Has anyone tested how extensive the CSS/CSS2 support in Konqueror is? All of the other main browsers (yes, even Mozilla) support CSS in a very patchy 'mine field' sort of way.
I'm getting really tired of writing CSS that works in only one version of one platform. What's up with that?
How hard could it possibly be to support CSS in an even way, across *all* platforms??
IE5 *on the MACINTOSH* has the most extensive CSS1 coverage BEFORE IT WAS EVEN A COMPLETE RECOMMENDATION. Almost perfect (still problems with embedded fonts and some other stuff).
What about CSS3? Anyone heard what the browsers are doing about this? IE3 supported some minimal CSS1 back in the day, why aren't browsers not only keeping up, but staying ahead of the curve?
..an album represents a hour-ish long attempt to create a coherent/cohesive mood and statement..
While I personally believe that music should be free (or for that matter, all art should be free; hence my personal unwillingness to sell my art) and available to all, I do understand that as an artist, you must devote all your time and energy towards the art and cannot split it with working a fulltime job. I do this now and let me tell you, my art suffers. A lot.
HOWEVER.
The vast majority of the shit that comes out of the recording industry today is vile and base. It does not succeed by it's own merits, it succeeds by the merits of the corporation's large and well-funded marketing machine.
No longer is music made for music's sake. (I realise that this is a naive view, but bear with me here, I'm a makin' a point.) It is made with the singular purpose of selling as many possible records within a very short amount of time.
I absolutly refuse to support that kind of nonsense any longer. When the day comes that music is pushed by the people that make it and those same people make the large percent of the profit, is the same day that I will stop taking any music that I still bother listening to and start BUYING IT. (I'm not gonna start with the inflated price of CD's..)
How many here believe that 50 years from now, people will listen to britney spears and the spice girls and think, "Wow. That stuff had soul!"
Go back thirty to fifty years. Louis Armstrong.. eternally cool. You know?
I went to a club last night and it was open mike night. There were musicians and beatniks galore. I may be making a generalization here, but the people there weren't in it for the money; they got beer, bagels and applause if they were lucky -- beer and bagels if they weren't.
That's the way music should be.
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I realise that this was a completely incoherant post. My ability to make any sense seems to have taken an airplane from New York to New York.. the long way. My apologies. I know that my point was in there some where.
For those of you that havn't read them, here is a nice little link to ESR's page with his essays. Signal11's gift culture idea is straight from these essays.
Maybe it's just me (it usually is), but can someone please explain to me what the purpose of finding the perfect game would be?
I don't know about you people, but I spent many, many afternoons of my childhood with my dad playing chess. I can't imagine anyone wanting to play chess anymore if all you had to do to win was memorize a long set of moves.
BORING.
Imagine:
Man: "Oh good move." Boy: "I know. You too, that was a good move." Man: "Do you really want to finish playing this game, boy?" Boy: "I guess not. It will be the EXACT SAME GAME the next time that we play, right?" Man: "Right. Wanna play Risk?" Boy: "Sure."
So basically solving chess would kill the game. Personally I would rather not know.
Technically you are right, there is no way for sound to be heard in a vacuum because there is nothing to carry the wave.
However, if you put a spaceship (bubble, rocket, etc..) up there, fill it with air, and start blasting Jimi Hendrix, you will most certainly hear it if you are inside the bubble.
Maybe that movie was all made in a theoretical super bubble. Invisible to the naked eye and strong enough to hold in enough air for the sound to be carried on!
If my kids want to watch porn in moderation, I think that they should be able to. That's not to say that I condone their watching it, and certainly not before they are mature enough to handle it.
I don't believe in buffering my kids so much that when they encounter something out of the ordinary, they will be able to handle it and not make like a turtle and hide from the world.
That is the topic of discussion here. If I want to d/l porn from the internet (something that has been going on longer than most of the participants in this board have been alive..) it is my RIGHT to do so.
I don't care if some idiot parents in Bumblefuck Missouri decided that the Children are harmed when they see naked people (oh, god forbid, those naked natives in the rain forests must be so traumatized) but when it becomes far reaching legislation that will affect me and eventually affect my children too, I say that this idiocy has gone too fuching far.
Any censorship that you force upon me and my family is easily ten times worse than any porn that we watch in the privacy of our own homes.
Wait, before you people get all bent outta shape, I do realise that Slashdot's servers are not in the UK. But some of the people posting the messages ARE!
Can they make Slashdot release information about who we are so that they can sue us?
that is a monopoly in the world, let alone in the US
I think that you bring up a very good point here. Intentionally or otherwise.
Now, let it here be known that I have little or no knowledge of international business law. Any assumptions that I may make are just that! (Ass, you, mumption.. duh!)
Ok, on with the show: Microsoft is an INTERNATIONAL organization. A really big company with multiple headquarters and many offices in many, many countries. Now, if the US government decides to break apart Microsoft, how does this affect the offices outside of the US? How does the government decide? This is not like AT&T where they, for the most part (i'm assuming this part) were only in the US.
What gives?
Rami James Pixel Pusher ALST R&D Center, Israel --
Windows 2000 seems to have a feature called hibernate. This is what it does. It dumps all your memory to harddisk, sets up windows so when you restart it loads that file back into memory (i guess that it's some sort of image) and then it shuts down the machine completely. When the box gets turned back on, windows loads the image and you are right where you were when you left.
There are two main problems with this:
1) If you have a lot of memory (I think NT supports what? A terabyte of memory?), then you have to have the equivalent in disk space -- more or less, I don't know if the file is compressed or not.
2)It still takes idiot windows2000 30+ seconds to boot up on my machine with 256 megs of RAM. (I think this is related to point 1. However, I don't dare run the beast from redmond on a machine with less than 256 megs.)
Nice idea, poorly implemented. I don't see why they can't use some of that leverage that they have over the industry to add a feature to the MoBo which allows the computer to turn off for the most part, but allow enough power to keep the memory the way it was. Feasable? I have no idea. Cool? Perhaps.
I also very highly recommend the "Dreams of Rio" series. It's five CDs of high quality stuff. For you hardcore audio story types only.
The AH-HA! Phenomenon was my first exposure to Jack Flanders. It's only one CD long and it is most certainly WAY WAY out there. It's pretty funny.. but probably not before three or four beers. Sober it's just.. weird.
Apparently, in five years, we will have 1 Terabyte solid-state harddrives, instant memory (what? 10ns is too long??), 1 bazillion GHz processor rings, and video cards that will spit out realtime images straight into our fucking brains, all running on 1 Petabyte networks.. within our homes. Oh ya, I may have forgotten to mention that all this will be free.. all supported by a little blinking banner on your desktop that you will mentally block out after a week of using the machine.
Then again, the way software is moving, I may need this to play Quake |||(|)||| on my BloatedLinux(tm) ver.100.3.2 system.
I'll believe this stuff when I see it.
Rami James Pixel Pusher ALST R&D Center, IL --
Why weren't more people there?
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It's a real shame that this wasn't more publisized (sp?). I have the distinct impression that 20-25 people showing up will have a profoundly smaller impression on our delegate's/congresmen's minds than if 1000 people showed up.
Political activism is a wonderful thing. Now that I am in Israel (a country without a real constitution) I see just how important it is that the people have someone to write to and share their thoughts with. It's a shame that more people in the states don't exercise this right as much as they really should. 20/20 hindsight is soo sharp!
Now that this is over, when is the next rally? POST IT ON/.! Advertise it in the Newspaper. Spread the word in the LUGs. Plaster your campus with the WORD. Just do SOMETHING.
Ok, Ok. I see that Legos are the coolest thing since sliced bread (I prefer real bread that you actually have to cut.. but we won't go into that here). But wouldn't an engineer prefer something more, uhm, stable for constructing things with?
I understand that legos have a large amount of variety nowadays.. but how many engineers will actually include a lightsaber or dragon's wings into a project.
Remember Capsela (sp?), Construx? Neither of those would be good for engineers either. Too specialized.
Now MECCANO toys are perfect for engineers (and over-imaginative youths.. hehe).
Regardless of what our '-1 flaimbait' friend would like to believe, I happen to agree with you. Paying ~30% more for an equivalent machine is most certainly not worthwhile for somepeople (like myself, and countless others), however: DESIGN IS WORTH PAYING FOR. I cannot stress this enough.
Would you rather have a car that gets you where you are going, or one that will get you there looking good? Would you rather wear a pair of 10 dollar sneakers or those nice, cushy ones that you paid 80 dollars for? We live in a society that has an economy that makes it so that we pay more if we want more quality.
Have you ever cut your fingers up while trying to replace a stubborn CD-ROM drive in a poorly designed computer housing? Try doing that in a G4 case.. you'll never want to go back to evil PC cases again.
I'm sorry, I was wrong. I scoured the entire site and didn't find a thing. I'm abso-frickin'-lutely sure that I saw that you could order two processors somewhere.
I also read on Arstechnica a while back that Apple was designing new boards for dual/quad processors.. for use with Mac OS X.
I guess I let my imagination take hold of my entire brain. My apologies.
If you look on the Apple site (i'm not finding it right now.. sorry) you will see the option to have two processors on the server-class machines. Now, I realise that two 500Mhz G4's will cost an insane amount of money.. but we're talking about SERVERS here.
If I remember correctly, two 850Mhz Xeons on a dual proc board with no less than 512 megs ram won't set any less than about 4-5 grand.
It's all in what you want. (I want an SGI machine.. but we don't all get what we want.)
Sure, brute processing power will win out every time. However, if I pit a 500MhzG4 against an Athlon/Xeon at 500Mhz, which would win out?
In brute processing terms, from the benchmarks that I have personally witnessed, the G4 wins out everytime.
The main performance hindrance for Macs has been the actual Operating System. Hopefully with that out of the way, we will have some serious workstation power within the price range of normal human beings (a 1000Mhz Intel/AMD chip is not within the price range of normal human beings.. more like pod people if you ask me).
I took it for granted that Mac OS X would be utilizing Altivec's special capabilities to make some significant speed boosts. When recompiling for x86 compatible machines, wouldn't those speed boosts be lost? And therefore wouldn't the version that runs on Apple hardware be significantly faster?
Just curious; I don't really know that much about Altivec and Apple's coding practices..
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Has anyone tested how extensive the CSS/CSS2 support in Konqueror is? All of the other main browsers (yes, even Mozilla) support CSS in a very patchy 'mine field' sort of way.
I'm getting really tired of writing CSS that works in only one version of one platform. What's up with that?
How hard could it possibly be to support CSS in an even way, across *all* platforms??
CSS Level 1
CSS Level 2
Two last notes:
IE5 *on the MACINTOSH* has the most extensive CSS1 coverage BEFORE IT WAS EVEN A COMPLETE RECOMMENDATION. Almost perfect (still problems with embedded fonts and some other stuff).
What about CSS3? Anyone heard what the browsers are doing about this? IE3 supported some minimal CSS1 back in the day, why aren't browsers not only keeping up, but staying ahead of the curve?
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, IL
--
While I personally believe that music should be free (or for that matter, all art should be free; hence my personal unwillingness to sell my art) and available to all, I do understand that as an artist, you must devote all your time and energy towards the art and cannot split it with working a fulltime job. I do this now and let me tell you, my art suffers. A lot.
HOWEVER.
The vast majority of the shit that comes out of the recording industry today is vile and base. It does not succeed by it's own merits, it succeeds by the merits of the corporation's large and well-funded marketing machine.
No longer is music made for music's sake. (I realise that this is a naive view, but bear with me here, I'm a makin' a point.) It is made with the singular purpose of selling as many possible records within a very short amount of time.
I absolutly refuse to support that kind of nonsense any longer. When the day comes that music is pushed by the people that make it and those same people make the large percent of the profit, is the same day that I will stop taking any music that I still bother listening to and start BUYING IT. (I'm not gonna start with the inflated price of CD's..)
How many here believe that 50 years from now, people will listen to britney spears and the spice girls and think, "Wow. That stuff had soul!"
Go back thirty to fifty years. Louis Armstrong.. eternally cool. You know?
I went to a club last night and it was open mike night. There were musicians and beatniks galore. I may be making a generalization here, but the people there weren't in it for the money; they got beer, bagels and applause if they were lucky -- beer and bagels if they weren't.
That's the way music should be.
===
I realise that this was a completely incoherant post. My ability to make any sense seems to have taken an airplane from New York to New York.. the long way.
My apologies. I know that my point was in there some where.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, IL
For those of you that havn't read them, here is a nice little link to ESR's page with his essays. Signal11's gift culture idea is straight from these essays.
Here ya go.
I don't agree with everything that ESR says, but on the whole it is well thought out and his writing style is more or less readable.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, IL
--
Maybe it's just me (it usually is), but can someone please explain to me what the purpose of finding the perfect game would be?
I don't know about you people, but I spent many, many afternoons of my childhood with my dad playing chess. I can't imagine anyone wanting to play chess anymore if all you had to do to win was memorize a long set of moves.
BORING.
Imagine:
Man: "Oh good move."
Boy: "I know. You too, that was a good move."
Man: "Do you really want to finish playing this game, boy?"
Boy: "I guess not. It will be the EXACT SAME GAME the next time that we play, right?"
Man: "Right. Wanna play Risk?"
Boy: "Sure."
So basically solving chess would kill the game. Personally I would rather not know.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, IL
--
Technically you are right, there is no way for sound to be heard in a vacuum because there is nothing to carry the wave.
However, if you put a spaceship (bubble, rocket, etc..) up there, fill it with air, and start blasting Jimi Hendrix, you will most certainly hear it if you are inside the bubble.
Maybe that movie was all made in a theoretical super bubble. Invisible to the naked eye and strong enough to hold in enough air for the sound to be carried on!
Hey, it could happen..
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, IL
--
Screw you man.
If my kids want to watch porn in moderation, I think that they should be able to. That's not to say that I condone their watching it, and certainly not before they are mature enough to handle it.
I don't believe in buffering my kids so much that when they encounter something out of the ordinary, they will be able to handle it and not make like a turtle and hide from the world.
Rami
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I don't get it.
That is the topic of discussion here. If I want to d/l porn from the internet (something that has been going on longer than most of the participants in this board have been alive..) it is my RIGHT to do so.
I don't care if some idiot parents in Bumblefuck Missouri decided that the Children are harmed when they see naked people (oh, god forbid, those naked natives in the rain forests must be so traumatized) but when it becomes far reaching legislation that will affect me and eventually affect my children too, I say that this idiocy has gone too fuching far.
Any censorship that you force upon me and my family is easily ten times worse than any porn that we watch in the privacy of our own homes.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
--
Wait, before you people get all bent outta shape, I do realise that Slashdot's servers are not in the UK. But some of the people posting the messages ARE!
Can they make Slashdot release information about who we are so that they can sue us?
Rami
--
Aren't we discussing potentially libelous things here on Slashdot? Aren't some of our participants native to or living in the United Kingdom?
Won't they sue Slashdot for libel against libel??
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, IL
that is a monopoly in the world, let alone in the US
I think that you bring up a very good point here. Intentionally or otherwise.
Now, let it here be known that I have little or no knowledge of international business law. Any assumptions that I may make are just that! (Ass, you, mumption.. duh!)
Ok, on with the show: Microsoft is an INTERNATIONAL organization. A really big company with multiple headquarters and many offices in many, many countries. Now, if the US government decides to break apart Microsoft, how does this affect the offices outside of the US? How does the government decide? This is not like AT&T where they, for the most part (i'm assuming this part) were only in the US.
What gives?
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, Israel
--
I really don't know why there isn't a moderator point called (+1 Scary).
Rami
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Windows 2000 seems to have a feature called hibernate. This is what it does. It dumps all your memory to harddisk, sets up windows so when you restart it loads that file back into memory (i guess that it's some sort of image) and then it shuts down the machine completely. When the box gets turned back on, windows loads the image and you are right where you were when you left.
:)
There are two main problems with this:
1) If you have a lot of memory (I think NT supports what? A terabyte of memory?), then you have to have the equivalent in disk space -- more or less, I don't know if the file is compressed or not.
2)It still takes idiot windows2000 30+ seconds to boot up on my machine with 256 megs of RAM. (I think this is related to point 1. However, I don't dare run the beast from redmond on a machine with less than 256 megs.)
Nice idea, poorly implemented. I don't see why they can't use some of that leverage that they have over the industry to add a feature to the MoBo which allows the computer to turn off for the most part, but allow enough power to keep the memory the way it was. Feasable? I have no idea. Cool? Perhaps.
I never shut down the machine anyways.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, IL
HEY! Moderate him back up! That was pretty funny!
But obviously only if you've listened to the AH-HA! Phenomenon though..
Rami
--
I also very highly recommend the "Dreams of Rio" series. It's five CDs of high quality stuff. For you hardcore audio story types only.
The AH-HA! Phenomenon was my first exposure to Jack Flanders. It's only one CD long and it is most certainly WAY WAY out there. It's pretty funny.. but probably not before three or four beers. Sober it's just.. weird.
Eg: The lotus jukebox.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, IL
--
Apparently, in five years, we will have 1 Terabyte solid-state harddrives, instant memory (what? 10ns is too long??), 1 bazillion GHz processor rings, and video cards that will spit out realtime images straight into our fucking brains, all running on 1 Petabyte networks.. within our homes. Oh ya, I may have forgotten to mention that all this will be free.. all supported by a little blinking banner on your desktop that you will mentally block out after a week of using the machine.
Then again, the way software is moving, I may need this to play Quake |||(|)||| on my BloatedLinux(tm) ver.100.3.2 system.
I'll believe this stuff when I see it.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
ALST R&D Center, IL
--
It's a real shame that this wasn't more publisized (sp?). I have the distinct impression that 20-25 people showing up will have a profoundly smaller impression on our delegate's/congresmen's minds than if 1000 people showed up.
/.! Advertise it in the Newspaper. Spread the word in the LUGs. Plaster your campus with the WORD. Just do SOMETHING.
Political activism is a wonderful thing. Now that I am in Israel (a country without a real constitution) I see just how important it is that the people have someone to write to and share their thoughts with. It's a shame that more people in the states don't exercise this right as much as they really should. 20/20 hindsight is soo sharp!
Now that this is over, when is the next rally? POST IT ON
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
--
The company that produces Erector sets is MECCANO. They are only called Erector in the USA.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
--
Poor form replying to myself aside.. you just have to see this one:
HERE
Rami
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Ok, Ok. I see that Legos are the coolest thing since sliced bread (I prefer real bread that you actually have to cut.. but we won't go into that here). But wouldn't an engineer prefer something more, uhm, stable for constructing things with?
I understand that legos have a large amount of variety nowadays.. but how many engineers will actually include a lightsaber or dragon's wings into a project.
Remember Capsela (sp?), Construx? Neither of those would be good for engineers either. Too specialized.
Now MECCANO toys are perfect for engineers (and over-imaginative youths.. hehe).
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
Regardless of what our '-1 flaimbait' friend would like to believe, I happen to agree with you. Paying ~30% more for an equivalent machine is most certainly not worthwhile for somepeople (like myself, and countless others), however: DESIGN IS WORTH PAYING FOR. I cannot stress this enough.
Would you rather have a car that gets you where you are going, or one that will get you there looking good? Would you rather wear a pair of 10 dollar sneakers or those nice, cushy ones that you paid 80 dollars for? We live in a society that has an economy that makes it so that we pay more if we want more quality.
Have you ever cut your fingers up while trying to replace a stubborn CD-ROM drive in a poorly designed computer housing? Try doing that in a G4 case.. you'll never want to go back to evil PC cases again.
More quality == more money.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
--
I'm sorry, I was wrong. I scoured the entire site and didn't find a thing. I'm abso-frickin'-lutely sure that I saw that you could order two processors somewhere.
I also read on Arstechnica a while back that Apple was designing new boards for dual/quad processors.. for use with Mac OS X.
I guess I let my imagination take hold of my entire brain. My apologies.
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
--
Take your argument and reverse it for Microsoft Windows.
How many people do you think bought Intel/AMD boxes for Windows this year?
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
If you look on the Apple site (i'm not finding it right now.. sorry) you will see the option to have two processors on the server-class machines. Now, I realise that two 500Mhz G4's will cost an insane amount of money.. but we're talking about SERVERS here.
If I remember correctly, two 850Mhz Xeons on a dual proc board with no less than 512 megs ram won't set any less than about 4-5 grand.
It's all in what you want. (I want an SGI machine.. but we don't all get what we want.)
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
Sure, brute processing power will win out every time. However, if I pit a 500MhzG4 against an Athlon/Xeon at 500Mhz, which would win out?
In brute processing terms, from the benchmarks that I have personally witnessed, the G4 wins out everytime.
The main performance hindrance for Macs has been the actual Operating System. Hopefully with that out of the way, we will have some serious workstation power within the price range of normal human beings (a 1000Mhz Intel/AMD chip is not within the price range of normal human beings.. more like pod people if you ask me).
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
--
Just out of curiousity:
I took it for granted that Mac OS X would be utilizing Altivec's special capabilities to make some significant speed boosts. When recompiling for x86 compatible machines, wouldn't those speed boosts be lost? And therefore wouldn't the version that runs on Apple hardware be significantly faster?
Just curious; I don't really know that much about Altivec and Apple's coding practices..
Rami James
Pixel Pusher
Altec Lansing R&D, IL
--