And some people were worried that passengers in train carriages going faster than 100mph would suffocate. Of course, it had never been tried before, so...
Been there 2.5 years now, and I've never seen anyone wielding a crowbar. But the restaurant personnel there could probably kill Vortigaunts with their "Chef's surprise".
his points out the biggest problem with Wikipedia, people are selfish.
I'll have to be tip-toeing around the house for the rest of the week to avoid waking the trolls, but I have always believed that this is what keeps any democratic system working: Loads of people being selfish (within certain rules) tend to end up with a good compromise. This is just a case of the occasional brutes trying to strong-arm their opinion. They were quickly silenced...
It's probably in line with Norway - At NTNU (one of four universities (20,000 students) in a country of ~4.5 million), there are hundreds (by now probably thousands) of students with 100 Mbit full duplex Ethernet connections in their rented apartments, courtesy of the university and privately owned student towns. It rocks!
Sunbird is AFAIK still in alpha, which means it will break completely for some users, and most likely show bugs for all users. I've been running 0.3 alpha 1 & 2, and I'm impressed with the stability & usability of a product so far away from 1.0. Now if only they could use a non-binary format, so I can start CVS-ing my calendar...
I've been to four continents in the last year and a half, and have never encountered a shred of anti-Americanism.
I come from a Northern European country, and I live in a Western European country, working with lots of people from all around the world. In addition to bashing the French & Italian for their driving style, the Norwegian for their drinking, the Russians for not knowing English, and the English for not knowing French, most nationalities (even Americans) seem to percieve the average American as being completely ignorant of the rest of the world, and unwilling to absorb other languages and cultures. But I'd not be very surprised to learn that they are too discrete to start trying to convert Americans, or simply that they learn that you are not a typical American, and, as such, not to be bashed for the (percieved) faults of your nation.
Good to see the Slashdot crowd is capable of rating this insightful. As a "compulsive Linux installer", I've used countless hours on SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Fedora, (FreeBSD,) Scientific Linux CERN, and lastly Ubuntu (in approximate sequence of installation, starting with SuSE 6.3). Filing five to ten bug reports per day is not my idea of a productive platform...
The worst part is that all of Firefox 1.5.0.4, Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, and GAIM 1.5.0 crash on Ubuntu Dapper Drake, while running fine on XP. WTF?! Then the "Linux only" crashes: The 686 kernel (!), Meld, and Nautilus. And things like being unable to bind the Windows key to shortcuts in 2000 effing 6, the lack of documentation in Evolution, the complete lack of consistency across applications (shortcuts, layout, naming, data storage, setting files, and manuals).
Everybody keeps talking about the Microsoft lies, but are you really unable to see the Linux lies? "Stable, fast, and user friendly!" Don't make me laugh!
How can this be insightful? This must be the biggest collection of web design misconceptions I've ever read.
You're supposed to separate semantics and style, because it makes the pages more flexible, accessible, and terse. Everything on a web page has some semantics (if marked up properly) and a style which completely depends on the capabilities of the client. If you believe these are inseparable, I bet you've never used a textual or audio browser. Input elements are no different from other markup in this respect.
An HTML page cannot be XML. At least, it cannot be valid HTML and valid XML, except for trivial cases. XHTML is valid XML, but it wasn't created because of CSS. It was created because of stricter syntax rules (leading to easier parsing). CSS works fine with any XML, but millions of pages use it successfully with old-style HTML. And I'd love to know what kind of positioning can only be handled by attributes - I've never seen a case of this.
Only uninformed zealots will tell you that tables are always bad. Tables have a well-known semantic meaning, but that does not include layout. DIVs also have a well-defined meaning: Division. DIVs separate the markup into parts, which can then be styled (and positioned) at the whim of the developer. But, being completely flexible with regard to visual representation, they can be difficult to handle for novices - Been there, done that. Positioning is IMO the only really difficult part of CSS, mostly because of client bugs. Oh, and DIVs are block elements, even though you can override this.
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are not the same thing! HTML defines contents, and can be used for web pages, help files, presentations (S5), and books. CSS defines style, and can be used for any HTML or XML markup. JavaScript defines functionality, and is a full-fledged programming language. It's a pipe dream that any number of languages with vastly different capabilities and goals can be merged into a consistent whole without adding oodles of complexity.
To answer your question: CSS is not an "elite thing". It's really quite simple, if you run through a tutorial or two. I recommend W3Schools' tutorial to start with and for reference, Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards to learn practical CSS, and searching Digg, Reddit, and especially del.icio.us to learn lots more.
"Truce" implies that attacks are coming from both sides. Since when were F/OSS developers out to mess with Microsoft in any way? A much better statement would be "OK, we'll stop f***ing with you. Tell us where interoperability is broken, and we'll fix it!"
Your average computer user is not switching to OSS, until it works out of the box.
If you'd said "Linux" instead, I'd agree. But there's another issue: Many users will use whatever they get from the retailer as long as the computer is "usable" (in the non-geek meaning of the word). The easiest way to get a Linux distribution normally involves at least the following, even for a Windows literate person:
Choose a distro - Not easy for someone who's never used Linux before. And changing distro is a pain if you want to keep settings.
Download it - For users with normal download speeds, this still means hours of waiting, even though nobody seems to include that in the time costs. Includes downloading, installing, and learning to use BitTorrent or Firefox if you want to be sure that you don't have to restart in three hours.
Making a bootable CD from the image - Including downloading (or buying), installing, and learning to use a new program.
Setting up the BIOS to boot from CD, if necessary.
Installing, something many Windows users have never done themselves.
Learning new ways to do basically everything, including a googol of configuration file and command syntaxes ('something -man' instead of 'man something'; WTF?), googling forums instead of checking the sadly lacking documentation (at least in RHE4), and bug handling (consider 'download and compile from CVS, then send the dump of a verbose run' vs. Firefox).
Uninstalling and reinstalling Windows, because it was just not what you had expected.
IANAP, but I'll hazard a guess at a couple factors: Volume (a few million atoms vs. a couple grams), and the fact that it takes huge amounts of energy to accelerate and keep on track these particles. The last part is important, as that energy will not be returned when the beams collide.
We just invented the hydrogen bomb of DDOS tools. Until the world's hackers, crackers, and spammers start using it, we could keep their botnets occupied.
Why do I need to know whether it's JPEG encoded or TIFF encoded? Why can't it just be a picture?
This problem should be on the Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs list - File extensions suck. Extensions sometimes give too little information (.avi,.xml), give the wrong information (clickme.txt.bat), are ambiguous (.nfo), and are introducing an arbitrary restriction (the encoding of files without extensions are undetected).
I'm not sure that any news is really news anymore; more and more news is colored by opinion.
Reality check: News has always been colored by opinion. Any news organization has a collective political view (including Slashdot), and opposing material tends to be quietly omissed. Or, in Slashdot's case, modded down. But this opinion is getting easier to spot because of the availability of huge numbers of independent outlets.
Don't worry. We'll probably see the "iPhone" soon, which will be a landmark in usability. The iPod already handles contacts and calendar nicely; all you'll need is an elongated mini or nano with a numeric pad. No buttons on the side, no unnecessary clicks, no storage problem (1GB), no joints which crack the first time you drop the phone, and no closed-source POS for synchronizing.
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There are several factors hindering this:
Really, I can't see how most useful web pages today could be used "locally". The dynamic part is the real power of the web.
And some people were worried that passengers in train carriages going faster than 100mph would suffocate. Of course, it had never been tried before, so...
Been there 2.5 years now, and I've never seen anyone wielding a crowbar. But the restaurant personnel there could probably kill Vortigaunts with their "Chef's surprise".
Damn good idea; here's a brainstorm on the possible "distibutions":
Now if extension makers could start signing stuff, mozilla.org would even be able to check that user-submitted builds have not been tampered with...
I'll have to be tip-toeing around the house for the rest of the week to avoid waking the trolls, but I have always believed that this is what keeps any democratic system working: Loads of people being selfish (within certain rules) tend to end up with a good compromise. This is just a case of the occasional brutes trying to strong-arm their opinion. They were quickly silenced...
It's probably in line with Norway - At NTNU (one of four universities (20,000 students) in a country of ~4.5 million), there are hundreds (by now probably thousands) of students with 100 Mbit full duplex Ethernet connections in their rented apartments, courtesy of the university and privately owned student towns. It rocks!
It just so happens that the wine is great. And no, you can not contact me to have a crate sent over.
Sunbird is AFAIK still in alpha, which means it will break completely for some users, and most likely show bugs for all users. I've been running 0.3 alpha 1 & 2, and I'm impressed with the stability & usability of a product so far away from 1.0. Now if only they could use a non-binary format, so I can start CVS-ing my calendar...
I come from a Northern European country, and I live in a Western European country, working with lots of people from all around the world. In addition to bashing the French & Italian for their driving style, the Norwegian for their drinking, the Russians for not knowing English, and the English for not knowing French, most nationalities (even Americans) seem to percieve the average American as being completely ignorant of the rest of the world, and unwilling to absorb other languages and cultures. But I'd not be very surprised to learn that they are too discrete to start trying to convert Americans, or simply that they learn that you are not a typical American, and, as such, not to be bashed for the (percieved) faults of your nation.
Good to see the Slashdot crowd is capable of rating this insightful. As a "compulsive Linux installer", I've used countless hours on SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Fedora, (FreeBSD,) Scientific Linux CERN, and lastly Ubuntu (in approximate sequence of installation, starting with SuSE 6.3). Filing five to ten bug reports per day is not my idea of a productive platform...
The worst part is that all of Firefox 1.5.0.4, Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, and GAIM 1.5.0 crash on Ubuntu Dapper Drake, while running fine on XP. WTF?! Then the "Linux only" crashes: The 686 kernel (!), Meld, and Nautilus. And things like being unable to bind the Windows key to shortcuts in 2000 effing 6, the lack of documentation in Evolution, the complete lack of consistency across applications (shortcuts, layout, naming, data storage, setting files, and manuals).
Everybody keeps talking about the Microsoft lies, but are you really unable to see the Linux lies? "Stable, fast, and user friendly!" Don't make me laugh!
FF crashed horribly with a "memory could not be 'read'" message when playing this file. Seems they really want us to use Flash 8...
How can this be insightful? This must be the biggest collection of web design misconceptions I've ever read.
To answer your question: CSS is not an "elite thing". It's really quite simple, if you run through a tutorial or two. I recommend W3Schools' tutorial to start with and for reference, Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards to learn practical CSS, and searching Digg, Reddit, and especially del.icio.us to learn lots more.
Here's a few annoyances to think about for those involved in creating Linux documentation:
Incomplete documentation, e.g., how to configure LDAP in Evolution. WTF? No examples? No (link to an) explanation of DN or search filters?
All the different ways of getting to the documentation, even for command line applications: --help, -h, man, help, info...
Overly technical manuals, such as for vim. Look, I just want to know how to include a .vimrc from another, not learn some new form of English.
"Truce" implies that attacks are coming from both sides. Since when were F/OSS developers out to mess with Microsoft in any way? A much better statement would be "OK, we'll stop f***ing with you. Tell us where interoperability is broken, and we'll fix it!"
IANAP, but I'll hazard a guess at a couple factors: Volume (a few million atoms vs. a couple grams), and the fact that it takes huge amounts of energy to accelerate and keep on track these particles. The last part is important, as that energy will not be returned when the beams collide.
Because they are not interested in "your cool Windows CE project", but only the real-world feedback on the quality of their development tools?
We just invented the hydrogen bomb of DDOS tools. Until the world's hackers, crackers, and spammers start using it, we could keep their botnets occupied.
Can you say "Carte blanche"?
Or, in engineering terms: If the users aren't shopping for chainsaws, don't fix it!
Sounds like the processor could be made clockless by modularization, using asynchroneous internals with synchronized interfaces. Or am I way off now?
Reality check: News has always been colored by opinion. Any news organization has a collective political view (including Slashdot), and opposing material tends to be quietly omissed. Or, in Slashdot's case, modded down. But this opinion is getting easier to spot because of the availability of huge numbers of independent outlets.
For a bit more of "sad but true", take a look at Bill Hicks. He must be spinning in his grave ever since the U.S. elected another Bush.
Don't worry. We'll probably see the "iPhone" soon, which will be a landmark in usability. The iPod already handles contacts and calendar nicely; all you'll need is an elongated mini or nano with a numeric pad. No buttons on the side, no unnecessary clicks, no storage problem (1GB), no joints which crack the first time you drop the phone, and no closed-source POS for synchronizing.