Only "mildly" retarded? Development on the product was held back for six years. That - in the true meaning of the word - is "retarded". No need for qualifiers.
Firefox up to and including v1.5 has some pretty serious resource/memory leaks. I always curse myself if I leave the browser open overnight because, as you say, it eats more and more resources: memory and CPU. At least I used to. I am now using FF 2.0 RC2 and I find it much MUCH less of a resource hog. I don;t know wha they did, but it seems to have worked, even running gmail, which seemed to be the worst offender in the past. Definitely worth the uprgade.
Takes a hell of a long time to start up, though:-(
At a guess, he's using the HTML version of Gmail.
And... no folders in Gmail? What do you think labels are? Except labels have the advantage that mail can be in multiple 'folders' at once.
They're fighting a losing battle. I made a conscious choice to avoid the iPod, but still find myself calling my lovely Creative Zen Xtra "my iPod" on occasion. "Mp3 player" is too much of a mouthful, and "Zen" just doesn't trip off the tongue for some reason. That said, I have been asked by more than one non-techy person "should I buy an iPod or an mp3 player?" Perhaps Apple should reinforce this perception by turning off support for MP3s in future firmware 'upgrades'.
I can give you a concrete example of this. A long time ago while 'unemployed' some friends and I started up a niche magazine on very minimal funds. Somebody gave us a copy of Photoshop 2.5. I'd never heard of it before, but of course it proved very useful for image retouching, etc. Crucially, we could never have afforded to buy a legit copy.
Over the years I have become pretty skilled with Photoshop, and three companies I have worked for in past few years have bought the latest version specifically so that I can use it. Although they're very hypocritical about this, Adobe knows full well that this kind of thing happens, and it continually renews the user base for their overpriced products.
I think the main reason for this is because, like myself, most web coders use Firefox to develop their sites. It simply has the best dev tools. Then, armed with a bunch of hacks (or, probably, only one) we fix what needs to be fixed in IE. And most of the time it will work in Opera and Safari straight off.
This only works if you know the height of the element you're centering. In which case, you might as well figure out how much top margin is needed to centre it vertically. There is no usable CSS solution to the general case, yet.
I hardly ever bother using a browser's bookmarks these days - which tend to get lost anyway with changing computers, etc - but have the del.icio.us plugin on all my browsers. If I'm at a different computer, I can still get at, and search, all my bookmarks. Flock makes this even easier.
eg the sound of [insert name of insipid sub-RnB warbler] will be magically replaced by [insert name of hip rock outfit]. You could even program it to listen out for bleeped out Eminem lyrics, say, and put the all-important profanities back in. Really sophisticated sound recognition software wil be able to mashup the acceptable parts - say a catchy riff, or a well-sung phrase - and patch the less acceptable parts (eg cheesy fake strings) with bits of other, cooler records.
I really should patent this idea because one day it will probably be technically possible. Of course, by the magic of patents, I won't need to actually do the hard work of inventing this software - all I need to do is have the idea and it belongs to me!!!!
In truth, I hope that by the time this kind of AI is feasible, patents will have been abolished.
Now there's an idea! Can I patent a device which censors sounds on the radio which are offensive to my ears, but magically fills the gaps with things I like?
This reminds me of the composer Charles Ives, who wrote piano parts unplayable by human beings. When challenged about this, his response was that that was how the music was meant to be, and it wasn't his fault that pianists only had ten fingers.
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Only "mildly" retarded? Development on the product was held back for six years. That - in the true meaning of the word - is "retarded". No need for qualifiers.
Yep. body { overflow:hidden } But why would you want to do this?
Firefox up to and including v1.5 has some pretty serious resource/memory leaks. I always curse myself if I leave the browser open overnight because, as you say, it eats more and more resources: memory and CPU. At least I used to. I am now using FF 2.0 RC2 and I find it much MUCH less of a resource hog. I don;t know wha they did, but it seems to have worked, even running gmail, which seemed to be the worst offender in the past. Definitely worth the uprgade. Takes a hell of a long time to start up, though :-(
At a guess, he's using the HTML version of Gmail. And... no folders in Gmail? What do you think labels are? Except labels have the advantage that mail can be in multiple 'folders' at once.
This SSL & MIM stuff makes my head hurt. If I were a malicious cybercafe owner, I'd just put a keylogger on every machine.
They're fighting a losing battle. I made a conscious choice to avoid the iPod, but still find myself calling my lovely Creative Zen Xtra "my iPod" on occasion. "Mp3 player" is too much of a mouthful, and "Zen" just doesn't trip off the tongue for some reason. That said, I have been asked by more than one non-techy person "should I buy an iPod or an mp3 player?" Perhaps Apple should reinforce this perception by turning off support for MP3s in future firmware 'upgrades'.
BTW, loving the new AJAX-ed Slashdot.
I can give you a concrete example of this. A long time ago while 'unemployed' some friends and I started up a niche magazine on very minimal funds. Somebody gave us a copy of Photoshop 2.5. I'd never heard of it before, but of course it proved very useful for image retouching, etc. Crucially, we could never have afforded to buy a legit copy.
Over the years I have become pretty skilled with Photoshop, and three companies I have worked for in past few years have bought the latest version specifically so that I can use it. Although they're very hypocritical about this, Adobe knows full well that this kind of thing happens, and it continually renews the user base for their overpriced products.
I think the main reason for this is because, like myself, most web coders use Firefox to develop their sites. It simply has the best dev tools. Then, armed with a bunch of hacks (or, probably, only one) we fix what needs to be fixed in IE. And most of the time it will work in Opera and Safari straight off.
True. Or containing block. I stand corrected. But still, no solution if your content is at all fluid.
This only works if you know the height of the element you're centering. In which case, you might as well figure out how much top margin is needed to centre it vertically. There is no usable CSS solution to the general case, yet.
The test page doesn't validate (no doctype, for one). What is the 'correct' behaviour in quirks mode? Have you tried it with a validating page?
I hardly ever bother using a browser's bookmarks these days - which tend to get lost anyway with changing computers, etc - but have the del.icio.us plugin on all my browsers. If I'm at a different computer, I can still get at, and search, all my bookmarks. Flock makes this even easier.
I was actually thinking of music.
eg the sound of [insert name of insipid sub-RnB warbler] will be magically replaced by [insert name of hip rock outfit]. You could even program it to listen out for bleeped out Eminem lyrics, say, and put the all-important profanities back in. Really sophisticated sound recognition software wil be able to mashup the acceptable parts - say a catchy riff, or a well-sung phrase - and patch the less acceptable parts (eg cheesy fake strings) with bits of other, cooler records.
I really should patent this idea because one day it will probably be technically possible. Of course, by the magic of patents, I won't need to actually do the hard work of inventing this software - all I need to do is have the idea and it belongs to me!!!!
In truth, I hope that by the time this kind of AI is feasible, patents will have been abolished.
Now there's an idea! Can I patent a device which censors sounds on the radio which are offensive to my ears, but magically fills the gaps with things I like?
This reminds me of the composer Charles Ives, who wrote piano parts unplayable by human beings. When challenged about this, his response was that that was how the music was meant to be, and it wasn't his fault that pianists only had ten fingers.