I'd like to thank Håkon Wium Lie, the responses were a good read and one of the few I've read all the way through.
I've been working with CSS for a while and have one main question for every other web programmer out there. When are we going to stop being limited by IE? When I design a webpage I make sure that it functions properly in Opera and FireFox. Then I open up IE, shut my eyes, and run screaming from the room(usually right into the closed door.) Simple effects and a basic CSS driven menu system leave IE page renders in ruins. I then have to spend more timing trying to get it to work in IE then I spent writing the entire page.(I guess if I was paid hourly this wouldn't be such a big problem.)
What I would really like to see is a stand against MS:IE until they get their act together. Every single web programmer that reads this should stop supporting IE. Will that happen: probably not. But you could do one thing that might help the cause; add a script that ID's IE and then tell the user that they are missing out on functionallity because they are using a faulty/old web browser. You can then supply the user with a link to Opera, Firefox or Safari.
From what I have seen, IE 7 is supposed to have better support for CSS but that does nothing for someone that is using anything older then XP. Since MS, in its unending desire to part us from our money, decided that they aren't going to allow anyone, that isn't using Win XP, to use the latest version of IE. If we can take advantage of this lack of support we may be able to get a much larger migration away from IE.
So is this how Intel is going to keep up with AMD? Sure this next generation 45nm chip will run on a bit less energy and might be a bit faster. But they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get smaller when they should be redesigning their chip to get an actual advantage. AMD might not be pushing the size but why should they, their chips are already in the lead when it comes to design, cost, multicore, power usage vs. performance, and 64bit support. If I was AMD I would forget about going to 65nm and put my money into the 45nm switch and into developing my next generation features and designs. Let Intel blow all their money switching each time there is an incremental change in technology that has no real effect when it comes to their performance.
"No Child Left Behind" sounds like a really good idea except for one huge problem. There is no funding to carry out the mandate. I've have talked to several teachers at a few different schools and they have all said the same thing, "NCLB" good idea, very bad implementation. As is, a town near me may end up closing atleast one of its schools due to lack of funding. When I stopped by my old highschool a week ago, one of the teachers told me they basicly had to pay the school $500 at the end of the previous year and the year before that. And people wonder why public schools are going down hill. While many teachers really love what they do and are very good at it, they can't afford to do it. Now someone is going to say they get paid great and only work 3/4 of the year. Well, many of the teachers I talk to(highschool and gradeschool) put in around 60-70 hrs a week. My question is, what are our schools supposed to do? With ever tightening budgets and a rising education requirement, computers in the classroom won't be an option, as they won't be able to afford them. My view is that the Fed shouldn't be handing down mandates unless it plans to fully fund them, and I mean fully. "That's just my opinion, I "could" be wrong."
I run a small computer company and I use OOo for all of my business activity. I also recommend OOo to many of my customers and then also ask for a small donation to help the OOo team. I am also trying to convince a couple of local schools to switch to OOo inorder to save money. Though there is resistance, mainly because people don't want to admit that they have wasted their money. The clients of mine that have tried OOo have all given me positive feedback. I have a few complaints, though that may be a bit strong, when working with embedded tables in documents formatting gets screwed up often, and there is an odd scrolling issue on my system when I work with spreadsheets. But these are fairly minor issues. I can't wait to start playing with OOo 2.0 I just need to wait for the stable version.
I just picked up a broken laptop from an auction. The screen is shattered, but the rest of the hardware works just fine. I installed Fedora Core 2 on it and set it up to host my website. I use SMB and SSH to take care of anything else that needs to be done. Got the whole thing including a working battery, which I used for another system, for us$5.00.
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I'd like to thank Håkon Wium Lie, the responses were a good read and one of the few I've read all the way through. I've been working with CSS for a while and have one main question for every other web programmer out there. When are we going to stop being limited by IE? When I design a webpage I make sure that it functions properly in Opera and FireFox. Then I open up IE, shut my eyes, and run screaming from the room(usually right into the closed door.) Simple effects and a basic CSS driven menu system leave IE page renders in ruins. I then have to spend more timing trying to get it to work in IE then I spent writing the entire page.(I guess if I was paid hourly this wouldn't be such a big problem.) What I would really like to see is a stand against MS:IE until they get their act together. Every single web programmer that reads this should stop supporting IE. Will that happen: probably not. But you could do one thing that might help the cause; add a script that ID's IE and then tell the user that they are missing out on functionallity because they are using a faulty/old web browser. You can then supply the user with a link to Opera, Firefox or Safari. From what I have seen, IE 7 is supposed to have better support for CSS but that does nothing for someone that is using anything older then XP. Since MS, in its unending desire to part us from our money, decided that they aren't going to allow anyone, that isn't using Win XP, to use the latest version of IE. If we can take advantage of this lack of support we may be able to get a much larger migration away from IE.
So is this how Intel is going to keep up with AMD? Sure this next generation 45nm chip will run on a bit less energy and might be a bit faster. But they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get smaller when they should be redesigning their chip to get an actual advantage. AMD might not be pushing the size but why should they, their chips are already in the lead when it comes to design, cost, multicore, power usage vs. performance, and 64bit support. If I was AMD I would forget about going to 65nm and put my money into the 45nm switch and into developing my next generation features and designs. Let Intel blow all their money switching each time there is an incremental change in technology that has no real effect when it comes to their performance.
"No Child Left Behind" sounds like a really good idea except for one huge problem. There is no funding to carry out the mandate. I've have talked to several teachers at a few different schools and they have all said the same thing, "NCLB" good idea, very bad implementation. As is, a town near me may end up closing atleast one of its schools due to lack of funding. When I stopped by my old highschool a week ago, one of the teachers told me they basicly had to pay the school $500 at the end of the previous year and the year before that. And people wonder why public schools are going down hill.
While many teachers really love what they do and are very good at it, they can't afford to do it. Now someone is going to say they get paid great and only work 3/4 of the year. Well, many of the teachers I talk to(highschool and gradeschool) put in around 60-70 hrs a week.
My question is, what are our schools supposed to do? With ever tightening budgets and a rising education requirement, computers in the classroom won't be an option, as they won't be able to afford them. My view is that the Fed shouldn't be handing down mandates unless it plans to fully fund them, and I mean fully. "That's just my opinion, I "could" be wrong."
I run a small computer company and I use OOo for all of my business activity. I also recommend OOo to many of my customers and then also ask for a small donation to help the OOo team. I am also trying to convince a couple of local schools to switch to OOo inorder to save money. Though there is resistance, mainly because people don't want to admit that they have wasted their money. The clients of mine that have tried OOo have all given me positive feedback. I have a few complaints, though that may be a bit strong, when working with embedded tables in documents formatting gets screwed up often, and there is an odd scrolling issue on my system when I work with spreadsheets. But these are fairly minor issues. I can't wait to start playing with OOo 2.0 I just need to wait for the stable version.
Is it possible, while this is very cool, that google is getting to diverse to support its core business. Searching the internet for the best results.
I just picked up a broken laptop from an auction. The screen is shattered, but the rest of the hardware works just fine. I installed Fedora Core 2 on it and set it up to host my website. I use SMB and SSH to take care of anything else that needs to be done. Got the whole thing including a working battery, which I used for another system, for us$5.00.