So the price drop on 1080p displays has to drop in that time frame to give me a bit of time to enjoy it.
I just bought a 1080p 42" Westinghouse LCD LVM-42W2 "monitor" (there's no tuner, so it's technically a monitor) for less than $2k - the price has already dropped in my book!
I for one am glad to see the new consoles supporting full HD. Imagine my disappointment when I found out that my PS2 and GameCube both sucked so badly in the HD department:-(
I had a roommate who worked at an Internet café for a year or so, one of the only long lasting ones in Toronto. While it was among the best, it certainly wasn't a cash cow by any means.
This has led me to believe that some of the smaller, out of the way 'net cafés that never seem to go under are in another business altogether: money laundering. It seems to be an ideal situation, all revenues are based on rental which is impossible to quantify at the end of the month. It's also a relatively obscure business model as far as police are concerned... even among us/.ers few can fathom what kind of market there really is in the business.
Then again, I could be wrong. Just one possible explanation!
Would the web benefit from HTML and CSS being complemented with some kind of "layout language"
It does. or at least it's starting to.
XML+XSLT is an effective way of taking any XML based information (like an article, a list of questions and answers, or even an existing web page) and re-formatting it in a sensible fashion. Since you then control the "layout" of the markup, it's easy to apply CSS to make everything as pretty as/.
Incidentally, using XML+XSLT also closes the gap between web sites, services, and plain old data sources... Proper support for XSLT is a close second on my list for browser support and interoperability.
And just think how powerful microformats could be if they weren't a hack... just saying...
Was there not one person around in three months who could log in to the router's config screen and block his MAC address? Seems to me that he'd rather find a new hotspot than buy a new NIC...
Failing that, they could also, y'know, lock their network.
Good documentation makes all the difference - look at the PHP manual for a prime example http://php.net/manual/en/
Every page should describe one item (with examples) and have a moderated discussion *on the same page*.
Another useful addition to said manual could be a series of more abstract articles covering coding techniques, best practices, and common applications... again with a moderated discussion per article.
I find wikis just don't work as well as they could here, nor do forums or plain vanilla manuals. Combining the above elements from all three make what I would consider the best resource available.
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I saw a different punchline coming, involving the word "scall'p'd"
oh great, yet another subset of standards to accomodate when designing for the web.
I just bought a 1080p 42" Westinghouse LCD LVM-42W2 "monitor" (there's no tuner, so it's technically a monitor) for less than $2k - the price has already dropped in my book!
I for one am glad to see the new consoles supporting full HD. Imagine my disappointment when I found out that my PS2 and GameCube both sucked so badly in the HD department :-(
I had a roommate who worked at an Internet café for a year or so, one of the only long lasting ones in Toronto. While it was among the best, it certainly wasn't a cash cow by any means.
This has led me to believe that some of the smaller, out of the way 'net cafés that never seem to go under are in another business altogether: money laundering. It seems to be an ideal situation, all revenues are based on rental which is impossible to quantify at the end of the month. It's also a relatively obscure business model as far as police are concerned... even among us /.ers few can fathom what kind of market there really is in the business.
Then again, I could be wrong. Just one possible explanation!
The title is a tad misleading - you've been able to view the "source" since it's first release... after all, it's written in javascript and XML.
Now if they open sourced the project, that would be something!
It does. or at least it's starting to.
XML+XSLT is an effective way of taking any XML based information (like an article, a list of questions and answers, or even an existing web page) and re-formatting it in a sensible fashion. Since you then control the "layout" of the markup, it's easy to apply CSS to make everything as pretty as /.
Incidentally, using XML+XSLT also closes the gap between web sites, services, and plain old data sources... Proper support for XSLT is a close second on my list for browser support and interoperability.
And just think how powerful microformats could be if they weren't a hack... just saying...
Was there not one person around in three months who could log in to the router's config screen and block his MAC address? Seems to me that he'd rather find a new hotspot than buy a new NIC... Failing that, they could also, y'know, lock their network.
Good documentation makes all the difference - look at the PHP manual for a prime example http://php.net/manual/en/
Every page should describe one item (with examples) and have a moderated discussion *on the same page*.
Another useful addition to said manual could be a series of more abstract articles covering coding techniques, best practices, and common applications... again with a moderated discussion per article.
I find wikis just don't work as well as they could here, nor do forums or plain vanilla manuals. Combining the above elements from all three make what I would consider the best resource available.
Well, that's my $0.02 (CAD)
Kieran