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1441.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
It's available as part of the Web Developer Toolbar add-in for Firefox.
1442.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
The fact that you can see a full spectrum -- as in a rainbow, thin-film refraction on a puddle on a paved street, etc. -- should be an indication that the band-pass for neural firing is relatively wide. If each optical receptor had a narrow
1443.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Why, yes. Yes I can confirm that. And I can tell you that noticing it about 25 years back, when I was doing photography professionally, saved me a metric crapload of money on special meters and so on -- but only after I had button-holed eve
1444.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
"Fluorescents and Compact fluorescents produce horrible light as a result of the phosphor coating used to create white light." That's a bit of an overgeneralisation -- there's a significant difference between the cheapo tubes and, say, an O
1445.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
I have to disagree here. It is the common document elements that represent the greatest improvement, in that they will provide accessibility cues that classed divs never can. It's all well and good for us to gripe (or crow) about what can a
1446.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
NN 4.x stayed around forever BECAUSE we supported it, and IE6 will do the same. We have met the enemy, and they are us.
1447.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Hmmm. I don't quite understand how one could appreciate Bloom County (or its spiritual ancestor, Pogo) and not Calvin and Hobbes. Liking one is usually a strong indicator of liking the other in my experience (and while discussing comic stri
1448.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
It's already got a name -- hacktivism -- and it's happening in places like the Citizen Lab (U of T) already. If you're not familiar with the Open Net Initiative, it's worth a visit to http://opennet.net to find out what's being done tod
1449.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
And that (the Humpty Dumpty reading, wherein the meaning and intent of words is subordinated to the reader's desire) is an assumption of the sort one has to make in order to "prove" that it is fundamentally impossible for a statement to be
1450.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Aircraft have floating, jettisonable radio beacons (Emergency Locator Transmitters) that transmit on the international guard frequency 121.5MHz (with intentional harmonic distortion that allow reception on the military guard frequency of 24
1451.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
More than once per second (in fact, more than many times per second) means the difference between FOD ingress failure mode and, say, a spontaneous single blade failure in a turbine, between a synchro follower field inversion (think of a com
1452.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
It's more of a Lotus Notes (with Sametime) on lithium than FriendFeed on crack -- it solves many (but not all) of the same problems (without, of course, the need to be backwards-compatible to the 1993 version). And like Notes, there is goin
1453.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
>>The solution? If you ever murder a programmer who wrote >> for x = xx to xxx >>the penalty should be an $18 fine and community service. I would respectfully submit that the community service has already been done
1454.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
A lot of people have "looked into this" (Jakob Nielsen among them), and the only reasonable conclusion is that yes, you want to do it twice. What happens in the browser cannot be called "real" validation, but if a user has to wait thirty se
1455.
by stan_rogers 17y ago
Immigration to Canada for the express purpose of creating a start-up can be a bit difficult for a young 'un, at least. You need to have a net worth of at least $CAN 300K and previous experience managing a business in order to qualify for En
1456.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
Yeah -- chair, general ergonomics, excercise, stretching, massage. All good. All mostly missing the real point. Unless you've suffered a real back injury, your pain is probably at least partly psychosomatic. That doesn't mean "in your head"
1457.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
So Xerox is still using the "Phaser" solid ink technology they got in the box when they bought Tektronix and HP is still using inkjets. And ...?
1458.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
It's not that a CS program has no useful content, but that the content is available to anyone interested in finding it. Knuth is accessible to a mathematically-inclined person with a tenth grade (equivalent) knowledge of mathematics (and th
1459.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
You assume that certification needs to fall within a particular discipline. And you have probably also assumed that "college" is at least approximately equal to "university", which is not the case in Ontario, Canada. What was required was a
1460.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
And therein lies the real advantage, I think. I may be unschooled, but I am educated. Unfortunately, it's taken me the better part of fifty years to get there. These days my own abilities are severely restricted by Lewy Body Dementia, so I
1461.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
Tough one. I'm a high school dropout, so I had to check Elementary School. Now, I've taught at colleges (electronics and linear mathematics), but I've never actually attended one as a student. Some lives are weirder than others, I guess.
1462.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
Imagine being 19 years old and entering ANY unfamiliar course of study. Who's going to rock your world -- somebody who is engaged in esoteric research and finds lecturing a distraction, or someone who views himself less like a guardian of a
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by stan_rogers 18y ago
If money isn't particularly tight, or if the family already has a licensed copy, Flash and ActionScript make a particularly good start. Like Logo, the kid can make things happen nearly immediately, but since ActionScript has a syntax that i
1464.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
Coding is a lot like cooking. Sure, it's fun to cook from scratch, but if you're running a restaurant (cooking for a living, in other words), you'd better learn to get most of the hard work done before the dinner crowd hits. "Mise en place"
1465.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
Headphones are really bad at resolving space for anything that should appear near the centre of the "soundstage". Even the good folks at HeadRoom will admit that. (I'd like to mention here that those guys are the most honest folks I've run
1466.
by stan_rogers 18y ago
Remember that the "flat and lifeless" digital experience that Fremer was talking about was a long time ago.. Yeah, he's a bit of a nut, and I'm sure that some of what he hears is as much psychological as physical (especially as it regards s