It's all very impresive, them taking such a huge picture and all but that's not what you're looking at here.
If the image we're all looking at was 50gig, I just panned across the whole thing (side to side) at full zoom in less than 2 minutes. Assuming a stripe accross the middle at full zoom is 0.5% of the whole image (I suspect it is more) that means I just downloaded ~250MB in under 2 minutes and I'm on a 2mb ADSL connection.
In the UK you NEVER pay for incomming calls unless it is a special number.
There are 0800 numbers (free phone)
'Lo-Call' numbers (call costs about 5p/min from anywhere in the country)
Making a call from a mobile costs anything from free to ~30p/minute. Generally the more you pay in line rental the cheaper the calls are so if you have a pay-as-you-go phone - no line rental or contract (annonymous) calls are paid for in advance - you will pay the top rate per minute and there will be a minimum of 1 minute charged per call.
If you have a high usage contract you'll get loads of free minutes, texts, mobile to mobile calls, 2-10p/min for other calls and charged by the second from the first second (no minimum charge) but you pay £40-60/month line rental.
Does that really matter? Is it that big of a problem? Is different bad?
The answer to that one depends on who you talk to.
If you sugest to a web developer that small differences in the way a page is displayed are unimportant and he'll probably agree (as long as the function of the page is preserved and the content is displayed in an easy to understand way). Make the same suggestion to a web designer and he'll have an angina attack;-)
Seriously though apart from X(HT)ML being easier to handle/transform from a developers point of view it is also a lot easier for screen readers to handle/transform into a digital voice for the vision impaired, it is also a lot easier for PDAs/mobile phones/web TV to handle/transform into an easy to read format for low resolution devices.
Also if you ever want to import data from a web page to a spread sheet you can do this very easily if the page is marked-up with xhtml (just go to file->import->xml-file) and browse to the html document you saved from your browser.
PDF and Flash are damn close to what people want. The main thing holding them back is that they aren't as integrated into the browser as HTML.
Flash has the potential to build accessible web pages. It's just a shame that 99% of Flash developers don't bother and put fashion before function. The other problem with Flash is it's content is not accessible to robots.
I guess it's hard to fool the experts but there's plenty of them reading this so would any of these work:
1. Give them the hard disk from another computer instead. If they ask for the whole box just give them your mums computer.
2.
a.Delete offending files,
b.scrub unused parts of the disk using a portable scrubbing app (so there is no trace of the app being installed),
c.copy loads of files onto the blank part of the disk and delete them again,
d.repeat step c as often as you can,
e.defrag the disk to move stuff around a bit.
Isn't there a good chance that the defendant will have removed any offending files from their hard disk by the time it gets looked at by the RIAA or the independant specialist? The general public (here in the UK anyway) are much more aware of how to securely erase data on a hard disk due to news items about identity theft from old discarded hard disks. Even if the defendant doesn't know about/how to secure erase stuff you'd have thought someone they know might have sugested it.
If MS really wanted to make life easier for developers thay would have released IE7 as a portable app (or made it possible to install it beside IE6) to make it possible to test pages in IE6 and 7 while the user base moves to the new browser. Instead (as I am a freelancer and don't work in an office full of windows pcs) I have to phone/email a friend and ask him to send me a screen shot.
Of course it's only the different rendering engines that effects the way pages are displayed so if I could install IE7 but have the ability to roll back to the IE6 rendering engine that would do.
I can understand why MS don't want to release IE for other OSs as that and photoshop are the only reasons I use Windows (rather than *nix).
I wonder if the survey form would actually work if you had a browser (or plugin) that let you change your user agent id to that of an IE browser on windows.
Spinning all the time would add to the power consumption of the disk (although it may still offer an advantage over heavier materials) but what about when the unit is switched off (during shipping for example) wouldn't it be easy for the platters to touch the heads and damage themselves?
512Mb/1.3Ghz/FF1.5
FF stopped responding when I clicked on the Download StatusBar plugin. If I'd been a bit more patient it may well have recovered once the image finished DLing
That's what I wanted to know, that IE7 fully supports.png opacity (aka alpha channel transparency) rather than binary transparency that we've had for years with.gif. This wasn't clear from the summary above (sorry I didn't read TFA)
I hope they mean that PNG opacity support has been added as PNG transparency support would be almost completely useless (as we can already achieve this with gif).
This recording must be quite old as it sounds like the AOL operative speaks English as a first language. I just spent 2 hours trying to cancel a friends account, the first half hour was spent in a queue. When I eventually got through to the call center (in India) the line was very bad and the person on the other end claimed they couldn't hear what I was saying and hung up. I called again, spent another half hour in a queue and when I got through I couldn't understand what *they* were saying!!??!!
I absolutely agree. It's got to the point now where I forget I have it installed until I see my favourite sites on someone elses machine and am amazed how ugly and cluttered they look to everyone else.
It's worth noting that Filterset.G makes all the difference to Adblock Plus.
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It's all very impresive, them taking such a huge picture and all but that's not what you're looking at here. If the image we're all looking at was 50gig, I just panned across the whole thing (side to side) at full zoom in less than 2 minutes. Assuming a stripe accross the middle at full zoom is 0.5% of the whole image (I suspect it is more) that means I just downloaded ~250MB in under 2 minutes and I'm on a 2mb ADSL connection.
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In the UK you NEVER pay for incomming calls unless it is a special number. There are 0800 numbers (free phone) 'Lo-Call' numbers (call costs about 5p/min from anywhere in the country) Making a call from a mobile costs anything from free to ~30p/minute. Generally the more you pay in line rental the cheaper the calls are so if you have a pay-as-you-go phone - no line rental or contract (annonymous) calls are paid for in advance - you will pay the top rate per minute and there will be a minimum of 1 minute charged per call. If you have a high usage contract you'll get loads of free minutes, texts, mobile to mobile calls, 2-10p/min for other calls and charged by the second from the first second (no minimum charge) but you pay £40-60/month line rental.
The answer to that one depends on who you talk to.
If you sugest to a web developer that small differences in the way a page is displayed are unimportant and he'll probably agree (as long as the function of the page is preserved and the content is displayed in an easy to understand way). Make the same suggestion to a web designer and he'll have an angina attack
Seriously though apart from X(HT)ML being easier to handle/transform from a developers point of view it is also a lot easier for screen readers to handle/transform into a digital voice for the vision impaired, it is also a lot easier for PDAs/mobile phones/web TV to handle/transform into an easy to read format for low resolution devices.
Also if you ever want to import data from a web page to a spread sheet you can do this very easily if the page is marked-up with xhtml (just go to file->import->xml-file) and browse to the html document you saved from your browser.
Flash has the potential to build accessible web pages. It's just a shame that 99% of Flash developers don't bother and put fashion before function. The other problem with Flash is it's content is not accessible to robots.
Right, that's decided it then, I'll keep using the neighbours wirless ;-)
Is the "Compare prices on Privacy Software" link included on every article with the riaa tag?
I guess it's hard to fool the experts but there's plenty of them reading this so would any of these work: 1. Give them the hard disk from another computer instead. If they ask for the whole box just give them your mums computer. 2. a.Delete offending files, b.scrub unused parts of the disk using a portable scrubbing app (so there is no trace of the app being installed), c.copy loads of files onto the blank part of the disk and delete them again, d.repeat step c as often as you can, e.defrag the disk to move stuff around a bit.
IANAL so I'm probably missing something but...
Isn't there a good chance that the defendant will have removed any offending files from their hard disk by the time it gets looked at by the RIAA or the independant specialist? The general public (here in the UK anyway) are much more aware of how to securely erase data on a hard disk due to news items about identity theft from old discarded hard disks. Even if the defendant doesn't know about/how to secure erase stuff you'd have thought someone they know might have sugested it.
If MS really wanted to make life easier for developers thay would have released IE7 as a portable app (or made it possible to install it beside IE6) to make it possible to test pages in IE6 and 7 while the user base moves to the new browser. Instead (as I am a freelancer and don't work in an office full of windows pcs) I have to phone/email a friend and ask him to send me a screen shot.
Of course it's only the different rendering engines that effects the way pages are displayed so if I could install IE7 but have the ability to roll back to the IE6 rendering engine that would do.
I can understand why MS don't want to release IE for other OSs as that and photoshop are the only reasons I use Windows (rather than *nix).
I wonder if the survey form would actually work if you had a browser (or plugin) that let you change your user agent id to that of an IE browser on windows.
Spinning all the time would add to the power consumption of the disk (although it may still offer an advantage over heavier materials) but what about when the unit is switched off (during shipping for example) wouldn't it be easy for the platters to touch the heads and damage themselves?
At last FairTrade Coffee
512Mb/1.3Ghz/FF1.5 FF stopped responding when I clicked on the Download StatusBar plugin. If I'd been a bit more patient it may well have recovered once the image finished DLing
...when computer nerds and razorblades are mentioned in the same article without the words "never use" being included!?!
I think I was a bit impatient with the DL, it was worth the wait though...
I won't have to larn a frist linguage wunce I instorl firfox 2
That's the sound of thousands of nerds changing their wallpaper...
The Omg(Normal color) link just crashed firefox. It's probably worth "right click"->"Save link as..." as they are pretty massive imgs
Un-normalized database, developer jumps from bridge.
That's what I wanted to know, that IE7 fully supports .png opacity (aka alpha channel transparency) rather than binary transparency that we've had for years with .gif. This wasn't clear from the summary above (sorry I didn't read TFA)
It would automatically detect the iPod and delete any infected files... ...hmm, I don't think I've thought this one through.
I hope they mean that PNG opacity support has been added as PNG transparency support would be almost completely useless (as we can already achieve this with gif).
This recording must be quite old as it sounds like the AOL operative speaks English as a first language. I just spent 2 hours trying to cancel a friends account, the first half hour was spent in a queue. When I eventually got through to the call center (in India) the line was very bad and the person on the other end claimed they couldn't hear what I was saying and hung up. I called again, spent another half hour in a queue and when I got through I couldn't understand what *they* were saying!!??!!
I absolutely agree. It's got to the point now where I forget I have it installed until I see my favourite sites on someone elses machine and am amazed how ugly and cluttered they look to everyone else.
It's worth noting that Filterset.G makes all the difference to Adblock Plus.