99% of ads are javascript-based. You can always turn it on for trusted domains where you get some ajax-y benefit.
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I am suffering this nonsense right now, and the dialog box won't go behind other windows - I have shoved it almost off the screen to get it out of the way (and are you absolutely sure I won't come back after lunch to find my PC has decided enough is enough and rebooted itself?)
Seconded. I won't touch an iPod, but I have a Creative Zen Xtra which came with a 60GB laptop hard drive inside it. It's full, and has been for some time. Every time I want to add some more music, I have to agonize over what to delete. Planning to swap the drive for a bigger one in the near future.
The supposed superiority of the original three movies as indicudual films seems to me pure nostalgia. IMO Episode II is the best of the six by a long way (despite its awful love scenes).
Whenever I watch one of the Star Wars films, which is quite often as I have two young boys in the house, I find myself wishing that Joss Whedon has written the script. Lucas had a great gameplan for the SW doble trilogy, and some specific sequences are visually awe-inspiring, but his dialogue is almost entirely pants, and there are many many missed opportunies to twist the knife emotionally.
You're obviously not that familiar with the MO of the Blair government.
They (and really I mean he) think they already know what the solution is to any given problem, but heave heard somewhere that in a modern democracy there have to be "consultations" and "studies" - so they rig them. It is decreed that there shall be more sports facilities, and to justifiy this we shall have a study proving that more sports results in slimmer kids (obesity being the panic du jour). What? Your study is showing that access to sports facilities has little effect on obesity? Then I cut your funding, and will instead hold a consultation with a group made up entirely of gym teachers to prove that more sports facilities is indeed what the nation wants.
I wouldn't go down the prototype/scriptaculous route. Those libraries are powerful, but so is jQuery, and it's much more lightweight and easier to learn. Fun, even.
If you want to understand unobtrusive javascripting (which is the only way to go really, unless you don't mind your site's content being invisible to search engines), PPK's book is the best I've seen.
In its favour, Amazon is already a repository of fairly trustworthy opinion. But I'm not sure how it thinks the virtual money scenario will help it succeed where Google failed.
People expect to find the answer to their question for free on the internet, and this is in the main a not unrealistic expectation. The more savvy user will - when Googling draws a blank - post a question on a relevant forum, where - again, in the main - it will be answered. For free. Thus, this kind of operation is doomed, as it only appeals to the frustrated novice user (who probably also has a high expectation of getting the answer for free, they just don't know how, so will be reluctant to pay) and people in a hurry.
Just to add to this, for anyone who hasn't upgraded from 1.5 to 2.0 yet, you don't actually "lose" extensions that haven't yet been upgraded for 2.0. These extensions are disabled, but still appear on the list, and will be reactivated automatically once a compatible upgrade is detected.
That said, if an extension is still living in 1.5 limbo, it may be dead.
You'd better include the CDATA block as well, since presumably this blob won't look like a single text node to an XML parser - it will contain things that look like XML tags.
Can't even see the subject. It goes from that "Fine Print" panel thingy straight on to replies to the first comment. Oddly, I can see the title if I turn off the CSS. I'm using Firefox 2.0. Happens with non-trollish first posts, too.
Could someone explain to me why I can never EVER see the first comment? I have to infer what was said from the second comment. In this case, I presume the first poster said that PHP was the best programming language. I am using the newfangled AJAX-y comment thread expandomatic, but there's no button to click to see the first comment if it's been modded down.
Indeed. That comment was so unfair, one might almost think the OP was a Microsoft-hater. They fixed *ALL* the worst bugs in IE6, listening to people like positioniseverything who've been cataloguing them for years, and don't seem to have created too many new ones.
Not an IE7 fan, particularly, just a truth-pedant.
As I understand it, when the DRM is cracked, FOSS users will be better off than Vista users, as the latter has the ability to block 'unauthorized' software - and you can bet your little crack is going to end up on that list.
I don't know the exact details, but yeah they had some kind of deal, which MS went back on by "embracing and extending" their implementation of Java, meaning that applets written for the MS VM wouldn't work in the Sun one. Sun did sue (and, after years of stalling, MS eventually agreed to remove their VM from Windows/IE), but the damage was already done.
I'd be interested to know if the OP's orginal comment would have applied to this. If I understand correctly, GPL code could never be incorporated into Windows.
I'm very far from an expert on patents, licenses and the like, but I was responding to timeOday's comment: "[the move to GPL] will seem restrictive to those would like to tweak the JVM and then use it to compete against Sun." Isn't that precisely what Microsoft did, screwing up in-browser Java forever?
Thanks for the virtual mod points.
Actually I was serious. How long would it take an awesome idea like this to be perverted by commerce? Not as long as it would take to build, I fear. Blade Runner, anyone?
Btw, the vulgarity I used was meant for emphasis rather than as a description of the billboards' content (though by 2050 who knows what maybe allowed in advertising?)
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It seems I can.
99% of ads are javascript-based. You can always turn it on for trusted domains where you get some ajax-y benefit.
I am suffering this nonsense right now, and the dialog box won't go behind other windows - I have shoved it almost off the screen to get it out of the way (and are you absolutely sure I won't come back after lunch to find my PC has decided enough is enough and rebooted itself?)
Seconded. I won't touch an iPod, but I have a Creative Zen Xtra which came with a 60GB laptop hard drive inside it. It's full, and has been for some time. Every time I want to add some more music, I have to agonize over what to delete. Planning to swap the drive for a bigger one in the near future.
The supposed superiority of the original three movies as indicudual films seems to me pure nostalgia. IMO Episode II is the best of the six by a long way (despite its awful love scenes).
Whenever I watch one of the Star Wars films, which is quite often as I have two young boys in the house, I find myself wishing that Joss Whedon has written the script. Lucas had a great gameplan for the SW doble trilogy, and some specific sequences are visually awe-inspiring, but his dialogue is almost entirely pants, and there are many many missed opportunies to twist the knife emotionally.
If you use flac as your compressed format, you'll get a DRM-free copy no worse than the one you downloaded.
You're obviously not that familiar with the MO of the Blair government.
They (and really I mean he) think they already know what the solution is to any given problem, but heave heard somewhere that in a modern democracy there have to be "consultations" and "studies" - so they rig them. It is decreed that there shall be more sports facilities, and to justifiy this we shall have a study proving that more sports results in slimmer kids (obesity being the panic du jour). What? Your study is showing that access to sports facilities has little effect on obesity? Then I cut your funding, and will instead hold a consultation with a group made up entirely of gym teachers to prove that more sports facilities is indeed what the nation wants.
See also: the infamous dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
I wouldn't go down the prototype/scriptaculous route. Those libraries are powerful, but so is jQuery, and it's much more lightweight and easier to learn. Fun, even.
If you want to understand unobtrusive javascripting (which is the only way to go really, unless you don't mind your site's content being invisible to search engines), PPK's book is the best I've seen.
In its favour, Amazon is already a repository of fairly trustworthy opinion. But I'm not sure how it thinks the virtual money scenario will help it succeed where Google failed.
People expect to find the answer to their question for free on the internet, and this is in the main a not unrealistic expectation. The more savvy user will - when Googling draws a blank - post a question on a relevant forum, where - again, in the main - it will be answered. For free. Thus, this kind of operation is doomed, as it only appeals to the frustrated novice user (who probably also has a high expectation of getting the answer for free, they just don't know how, so will be reluctant to pay) and people in a hurry.
Just to add to this, for anyone who hasn't upgraded from 1.5 to 2.0 yet, you don't actually "lose" extensions that haven't yet been upgraded for 2.0. These extensions are disabled, but still appear on the list, and will be reactivated automatically once a compatible upgrade is detected. That said, if an extension is still living in 1.5 limbo, it may be dead.
You'd better include the CDATA block as well, since presumably this blob won't look like a single text node to an XML parser - it will contain things that look like XML tags.
<microsoft_word_document>
<[!CDATA[
(Content of
]]>
</microsoft_word_document>
Got to make sure it's valid XML.
It worked! Thanks
Can't even see the subject. It goes from that "Fine Print" panel thingy straight on to replies to the first comment. Oddly, I can see the title if I turn off the CSS. I'm using Firefox 2.0. Happens with non-trollish first posts, too.
Could someone explain to me why I can never EVER see the first comment? I have to infer what was said from the second comment. In this case, I presume the first poster said that PHP was the best programming language. I am using the newfangled AJAX-y comment thread expandomatic, but there's no button to click to see the first comment if it's been modded down.
Indeed. That comment was so unfair, one might almost think the OP was a Microsoft-hater. They fixed *ALL* the worst bugs in IE6, listening to people like positioniseverything who've been cataloguing them for years, and don't seem to have created too many new ones.
Not an IE7 fan, particularly, just a truth-pedant.
Even as a pernickety web developer, I wouldn't call a CSS display bug a critical vulnerability.
Is there a Mod of "Insufficiently Rabid"?
Yes. Isn't it terrible that you can't create interactivity on the web without "resorting" to the interactivity layer.
As I understand it, when the DRM is cracked, FOSS users will be better off than Vista users, as the latter has the ability to block 'unauthorized' software - and you can bet your little crack is going to end up on that list.
I don't know the exact details, but yeah they had some kind of deal, which MS went back on by "embracing and extending" their implementation of Java, meaning that applets written for the MS VM wouldn't work in the Sun one. Sun did sue (and, after years of stalling, MS eventually agreed to remove their VM from Windows/IE), but the damage was already done.
I'd be interested to know if the OP's orginal comment would have applied to this. If I understand correctly, GPL code could never be incorporated into Windows.
I'm very far from an expert on patents, licenses and the like, but I was responding to timeOday's comment: "[the move to GPL] will seem restrictive to those would like to tweak the JVM and then use it to compete against Sun." Isn't that precisely what Microsoft did, screwing up in-browser Java forever?
Shame they didn't do this 10 years ago...
Thanks for the virtual mod points. Actually I was serious. How long would it take an awesome idea like this to be perverted by commerce? Not as long as it would take to build, I fear. Blade Runner, anyone? Btw, the vulgarity I used was meant for emphasis rather than as a description of the billboards' content (though by 2050 who knows what maybe allowed in advertising?)
Or paint enormous fucking billboards underneath them.