... by Douglas Hill, comprising Galactic Warlord, Deathwing Over Veynaa, Day Of The Starwind and Planet Of The Warlord. Also the Huntsman series by the same author, comprising The Huntsman, Warriors Of The Wasteland and Alien Citadel. I have fond memories of them all.
... of someone in Hollywood perfecting the science of making a movie that doesn't suck? Honestly, apart from Gwyneth Paltrow, there's very little in there that's worth watching. Tony Stark is just a whiny, selfish shit in copper-coloured-kecks.
The song 'More Human Than Human' on 'Astro Creep:2000' features the lines "I am the Nexus one/I want more life fucker I ain't done". Kinda ruins the reference, wouldn't you say?
I move that it be called the Gone. Which gives ample opportunity to display context-sensitive Gone-Ads. At least it would if I didn't have this dang restraining order...
Actually, the performance hit you mention isn't actually that bad in practice. I use OOo 2.0 on an old 253MHz laptop and once you get past the long wait for it to load up, it's perfectly useable for the sort of uncomplicated, low-end tasks most people use it for. I wouldn't necessarily use it to open a million-cell spreadsheet but for writing a letter it's fine.
... the Home Secretary, who continues to support the idea of an ID card and biometric database, has recently admitted that over a thousand criminals who are not UK citizens have been released from prison without being deported, and that he has no idea where most of them are.
I offer this as a counter-argument to those who might suggest that if you're innocent, you have nothing to fear. Never, ever underestimate the ability of politicians and bureaucrats to f*ck things up.
Strangely enough, I'm none too enamoured of Firefox at the moment. It too has its share of rendering quirks - nothing quite so bad as IE, but there all the same. One technique I've used in the site is to set a large padding-bottom value for columns, with a similarly-large negative margin-bottom, and placed the columns in a container with overflow:hidden. This ensures that both columns end up the same height. Nice and neat. However, if you try to link to an id within one of the columns, large chunks of the content go missing due to the way Firefox handles the overflow:hidden property.
Of all the browsers I've tried testing my pages on, the one that give me fewest problems is Konqueror - I write the code, and it works. I use XFce for my Linux desktop, and I'd love to see a standalone browser for Linux using the KHTML engine, preferably with a GTK2 GUI, so I don't have to install all of KDE just to be sure the browser works...
I'm not a web professional, but I've been given the job of designing a small website for my employers, and IE's crappy CSS support has caused me a world of hurt.I was going to ask whether anything has been done about fixing it, but an earlier post regarding the Acid 2 test has pretty much answered that. (It's a wish list? Well, yeah, but if Konqueror and Safari can grant those wishes, why not IE?)
I suppose the most we can hope for with IE7 is that it stays broken in the same ways as previous versions, so we don't have to learn a whole new raft of ugly hacks just to a get a page to look presentable.
Oh come on, you're not trying hard enough. There are LOADS of jobs the government would need a supercomputer for. Storing everyone's inside leg measurements for ID Card database. Working out how much money Tony Blair and his grasping hag of a wife have gouged over their years in office. Calculating the maximum number of speed cameras that could be deployed before everyone snaps and marches on Downing Street with pikestaffs. That sort of thing.
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... by Douglas Hill, comprising Galactic Warlord, Deathwing Over Veynaa, Day Of The Starwind and Planet Of The Warlord. Also the Huntsman series by the same author, comprising The Huntsman, Warriors Of The Wasteland and Alien Citadel. I have fond memories of them all.
... of someone in Hollywood perfecting the science of making a movie that doesn't suck? Honestly, apart from Gwyneth Paltrow, there's very little in there that's worth watching. Tony Stark is just a whiny, selfish shit in copper-coloured-kecks.
The song 'More Human Than Human' on 'Astro Creep:2000' features the lines "I am the Nexus one/I want more life fucker I ain't done". Kinda ruins the reference, wouldn't you say?
Bloathed?
Is that like beloved, but the other way around?
HSBC - Halve the Staff, Bugger the Customers.
I move that it be called the Gone. Which gives ample opportunity to display context-sensitive Gone-Ads. At least it would if I didn't have this dang restraining order...
The estate of Edvard Munch plans to sue for breach of copyright.
The descendents of the IBM Model M Keyboards are still available... Clicky clicky.
Sharper than YO MOMMA!
A fine cromulent word with which to embiggen your article.
Current fortune at bottom of page:
Charlie Brown: Why was I put on this earth?
Linus: To make others happy.
Oooo. Spooky.
Actually, the performance hit you mention isn't actually that bad in practice. I use OOo 2.0 on an old 253MHz laptop and once you get past the long wait for it to load up, it's perfectly useable for the sort of uncomplicated, low-end tasks most people use it for. I wouldn't necessarily use it to open a million-cell spreadsheet but for writing a letter it's fine.
Bramble and apple pie... mmm.
If only they'd also tie up a deal with Custard Research Inc. that would be, well, pretty sweet.
Isn't this about the third time we've seen this 'story'?
Maybe in Arkansas...
... surely only an EVIL TERR'IST would do such a thing, right?
Does this mean that everyone who has complained or criticised Slackware for sticking with the 2.4.* kernel for the sake of stability will apologise?
Not holding my breath or anything, but it might be nice.
... the Home Secretary, who continues to support the idea of an ID card and biometric database, has recently admitted that over a thousand criminals who are not UK citizens have been released from prison without being deported, and that he has no idea where most of them are.
I offer this as a counter-argument to those who might suggest that if you're innocent, you have nothing to fear. Never, ever underestimate the ability of politicians and bureaucrats to f*ck things up.
Strangely enough, I'm none too enamoured of Firefox at the moment. It too has its share of rendering quirks - nothing quite so bad as IE, but there all the same. One technique I've used in the site is to set a large padding-bottom value for columns, with a similarly-large negative margin-bottom, and placed the columns in a container with overflow:hidden. This ensures that both columns end up the same height. Nice and neat. However, if you try to link to an id within one of the columns, large chunks of the content go missing due to the way Firefox handles the overflow:hidden property.
Of all the browsers I've tried testing my pages on, the one that give me fewest problems is Konqueror - I write the code, and it works. I use XFce for my Linux desktop, and I'd love to see a standalone browser for Linux using the KHTML engine, preferably with a GTK2 GUI, so I don't have to install all of KDE just to be sure the browser works...
I'm not a web professional, but I've been given the job of designing a small website for my employers, and IE's crappy CSS support has caused me a world of hurt.I was going to ask whether anything has been done about fixing it, but an earlier post regarding the Acid 2 test has pretty much answered that. (It's a wish list? Well, yeah, but if Konqueror and Safari can grant those wishes, why not IE?)
I suppose the most we can hope for with IE7 is that it stays broken in the same ways as previous versions, so we don't have to learn a whole new raft of ugly hacks just to a get a page to look presentable.
That looks like four words to me. Does the eyepatch interfere with your ability to count?
Oh come on, you're not trying hard enough. There are LOADS of jobs the government would need a supercomputer for. Storing everyone's inside leg measurements for ID Card database. Working out how much money Tony Blair and his grasping hag of a wife have gouged over their years in office. Calculating the maximum number of speed cameras that could be deployed before everyone snaps and marches on Downing Street with pikestaffs. That sort of thing.
While I'm in grammar ninja mode, methinks I saw a split infinitive there. I'm taking you DOWN, buddy.
At least one of us is going to get modded to oblivion, but I'm with you on this one all the way.
... the phrase is 'could NOT care less'. If you COULD care less, that means you do care and have room for treating your customers worse, doesn't it?
Please allow me to utter a short yelp of annoyance.