Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 188
Or, a much quicker version: "six and two threes".
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Comment Re:Still fails at trivial CSS rendering/1.5yr old (Score 1) 143
Yeah, that one's been around a while. Only real way to mitigate it is JS (jquery has a nice $(window).resize() function - though it doesn't seem to work in some version of Safari).
Comment Re:As far as we need to go? (Score 1) 237
I believe I read that theory in one of Paul Davies' books - I'll have to go dig 'em out now :)
Comment Re:Democracy ? (Score 1) 187
Thanks to the EU and its various treaties, the word 'queen' doesn't mean anything anymore. She may still be referred to as such, but she is now a citizen just like the rest of us: http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2008/06/royal-assent-of-treaty-of-lisbon.html
Comment Re:The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt. (Score 1) 222
Those who want corruption make sure that government departments have corrupt leaders.
Comment Re:Why do corporations have to be people? (Score 1) 371
Mod up please. Natural people (human beings) are not 'people' in the legal sense. Legally, a 'person' is an entity that can have rights and responsibilities ascribed to it (as far as I understand, imagine the slave trade, slaves weren't 'people' - they had no rights - though I may be wrong).
Also, a human being cannot do business with legal fiction (a coporation) so your 'Person' (a legal entity created upon certification of birth) is there for that reason. A strawman used to enter into the commercial world.
Everything's a company of some description; countries, states, ministries, councils. The entire subject is a pretty eye-opening rabbit hole.
Also, a human being cannot do business with legal fiction (a coporation) so your 'Person' (a legal entity created upon certification of birth) is there for that reason. A strawman used to enter into the commercial world.
Everything's a company of some description; countries, states, ministries, councils. The entire subject is a pretty eye-opening rabbit hole.
Comment Re:So Opera web browser now runs as a system servi (Score 1) 227
True. So really the size should be compared to other web servers, not other browsers.
Comment Re:So Opera web browser now runs as a system servi (Score 1) 227
For Windows versions, the current 'release' version of Opera (9.64) is 5.4MB. The beta (10.00b1) is 6.6MB. Firefox 3.0.11 is 7MB.
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=32022 http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?ver=10.00b1
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=32022 http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?ver=10.00b1
Comment Re:Acquine may assign funny scores... (Score 3, Funny) 125
I uploaded a 1x1 pixel black image. It scored 24.6. I then uploaded a 1x1 pixel white image, which scored 41.7.
Looks your rating is accurate :)
Looks your rating is accurate
Comment Re:Good news for the young earthers.. (Score 1) 147
+1 insightful.
Concise and spot on.
Concise and spot on.
Comment Re:I wrote a song about it. Wanna hear it? Here it (Score 3, Funny) 118
Is this to the tune of 'O Caaaanada'?
Comment Re:You know, these stories don't shock me anymore. (Score 1) 446
Indeed; the 'Great British Apethy'.
I'm not far behind you..!
Comment Re:Encryption (Score 2, Insightful) 446
If they're doing what? I'm not sure I follow...
Submission + - Rethinking "Deep" Menu Trees
Tablizer writes: 'Deep tree' GUI menus are getting annoying as vendors rack up the feature quantities to compete with each other. Searching in menus for some long-lost feature is becoming ever more time-consuming as the trees grow. Perhaps it's time to rethink hierarchical menus and borrow some ideas from search engines, such as Google.
Consider listing (and perhaps linking) all the options or features in a database-like contraption, and key-word searching on these behind the scenes to produce a Google-like list of feature/option matches. A simple SQL "LIKE" statement(s) can be used for a simple implementation, with dedicated text indexers for fancier ones.
The database could also contain synonyms to assist finds. Some options will have prerequisites, which need to be dealt with. These can be tracked via a dependency tree or graph.
Has anybody tried something similar to this in a desktop app with success? If so, what technologies and techniques did you use, and what lessons did you learn?
Comment Re:Google (Score 1) 90
Well, to be fair, your Treo was just an example you gave. Do you use Firefox, NoScript and Cookiesafe on your Treo?
