A book? on CSS? Why? Do you often find yourself writing CSS without Internet access?
Personally, the only way for me to know a particular cross-browser CSS approach works is to actually test it on every browser I can. Kinda hard to do that with a book.
And if these guys were real CSS gurus, they would have written their book in XML and CSS and used Prince to convert it and then open sourced the book code.
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You've got to be kidding me. What do you expect us to go back to, complete table designs and font tags? Should we all switch to static PDF pages since they display correctly in most PDF readers? Not to say that CSS won't be defunct at some point, there currently is no real alternative to CSS.
Games do spur hardware upgrades, though. True, big game companies outside of Microsoft probably won't be jumping to Vista-only in the first year. After that, though, I wouldn't be shocked to see some smaller titles being developed for Vista only, and after about 2 years seeing some major Vista-only titles.
Of course, with Microsoft being the publishing warhorse for many gaming companies, you can bet there will be pressure on game studios to at least use the features, but not require Vista.
Side note: despite there being support for DirectX 9.0c in.NET, are there any games that actually show comparable "98%" speed versus native code? The only game that I know makes heavy use of.NET is Caesar IV, whose performance is downright terrible.
That's why you would download the high quality stuff. Someone with 2.0 sound doesn't need the data for 5.1. Someone with a 30" non-HDTV doesn't need as many bits as someone with a 52" HDTV.
Someone like yourself, who has nice sound and nice video, can go for the longer, bigger downloads. Someone who wants to see the movie sooner can opt for less quality -- this way consumers can get a choice.
Why would you bother downloading a 15GB movie when a 3GB movie looks fine on your computer screen and most TV sets? Even most HDTVs won't benefit from the information stored in a 15GB movie. How many people actually have sound systems that support 5.1, let alone 7.1?
What I expect to see is tailored movie downloads that fit what presentation devices you have present. A simple web form can ask what type of: television, sound system, connection speed, timeframe desired, and storage desired that will select which of a few pre-encoded files you download. This way, I can download a very high quality movie (with a nice TV and sound system) while my mother can download closer to DVD format (older TV, lesser sound).
If you can only use 25% of the information, why download 100%?
Hits, at least in most stat packages, are page views. Good stat packages won't inflate your hit numbers with things like CSS and image file hits.
Visits are time-limited uniques. If I read 5 stories on Slashdot within an hour, that's 5 hits and 1 visit.
Uniques are longer time-limited users. If I read 5 stories on Slashdot at 9 a.m., and 3 more at 4 p.m., that (at least in most packages) should be 8 hits, 2 visits, and 1 unique. Some packages will let you alter the timeline of Uniques, e.g., Weekly Uniques.
Generally, the higher your ratio of Visits:Uniques the better (your viewers come back multiple times per day). High Hits:Visits ratio means your users look at a lot of content each time they come. Low Hits:Uniques means your viewers aren't coming back.
The timeframe in which oil supplies begin dwindling doesn't matter. The fact is that we are consuming oil faster that Nature can produce it, thus, at some point it will no longer be viable to extract it.
50 years or 122 years, the sooner we remove dependencies on oil products, the better. Energy is a major concern for global peace and security. If every country could produce their own energy, many conflicts could be avoided.
The sad fact is that energy and energy conflicts are extremely profitable and extremely easy to exploit politically (regardless of which government or party does it). Governments with a lot of power have very little incentive to change quickly.
If the big powerhouse countries don't adjust quickly, smaller, more agile nations will be the first to become independent. They will then sell their technology to other countries and the big countries will lose both power and money in the global scene. Unfortunately, politics are typically extremely shortsighted.
Almost every site (other than ones you need to log into) can be viewed just fine without cookies. All browsers give you options to block cookies.
It'd be a different story if browser developers were in league with advertisers to force browsers to accept all cookies and to easily share them between websites. If that were the case, I could see Congress taking issue with it, as well as the courts.
Laws don't always correct things. This isn't something you can legislate. The sheer number of exceptions would make this law more complicated than anyone could follow or enforce.
Don't like cookies? Don't visit the sites that use them.
While I am like most of Slashdot in that I think that Microsoft has a very tight grip on the computer market, I still will never understand why the EU is so against Microsoft.
Is it because it is produced in a foreign market? I know many European countries have unhealthy feelings of xenophobia (as does the US). Do they secretly fear that a foreign company having such power over them is a security risk?
Remember: they bought the software, Microsoft didn't bash down their doors screaming "YOU WILL BUY OUR SOFTWARE!!".
Spend 10 minutes and make an HTML form for people to contact you. Be careful what you name your field names, though, as there are spam bots that can target web forms.
If people need to send you files, they can do so after you reply back to them.
Before PCs were widespread, there were standalone typewriter-style word processors. It was basically a small computer + keyboard + printer built into one. It typically could save the documents to a small bit of memory or external diskettes (although really early models didn't save). Later models had more formatting options (such as bold, underline, text alignment...), things that traditional typewriters didn't have (without swapping or using very expensive models).
Go look at some of the papers Gannett owns in Wisconsin and Ohio. I guess "many" was too strong, though, I thought there were more than a handful.
Looking more closely at Gannett properties, I'm surprised there aren't more duopolies. I know the other big media groups are buying up competing companies in the dense markets (e.g., one newspaper and one television station). The biggest duopoly that I think Gannett has is the KUSA and KTVD, two competing television stations, both in Denver.
Except most newspapers already do this, albeit with the words "allegedly", "supposedly", and "probably" intermixed as at least one-third of the column inches in an article and every questionable line is in quotation marks from an "anonymous source" or an "officer close with the investigation" (etc). Some papers are bigger offenders than others.
And all of the Gannett newspapers (and broadcast stations) already do this "crowdsourcing", although not so explicitly or as openly as the article details. Many article ideas and content come from readers/viewers. People have been contributing to the news outlets for decades, usually asking for nothing in return. Lately some do request money as a "freelancer", and sometimes they do get paid if they have a stunning photo or exclusive video.
I doubt you will see larger Gannett newspapers like USA Today employing this method anytime soon. Gannett owns over one hundred newspapers (if I recall the last newsletter that I saw), many of which are in tiny markets where they hold near monopolies (as most local newspapers are). They just don't have the staff to do larger investigations and oftentimes aren't near enough to other Gannett-owned properties to collaborate.
Even tough technology is still improving, just how often are computer manufacturers expecting consumers to purchase a brand new PC? It sounds to me that the slowing growth is more in part due to market saturation than anything else. Computer sales have enjoyed double digit growth through more difficult times than these (Windows ME fiasco, I.LOVE.YOU viruses, massive job loss in the bubble burst, terror attacks and wars, various US and foreign stock upsets, etc).
I am thinking the sources behind this article have stock in Dell and other afflicted manufaturers. Dell will probably see a short-term loss of laptop sales due to their bad press from the exploding batteries. What better way to hedge your losses than say the entire laptop market is slowing in growth, rather than Dell simply losing sales to a competitor? It'll take months for the actual sales numbers to come in, and by then everyone will have forgotten about these stories.
Be wary of any such article around crucial marketing periods like the winter holidays (just as you should be cautious of TV execs hyping up their shows during sweeps periods). Many brokers and firms can make-or-break a large profits during the next two months, all hinging on how well they predicted holiday sales figures from earlier in the year, and not everyone is a neutral party.
That's a load of crap. Unless the kid has made terrible financial decisions already (like taking out fraudulent credit cards), you can still get loans that are in a grace period until you are out of school. Sure, they are higher interest than subsidized loans, but most state schools are cheap for in-state residents. It's no Harvard or MIT, but it's better than nothing.
At 17, go get a job. Any job. Your primary focus should be school and extracurricular things. Enjoy high school while you still can -- senior year is your best year. Go to the football games. Help the cheerleaders in their volunteer car wash. Smear Vaseline all over the car doorhandles in the junior parking lot. Go get laid.
Unless you are some sort of technical genius, no one will care what jobs you had pre-college. At best it is something to joke with during an interview (college interview or a job interview). Everyone has their horrible first job stories to tell.
When you get into school, you can probably get a job supervising a campus computer lab. Maybe working on the school website or helping out the newspaper (there is a lot of technical behind-the-scenes to a paper). If your campus has mass media degrees, they likely have a radio/news channel, too, which is more technical experience. Second and third year you can probably tutor. The last year or two you can look for internships. They may or may not be directly related. I got a job working for a large insurance company doing technical writing at $23.50/hour -- not bad for a college kid.
CEO: Quick! Vista is too secure and our products are too badly written to rewrite them for Vista. We need a new business model! Marketing Department: There's this... threat, yeah, threat... to like, businesses. They have a lot of money... maybe we can sham them for a few more years? CEO: Brilliant!
Not a fluke at all. I play WoW with my SO and it is the greatest thing ever. We raid three times a week (two nights of MC, one night of Ony, although we've been doing BWL the last few weeks). $30 a month of hours of safe entertainment.
We socialize more with each other with WoW, and we socialize with more people because of WoW. We've met several other local, down-to-earth couples in the same area, too.
"No ending" is a great thing, in my opinion. When we played single player games (or multiplayer), unless we really got into a game, it would lose its quality and replayability within a month or two. We'd buy at least two to three games per month, multiplayer games required two copies. That's a big chunk of cash at $40+ per game. MMOs, on the other hand, have many different game types in them... you can go off and solo, you can go with a small group, or you can go with a huge raid.
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A book? on CSS? Why? Do you often find yourself writing CSS without Internet access?
Personally, the only way for me to know a particular cross-browser CSS approach works is to actually test it on every browser I can. Kinda hard to do that with a book.
And if these guys were real CSS gurus, they would have written their book in XML and CSS and used Prince to convert it and then open sourced the book code.
You've got to be kidding me. What do you expect us to go back to, complete table designs and font tags? Should we all switch to static PDF pages since they display correctly in most PDF readers? Not to say that CSS won't be defunct at some point, there currently is no real alternative to CSS.
One would hope after dropping a few C-notes on a keyboard you wouldn't have to shim anything.
Just because his product violates a TOS it doesn't mean he did anything illegal. A TOS is a civil agreement, and not a very strong one, at that.
I'm all for shutting this guy down (I play WoW and hate bots, too), but I don't want shutting him down to clog our already congested legal system.
Games do spur hardware upgrades, though. True, big game companies outside of Microsoft probably won't be jumping to Vista-only in the first year. After that, though, I wouldn't be shocked to see some smaller titles being developed for Vista only, and after about 2 years seeing some major Vista-only titles.
.NET, are there any games that actually show comparable "98%" speed versus native code? The only game that I know makes heavy use of .NET is Caesar IV, whose performance is downright terrible.
Of course, with Microsoft being the publishing warhorse for many gaming companies, you can bet there will be pressure on game studios to at least use the features, but not require Vista.
Side note: despite there being support for DirectX 9.0c in
That's why you would download the high quality stuff. Someone with 2.0 sound doesn't need the data for 5.1. Someone with a 30" non-HDTV doesn't need as many bits as someone with a 52" HDTV.
Someone like yourself, who has nice sound and nice video, can go for the longer, bigger downloads. Someone who wants to see the movie sooner can opt for less quality -- this way consumers can get a choice.
Why would you bother downloading a 15GB movie when a 3GB movie looks fine on your computer screen and most TV sets? Even most HDTVs won't benefit from the information stored in a 15GB movie. How many people actually have sound systems that support 5.1, let alone 7.1?
What I expect to see is tailored movie downloads that fit what presentation devices you have present. A simple web form can ask what type of: television, sound system, connection speed, timeframe desired, and storage desired that will select which of a few pre-encoded files you download. This way, I can download a very high quality movie (with a nice TV and sound system) while my mother can download closer to DVD format (older TV, lesser sound).
If you can only use 25% of the information, why download 100%?
Hits, at least in most stat packages, are page views. Good stat packages won't inflate your hit numbers with things like CSS and image file hits.
Visits are time-limited uniques. If I read 5 stories on Slashdot within an hour, that's 5 hits and 1 visit.
Uniques are longer time-limited users. If I read 5 stories on Slashdot at 9 a.m., and 3 more at 4 p.m., that (at least in most packages) should be 8 hits, 2 visits, and 1 unique. Some packages will let you alter the timeline of Uniques, e.g., Weekly Uniques.
Generally, the higher your ratio of Visits:Uniques the better (your viewers come back multiple times per day). High Hits:Visits ratio means your users look at a lot of content each time they come. Low Hits:Uniques means your viewers aren't coming back.
The timeframe in which oil supplies begin dwindling doesn't matter. The fact is that we are consuming oil faster that Nature can produce it, thus, at some point it will no longer be viable to extract it.
50 years or 122 years, the sooner we remove dependencies on oil products, the better. Energy is a major concern for global peace and security. If every country could produce their own energy, many conflicts could be avoided.
The sad fact is that energy and energy conflicts are extremely profitable and extremely easy to exploit politically (regardless of which government or party does it). Governments with a lot of power have very little incentive to change quickly.
If the big powerhouse countries don't adjust quickly, smaller, more agile nations will be the first to become independent. They will then sell their technology to other countries and the big countries will lose both power and money in the global scene. Unfortunately, politics are typically extremely shortsighted.
Almost every site (other than ones you need to log into) can be viewed just fine without cookies. All browsers give you options to block cookies.
It'd be a different story if browser developers were in league with advertisers to force browsers to accept all cookies and to easily share them between websites. If that were the case, I could see Congress taking issue with it, as well as the courts.
Laws don't always correct things. This isn't something you can legislate. The sheer number of exceptions would make this law more complicated than anyone could follow or enforce.
Don't like cookies? Don't visit the sites that use them.
While I am like most of Slashdot in that I think that Microsoft has a very tight grip on the computer market, I still will never understand why the EU is so against Microsoft.
Is it because it is produced in a foreign market? I know many European countries have unhealthy feelings of xenophobia (as does the US). Do they secretly fear that a foreign company having such power over them is a security risk?
Remember: they bought the software, Microsoft didn't bash down their doors screaming "YOU WILL BUY OUR SOFTWARE!!".
Spend 10 minutes and make an HTML form for people to contact you. Be careful what you name your field names, though, as there are spam bots that can target web forms.
If people need to send you files, they can do so after you reply back to them.
Before PCs were widespread, there were standalone typewriter-style word processors. It was basically a small computer + keyboard + printer built into one. It typically could save the documents to a small bit of memory or external diskettes (although really early models didn't save). Later models had more formatting options (such as bold, underline, text alignment...), things that traditional typewriters didn't have (without swapping or using very expensive models).
Future domain names attached to Microsoft's name
microsoft-eats-children.share.live.com
nochildpornhere.share.live.com
microsoftupdate.com.share.live.com
update.paypal.com.share.live.com
freexxxdonkiesandmidgetsgonewild.share.live.com
Reply with your full name, address, job, a list of your family members, government ID number, and your hopes and dreams and I'll tell you why.
Go look at some of the papers Gannett owns in Wisconsin and Ohio. I guess "many" was too strong, though, I thought there were more than a handful.
Looking more closely at Gannett properties, I'm surprised there aren't more duopolies. I know the other big media groups are buying up competing companies in the dense markets (e.g., one newspaper and one television station). The biggest duopoly that I think Gannett has is the KUSA and KTVD, two competing television stations, both in Denver.
Except most newspapers already do this, albeit with the words "allegedly", "supposedly", and "probably" intermixed as at least one-third of the column inches in an article and every questionable line is in quotation marks from an "anonymous source" or an "officer close with the investigation" (etc). Some papers are bigger offenders than others.
And all of the Gannett newspapers (and broadcast stations) already do this "crowdsourcing", although not so explicitly or as openly as the article details. Many article ideas and content come from readers/viewers. People have been contributing to the news outlets for decades, usually asking for nothing in return. Lately some do request money as a "freelancer", and sometimes they do get paid if they have a stunning photo or exclusive video.
I doubt you will see larger Gannett newspapers like USA Today employing this method anytime soon. Gannett owns over one hundred newspapers (if I recall the last newsletter that I saw), many of which are in tiny markets where they hold near monopolies (as most local newspapers are). They just don't have the staff to do larger investigations and oftentimes aren't near enough to other Gannett-owned properties to collaborate.
Even tough technology is still improving, just how often are computer manufacturers expecting consumers to purchase a brand new PC? It sounds to me that the slowing growth is more in part due to market saturation than anything else. Computer sales have enjoyed double digit growth through more difficult times than these (Windows ME fiasco, I.LOVE.YOU viruses, massive job loss in the bubble burst, terror attacks and wars, various US and foreign stock upsets, etc).
I am thinking the sources behind this article have stock in Dell and other afflicted manufaturers. Dell will probably see a short-term loss of laptop sales due to their bad press from the exploding batteries. What better way to hedge your losses than say the entire laptop market is slowing in growth, rather than Dell simply losing sales to a competitor? It'll take months for the actual sales numbers to come in, and by then everyone will have forgotten about these stories.
Be wary of any such article around crucial marketing periods like the winter holidays (just as you should be cautious of TV execs hyping up their shows during sweeps periods). Many brokers and firms can make-or-break a large profits during the next two months, all hinging on how well they predicted holiday sales figures from earlier in the year, and not everyone is a neutral party.
Well, look at it this way. At that pay rate, you can buy your own car wash.
The person in question, though, doesn't sound like he has such ambitions.
That's a load of crap. Unless the kid has made terrible financial decisions already (like taking out fraudulent credit cards), you can still get loans that are in a grace period until you are out of school. Sure, they are higher interest than subsidized loans, but most state schools are cheap for in-state residents. It's no Harvard or MIT, but it's better than nothing.
At 17, go get a job. Any job. Your primary focus should be school and extracurricular things. Enjoy high school while you still can -- senior year is your best year. Go to the football games. Help the cheerleaders in their volunteer car wash. Smear Vaseline all over the car doorhandles in the junior parking lot. Go get laid.
Unless you are some sort of technical genius, no one will care what jobs you had pre-college. At best it is something to joke with during an interview (college interview or a job interview). Everyone has their horrible first job stories to tell.
When you get into school, you can probably get a job supervising a campus computer lab. Maybe working on the school website or helping out the newspaper (there is a lot of technical behind-the-scenes to a paper). If your campus has mass media degrees, they likely have a radio/news channel, too, which is more technical experience. Second and third year you can probably tutor. The last year or two you can look for internships. They may or may not be directly related. I got a job working for a large insurance company doing technical writing at $23.50/hour -- not bad for a college kid.
Lasers do no good if we end up killing off all of the sharks in the oceans. If sharks fail, we can try some mutated sea bass.
If Katherine Harris wins the Senate seat in Florida, we know something is up.
CEO: Quick! Vista is too secure and our products are too badly written to rewrite them for Vista. We need a new business model!
Marketing Department: There's this... threat, yeah, threat... to like, businesses. They have a lot of money... maybe we can sham them for a few more years?
CEO: Brilliant!
Not a fluke at all. I play WoW with my SO and it is the greatest thing ever. We raid three times a week (two nights of MC, one night of Ony, although we've been doing BWL the last few weeks). $30 a month of hours of safe entertainment.
We socialize more with each other with WoW, and we socialize with more people because of WoW. We've met several other local, down-to-earth couples in the same area, too.
"No ending" is a great thing, in my opinion. When we played single player games (or multiplayer), unless we really got into a game, it would lose its quality and replayability within a month or two. We'd buy at least two to three games per month, multiplayer games required two copies. That's a big chunk of cash at $40+ per game. MMOs, on the other hand, have many different game types in them... you can go off and solo, you can go with a small group, or you can go with a huge raid.