[QUOTE]You'd have to learn about ALL KINDS of artsy stuff, things like using color palettes to your advantage, fairly advanced typography (most people have NO idea how much stuff there is to learn right there), how to make visually appealing stuff in general, how to use white space properly, and so much more.[/QUOTE]
It about 4 hours or so, you can learn the basics of typography and color theory- to the point where you can discern a Grotesque from an Egyptian and a triadic from a complementary. From there, the learning bootstraps itself to a certain extent. You view notice certain color schemes and see why they work, you note certain great font combinations and detect poor use of whitespace and generally learn by surfing around.
I think it is sometimes quite useful to be able to knock up some graphics without going to a designer. It is nice not to have another person on your critical path. For example, if a client wants to see a prototype of a site, it would be good to be able to knock up the equivalent of the Slashdot banner without having to brief the artist and wait for him/her to do it.
... is that of sufficiently advanced technology. To them IT is essentially magic. If the magic breaks and can't be fixed, it is because the magician is disinclined or because the magician isn't good enough. There are no constraints on magic, after all.
That's just it of course: Pegasus was a great product for its time, but has failed to keep up with competitors. Nearly everyone has already switched over to Thunderbird or something else. Pegasus is being replaced by technologically superior products, and now the developer can't find anyone willing to pay him to develop it anymore.
How do you evaluate technological superiority? Pegasus has a far superior feature set to Thunderbird and does it with far less memory.
The problem with Pegasus is the marketing. There isn't any. Few people have heard of it and even fewer are given reasons to try it. It is much like Opera in that although it is just as good, it lacks market share for reasons that have nothing to do with the actual product.
"Gentoo is shit, it won't install why not?"
And invariably the problem is covered by items 1 and 2 of the FAQ. Invariably, there will be a chorus of RTFM and invariably the inquirer will tell 10 people about the Gentoo snobs that told him to fuck off. It is a pattern as ageless as the seasons.
Depending on third party code and libraries is absolutely foolish, however the majority of programmers expect a free lunch when it comes to writing applications and expect someone else to do all the work for them, then wonder why things go wrong.
So you're badmouthing java, even though it allows for cross-platform 3rd party libraries without even a recompilation. The problem with rolling your own is that it diminishes productivity, increases the complexity of your code and introduces more bugs than you'd otherwise have.
all it does is waste system resources and ecourage you to depend on inefficient and probably broken classes written by other people.
Yes, you could take that view. Or you might conclude that libraries supported by fulltime developers and used by millions of people would actually be more reliable than anything could produce.
"which is also exacerbated by the fact that text layers are rasterized immediately"
Actually, you have to choose "Discard Text Information" for that to happen. You can edit the text layer if it is still just text.
It seems like CSS does OK for fixed layouts but if you want to have a 200 pixel left sidebar and leave the rest of the page for content, I just can't figure out how to do it and have it look as nice as a simple table-driven layout.
Simple? You have tags nested three deep to display two things. It is certainly a simpler mental model though. An x,y grid is easier to grasp than the layout of boxes according to floats, clears and positioning.
For a 2 col layout:
<body>
<div style="width:200px;float:left;background-color:pin k">Navbar</div>
<div style="margin-left: 210px;background-color:gray"> This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.
`At any rate I'll never go there again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. `It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!'</div>
Given the number of rendering bugs (bugs, not compliance WTFs) observable in IE compared to those in Firefox, it'd be a rather safe assumption. Also, the download for IE is 25 fcuking meg. More code = more bugs. Besides, after developing for it for a while you just know, you just fcuking know.
ef eye are ee bee eye are dee. A very good database that doesn't give the impression it has been scotch taped together by monkeys. Nice permissive licence, feature rich, reliable. firebirdsql.org
It's too bad that the foisting of immorality upon America is done under the guise of "creative control". Not everybody buys Hollywood's version of "morality," and quite frankly don't want to see it.
Foisted? You mean they held you down, prised your eyelids open and made you watch a movie? In reality, you are trying to foist morality on people by demanding you have a right to view "clean" version.
A fight club needs 2 people and a room. Rugby needs twenty-six players, a pitch, a set of goalposts, a referee and a change of clothes.
And some linesmen and someone to sing the national anthems...
Bollocks. Rugby needs a ball, an open space and 2+ players. Traditional rugby, BTW, has 30 players. None usually have the physique of body builders simply because they have to run about the field for 80 minutes.
"You get to be a superhero for a night," Klimanis said. "We have to go to work every day. We're constantly told to buy things we don't need, and just for a couple hours we have the freedom to do what we want to do."
Yes, buy things like the Fight Club DVD, you sheep. Some people, if worried about excessive consumerism, would stop buying shit.
Men involved in fight clubs often carry bottled-up violent impulses learned in childhood from video games, cartoons and movies, said Michael Messner, a University of Southern California sociology and gender studies professor.
Videogames. Always videogames. I'm surprised he hasn't blamed myspace.
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[QUOTE]You'd have to learn about ALL KINDS of artsy stuff, things like using color palettes to your advantage, fairly advanced typography (most people have NO idea how much stuff there is to learn right there), how to make visually appealing stuff in general, how to use white space properly, and so much more.[/QUOTE] It about 4 hours or so, you can learn the basics of typography and color theory- to the point where you can discern a Grotesque from an Egyptian and a triadic from a complementary. From there, the learning bootstraps itself to a certain extent. You view notice certain color schemes and see why they work, you note certain great font combinations and detect poor use of whitespace and generally learn by surfing around. I think it is sometimes quite useful to be able to knock up some graphics without going to a designer. It is nice not to have another person on your critical path. For example, if a client wants to see a prototype of a site, it would be good to be able to knock up the equivalent of the Slashdot banner without having to brief the artist and wait for him/her to do it.
... is that of sufficiently advanced technology. To them IT is essentially magic. If the magic breaks and can't be fixed, it is because the magician is disinclined or because the magician isn't good enough. There are no constraints on magic, after all.
Same happens at my university. There the pariah machines are G5s. This is a good thing since it means a machine is always free.
Any app you like so long as it runs on windows. Funny, I couldn't find Visual Basic with apt-get
"Gentoo is shit, it won't install why not?" And invariably the problem is covered by items 1 and 2 of the FAQ. Invariably, there will be a chorus of RTFM and invariably the inquirer will tell 10 people about the Gentoo snobs that told him to fuck off. It is a pattern as ageless as the seasons.
So you're badmouthing java, even though it allows for cross-platform 3rd party libraries without even a recompilation. The problem with rolling your own is that it diminishes productivity, increases the complexity of your code and introduces more bugs than you'd otherwise have.
Yes, you could take that view. Or you might conclude that libraries supported by fulltime developers and used by millions of people would actually be more reliable than anything could produce.
Try the you break, you bought it approach. The offender becomes the new build engineer
I hear you're having some trouble with your TPS reports
"which is also exacerbated by the fact that text layers are rasterized immediately" Actually, you have to choose "Discard Text Information" for that to happen. You can edit the text layer if it is still just text.
Knuth writes very well, but MIX? Fuck that.
Oh wait, heh, I saw the words "FCC" and "ill-conceived crusade" and just assumed...
Because a language that didn't do decent connection pooling wouldn't be widely adopted in real life.
Simple? You have tags nested three deep to display two things. It is certainly a simpler mental model though. An x,y grid is easier to grasp than the layout of boxes according to floats, clears and positioning.
For a 2 col layout:
...but there are libraries for that. e.g. ADODB
Given the number of rendering bugs (bugs, not compliance WTFs) observable in IE compared to those in Firefox, it'd be a rather safe assumption. Also, the download for IE is 25 fcuking meg. More code = more bugs. Besides, after developing for it for a while you just know, you just fcuking know.
You can take you lameness filter and shove it...
ef eye are ee bee eye are dee. A very good database that doesn't give the impression it has been scotch taped together by monkeys. Nice permissive licence, feature rich, reliable. firebirdsql.org
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That was a perfectly good excuse.
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One can generate code from OCL constraints and check them at runtime.
Yes, buy things like the Fight Club DVD, you sheep. Some people, if worried about excessive consumerism, would stop buying shit.
Videogames. Always videogames. I'm surprised he hasn't blamed myspace.