The file is indeed Javascript and it's called "urchin.js" (nice name eh?). It is called urchin.js because Google Analytics used to be a company named Urchin, which Google bought and assimilated.
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the PPC-6700 which has been around for a while now can do most of that. Sorry, but I have the PPC-6700 and it came with the WORST case of buyer's remorse that I have ever had on ANY gadget in the history of me buying gadgets. It's a piece of shit, and if I hadn't bought it and been locked into Verizon for another 2 years (2 weeks before the iPhone was announced), I would be in line for an iPhone right now. Have you ever tried browsing the web on a PPC-6700 and on Verizon's so-called superior network? Fuck it takes 3 minutes to load any decent website. Everyone keeps saying "all these existing phones already do all this stuff" but they do it all HALF-ASSED and make it a complete nightmare to try and accomplish anything. Yeah my PPC-6700 has a lot of features that the iPhone doesn't, but NONE OF THOSE FEATURES WORK HOW THEY SHOULD. So what's the fucking point of even putting those shitty features in? So you can have a list of features that is longer than the iPhone's? Please.
The iPhone is for people like me who are tired of getting fucked in the ass by the phone companies and their providers. Even if iPhone is a flop, at least the competition has been put on notice, and we'll see that trickle down to the rest of us. Thank you Apple for throwing the industry a life preserver.
My wife nearly killed herself, literally, trying to open one of these plastic fortresses. It was an individually wrapped steak knife. She cut the plastic around the knife and began to pull the knife out by the handle (which was outside of the plastic), but it got stuck on the way out, jumped, and proceeded to slash her wrist about 5 inches long, from the middle of her palm to just past the wrist-bone. Took her to the ER where she proceeded to get 16 stitches and a "you were lucky" speech from the doctor. 1 milimeter one way or the other and she would have severed either a main artery or damaging nerves and tendons, potentially losing the usage of her hand. Doctor said, "you're lucky blood wasn't squirting all over your ceiling." I can't even imagine what would have happened if I were not there to tourniquet her arm and get her to the ER. All of this 2 weeks before our wedding.
Yeah, now the story is funny to tell, but at the time it was scary as fuck. Plus, do you know what it's like explaining to your family why your finance has a slashed open wrist 2 weeks before your wedding? Hah!
This packaging is ridiculous and needs to go.
Does iTunes 5 fix the issue where volume adjustment settings aren't transfered over to the iPod? A quiet song forces you to turn up the volume, and followed by a loud song, this can blow your eardrums! The only thing I truly HATE about my iTunes/iPod.
The blame here should be on the labels/artists, not ITunes. ITunes sends out seperate contracts for EACH area they serve. If the label/artist decides not to sign their EU contract, then their stuff won't be available there, and that's their fault.
I don't like this one bit.. form elements are part of the OS chrome, and shouldn't be messed with. Users grow accustomed to their native OS chrome, and as soon as you mess with that, you run into all sorts of UI problems.
Similar examples are IE's proprietary scroll bar stylings, and the fact that you can't style form elements in Safari. There's a reason why changing your scrollbar color or styling your submit buttons is bad.
As stupid as it may sound, things such as scrollbars, buttons, input boxes, etc, should remain the same across all appplications on the system. The checkboxes in my browser should be the same as the checkboxes in my spreadsheet editor.
You are forgetting that sound is more than just what you actually HEAR. While you might not be able to hear below 20Hz, you certainly can FEEL it. Go to a club with decent sound and you'll see how important it is to have frequencies in the spectrum that you can't even "hear."
The main is that XHTML really FORCES you (if you want your page to pass W3C validation) to seperate design from content in a way that facilitates the ease of updating pages.
A side effect of this is smaller filesizes. A recent conversion from HTML to XHTML+CSS for a client of mine brought their homepage size down from 25k to 9k. This to me is reason enough to use XHTML+CSS.
A side effect of this is better code/content ratio.... a side effect of this is better search engine placement.... a side effect of this is...
So using XHTML over HTML actually has a cascading (mind the pun) list of benefits, completely independant of the technical mumbo-jumbo of the whole "XHTML is supposed to be XML" stuff.
Several high-profile memory leak fixes were checked into the Trunk this week. Download a current nightly to see if it fixes your problem, or wait until 1.1 to see the patches in action.
Specifically, fixes were landed for these bugs (not linkified because bugzilla blocks slashdot as a referrer... copy and paste!):
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Yeah, and you're making, what, a paltry 2% or 3% on your deposit? How are all those rate cuts treating you now?
Care to give any specific examples of Obama's supposed corruptness?
So when does the 512GB iPhone come out?
The iPhone is for people like me who are tired of getting fucked in the ass by the phone companies and their providers. Even if iPhone is a flop, at least the competition has been put on notice, and we'll see that trickle down to the rest of us. Thank you Apple for throwing the industry a life preserver.
My wife nearly killed herself, literally, trying to open one of these plastic fortresses. It was an individually wrapped steak knife. She cut the plastic around the knife and began to pull the knife out by the handle (which was outside of the plastic), but it got stuck on the way out, jumped, and proceeded to slash her wrist about 5 inches long, from the middle of her palm to just past the wrist-bone. Took her to the ER where she proceeded to get 16 stitches and a "you were lucky" speech from the doctor. 1 milimeter one way or the other and she would have severed either a main artery or damaging nerves and tendons, potentially losing the usage of her hand. Doctor said, "you're lucky blood wasn't squirting all over your ceiling." I can't even imagine what would have happened if I were not there to tourniquet her arm and get her to the ER. All of this 2 weeks before our wedding. Yeah, now the story is funny to tell, but at the time it was scary as fuck. Plus, do you know what it's like explaining to your family why your finance has a slashed open wrist 2 weeks before your wedding? Hah! This packaging is ridiculous and needs to go.
This bugs the hell out of me too. I end up just manually re-adding any folder I move new music into.
Does iTunes 5 fix the issue where volume adjustment settings aren't transfered over to the iPod? A quiet song forces you to turn up the volume, and followed by a loud song, this can blow your eardrums! The only thing I truly HATE about my iTunes/iPod.
The blame here should be on the labels/artists, not ITunes. ITunes sends out seperate contracts for EACH area they serve. If the label/artist decides not to sign their EU contract, then their stuff won't be available there, and that's their fault.
Similar examples are IE's proprietary scroll bar stylings, and the fact that you can't style form elements in Safari. There's a reason why changing your scrollbar color or styling your submit buttons is bad.
As stupid as it may sound, things such as scrollbars, buttons, input boxes, etc, should remain the same across all appplications on the system. The checkboxes in my browser should be the same as the checkboxes in my spreadsheet editor.
You are forgetting that sound is more than just what you actually HEAR. While you might not be able to hear below 20Hz, you certainly can FEEL it. Go to a club with decent sound and you'll see how important it is to have frequencies in the spectrum that you can't even "hear."
The main is that XHTML really FORCES you (if you want your page to pass W3C validation) to seperate design from content in a way that facilitates the ease of updating pages.
A side effect of this is smaller filesizes. A recent conversion from HTML to XHTML+CSS for a client of mine brought their homepage size down from 25k to 9k. This to me is reason enough to use XHTML+CSS.
A side effect of this is better code/content ratio.... a side effect of this is better search engine placement.... a side effect of this is...
So using XHTML over HTML actually has a cascading (mind the pun) list of benefits, completely independant of the technical mumbo-jumbo of the whole "XHTML is supposed to be XML" stuff.
You can put PHP into your CSS and have Apache send all CSS files through the PHP parser. Put this in an .htaccess file:
<files somefile.css> .css
AddType application/x-httpd-php
</files>
And your CSS like this:
<? $border_color = #ccc; ?>
div.foo { border: 1px solid <?= $border_color ?>; }
div.bar { border: 2px solid <?= $border_color ?>; }
But then it ends up not really being CSS then, dunnit?
Yeah, and Mark Hamil's performance was just STELLAR.