Netscape 3 handles CSS better than IE 3-5 or Netscape 4 -- it ignores it. This is a 100% perfectly valid way of interpreting CSS. It's better for browsers to ignore what they don't understand than to try to do something that ends up being wrong.
I haven't used FONT tags on a page I've written in two years, since I discovered style sheets. Except stuff at work, where I cut-and-paste other people's templates, but that doesn't count.
I say put it into a close orbit of Amalthea. For those that don't know, Amalthea is one of the minor moons that orbits just inwards of Io and the other Galilean satellites. I've always thought it interesting because it is a peculiar red color, possibly because of material ejected from Io. This would be a good reason to get closer, to find out why! It would have to be quite close, in fact, because it's gravity would be very very weak. But heck, if it crashes, they were planning to do that anyway!
I think that whole issue is really stupid. I understand the need to protect trademarks, but come on! There are only so many words/phrases that make any sense without going over 25 characters - the point at which it starts getting too long to remember easily. I think there should be some enforcement about which domains you can take. Let Ford Motor Co. take ford.com, sure, but leave ford.net available for someone else that has a legitimate claim to the name, like Joe Ford who owns a networking company in Sandusky, OH.
I think buying up your 2LD across every available TLD namespace is just lame. Unless your organization spans the reasons for those namespaces, you should be restricted from using them.
Sorry, just had to rant a bit. It burns me when a good name is wasted by a squatter or someone that isn't using it.
Of course, then you have the headache of adjudicating fair use...
Although Love admits to "some whimsy" in offering up a.sucks domain - others have suggested a more diplomatic name, such as.NIX -- he insists that the proposal is a serious one.
I'm going to run out and pre-register u.nix so I can make lots of money!!! I can just imagine the bidding wars between the pro-unix and anti-unix folks for that domain. I'm gonna be rich!
Don't make the mistake of thinking that hardware X is only good for software Y. The PPC architecture is a darn good one. With *n*x making such inroads in the embedded systems market, ports to the PPC make an incredible amount of sense due to their smaller size and lower power requirements. When I look at comparisons between the chips, I wonder why anyone would buy an x86 box. Yuck.
I like PPC because it's a good design. (x86 is an outmoded hog.) I like MacOS because it's easy to learn and use. I like *n*x because it's a powerful tool. (Windows claims to be a powerful yet easy-to-use OS, and delivers on neither promise.) Developments like this mean that I can be completely Wintel-free. That's a good thing, IMO.
Is this going to be one of those goofy deals that requires the Mac to load an extension (Boot X or something like that) before it can switch OS? Or will these PMacs boot right into BSD?
Welcome to Canada, it's the Maple Leaf state Canada, oh Canada, it's great! The people are nice and they speak French, too If you don't like it, man, you sniff glue The Great White North, their kilts are plaid Hosers take off, it's not half bad I want to be where yaks can run free Where Royal Mounties can arrest me
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
They've got trees, and mooses, and sled dogs Lots of lumber, and lumberjacks, and logs We all think it's kind of a drag That you have to go there to get milk in a bag They say "eh?" instead of "what?" or "duh?" That's the mighty power of Canada I want to be where lemmings run into the sea Where the marmosets can attack me
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
Please, please, explain to me How this all has come to be We forgot to mention something here Did we say that William Shatner is a native citizen? And Slurpees made from venison That's deer
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
Isn't it funny? This comment, which I felt fairly satisfied with, at least one other person thought was great, and several thought interesting enough to write substantial responses to, didn't move a bit. However, this article, which was just a random-thought-in-passing, got bumped to a 3.
Sorry, I was just amused and had to say something.:-)
Rabid Christian agenda? You've obviously never read _Mere Christianity_ then. Lewis is very rational about his beliefs.
Also, his Christian outlook is evident throughout all 7 of the Narnia Chronicles. The parallels are quite interesting and thought-provoking. It's "mere fantasy literature" only to those who don't bother to look any further. Lewis was quite definitely making a point with them.
Second, what 13-headed hydra of a committee DESIGNED their encryption specs? This is the second glaring hole found.
Maybe one that secretly hated the idea of DVD encryption and regionalization as much as we all do. A brother hacker out there somewhere, remaining anonymous, did us all a favor.
Oooo, I like! I get into a fit every time I use MS Word. Why? Because after several years of writing structural HTML and then applying CSS that describes the appearance of that structure, trying to do things any other way seems extremely foreign.
It wouldn't be so bad if the Word default was to assume next to nothing, but it's forever doing things I don't want it to do. I want things to come up when I explicitly say so, and not at other times, darn it! If I want it otherwise, I'll define my own styles that say what I want. I don't want crappy MS assumptions getting in my way!!!
C.S. Lewis also passed away on Nov. 22, 1963. I read a good book once, Between Heaven and Hell, that describes a possible conversation the three might have had on their way into the afterlife. Completely fictional of course, but interesting.
Thanks, that's interesting. Is there any way to know (or test) which Macs have "good" Open Firmware? I've got a PMac G3, and would like to buy a new one within a year or so, making this one a *n*x box. And I'd like to avoid the boot-to-Mac stage if at all possible.
So what should a Virginian say to his congressperson? What specific points of UCITA are anti-consumer? What should be changed so that the legitimate interests of both sides are served?
I disagree with the idea about karma fade. It sounds ok, until you think about lurkers. A lurker is a guy who sits around most of the time just reading, and infrequently posts. However, if such a person is moved to post, there's a good chance that what he wants to say is going to be very good! He should be allowed to accumulate karma, don't you think?
If you're saying there's no "cause and effect" in Christianity, you've obviously never met anyone who's been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. I've seen amazing transformations in people's lives that can be attributed to nothing else. Something radical happened to those people. That something was an encounter with God.
I won't even go into the miracles I alone have seen, or the many others that are reported and documented, that defy natural cause and effect explanations. God is real. I've seen the effects, He is the cause.
How does the topic come up if someone doesn't bring it up? The only way for a topic not to come up is if no one says anything at all! There wouldn't even be a thread for discussion unless someone brought up a topic.
Anyway, I don't think your proposition works. For example, let's say we are in a thread about cloning. You have strong feelings about open source, so you wonder if the technology will be made freely available. Hey! You brought up open source when this was not an open source thread!
I think you're missing the point of what jnd3 said. Faith is an integral part of some people's lives. Every other area is influenced by it. Like he said, it influences the way he reads the newspaper. A relationship with the Creator of the universe ought to have a large impact on your life that can't be ignored!
How do you know the person doesn't want to hear the preaching unless you try? The topic must be brought up before you can know.
How are trillions upon trillions of random chances (Big Bang + Evolution) a simpler solution than creation by God? I'll take one event with purpose rather than a google purposeless events any day.
[...] I do resent the so-called Christian Right, which intruded itself into American politics more than any other religion and often promotes censorship and a visceral distrust of technology. [...]
I believe religion has no place in politics, education or technology.
You're correct. Religion has no place in politics. The U.S. gov't lives by the idea of separation of church and state. Note that it is church and state. Church, as in the organized institutions run by mankind. It's not a separation of God and state.
In defense of the Christian right, they are by and large are just people trying to do what they think is right - like anyone else. Many Christians see gov't today as drifting away from the moral foundation it was based on. For Christians, morality derives only from God. (If it derived from man, it ends up being "whatever I feel like today" and not a constant. Moral relativism is doomed to failure.) The abusive interpretation of church/state separation as God/state separation in recent years is what's wrong, which the Christian right wants to rectify.
Jesus taught us to "give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." Paul, in 1 Timothy, encourages us to pray for our leaders. The bible makes it pretty clear that people in position of human authority are there because it is part of God's plan, but it is also clear that the human authorities are under God's authority. Modern gov't seems to have forgotten that. That's what concerns the Christian right the most, IMO. There's a higher authority than the president, Senate, or Supreme Court. Thinking otherwise is hubris, and a sin. We need to remember God as a part of our lives as individuals, and we can't just leave Him out of our corporate (group) lives either. You can't say, "It's fine to have God at home, but leave Him behind when you come to Washington." It doesn't work that way. He must be the Lord of all, or He isn't Lord at all.
As far as censorship... There are some things that are not godly. They don't promote a godly lifestyle. Christians honestly believe that the world would be a better place without them. So while Christians believe in and defend free speech because it is a "good", we also detest pornography because it is an "evil".
As far as technology... People are scared of what they don't understand. Christogeeks aren't scared of the 'Net, but then, we understand it. Christians are concerned (rightly, IMO) about the ease of access to illicit materials on the 'Net. It's one more avenue to ungodly things to watch out for, as if it weren't already hard enough to watch out for muggers, rapists, kidnappers, and drug pushers. Most communities don't want adult bookstores to move in next door, yet that's almost what the 'Net does. However, most people (not just Christians) don't know enough about it to realize that saying "the 'Net is evil and should be stopped!" is akin to saying "adult bookstores owners should be shot!" You don't shoot the messenger because of the message he carries. Some of what it/he does is bad, but that's not the way to remedy the problem.
As far as bio and bio-tech issues, I think Christians are (again, rightly) concerned about human cloning, etc. Human life is a sacred thing. That's why murder is a sin! God also makes marriage a sacred thing. He realizes that two people coming together is a very special thing, and within that marriage is the only place He considers right for creating new life. This is why human cloning is a concern. It's not God's idea for how things are to be.
OK, so maybe I'm rambling a bit now, so I'll stop. I just wanted to try to explain why the Christian right do the things they do. I don't believe it is to "push for censorship, attack culture and technology, and force a certain kind of moral values on people who don't necessarily want them" just for the sake of doing it. Christians genuinely believe that some things aren't godly and thus shouldn't be seen; that some parts of culture promote ungodly things; that some technology could be misused for the above and thus should be regulated. They believe God's way is the best way, the only way, and want the world to a better place. God's way defines moral values. Not following Him is called sin, and we're all guilty. Fortunately, His love is supreme, and He's given us an "out" through His Son.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him would not die, but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
To sum up, I think it would be wrong for the Christians not to be involved in politics. Politics affects us all, and who's to say, "Because we don't like your views, you can't participate." We want to make a stand for what God says is right. Isn't that a worthwhile goal? We may not always get it right, but who does? We're all imperfect. We'll keep on trying to "promote charity, tolerance, generousity, love and peace." The one thing we cannot tolerate or love, because God does not, is sin. Jesus did not just tolerate people, he loved them. He never once told a sinner, "I accept the sin you are doing as OK," but he always said, "I accept you as you are, now go and sin no more."
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Netscape 3 handles CSS better than IE 3-5 or Netscape 4 -- it ignores it. This is a 100% perfectly valid way of interpreting CSS. It's better for browsers to ignore what they don't understand than to try to do something that ends up being wrong.
I haven't used FONT tags on a page I've written in two years, since I discovered style sheets. Except stuff at work, where I cut-and-paste other people's templates, but that doesn't count.
I say put it into a close orbit of Amalthea. For those that don't know, Amalthea is one of the minor moons that orbits just inwards of Io and the other Galilean satellites. I've always thought it interesting because it is a peculiar red color, possibly because of material ejected from Io. This would be a good reason to get closer, to find out why! It would have to be quite close, in fact, because it's gravity would be very very weak. But heck, if it crashes, they were planning to do that anyway!
I think that whole issue is really stupid. I understand the need to protect trademarks, but come on! There are only so many words/phrases that make any sense without going over 25 characters - the point at which it starts getting too long to remember easily. I think there should be some enforcement about which domains you can take. Let Ford Motor Co. take ford.com, sure, but leave ford.net available for someone else that has a legitimate claim to the name, like Joe Ford who owns a networking company in Sandusky, OH.
I think buying up your 2LD across every available TLD namespace is just lame. Unless your organization spans the reasons for those namespaces, you should be restricted from using them.
Sorry, just had to rant a bit. It burns me when a good name is wasted by a squatter or someone that isn't using it.
Of course, then you have the headache of adjudicating fair use...
I'm going to run out and pre-register u.nix so I can make lots of money!!! I can just imagine the bidding wars between the pro-unix and anti-unix folks for that domain. I'm gonna be rich!
:-D
Ugh, /. parser killed that message. Sorry.
Should have said "I just want to know when the Moz will be runnable on MacOS < 8.5."
I just want to know when the Moz will be runnable on MacOS
Don't make the mistake of thinking that hardware X is only good for software Y. The PPC architecture is a darn good one. With *n*x making such inroads in the embedded systems market, ports to the PPC make an incredible amount of sense due to their smaller size and lower power requirements. When I look at comparisons between the chips, I wonder why anyone would buy an x86 box. Yuck.
I like PPC because it's a good design. (x86 is an outmoded hog.) I like MacOS because it's easy to learn and use. I like *n*x because it's a powerful tool. (Windows claims to be a powerful yet easy-to-use OS, and delivers on neither promise.) Developments like this mean that I can be completely Wintel-free. That's a good thing, IMO.
Is this going to be one of those goofy deals that requires the Mac to load an extension (Boot X or something like that) before it can switch OS? Or will these PMacs boot right into BSD?
Welcome to Canada, it's the Maple Leaf state
Canada, oh Canada, it's great!
The people are nice and they speak French, too
If you don't like it, man, you sniff glue
The Great White North, their kilts are plaid
Hosers take off, it's not half bad
I want to be where yaks can run free
Where Royal Mounties can arrest me
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today
They've got trees, and mooses, and sled dogsCanada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
Lots of lumber, and lumberjacks, and logs
We all think it's kind of a drag
That you have to go there to get milk in a bag
They say "eh?" instead of "what?" or "duh?"
That's the mighty power of Canada
I want to be where lemmings run into the sea
Where the marmosets can attack me
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today
Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
Please, please, explain to me
How this all has come to be
We forgot to mention something here
Did we say that William Shatner is a native citizen?
And Slurpees made from venison
That's deer
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today
Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
FIF
Isn't it funny? This comment, which I felt fairly satisfied with, at least one other person thought was great, and several thought interesting enough to write substantial responses to, didn't move a bit. However, this article, which was just a random-thought-in-passing, got bumped to a 3.
Sorry, I was just amused and had to say something. :-)
Rabid Christian agenda? You've obviously never read _Mere Christianity_ then. Lewis is very rational about his beliefs.
Also, his Christian outlook is evident throughout all 7 of the Narnia Chronicles. The parallels are quite interesting and thought-provoking. It's "mere fantasy literature" only to those who don't bother to look any further. Lewis was quite definitely making a point with them.
Maybe one that secretly hated the idea of DVD encryption and regionalization as much as we all do. A brother hacker out there somewhere, remaining anonymous, did us all a favor.
Oooo, I like! I get into a fit every time I use MS Word. Why? Because after several years of writing structural HTML and then applying CSS that describes the appearance of that structure, trying to do things any other way seems extremely foreign.
It wouldn't be so bad if the Word default was to assume next to nothing, but it's forever doing things I don't want it to do. I want things to come up when I explicitly say so, and not at other times, darn it! If I want it otherwise, I'll define my own styles that say what I want. I don't want crappy MS assumptions getting in my way!!!
C.S. Lewis also passed away on Nov. 22, 1963. I read a good book once, Between Heaven and Hell, that describes a possible conversation the three might have had on their way into the afterlife. Completely fictional of course, but interesting.
Yeah. Just use an apple with the bite on the LEFT side. Problem solved. :)
Heh mm heheh. He said, "organ." Heh heh mm heh heh heheh mm heh!
Huhuh. Shut up, Beavis. You want me to smack you?
Heheh mm heh. Yeah! YEAH!
*smack*
Ahhh, brings back the memories, doesn't it, Vel?
Thanks, that's interesting. Is there any way to know (or test) which Macs have "good" Open Firmware? I've got a PMac G3, and would like to buy a new one within a year or so, making this one a *n*x box. And I'd like to avoid the boot-to-Mac stage if at all possible.
So what should a Virginian say to his congressperson? What specific points of UCITA are anti-consumer? What should be changed so that the legitimate interests of both sides are served?
I disagree with the idea about karma fade. It sounds ok, until you think about lurkers. A lurker is a guy who sits around most of the time just reading, and infrequently posts. However, if such a person is moved to post, there's a good chance that what he wants to say is going to be very good! He should be allowed to accumulate karma, don't you think?
Umm, how is OF "broken"? I remember hearing about OF and thinking how cool that would be.
If you're saying there's no "cause and effect" in Christianity, you've obviously never met anyone who's been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. I've seen amazing transformations in people's lives that can be attributed to nothing else. Something radical happened to those people. That something was an encounter with God.
I won't even go into the miracles I alone have seen, or the many others that are reported and documented, that defy natural cause and effect explanations. God is real. I've seen the effects, He is the cause.
How does the topic come up if someone doesn't bring it up? The only way for a topic not to come up is if no one says anything at all! There wouldn't even be a thread for discussion unless someone brought up a topic.
Anyway, I don't think your proposition works. For example, let's say we are in a thread about cloning. You have strong feelings about open source, so you wonder if the technology will be made freely available. Hey! You brought up open source when this was not an open source thread!
I think you're missing the point of what jnd3 said. Faith is an integral part of some people's lives. Every other area is influenced by it. Like he said, it influences the way he reads the newspaper. A relationship with the Creator of the universe ought to have a large impact on your life that can't be ignored!
How do you know the person doesn't want to hear the preaching unless you try? The topic must be brought up before you can know.
How are trillions upon trillions of random chances (Big Bang + Evolution) a simpler solution than creation by God? I'll take one event with purpose rather than a google purposeless events any day.
As if the handle weren't enough to tell you. :)
You're correct. Religion has no place in politics. The U.S. gov't lives by the idea of separation of church and state. Note that it is church and state. Church, as in the organized institutions run by mankind. It's not a separation of God and state.
In defense of the Christian right, they are by and large are just people trying to do what they think is right - like anyone else. Many Christians see gov't today as drifting away from the moral foundation it was based on. For Christians, morality derives only from God. (If it derived from man, it ends up being "whatever I feel like today" and not a constant. Moral relativism is doomed to failure.) The abusive interpretation of church/state separation as God/state separation in recent years is what's wrong, which the Christian right wants to rectify.
Jesus taught us to "give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." Paul, in 1 Timothy, encourages us to pray for our leaders. The bible makes it pretty clear that people in position of human authority are there because it is part of God's plan, but it is also clear that the human authorities are under God's authority. Modern gov't seems to have forgotten that. That's what concerns the Christian right the most, IMO. There's a higher authority than the president, Senate, or Supreme Court. Thinking otherwise is hubris, and a sin. We need to remember God as a part of our lives as individuals, and we can't just leave Him out of our corporate (group) lives either. You can't say, "It's fine to have God at home, but leave Him behind when you come to Washington." It doesn't work that way. He must be the Lord of all, or He isn't Lord at all.
As far as censorship... There are some things that are not godly. They don't promote a godly lifestyle. Christians honestly believe that the world would be a better place without them. So while Christians believe in and defend free speech because it is a "good", we also detest pornography because it is an "evil".
As far as technology... People are scared of what they don't understand. Christogeeks aren't scared of the 'Net, but then, we understand it. Christians are concerned (rightly, IMO) about the ease of access to illicit materials on the 'Net. It's one more avenue to ungodly things to watch out for, as if it weren't already hard enough to watch out for muggers, rapists, kidnappers, and drug pushers. Most communities don't want adult bookstores to move in next door, yet that's almost what the 'Net does. However, most people (not just Christians) don't know enough about it to realize that saying "the 'Net is evil and should be stopped!" is akin to saying "adult bookstores owners should be shot!" You don't shoot the messenger because of the message he carries. Some of what it/he does is bad, but that's not the way to remedy the problem.
As far as bio and bio-tech issues, I think Christians are (again, rightly) concerned about human cloning, etc. Human life is a sacred thing. That's why murder is a sin! God also makes marriage a sacred thing. He realizes that two people coming together is a very special thing, and within that marriage is the only place He considers right for creating new life. This is why human cloning is a concern. It's not God's idea for how things are to be.
OK, so maybe I'm rambling a bit now, so I'll stop. I just wanted to try to explain why the Christian right do the things they do. I don't believe it is to "push for censorship, attack culture and technology, and force a certain kind of moral values on people who don't necessarily want them" just for the sake of doing it. Christians genuinely believe that some things aren't godly and thus shouldn't be seen; that some parts of culture promote ungodly things; that some technology could be misused for the above and thus should be regulated. They believe God's way is the best way, the only way, and want the world to a better place. God's way defines moral values. Not following Him is called sin, and we're all guilty. Fortunately, His love is supreme, and He's given us an "out" through His Son.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him would not die, but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
To sum up, I think it would be wrong for the Christians not to be involved in politics. Politics affects us all, and who's to say, "Because we don't like your views, you can't participate." We want to make a stand for what God says is right. Isn't that a worthwhile goal? We may not always get it right, but who does? We're all imperfect. We'll keep on trying to "promote charity, tolerance, generousity, love and peace." The one thing we cannot tolerate or love, because God does not, is sin. Jesus did not just tolerate people, he loved them. He never once told a sinner, "I accept the sin you are doing as OK," but he always said, "I accept you as you are, now go and sin no more."
When I started, this was the third post.
Yup. Just yesterday I got something addressed to "Christ Trekkers" at my address. NSI is the only place I've ever used that designation.
Spam, both snail and e, needs to die a quick but painful death.