They are now trying to be more competitive in Cell Phones and Satellite dishes. You can shank their CEO for this. Well, that's how I parsed it, anyway.
I know it's bad form to RTFA, but, FTA:
Their idea? Fit inmates with RFID tags that allow their positions to be monitored, and then number crunch the resulting data sets to see who spends the most time with whom.
I'm quite happy with it for casual gaming (HL2 era - though it's only my graphics card holding me back on that front). I also develop with it (webdev though, so it's fairly irrelevant here).
No complaints from me.
The more they guarantee, the less you should trust what they say.
Nobody can guarantee anything when it comes to Google rankings. All you can do is follow best practices. The best thing for any site is well-written content (marked up well to highlight key words and phrases) and high-quality inlinks.
I've heard people 'guarantee' first page, top 10 results. Fact is, they can't guarantee anything, and any results from shady techniques are going to be short-lived, and detrimental in the long run.
It's a pretty simple Javascript that requests a.exe file from a chinese server and writes it to a temporary file using IE's FileSystemObject. It then runs cmd.exe to execute the file.
So, as usual, it's targetting the Windows/IE crowd.
I find the default font size too large for my liking, so I reduced it in my browser settings. Now your website layout is totally screwed up because you thought you could depend on 1em being equal to 10px. Test it yourself. Set (browser default) font sizes to 10px, 20px or 30px and load a test site - the font sizes are the same (i.e. the 10px that CSS sets it to) across all browsers. And yes, using EM measurements for anything other than text measurements (line-height etc) would be a little silly.
Percentages aren't supposed to increase sizing uniformly. That's why they are percentages and not absolute units! If I know that a font-size of 100% is 10px on all browsers, then 110% is 11px, 120% is 12px - used for headings etc.
So people who use the keyboard to navigate are totally unable to see where they are tabbing to? No, you give a:focus the same styling as a:hover (underline, colour change) so it's still clear which A is selected via keyboard navigation.
That YUI css file will reset all the browser defaults to an even layout saving you tons cross-browser tweaking. (Some things I disagree with though, like no bullets or numbers on your UL and OL tags. Still worth it though.) Font sizing? I appreciate that I haven't looked into the YUI css. However, one of my favourite pieces of CSS is: body{
font:62.5%/140% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
This is kind of a 'magic calculation' - setting the font size to 10px on every relatively modern browser. From then on in, percentages can be used to increase sizing uniformly.
My other two standard defaults are:
1. Setting everything (*) to margin:0 and padding:0 and lists to have no list-style-type. I personally prefer this - I use lists a lot more for structure (menus, breadcrumbs and such) than for traditional word processing-style formatting. So on a standard content div I'll put the list style back.
2. Removing the dotted-line focus on A tags.
I wonder what else is in that css to make it worthwhile to bother bringing in a 3rd party script... I'll have to check it out.
Opera Mini, as far as I understand, requests pages via Opera's servers. These preprocess the web page and send back a stripped-down version to the mobile.
It's pretty effective, too, with the newest version collapsing large list items etc.
I don't think I'd really want to browse the mobile web on anything else.
Agreed. If there were infinite planets, there would be infinite stars. Thus, any point you look at in the sky would end up at a star if there were nothing in the way.
The Universe is not infinite, because the sky is dark at night.
Although your points are valid for users switching browsers, I agree with the original point. It doesn't fit in with the Windows environment - at least, not yet:
It uses its own font-smoothing, so text in Safari under Windows looks different to every other application.
It doesn't seem to have access to Windows fonts for some reason.
If you have your taskbar set to auto-hide, you cannot access it whilst using Safari in full-screen mode
These are just a couple of points from my brief testing at work yesterday. I just thought Apple would have taken a leaf out of their own design guidelines when building an application for other OSs. I can understand Aqua, but the other points are a little strange.
Can't remember who it was (Brainiac, possibly) but a team did a series of tests on media storage. They took a hard drive, CD-ROM and a USB flash drive and exposed them to extreme cold, extreme heat, extreme violence and so on.
Eventually only the chip on the flash drive survived and, when it was hooked up to a new circuit board, all of the data was intact.
I think active athiests see how much damage is done by religion. I would like to suggest you watch The Root of All Evil by Richard Dawkins.
Although somewhat terse and often rude[1] the documentary highlights some serious problems with accepting religion and giving it the respect that it sees as being an inherent right.
[1] Not necessarily a bad thing - this is Richard Dawkins through and through:)
Something like that, yes. I'm not sure of the metals used, but one is softer than the other. This also gives the katana its trademark curve, as one metal contracts sooner than the other as they cool.
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No, it just walks Linux...
Indeed. So, in this case, 'continental' means 'on the continent' - i.e. the rest of Europe.
I wonder, do continental countries use this term?
... and cut out Experts-Exchange.com from your search results since their pages don't actually return the information you think they do.
Perhaps you should try scrolling to the bottom of the page... :)
IE8 is pretty much instantaneous when starting up. Browsing/rendering pages is pretty good too.
There's always the option of increasing concurrent HTTP connections if you desire (this applies to IE7, too).
It does make me wonder if the good Professor does indeed use all caps to shout, a la IRC.
No no, is is is (the original is). Is is is the duplicate is.
Is it not allowed in US English to end a sentence inside parentheses (such as in this case, where the end of the sentence is the exclamation mark)?
I'm quite happy with it for casual gaming (HL2 era - though it's only my graphics card holding me back on that front). I also develop with it (webdev though, so it's fairly irrelevant here). No complaints from me.
google.com/trends
It's up-to-date enough to scrape data and modify web applications that build keyword-based sites.
The more they guarantee, the less you should trust what they say.
Nobody can guarantee anything when it comes to Google rankings. All you can do is follow best practices. The best thing for any site is well-written content (marked up well to highlight key words and phrases) and high-quality inlinks.
I've heard people 'guarantee' first page, top 10 results. Fact is, they can't guarantee anything, and any results from shady techniques are going to be short-lived, and detrimental in the long run.
It's a pretty simple Javascript that requests a .exe file from a chinese server and writes it to a temporary file using IE's FileSystemObject. It then runs cmd.exe to execute the file.
So, as usual, it's targetting the Windows/IE crowd.
When I was 17/18, we were Generation X - now I'm 28, we're Generation Y? How does that work?
body{
font:62.5%/140% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
This is kind of a 'magic calculation' - setting the font size to 10px on every relatively modern browser. From then on in, percentages can be used to increase sizing uniformly.
My other two standard defaults are:
1. Setting everything (*) to margin:0 and padding:0 and lists to have no list-style-type. I personally prefer this - I use lists a lot more for structure (menus, breadcrumbs and such) than for traditional word processing-style formatting. So on a standard content div I'll put the list style back.
2. Removing the dotted-line focus on A tags.
I wonder what else is in that css to make it worthwhile to bother bringing in a 3rd party script... I'll have to check it out.
Opera Mini, as far as I understand, requests pages via Opera's servers. These preprocess the web page and send back a stripped-down version to the mobile. It's pretty effective, too, with the newest version collapsing large list items etc.
I don't think I'd really want to browse the mobile web on anything else.
Agreed. If there were infinite planets, there would be infinite stars. Thus, any point you look at in the sky would end up at a star if there were nothing in the way.
The Universe is not infinite, because the sky is dark at night.
- It uses its own font-smoothing, so text in Safari under Windows looks different to every other application.
- It doesn't seem to have access to Windows fonts for some reason.
- If you have your taskbar set to auto-hide, you cannot access it whilst using Safari in full-screen mode
These are just a couple of points from my brief testing at work yesterday. I just thought Apple would have taken a leaf out of their own design guidelines when building an application for other OSs. I can understand Aqua, but the other points are a little strange.Can't remember who it was (Brainiac, possibly) but a team did a series of tests on media storage. They took a hard drive, CD-ROM and a USB flash drive and exposed them to extreme cold, extreme heat, extreme violence and so on.
Eventually only the chip on the flash drive survived and, when it was hooked up to a new circuit board, all of the data was intact.
I think active athiests see how much damage is done by religion. I would like to suggest you watch The Root of All Evil by Richard Dawkins.
:)
Although somewhat terse and often rude[1] the documentary highlights some serious problems with accepting religion and giving it the respect that it sees as being an inherent right.
[1] Not necessarily a bad thing - this is Richard Dawkins through and through
Tsk. That was Bart's conversation with a punter. Marge and the Bartender went something like this:
Marge: Coffee, please.
Bartender: Beer?
Marge: Coffee...
Bartender: Beer...?
Marge: C... O...
Bartender: B... Eeer...
If it works, I promise send a message telling me to not use up all of my mod points so I can mod this funny!
...
:(
Damn it
Something like that, yes. I'm not sure of the metals used, but one is softer than the other. This also gives the katana its trademark curve, as one metal contracts sooner than the other as they cool.