I'm a web developer, now i freely admit i'm probably not a great one, just an ASP hacker who's lucky enough to get paid for it but i just spent two working days making the HTML + CSS layout for a new client site work for about 8 browsers, over two pcs and a mac. god knows what will happen if i dare to boot the linux box and check it out in knoqueror. Does my employer get to send the w3c/ie development team a bill for the salary he had to pay me for those two days? No i guess not.
Think about it like taking a photo with your digital camera and then having to edit the jpg in a hex editor because different graphics programs on different platforms corrupt the photo in different ways depending on byte offsets, color space settings and comments in the text lump. Doesn't the very thought of that make your mind boggle? There is NO REASON that browsers cant do things the same, and cant be forced to. All it takes is some authority to hold the trademarks (or whatnot) on the technology that is HTML+CSS and refuse to allow any browser by any vendor claim to support them without 100% standards compliance. Quirks Mode was a mistake, and should never have happened, the only way to solve this problem is to either start over with something entirely new (and give it buzzwords so that corporate management wants to impliment it so they sound technologically advanced) or spawn a dictatorship to force compliance. Letting people stick "w3c" buttons at the bottom of their pages clearly doesn't help.
further to the other replies you might also want to buffer the portals. so when rendering a portal that looks back on itself it's only rendering it's surface texture. which is a picture of what that portal can see. This would, however, create a lag effect where each portal instance is one rendered frame behind (in time) the one in front of it (in space)
for long (but alpha-only) passwords you could use song lyrics, though i'd pick an obscure 30s country/folk group that your dad forced you to listen to on long car journeys when you were growing up and is firmly etched into your brain.*
You know, something like: jimmytookthecattletothemarketplaceonadampanddreary morning
* but not Wayne's War of the Worlds, surely everyone was forced to listen to THAT!?
if i understand the TFA correctly then it captuers the moments your brain spots something "interesting", so imagine this scenario:
1. shopping mall frequented by young women, perhaps near to a beach 2. security cameras placed a little above head height pointing down a bit 3. hot day
90% of the footage will be flagged as "interesting" because of all the cleavage on show
If you're of the opinion that elections are basically a big job interview where the public is a very large panel of interviewers who select the persons for the jobs of public office. That office being contained within the cubicles and corridors MyCountry inc. And the shareholders (taxpayers) through their selected representitives steer the corporations policy as desired. Then, when Mycountry inc. or one of it's wholly owned subsiduarys (MyArmy inc.) files for, and is granted, IP, that IP belongs to the Company as a whole, and the major shareholders get to decide what projects to put that IP towards. And being a one-shareholder-one-vote system everyone get's equal status, standing and therefore equale share of and use of the IP rights.
I've been thinking about this, after cludging route maps to my house and my wedding together in photoshop it'd be great if someone could combine, say, flikr with google maps' routeplanner. showing you major landmarks along and near to your route. so you can see from the map that the roundabout you're heading for is after you go under the blue steel train bridge... that one there? that'll be it!
Sod the neighbors we were selling this in 2003 to whole villages. The local pub would have a sat dish and an omni antennae on the roof, with a rackmount PC to join them together. We put access points with small directional plate antennaes into project boxes from maplin. silicone sealed them up. bolted them to poles. bolted the poles to peoples chimneys and ran cat5 with a power-over-network adapter through the attic into their computer/hub. Bish bash bosh. Requlated connections via the fixed IP addresses of the access points and used a VPN to access the main village-pub system to admin it all from our office.
in theory.
in reality the "antenna" boxes would leak and corrode the connections, trees would only pass the signal through when dry. the villages would be 60 miles away in a valley where we had no mobile signal to chat back to the office to test connections. the satelite latency was occasionally huge (though throughput was good once it kicked in). we had no GPS equipment so had to use printed out multimap photos to try and work out where to point the clients box. Couldnt get the bastard network drivers to work on peoples clapped out pentium 200 + win 98 boxes (until we introduced the minimum XP + usb port standard!) Etc.
still, was a lot of fun, in the true spirit of tech hacking:-)
If gravity waves cause spacetime to flex in a, er, wavelike fashion, then what if the wavelength of the light passing over those waves is also flexed? thus, as we and all our physical measuring equipment are also flexing then when a difference occurs the light, equipment and the field it's situated in flex too. So there will be nothing to measure. As in if you were trying to measure the expansion or contraction of a piece of metal due to a temperature change using a ruler constructed of the same metal as the one you are measuring. Geddit?
exactly what i've been thinking: if you're business is a caravan site and 53 year old receptionist and site shop lady Dorothy can handle the win 3.1 targetted caravan and facility booking software just fine and, let's face it, it does the job and you don't need or desire to upgrade, then when your old winME box kicks the dust and you fork out for a new box, you expect it to install and just work, because it always has... and Fair enough, i say.
This is MS's strength and their weakness, Dorothy should not need to learn to use new software, and the company should not be forced to upgrade. I, on the other hand would love a Vista-Pro that only guarantees compatibility with post-vista released compatible and targetted software and drivers.
surely all it needs is a few #ifdef WIN311 statements here and there:-)
(oh and i know that first paragraph is almost one, big, poorly grammatised and speelt sentence. cheers)
ridley stated categorically in an interview for the 20th anniversary special on tv here in england that dekker is/was an android. he explained that the major clue lay in the unicorn dream and the unicorn origami
i had 128mb in my win 95b pc in 1997, ok so back then everyone thought that that was excessive (32 was the "norm" and 64 was "a lot") but i find the idea that people are trying to cram vista (and let's face it: Ms office too) into 128 is, frankly, astonishing. I actually remember having this conversation back then too,
("guess i should buy a faster pentium" , "no, get 4x as much ram" , "how will that make it faster?"...)
shameless karma whoring; patent 6368227 is "Method of swinging on a swing.", supposedly unique in that instead of swining the "usual" way you swing sideways.
When i was younger my brother and i used to sit astride swings and swing towards each other in a joust/battle scenario. Which would be slightly different to the method described in this patent, so maybe i should patent mine. there might even be prior art in my photo albumn from the 80s when i was a wee whippersnapper to support my claim that i (co)invented it!
it was in a dream a few months back. though it was a sofa that could be changed, it had a 1" square grid that could be changed. still upon waking i wrote it down.
me too has had nvidia driver "issues" over the years. But it's not like the video card chipset specs are open source, is it? Or do the uber militant OSS activists have chip fabs in their garages?
ahhhhhhhh, so earth's in geosync orbit around the moon! but wait, that makes the moon a planet and earth moon's moon! still, explains why we only ever see one side
have 5 buttons at the bottom of the dialog box, labeled one to five (in words, not numbers). in the dalog text state "to continue press button XXXX, or any other button to cancel".
which means you actualy have to read the text to continue. so long as dailogs are suitably verbose the "button to press" text will be in a different location each time.
an alternative option is to tie it in with sudo permissions, a dialog could pop up explaining that admin rights are needed to proceed and show a password. So the user get's used to having to type "something" to continue. On non admin, but still critical, dialogs the dialog-with-input would be identical but the text would say "enter the word bananas in the password box to continue", instead of "enter your admin password to continue". this also then preserves the look of critical dialogs and doesnt fall into the trap of the user simply automatically inputting their password every time he/she is prompted. because they have to read the text to find out what to type
i agree. i've written my own wrapper in my own uber hacky way and it's about 500 times smaller and simpler than the frameworks i've seen out there. as anything i've done via AJAX so far (aside from a top secret spreadsheet type app i'm working on, oops, now it's not so top secret, dammit!) is of the form
"get content and put it in this div"
and via the cunning use of innerHTML instead of XML/DOM parsing all i need to do with my basic ajax framework is
sTargetID is the id of the div (or whatever) to dump the returned html into sURL is the url to call (e.g. ajax_randomthumbnail.asp) sPost is the form data to, er, post sWait is innerHTML to show whilst waiting for response sError is friendly error message to show in case of, um, an error
so all ajax_randomthumbnail.asp would return is something like:
it took me a week to compile firefox on my "standard" windows xp box, and the by-far-the-best online guide i found (http://pryan.org/firefox/TierMann/page/building/p ackages.html) after hammering google and the mozilla forums was out of date (referred to "microsoft sdk" instead of "microsoft platform sdk" thus messing up a lot of paths in the provided examples) still required tinkering (my activeperl installation conflicted with the cygwin perl, why i needed perl to compile a C++ app was not explained) and was not complete (a linker lib was missing, which i eventually found at the bottom of a swiss web page) a linker error occurred, which required a manual change in the source code) and the MOZ_CONFIG_BOOBAA system was never fully explained and i think i got a working config by pure happy chance.
and just to prove it this is the content of my c:/mozilla/setup/notestoself.txt
use: c:/mozilla instead of c:/home
(the compile path will then be c:/mozilla/mozilla !)
the "mozconfig" file needs to go in c:/mozilla/mozilla
some files are "missing" from the vc++ toolkit, namely lib.exe and supporting dlls, these can, bizzarely be snatched from the platform sdk's 64bit bin directory
make sure the INCLUDE paths point to "microsoft platform sdk/include" and not "microsoft sdk/whatever"
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'atlthunk.lib'
Change AllocStdCallThunk and FreeStdCallThunk at line 287 of PSDK/include/atl/atlbase.h to the new macros:/* Comment it PVOID __stdcall __AllocStdCallThunk(VOID); VOID __stdcall __FreeStdCallThunk(PVOID);
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I'm a web developer, now i freely admit i'm probably not a great one, just an ASP hacker who's lucky enough to get paid for it but i just spent two working days making the HTML + CSS layout for a new client site work for about 8 browsers, over two pcs and a mac. god knows what will happen if i dare to boot the linux box and check it out in knoqueror. Does my employer get to send the w3c/ie development team a bill for the salary he had to pay me for those two days? No i guess not.
Think about it like taking a photo with your digital camera and then having to edit the jpg in a hex editor because different graphics programs on different platforms corrupt the photo in different ways depending on byte offsets, color space settings and comments in the text lump. Doesn't the very thought of that make your mind boggle? There is NO REASON that browsers cant do things the same, and cant be forced to. All it takes is some authority to hold the trademarks (or whatnot) on the technology that is HTML+CSS and refuse to allow any browser by any vendor claim to support them without 100% standards compliance. Quirks Mode was a mistake, and should never have happened, the only way to solve this problem is to either start over with something entirely new (and give it buzzwords so that corporate management wants to impliment it so they sound technologically advanced) or spawn a dictatorship to force compliance. Letting people stick "w3c" buttons at the bottom of their pages clearly doesn't help.
further to the other replies you might also want to buffer the portals. so when rendering a portal that looks back on itself it's only rendering it's surface texture. which is a picture of what that portal can see. This would, however, create a lag effect where each portal instance is one rendered frame behind (in time) the one in front of it (in space)
270 would look like this:
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this has left me wandering if you really can buy 120 packs of toilet roll across the pond. We buy em in 12s over in limeyland.
re: sentences
y morning
for long (but alpha-only) passwords you could use song lyrics, though i'd pick an obscure 30s country/folk group that your dad forced you to listen to on long car journeys when you were growing up and is firmly etched into your brain.*
You know, something like: jimmytookthecattletothemarketplaceonadampanddrear
* but not Wayne's War of the Worlds, surely everyone was forced to listen to THAT!?
if i understand the TFA correctly then it captuers the moments your brain spots something "interesting", so imagine this scenario:
1. shopping mall frequented by young women, perhaps near to a beach
2. security cameras placed a little above head height pointing down a bit
3. hot day
90% of the footage will be flagged as "interesting" because of all the cleavage on show
If you're of the opinion that elections are basically a big job interview where the public is a very large panel of interviewers who select the persons for the jobs of public office. That office being contained within the cubicles and corridors MyCountry inc. And the shareholders (taxpayers) through their selected representitives steer the corporations policy as desired. Then, when Mycountry inc. or one of it's wholly owned subsiduarys (MyArmy inc.) files for, and is granted, IP, that IP belongs to the Company as a whole, and the major shareholders get to decide what projects to put that IP towards. And being a one-shareholder-one-vote system everyone get's equal status, standing and therefore equale share of and use of the IP rights.
Probably
so presumably MS might just buy up MOTEC and slap their brand all over someone else's hard work?
I've been thinking about this, after cludging route maps to my house and my wedding together in photoshop it'd be great if someone could combine, say, flikr with google maps' routeplanner. showing you major landmarks along and near to your route. so you can see from the map that the roundabout you're heading for is after you go under the blue steel train bridge... that one there? that'll be it!
Sod the neighbors we were selling this in 2003 to whole villages. The local pub would have a sat dish and an omni antennae on the roof, with a rackmount PC to join them together. We put access points with small directional plate antennaes into project boxes from maplin. silicone sealed them up. bolted them to poles. bolted the poles to peoples chimneys and ran cat5 with a power-over-network adapter through the attic into their computer/hub. Bish bash bosh. Requlated connections via the fixed IP addresses of the access points and used a VPN to access the main village-pub system to admin it all from our office.
:-)
in theory.
in reality the "antenna" boxes would leak and corrode the connections, trees would only pass the signal through when dry. the villages would be 60 miles away in a valley where we had no mobile signal to chat back to the office to test connections. the satelite latency was occasionally huge (though throughput was good once it kicked in). we had no GPS equipment so had to use printed out multimap photos to try and work out where to point the clients box. Couldnt get the bastard network drivers to work on peoples clapped out pentium 200 + win 98 boxes (until we introduced the minimum XP + usb port standard!) Etc.
still, was a lot of fun, in the true spirit of tech hacking
If gravity waves cause spacetime to flex in a, er, wavelike fashion, then what if the wavelength of the light passing over those waves is also flexed? thus, as we and all our physical measuring equipment are also flexing then when a difference occurs the light, equipment and the field it's situated in flex too. So there will be nothing to measure. As in if you were trying to measure the expansion or contraction of a piece of metal due to a temperature change using a ruler constructed of the same metal as the one you are measuring. Geddit?
exactly what i've been thinking: if you're business is a caravan site and 53 year old receptionist and site shop lady Dorothy can handle the win 3.1 targetted caravan and facility booking software just fine and, let's face it, it does the job and you don't need or desire to upgrade, then when your old winME box kicks the dust and you fork out for a new box, you expect it to install and just work, because it always has... and Fair enough, i say.
:-)
This is MS's strength and their weakness, Dorothy should not need to learn to use new software, and the company should not be forced to upgrade. I, on the other hand would love a Vista-Pro that only guarantees compatibility with post-vista released compatible and targetted software and drivers.
surely all it needs is a few #ifdef WIN311 statements here and there
(oh and i know that first paragraph is almost one, big, poorly grammatised and speelt sentence. cheers)
ridley stated categorically in an interview for the 20th anniversary special on tv here in england that dekker is/was an android. he explained that the major clue lay in the unicorn dream and the unicorn origami
sounds like it's emulating the windows environment pretty accuratley.
holy crap batman!
...)
i had 128mb in my win 95b pc in 1997, ok so back then everyone thought that that was excessive (32 was the "norm" and 64 was "a lot") but i find the idea that people are trying to cram vista (and let's face it: Ms office too) into 128 is, frankly, astonishing. I actually remember having this conversation back then too,
("guess i should buy a faster pentium" , "no, get 4x as much ram" , "how will that make it faster?"
=fun!
think of it like this:
write code in c -> compiler -> excecutable
equivelant to:
build site in google java ajax thingy -> "export" -> web site
making the html/javascript side of the coding analogous to coding an executable in hex
shameless karma whoring; patent 6368227 is "Method of swinging on a swing.", supposedly unique in that instead of swining the "usual" way you swing sideways.
When i was younger my brother and i used to sit astride swings and swing towards each other in a joust/battle scenario. Which would be slightly different to the method described in this patent, so maybe i should patent mine. there might even be prior art in my photo albumn from the 80s when i was a wee whippersnapper to support my claim that i (co)invented it!
it was in a dream a few months back. though it was a sofa that could be changed, it had a 1" square grid that could be changed. still upon waking i wrote it down.
me too has had nvidia driver "issues" over the years. But it's not like the video card chipset specs are open source, is it? Or do the uber militant OSS activists have chip fabs in their garages?
ahhhhhhhh, so earth's in geosync orbit around the moon! but wait, that makes the moon a planet and earth moon's moon! still, explains why we only ever see one side
how to solve this:
have 5 buttons at the bottom of the dialog box, labeled one to five (in words, not numbers). in the dalog text state "to continue press button XXXX, or any other button to cancel".
which means you actualy have to read the text to continue. so long as dailogs are suitably verbose the "button to press" text will be in a different location each time.
an alternative option is to tie it in with sudo permissions, a dialog could pop up explaining that admin rights are needed to proceed and show a password. So the user get's used to having to type "something" to continue. On non admin, but still critical, dialogs the dialog-with-input would be identical but the text would say "enter the word bananas in the password box to continue", instead of "enter your admin password to continue". this also then preserves the look of critical dialogs and doesnt fall into the trap of the user simply automatically inputting their password every time he/she is prompted. because they have to read the text to find out what to type
i agree. i've written my own wrapper in my own uber hacky way and it's about 500 times smaller and simpler than the frameworks i've seen out there. as anything i've done via AJAX so far (aside from a top secret spreadsheet type app i'm working on, oops, now it's not so top secret, dammit!) is of the form
"get content and put it in this div"
and via the cunning use of innerHTML instead of XML/DOM parsing all i need to do with my basic ajax framework is
fAJAXRequest( sTargetID , sURL , sPost , sWait , sError );
where
sTargetID is the id of the div (or whatever) to dump the returned html into
sURL is the url to call (e.g. ajax_randomthumbnail.asp)
sPost is the form data to, er, post
sWait is innerHTML to show whilst waiting for response
sError is friendly error message to show in case of, um, an error
so all ajax_randomthumbnail.asp would return is something like:
<a href="bigphoto.jpg"><img src="thumbnail.jpg"></a>
like i said, check the response header, and dump it into the target div with innerHTML. bish bash bosh. nice
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er, i'm on firefox 1.5.0.3 now and use console2 about 100 times a day. hang on ... yup still works.
it took me a week to compile firefox on my "standard" windows xp box, and the by-far-the-best online guide i found (http://pryan.org/firefox/TierMann/page/building/p ackages.html) after hammering google and the mozilla forums was out of date (referred to "microsoft sdk" instead of "microsoft platform sdk" thus messing up a lot of paths in the provided examples) still required tinkering (my activeperl installation conflicted with the cygwin perl, why i needed perl to compile a C++ app was not explained) and was not complete (a linker lib was missing, which i eventually found at the bottom of a swiss web page) a linker error occurred, which required a manual change in the source code) and the MOZ_CONFIG_BOOBAA system was never fully explained and i think i got a working config by pure happy chance.
% 20install%20the%20free%20Microsoft%20Visual%20C.ht m
/* Comment it
and just to prove it this is the content of my c:/mozilla/setup/notestoself.txt
use: c:/mozilla instead of c:/home
(the compile path will then be c:/mozilla/mozilla !)
the "mozconfig" file needs to go in c:/mozilla/mozilla
some files are "missing" from the vc++ toolkit, namely lib.exe and supporting dlls, these can, bizzarely be snatched from the platform sdk's 64bit bin directory
make sure the INCLUDE paths point to "microsoft platform sdk/include" and not "microsoft sdk/whatever"
checkout:
make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
build:
make -f client.mk build
download msvcprt.lib from here:
http://root.cern.ch/root/Procedure/Procedure%20to
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'atlthunk.lib'
Change AllocStdCallThunk and FreeStdCallThunk at line 287 of PSDK/include/atl/atlbase.h to the new macros:
PVOID __stdcall __AllocStdCallThunk(VOID);
VOID __stdcall __FreeStdCallThunk(PVOID);
#define AllocStdCallThunk() __AllocStdCallThunk()
#define FreeStdCallThunk(p) __FreeStdCallThunk(p)
#pragma comment(lib, "atlthunk.lib")
*/
#define AllocStdCallThunk() HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(),
0, sizeof(_stdcallthunk))
#define FreeStdCallThunk(p) HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, p)
well we're halfway there, go to amazon.com and search for "divx", you'll get a bunch of dvd players/recorders that support the format