had 4 people who work in the back office at a church read this article. As I assumed, they only skimmed it. So I went and 'skimmed' it as well.
Here's what I dont like about this article.
They mention human fetal(baby) midbrain tissues and also 'embryonic'(baby) stem cells. Yet it wasn't clear to any of the skimmers if the stem cells used in this study were actually from fertilized human eggs or dead human babies. We could only assume it was one or the other.
Yes, I know the article says which source the cells were from: Goldman and his team took human fetal midbrain tissues, in which dopamine cells are made, and extracted glial cells, whose normal role is to support and maintain the growth of neurons. They then cultured stem cells in this glia-rich environment.
But none of the regular everday church secretaries bothered to try to comprehend the entire paragraph.
Also, from a skimmers point of view, it doesnt seem to point out that there are usable stem cells to be found in a living humans body. No need to kill babies to get stem cells.
Articles like this that aren't very clear to the average person and also don't mention adult stem cells probably do nothing but hurt the stem cell agenda. Personally I think if all embryonic and fetal stem cell experiments were put on hold and everyone focused on actually achieving a world changing breakthrough using adult stem cells, then the public might someday be more open to the idea of embryonic stem cell research (I never will).
I've been gettin banned from #css channels all over irc for starting discussions on a future possible css native
ul {display:select} li {display:option}
that would allow the somewhat common (but bad) usage of selects boxes as site navigation to be replaced with a regular list of links that looked and acted the same way.
I think Primavera Expedition should get with the times. Sooner or later somebody's gonna realize the web is moving forward while these old browser based apps are trapping large rich corporations in the past. A new app migh show up with all the same features and friendlier functionality that's easier to maintain and update and cross browser/os compatible and snatch up a lot of Primavera Expedition customers.
I havent ever used expedition but judging by the screenshots, there's nothing that jumps out to me as needing to be specific to any 1 browser. Also a lot of screenshots of their other products have lots of charts/graphs that remind me of googles analytics and some other web based apps I've seen recently. In a few years/months time I would expect either companies with products like that will upgrade them for their own benefit moving forward
or someone else will realize "hey, we can make all this same stuff in less time with less headache using modern methods and browsers and take a good part of their market"
I'm sure there are enough people out there who have felt IE6's sting many a time and are dying for the one or two apps they depend on to allow them to ban IE use in the company.
start with: if we convince our client to have all their agents switch to firefox we can have the new backend up and running in less than half the time we quoted and with a helluvalot more user friendly features than we initially quoted. We might even be able to charge them for some of the nicer features and still have it done waaay ahead of the quoted schedule....so long as they agree to only use firefox (or safari or opera).
My wife and kid do fine with it, thank you very much, and we do a lot more with our computers than most folks I know.
I can't get a single recent live cd linux distro to even boot on my system (< 2 yr old hardware, 2 gigs of ram). At this point I have a $50 reward for anyone willing to come to my house and get a recent live cd to boot. I've only had 2 old knoppix versions work. When installed to the HD they don't work:(.
I'm almost tempted to buy one of the paid for distros to get the support need to get the shit installed and working.
Windows sucks but it works...most of the time...for me at least.
never heard of a site that required me to install an ff extenstion (except maybe that one that lets you use ff to install windows updates)
never had a ff extension screw over my entire OS
Don't think ff extensions have anywhere near the possibly dangerous freedoms allowed to active x
looking at some ie7 screenshots and comparing to my FF: I heard they removed a lot of the customizability of the IE toolbars in v7? If that's true, it'll suck for me. My FF has the File-Edit-etc.. and bookmarks toolbar and 6 extension related buttons and the search box and forward/back/refresh/home all on the same all on the same top line.
some would say that's a bit cramped but it's how 'I' like it. it allows my address bar on the 2nd line to span the full width of the screen which is often very useful for web devs and other people who happen to understand how urls work.
3rd row is tabs.
Point I'm trying to make is that even if many people think MS has again chosen crappy defaults for IE and the OS as a whole, this problem can be fixed by giving the users easily accessible ways of changing the defaults to something they would like.
But as other posts have pointed out, all the OS defaults that I would want to change are totally buried and I'd never find where to change all of them. And I've heard that a lot of the flexibility of IE's toolbars is totally gone. I hate it's default appearance and I'd really hat not being able to change it.
Can I get rid of the new tab button? I've been using ctrl+T even before firefox with avant browser. I have no need for that dumb looking and poorly placed button.
actually there is a way around the png problem in IE 6 using a bit of javascript. I believe there are 3 or 4 ways people have found around this problem. the 2 that I've tried seem to introduce other problems tho.
Garou: Mark Of the Wolves (A Fatal Fury Game) I can't think of any other fighting game this smoothly animated and well balanced. And I can beat everyone I know to a pulp with Kim Jae Hoon even though he sort of sucks in all the other games.
Star Wars Episode 1: Pod Racer (PC or Emulated N-64)
Killer Instinct (Emulated Full Arcade Version) Games like KI and more recently Zuma had lots of little often overlooked elements that purely represent what it means to be 'Arcade'.
Yuu Yuu Hakusho: Tukobetuhen you know how the 'cinematics' of many NES games looked a hell of a lot better than the actual gameplay? In this, the gameplay is in all cinematics!
TIE: Quake3:Arena and Star Wars: Republic Commando
Runners Up: GUNSTAR HEROES Dungeon Seige 2 Chrono Trigger Harvest Moon GTA: 3 Power Instinct Castlevania III Castlevania Symphony of the Night Quake 1 Quake Rally UT:2k4 Bombing Run or Deathball Beetle Adventure Racing WaveRace64
Before you read this strip these words from your mind: sport, game, nerd, athlete
ok.
If you're in shape. If most people like you because you're a good team player If you stand out among your crew because you're obviously the take charge, organized, glue that holds everbody together, Leader. If in your day to day life you do/say things here and there that indicate you are capable of "commitment"
Add all those traits together (who cares how you got them) and your chances of getting laid increase by 75%
I still believe that UT 2004's Bombing Run and the Mod based on it, Death Ball, would have been great spectator sports. But the UT community never grew to enjoy playing them.
I once worked for a guy who played a lot of quake3 and on slow days in the office we'd set up a UT bot match with randomly switching cameras and just watch it all day instead of listening to the radio or turning on the tv.
Using OS X.4 Counting all day friday and Monday (so far up to 12:30pm) the following have crashed/locked up: Firefox IE5 Colloquy Transmit Safari Mail Entourage Photoshop Illustrator Acrobat Google Earth Iphoto Microsoft Messenger Microsoft Word VLC VNCViewer
The big difference between OS X and Windows is that when things crash in OS X it....somehow... isn't as big a deal to me (except for Photoshop). And very very very very often in windows I WISH something would just crash and go away or let me force it to quit but it just doesnt. It keeps running and running and sucking up more and more ram and no amount of 'end process' will kill it!!!
In OS X I can kill anything any time it needs to be killed with 100% success rate.
I tried to run/install many recent live cd linix distros on my PC and some of my relatives PCs. None would even boot. I only got one old knoppix to work on my cd and 1 old ubuntu to work on one of my aunts systems. None of the systems have anywhere nears the amount of fancy hardware you describe in your system.
PLEASE tell me what Linux distro you got to work on that thing!
I'm even willling to try one of the paid for distros as long as it ACTUALLY JUST WORKS and costs less than XP
Under that scenario, a person could use the browser to surf the Web, access documents on the hard drive or log onto Web-based e-mail. But the user would not be able to directly open documents from the computer desktop or run other programs such as Outlook e-mail software,
ya know, since I can't get any recent live cd linux distros to boot on my or any of my relative's systems to achieve exacly what's said above, I think I'll be very happy to just bootleg vista instead of buying it.
why do you U.S. people insist on pushing the electronic voting idea. Actually, who the hell's idea was is. Can anyone HONESTLY say the american people wanted and ASKED for the electronic voting?
How many centuries have you guys and everyone else on the planet been using paper ballots very successfully?
If the U.S. is anything like my country, the vast majority of people manning the voting station are senior citizens. No offence to the old folks but y'all aint too good with fancy electronic doodads.
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had 4 people who work in the back office at a church read this article.
As I assumed, they only skimmed it.
So I went and 'skimmed' it as well.
Here's what I dont like about this article.
They mention human fetal(baby) midbrain tissues and also 'embryonic'(baby) stem cells.
Yet it wasn't clear to any of the skimmers if the stem cells used in this study were actually from fertilized human eggs or dead human babies. We could only assume it was one or the other.
Yes, I know the article says which source the cells were from:
Goldman and his team took human fetal midbrain tissues, in which dopamine cells are made, and extracted glial cells, whose normal role is to support and maintain the growth of neurons. They then cultured stem cells in this glia-rich environment.
But none of the regular everday church secretaries bothered to try to comprehend the entire paragraph.
Also, from a skimmers point of view, it doesnt seem to point out that there are usable stem cells to be found in a living humans body. No need to kill babies to get stem cells.
Articles like this that aren't very clear to the average person and also don't mention adult stem cells probably do nothing but hurt the stem cell agenda. Personally I think if all embryonic and fetal stem cell experiments were put on hold and everyone focused on actually achieving a world changing breakthrough using adult stem cells, then the public might someday be more open to the idea of embryonic stem cell research (I never will).
when do you plan on making the width of select match the width of text inputs?
I've been gettin banned from #css channels all over irc for starting discussions on a future possible
css native
ul {display:select}
li {display:option}
that would allow the somewhat common (but bad) usage of selects boxes as site navigation to be replaced with a regular list of links that looked and acted the same way.
position an empty iframe exactly the same size of your div under your div
I think Primavera Expedition should get with the times.
Sooner or later somebody's gonna realize the web is moving forward while these old browser based apps are trapping large rich corporations in the past. A new app migh show up with all the same features and friendlier functionality that's easier to maintain and update and cross browser/os compatible and snatch up a lot of Primavera Expedition customers.
I havent ever used expedition but judging by the screenshots, there's nothing that jumps out to me as needing to be specific to any 1 browser. Also a lot of screenshots of their other products have lots of charts/graphs that remind me of googles analytics and some other web based apps I've seen recently. In a few years/months time I would expect either companies with products like that will upgrade them for their own benefit moving forward
or someone else will realize "hey, we can make all this same stuff in less time with less headache using modern methods and browsers and take a good part of their market"
I'm sure there are enough people out there who have felt IE6's sting many a time and are dying for the one or two apps they depend on to allow them to ban IE use in the company.
start with:
if we convince our client to have all their agents switch to firefox we can have the new backend up and running in less than half the time we quoted and with a helluvalot more user friendly features than we initially quoted. We might even be able to charge them for some of the nicer features and still have it done waaay ahead of the quoted schedule....so long as they agree to only use firefox (or safari or opera).
that IE blog post is from August.
Old News.
Do you actually make websites?
NO?
ok. Shut Up.
Firefox Safari and probably Opera support opacity just fine.
I just tested it.
IE 6 does not. I just tested it.
Also, your link, if you bothered to read it properly it says
OPACITY
IE6: NO
IE7: NO
FF1.5: YES
OPERA9: YES
Windows sucks but it works...most of the time...for me at least.
Knoppix (recent versions) has not worked for me
Games Knoppix has not worked for me
Suse live has not worked for me
linspire live has not worked for me
Ubuntu has not worked for me
Kubuntu has not worked for me
never heard of a site that required me to install an ff extenstion (except maybe that one that lets you use ff to install windows updates)
never had a ff extension screw over my entire OS
Don't think ff extensions have anywhere near the possibly dangerous freedoms allowed to active x
looking at some ie7 screenshots and comparing to my FF:
I heard they removed a lot of the customizability of the IE toolbars in v7? If that's true, it'll suck for me.
My FF has the File-Edit-etc.. and bookmarks toolbar and 6 extension related buttons and the search box
and forward/back/refresh/home all on the same all on the same top line.
some would say that's a bit cramped but it's how 'I' like it.
it allows my address bar on the 2nd line to span the full width of the screen which is often very useful for web devs and other people who happen to understand how urls work.
3rd row is tabs.
Point I'm trying to make is that even if many people think MS has again chosen crappy defaults for IE and the OS as a whole, this problem can be fixed by giving the users easily accessible ways of changing the defaults to something they would like.
But as other posts have pointed out, all the OS defaults that I would want to change are totally buried and I'd never find where to change all of them.
And I've heard that a lot of the flexibility of IE's toolbars is totally gone.
I hate it's default appearance and I'd really hat not being able to change it.
Can I get rid of the new tab button? I've been using ctrl+T even before firefox with avant browser. I have no need for that dumb looking and poorly placed button.
a few years back I came across an office full of people who were convinced that the mouse scroll wheel only works in IE.
"because there isn't any other way to solve "
actually there is a way around the png problem in IE 6 using a bit of javascript.
I believe there are 3 or 4 ways people have found around this problem.
the 2 that I've tried seem to introduce other problems tho.
there are also a lot of people who don't comprehend the terms:
open
browser
address bar
download
install
You suck.
Really. You do.
and wtf is a 'div table'?
let me guess, that's your incorrect understanding of Dreamweavers Layout Divs or Layout Tables or whatever they're called.
awesome
how many of them were World of Warcraft players?
i've had lots of cats in my life
I've seen them all eat poo on many occasions
i've also seen dogs digging in my trash to snack on used kitty litter
i tried feeding spam to 4 of my cats a few years ago, 3 didnt even bother to taste it
1 ate it but threw up about an hour later
Garou: Mark Of the Wolves (A Fatal Fury Game)
I can't think of any other fighting game this smoothly animated and well balanced.
And I can beat everyone I know to a pulp with Kim Jae Hoon even though he sort of sucks in all the other games.
Star Wars Episode 1: Pod Racer (PC or Emulated N-64)
Killer Instinct (Emulated Full Arcade Version)
Games like KI and more recently Zuma had lots of little often overlooked elements that purely represent what it means to be 'Arcade'.
Yuu Yuu Hakusho: Tukobetuhen
you know how the 'cinematics' of many NES games looked a hell of a lot better than the actual gameplay?
In this, the gameplay is in all cinematics!
TIE: Quake3:Arena and Star Wars: Republic Commando
Runners Up:
GUNSTAR HEROES
Dungeon Seige 2
Chrono Trigger
Harvest Moon
GTA: 3
Power Instinct
Castlevania III
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Quake 1
Quake Rally
UT:2k4 Bombing Run or Deathball
Beetle Adventure Racing
WaveRace64
Before you read this strip these words from your mind:
sport, game, nerd, athlete
ok.
If you're in shape.
If most people like you because you're a good team player
If you stand out among your crew because you're obviously the take charge, organized, glue that holds everbody together, Leader.
If in your day to day life you do/say things here and there that indicate you are capable of "commitment"
Add all those traits together (who cares how you got them) and your chances of getting laid increase by 75%
I still believe that UT 2004's Bombing Run and the Mod based on it, Death Ball, would have been great spectator sports. But the UT community never grew to enjoy playing them.
I once worked for a guy who played a lot of quake3 and on slow days in the office we'd set up a UT bot match with randomly switching cameras and just watch it all day instead of listening to the radio or turning on the tv.
Using OS X.4
Counting all day friday and Monday (so far up to 12:30pm)
the following have crashed/locked up:
Firefox
IE5
Colloquy
Transmit
Safari
Mail
Entourage
Photoshop
Illustrator
Acrobat
Google Earth
Iphoto
Microsoft Messenger
Microsoft Word
VLC
VNCViewer
The big difference between OS X and Windows is that when things crash in OS X it....somehow... isn't as big a deal to me (except for Photoshop). And very very very very often in windows I WISH something would just crash and go away or let me force it to quit but it just doesnt. It keeps running and running and sucking up more and more ram and no amount of 'end process' will kill it!!!
In OS X I can kill anything any time it needs to be killed with 100% success rate.
begging and pleading:
I tried to run/install many recent live cd linix distros on my PC and some of my relatives PCs. None would even boot. I only got one old knoppix to work on my cd and 1 old ubuntu to work on one of my aunts systems. None of the systems have anywhere nears the amount of fancy hardware you describe in your system.
PLEASE tell me what Linux distro you got to work on that thing!
I'm even willling to try one of the paid for distros as long as it ACTUALLY JUST WORKS and costs less than XP
why do you U.S. people insist on pushing the electronic voting idea.
Actually, who the hell's idea was is. Can anyone HONESTLY say the american people wanted and ASKED for the electronic voting?
How many centuries have you guys and everyone else on the planet been using paper ballots very successfully?
If the U.S. is anything like my country, the vast majority of people manning the voting station are senior citizens. No offence to the old folks but y'all aint too good with fancy electronic doodads.