Do we really need a new story posted to/. everytime Dvorak (or Cringely, et al) write yet another piece that has no new information, is filled with their personal opinions, and has only a loose relationship with reality?
Yeah, I know, why should they be treated differently than everyone else, but still didn't the comments of these profesional blow-holes become irrelevant years ago?
I have to admit, I'm just a little skeptical about the hardware folks motivation. If net neutrality falls by the wayside and ISPs start charging content companies for packet transport, the natural question is how will they keep track of who owes what?
The answer: new and more expensive hardware. Big suprise that the hardware vendors are very interested in net neutrality dissappearing.
Yeah, as opposed to the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, or the Talmud. Those aren't wishy-washy at all, and of course they are all correct, even when they contradict each other or themselves.
I use Dreamweaver as well, and faced the same problem when I first started using it years ago. What you want to do is go into Edit > Preferences > Code Rewriting and deselect everything you don't want it to do. In addition, I also always turn off the auto close tag option under 'Code Hints' on the same dialog menu.
Dreamweaver is actually very capable of turning out standards compliant and accessiblity friendly code, it just needs a little tweaking when dealing with less than clueful users. Macromedia [now Adobe] had been fairly responsive to the concerns of the standards community, specifically The Web Standards Project which had a task force focusing on just Dreamweaver and standards compliance.
Don't shows like 'Without a Trace' show at least one grisly muder/vicious attack/other non-PG violent behavior every show? But somehow that's okay and the mildly suggestive sex party scene (yes, only mildly - no frontal nudity, quick scene cuts, etc.) is worth a multimillion dollar fine? I'm sorry, but as a parent, I worry far more about the cavalier attitude we in the U.S. have about violence on screen [to the point where it is almost a fetish] than horny kids getting it on.
Horny kids getting it on is older than our species and we've all done it [well, at least some of us on/. have], but multiple drive-bys, serial rape, and grisly muder scenes are not something most of our ancestors would come across very often. Whereas now, you can see a couple dozen a night if you're channel surfing.
I'm not saying violence on TV is 'bad', just that it is a lot more damaging to young viewers than a poorly shot teen sex romp that most young kids wouldn't understand and that their parents should have been allowing them to watch anyway.
Blogging, as with many concepts, sounds great in theory. Unfettered information and opinions blasting across the 'net and all that. However, in practice, as with most other forms of journalism it just means a bunch of lazy people passing off information from others. Whether it is from WalMart or the New York Times hardly matters. And yes (speaking as a recovering journalist), I count blogging as journalism. It's just the modern equivalent of Poor Richard's Almanac. Unfortunately, most bloggers (and modern journalists) can't compare with Ben Franklin. Of course, if he was still around and was a blogger, I can only imagine the lack of restraints (having to set type tended to make people actually think about what they were writing before they printed it) would mean his blog would be crap too.
"Hype" is short for "hyperbole," and thus already implies an exaggeration or embellishment. It is redundant for something to be "over-hyped." Might as well say "frigidly cold" or "homeland security."
Alleged rapist Mike Roesopht and his lawyers today said that the judge presiding over his trial has been acting in collusion with his accusers. "Everyday the judge just flaunts the fact that he's listening to my accusers and their technical experts" Rowsoft is reported as saying. When asked if the judge in the case had been ignoring Mr. Roesopht, he replied that "Well, there was a bunch of evidence that he asked for, but I didn't feel like giving it to him. After all, then he'd convict my ass. And besides, the evidence is mine, all mine!" Immediately after this statement, the defendant got up and started throwing chairs.
Yes, and pure carbon won't hurt you either normally, but in nanoparticle form, the body can't deal with it. A study last year reported that carbon buckyball molecules in water caused brain damage in fish. The same types of problems have been shown to be true for gold, zinc oxide (commonly used in sunscreen products), and others.
Nanoparticle materials are much more chemically reactive than their naturally occuring counterparts. This is one of the reasons to use them in the first place, but is also why they can be exceedingly dangerous.
More and more information is coming to light that materials that are normally harmless can be extremely hazardous when distributed on a nanoparticle scale. Quoting from a recent Washington Post article:
Animal studies have shown that at least some can cause deadly airway blockages or can migrate from nasal passages into the brain and other organs, where they may cause metabolic problems. Other studies suggest they can trigger environmental damage that would be difficult to reverse once the minuscule particles disperse into soil and water.
So when all this nifty paint starts flaking off and nanoparticles of copper start setting up shop in your organs, are we going to have to go through something like the whole asbestos abatement process again? Don't get me wrong, I'm as excited about the potential of nanoparticles and nanotech in general, but it seems we should be figuring out how to control this before we start figuring out how to use it.
You almost made half a point. Yes, it's called the Internet, but going online to buy a boxed version of a game, and having it shipped to you is just as stupid as driving to the store yourself. I think the point Moore was making was that the idea of selling games on media to be shipped around like a box of widgets is what is laughable, as you can just download the game and play it.
People slam Valve all the time, but thanks to Steam, I got Half-life 2 and the entire Half-life catalog of games for the price of one game, all without having to have a single game on CD. Some may not like it, but I call it a deal.
Games on CDs (and indeed any software on CDs) will be thought of as words hand-chiseled on stone tablets by future generations.
There should be a way to deliver (in the same mission)astronauts to the location that would deliver the most scientific benefit, and also deliver an instrument package to the other location. It is not rocket scie... hmm, never mind.
I'm just wondering if anyone else here has loaded up the beta and noticed how many websites don't render correctly (or even in the same incorrect way IE 6 rendered them)?
All of the websites I maintain are XHTML 1.0 Trans and CSS2 compliant, and render great in non-IE browsers, okay in IE 6, and look very broken in IE 7. I'm using a few "* html" type hacks, and only one IE specific hack
to control the page size, and no specialized css for specific browsers.
It appears to me that MS intends to break all the hacks developers have used to create standard-compliant code that still works in IE, but without fixing the lack of CSS support that made those hacks necessary. Oh how I hate them!:)
Yes, and the US government didn't "bow to Bejing" when we granted them Most Favored Nation trade status?
Oh, and the global community didn't give in by giving China the 2008 Olympics?
When it comes to China, those in power always follow the as-yet-unrealized dollar signs, and fold like a cheap suit. They make noises about how "working" with China will be the best route to a more free and democratic country, but all China does is that it takes everyone's money, enriching those in power, and everyone else there just has a better and more expensive boot on their necks.
For those in Congress to complain about how private companies are giving in to China's demands is like Microsoft complaining about how some other company's code isn't open enough.
I did RTFA, but it wasn't clear to me how exactly the color tests were being used to judge perception. What interests me is that other studies have shown that those populations who historically have lived nearer the equator have eyes that filter greens and blues differently than do other ethnic populations who lived further north or south (the pigments in the eyes are different, causing those in climes with less sunlight to usually have lighter colored eyes). I would be interested in seeing this experiment done again, but based on evaluations of something like blue and green that might actually be seen differently by different ethnic populations.
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Whoever modded me down as offtopic needs an attitude adjustment, or if humourous asides posted in/. are now offtopic, we might as well shut the damn server off now as that's 95% of the posts.
This has to be one of the most asinine comments I've seen. What value does the content have if nobody can find it? I run a website for a nonprofit company that is utterly dependent on it for its relationships with customers and the general public, and while our customer's know where to find us, the general public usually does not. If you don't want people to find your website, or the content available on it, why have it up? Hell, if you don't won't search engines listing it, look into a little something called robots.txt.
What else but wood? If it was good enough for the cows in a Far Side comic, it is good enough for me. Besides, the cows must know something or why else would the aliens keep mutilating them?
When a legal investigation or action reaches some sort of determination, stock prices often increase, as some people will always bet that the outcome will be worse than it actually is, and so people are willing to then jump back in. The stock market is not a good judge of a company's future, as like betting on horse racing or roulette, everyone has a "system" that they think will let them win. It's all just gambling.
Why does it have to be "Windows XP or the XBox"? Can't it be both? Actually, if you throw in Office XP, MS Exchange, and every other MS product, can't it apply to all of them?
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Do we really need a new story posted to /. everytime Dvorak (or Cringely, et al) write yet another piece that has no new information, is filled with their personal opinions, and has only a loose relationship with reality?
Yeah, I know, why should they be treated differently than everyone else, but still didn't the comments of these profesional blow-holes become irrelevant years ago?
I have to admit, I'm just a little skeptical about the hardware folks motivation. If net neutrality falls by the wayside and ISPs start charging content companies for packet transport, the natural question is how will they keep track of who owes what?
The answer: new and more expensive hardware. Big suprise that the hardware vendors are very interested in net neutrality dissappearing.
Yeah, as opposed to the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, or the Talmud. Those aren't wishy-washy at all, and of course they are all correct, even when they contradict each other or themselves.
Welcome to metaphysics you idiot.
For all those who might be interested, check out how the Target website does on some common standards and accessibility tools:
And of course, check out the source code . . . it's pretty horrendous.
I use Dreamweaver as well, and faced the same problem when I first started using it years ago. What you want to do is go into Edit > Preferences > Code Rewriting and deselect everything you don't want it to do. In addition, I also always turn off the auto close tag option under 'Code Hints' on the same dialog menu.
Dreamweaver is actually very capable of turning out standards compliant and accessiblity friendly code, it just needs a little tweaking when dealing with less than clueful users. Macromedia [now Adobe] had been fairly responsive to the concerns of the standards community, specifically The Web Standards Project which had a task force focusing on just Dreamweaver and standards compliance.
Don't shows like 'Without a Trace' show at least one grisly muder/vicious attack/other non-PG violent behavior every show? But somehow that's okay and the mildly suggestive sex party scene (yes, only mildly - no frontal nudity, quick scene cuts, etc.) is worth a multimillion dollar fine? I'm sorry, but as a parent, I worry far more about the cavalier attitude we in the U.S. have about violence on screen [to the point where it is almost a fetish] than horny kids getting it on.
/. have], but multiple drive-bys, serial rape, and grisly muder scenes are not something most of our ancestors would come across very often. Whereas now, you can see a couple dozen a night if you're channel surfing.
Horny kids getting it on is older than our species and we've all done it [well, at least some of us on
I'm not saying violence on TV is 'bad', just that it is a lot more damaging to young viewers than a poorly shot teen sex romp that most young kids wouldn't understand and that their parents should have been allowing them to watch anyway.
Won't they just be hungry again in an hour after eating the stryofoam that my Chinese takeout came in?
Blogging, as with many concepts, sounds great in theory. Unfettered information and opinions blasting across the 'net and all that. However, in practice, as with most other forms of journalism it just means a bunch of lazy people passing off information from others. Whether it is from WalMart or the New York Times hardly matters. And yes (speaking as a recovering journalist), I count blogging as journalism. It's just the modern equivalent of Poor Richard's Almanac. Unfortunately, most bloggers (and modern journalists) can't compare with Ben Franklin. Of course, if he was still around and was a blogger, I can only imagine the lack of restraints (having to set type tended to make people actually think about what they were writing before they printed it) would mean his blog would be crap too.
"Hype" is short for "hyperbole," and thus already implies an exaggeration or embellishment. It is redundant for something to be "over-hyped." Might as well say "frigidly cold" or "homeland security."
Dateline: European Union, March 2
Alleged rapist Mike Roesopht and his lawyers today said that the judge presiding over his trial has been acting in collusion with his accusers. "Everyday the judge just flaunts the fact that he's listening to my accusers and their technical experts" Rowsoft is reported as saying. When asked if the judge in the case had been ignoring Mr. Roesopht, he replied that "Well, there was a bunch of evidence that he asked for, but I didn't feel like giving it to him. After all, then he'd convict my ass. And besides, the evidence is mine, all mine!" Immediately after this statement, the defendant got up and started throwing chairs.
Yes, and pure carbon won't hurt you either normally, but in nanoparticle form, the body can't deal with it. A study last year reported that carbon buckyball molecules in water caused brain damage in fish. The same types of problems have been shown to be true for gold, zinc oxide (commonly used in sunscreen products), and others.
Nanoparticle materials are much more chemically reactive than their naturally occuring counterparts. This is one of the reasons to use them in the first place, but is also why they can be exceedingly dangerous.
More and more information is coming to light that materials that are normally harmless can be extremely hazardous when distributed on a nanoparticle scale. Quoting from a recent Washington Post article:
So when all this nifty paint starts flaking off and nanoparticles of copper start setting up shop in your organs, are we going to have to go through something like the whole asbestos abatement process again? Don't get me wrong, I'm as excited about the potential of nanoparticles and nanotech in general, but it seems we should be figuring out how to control this before we start figuring out how to use it.
So evidently /. is no longer "news for nerds. stuff that matters." but instead is "cranks with axes to grind. Rants that have no value."
You almost made half a point. Yes, it's called the Internet, but going online to buy a boxed version of a game, and having it shipped to you is just as stupid as driving to the store yourself. I think the point Moore was making was that the idea of selling games on media to be shipped around like a box of widgets is what is laughable, as you can just download the game and play it.
People slam Valve all the time, but thanks to Steam, I got Half-life 2 and the entire Half-life catalog of games for the price of one game, all without having to have a single game on CD. Some may not like it, but I call it a deal.
Games on CDs (and indeed any software on CDs) will be thought of as words hand-chiseled on stone tablets by future generations.
Jason
There should be a way to deliver (in the same mission)astronauts to the location that would deliver the most scientific benefit, and also deliver an instrument package to the other location. It is not rocket scie ... hmm, never mind.
All of the websites I maintain are XHTML 1.0 Trans and CSS2 compliant, and render great in non-IE browsers, okay in IE 6, and look very broken in IE 7. I'm using a few "* html" type hacks, and only one IE specific hack to control the page size, and no specialized css for specific browsers.
It appears to me that MS intends to break all the hacks developers have used to create standard-compliant code that still works in IE, but without fixing the lack of CSS support that made those hacks necessary. Oh how I hate them!
Yes, and the US government didn't "bow to Bejing" when we granted them Most Favored Nation trade status?
Oh, and the global community didn't give in by giving China the 2008 Olympics?
When it comes to China, those in power always follow the as-yet-unrealized dollar signs, and fold like a cheap suit. They make noises about how "working" with China will be the best route to a more free and democratic country, but all China does is that it takes everyone's money, enriching those in power, and everyone else there just has a better and more expensive boot on their necks.
For those in Congress to complain about how private companies are giving in to China's demands is like Microsoft complaining about how some other company's code isn't open enough.
I did RTFA, but it wasn't clear to me how exactly the color tests were being used to judge perception. What interests me is that other studies have shown that those populations who historically have lived nearer the equator have eyes that filter greens and blues differently than do other ethnic populations who lived further north or south (the pigments in the eyes are different, causing those in climes with less sunlight to usually have lighter colored eyes). I would be interested in seeing this experiment done again, but based on evaluations of something like blue and green that might actually be seen differently by different ethnic populations.
Whoever modded me down as offtopic needs an attitude adjustment, or if humourous asides posted in /. are now offtopic, we might as well shut the damn server off now as that's 95% of the posts.
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Guess someone doesn't like Mondays
Mono . . . Aw, it's not for you. It's more of a Shelbyville idea.
Maybe 640K and a 10MB hard drive is enough for everyone :)
This has to be one of the most asinine comments I've seen. What value does the content have if nobody can find it? I run a website for a nonprofit company that is utterly dependent on it for its relationships with customers and the general public, and while our customer's know where to find us, the general public usually does not. If you don't want people to find your website, or the content available on it, why have it up? Hell, if you don't won't search engines listing it, look into a little something called robots.txt.
What else but wood? If it was good enough for the cows in a Far Side comic, it is good enough for me. Besides, the cows must know something or why else would the aliens keep mutilating them?
When a legal investigation or action reaches some sort of determination, stock prices often increase, as some people will always bet that the outcome will be worse than it actually is, and so people are willing to then jump back in. The stock market is not a good judge of a company's future, as like betting on horse racing or roulette, everyone has a "system" that they think will let them win. It's all just gambling.
Why does it have to be "Windows XP or the XBox"? Can't it be both? Actually, if you throw in Office XP, MS Exchange, and every other MS product, can't it apply to all of them?