The only metric/English distance conversions I remember are.62137 miles in a km, and 1.609344 km in a mile. (Yeah, one is 5 sig digs and the other is 7, so sue me.) All other distance measurements I have to get into miles or km first. Or punch up my trusty old Sharp EL-506D. (Anyone noticed how later revisions of the 506 have really sucked?)
Court decisions are applications of the law to one particular case. You do have equal protection of law. But every situation is different. Ruling differently on a different (albeit similar) case even where the same laws are applicable is certainly possible. Looking to earlier decisions as guides (precedents) is OK, but the law underlying that decision is what you should go by. Sometimes court decisions are bad precedents. Bad precedents should be ignored.
But it's not up to government to define what "hate" is, or even to regulate it. If I want to hate you, that's my choice. As long as I don't act on it to hurt you in any way, I've done no wrong.
In Canada, however, it is now illegal to hold certain opinions and to share them with others - the very definition of what free speech is about. If you are a Christian that believes homosexuality is a biblical sin (you may not agree, but that's irrelevant - someone's mere belief doesn't hurt anyone else), you cannot share that belief. How does a right "to not be hated" become more important than the freedoms of speech and religion?
It's a slippery slope. Once gov't assumes power to say that certain things are bad (i.e. illegal), and decrees X is bad (with your approval), what stops it from decreeing that Y is also bad (even if you disagree)? Once gov't has the power to do something, history shows that it will use that power and often in ways unexpected and undesired by the people. You cannot legislate away bigotry, but you can legislate away freedom.
I don't have that many open, but often I'll skim my favorite news sites (slashdot, WND, macslash) and open all the interesting headlines in new tabs. Then throughout the day if I get a break I read one. It's not unusual to have a dozen or more tabs open, 4-5 is very common. Many more if I'm doing online research as well, and sometimes I'm doing research on multiple projects at once. Rather than depend on the history to get back to the page that referenced me here, I'll open links in tabs so I can flip back and forth more easily.
This was announced in a nightly some time ago, and I was rejoicing. (Since 1.0 I hardly ever grab nightlies, so it was a happy coincidence that I did and it happened to be the first build with opacity support.) Even better is that it is also in Firefox now.
This is so cool because it makes it so easy to have CSS link "buttons" over a patterned background that require neither image buttons nor pixel-precise positioning to look right. Just set the background-color to some color and partially opaque, and the border the same color but less/more opaque - or a slightly darker/lighter color with the same opacity, if you want it to look better in non-opacity browsers. Tweak the:hover and:active as well for more button-like effects.
At least it's not quite as bad as trying to ban the word "niggardly", even though it has nothing at all to do with blacks. (Yes, it actually happened somewhere.)
What terminal emulators are you using on OS X? I find Terminal somewhat...lacking. I especially would like a ssh client, like Tectia (formerly SSH Secure Shell) for Windows, because establishing multiple ssh connections in multiple Terminals to the slower boxes on my LAN is a pain. Additional connections with Tectia are virtually instantaneous once the first one is authenticated.
Based on rxvt, light-weight, with additional features. I'm glad the article at least mentioned it. Why is anyone still using xterm? Do you really need Tektronix emulation? But with all the computational resources of the typical PC these days, the difference between xterm and aterm seems increasingly small.
I tried that once, but the IE theme/skin/whatever for Moz/FF is way out of date. If I'd had that, I think I would have pulled it off.
I've gotten my wife switched to a Moz-based browser at home, but haven't gotten her to fully appreciate the joy of tabbed browsing yet. Too used to IE.
Amen to that. If the marketing team found out that the webmaster was incompetently keeping their site from being indexed by the web's most-used search tool, I bet things would change real quick. But then, I still surf with a text-only browser on a regular basis.
Some people think they need to have their whiz-bang (for 1997) navigation aid in a small always-on-top window. They usually don't, but (very) occasionally that type of functionality is useful.
I'd have to agree. Let the user define his preferences for new windows, and apply it for user-opened or page-opened windows.
Right, server-side validation is absolutely essential.
But if you can implement client-side JS validation properly, there's nothing wrong with doing so. The user gets immediate feedback, without an extra round-trip just to be told to fix something. The user experience is greatly improved, and your server's burden is reduced since it only has to validate once thanks to already being validated on the client.
The previous poster pointed out the wrong way. The better way is <a href= "yourlink" onclick= "popupFunctionOrWhatever('yourlink'); return false;">click here</a> . This activates your JS function for those that have it and provides a normal link for those that don't. The return false prevents the normal link from being activated if the onclick is performed by JS-aware browsers.
Opera used to be my primary browser whenever I used Windows (i.e. at work), but today I started switching to Firefox. Why? Opera (7.2.3 and 7.5) has been exhibiting severe intermittent lagginess. It's got to have something to do with the firewall or proxy on the corporate network, but it affects even intranet sites. Other browsers are not affected. The intranet homepage never finishes loading, even with Opera open all day - the timer keeps counting like it's waiting for one last image at the bottom of the page or something.
I still love Opera, and would use it if I could. It streamlines browsing for me tremendously.
I get the "odd looks" too. At least my unit lead uses Mozilla, so I'm not the only one. He'd heard of Opera, but evidently never seen it before looking at my screen.
I just hope that in 10.4 Apple decides that metadata is good.
We can hope! I've been praying for that since I first started reading about 10.0. Maybe filetype will once again be relegated to metadata so we don't have stupid filename extensions.
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The only metric/English distance conversions I remember are .62137 miles in a km, and 1.609344 km in a mile. (Yeah, one is 5 sig digs and the other is 7, so sue me.) All other distance measurements I have to get into miles or km first. Or punch up my trusty old Sharp EL-506D. (Anyone noticed how later revisions of the 506 have really sucked?)
Right. You could stick a light on top - the coolest maritime navigation aid ever. :)
Court decisions are applications of the law to one particular case. You do have equal protection of law. But every situation is different. Ruling differently on a different (albeit similar) case even where the same laws are applicable is certainly possible. Looking to earlier decisions as guides (precedents) is OK, but the law underlying that decision is what you should go by. Sometimes court decisions are bad precedents. Bad precedents should be ignored.
But it's not up to government to define what "hate" is, or even to regulate it. If I want to hate you, that's my choice. As long as I don't act on it to hurt you in any way, I've done no wrong.
In Canada, however, it is now illegal to hold certain opinions and to share them with others - the very definition of what free speech is about. If you are a Christian that believes homosexuality is a biblical sin (you may not agree, but that's irrelevant - someone's mere belief doesn't hurt anyone else), you cannot share that belief. How does a right "to not be hated" become more important than the freedoms of speech and religion?
It's a slippery slope. Once gov't assumes power to say that certain things are bad (i.e. illegal), and decrees X is bad (with your approval), what stops it from decreeing that Y is also bad (even if you disagree)? Once gov't has the power to do something, history shows that it will use that power and often in ways unexpected and undesired by the people. You cannot legislate away bigotry, but you can legislate away freedom.
If HIV/AIDS is really an epidemic, why aren't those infected put in quarantine to try to stop the spread?
Honest question. Isn't that what you'd do to contain any other infectious communicable disease?
I don't have that many open, but often I'll skim my favorite news sites (slashdot, WND, macslash) and open all the interesting headlines in new tabs. Then throughout the day if I get a break I read one. It's not unusual to have a dozen or more tabs open, 4-5 is very common. Many more if I'm doing online research as well, and sometimes I'm doing research on multiple projects at once. Rather than depend on the history to get back to the page that referenced me here, I'll open links in tabs so I can flip back and forth more easily.
So there's a confirmation box to the confirmation box?
This was announced in a nightly some time ago, and I was rejoicing. (Since 1.0 I hardly ever grab nightlies, so it was a happy coincidence that I did and it happened to be the first build with opacity support.) Even better is that it is also in Firefox now.
This is so cool because it makes it so easy to have CSS link "buttons" over a patterned background that require neither image buttons nor pixel-precise positioning to look right. Just set the background-color to some color and partially opaque, and the border the same color but less/more opaque - or a slightly darker/lighter color with the same opacity, if you want it to look better in non-opacity browsers. Tweak the :hover and :active as well for more button-like effects.
Roe-v-Wade is a court decision that applies to Roe and Wade. Unfortunately court decisions are treated like laws, but they're not.
You meant adept right?
PS I hate slashdot screening HTML character entities out of posts. I want to use hellip and #9786 where appropriate.
All true.
At least it's not quite as bad as trying to ban the word "niggardly", even though it has nothing at all to do with blacks. (Yes, it actually happened somewhere.)
Doesn't looking for software for oddball platforms suck? Most of my *nix boxen are old Macs, so I feel your pain. Linux/PPC is better than most.
Sink it nose up in 300' deep water.
What terminal emulators are you using on OS X? I find Terminal somewhat...lacking. I especially would like a ssh client, like Tectia (formerly SSH Secure Shell) for Windows, because establishing multiple ssh connections in multiple Terminals to the slower boxes on my LAN is a pain. Additional connections with Tectia are virtually instantaneous once the first one is authenticated.
Based on rxvt, light-weight, with additional features. I'm glad the article at least mentioned it. Why is anyone still using xterm? Do you really need Tektronix emulation? But with all the computational resources of the typical PC these days, the difference between xterm and aterm seems increasingly small.
But is there a build for NetBSD/mac68k yet? Still looking for a decent GUI browser.
I tried that once, but the IE theme/skin/whatever for Moz/FF is way out of date. If I'd had that, I think I would have pulled it off.
I've gotten my wife switched to a Moz-based browser at home, but haven't gotten her to fully appreciate the joy of tabbed browsing yet. Too used to IE.
Amen to that. If the marketing team found out that the webmaster was incompetently keeping their site from being indexed by the web's most-used search tool, I bet things would change real quick. But then, I still surf with a text-only browser on a regular basis.
Some people think they need to have their whiz-bang (for 1997) navigation aid in a small always-on-top window. They usually don't, but (very) occasionally that type of functionality is useful.
I'd have to agree. Let the user define his preferences for new windows, and apply it for user-opened or page-opened windows.
Right, server-side validation is absolutely essential.
But if you can implement client-side JS validation properly, there's nothing wrong with doing so. The user gets immediate feedback, without an extra round-trip just to be told to fix something. The user experience is greatly improved, and your server's burden is reduced since it only has to validate once thanks to already being validated on the client.
The previous poster pointed out the wrong way. The better way is <a href= "yourlink" onclick= "popupFunctionOrWhatever('yourlink'); return false;">click here</a> . This activates your JS function for those that have it and provides a normal link for those that don't. The return false prevents the normal link from being activated if the onclick is performed by JS-aware browsers.
Opera used to be my primary browser whenever I used Windows (i.e. at work), but today I started switching to Firefox. Why? Opera (7.2.3 and 7.5) has been exhibiting severe intermittent lagginess. It's got to have something to do with the firewall or proxy on the corporate network, but it affects even intranet sites. Other browsers are not affected. The intranet homepage never finishes loading, even with Opera open all day - the timer keeps counting like it's waiting for one last image at the bottom of the page or something.
I still love Opera, and would use it if I could. It streamlines browsing for me tremendously.
I get the "odd looks" too. At least my unit lead uses Mozilla, so I'm not the only one. He'd heard of Opera, but evidently never seen it before looking at my screen.
Great, thanks! (Nice nick, too, BTW.)
I'd be interested in hearing more about Bind9 then. Off to Google...
We can hope! I've been praying for that since I first started reading about 10.0. Maybe filetype will once again be relegated to metadata so we don't have stupid filename extensions.