"You can use "max-width" to limit how wide the column goes. Of course, one particular browser doesn't understand it. (hint: it begins with 'internet explorer')".
Oh yea, buggers. Forgot. Well that'd be just 80-90% of the web population then, big deal:)
"never -- never -- use absolute (pixel) dimensions for anything other than images."
never - NEVER - say never.
BTW, "except images" - quite an exempt right? given that it's actually images that we use to style lots of the design elements in web pages (menu backgrounds, buttons etc.). Of course except on straight barely formatted "academic" pages teaching is what to never do with our site's code.
Thing is some things work best in pixels (images, certain menus, elements, buttons, heading text) and some things work best flexible (body text, probably fluid column layout etc.).
If you think otherwise, try reading a "fluid columns" layout on a high resolution screen (1600x1200 for ex.). The paragraphs become so wide, since they stretch of course, that you can't follow to the next text line (and we know columns are far from easy to implement with today's browsers).
Most images should be stripped for mobile CSS so the rest can be flexible and stretchable, but it's far from a "never" situation now, is it.
But of course I confirm that setting fixed page width in a mobile CSS is quite ignorant from the article's author.
"polar bears drowning" is not even close to "they have to travel longer to do their job now"
There are animals that travel a lot longer to survive, survival of the fittest you know.
Asian kid dies after playing WoW for days straight.
Stupidity claim games:
The parents of the asian kid sue Blizzard, partially to convince themselves their kid didn't die because they were terirble parents (or maybe for the cash, dunno).
I mean, noone actually cares for either of those formats.
First of all everyone is turning to Internet for distribution. After iPod for video, the news about various TV networks and studios signing up deals with cellular operators and sites for distribution of content over the net have been flooding all blogs and news channels.
When people moved from tapes to CD they had:
- lighter/cheaper media
- non-degrading sound quality over time (well if you handle it properly)
So they gradually moved. But it took years. When DVD hit the market it was:
- lighter/cheaper media
- non-degrading video quality over time (..)
- extras adding quality to the product
Again it took years but it was next gen and offering unique benefits so people moved.
How about DVD Audio:
-...
So people didn't move. Because CD is just good enough and most people can't tell the difference.
How about HD DVD / Blu-Ray:
-...
It offers same deal like DVD, but higher quality again, but with like 10% of the people having HD enabled TV, they can't enjoy even this. So it offers: nothing. Get it: NOTHING.
Except weird DRM that pisses off people in the know like nothing else.
So every article about who supports which format makes me laugh. So many resources spent on something doomed to fail before it hits the market.
When you train a neural network, the biggest risk is you don't know what you're training it to.
In one anecdotal story about it, a supercomputer trained a neural network to recognize photos with tanks hidden behind trees (amd just remotely visible) from photos of just nature shots with no tank.
They trained it so it was recognizing them perfectly, even new ones that were not trained for. A later batch however turned out to come with completely random results. The photos with tanks with the first batch were shot in cloudy weather and the one without in more sunny weather.
They had a supercomputer that can tell cloudy photos from sunny photos.
----
Also, no, the movie software doesn't need perfect results. If they were perfect, they'd be proven wrong on the next movie (and movies come out all the time). With "satisfactory" but non-perfect results it'd stay realistic for much longer before it's dispensed as a scam/pointless piece of software.
Looks like viruses (spread by infecting exe files) are mostly non-existant today, replaced by network-propagated worms..
And it just hit me that we'd never get any of this if we were not on-line all the time.. Few years ago when the first internet worms were appearing I was like "ahah, just don't stay connected all the time you idiots".
Now I and the majority of folks around the world are "converted" and hopelessly tied to on-line, making us vulnerable to those attacks.
How many minutes can you spend offline, before the reflex kicks in and you try to google up some info you need?
The software is ALREADY in use in Hollywood and our sources say that in just one week it has come up with over one thousand movie ideas, eight hundred of which feature Adam Sandler:
We were able to obtain details about few of the features, which are targeted to be released summer 2006:
Puppy Love Plot description: "Adam Sandler is like, in love with some girl, but then it turns out that the girl is actually a...golden retriever, or something."
Punch-Drunk Millionaire Plot description: "Adam Sandler... inherits like, a billion dollars, but first, he has to, like, become a...boxer, or something."
Untitled Project Plot description: "Adam Sandler is trapped on an island and falls in love with a coconut."
1. make a db of meta info for already released movies
2. make a software that conforms to the already existing stats and "guesses" the income. If it doesn't guess it, tweak until it "guesses" it.
3. pitch it to Holywood execs by demonstrating it "works" by entering the same movie info you have already tweaked it for
4. profit
Of course the fact that it has (well, relatively poor IMO - 37% success? 75% "sort of success"?) success with the db of 800 movies is a result of it been tuned to work for those stats, and there's totally no guarantee it'll work for future releases.
Especially that it can't and won't factor in the most important factor: does the movie suck after all or not.
Hollywood uses similar metrics for most of their features.
This explains more than anything else why the quality of the majority of movies dropped so fast in the last few years.
None of those parameters can measure (digitally) the quality of the story, quality of acting (note: not popularity of the cast, Pam Anderson is also popular) and quality of the movie anyway.
Hearing from buddies or critic reviews, that a movie is poorly done mix up of popular actors, effects and soft porn with dumb as stics scenario stolen from a bunch of action flicks from the past, is the fastest way to give up an average moviegoer from seeing it.
Lots of things a software should be able to do can't happen in LUA mode. So we have few solutions, like popping up admin password boxes (which can be exploited on its own with fake pop-up boxes prompting us to enter our admin login/pass), or having broker processes with higher privileges do the job.
But it's important to understand that low-privilege IE and LUA for users is not removing the attack surface, just recucing it significantly and presenting few new ways to exploit the situation...
Also it'll be significantly more annoying to deal with it when performing regular operations, like install/update software.
You think people abroad transport SP2 with 215 floppies?
Damn it I hate stereotypes. Of course given a floppy disk costs as much as a CD-ROM (same for the drives), 215 floppies would cost us close to 200x more for transport and media, but would we be smart enough to use CD-ROMs?
NO, of course not. Instead we strictly adhere to the stereotypes - using Apple II-s, don't know where to turn it on, speaking broken English with poor Russian accent.
Unless we're talking rural areas of Africa or something like that, it's really not that bad anymore.
I'm from Bulgaria (next to Romania), and the first hand experience is that people are catching up pretty fast with Internet and all. Our former national telecom monopolists are now sold to private businesses and spread high-speed (for us that us 256 - 2049 kbps) internet across the entire country.
Floppy disks are honestly not that used, I mean, a CD is like few cents, and the floppy is just as much, & a floppy drive costs almost as much as a CD-ROM. There's simply no logic in using floppies.
Also patches and SP2 is spread by CD-ROMs included in magazines, next to it being accessible from the Internet.
It's not technology really to me, it's ignorance and piracy.
Yahoo reported several times they are researching and maybe being interested in AOL just to make it worse for MS to buy it.
But it was obvious they weren't really doing it.
There are two reasons for the low adoption overseas:
A. Ignorance, as in:
"I don't need it, I'm safe" "I don't know where to get it" "ess pee.. what?" "oh no I can't do it, it's too complex"
B. Piracy concerns, as in:
"oh no, they blacklisted my serial key and will b0rk my PC" "OMG, it calls MS and reports my pirated copy"
Thing is MS did black list the keys but wants SP2 everywhere, even pirated copies, since it's bad PR to have tons of vulnerable Windows copies around. I know people still on 98 btw.
If you install Windows XP clean, the proper way is to patch the installation itself and burn a new CD. Then you can install Windows on arbitrary number of PC-s and they all have SP2 by default (even without internet connection).
... since the attack, and going heavy with spying on USA citizens or Rambo action in foreign countries won't be accepted well by the people.
Politicians are driven by their interests first and foremost, and public support is also part of that interest.
However, with the provisions now failing to pass, you can expect more "terrorist attack expected in city X in place Y" bogus reports coming from various organisations, to boost fear and try again to pass the provisions.
SEO "experts" repeatedly forget that sites should be made for people, not search engines.
Following commonly known good practises and having a great product/content is what people need, having every piece of text and code filtered though "keyword density" tools and SEO kits is simply ridiculous.
Slashdot Mirror
Google farts.
Why not buy one? It comes with twice the price and all spyware preinstalled! Yeeeei!
Honestly I could NEVER understand people buying branded PC-s (except laptops where we simply have no choice). Is it the fancier case designs?
Let's see this here: "self-assembling peptide nanofibers loaded with pro-survival factors into rats..."
Wow, we better load with with unrelated sci-fi movie references and sensationalism or it's gonna be a boring article.
"You can use "max-width" to limit how wide the column goes. Of course, one particular browser doesn't understand it. (hint: it begins with 'internet explorer')".
:)
Oh yea, buggers. Forgot. Well that'd be just 80-90% of the web population then, big deal
"never -- never -- use absolute (pixel) dimensions for anything other than images." never - NEVER - say never. BTW, "except images" - quite an exempt right? given that it's actually images that we use to style lots of the design elements in web pages (menu backgrounds, buttons etc.). Of course except on straight barely formatted "academic" pages teaching is what to never do with our site's code. Thing is some things work best in pixels (images, certain menus, elements, buttons, heading text) and some things work best flexible (body text, probably fluid column layout etc.). If you think otherwise, try reading a "fluid columns" layout on a high resolution screen (1600x1200 for ex.). The paragraphs become so wide, since they stretch of course, that you can't follow to the next text line (and we know columns are far from easy to implement with today's browsers). Most images should be stripped for mobile CSS so the rest can be flexible and stretchable, but it's far from a "never" situation now, is it. But of course I confirm that setting fixed page width in a mobile CSS is quite ignorant from the article's author.
"polar bears drowning" is not even close to "they have to travel longer to do their job now" There are animals that travel a lot longer to survive, survival of the fittest you know.
Given we're paying taxes for our cars, can anyone explain why we should (indirectly) power the traffic lights with the fuel of our own cars?
Also I've not even started discussing the costs of implementing the required hardware.
This idea is bad anyway you look at it: for drivers, for the government, for the ecology.
Games claim lives:
Asian kid dies after playing WoW for days straight.
Stupidity claim games:
The parents of the asian kid sue Blizzard, partially to convince themselves their kid didn't die because they were terirble parents (or maybe for the cash, dunno).
---
Question: Why does stupidity claim games?
I mean, noone actually cares for either of those formats. First of all everyone is turning to Internet for distribution. After iPod for video, the news about various TV networks and studios signing up deals with cellular operators and sites for distribution of content over the net have been flooding all blogs and news channels. When people moved from tapes to CD they had: - lighter/cheaper media - non-degrading sound quality over time (well if you handle it properly) So they gradually moved. But it took years. When DVD hit the market it was: - lighter/cheaper media - non-degrading video quality over time (..) - extras adding quality to the product Again it took years but it was next gen and offering unique benefits so people moved. How about DVD Audio: - ...
So people didn't move. Because CD is just good enough and most people can't tell the difference.
How about HD DVD / Blu-Ray:
- ...
It offers same deal like DVD, but higher quality again, but with like 10% of the people having HD enabled TV, they can't enjoy even this. So it offers: nothing. Get it: NOTHING.
Except weird DRM that pisses off people in the know like nothing else.
So every article about who supports which format makes me laugh. So many resources spent on something doomed to fail before it hits the market.
When you train a neural network, the biggest risk is you don't know what you're training it to.
In one anecdotal story about it, a supercomputer trained a neural network to recognize photos with tanks hidden behind trees (amd just remotely visible) from photos of just nature shots with no tank.
They trained it so it was recognizing them perfectly, even new ones that were not trained for. A later batch however turned out to come with completely random results. The photos with tanks with the first batch were shot in cloudy weather and the one without in more sunny weather.
They had a supercomputer that can tell cloudy photos from sunny photos.
----
Also, no, the movie software doesn't need perfect results. If they were perfect, they'd be proven wrong on the next movie (and movies come out all the time). With "satisfactory" but non-perfect results it'd stay realistic for much longer before it's dispensed as a scam/pointless piece of software.
Looks like viruses (spread by infecting exe files) are mostly non-existant today, replaced by network-propagated worms..
And it just hit me that we'd never get any of this if we were not on-line all the time.. Few years ago when the first internet worms were appearing I was like "ahah, just don't stay connected all the time you idiots".
Now I and the majority of folks around the world are "converted" and hopelessly tied to on-line, making us vulnerable to those attacks.
How many minutes can you spend offline, before the reflex kicks in and you try to google up some info you need?
The software is ALREADY in use in Hollywood and our sources say that in just one week it has come up with over one thousand movie ideas, eight hundred of which feature Adam Sandler:
...golden retriever, or something."
...boxer, or something."
We were able to obtain details about few of the features, which are targeted to be released summer 2006:
Puppy Love
Plot description: "Adam Sandler is like, in love with some girl, but then it turns out that the girl is actually a
Punch-Drunk Millionaire
Plot description: "Adam Sandler... inherits like, a billion dollars, but first, he has to, like, become a
Untitled Project
Plot description: "Adam Sandler is trapped on an island and falls in love with a coconut."
1. make a db of meta info for already released movies
2. make a software that conforms to the already existing stats and "guesses" the income. If it doesn't guess it, tweak until it "guesses" it.
3. pitch it to Holywood execs by demonstrating it "works" by entering the same movie info you have already tweaked it for
4. profit
Of course the fact that it has (well, relatively poor IMO - 37% success? 75% "sort of success"?) success with the db of 800 movies is a result of it been tuned to work for those stats, and there's totally no guarantee it'll work for future releases.
Especially that it can't and won't factor in the most important factor: does the movie suck after all or not.
Hollywood uses similar metrics for most of their features.
This explains more than anything else why the quality of the majority of movies dropped so fast in the last few years.
None of those parameters can measure (digitally) the quality of the story, quality of acting (note: not popularity of the cast, Pam Anderson is also popular) and quality of the movie anyway.
Hearing from buddies or critic reviews, that a movie is poorly done mix up of popular actors, effects and soft porn with dumb as stics scenario stolen from a bunch of action flicks from the past, is the fastest way to give up an average moviegoer from seeing it.
Lots of things a software should be able to do can't happen in LUA mode. So we have few solutions, like popping up admin password boxes (which can be exploited on its own with fake pop-up boxes prompting us to enter our admin login/pass), or having broker processes with higher privileges do the job. But it's important to understand that low-privilege IE and LUA for users is not removing the attack surface, just recucing it significantly and presenting few new ways to exploit the situation... Also it'll be significantly more annoying to deal with it when performing regular operations, like install/update software.
You think people abroad transport SP2 with 215 floppies?
Damn it I hate stereotypes. Of course given a floppy disk costs as much as a CD-ROM (same for the drives), 215 floppies would cost us close to 200x more for transport and media, but would we be smart enough to use CD-ROMs?
NO, of course not. Instead we strictly adhere to the stereotypes - using Apple II-s, don't know where to turn it on, speaking broken English with poor Russian accent.
And we're all evil communists and hate democracy.
Unless we're talking rural areas of Africa or something like that, it's really not that bad anymore. I'm from Bulgaria (next to Romania), and the first hand experience is that people are catching up pretty fast with Internet and all. Our former national telecom monopolists are now sold to private businesses and spread high-speed (for us that us 256 - 2049 kbps) internet across the entire country. Floppy disks are honestly not that used, I mean, a CD is like few cents, and the floppy is just as much, & a floppy drive costs almost as much as a CD-ROM. There's simply no logic in using floppies. Also patches and SP2 is spread by CD-ROMs included in magazines, next to it being accessible from the Internet. It's not technology really to me, it's ignorance and piracy.
Yahoo reported several times they are researching and maybe being interested in AOL just to make it worse for MS to buy it. But it was obvious they weren't really doing it.
There are two reasons for the low adoption overseas:
A. Ignorance, as in:
"I don't need it, I'm safe"
"I don't know where to get it"
"ess pee.. what?"
"oh no I can't do it, it's too complex"
B. Piracy concerns, as in:
"oh no, they blacklisted my serial key and will b0rk my PC"
"OMG, it calls MS and reports my pirated copy"
Thing is MS did black list the keys but wants SP2 everywhere, even pirated copies, since it's bad PR to have tons of vulnerable Windows copies around. I know people still on 98 btw.
If you install Windows XP clean, the proper way is to patch the installation itself and burn a new CD. Then you can install Windows on arbitrary number of PC-s and they all have SP2 by default (even without internet connection).
... since the attack, and going heavy with spying on USA citizens or Rambo action in foreign countries won't be accepted well by the people.
Politicians are driven by their interests first and foremost, and public support is also part of that interest.
However, with the provisions now failing to pass, you can expect more "terrorist attack expected in city X in place Y" bogus reports coming from various organisations, to boost fear and try again to pass the provisions.
Fear is power.
Microsoft: Yeeeea.. Hmmmm, maaaaybe I think... yea, I'll buy a stake in AOL.
Google: Me too!
Yahoo: Me too!
Yahoo: Ok I'm just checking it out really, not sure I'm interested that much.
Google: Well, uhmm..
Microsoft: Ok, I'm buying.
Google: Me too!
Yahoo: Me too!
So you're saying that if Da Vinci was a live today he'd be a hardcore hacker geek.
SEO "experts" repeatedly forget that sites should be made for people, not search engines.
Following commonly known good practises and having a great product/content is what people need, having every piece of text and code filtered though "keyword density" tools and SEO kits is simply ridiculous.
"Best of all, Catalyst 5.13 will be a free upgrade" That's the BEST of the whole deal? Move along, nothing to see here.