Apparently someone has been wiki fiddling, it was #3 when I posted the comment. Miners and high rise steel workers weren't even on the list. Structural metal workers and roofers would be combined with "construction" if not for the fact that they also do repairs as well as new construction.
But when it gets to be where you spend more time living in an imaginary dreamworld, then it's time to seek help.
After my marriage broke up I did seek help (adjustment disorder with depressed mood), for me and my then teenaged daughters who their mother had abandoned. I was on Paxil for a while. But going to bars and writing about it at K5 did me more good than the psychaitrist and the Paxil.
If you see me writing fewer slashdot journals, you know my meatspace life is sucking a lot less.
And you refuse to acess the content of professional web designers, because they use a technology which allows them to do their job faster, easier and better than what you suggest?
No, not always, but I don't go to your site for your benefit, I go to your site for my benefit. If it's not useful to me, I stay away. If you're using flash you had better have some damned compelling content. Don't forget, there's probably someone else with equivalent content and if they don't demand that I install more crap on the browser, that's where I'll go.
The jury box isn't just getting politicians jailed. If I'm one a jury and the defendant is there because of a prostitution or soliciting charge, the prosecutor had better not let me on the jury because I would never vote "guilty" for something I don't believe should be a crime.
But nowadays, "seemed to be" isn't enough for a site like YouTube
No, it isn't enough. But few sites need youtube-like capabilities for anything but advertising. If you really need it then of course you're going to have to use something less standard.
But using CSS is the problem here What's the alternative?
Tables. Yes, they're sneered at, but let 'em sneer. They work.
Images scaled to em or % look like blocky crap on IE and on Firefox prior to 3.0
Blocky crap looks better than wasting half the screen, but I wasn't referring to image resampling.
Which codec did you use for the WAVE audio? And how did you synchronize it to the GIF animation?
I don't remember what codec, LAME maybe. The audio was cut down to 11k samples per second, eight bits, and only about fifteen seconds long because most people were on dialup. It wasn't synchronized at all, but oddly it seemed to be.
Not everybody can afford to test in every possible environment.
If nobody ever had, Microsoft would have been forced to use standards. But using CSS is the problem here, since that's the standard Microsoft won't adhere to. If you use CSS you need to code for both Windows and standards.
Another thing webmasters do wrong is not understanding that you can't control exectly what your site is going to look like on every monitor at every resolution. Absolute positioning is begging for too much white space on some monitors and horizontal scrolls on others. Example, rather than <width 600 px> you should use <width 80%>.
CSS's usefulness is supposed to be so if you change your site's look you only have to change the style sheet rather than all pages. However, webmasters mistakenly use it to turn a markup language into a layout language, and as I said, layout only works when you can control screen size and resolution.
A site big enough that it can slashdot other sites should definitely be testing on all platforms.
I mean we need less spent on DHS and more spent on highways. And yes, I agree that subsidizing today's corporate farming (among other things) is stupidly wasteful.
In a novel or story (can't remember its name, sorry), Robert Heinlein mentioned four boxes: Ballot, jury, ammo, and soap. Slashdot is the fourth box, as is the comments sections of the online editions of the mainstream newspapers.
When the corporate press convinces voters that a vote for any candidate not in either wing of the corporate party (Republican wing and Democratic wing) is wasted, you effectively have a one-party system.
As Mojo Nixon said in Burn Down the Malls, "you can vote for one fool or another". As the late Walt Kelly said via Pogo, "we have Tweedle dumb and Tewddle dumber".
The only vote wasted is a vote not cast. Any candidate on enough ballots to win should be in any debate and his/her views should be aired by the media. But the corporations and their media are happy with our one party system.
Don't blame Adobe or MS or Sun for providing closed or deeply complicated, uncontrollable technologies; blame yourself for using them.
But I don't use them and never did. My sites were all 100% HTML/Javascript/JPG/GIF. When Dopey Smurf decided to close his Quake site after graduating from medical school, I sent him a box of invisible rats as a going away present. Rats were his bane in med school; one supposedly dead rat came alive and bit him as he was dissecting it. His parting site mentioned the invisible rats and a link with "whatever you do DON'T click this link! PLEASE don't click this link!" When the surfer clicked the link, the invisible rats ate his web site.
Actually it took the surfer to my site, where a an animated GIF of his site being eaten by invisible rats ran.
I had a music clip start playing when the surfer hit my site, with dancing Stroggs. If you held your mouse over one of the stroggs, Sonic the Hedgehog ran past with the Strogg trying to stomp him and succeeding on the second try. All this was done with.wav files,.gif files and javascript.
This was all before the year 2000. I did all the "web 2.0" stuff ten years ago. Without flash or even CSS.
No, I don't blame Adobe or Sun or Microsoft (whose Silverlight has yet to subvert anything whatever), I blame clueless, lazy webmasters who can't make a web page by hand because they don't even know HTML. And I avoid their sites if possible.
Speaking of CSS, I blame Microsoft for the ad covering the top story on the front page of slashdot in IE because their browser won't do standards, but I also blame the site's authors.
let's not lose our perspective on the nature of terrorism either
We already did. Forty thousand people die on American highways every single year. Those deaths are no less traumatic to the families than the WTC deaths to those families, or those murdered by non-political murderers.
I want some of that homeland security money to go to guard rails.
More murders are committed every year on American soil than all the American terrorist deaths in the 21st century. The difference between terrorism and ordinary murder is the intended victim - politicians.
It wasn't the world trade center or even the Pentagon that created the hysteria over terrorists. It was the plane that didn't make it out of Pennsylvania, the one aimed at Congress.
Good thing we all updated early to the blu-ray player
Sucks to be you all, then. That's what happens when you adopt bleeding edge technology. Didn't any of you all learn anything from Betamax?
I have a nice big forty two inch flat screen analog TV set which I plan to watch until it stops working. As it's analog I have no need for hi-def movies; you might fool non-nerds into thinking a hi-def movie will look better on an analog TV, but we know better. I'll be buying a new DVD polayer shortly, as the one I have now is starting to have trouble with a few DVDs. I'll be spending about 10% as much as someone buying blu-ray.
I'll buy one of these new half-terrabyte drives for computer data backup - when the price becomes reasonable, which it always does.
True, but completely offtopic. If the topic or a comment quotes Romeo and Juliet, I just might point that out.
The difference, of course, is that it's unlikely that Shakespeare read the Italian poem, but very likely that Futurama's writers have read Dreaming Is A Private Thing (the story is a commentary about writers). It's even likely that the Asimov reference was put there on purpose; that would be my assumption and I would applaud Futurama's writers for it if so.
I hope you're planning on becoming another Ray Beckerman (/.'s NYCL)and not an RIAA Goon!;)
If you're on our side (EFF etc) then please get to work on that bar exam. If you're going to work for the RIAA, there are some really interesting slashdot stories today...
a law school. It would have been nice to know why tab sites aren't covered under fair use. From my admittedly ignorant reading of the pdf (IANAL so I am in fact ignorant) it looks like the article says exactly the opposite of what TFS says.
I know that often the law makes little or no sense, but after all, unless the tablature has been written down then your putting it on paper (or computer screen) is a new work.
I haven't seen anyone who seems to love that dispicable women, but most of us here hate bad laws and bad interpretations of laws, especially laws that could impact us if misused.
If you can't convict a murderer honestly, let him go free. It doesn't mean you like him or condone his actions, it means you like and respect the rule of law.
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Apparently someone has been wiki fiddling, it was #3 when I posted the comment. Miners and high rise steel workers weren't even on the list. Structural metal workers and roofers would be combined with "construction" if not for the fact that they also do repairs as well as new construction.
Cheer up, young fellow, and read A Nerd's Guide to Getting Laid.
I had to look up SRB in wikipedia to figure out what you were referring to. The I said "duh, I'm stupid". Solid Rocket Booster (smacks self on head)
I think most people don't realize (or have forgotten about it) the danger these men and women face during a mission.
Most people don't realise the danger construction workers face doing their jobs either. Roofers alone are #3 in Wikipedia's list.
A dozen people died building EPCOT's "Spaceship Earth" alone.
The US has had less than one fatal accident per decade since the space program started; the Apollo fire and the two shuttle disasters.
I'd say their safety record is pretty good. I'd rather be an astronaut than a lumberjack.
But when it gets to be where you spend more time living in an imaginary dreamworld, then it's time to seek help.
After my marriage broke up I did seek help (adjustment disorder with depressed mood), for me and my then teenaged daughters who their mother had abandoned. I was on Paxil for a while. But going to bars and writing about it at K5 did me more good than the psychaitrist and the Paxil.
If you see me writing fewer slashdot journals, you know my meatspace life is sucking a lot less.
And you refuse to acess the content of professional web designers, because they use a technology which allows them to do their job faster, easier and better than what you suggest?
No, not always, but I don't go to your site for your benefit, I go to your site for my benefit. If it's not useful to me, I stay away. If you're using flash you had better have some damned compelling content. Don't forget, there's probably someone else with equivalent content and if they don't demand that I install more crap on the browser, that's where I'll go.
There's good reason Google is so popular.
The jury box isn't just getting politicians jailed. If I'm one a jury and the defendant is there because of a prostitution or soliciting charge, the prosecutor had better not let me on the jury because I would never vote "guilty" for something I don't believe should be a crime.
No no NO hell no!!!!
But nowadays, "seemed to be" isn't enough for a site like YouTube
No, it isn't enough. But few sites need youtube-like capabilities for anything but advertising. If you really need it then of course you're going to have to use something less standard.
But using CSS is the problem here
What's the alternative?
Tables. Yes, they're sneered at, but let 'em sneer. They work.
Images scaled to em or % look like blocky crap on IE and on Firefox prior to 3.0
Blocky crap looks better than wasting half the screen, but I wasn't referring to image resampling.
Which codec did you use for the WAVE audio? And how did you synchronize it to the GIF animation?
I don't remember what codec, LAME maybe. The audio was cut down to 11k samples per second, eight bits, and only about fifteen seconds long because most people were on dialup. It wasn't synchronized at all, but oddly it seemed to be.
Not everybody can afford to test in every possible environment.
If nobody ever had, Microsoft would have been forced to use standards. But using CSS is the problem here, since that's the standard Microsoft won't adhere to. If you use CSS you need to code for both Windows and standards.
Another thing webmasters do wrong is not understanding that you can't control exectly what your site is going to look like on every monitor at every resolution. Absolute positioning is begging for too much white space on some monitors and horizontal scrolls on others. Example, rather than <width 600 px> you should use <width 80%>.
CSS's usefulness is supposed to be so if you change your site's look you only have to change the style sheet rather than all pages. However, webmasters mistakenly use it to turn a markup language into a layout language, and as I said, layout only works when you can control screen size and resolution.
A site big enough that it can slashdot other sites should definitely be testing on all platforms.
I mean we need less spent on DHS and more spent on highways. And yes, I agree that subsidizing today's corporate farming (among other things) is stupidly wasteful.
Blu-raty is no longer bleeding edge to be sure, but I just spent $1000 on my TV only five years ago.
This new tech is now the bleeding edge.
I'd guess neither of us would want to trade places with the other... :)
As to tech I guess you're right. But I'd gladly trade ages, asuming you're not a geezer.
In a novel or story (can't remember its name, sorry), Robert Heinlein mentioned four boxes: Ballot, jury, ammo, and soap. Slashdot is the fourth box, as is the comments sections of the online editions of the mainstream newspapers.
Lets try and avoid the third box if we can.
Whether they fear death or fear loss of power, the cause and effect are both the same - we lose our rights because of their cowardice.
Can't we, as citizens, vote?
When the corporate press convinces voters that a vote for any candidate not in either wing of the corporate party (Republican wing and Democratic wing) is wasted, you effectively have a one-party system.
As Mojo Nixon said in Burn Down the Malls, "you can vote for one fool or another". As the late Walt Kelly said via Pogo, "we have Tweedle dumb and Tewddle dumber".
The only vote wasted is a vote not cast. Any candidate on enough ballots to win should be in any debate and his/her views should be aired by the media. But the corporations and their media are happy with our one party system.
Don't blame Adobe or MS or Sun for providing closed or deeply complicated, uncontrollable technologies; blame yourself for using them.
But I don't use them and never did. My sites were all 100% HTML/Javascript/JPG/GIF. When Dopey Smurf decided to close his Quake site after graduating from medical school, I sent him a box of invisible rats as a going away present. Rats were his bane in med school; one supposedly dead rat came alive and bit him as he was dissecting it. His parting site mentioned the invisible rats and a link with "whatever you do DON'T click this link! PLEASE don't click this link!" When the surfer clicked the link, the invisible rats ate his web site.
Actually it took the surfer to my site, where a an animated GIF of his site being eaten by invisible rats ran.
I had a music clip start playing when the surfer hit my site, with dancing Stroggs. If you held your mouse over one of the stroggs, Sonic the Hedgehog ran past with the Strogg trying to stomp him and succeeding on the second try. All this was done with .wav files, .gif files and javascript.
This was all before the year 2000. I did all the "web 2.0" stuff ten years ago. Without flash or even CSS.
No, I don't blame Adobe or Sun or Microsoft (whose Silverlight has yet to subvert anything whatever), I blame clueless, lazy webmasters who can't make a web page by hand because they don't even know HTML. And I avoid their sites if possible.
Speaking of CSS, I blame Microsoft for the ad covering the top story on the front page of slashdot in IE because their browser won't do standards, but I also blame the site's authors.
let's not lose our perspective on the nature of terrorism either
We already did. Forty thousand people die on American highways every single year. Those deaths are no less traumatic to the families than the WTC deaths to those families, or those murdered by non-political murderers.
I want some of that homeland security money to go to guard rails.
More murders are committed every year on American soil than all the American terrorist deaths in the 21st century. The difference between terrorism and ordinary murder is the intended victim - politicians.
It wasn't the world trade center or even the Pentagon that created the hysteria over terrorists. It was the plane that didn't make it out of Pennsylvania, the one aimed at Congress.
My government is run by cowards.
Good thing we all updated early to the blu-ray player
Sucks to be you all, then. That's what happens when you adopt bleeding edge technology. Didn't any of you all learn anything from Betamax?
I have a nice big forty two inch flat screen analog TV set which I plan to watch until it stops working. As it's analog I have no need for hi-def movies; you might fool non-nerds into thinking a hi-def movie will look better on an analog TV, but we know better. I'll be buying a new DVD polayer shortly, as the one I have now is starting to have trouble with a few DVDs. I'll be spending about 10% as much as someone buying blu-ray.
I'll buy one of these new half-terrabyte drives for computer data backup - when the price becomes reasonable, which it always does.
True, but completely offtopic. If the topic or a comment quotes Romeo and Juliet, I just might point that out.
The difference, of course, is that it's unlikely that Shakespeare read the Italian poem, but very likely that Futurama's writers have read Dreaming Is A Private Thing (the story is a commentary about writers). It's even likely that the Asimov reference was put there on purpose; that would be my assumption and I would applaud Futurama's writers for it if so.
No karma bonus checked
I hope you're planning on becoming another Ray Beckerman (/.'s NYCL)and not an RIAA Goon! ;)
If you're on our side (EFF etc) then please get to work on that bar exam. If you're going to work for the RIAA, there are some really interesting slashdot stories today...
You had PAPER? Spoiled kids, in my day we had to use clay tablets.
Now get off my lawn.
a law school. It would have been nice to know why tab sites aren't covered under fair use. From my admittedly ignorant reading of the pdf (IANAL so I am in fact ignorant) it looks like the article says exactly the opposite of what TFS says.
I know that often the law makes little or no sense, but after all, unless the tablature has been written down then your putting it on paper (or computer screen) is a new work.
Can someone help alleviate my ignorance here?
True, but that hasn't stopped the RIAA! Maybe you'd have to hire MediaSentry? ;)
I haven't seen anyone who seems to love that dispicable women, but most of us here hate bad laws and bad interpretations of laws, especially laws that could impact us if misused.
If you can't convict a murderer honestly, let him go free. It doesn't mean you like him or condone his actions, it means you like and respect the rule of law.