IE7 will require later versions of Windows, including Service Pack 2 of XP, while Opera, Firefox and Flock will run on Macintosh, Linux and older Windows machines as well.
New Firefox will indeed run on older Windows machines, assuming you mean either 2000 or XP.
[blockquote]The case mod will also be featured in the next edition of the Official Xbox Magazine UK."[/blockquote]So the "official" mag is going to advise its readers on a fancy way to scuttle their warranties?
Aging fighter pilots can now remain in the cockpit longer, reducing annual recruiting needs.
Is this really that good an idea? My late grandmother, whose cruising speed topped off at around 25 MPH, once had a blinker light going for three whole Presidential administrations.
Too much of any light can irreversibly damage the eye. UV is only more dangerous bacause we can't normally see it, so the pupil doesn't automatically contract to block it as it does with the visible spectrum. That's why sunglasses have to block UV to be safe.. if they only blocked the visible spectrum, your pupils would dilate due to less visible light, and they'd be letting in tons more of the UV than usual.
It was first released on VHS in the late 80s sometime, 87 or 88 I believe, and stores couldn't hope to keep them on shelves for quite a while. I remember pretty much everyone getting or giving a copy as a gift that holiday season. It was an odd tape, black with a green flap, and it was the closest thing to a killer app that VHS had, at least in my area.
TFA: "Once a scanning laser and photodetector located a video camera, the system would flash a thin beam of visible white light directly at the CCD. This beam - possibly a laser in a commercial version - would overwhelm the target camera with light, rendering recorded video unusable."
Visible light would screw up the whole "darkened theater" concept, would it not? How irritating would it be to try and watch a movie with Laser Floyd going on all around you?
"Researchers say that energy levels used to neutralize cameras would be low enough to preclude any health risks to the operator."
And how safe is it for the person whose contact lenses are mistaken for camera lenses, who gets a pair of beams to the eyeballs? Or the person with a particularly shiny shirt button, which reflects the beam into someone else? Additionally, how complex would the system have to be to cover every geometric point in a room, and also detect lenses behind filters or one-way mirrors?
This whole thing seems way too dangerous and impractical to even think about commercial use yet.
No joke. You'd think they'd dig up some killer app for this stuff, but instead we get a substandard action movie, a junky Drew Barrymore chick flick, and cult French scifi flick (which I personally love, but which isn't exactly a must-upgrade title for Joe Sixpack.) Why wouldn't they use some Criterion-level classic that's available on high-quality masters, and that everyone wants? Doesn't anyone else remember how many VCRs were sold by "E.T." in the 1980s?
The creator of Lotus Notus, he's a high calibre technologist.
Not only is he a technologist, he's a great scientician and an award-winning engineeringer. His unfailicating leaderostimation and efficientistic directionating of Microsoft's profusical resources will undoubtingly work for the betterificationating of all humanitism.
If it's something I can burn to disc and watch forever after buying once, I'd be into it as well for $9.99. If nothing else, it's worth it to get rid of the hassle of renaming "X.-Men_-_3_-_.ws.cam.dvdrip.xvid.mp3.divx.vcd.tmd .rsvp.cod.0u812.turk182.subs.dubs.tubs.releazed.by .fr0d0.da.man.[downloaded.form.somefreakingtorrent site.net].(1.of.1).pls.seed.omg.kthx.avi" to "X-Men 3.avi".
With a little effort, we can swap out these weak lights with high-intensity lasers! I've always wanted a lappy with a "Real Genius" death ray. Plus, I could use it to make popcorn.
Playing violent videogames never made me want to shoot anyone.
Listening to violent music never made me want to stab anybody.
Reading a violent book or watching a violent film never made me want to go out and hurt anyone in any way.
Fearmongering idiots getting ridiculous laws made, on the other hand, would seriously test my limits were I not reasonably confident of this eventually getting struck back down by someone with half a brain.
Yes, I should have mentioned that on top of everything else, Myspace has their own mutant spec. Such fun..
Non-structural markup - it's everybody's fault.
on
A New Search for MySpace
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Just to shed a little light on the awful markup..
To customize your MySpace profile at all, you need to basically type up a full stylesheet to ovverride the existing one. Not only that, but you have to type it into your "biography" infobox, where it'll load with your normal text and be chomped by the browser. As soon as your browser is done completely spacking out at the multiple nonstandard chunks of info being thrown at it from directions not normally expected, it digests it all into something almost, but not entirely, unlike a webpage.
Now obviously, the kids on Myspace by and large aren't web designers, and even if they take that HTML 101 class in middle school, they aren't going to be the type to slap together a stylesheet from scratch, much less hack one out to Myspace specs. These are the users more comfortable with something like Geocities or Livejournal use, where you can intuitively point-and-click your way through a few templates and customize them to your heart's content. However, Myspace is pretty much uncostomizable unless you use a stylesheet.
So, the kids who want to customize but can't stomach the various CSS tutorials long enough to misuse that information for evil, turn to a few services that have come up which generate a myspace stylesheet for you point-and-click style, but also insert ads for themselves into the code, which is usually dodgy code to begin with. And that's alongside Myspace's normal pervasive ads, which are annoying and usually badly scripted.
Then we get to the music and video gadgets MySpace uses, these bloated chunks of Flash that load more bandwidth-and-resource-sucking garbage, usually immediately on page load. Add to this the Google Video, Youtube, Imageshack, and about 47 billion other third-party content hosts, each with their own scripts, cookies, and bugs to add to the page, and their own bandwidth to suck. And on top of all that, Myspace is constantly pushing the bounds of its own resources, so if your page does manage to load at all, some important bits might not show up.
And this all doesn't even begin to take into account the natural result of non-web-designers designing webpages with no templates or handholding. The overloads of stupid gifs (and I love my own animated gifs so very very much, but have some limits, people!) horrible auto-loading music and video (I admit to embedding MIDIs into web pages in the early 90s, I'm still paying for that karmically. For example, this morning I woke up with my ears infested with fire ants. Lesson=learned!) and neon-green-text-on-bright-yellow-background-itis.
So basically, the site is broken by design, broken by its lack of resources, with a broken implementation further broken by its users.
Jeez, CNN! Don't tell them why Ballmer should leave!! It's much more fun for us spectators to watch him flail around inneffectually while his empire crumbles.
What's next, sending CNN field reporters to the kids' library to point out where Waldo is? Maybe that guy who shouts Harry Potter spoilers at children works for CNN as well.
This is definitely a good thing, as I've known GMs who need the convenience of e-books badly enough that they either scan the whole thing themselves or (ahem) find another source of a scanned copy It's definitely one of the reasons I mainly GM from digital source material. But, why no discount? That's pretty inexcusable.
IANAL, but isn't this is a normal step for the ITC to take if you're in a big patent dispute? It seems to me Creative is trumpeting it as a minor victory press releases, while the ITC is just following their normal procedure in gathering facts for the judge. Am I wrong?
Slashdot Mirror
Why the curly brackets? Those things get on my damn nerves.
[blockquote]The case mod will also be featured in the next edition of the Official Xbox Magazine UK."[/blockquote]So the "official" mag is going to advise its readers on a fancy way to scuttle their warranties?
You again? Crap!
*shoots self through other cheek*
Too much of any light can irreversibly damage the eye. UV is only more dangerous bacause we can't normally see it, so the pupil doesn't automatically contract to block it as it does with the visible spectrum. That's why sunglasses have to block UV to be safe.. if they only blocked the visible spectrum, your pupils would dilate due to less visible light, and they'd be letting in tons more of the UV than usual.
If we're clawing our way out of the muck after doomsday, we're going to have a hard enough time getting to the Arctic, much less the Moon.
It was first released on VHS in the late 80s sometime, 87 or 88 I believe, and stores couldn't hope to keep them on shelves for quite a while. I remember pretty much everyone getting or giving a copy as a gift that holiday season. It was an odd tape, black with a green flap, and it was the closest thing to a killer app that VHS had, at least in my area.
This whole thing seems way too dangerous and impractical to even think about commercial use yet.
And when you're done with that, could you put my video of "M*A*S*H" up on the third shelf?
So what new and exciting effects will we get when these fancy new butterflies flap their wings?
No joke. You'd think they'd dig up some killer app for this stuff, but instead we get a substandard action movie, a junky Drew Barrymore chick flick, and cult French scifi flick (which I personally love, but which isn't exactly a must-upgrade title for Joe Sixpack.) Why wouldn't they use some Criterion-level classic that's available on high-quality masters, and that everyone wants? Doesn't anyone else remember how many VCRs were sold by "E.T." in the 1980s?
If it's something I can burn to disc and watch forever after buying once, I'd be into it as well for $9.99. If nothing else, it's worth it to get rid of the hassle of renaming "X.-Men_-_3_-_.ws.cam.dvdrip.xvid.mp3.divx.vcd.tmd .rsvp.cod.0u812.turk182.subs.dubs.tubs.releazed.by .fr0d0.da.man.[downloaded.form.somefreakingtorrent site.net].(1.of.1).pls.seed.omg.kthx.avi" to "X-Men 3.avi".
With a little effort, we can swap out these weak lights with high-intensity lasers! I've always wanted a lappy with a "Real Genius" death ray. Plus, I could use it to make popcorn.
Ten bucks says they find a way to lead Google away in handcuffs.
Playing violent videogames never made me want to shoot anyone.
Listening to violent music never made me want to stab anybody.
Reading a violent book or watching a violent film never made me want to go out and hurt anyone in any way.
Fearmongering idiots getting ridiculous laws made, on the other hand, would seriously test my limits were I not reasonably confident of this eventually getting struck back down by someone with half a brain.
Yes, I should have mentioned that on top of everything else, Myspace has their own mutant spec. Such fun..
Just to shed a little light on the awful markup..
To customize your MySpace profile at all, you need to basically type up a full stylesheet to ovverride the existing one. Not only that, but you have to type it into your "biography" infobox, where it'll load with your normal text and be chomped by the browser. As soon as your browser is done completely spacking out at the multiple nonstandard chunks of info being thrown at it from directions not normally expected, it digests it all into something almost, but not entirely, unlike a webpage.
Now obviously, the kids on Myspace by and large aren't web designers, and even if they take that HTML 101 class in middle school, they aren't going to be the type to slap together a stylesheet from scratch, much less hack one out to Myspace specs. These are the users more comfortable with something like Geocities or Livejournal use, where you can intuitively point-and-click your way through a few templates and customize them to your heart's content. However, Myspace is pretty much uncostomizable unless you use a stylesheet.
So, the kids who want to customize but can't stomach the various CSS tutorials long enough to misuse that information for evil, turn to a few services that have come up which generate a myspace stylesheet for you point-and-click style, but also insert ads for themselves into the code, which is usually dodgy code to begin with. And that's alongside Myspace's normal pervasive ads, which are annoying and usually badly scripted.
Then we get to the music and video gadgets MySpace uses, these bloated chunks of Flash that load more bandwidth-and-resource-sucking garbage, usually immediately on page load. Add to this the Google Video, Youtube, Imageshack, and about 47 billion other third-party content hosts, each with their own scripts, cookies, and bugs to add to the page, and their own bandwidth to suck. And on top of all that, Myspace is constantly pushing the bounds of its own resources, so if your page does manage to load at all, some important bits might not show up.
And this all doesn't even begin to take into account the natural result of non-web-designers designing webpages with no templates or handholding. The overloads of stupid gifs (and I love my own animated gifs so very very much, but have some limits, people!) horrible auto-loading music and video (I admit to embedding MIDIs into web pages in the early 90s, I'm still paying for that karmically. For example, this morning I woke up with my ears infested with fire ants. Lesson=learned!) and neon-green-text-on-bright-yellow-background-itis.
So basically, the site is broken by design, broken by its lack of resources, with a broken implementation further broken by its users.
Other than that, it's sound as a pound.
Neptune uses Trojans to guard against Spatially Transmitted Debris.
Jeez, CNN! Don't tell them why Ballmer should leave!! It's much more fun for us spectators to watch him flail around inneffectually while his empire crumbles.
What's next, sending CNN field reporters to the kids' library to point out where Waldo is? Maybe that guy who shouts Harry Potter spoilers at children works for CNN as well.
This is definitely a good thing, as I've known GMs who need the convenience of e-books badly enough that they either scan the whole thing themselves or (ahem) find another source of a scanned copy It's definitely one of the reasons I mainly GM from digital source material. But, why no discount? That's pretty inexcusable.
Neat! If I had a time machine, I could retroactively sue the arse off of Ars for ripping my post.
IANAL, but isn't this is a normal step for the ITC to take if you're in a big patent dispute? It seems to me Creative is trumpeting it as a minor victory press releases, while the ITC is just following their normal procedure in gathering facts for the judge. Am I wrong?