that. Nothing like a fresh 64-pack and biiiiig paper!
1) If you're "mucking through HTML" to change how something looks, you're not taking nearly enough advantage of CSS. Keep your content in XML, XHTML, or transitional HTML; put all your layout stuff in CSS.
2) Learn to use a good illustration program like Illustrator or Freehand.
3) Photoshop is pretty quick if you know what you're doing, and can be pretty useful when making web graphics.
But seriously, CSS dwarfs the other two in importance. Check out the CSS Zen Garden (http://csszengarden.com) for some beautiful examples. Cheers!
Yeah, that might work if you timed it - assume that if a given IP doesn't return to Google in foo seconds, the search was successful. Then you just have to tweak foo for best results. And if you based it on IP, you wouldn't have to depend on cookies.
I agree, and I've seen some [laughable,piteous,ignorant] moderation here. However, if it were limited to RELEVANCE, it might still work even if subjective. Find what you're looking for? Mod it up. Misleading header? Mod it down.
Just a thought. I'm mostly wondering whether it's been done already.
I've used Google since Infoseek ceased to be the best, and like everyone else, I've noticed the gradual reduction of relevancy as people figure out how to scam Google for higher placement. Reading about this, I had an idea that is probably not original: Could a search engine be set with Slash-style moderation code, so irrelevant results could be modded down by annoyed users? Is there an engine that does this already?
Yeah, I'm thinking optical mouse with a ball to generate power. I'm just wondering whether it would generate *enough* power to run an optical system and a transmitter.
You want your mouse to move pretty freely, and too much friction will be annoying, so the amount of wheel (generator) turning force will necessarily be low. How low, and whether it would do enough work to run the mouse, is what I'm wondering, and I suspect there are hardware hackers out there with the answer. Cheers!
With the keyboard, I think piezoelectrics in each key would generate enough power to run the thing. With the mouse, though, I wonder whether a "generating ball" would be enough to run the optics. Any mouse hackers want to comment?
Please don't mod this "Troll", I am completely serious.
The current kerfuffle over IP, DRM, DMCA, et cetera strikes me as the accelerated approach of the logical end of the road we started going down when we first protected "private property". I honestly believe that the whole concept is wrong and b0rken.
I know, I know, modern society is *based* upon private ownership... but look where that has brought us! IP? Knowledge belongs to the species, folks. And any other species bright enough to grok it.
As for private property, the answer isn't to distribute it differently, no matter what the [Marxists, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, blah, blah, blah] say. Let's just ditch the whole concept and see where that takes us! From here, it looks better to me.
The whole "hunting at the floe edge" thing is traditional. The Inuit, whose survival skills and ability to adapt appropriate technology are nothing short of astounding (the stories I could tell!), have been augmenting their traditions with new tech whenever it becomes available.
I remember back when the first "game radios" (SBX-11s) came into use; suddenly hunters could talk to people back in town. They've saved more than one life over the years.
It's an interesting thing, though, the impact of modern tech upon traditional hunting and fishing. Many people here in Canada argue that people from First Nations should have the same hunting and fishing rights (unrestricted, essentially) as their ancestors.
Mine's an unpopular viewpoint, but I think that's only HALF-right. Unrestricted hunting and fishing with traditional tech, fine. Modern tech, modern restrictions.
That being said, from what I've seen, the Inuit seem to have a pretty good grasp of managing their natural resources as sustainably as they can manage. Cheers!
Um... bear in mind that, given the submitter's name, he's probably French-Canadian. IIRC tense works a bit differently in French. At any rate, he's doing a better job speaking my language (and yours) than I would do speaking his. Of course, YMMV.;-)
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Granted it's not JUST an email client, it's a full client/server setup with groupware and unified messaging, but FirstClass is pretty awesome. If you're using Novell or MS solutions, check out FC. Better by at least an order of magnitude by pretty much any criterion you care to name.
Oddly enough, I popped this into my CD player here at work about two minutes before reading some /. Man's a genius IMNSHO...
You know, I was talking with my brother about the 407, and he pointed out something interesting. He uses it fairly often, and has never paid a bill. Every time he is asked to pay, he raises the same point:
/.land?
Under Canadian law, you cannot assume a contract exists unless the full price has been clearly stated - up front - and agreed to. From what my bro says, the toll on the 407 is not clearly stated up front.
Every time they threaten to sue him, he says, "Sure, go ahead - I'd love to see this in court." And he hasn't been sued yet.
Maybe he's just lucky - but somehow I think he's onto something. Any Canadian contract lawyers out there in
http://www.artbeco.com/dandelionwine/
(kind of old by the look of the page)
Huh, that's funny. Yeah, Dandelion Wine is a folk/filk band in Winnipeg, and I know all the members (being a folkie musician myself). I was trying to figure which one you might be... Goes to show how wrong you can be. Cheers!
I noticed a big difference between Winnipeg and Vancouver when I was out on the Wet Coast last month. Those flashing greens are just plain confusing - I'm glad I wasn't driving! Have to agree on the pedestrian corridors in the 'Peg, though, they're great. My Driver Ed. teacher made a point of teaching us to scan both sidewalks when we approached on, just to check whether someone was getting ready to push the button.
I was in the UK about three months ago, and the most disconcerting thing for me was the fact that vehicles apparently don't have to cede right-of-way to pedestrians at stop signs or uncontrolled intersections. I almost got run down in Liverpool. I was walking along the sidewalk on street A, Buddy stopped his van at the stop sign where side street B ran into street A, I stepped out to cross street B. Buddy didn't like it much and chewed me out proper. Sign me up as another ignorant Canuck abroad, I guess.
Dandelion Wine, hmmm? Like the band? I must know you...
To be sure, the scalability at Zen Garden sucks. That's not what it's there for, though, and that's not why I pointed the questioner that way. It succeeds fairly well at being a good demonstration of the wide variety of designs you can implement without changing the underlying HTML.
That said, I don't disagree with your underlying theme, that being the importance of scalability. CSS has a way to go yet, but it's an improvement over the bad old days!
I'm running 7, and it was a known bug back when I checked out their site for possible solutions (they weren't offering any). This was pre-CS.
Since it was a known bug, though, I'd think (hope?) they fixed it in CS. Cheers!
Run that by me one more time slowly, because I'd really love to know how to fix this. By "display option", do you mean the display applet in the control panel, or something within Photoshop? 'Cause in the control panel, I can't access the second monitor when it's not present. Been there, tried that.
...is buggy.
I routinely switch between a single monitor (think notebook) and multiple monitors (think notebook with nice big monitor at work). When I'm only using the single, Photoshop often leaves certain dialogue boxes on the non-existant monitor. The effect is that the app is broken until the next time I'm at work.
I'm pretty careful, now, about where I use and leave dialogue boxes, but it still happens. The "Reset palette locations" command works for palettes, but not for dialogue boxes. Adobe confirms that this is a known bug; I can only hope they'll fix it in the next release. Otherwise, I loooooove Photoshop. Cheers!
I'd love to see my cable company do that, too. Not because I get bad cable service (actually, it's pretty good IIRC), but because I *don't* watch TV. Period. If there's something I absolutely have to see, I'll watch it somewhere else.
Now, I don't have a landline, either, though my roommate does (nobody calls me there). So I'm forced to choose between paying ~$20 a month for useless cable service and ~$20 a month for useless phone service. And that sucks.
Can't think of one, offhand. I've always used hand-tooled HTML (with CSS when it came along) and equally hand-tooled graphics. I haven't found a WYSIWYG web editor yet that produced even half-decent code.
I don't do much web stuff anymore, though, so there may be better tools out there these days. If you're determined to automate the process at the _possible_ expense of less-than-optimal code, I've heard that Macromedia's Studio MX integrates pretty well. But I haven't used it enough to say either way. Cheers!
Totally. That's where I'm coming from with (vector apps) Illustrator/Freehand and (photo app) Photoshop (Fireworks too, for the MX crowd). I just read his comment about mucking though HTML to change fonts, colours, and images and thought, "Man, here's a candidate for CSS. If he's not using it to potential, it'll make his life easier by far."
But I agree completely with what you're saying. Did you see the comment on crayons someone posted later, though? I'm gonna have to try that. Nothing like a fresh 64-pack and biiiiig paper!
I have a few suggestions:
1) If you're "mucking through HTML" to change how something looks, you're not taking nearly enough advantage of CSS. Keep your content in XML, XHTML, or transitional HTML; put all your layout stuff in CSS.
2) Learn to use a good illustration program like Illustrator or Freehand.
3) Photoshop is pretty quick if you know what you're doing, and can be pretty useful when making web graphics.
But seriously, CSS dwarfs the other two in importance. Check out the CSS Zen Garden (http://csszengarden.com) for some beautiful examples. Cheers!
As a couple of people have already pointed out, this is a copy of a post that appeared IN THE SAME THREAD! Fer fsck sakes, mods, get a clue.
...but I wonder whether it will look as good once the ridges wear down. Sharp edges on coins get worn pretty smooth after a while.
Yeah, that might work if you timed it - assume that if a given IP doesn't return to Google in foo seconds, the search was successful. Then you just have to tweak foo for best results. And if you based it on IP, you wouldn't have to depend on cookies.
I agree, and I've seen some [laughable,piteous,ignorant] moderation here. However, if it were limited to RELEVANCE, it might still work even if subjective. Find what you're looking for? Mod it up. Misleading header? Mod it down.
Just a thought. I'm mostly wondering whether it's been done already.
I've used Google since Infoseek ceased to be the best, and like everyone else, I've noticed the gradual reduction of relevancy as people figure out how to scam Google for higher placement. Reading about this, I had an idea that is probably not original: Could a search engine be set with Slash-style moderation code, so irrelevant results could be modded down by annoyed users? Is there an engine that does this already?
Yeah, I'm thinking optical mouse with a ball to generate power. I'm just wondering whether it would generate *enough* power to run an optical system and a transmitter.
You want your mouse to move pretty freely, and too much friction will be annoying, so the amount of wheel (generator) turning force will necessarily be low. How low, and whether it would do enough work to run the mouse, is what I'm wondering, and I suspect there are hardware hackers out there with the answer. Cheers!
With the keyboard, I think piezoelectrics in each key would generate enough power to run the thing. With the mouse, though, I wonder whether a "generating ball" would be enough to run the optics. Any mouse hackers want to comment?
Please don't mod this "Troll", I am completely serious.
The current kerfuffle over IP, DRM, DMCA, et cetera strikes me as the accelerated approach of the logical end of the road we started going down when we first protected "private property". I honestly believe that the whole concept is wrong and b0rken.
I know, I know, modern society is *based* upon private ownership... but look where that has brought us! IP? Knowledge belongs to the species, folks. And any other species bright enough to grok it.
As for private property, the answer isn't to distribute it differently, no matter what the [Marxists, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, blah, blah, blah] say. Let's just ditch the whole concept and see where that takes us! From here, it looks better to me.
The whole "hunting at the floe edge" thing is traditional. The Inuit, whose survival skills and ability to adapt appropriate technology are nothing short of astounding (the stories I could tell!), have been augmenting their traditions with new tech whenever it becomes available.
I remember back when the first "game radios" (SBX-11s) came into use; suddenly hunters could talk to people back in town. They've saved more than one life over the years.
It's an interesting thing, though, the impact of modern tech upon traditional hunting and fishing. Many people here in Canada argue that people from First Nations should have the same hunting and fishing rights (unrestricted, essentially) as their ancestors.
Mine's an unpopular viewpoint, but I think that's only HALF-right. Unrestricted hunting and fishing with traditional tech, fine. Modern tech, modern restrictions.
That being said, from what I've seen, the Inuit seem to have a pretty good grasp of managing their natural resources as sustainably as they can manage. Cheers!
Um... bear in mind that, given the submitter's name, he's probably French-Canadian. IIRC tense works a bit differently in French. At any rate, he's doing a better job speaking my language (and yours) than I would do speaking his. Of course, YMMV. ;-)
Not much fishing to be done there! Polar cod are tiny, and about the only fish I've seen the Inuit go after are lake trout and char, anyway.
Hunting at the floe edge is pretty good, though, usually for seal and walrus. Tons of fun.
Take me back to my childhood in Resolute and on Hudson Bay...