Valid HTML, either because it validates on a validator against a popular SGML doctype (such as various W3C proposals) or because it conforms to a standard set of tags will not solve the problem.
The problem is usually due to use of platform specific scripting commands to serve content. You can write perfectly valid HTML for Firefox that fails to work on IE and vice versa.
the US [...] produces superior combat aircraft systems
I hope we will never be able to testify the validity of your claims (bombing defenseless countries does not validate them either) but Germany was the last country whose superiority on aircrafts was proven in war.
"Wasting electricity is an expensive pastime, no doubt"
Had your argument been ended there it would have been a much more interesting one.
Just because there are more difficult problems does not mean that we don't deal with anything else. Wasting energy is a bad thing and any effort to stop the waste should be taken seriously and not ignored on the grounds of politics.
Well, if China is still on planning stages, how come theirs will be the "world's first" since "similar devices [are] being developed in the other parts of the world" ???
From the day Symantec required that I install Internet Explorer on Windows 95 in order to run their system diagnostics software, they have been removed from my list of dependable companies.
System diagnostics and antivirii are useful applications, but not from Symantec.
It is in fact an excellent choice of a name. It will shock people who would not vote for it anyway (because they are not aware of what it's all about or have vested interests in I.P.) and cause a ruckus that is necessary for the press to take notice.
It was bound to happen. People are just sick of being hunted down because they copy music files. In 50 or 100 years, the whole I.P. thing will be seen in the same way we now see the feudal lords executing/imprisoning their subjects because they were hunting on their lands.
The US is getting itself irrelevant to these new freedoms and will be the last one to adjust because they have invested in the media industry more than anyone else but even them will have to adjust in the end.
This truly is the worst keyboard I've ever seen, but there are many awful keyboards in laptops these days. It seems fashionable in laptops to push space to half of its needed size to make room for windows keys and windows menu keys. Bizzare as it seems, my own keyboard has eaten up half of the left shift key to make room for a key that has both ">" and "" symbols although these symbols can also be found in their natural places in the bottom right side as well.
But now we have a truly consumer keyboard. Consumers don't need a lot of keys after all. They don't need a large space bar, they aren't going to write lots of text anyways so who cares? Space key go home and make room for "menu" keys and "windows" keys.
Is there anyone who makes keyboards as good as the heavy old IBM ones, with the soft clicking sound ?
Reading this thread on Slashdot is actually more revealing than the news itself. The issue is not about the validity of intelligent design. Personally I find intelligent design wrong and evolution right.
However I would prefer to leave my chilren's education to a teacher and not a judge.
There are good designers and bad designers. The people who make their living out of it, try to be good designers. Coders can have brilliant ideas about design, but from my experience they usually fail to do the entire job right. It is usually their creativity which leaps farther than it should, resulting in a reinvetion of the wheel, all the time.
I am still trying to figure whether the orchestrated attacks on GNOME are a results of behind the scenes activity or not. I am not sure, but I believe that since GNOME clarified itself as a part of the GNU project, using the GNU/Linux proposed nomenclature, some people seem to have been seriously irritated.
Unless you have a reason to attack GNU, I would ask you kindly to stop attacking GNOME.
"At one time the majority of people believed that slavery was acceptable"
And then, at a later time, people believed that slavery was unacceptable and thats how it ended.
This is the point of the original poster I believe; people don't think copying music is unethical that's why practically everybody with the means to do it is doing it.
Sir Clive Sinclair should have been mentioned in this article. A large number of Europeans have been introduced to computers with the Spectrum ZX and the Amstrad CPC series.
Well-designed sites seem to work well with the feature
Yes, good sites are usually based on the "em" metric, whose final size is defined by the user. And yes, I am the owner of such an LCD monitor with a very small pixel size in which badly written sites look really bad...
But the problem is that as long as we are stuck with bitmap images on sites, the relation between text and images will not allow liberal use of the "em" metric. Sometimes text has to be confounded in places defined by the size of images which fall outside the jurisdiction of the user's preferences...
For example, www.zeldman.com : you can change the size of the fonts, but only to the point allowed by the size of the heading graphics.
In a response to the earlier poster, (It's just not made easy enough for the average home user) and your point (uPNP is used by messaging software) -- Skype is so successful because it doesn't need uPNP to bypass NAT and firewalls and therefore it is so easy to use by the average home user who, most certainly, doesn't have the knowledge to configure either or a fully uPNP enabled system.
I've been using Skype for quite a long and before that I was using SpeakFreely. I love SpeakFreely, but I gave up on it on the fact that I was the only one (of a long list of friends & relatives with whom I speak over the internet) who knew how to use it and how to open ports to use it.
The Skype developers have drawn their experience in firewall bypassing by earlier endeavors in p2p technology. This is exactly why Skype has succeeded where MSN & Yahoo messengers have failed.
Slashdot Mirror
"A University is a place where you turn into an actual adult"
The Army does that.
A University turns you into a refined person however.
Valid HTML, either because it validates on a validator against a popular SGML doctype (such as various W3C proposals) or because it conforms to a standard set of tags will not solve the problem.
The problem is usually due to use of platform specific scripting commands to serve content. You can write perfectly valid HTML for Firefox that fails to work on IE and vice versa.
We know
Who is ``we,, ?
That's right, but have you noticed how very few people use these programming/scripting tools ?
the US [...] produces superior combat aircraft systems
I hope we will never be able to testify the validity of your claims (bombing defenseless countries does not validate them either) but Germany was the last country whose superiority on aircrafts was proven in war.
That reminds me...
:)
http://m.m.nu/nostalgi/sp011_bak2skool.gif
that one
"Wasting electricity is an expensive pastime, no doubt"
Had your argument been ended there it would have been a much more interesting one.
Just because there are more difficult problems does not mean that we don't deal with anything else. Wasting energy is a bad thing and any effort to stop the waste should be taken seriously and not ignored on the grounds of politics.
Well, if China is still on planning stages, how come theirs will be the "world's first" since "similar devices [are] being developed in the other parts of the world" ???
From the day Symantec required that I install Internet Explorer on Windows 95 in order to run their system diagnostics software, they have been removed from my list of dependable companies.
System diagnostics and antivirii are useful applications, but not from Symantec.
Earth is even now fully protected by ground batteries, marine barracks and tank batallions. I say it has nothing to fear from the Bulrathi!
Nah, by the time you have developed Core Waste Dump you would have developed Planetary Base, move to Mars and Terraform it :)
Well, admit however that if WINE didn't have this hole you would post an entirely different story on Slashdot :)
It is in fact an excellent choice of a name. It will shock people who would not vote for it anyway (because they are not aware of what it's all about or have vested interests in I.P.) and cause a ruckus that is necessary for the press to take notice.
It was bound to happen. People are just sick of being hunted down because they copy music files. In 50 or 100 years, the whole I.P. thing will be seen in the same way we now see the feudal lords executing/imprisoning their subjects because they were hunting on their lands.
The US is getting itself irrelevant to these new freedoms and will be the last one to adjust because they have invested in the media industry more than anyone else but even them will have to adjust in the end.
It's simply inevitable.
Actually it's not that one. The one I am talking about what a little "enter" key in the bottom right side of the main key section.
These were keyboards made for terminals with that strange VM/SP system.
Of course they could be the same construction with the one you linked...
This truly is the worst keyboard I've ever seen, but there are many awful keyboards in laptops these days. It seems fashionable in laptops to push space to half of its needed size to make room for windows keys and windows menu keys. Bizzare as it seems, my own keyboard has eaten up half of the left shift key to make room for a key that has both ">" and "" symbols although these symbols can also be found in their natural places in the bottom right side as well.
But now we have a truly consumer keyboard. Consumers don't need a lot of keys after all. They don't need a large space bar, they aren't going to write lots of text anyways so who cares? Space key go home and make room for "menu" keys and "windows" keys.
Is there anyone who makes keyboards as good as the heavy old IBM ones, with the soft clicking sound ?
Reading this thread on Slashdot is actually more revealing than the news itself. The issue is not about the validity of intelligent design. Personally I find intelligent design wrong and evolution right.
However I would prefer to leave my chilren's education to a teacher and not a judge.
There are good designers and bad designers. The people who make their living out of it, try to be good designers. Coders can have brilliant ideas about design, but from my experience they usually fail to do the entire job right. It is usually their creativity which leaps farther than it should, resulting in a reinvetion of the wheel, all the time.
I am still trying to figure whether the orchestrated attacks on GNOME are a results of behind the scenes activity or not. I am not sure, but I believe that since GNOME clarified itself as a part of the GNU project, using the GNU/Linux proposed nomenclature, some people seem to have been seriously irritated.
Unless you have a reason to attack GNU, I would ask you kindly to stop attacking GNOME.
"At one time the majority of people believed that slavery was acceptable"
And then, at a later time, people believed that slavery was unacceptable and thats how it ended.
This is the point of the original poster I believe; people don't think copying music is unethical that's why practically everybody with the means to do it is doing it.
And that's why the laws will change.
Sir Clive Sinclair should have been mentioned in this article. A large number of Europeans have been introduced to computers with the Spectrum ZX and the Amstrad CPC series.
Well-designed sites seem to work well with the feature
Yes, good sites are usually based on the "em" metric, whose final size is defined by the user. And yes, I am the owner of such an LCD monitor with a very small pixel size in which badly written sites look really bad...
But the problem is that as long as we are stuck with bitmap images on sites, the relation between text and images will not allow liberal use of the "em" metric. Sometimes text has to be confounded in places defined by the size of images which fall outside the jurisdiction of the user's preferences...
For example, www.zeldman.com : you can change the size of the fonts, but only to the point allowed by the size of the heading graphics.
Programmers: I will boycott all Alexa-sponsored products
Oh, don't be so harsh, we are shuddering.
Oh. Another article about the future of HTML specifications that fails to validate:
h ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww-128.ibm.com%2Fdeveloperworks%2Flib rary%2Fx-futhtml1%2F%3Fca%3Ddgr-lnxw01FutureHTML&w arnings=yes
http://www.htmlhelp.org/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=
Enough said.
Don't take this article seriously. Instead of pursuing 3D appliances in web pages your time will much better be invested in playing a 3D game.
Stage 1: Embrace
In a response to the earlier poster, (It's just not made easy enough for the average home user) and your point (uPNP is used by messaging software) -- Skype is so successful because it doesn't need uPNP to bypass NAT and firewalls and therefore it is so easy to use by the average home user who, most certainly, doesn't have the knowledge to configure either or a fully uPNP enabled system.
I've been using Skype for quite a long and before that I was using SpeakFreely. I love SpeakFreely, but I gave up on it on the fact that I was the only one (of a long list of friends & relatives with whom I speak over the internet) who knew how to use it and how to open ports to use it.
The Skype developers have drawn their experience in firewall bypassing by earlier endeavors in p2p technology. This is exactly why Skype has succeeded where MSN & Yahoo messengers have failed.
I'm actually interested in what, specifically, is lacking in OpenOffice.
You are not and it is in fact people like you that have doomed OOo to be the mediocrity it is.
Read this and you might get some enlightenment as to what is "lacking". But I doubt that.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/