As it's a pretty up-to-date cache, it will eventually spread any broken SQL or whatnot errors, assuming the web servers aren't the first to break. This often seems to be the case with the blo-- err, "articles" these days, anyway.
While this wasn't what he was talking about, you have to be careful with opacity. The rendering can easily lag even the most powerful desktop if not used -- well, I want to say "properly", but "carefully" would be better.
I've tried and tried myself, on several different occasions. The idea was to have a fixed background on in the top-right, and have divs with a background color that's semi-transparent -- ie, opacity: 50%.
Well, it can more or less work with the non-standard tags for all modern browsers, but lags something awful once you attempt to scroll. I eventually resorted to an already diluted background image set to divs only, for the same effect. So that's another <sizeofbackground> down the drain, bandwidth-wise.
The moral of the story: It will be nice when CSS3 becomes something more than a draft. I hope.
Seriously, this is like asking [...] "What's the best kind of bomb?"
The one where you drop on your boss, stating you no longer need to pay the licensing fee to you-know-who because you can do it better, for free, using you-know-what?;)
Let's ban cars while we're at it. They can be used to kill! Clearly they're a threat to society. Along with scissors, paper, pens, PHB, and people in general.
Let's ban reproduction, because people are clearly capable of violating the law! *cough*China anyone?*cough*
Or so this mindset of insanity would lead you. The moral of the story is to not blame the technology, and especially the folks behind it, but the individual who is actually committing the crime with the said tool. *gasp* Such a novel concept..
Now go ahead and mod me down to -1 Redunant. You know you want to.:)
A bit off-topic now, but Xchat has this lovely little quirk I noticed when I last used the Windows port.
Minimize the main window, and leave the DCC Receive window open. This may not be required, but it will allow you to monitor the status. Have a friend send you a file, and watch it come in. While it's transferring, try to restore the main window -- you can't! It won't come up until the transfer completes.
Mind you, it's entirely possible that it was just my screwy system, but I found it amusing to no end.:) This was using the last free version, before it went shareware, so it's likely been fixed by now.
I'll give you the inherently flawed part, but at least with Linux, you get what you pay for.
(I know, I know. There actually are people/businesses who shell out money for it, but one could just chalk that up as "distribution" and/or "support" costs more oft than not.)
It's an underlining point of CSS - separation of data flow and styling. Lynx is used to force this into the developer's mind by doing exactly that -- only showing the flow of content.
If you content doesn't flow properly, regardless of what you do to it, it's not going to "work"; thus, get a working flow first and it will "look good" under anything.:)
That's my experience, at least. For whatever the heck it's worth these days.
Everything *ML-related you can learn from the W3C's Technical Reports. They also have a wide selection of examples/quick reference material in their tutorials.
I would advise not using JavaScript. Learn it all you want, but don't use it.
While we could have a PHP vs Perl flame war, I'd suggest you take your time and try them both. And for the heck of it, throw Python into the mix. Learn them all, learn their quirks, and decide for yourself which is better for the job.
Whenever you design a page, test it in lynx first. If it look good text-only, it will look good in anything (IE-related CSS hacks aside).
Ah, and pull random people from somewhere and have them test your sites. Don't help them navigate it; they'll let you know if it absolutely sucks or not.:)
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Since you bought it up quite well, I'll just expand a bit.
With the success that is DirectX, Microsoft has also been pushing companies to use it for audio and video in their games. Effectively, in addition to DX, they're locking games in with Windows Media Player now, as well.
Even if you're able to get a DirectX game working under WINE or Cedega, for instance, you may be stuck if you're unable to get the in-game movies working. I'm not certain if modern versions of WMP can be installed via WINE, but it just tacks on to the burden of the Linux gamer -- or should I say another nail in the Linux-as-a-Gaming-Platform's coffin; that is, until it becomes popular enough for developers to take notice and change.
As a little example, I found myself in this situation a few months ago. A certain game I wanted to play had installed fine, but once launched it ran a little in-game movie that required WMP. I can't recall now if I was able to install a copy of it or not, but I remember having to do some mouse clicking voodoo every time I started it as to keep the movie from playing, in order to play.
When it comes right down to it, Microsoft has itself another little monopoly. It's yet another reason the XboX is doing so well. Perhaps Apple will come along and save us, with an iBox or something, someday. That, or Linux might actually catch on as a desktop pla-- oh, never mind.
I just long for the day VMware gets a working DX API. Now that will be the day.
I eat at Wendys. A lot. At the on I'm partial to, they often confuse "Sprite" with "Fries". I can't even count the number of times that after pointing this out to them, they still give me the fries along with the drink.
Sometimes they take the fries out, sometimes they leave them in. I've even been told on occasion I have to take them, because they can't take back food they've already given out; they claimed the fried would had to be tossed out.
So, what the heck. I always take the extra "free" item, munch on a few, and that's that. Am I a scum bag for not forcing them to take back the unpaid for item?
You're going to take a 12 hour flight. You can have, what, two carry on bags now? One? Remember, these things have weight limits.
You can buy one of these, perhaps even later on shell out the money for an extended battery; or you can buy the rival unit that lasts for 2-3x times as long, natively.
I don't know about you, but I'm going for the latter in a heartbeat.:)
The point being, this is a portable device, yet with battery life like that, they're clearly not aiming for the portable market. It's insane that this even got out the door like this.
The battery time issue is fixable. Everyone was worried about what kind of battery time we would be looking at with such a powerful system. Well as of now, you can expect even the most intensive games to last well beyond 3 hours of play time, while other less graphically intense games can reach up to 6 hours.
Well beyond 3 hours! What is this, a joke?
It was dead before it was even released, and this is why.
And then half of their users will, if I can use the term here,/. the telephone system trying to get through to their ISP, demanding to know how, what, and why. If you thought tech support jobs at ISPs were bad before, just you wait...
Still, if properly implemented, it's a great idea. Instead of cutting them off, drop any repeated, zombie-looking packets. Anything else, redirect it to a local site hosted by the ISP, for customers only.
It should read something along the line of..
"Our monitoring system has indicated that your computer has been infected with an internet virus, trojan, or worm. To prevent any harm to your privacy, computer, and personal information, we have temporarily disabled your account.
To clear this up as quickly as possible, below we have a wide ranging list of detection programs and simple instructions on how to clean up most problems. If you need further help, please use the form below of contact our support at..."
Basically, forcing self-help to those that need it. Seems a whole lot better than "call us after you're secure" to me.
In addition to this, if you do join the mob, your ISP will likely kick you off for violating the Terms of Service.
It may not come right away, but as soon as some party, innocent or otherwise, gets hit and starts mailing ISPs, whoops. Your nice broadband pipe down the drain.
Slashdot Mirror
Prevents? Delays.
As it's a pretty up-to-date cache, it will eventually spread any broken SQL or whatnot errors, assuming the web servers aren't the first to break. This often seems to be the case with the blo-- err, "articles" these days, anyway.
While this wasn't what he was talking about, you have to be careful with opacity. The rendering can easily lag even the most powerful desktop if not used -- well, I want to say "properly", but "carefully" would be better.
I've tried and tried myself, on several different occasions. The idea was to have a fixed background on in the top-right, and have divs with a background color that's semi-transparent -- ie, opacity: 50%.
Well, it can more or less work with the non-standard tags for all modern browsers, but lags something awful once you attempt to scroll. I eventually resorted to an already diluted background image set to divs only, for the same effect. So that's another <sizeofbackground> down the drain, bandwidth-wise.
The moral of the story: It will be nice when CSS3 becomes something more than a draft. I hope.
Seriously, this is like asking [...] "What's the best kind of bomb?"
;)
The one where you drop on your boss, stating you no longer need to pay the licensing fee to you-know-who because you can do it better, for free, using you-know-what?
Let's ban cars while we're at it. They can be used to kill! Clearly they're a threat to society. Along with scissors, paper, pens, PHB, and people in general.
:)
Let's ban reproduction, because people are clearly capable of violating the law! *cough*China anyone?*cough*
Or so this mindset of insanity would lead you. The moral of the story is to not blame the technology, and especially the folks behind it, but the individual who is actually committing the crime with the said tool. *gasp* Such a novel concept..
Now go ahead and mod me down to -1 Redunant. You know you want to.
A bit off-topic now, but Xchat has this lovely little quirk I noticed when I last used the Windows port.
:) This was using the last free version, before it went shareware, so it's likely been fixed by now.
Minimize the main window, and leave the DCC Receive window open. This may not be required, but it will allow you to monitor the status. Have a friend send you a file, and watch it come in. While it's transferring, try to restore the main window -- you can't! It won't come up until the transfer completes.
Mind you, it's entirely possible that it was just my screwy system, but I found it amusing to no end.
I can't tell if that was a mispasted link, or a brilliant troll.
:)
Someone mod the parent up.
Regardless, it brings up an excellent point. At what point with we have robots as sex slaves? Will they be required to look like adults?
What if their bodies resemble that of animals or children? Will our current laws still apply, although they're not really what they resemble?
Will bestiality and pedophilia sky rocket if such robot uses are deemed a legal activity?
Or am I thinking way too much into this guy's posted article?
Sex in a can? I think I've seen something like this before.. err--
Never mind.
I'll give you the inherently flawed part, but at least with Linux, you get what you pay for.
(I know, I know. There actually are people/businesses who shell out money for it, but one could just chalk that up as "distribution" and/or "support" costs more oft than not.)
Now when is /. going to start doing the same?
:)
Proudly awaiting my flamebait mods.
Pfft. You forgot the most important Gentoo flag (mainly for gaming).
APPLY_NUDE_PATCH="1"
Wait, what do you mean it's just me?
..why?
:)
It's an underlining point of CSS - separation of data flow and styling. Lynx is used to force this into the developer's mind by doing exactly that -- only showing the flow of content.
If you content doesn't flow properly, regardless of what you do to it, it's not going to "work"; thus, get a working flow first and it will "look good" under anything.
That's my experience, at least. For whatever the heck it's worth these days.
Yet Another Star Wars Boxset to buy!
Everything *ML-related you can learn from the W3C's Technical Reports. They also have a wide selection of examples/quick reference material in their tutorials.
:)
I would advise not using JavaScript. Learn it all you want, but don't use it.
While we could have a PHP vs Perl flame war, I'd suggest you take your time and try them both. And for the heck of it, throw Python into the mix. Learn them all, learn their quirks, and decide for yourself which is better for the job.
Whenever you design a page, test it in lynx first. If it look good text-only, it will look good in anything (IE-related CSS hacks aside).
Ah, and pull random people from somewhere and have them test your sites. Don't help them navigate it; they'll let you know if it absolutely sucks or not.
I don't know about you, but I for one already have a "little" girl cannon. Or so the e-mails tell me.
*ducks*
Okay, so spill it already.
What movie did he watch over the weekend?
*drools*
Since you bought it up quite well, I'll just expand a bit.
With the success that is DirectX, Microsoft has also been pushing companies to use it for audio and video in their games. Effectively, in addition to DX, they're locking games in with Windows Media Player now, as well.
Even if you're able to get a DirectX game working under WINE or Cedega, for instance, you may be stuck if you're unable to get the in-game movies working. I'm not certain if modern versions of WMP can be installed via WINE, but it just tacks on to the burden of the Linux gamer -- or should I say another nail in the Linux-as-a-Gaming-Platform's coffin; that is, until it becomes popular enough for developers to take notice and change.
As a little example, I found myself in this situation a few months ago. A certain game I wanted to play had installed fine, but once launched it ran a little in-game movie that required WMP. I can't recall now if I was able to install a copy of it or not, but I remember having to do some mouse clicking voodoo every time I started it as to keep the movie from playing, in order to play.
When it comes right down to it, Microsoft has itself another little monopoly. It's yet another reason the XboX is doing so well. Perhaps Apple will come along and save us, with an iBox or something, someday. That, or Linux might actually catch on as a desktop pla-- oh, never mind.
I just long for the day VMware gets a working DX API. Now that will be the day.
I eat at Wendys. A lot. At the on I'm partial to, they often confuse "Sprite" with "Fries". I can't even count the number of times that after pointing this out to them, they still give me the fries along with the drink.
Sometimes they take the fries out, sometimes they leave them in. I've even been told on occasion I have to take them, because they can't take back food they've already given out; they claimed the fried would had to be tossed out.
So, what the heck. I always take the extra "free" item, munch on a few, and that's that. Am I a scum bag for not forcing them to take back the unpaid for item?
Netcraft confirms it. Only /. readers are ever going to use this.
*ducks*
In Korea, only old people take responsibility for their actions..
Oh, wait-- what do you mean it's just not Korea?
You're going to take a 12 hour flight. You can have, what, two carry on bags now? One? Remember, these things have weight limits.
:)
You can buy one of these, perhaps even later on shell out the money for an extended battery; or you can buy the rival unit that lasts for 2-3x times as long, natively.
I don't know about you, but I'm going for the latter in a heartbeat.
The point being, this is a portable device, yet with battery life like that, they're clearly not aiming for the portable market. It's insane that this even got out the door like this.
Or is it just me? Sigh.
The battery time issue is fixable. Everyone was worried about what kind of battery time we would be looking at with such a powerful system. Well as of now, you can expect even the most intensive games to last well beyond 3 hours of play time, while other less graphically intense games can reach up to 6 hours.
Well beyond 3 hours! What is this, a joke?
It was dead before it was even released, and this is why.
And then half of their users will, if I can use the term here, /. the telephone system trying to get through to their ISP, demanding to know how, what, and why. If you thought tech support jobs at ISPs were bad before, just you wait...
..."
Still, if properly implemented, it's a great idea. Instead of cutting them off, drop any repeated, zombie-looking packets. Anything else, redirect it to a local site hosted by the ISP, for customers only.
It should read something along the line of..
"Our monitoring system has indicated that your computer has been infected with an internet virus, trojan, or worm. To prevent any harm to your privacy, computer, and personal information, we have temporarily disabled your account.
To clear this up as quickly as possible, below we have a wide ranging list of detection programs and simple instructions on how to clean up most problems. If you need further help, please use the form below of contact our support at
Basically, forcing self-help to those that need it. Seems a whole lot better than "call us after you're secure" to me.
In addition to this, if you do join the mob, your ISP will likely kick you off for violating the Terms of Service.
It may not come right away, but as soon as some party, innocent or otherwise, gets hit and starts mailing ISPs, whoops. Your nice broadband pipe down the drain.
Right direction?
Come on. The last thing you need is some script kiddie exploiting our pictures, so they all show their beloved goatse hero.
Wikipedia, anyone?