Re:This is why I couldn't stomach web programming!
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Dvorak Rants on CSS
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I'm a professional programmer and I've made a few attempts to do CSS. I feel like I need a degree in CSS-tology just to get basic things to work. Uhg.
All I need to say is that, from the standpoint of software development, CSS appears to be making the same mistakes as COBRA. The designers threw ever possible feature into the language without any thought about how difficult it would be to implement. CSS is the poster-child for feature-creep.
Perhaps the best approach is for browser developers to put their heads together and agree on a subset of CSS that will be properly implemented. Another approach would be to throw out this HTML/CSS crap and start over with a compiled markup system that's easy-to-render.
College is one of the few times in life where it's very easy to meet people and make real friends. After college everyone is so into their own life that it's incredibly difficult to have a good social life.
Seriously, now is your chance to make some real lifelong friends. Don't pass it up.
This 4x4 thing is a bunch of marketing BS. Back when I entered college ('99) people were running desktops with dual Celrons. Putting two CPUs in a desktop is old news.
some people take the extreme; and intentionally leave their AP wide open.
So you opened up the specific ports used by BitTorrent, forward them to a randomly-chosen IP/hostname, and some stranger just happened to correctly guess how to configure his computer to use your randomly-chosen IP/hostname? I'm not lawyer, but I don't think courts are that stupid.
I recently switched from an "ergonomic" mouse back to a basic Microsoft mouse, and all of my RSI symptoms went away within a few weeks. It's incredibly easy to use a basic Microsoft mouse without moving my thumb, because there's no button/wheel under the thumb. The key is to use the mouse without bending my wrist/thumb.
At my company, I often see people walking around with wrist braces. Perhaps your employee would be best served with a $20 wrist brace from the drugstore?
I didn't know Slashdot covered DIY speaker projects.:)
Really, the only thing "tech" about this project is that the enclosures are recycled macs. DIY projects for self-powered speakers that can be plugged into an MP3 player, Diskman, Gameboy, ect, are a dime a dozen. I did enjoy looking at the pictures.
How long until my speakers make it onto the front page? Perhaps I should do a write-up on my pair of subwoofers that are as a large as washing machines?
I really think the concept of using this for games is a distraction from its real purpose. Think of information that is supposed to be "for your eyes only." What this does is create a disk that self-distructs. It is ideal for distributing preview versions of movies because it will make piracy difficult.
If I don't want to see it, how does it affect you?
Have you ever walked into an art museam where they discuss how priceless works of art were "defaced" by people painting shubs and clothing onto nude figures? What Cleanflix does is no different, because they are producing a defaced version of a DVD that is missing part of the artist's intention.
To the artist, it's really not matter of money. Defacing the work of an artist by removing nudity, sex, and/or cuss words destroys the emotions and experience that the artist intends for you to feel. I don't watch movies that contain content that I don't like, perhaps you might want to do the same.
How long do you think it will take for someone to sell a HTPC with DVD playback software that skips the dirty scenes and bleeps the dirty words? I don't think there's anything illegal with doing that.
The last time I was in MA, an article in a local newspaper caught my eye. Some parent picked up a teenager's cell phone and saw an IM that essentially was an ad for fresh pot. (I don't remember if it was his child's phone or a friend's phone.) If I remember correctly, it was a picture of the herb with a time and a place. The parent handed the phone over to the local police, who made a HUGE drug bust.
Having grown up in MA, (I graduated high school in 1999,) I can attest that young people do drugs... The answer to "does Framingham have a serious drug-dealer problem?" is the same as the answer to "does pot cause brain damage?"
Actually, it's more likely that the opposite will happen. The general public can run their operating system of choice, and virtualize Windows for games and misc. utilities. If we see someone write hooks into Windows GUI so that its applications can appear to be native in the host OS, we can be assured that Microsoft's dominance on the consumer desktop will be broken.
Why do I think that DVR owners will just stop watching ABC shows? This is as stupid as when some baseball field tried to ban peanuts because they made a mess.
"Fonetik" spelling wont work for a very simple reason: As we gain experience reading, we no longer look at each letter. We read by looking at the SHAPE of the word; our brains totally bypass the step of converting letter to their corresponding sounds.
How many of you stumbled through TFA's weird spellings? I certainly did! The loose correlation between written English and spoken English is a great teaching aid for youngsters! If we decided to re-spell all of our words, every adult would need to re-learn to read, because all of the words would have different shapes!
Another problem with "Fonetik" spelling is that it blurs distictions between subtle pronouciation differences. In reality, "Fonetik" and "Phonetic" sound slightly different. Even the words "Enuf" and "Enough" sound slightly different!
Perhaps the only real way to improve spelling is to be slightly more liberal with common words; popular changes will stick.
My solution: Just use the default setting of the IDE that everyone else uses! For Visual Studio.Net 2002 & 2003, the default was a tabbing solution that worked just like TFA describes.
In my first job out of college, no one ever argued about tabs vs. spaces because we all just stuck with Visual Studio's default settings.
Personally, I think code intenting is so obvious that I don't understand why we're still arguing about style. Just give me an IDE that indents automatically! I'd rather spend my time getting used to it then counting spaces.
But, go ahead and continue to spread the lies. Given the moderation you received, many still want to believe that fault lies with it's those damned tree huggin' hippies rather than criminals like Lay.
My father used to trade power in MA. He even has some freebies from his dealings with Enron. I remember the first time I moved out to CA he laughed at the state for not being able to supply its own power.
As I started to learn about Enron's nastiness, I finally was able to tell him that CA has plenty of power; Enron just illegally gamed the system so that they could make a buck. In fact CA is constantly building power plants; every time I go skiing, I see new windmills, and I believe there's a solar farm being built outside of LA.
Perhaps Enron started spreading the lies when my father had the misfortune of working with them?
There should be no web browser that's integrated into the OS. There are many reasons for this, but I'll name one: security. Browsing the web is an inherently insecure operation. Why would you (for any technical reason) integrate that function into the core of your OS?
[Begin sarcasm]
I'll agree with you when the auto industry decides that they should sell cars without tires and stereos. And, to encourage competition, we're going to make it illegal for car dealers to sell cars with transmissions installed!
What next, are you going to claim that standard ignition locks makes cars succeptable to theft?!
[End sarcasm]
There are two simple facts that show your argument is impracticle:
The general public expects that, when they buy a computer, it can get on the web without them having to install anything.
A modern operating system MUST provide an HTML/HTTP rendering component.
Seriously, this is 2006. Grandma doesn't want to spend two weeks installing software before she can do something with her computer. If you don't want her using IE, then buy her a Mac.
Financial apps are also not of major interest to developers - not only they require the attention to detail noted above, but attention to boring detail. Most developers are interested in development, not the nuts and bolts of small business accounting or something similar. As a result, I think it will be a very long time, if ever, before Linux "catches up." Of course, if more people were writing these apps instead of waiting for others to write them or writing about why others haven't written them, the choices would be much better.
...Writing an app that allows you to run all Windows applications perfectly under Linux sounds much more exciting.;)
Something to keep in mind is that Sony is very successful with SACD, even though it is more expensive, (and less popular,) then regular CD. This is because, for people who sit in a room and *listen* to classical music, SACD is worth every penny.
The same technique can be applied to video games, as long as Sony isn't expecting to be the market leader. If they are going after the hardcore gamers who will pay a few extra dollars for the best, their technique might work. After all, if there are enough audiophiles to support SACD, there must be enough hard core gamers to support PS3.
Hah! When I asked my college's priest (of my parents' religion) to remove me from his mailing list, the dialog was just like what you describe! He looked into his records and found that we went to the same (religous) high school, and asked me what was wrong with their brainwashing. (Brainwashing is my word; by the time I attended the religous high school, they primarily regulated religous education to be objective views on world religions and classes about ethics.)
For short distances I'll gently bring the car up to speed and then glide to a stop, such as when I'm in stop-and-go traffic or driving through stop signs. It's best if I can keep the engine around 2k PRM.
At higher speeds what hinders milage is the CVT transmission. This is because it's impracticle (sp?) to shift it into neutral during the "glide". Likewise, I find that it has quite a bit of internal resistance. I once had an oppertunity to drive the manual version of my car, and it got noticably higher milage.
The people in TFA probably have transmissions that are designed to allow the car to glide, much like how you can stop pedaling in a bike.
After I graduated with a BS in CS, I went to work for Best Buy so I could have beer money while looking for a real job. They offered me positions in both car audio and PC tech. I took the car audio position because it paid almost double the PC tech position. Really, the "Geek Squad" is just a bunch of warm bodies who can't find anything better.
SACD... Does anyone have an SACD player? No! (Except niche enthusiasts). Because, to Joe Sixpack, it's simply not worth the money for an immeasurable (to his ears) difference in quality.
I DO! SACD sounds much, much better......on a speaker system that I built by hand with premium components. SACD (and DVD-Audio,) will be around long enough for people like me to enjoy them, which makes them worth every penny.
Ultimatly SACD / DVD-Audio, BluRay / HD-DVD aren't mass market mediums. They're expensive toys, just like Laserdisk was back when most of us used VHS. And, just like Laserdisk lasted long enough for the enthusiast market to enjoy their $40 disks, BluRay / HD-DVD will last long enough for the enthusiast market to enjoy renting them through Netflix.
I'm not quite sure if I've had "classic" panic attacks, but whenever I've had problems with anxiety, it was due to problems in my social life. This occured when I graduated from school, because the social structure of my jobs were quite different from what I was used to at school.
As an aside: if you're smoking pot (especially if you're a habitual user), you may find it necessary to stop.
What's funny is that the anxiety that I had was party related to stopping; I was no longer seeing my friends from college on a regular basis. When I moved into an apartment close to my college, (and restarted the noted lifestyle,) the anxiety went away.
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All I need to say is that, from the standpoint of software development, CSS appears to be making the same mistakes as COBRA. The designers threw ever possible feature into the language without any thought about how difficult it would be to implement. CSS is the poster-child for feature-creep.
Perhaps the best approach is for browser developers to put their heads together and agree on a subset of CSS that will be properly implemented. Another approach would be to throw out this HTML/CSS crap and start over with a compiled markup system that's easy-to-render.
I'd add: "If they offer high-def downloads, then buying a mac-mini is cheaper then HD-DVD/BluRay"
Seriously, now is your chance to make some real lifelong friends. Don't pass it up.
This 4x4 thing is a bunch of marketing BS. Back when I entered college ('99) people were running desktops with dual Celrons. Putting two CPUs in a desktop is old news.
So you opened up the specific ports used by BitTorrent, forward them to a randomly-chosen IP/hostname, and some stranger just happened to correctly guess how to configure his computer to use your randomly-chosen IP/hostname? I'm not lawyer, but I don't think courts are that stupid.
At my company, I often see people walking around with wrist braces. Perhaps your employee would be best served with a $20 wrist brace from the drugstore?
Really, the only thing "tech" about this project is that the enclosures are recycled macs. DIY projects for self-powered speakers that can be plugged into an MP3 player, Diskman, Gameboy, ect, are a dime a dozen. I did enjoy looking at the pictures.
How long until my speakers make it onto the front page? Perhaps I should do a write-up on my pair of subwoofers that are as a large as washing machines?
I really think the concept of using this for games is a distraction from its real purpose. Think of information that is supposed to be "for your eyes only." What this does is create a disk that self-distructs. It is ideal for distributing preview versions of movies because it will make piracy difficult.
Have you ever walked into an art museam where they discuss how priceless works of art were "defaced" by people painting shubs and clothing onto nude figures? What Cleanflix does is no different, because they are producing a defaced version of a DVD that is missing part of the artist's intention.
To the artist, it's really not matter of money. Defacing the work of an artist by removing nudity, sex, and/or cuss words destroys the emotions and experience that the artist intends for you to feel. I don't watch movies that contain content that I don't like, perhaps you might want to do the same.
How long do you think it will take for someone to sell a HTPC with DVD playback software that skips the dirty scenes and bleeps the dirty words? I don't think there's anything illegal with doing that.
There was a format war between 33 RPM and 45 RPM records! In the end, the market adopted both.
Having grown up in MA, (I graduated high school in 1999,) I can attest that young people do drugs... The answer to "does Framingham have a serious drug-dealer problem?" is the same as the answer to "does pot cause brain damage?"
Actually, it's more likely that the opposite will happen. The general public can run their operating system of choice, and virtualize Windows for games and misc. utilities. If we see someone write hooks into Windows GUI so that its applications can appear to be native in the host OS, we can be assured that Microsoft's dominance on the consumer desktop will be broken.
Why do I think that DVR owners will just stop watching ABC shows? This is as stupid as when some baseball field tried to ban peanuts because they made a mess.
How many of you stumbled through TFA's weird spellings? I certainly did! The loose correlation between written English and spoken English is a great teaching aid for youngsters! If we decided to re-spell all of our words, every adult would need to re-learn to read, because all of the words would have different shapes!
Another problem with "Fonetik" spelling is that it blurs distictions between subtle pronouciation differences. In reality, "Fonetik" and "Phonetic" sound slightly different. Even the words "Enuf" and "Enough" sound slightly different!
Perhaps the only real way to improve spelling is to be slightly more liberal with common words; popular changes will stick.
In my first job out of college, no one ever argued about tabs vs. spaces because we all just stuck with Visual Studio's default settings.
Personally, I think code intenting is so obvious that I don't understand why we're still arguing about style. Just give me an IDE that indents automatically! I'd rather spend my time getting used to it then counting spaces.
My father used to trade power in MA. He even has some freebies from his dealings with Enron. I remember the first time I moved out to CA he laughed at the state for not being able to supply its own power.
As I started to learn about Enron's nastiness, I finally was able to tell him that CA has plenty of power; Enron just illegally gamed the system so that they could make a buck. In fact CA is constantly building power plants; every time I go skiing, I see new windmills, and I believe there's a solar farm being built outside of LA.
Perhaps Enron started spreading the lies when my father had the misfortune of working with them?
[Begin sarcasm]
I'll agree with you when the auto industry decides that they should sell cars without tires and stereos. And, to encourage competition, we're going to make it illegal for car dealers to sell cars with transmissions installed!
What next, are you going to claim that standard ignition locks makes cars succeptable to theft?!
[End sarcasm]
There are two simple facts that show your argument is impracticle:
- The general public expects that, when they buy a computer, it can get on the web without them having to install anything.
- A modern operating system MUST provide an HTML/HTTP rendering component.
Seriously, this is 2006. Grandma doesn't want to spend two weeks installing software before she can do something with her computer. If you don't want her using IE, then buy her a Mac.The same technique can be applied to video games, as long as Sony isn't expecting to be the market leader. If they are going after the hardcore gamers who will pay a few extra dollars for the best, their technique might work. After all, if there are enough audiophiles to support SACD, there must be enough hard core gamers to support PS3.
Hah! When I asked my college's priest (of my parents' religion) to remove me from his mailing list, the dialog was just like what you describe! He looked into his records and found that we went to the same (religous) high school, and asked me what was wrong with their brainwashing. (Brainwashing is my word; by the time I attended the religous high school, they primarily regulated religous education to be objective views on world religions and classes about ethics.)
At higher speeds what hinders milage is the CVT transmission. This is because it's impracticle (sp?) to shift it into neutral during the "glide". Likewise, I find that it has quite a bit of internal resistance. I once had an oppertunity to drive the manual version of my car, and it got noticably higher milage.
The people in TFA probably have transmissions that are designed to allow the car to glide, much like how you can stop pedaling in a bike.
After I graduated with a BS in CS, I went to work for Best Buy so I could have beer money while looking for a real job. They offered me positions in both car audio and PC tech. I took the car audio position because it paid almost double the PC tech position. Really, the "Geek Squad" is just a bunch of warm bodies who can't find anything better.
I DO! SACD sounds much, much better... ...on a speaker system that I built by hand with premium components. SACD (and DVD-Audio,) will be around long enough for people like me to enjoy them, which makes them worth every penny.
Ultimatly SACD / DVD-Audio, BluRay / HD-DVD aren't mass market mediums. They're expensive toys, just like Laserdisk was back when most of us used VHS. And, just like Laserdisk lasted long enough for the enthusiast market to enjoy their $40 disks, BluRay / HD-DVD will last long enough for the enthusiast market to enjoy renting them through Netflix.
What's funny is that the anxiety that I had was party related to stopping; I was no longer seeing my friends from college on a regular basis. When I moved into an apartment close to my college, (and restarted the noted lifestyle,) the anxiety went away.