When I look at the winning design by Alex Bendiken, I can't find any portion of it that has been done better than Peter's. The nesting menus on the left aren't nearly as smooth, and the text size is the same as the article text, so everything seems to blend together. I commend Alex for attempting to make teal look trendy again, but he has failed.
Peter's color choice, although only slightly lighter, makes all the difference. Differentiating between separate sections of the site is extremely easy as well. It is obvious that Peter put a lot of thought into simulating real-world readership when he designed his layout.
As far as content delivery goes, Alex's design floats boxes and dumps content in. Peter's is much more polished, with slight accents between copy shifts. This makes the right things stand out where they should. He even included a lovely box for the new tagging system, which is completely absent from Alex's design.
The Slashdot people need to create functionality for users to pick their primary content layout from a list. After all, one of the main advantages of CSS is the ability to completely change the design of a site with just one click from the end user.
I guess we can't expect much from a judge who's homepage looks like it's frozen in 1993.
I work at a newspaper. PDF is our standard for archiving any editorial, advertorial and copies of our entire paper. It's an integral part of our workflow. I don't know of any newspaper or magazine that DOESN'T use PDF. I'd say it's almost impossible for an alternative format to take over PDF, at least in the print media market. We've had enough trouble with OpenType support on our systems:)
Do we really need 5 posts regarding this subject? The question will be answered today. This article's basically saying "Apple will release...something... soon. Mark our words."
When the 1st gen minis first came out, there were issues with the headphone jack internals snapping off inside the unit. Apple offered to replace the device for anyone who had purchased it up to 6 months after the launch (I believe). The problem wasn't even found until about 3 months after the launch, too!
Why wouldn't they do this with the nano if it REALLY is an issue (which is seems to be)?
I won't be happy until I get my 1.21 gigawatt PSU so my flux capacitor will function correctly.
Btw, anyone selling a DeLorean parts car? I need new door handles for my time machine. My damn mutt Copernicus chewed up the interior last time I sent him to the ice age.
I obtained a transcript of the dmesg output from the guy's laptop. This is what's confusing me - it's loading 3com 3C905C NIC drivers. Ummm... this is a PCI NIC for a desktop system.
dmesg transcript:
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us vm_page_bootstrap: 127181 free pages mig_table_max_displ = 70 CPU identification: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz CPU features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM HTT: 0 core on a die; 1 logical cpu per core CPU extended features: Local APIC discovered and enabled Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes battery clock configured [RTCLOCK] frequency 1690000000 (1694981600) PCI Ver=2.10 BusCount=3 Features=[ BIOS16 CM1 ] ACPI CA 20050408 [debug level=0 layer=0] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
using 655 buffer headers and 655 cluster IO buffer headers Security auditing service present BSM auditing present disabled From path: "mach_kernel", Waiting on IOProviderClassIOMediaContentApple_HFS ACPI: Supported S-states [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3) AppleMTRRSupport: Enabled Write-Combining for memory range e0000000:400000 IOPCCard info: Intel PCIC probe: TI 4451 rev 00 IOPCCard info: Intel PCIC probe: , TI 4451 rev 00 AppleIntelPIIXPATA: ICH3 ATA/100 (CMD 0x1f0, CTR 0x3f4, IRQ 14, BM 0xbfa0) Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACP IPCI/IDE0@1F,1/AppleIntelPIIXATARoot/PRI@0/AppleIn telPIIXPATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver /IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/HITA CHI_DK23DA-40 Media/IOFDiskPartitionScheme/Untitled 1@1 BSD root: disk0s1, major 14, minor 1 jnl: replay_journal: from: 6217728 to: 5309952 (joffset 0x12d000) FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8027 PCI now active, GUID 374fc00030d4b021; max speed s400. Jettisoning kernel linker. Resetting IOCatalogue. Matching service count = 2 Matching service count = 4 Matching service count = 4 Matching service count = 4 Matching service count = 4 VID: stalling for module Apple3Com3C90xB: 3Com EtherLink 3C905C Regs 0xf8fffc00 IRQ 11 Matching service count = 1 ApplePS2Trackpad: ALPS GlidePoint v4.34 raw version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0: Thu May 26 19:10:26 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.1.82.obj~3/RELEASE_I386 raw version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0: Thu May 26 19:10:26 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.1.82.obj~3/RELEASE_I386 IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled Apple3Com3C90xB: Ethernet address 00:06:5b:b9:85:c1 VID: vram [e0000000:08000000] ERROR - CHUDProf.kext: CHUDProf::attachToChild - chudxnu_trap_callback_enter() error System Doze
I work for a very large newspaper owned by the Tribune. Our ad builders who create ads in-house, or generate pickups still rely on Quark heavily.
Sure, we have InDesign CS2 in here as well, but it all depends on what formats agencies send us. Sometimes Quark is a great alternative to InDesign when it comes to creating a simple EPS.
Anyway, I feel Quark will be in the runnings for a little while longer, but InDesign will eat it up eventually:)
Notice how the article is now gone. Also notice that the original story never said that Nullsoft officially tanked.
Apparently there are now 3 employees working for Nullsoft, all of which have nothing to do with Winamp's development.
I think it's safe to say that the article (which is now deleted) saying that they are still around is crap.
I can't believe nobody has made a Matrix blue pill/red pill reference yet!
Neo takes the red pill, symbolizing conservatism, resulting in much violence (Bush?). If he took the blue pill (aka: pussy's way out(no offense, liberals)) he'd just sit there and mope over how there's no Trinity pr0n on the 'net yet.
Do you know/have you heard of Roger Barlow? He's my friend's dad who spent a year in Antarctica in the early 90s monitoring fault lines, among other things.
In some pictures, near the actual explosion, there are rows of criss-crossing smoke trails. What causes that?
Re:The biggest question of them all...
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The only reason Windows and not Linux "needs" AV is because Linux isn't nearly as mainstream.
Get Grandma Firefox and an e-mail client that won't automatically preview the body of an e-mail and she'll be fine. Beyond that, it's not an issue of security. You could click some link, or give out your banking information in any OS.
The biggest question of them all...
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Why is Grandma using Linux a better idea than Grandma using Windows? It's not like she's going to be hosting a web server and organizing her cooking recipes in an Oracle database.
I think Windows in its current state is much easier to use, and is the most straightforward to learn for ol' Granny. Therefore, it should be the OS of her choice. 2nd place would go to OSX.
If you want to make Linux popular, don't introduce it to the largest computing minority first.
Er.. those rap lyrics were SUPPOSED to say:
"So then I (bleep) that all (bleep) over the (bleep) and she was like "I like it when you (bleep) me, baby"
What happens when the FCC finally makes it to music, and forbids artists from singing/rapping about anything indecent?
I know I wouldn't want to buy a 50 Cent CD that sounds like this:
So then I that all over the and she was like "I like it when you me, baby"
It's like the modern day Smurfs!
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When I look at the winning design by Alex Bendiken, I can't find any portion of it that has been done better than Peter's. The nesting menus on the left aren't nearly as smooth, and the text size is the same as the article text, so everything seems to blend together. I commend Alex for attempting to make teal look trendy again, but he has failed. Peter's color choice, although only slightly lighter, makes all the difference. Differentiating between separate sections of the site is extremely easy as well. It is obvious that Peter put a lot of thought into simulating real-world readership when he designed his layout. As far as content delivery goes, Alex's design floats boxes and dumps content in. Peter's is much more polished, with slight accents between copy shifts. This makes the right things stand out where they should. He even included a lovely box for the new tagging system, which is completely absent from Alex's design. The Slashdot people need to create functionality for users to pick their primary content layout from a list. After all, one of the main advantages of CSS is the ability to completely change the design of a site with just one click from the end user. I guess we can't expect much from a judge who's homepage looks like it's frozen in 1993.
I work at a newspaper. PDF is our standard for archiving any editorial, advertorial and copies of our entire paper. It's an integral part of our workflow. I don't know of any newspaper or magazine that DOESN'T use PDF. I'd say it's almost impossible for an alternative format to take over PDF, at least in the print media market. We've had enough trouble with OpenType support on our systems :)
It's like grade 4 all over again :)
Do we really need 5 posts regarding this subject? The question will be answered today. This article's basically saying "Apple will release...something... soon. Mark our words."
Oh, I absolutely agree. I'm just saying, it's still early in the game and people are acting like Apple's giving its consumers the cold shoulder.
When the 1st gen minis first came out, there were issues with the headphone jack internals snapping off inside the unit. Apple offered to replace the device for anyone who had purchased it up to 6 months after the launch (I believe). The problem wasn't even found until about 3 months after the launch, too!
Why wouldn't they do this with the nano if it REALLY is an issue (which is seems to be)?
I won't be happy until I get my 1.21 gigawatt PSU so my flux capacitor will function correctly. Btw, anyone selling a DeLorean parts car? I need new door handles for my time machine. My damn mutt Copernicus chewed up the interior last time I sent him to the ice age.
I obtained a transcript of the dmesg output from the guy's laptop. This is what's confusing me - it's loading 3com 3C905C NIC drivers. Ummm... this is a PCI NIC for a desktop system.
P IPCI/IDE0@1F,1/AppleIntelPIIXATARoot/PRI@0/AppleIn telPIIXPATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver /IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/HITA CHI_DK23DA-40 Media/IOFDiskPartitionScheme/Untitled 1@1
dmesg transcript:
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
vm_page_bootstrap: 127181 free pages
mig_table_max_displ = 70
CPU identification: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz
CPU features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM
HTT: 0 core on a die; 1 logical cpu per core
CPU extended features:
Local APIC discovered and enabled
Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
battery clock configured
[RTCLOCK] frequency 1690000000 (1694981600)
PCI Ver=2.10 BusCount=3 Features=[ BIOS16 CM1 ]
ACPI CA 20050408 [debug level=0 layer=0]
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
using 655 buffer headers and 655 cluster IO buffer headers
Security auditing service present
BSM auditing present
disabled
From path: "mach_kernel", Waiting on IOProviderClassIOMediaContentApple_HFS
ACPI: Supported S-states [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
AppleMTRRSupport: Enabled Write-Combining for memory range e0000000:400000
IOPCCard info: Intel PCIC probe: TI 4451 rev 00
IOPCCard info: Intel PCIC probe: , TI 4451 rev 00
AppleIntelPIIXPATA: ICH3 ATA/100 (CMD 0x1f0, CTR 0x3f4, IRQ 14, BM 0xbfa0)
Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleAC
BSD root: disk0s1, major 14, minor 1
jnl: replay_journal: from: 6217728 to: 5309952 (joffset 0x12d000)
FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8027 PCI now active, GUID 374fc00030d4b021; max speed s400.
Jettisoning kernel linker.
Resetting IOCatalogue.
Matching service count = 2
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
Matching service count = 4
VID: stalling for module
Apple3Com3C90xB: 3Com EtherLink 3C905C Regs 0xf8fffc00 IRQ 11
Matching service count = 1
ApplePS2Trackpad: ALPS GlidePoint v4.34
raw version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0: Thu May 26 19:10:26 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.1.82.obj~3/RELEASE_I386
raw version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0: Thu May 26 19:10:26 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.1.82.obj~3/RELEASE_I386
IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
Apple3Com3C90xB: Ethernet address 00:06:5b:b9:85:c1
VID: vram [e0000000:08000000]
ERROR - CHUDProf.kext: CHUDProf::attachToChild - chudxnu_trap_callback_enter() error
System Doze
I work for a very large newspaper owned by the Tribune. Our ad builders who create ads in-house, or generate pickups still rely on Quark heavily. Sure, we have InDesign CS2 in here as well, but it all depends on what formats agencies send us. Sometimes Quark is a great alternative to InDesign when it comes to creating a simple EPS. Anyway, I feel Quark will be in the runnings for a little while longer, but InDesign will eat it up eventually :)
http://www.gedikian.com/ How about visiting Steve's blog? HE even says it's dead!
Notice how the article is now gone. Also notice that the original story never said that Nullsoft officially tanked. Apparently there are now 3 employees working for Nullsoft, all of which have nothing to do with Winamp's development. I think it's safe to say that the article (which is now deleted) saying that they are still around is crap.
I can't believe nobody has made a Matrix blue pill/red pill reference yet! Neo takes the red pill, symbolizing conservatism, resulting in much violence (Bush?). If he took the blue pill (aka: pussy's way out(no offense, liberals)) he'd just sit there and mope over how there's no Trinity pr0n on the 'net yet.
Yeah.. I guess this would be a good time to slap myself for not RTFPR
Shouldn't it be: A Girl's Life Online?
Do you know/have you heard of Roger Barlow? He's my friend's dad who spent a year in Antarctica in the early 90s monitoring fault lines, among other things.
Yeah, but he's talking about ordering online and not in-store...
"Any advantage.. um.. Is it better to order online or over the phone?"
...I don't get it.
"Uh.... Over the phone. Do I need to explain why, sir?"
"Oh. Oh right.... Right."
In some pictures, near the actual explosion, there are rows of criss-crossing smoke trails. What causes that?
The only reason Windows and not Linux "needs" AV is because Linux isn't nearly as mainstream.
Get Grandma Firefox and an e-mail client that won't automatically preview the body of an e-mail and she'll be fine. Beyond that, it's not an issue of security. You could click some link, or give out your banking information in any OS.
Why is Grandma using Linux a better idea than Grandma using Windows? It's not like she's going to be hosting a web server and organizing her cooking recipes in an Oracle database. I think Windows in its current state is much easier to use, and is the most straightforward to learn for ol' Granny. Therefore, it should be the OS of her choice. 2nd place would go to OSX. If you want to make Linux popular, don't introduce it to the largest computing minority first.
Very few people use riaa radar. Especially the young teens who download the majority of their music.
It's also 2004. There's still 6 years left!
But that would mean that they had an IP conflict, which is bad :)
Er.. those rap lyrics were SUPPOSED to say: "So then I (bleep) that all (bleep) over the (bleep) and she was like "I like it when you (bleep) me, baby"
What happens when the FCC finally makes it to music, and forbids artists from singing/rapping about anything indecent? I know I wouldn't want to buy a 50 Cent CD that sounds like this: So then I that all over the and she was like "I like it when you me, baby" It's like the modern day Smurfs!