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Hmm. I don't seem to recall much advertisement about XP or 2000 or ME before the release even occurred, in a sense these three OSes really weren't all that different from 98 SE, just some cosmetic and security enhancements. Not much to talk about you know. I think maybe the enhanced advertisement is because competition is heating up. Apple does tremendous advertisement for all the new releases of it's OSes (something that made me think the Longhorn hype is modelled after...) and the Linux community is growing tremendously and becoming more mainstream. Previously, there was no Mac OS X and Linux was smaller...

You have to float the divs to get them to be positioned horizontally. Check out Glish for the "3 column layout" to see the exact coding.

Actually, ihope, absolute and relative links mean differently from outside links and "inside" links. Absolute links typically mean a URL that is complete, like blahblah.com/blahblah/ whereas relative URLS are like "/pictures/image.jpg" where it depends on where the current page resides to get the file. Most of the time people do use absolute links to link to outside sites, and relative links to link to files within the site, but that doesn't mean that you can't use absolute links for inside linking.

mitchellmckain, just wanted to comment that your analogy is one of the most unique and yet quite true one that I've seen regarding Macs, Windows and Linux, that of a spectrum where Macs represent strict control, Windows in the middle, and Linux being extremely free. That is different from the typical analogy of Windows on one side, and Macs and Linux on the other side being the "alternative" OSes. In a way, I do agree with you. Apple is a company that would control both their software and their hardware tightly, and as a result, would create a product that would only appeal to a section of the market. In the beginning it was a small section. Maybe that's why mac fans are considered a cult? *grin* But by advertising and by leading people using the iPod, Apple is trying to increase that section.

Well, it really depends. If you have a blog that is used to communicate with other people, then talking about your life is okay in a blog. For me, I used to maintain three blogs, one was a prose/poetry/free writing blog, one was for opinions on things, and one was about my life. Why I had a blog in which I wrote about my life (e.g. my latest post was on my new haircut and workday), is because that blog is a Livejournal, and it's linked up to all my friends' blogs, and Livejournal makes it easy to read your friends' blogs (with something called a friends page). So I use my Livejournal to talk about life, primarily because it is, in a way, akin to talking to my friends, informing them what's happening in my life, keeping in contact with them, since I don't get to see them everyday and don't like to chat online much. I, in return, do want to know what's happening in my friends' lives too, like recently my friend blogged that her father just got retrenched and she is worried about becoming the breadwinner of the family and money troubles, I mean, as a friend, it's just much more convenient when I can read these hard-to-talk-about or mundane topics online, comment on them, make people feel better, and be able to console her in real life come the weekend when we meet...I do agree that many blogs on life look pointless to people, but sometimes you also have to take note of the target audience, and whether that target audience really is reading the blog (in my case, yes).

Hmm. I really wonder how many people would be willing to buy Windows if they do implement that fee thing. Although it really depends how big the fee is. If it's a small fee per year, like $30, it might (or might not) encourage people who are poorer in the present but have a steady income to buy the authentic version, but that fee is going to have to be reasonable with regards to how long Longhorn is going to last. If Microsoft is not going to release another version anytime soon, the fee had better be really small, because some people will continue using that OS for maybe five years or more? So long as the math works out people might purchase it.Makes me kinda wonder what kind of security precautions they're putting on the OS to make people pay yearly. The recent article about how some researcher found a way around the current Microsoft authentication process makes me doubt most authentication processes in general. I mean, I just ripped my "Copy Control" CD with iTunes without even trying! (I bought the CD, it's legal.)

Hmm. I'd actually prefer the Treo 650, or the Treo line, because of the close integration with a phone. That'll be the actual reason I'd buy it, for organising my life and to use as a phone too. I find PDAs as a concept quite useless to me as a person, this is my own opinion at least. My friend has the Treo and it works really well. Makes updating contacts and stuff quite a breeze. (Sorry for the double post... any kind mods want to merge these two posts?) -----posts merged -----szupie I just got this link through one of my RSS feeds... Review of LifeDrive... Read through it, it sounds pretty interesting, if I didn't already have my darling Apple PB, but the whole six-seconds hard-drive freezing thing dones't sound all too promising...

It's interesting, at least, that all the different accents have slightly different ways of saying things. Like in Tokyo-ben you would say "desu ne" but in Kyoto-ben you would say "dosu e" which is more antiquated and formal at the same time. Of course the basic grammar structure is the same, but there are words that are just pronounced differently, just like how people from different regions of china speak mandarin in different ways. Not too sure about ancient japanese and the zu-character though... heh heh...Well, in Chinese, each character we use stands for a particular meaning, somehting like what Kanji is to japanese. But we use "kanji" all the time, whereas in japanese you would have syllables-style characters like hiragana and katakana for grammar and other uses. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic, they serve as an alphabet of sorts. Every kanji character can be pinned down to their phonetic origins and written in an "alphabet" in a sense. But in chinese we don't have that sort of "alphabet", everything is written in kanji. Even stuff like "is", "was" that kind of words that have hiragana in Japanese, is written in "kanji" style characters in Chinese. There are quite a lot of characters in Chinese, the language is known to be the most difficult language to learn, purely because we have a character for everything, and each character may have up to five or six different pronunciations, intonations, and coupled with other characters, may have a myriad of meanings, up to the tens and dozens.Although I'm chinese, my country adopts a two-language education system, where everyone learns everything in english, and English is our first language, and we all have to learn our mother tongue as a second language, which in my case is Chinese. So, in actual fact, my english is a lot stronger than my chinese, it's more apparent when you're talking about written chinese, because I just don't have the memory capacity to remember all the characters... >_< In fact, my japanese is probably catching up with my chinese...

Okini is kansai-ben, meaning it's slang used by people from the Kansai-region (ben meaning... accent?? Brain thinks in japanese, can't really translate to english). Strangely enough a lot of Japanese in Singapore use it. O_o. Probably means there are a lot of Kansai Japanese in Singapore? Or just that they like my workplace's food...Kansai-ben is actually quite informal. But apparently very fun to use. It's quite different from traditional formal japanese. But then there are so many differing levels of formality and so many different accents (there's Kyoto-ben too, which is very pretty and very formal) it's almost like another language altogether...Wow. You translated Love Hina Advance? I don't watch Love Hina but you can probably head down to the Anime thread we had some time ago and revive it... As for japanese, I studied at a school with a japanese teacher, so my grammar is pretty strong, although without frequent usage it's not all that good anymore... Kanji is easy for me because I'm chinese! *grin*

Welcome here~ I'm a fellow student of Japanese too, so maybe we can swap pointers~~ Heh heh. Hope you have a fun time here and get hosted soon.I think translation and localisation is really a tough job. I'm a Chinese and I speak English and Chinese fluently but to translate something from English to Chinese and vice versa is so hard, because you're not translating directly, you have to try and capture the essence, the implications of the sentence, the non-written content, when you translate. Which is why I applaud all translators and localisationers <--- is there such a word?? ...I'm currently working in a small japanese food outlet and I get to use my japanese a lot more! >_< And realise how rusty it is... Learnt a new word the other day: Okini... it's kansai-ben for thank you...

Haha I'm a famous actress AND a really big Tornado. I love the Tornado. Tornado Lili. Pretty big I've heard.

Hmm. When I get my site up I'll pass you a link. What I'm saying is that you may have a non gallery page, and then that page is totally devoid of pictures. No pictures used, no img tags and stuff. No banners, no graphics and the like. Styling is done through CSS only, and maybe one background colour (black or white), text colour (some sort of grey), and then varying shades of one primary colour (light purple, dark purple) for links and headers. Do you think that would fulfill the 70/30 rule? No borders either.

Yeah, if I buy a Mac Mini and I have no monitor, I would WANT to get the apple display because it is so gorgeous and it'll match.But I guess it's the whole flexibility thing? You can go get the Apple display if you want, or you can just use some old beat-up CRT monitor leftover from your last PC (that's their target audience anyway). Though a few weeks with the pretty Mac Mini and the old beat-up monitor you'd probably start to want to buy a new display and keyboard and everything.

After a week of using Tiger, and after really settling in with all my preferences and programs,It's really not all that different from Panther, with the possible exception for me would be the Dashboard, because I use the stickies there and stuffed it with small games. I've always thought games were too troublesome if they had to be opened as an application... So I have mini Solitaire, Pacman, Memory and Snake on my Dashboard, and when I'm bored, I just hit F12 and I can start playing.Beyond the cosmetic features, I still feel that Tiger is faster than Panther, with the possible exception when I play videos on VLC or on Mplayer, then I'd have to hide my other programs or the video would jerk. I'm not too sure whether it has to do with the OS or the burden it's putting on my system, or actually it's VLC and Mplayer's problem, because neither has been updated for Tiger as far as I know. Also might have to do with the new codecs the fansubbers' been using.Oh! And miraculously, my download speeds for bittorrent has jumped tremendously. I used be able to download only nine items at one go, now that limit is gone, and I download a lot faster too. I'm not altogether too sure whether this is because of Tiger, or the new bittorrent program, or something on the hardware side (maybe my cable people?), but it's welcome anyways. IE:mac is no longer included in the new OS, neither is iLife applications or Stuffit or GraphicConvertor, so I downloaded IE:mac (for testing purposes) and Stuffit Expander Standalone for those .sit files. One thing that grabs me is that when you select several items in the Finder and click Get Info, you get different Get Info windows for each item instead of a joint Get Info for multiple items Window, but I read in a review you can still get that functionality if you use the Inspector (Alt-Apple-I) so that's no big problem, just have to remember that sometimes. I'm sure in time to come I will need that separated Get Info windows functionality...I still haven't figured out the RSS function for Safari, can't say I've had a lot of time to play with it. The new Mail is not as ugly as some people make it out to be, it's just different. I don't mind it, really. I'm a pretty organised person, so I don't use Spotlight often, I even remapped the keyboard shortcut to something else cos I needed Apple-Space to change languages. But it did come in useful when I couldn't figure out where my browser downloaded a file to. Nice that it's like global, and also on Save to windows and on Finder windows. Makes it very intuitive to just type and hit search.Oh, and I like how now you can change the colours of the calendars in iCal, as in choose what colour you want instead of being confined to the six odd colours they have. That's a big thing for me, since I have a lot of calendars...Yeah, sorry for the randomness of this review, trying to gather my thoughts at the same time...

Hmm... what are your feelings on sites that religiously refuse to use images in their main website design? As in no banner, no graphic backgrounds, only graphics in the main content (let's say, a photography page). Now that CSS is so prevalent and more accessible, many of the elements that were once done using images can now be reproduced easily with CSS. So, would that violate that 70/30 rule? I'm asking because I'm one of those people.

For me, all those sites don't work because I'm on a Mac... =_=. I actually read the RSS feeds from Versiontracker as they come, so I'm updated on what new programs are added to it. Since Versiontracker has Windows, Mac and Linux sections, it's good for everybody. Once in a while I'll go trawling through Versiontracker, exploring an entire section, but that takes a REALLY long time...

=_=. Different standard altogether na~ I think I don't need to tell you that your photos are good no?Where did you take them and what equipment? I know you use a MarkII but what lens? Especially for the insect closeup. How did you manage to get so close to the insect? Using long lens? Macro?

Or you just make your site small enough to fit into the smallest screens... *grin* That would be around 600px wide... To cater to the 640x480 people. Technically, that would not be a good idea because then the people using the huge *bottom* monitors would be squinting like hell.So yeah, make your site variable. If you're using a table, make the width of your main parts a percentage of the screen, so it stretches with the browser. If you're using CSS, also make sure the width is a percentage of the screen, and use float more than you use absolute positioning. That's just the most basic of variable-width sites. If you're using graphics, it's good to have a mix of fixed width and variable width sections.

Nice one Brian. Apple is king of publicity. Microsoft... Hmm... very good at making itself look bad. Really.Anyway, having used Tiger for a full two nights (despite having it fr more than a week, just got my laptop back) and read some preview sites on Longhorn, my vote is unconfirmed. I would like to vote for Tiger though, because the speed at which this baby runs amazes me, and somehow I don't think Longhorn is going to shine in terms of performance in speed. Prove me wrong, Microsoft. Before that, I shall stick to Tiger.Interestingly, does anyone know why WinFS is not coming out in Longhorn? Supposedly (and I'm not too sure about this) it was it's best feature. I do like how Longhorn is cutting down some of the unnecessary graphical glut from the recent screenshots. They say the sidebar thingy is gone. I thought the sidebar thingy was a monstrosity. Just there to look pretty, and yet, quite useless. Kinda like how in XP the Start button is this humongous (and very ugly) green button.The Mac camp has given some opinions. Windows supporters? and Linux and FreeBSD and all the other OSes? Opinions please!

Yo~ Welcome~ I'm from Singapore, not too far away from each other geographically eh? Though I'm pretty sure there are other Malaysians on this board. Somewhere.

I think the most valuable feature for me, and the most under-rated, since there's really not much to shout about... is that it runs. Faster than Panther. On older computers.That by itself should be something big. The new mac OS runs FASTER than the older one. You don't see that happening in the Windows world. Having used Windows 3.1, and then Windows 95, and then 98 and then 2000 and then ME and then finally XP, every single OS upgrade has just made my computer run slower. Yes, there are more features (and so does Tiger, Tiger also has new features), but since I was a poor student and stuck using the same computer for more like 7 years, I knew that each successive upgrade was slower. Then here comes a new Mac OS that runs even faster than Panther. I would know, I did a full clean-up of my hard drive and was downloading and installing all of my twenty-eight programs at one go. 28 programs all open, all running, and changing the preferences for them one by one, whilst some others were still installing and stuff. No slow-down whatsoever. Rocking.Using a 1 GHz PB though. Not too sure about the G3, probably your biggest problem would be your graphics card isn't supported. Don't worry, you're not missing much. I just saw the infamous ripple effect, yeah, it's cool, took me by surprise, but not something you HAVE to HAVE.

I don't mind. I'll help!A tad busy, but should be checking the site everyday now, so pop away~Not too good with PHP though.

Cool. I've always wanted to know what files and folders I could delete from my account. I like my site structure nice and neat...By the way, can anyone explain what are the files for? As in, what folder is for what purpose? That'll help a lot instead of just seeing random files and folders that are not yours...

Sorry, Hercco, not really understanding what you wrote. What does that tag do??

XHTML and CSS.Look at it this way... XHTML is "supposedly" the go-in-between between XML and HTML. XML is admittedly being used more and more, especially if you mention RSS pages, because the language itself can be adapted to fit into all types of views, like PDAs and handphones can format and show websites. But in the end, XML, though somewhat similar to HTML is still a programming language that actually requires some form of programming. Most of the designers can't even switch fully over to XHTML and CSS. Don't talk XML and XSL to them.If anything, I agree that XML and XSL MAY be the way to go, in maybe 5 or 10 more years. HTML has had around ten years before it got taken over, gradually, by XHTML. CSS took, what, 3 years? to mature and become the well-behaved language it is today. RSS, the main application of XML on the web nowadays, is getting more mainstream, but still considered geeky. To say that XML and XSL will take over pretty soon is quite the sweeping statement, something that might be gleaned purely from articles in magazines, but very ivory-tower-ish. Most people involved in MAINSTREAM web development will know that most people are still working with HTML and XHTML. The switch between HTML and XHTML is not great, and yet it's already taking so long, let's not argue about CSS. I highly doubt that XML and XSL will catch on anytime "pretty soon", unless "pretty soon" was in years.That's my take on it. Technology courses in universities and colleges are quite interesting sometimes, but very ivory-towerish on other times. My technology prof used to discuss Blogging like he knows it so well, but in the end, if you're involved in the scene, you know that some of the things they say can't just be taken at face value.It's good that you're questioning your lecturer like that though.