Peter
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- Monday March 31 2008 6:34pm
Dirty Haxxors are at it again!
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Peter
Dirty Haxxors are at it again!
CrowScape
Well, IE8 does not display pngs correctly. They are slightly darker than they should be, which winds up screwing up my backgrounds. So, I'm not happy.
nearscape
No UT3 until after Japan for me as I said before, but this picture makes me excited:
http://www.beyondunreal.com/daedalus/img.php?potd_image_id=4478
Now that they've finally ported Facing Worlds the game is complete!
Also, everyone should do like Tycho says and check out the Sins of a Solar Empire demo!
http://files.filefront.com/Sins+of+a+Solar+Empire+Demo/;9861753;/fileinfo.html
It is swell.
LAN party in Green Bay in April, LAN party in MKE in MAY!!! Well, I'm off to Tokyo.
Dream BBQ Chid
Said Adobe SVG plugin has been EOL'd for a long time now.
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/
intrigue
SVC, vs silverlight. Most browsers support SVC through an adobe plug in, just use standards, don't give in.
intrigue
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/man_hit_by_police_taser_thats.html
the man pulls out the leads to the teaser and says "thats all you got!" it took several more officers to pull him down.
while you are reading this you might be thinking what sort of man pulls out the leads to a teaser and taunts police further, well according to the article the man was drinking a lot of GIN earlir.
CrowScape
adam: I think that you have to input the metatag if you want IE8 to act like IE7. But yes, in my experience, IE8 is CSS compliant by default. I don't think this will mess you up, as, if I'm not mistaken, in order for it to display Acid2 correctly, it would have to ignore code that has been hacked to be readable only by IE6-7.
B_W
boo.
anyone playing ut3 yet?
didn't think so.
intrigue
i now believe everything in the terminator series
http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-spooky
darpa is doing some wicked stuff with robotics.
Folkken
Hi Everyone,
It's been a while since I last visted. I hope everything is going well for all of you.
Things aren't too bad for me. Grad school is plugging along. I'm unsure where my focus area (power electronics) will lead. I originally wanted to do microwave/RF systems, but some of the classes were during the day. Obviously, my workplace was not pleased with that.
Oh, "No Country for Old Men" rocks!
Dream BBQ Child
Compare two c strings without care to case:
_stricmp (ISO C)
strcasecmp (OS X C)
Don't even get me started on Unicode.
It sucks. Here's my latest web one though: HTMLTableRow insertCell(iIndex). MS says iIndex is optional (it's not supposed to be). For a good time try and build a table dynamically with the DOM using insertCell. I ended up having my bGorramIE flag again to run the MS version and then everyone else standards compliant version. I thought Silverlight would save me from this nonsense but it DOESN'T HAVE A GRID OR ANYTHING ELSE LIKE A TABLE! I just wanted a calendar and I didn't want to resubmit to the server every time the user changed a date or moved the calendar view to another month.
Why couldn't MS just have implemented the SVG spec instead of reinventing it with Silverlight?
Them sons-a bitches.
adam
@ns: They JUST started letting us have IE7 at work. Still no Firefox. (We had an IT guy at the last station, though, who put it on our machines anyway. Of course, he ran Linux on his desk, so it's not like he followed all the rules anyway.)
@CS: IE8 beta is sticking to standards by DEFAULT?? I thought it had this "3-mode" deal where you had to set a switch via a meta tag to have it switch to standards mode. Makes me wonder how my sites fair in IE8. They display fine in Firefox and Opera, but I had to, as usual, hack the CSS for IE6/7 to display them.
nearscape
Sounds interesting. But if old sites break then I'm afraid that pretty much guarantees that corporate IT will never install it. I have a hard enough time trying to convince any corporate clients to use IE7 or Firefox, and those are relatively painless...assuming IE7 doesn't bork your registry on install, of course...so far I'm 2 out of 4 on that. :(
CrowScape
There's a beta of IE8 out. Of course, websites are breaking when rendered in the thing. However, the odd thing is that they are breaking because IE8 is rendering them correctly, adhering to rules that even Firefox doesn't abide. This is good sign.
intrigue
hmmm....
so, well, i wanted to say wrong, but rather this is just right
http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/03/04/female-duo-sets-the-standard-for-link-cosplay/
NearScape
Rest In Peace, Gary Gygax
CrowScape
The prime directive is buried somewhere on my desk, probably between the secrets of Atlantis and the philosophers stone. Now, if I could just find the atomic structure of unobtanium, I'd be getting somewhere.
Peter
No, Adam, its just that we've been too busy proving the existence of the prime directive now that someone is searching for "The Force". So far all we've been able to find is the All Spark, the Anti-Life Equation, the meaning of the "Lost" Island, and the identity of the second gunman on the grassy knoll, but we may be making a discovery any day now...
adam
wow.. It's so quiet around here I can head the crickets chirping.