stan_rogers

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1411.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
The "slippery slope" in my neck of the woods was the elimination of Grade 13. Yes, we had one of those here in Ontario, Canada -- and it was a university (as opposed to college) prep year. I never finished it (I was too cool for school at t
1412.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Bloated, yeah, but I still use it. Straightforward, categorized, text-based music library management and the ability to play cut/continuous tracks without a hiccup even with other disk IO going on(which is why I rejected the other simple pl
1413.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
I've found Acronis TrueImage (Home edition) to be as unobtrusive as it gets on Windows. It starts and stops when told, and so far plays nice with other disk IO. That's not a formal review -- I just haven't noticed it running the way I've no
1414.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
And that stuff actually works. I started out in life as someone on the borders of what would now be called an "autism spectrum disorder" -- I didn't "get" people, had trouble recognising them and distinguishing faces, and certainly couldn't
1415.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
In fact, Georgia is a no-brainer kind of choice if your site is text-heavy. It needs to be opened up a bit -- the line-height should be around 1.4em -- but it makes the right word shapes (most "expert" reading happens at higher pattern-reco
1416.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
...and there's your problem. Helvetica and Helvetica Neue both tend to look lousy on the web unless they're used in a graphic (where you get to control kerning and antialiasing) or at a relatively small size (10-14pt equivalent), and then o
1417.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
You might try checking the existing services selling on, say, Lulu.com -- there are a number of price points with various expectations of service, from the merely editorial to editorial/design/typography, and covering the gamut from the fam
1418.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
"Google" is older than "googol", and appears to have been a mixture of "goofy" and "ogle", referring to crazily wandering eyes. It certainly entered popular culture with the Snuffy Smith/Barney Google cartoons, so Google (the company) can't
1419.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Whatever the opposite of spinning in one's grave is, Gerald Bull would be doing that right about now. This is just Project HARP recapitulated -- and I'd be willing to bet that a significant amount of the data behind this came from the Iraqi
1420.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Good question -- and the answer is that systematic writing combined with widespread literacy tends to fossilize language, at least on the page. There is, for instance, a world of difference between written and spoken English, the written ve
1421.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
And that long-term foundation is the core of the international aide plan. If there can ever be said to be a silver lining in a cloud such as this, it is this: almost the entirety of the existing infrastructure was destroyed in the quake, an
1422.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Nope -- David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine.
1423.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
When did "IE does it" become indicative of standard, expected behaviour? Just askin'.
1424.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Strictly speaking, though, comments aren't part of the HTML document -- the tagging pair < + ! indicates that you are stepping out of the HTML document to provide SGML content, in this case, a comment about the HTML document. Yes, that
1425.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
One reed only! (Soprano, alto and baritone saxes -- never got along with a tenor for some reason, even with a "doubler's" mouthpiece -- and clarinet.) Or no reed (flute, piccolo, tin whistle, zampona -- even did a wee tune on an upended R
1426.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Scott McNealy said it in 1999. And his advice applies today as it did then: get over it.
1427.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
It would have been difficult to have written APL in C originally, what with the lack of time machines and all (APL was created in '57 as an abstract notational concept and first implemented in '64 and released in '65; C was created in '72).
1428.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
"Chinese" is a special case, in that there are actually a large number of spoken languages (of which Cantonese and Mandarin are merely the best-known outside of the region) that share a common system of writing that is largely independent o
1429.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Probably because it would be statistically overwritten to an NSA-approved level by the obvious fact that the vast majority of autistic people do not develop relationships resulting in progeny. More probable related factors would include inc
1430.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
I get the distinct impression you haven't done a whole lot of usability testing, and I get that because you're offering a lot of advice that I would have given before I started paying attention to real-world usability and accessibility issu
1431.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Believe it or not, horizontal scrolling is not obvious to users -- many (and by many, I mean a number verging on fifty percent) ordinary end users simply cannot see horizontal scroll bars -- and is therefore not a solution to anything, but
1432.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Fluid layout isn't a problem -- line-length is. Anything beyond about 50 ems is too long for most people to read comfortably, and multicolumn layout will only work effectively if a spread of content can be restricted to a single screen befo
1433.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
The comment problem is template-settable -- you don't need to go to the generic Blogger comments form. Mind you, the documentation is a little on the opaque side, and one really needs to be interested enough to go through all of the tags. T
1434.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Anybody else here remember trashing their handset-cradle 300 baud Kansas City modem for one of them there shiny new 1200 baud Hayes machines? And now they tell me that ten thousand or so times faster ain't enough?
1435.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
At some level, I think that anyone who hasn't borrowed code (or layout, if you're a front-ender) can be fairly classified as an idiot. No, I don't approve of site-lifting or mindless copy-and-paste "development", but if you've never paid th
1436.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Product is the only real criterion for judgment, isn't it? There are people who are really, really good at design, but who are almost completely unaware of the rules they intuitively follow, and there are others who've spent years (or decad
1437.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
The photographic amateur may be better-educated, better-equipped and better-practiced than the professional. He may know things about lenses, filters, lighting and gamma correction that an Ansel Adams would never have considered. The differ
1438.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
As a musician (one who, admittedly, wound up owing money when the bar tab was subtracted from the gate) I can't think of a better place to put them. They actually live on a line just south of the Sinatra-Beatles meridian. If you look just s
1439.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Well, since most violins made in the last century or two have been patterned on Strads (including a rather lovely graphite fiddle with an unfortunate marketing problem), it's not entirely surprising that a well-made modern instrument might
1440.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Oh, good Lord, no. If I had a nickel for every hard-slogging, monomaniacal, talentless writer, poet, painter, actor, singer, musician -- and yes, programmer* -- I'd met in this life, I'd probably have more than enough money for a down payme

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