'Insightful?' Shouldn't this be modded troll or at least off-topic? There's nothing about this post that as anything to do with Snake Oil or Cryptography. It's just begging for flames. I thought slashdot was about evaluting the world by what it does and not what it says it does. If that's true then blanket statements and generalizations about religion would be left 'out there,' and we'd stick to the facts. But instead many slashdotters are so religous (spiteful, rude, hateful and intolerent) about being anti-religous that it's quite hard to see the difference between the nutjobs that claim 'God hates fags' and the nutjobs that claim 'religions are bads!!'
Zen doesn't teach these things. Nor did Jesus. Don't throw out the real followers with the bad ones. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I dislike the average judgementalist religous types as much as the next slashdotter but comments like these in completely different forums simply shouldn't be here, let alone modded 'insightful.' There's at least one mod who isn't doing his job, lest that'd have been modded 'off-topic.'
I start like this: Pen/Pencil -> Image Mockup in Photoshop -> XHTML/CSS mockup with real structure. The last step is the dove tail into the real thing. It gives me the basic starting point and gives the client a chance to see the real deal and interact with the page elements before I plug it into a back end or start replacing bits of it with server side scripting. I don't start with an xhtml page, I start on pape then move into. I probably did communicate that well in my first post.
At any rate this means I can plan out the semantic structure, and how I'm going to marry this with the CSS and design side of it. I just thought that using NVU or another WYSIWYG editor to do an XHTML mockup wasn't a good idea, especially if you're going to rewrite it by hand later. By writing it all by hand to start with most of the "code" and graphics can recycled for later use.
The problem with WYSIWYG editors is that they rarely can give you exactly what you want. I wasn't worried about code soup or ugly code, I was worried that using NVU would produce oddities in a document that can take any professionalism out of it. They can introduce spaces by creating extra line breaks, by not setting margins and padding properly, they generally are only built with a certain browser in mind (though not NVU I suppose) and generally use tags that have odd defaults in some browsers. If you copy and paste text from other programs they introduce the formatting from that application, often poorly (EG they don't just copy the ASCII text). Deleting the text in the WYSIWYG editor most often only deletes the text and not the tags or CSS, which will cause all sorts of strange text problems, spacing, lines and other garbage that can't be easily fixed. A lot of WYSIWYG editors will even introduce plenty of proprietary tags and other rubbish which might not be treated friendly by your browser(s).
The mockup stage is important to the customer/client. If it's not right and isn't professional they'll go elsewhere. In effect it does matter what shape the source is in if the source effects the visual elements in a negative way.
No it's not. WYSIWIG editors are horrible, and produce nasty, unmanigable code that in the end will cause more headaches and time trying to fix it than it would have had you you written it by hand. Learning XHTML/CSS is a must and it's not that complicated.
I use paper and pencil with a ruler to sketch a basic idea and layout. It gets scanned, I open it in Photoshop and start working. Without layer styles in GIMP you might be SOL...
If you do use gimp just download a GTK 2 theme based on the image or experience engine and pull out some transparent PNGs of the controls you need.
Exactly. Here's an interesting quote from this "article":
The suppression of information to the public and efforts to control the flow of information of the sciences has reached critical mass. Shades of the once science fictional book, Fahrenheit 451, are dangerously close to reality and the banning and burning of books looms all to surreal, but are more fact than science fiction now. Who could have ever envisioned that Ray Bradbury's vicious, futuristic, dystopian society would ever come to fruition; but it may indeed have done just that!
Anyone else find this a little stupid? They're comparing the shutting down a few research laboratories --which quite a few would argue isn't the federal governments job to have running anyway, many of which aren't "anti-science"-- with the burning of books? Who does this inspire thought of? Hitler? The Catholic Church? Ned Flanders? They're saying that the closing of government instituted research libraries is the same things as massive book burning. WTF? What utter bullshit. If the federal government creates research libraries one decade, and then shuts them down another that's it's prerogative--Albeit not the president's, and he probably shouldn't be doing it. However it's in ANY way the same as sending federal storm troopers into people's homes and confiscating any intellectual material. Gimme a break.
I'm no bush supporter, I really don't like the guy in any way, but this article is not subjective in any fashion. I got the feeling while reading the rest of the site that these people don't have any desire to be fair. Everything they have an opinion about seems to have been formed before they did any research, and they editorialize more than presenting anything as news or anything as fact. Not exactly what I call being "scientists".
You can't advocate science or be a scientist without being objective and looking at facts, and these people certainly haven't done this. This crap shouldn't have been on/.
GDI+ and Quartz are rendering APIs, not vector art programs. *nix has had Cairo for a couple of years and X has been around longer than Quartz or GDI/+.
Interoperability with EVERYTHING (including over the air (OTA)) broadcast has been and continues to be one of the biggest draws for me with TiVo, though there's many indications of providers trying to shut TiVo out. Sigh.
Well, from the article:
dual ATSC tuners
Looks to me like you might not have any problem getting at least local HD, OTA broadcasts if you live in America, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan or South Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC
Actually, that bit about pinball isn't entirely 100% true. We have an old antique pinball machine that is from somewhere around the turn of the century and it has no flippers. 5 balls for a nickel, all you did was shoot the balls. No interaction from there on out.
Yes. "Digital" and "Millennium" were just buzzwords at the time. Using the two together was simply a crafty ruse to make copyright law stricter in light of new digital technologies. They never use the word "digital" as in binary systems but instead the word "technology".
This Macrovision noise crap is "technology" too, which means it's quite possibly protected. Or at least they say it is. That's the entire problem with the DMCA right there. It's too vague, which means this kind of the opportunistic crap will happen more and more as time goes on and innovation occurs. This is yet another example of how innovation dies at the hands of the DMCA. Again government has failed us in their understanding (or lack thereof) of technical concepts by creating legislation that is incredibly vague. I think they're smoking DOPA.
Thanks for nothing Congress. Vaguely written, hastily thrown together, anti-everyone-but-the-guys-who-paid-you-off legislation is bad m'kay?
I wish another stupid politcian would come up with another retarded description for something technical so all these no-so-funny anymore tubes jokes would rot in the bowels of internets history.
At that point my Apple Confidante's phone went dead. Shaking, I heard the dial tone.
AFAIC, this article is a made-up bunch of dog crap. When the other party hangs up on a land-line you don't get a dial-tone afterwards, just a black line. The dial-tone only comes after you've hung-up and picked up the phone again. That's my experience on all phones I've ever used.
He's simply saying that if Intel tries to release a product simply to get ahead in the short term by entering the market with a product that just isn't ready then Intel could be very sorry.
It's a very large Internet so you can't immediately download it...Download it.
It's really big which means the tubes, you see, will be filled faster and will slow down the downloading of my Internet to my office, which means I won't get my emails from my office to my office through the tubes. The internets are just too big...too big. You see.
Slashdot Mirror
In Soviet Amerika, you are guilty before you're proven guilty!
Seriously though: DRM, Activation, data-mining video surveillance, bills of attainder...it's getting worse.
'Insightful?' Shouldn't this be modded troll or at least off-topic? There's nothing about this post that as anything to do with Snake Oil or Cryptography. It's just begging for flames. I thought slashdot was about evaluting the world by what it does and not what it says it does. If that's true then blanket statements and generalizations about religion would be left 'out there,' and we'd stick to the facts. But instead many slashdotters are so religous (spiteful, rude, hateful and intolerent) about being anti-religous that it's quite hard to see the difference between the nutjobs that claim 'God hates fags' and the nutjobs that claim 'religions are bads!!'
Zen doesn't teach these things. Nor did Jesus. Don't throw out the real followers with the bad ones. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I dislike the average judgementalist religous types as much as the next slashdotter but comments like these in completely different forums simply shouldn't be here, let alone modded 'insightful.' There's at least one mod who isn't doing his job, lest that'd have been modded 'off-topic.'
...Is exactly what oblivion's combat should've been. That's some awesome video.
I start like this: Pen/Pencil -> Image Mockup in Photoshop -> XHTML/CSS mockup with real structure. The last step is the dove tail into the real thing. It gives me the basic starting point and gives the client a chance to see the real deal and interact with the page elements before I plug it into a back end or start replacing bits of it with server side scripting. I don't start with an xhtml page, I start on pape then move into. I probably did communicate that well in my first post.
At any rate this means I can plan out the semantic structure, and how I'm going to marry this with the CSS and design side of it. I just thought that using NVU or another WYSIWYG editor to do an XHTML mockup wasn't a good idea, especially if you're going to rewrite it by hand later. By writing it all by hand to start with most of the "code" and graphics can recycled for later use.
The problem with WYSIWYG editors is that they rarely can give you exactly what you want. I wasn't worried about code soup or ugly code, I was worried that using NVU would produce oddities in a document that can take any professionalism out of it. They can introduce spaces by creating extra line breaks, by not setting margins and padding properly, they generally are only built with a certain browser in mind (though not NVU I suppose) and generally use tags that have odd defaults in some browsers. If you copy and paste text from other programs they introduce the formatting from that application, often poorly (EG they don't just copy the ASCII text). Deleting the text in the WYSIWYG editor most often only deletes the text and not the tags or CSS, which will cause all sorts of strange text problems, spacing, lines and other garbage that can't be easily fixed. A lot of WYSIWYG editors will even introduce plenty of proprietary tags and other rubbish which might not be treated friendly by your browser(s).
The mockup stage is important to the customer/client. If it's not right and isn't professional they'll go elsewhere. In effect it does matter what shape the source is in if the source effects the visual elements in a negative way.
No it's not. WYSIWIG editors are horrible, and produce nasty, unmanigable code that in the end will cause more headaches and time trying to fix it than it would have had you you written it by hand. Learning XHTML/CSS is a must and it's not that complicated.
I use paper and pencil with a ruler to sketch a basic idea and layout. It gets scanned, I open it in Photoshop and start working. Without layer styles in GIMP you might be SOL...
If you do use gimp just download a GTK 2 theme based on the image or experience engine and pull out some transparent PNGs of the controls you need.
Exactly. Here's an interesting quote from this "article":
Anyone else find this a little stupid? They're comparing the shutting down a few research laboratories --which quite a few would argue isn't the federal governments job to have running anyway, many of which aren't "anti-science"-- with the burning of books? Who does this inspire thought of? Hitler? The Catholic Church? Ned Flanders? They're saying that the closing of government instituted research libraries is the same things as massive book burning. WTF? What utter bullshit. If the federal government creates research libraries one decade, and then shuts them down another that's it's prerogative--Albeit not the president's, and he probably shouldn't be doing it. However it's in ANY way the same as sending federal storm troopers into people's homes and confiscating any intellectual material. Gimme a break.
I'm no bush supporter, I really don't like the guy in any way, but this article is not subjective in any fashion. I got the feeling while reading the rest of the site that these people don't have any desire to be fair. Everything they have an opinion about seems to have been formed before they did any research, and they editorialize more than presenting anything as news or anything as fact. Not exactly what I call being "scientists".
You can't advocate science or be a scientist without being objective and looking at facts, and these people certainly haven't done this. This crap shouldn't have been on /.
No, no, no. Not 'shitty'. The term you're looking for is 'Shatty'.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=rms%2C+esr%2C+bill+ gates&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
GDI+ and Quartz are rendering APIs, not vector art programs. *nix has had Cairo for a couple of years and X has been around longer than Quartz or GDI/+.
You said:
Well, from the article:
Looks to me like you might not have any problem getting at least local HD, OTA broadcasts if you live in America, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan or South Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC
Actually, that bit about pinball isn't entirely 100% true. We have an old antique pinball machine that is from somewhere around the turn of the century and it has no flippers. 5 balls for a nickel, all you did was shoot the balls. No interaction from there on out.
Yes. "Digital" and "Millennium" were just buzzwords at the time. Using the two together was simply a crafty ruse to make copyright law stricter in light of new digital technologies. They never use the word "digital" as in binary systems but instead the word "technology".
This Macrovision noise crap is "technology" too, which means it's quite possibly protected. Or at least they say it is. That's the entire problem with the DMCA right there. It's too vague, which means this kind of the opportunistic crap will happen more and more as time goes on and innovation occurs. This is yet another example of how innovation dies at the hands of the DMCA. Again government has failed us in their understanding (or lack thereof) of technical concepts by creating legislation that is incredibly vague. I think they're smoking DOPA.
Thanks for nothing Congress. Vaguely written, hastily thrown together, anti-everyone-but-the-guys-who-paid-you-off legislation is bad m'kay?
Why is this "Anonymous Coward" and why is he arguing with himself?
I love slashdot. The only place on the planet where Apple trolls get modded as...well, Trolls!
I wish another stupid politcian would come up with another retarded description for something technical so all these no-so-funny anymore tubes jokes would rot in the bowels of internets history.
Oh look, another joke that wasn't funny.
That sounds like a YUMmy question.
At the end of the article
AFAIC, this article is a made-up bunch of dog crap. When the other party hangs up on a land-line you don't get a dial-tone afterwards, just a black line. The dial-tone only comes after you've hung-up and picked up the phone again. That's my experience on all phones I've ever used.Yes, but does it run Linux?
It hasn't been "all right" since Lincoln...
How was this modded "off-topic"?
He's simply saying that if Intel tries to release a product simply to get ahead in the short term by entering the market with a product that just isn't ready then Intel could be very sorry.
Haste Makes Waste
If that happens then I give them a 403 on my money...
It's a very large Internet so you can't immediately download it...Download it.
It's really big which means the tubes, you see, will be filled faster and will slow down the downloading of my Internet to my office, which means I won't get my emails from my office to my office through the tubes. The internets are just too big...too big. You see.
Did you set your post type to "HTML Formatted?" If so, you have to use the br tag to create line breaks.
Better yet, stay semantic and use the p tag. Wrap all your paragraphs like this:
Hope that helps.
I'm gunna ****ing kill those chair jokes! I've done it before and I'll do it again. I'm gunna ****ing kill those ****ing chair jokes!!