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Oct

Eolas. Round 2

"Eolas is suing everyone this time. Ridiculous, hopefully the Redhat motion to Scotus to adopt software as part bilski ruling goes into play, Microsoft can counter sue Eolas and recoup the money. Then all these companies sue Eolas for litigation costs already incurred, and Eolas goes bankrupt."

Read More... — Started by dyfrin in General Discussion

Oct

I am published!

"This is a first for me and just wanted to share. I'm used to having my graphics work in national print publications but this is my very first article published online. I know there are a lot of article writers here that do this kind of thing all the time, but this being my first time, I'm rather excited about it. Looking forward to your feedback and critique."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in General Discussion

Oct

Sidekick user data disappears into the cloud

"T-Mobile customers using the sidekick mobile phone have a good reason to be upset today. Over the weekend, something happened to the server cloud where all of the sidekick stored it's information - including contacts, numbers, calendar events, photos, etc. The server cloud is (was?) owned and operated by Danger, a Microsoft subsidiary, and thus, the giant is taking blame as well. All of the information on the cloud was lost despite all recovery attempts..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum

Oct

Can Using UTF-8 Degrade Performance in Some Languages ?

"I've been reading up a bit more on UTF-8 lately and one of the disadvantages I came across was UTF-8 using 2 and in some cases 3 times as much space to represent data as a native encoding for the language would use. My first thought was big deal, storage space is pretty cheap these days. But then I thought about the RAM it must be using to work with this UTF-8 encoded data in an application."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum

Oct

How to select an uninterruptible power supply ?

"How do I determine what sort of uninterruptible power supply I need to get ? My only requirement is that it will keep everything I have plugged in here at my desk powered on in the event of a power flicker. A quick look around and I see things with specs listed such as "watts" and "VA". Do I need to find out how many watts each of my PC power supplies are, add those numbers together, and go from there for what I need ?"

Read More... — Started by joebert in Hardware

Oct

Both parties agree to support war decision re: Afghanistan

"Here we go again. Both parties have formally agreed to support Obama's decision regarding war in Afghanistan..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

Google Voice and Skype could be on iPhone soon

"According to rumor, it's to be announced tomorrow in San Diego that Google Voice and Skype will be allowed on the iPhone network. While AT&T maintains that any such decision is strictly up to Apple, both companies have taking a public beating regarding the rejections..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

Gmail newest target in latest phising scandal

"Google has confirmed that Gmail has become a target of the most recent run of phishing that included the release of 10,000+ hotmail account usernames and passwords yesterday. Currently, 3,000+ gmail accounts have been compromised. WATCH YOUR ADDRESS BAR!"

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

Verizon, Google team up to bring Android to customers

"This morning Verizon announced that they will be teaming with Google to bring Android-based mobile phones to their network in the coming weeks. What remains to be seen is whether the preloaded "innovative applications" from Google, Verizon, and undisclosed third-parties will ruin or enhance the experience..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

Google Chrome Mangling border-radius ?

"Has anyone else looked at anything that uses the CSS border-radius family of rules for rounded corners in Google Chrome ? Does it look horribly mangled to you ?"

Read More... — Started by joebert in Website Design Forum

Oct

Anyone ever experienced sleep paralysis?

"So I was reading along a thread in another forum regarding everyone's creepiest stories, and the theme of sleep paralysis appeared a few times. I looked up a couple of sites discussing it and it appears that it's as close to an out-of-body experience you can (naturally) get. Apparently it's pretty widespread, too, so that made me curious. Anyone here ever experienced it?"

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

Rio de Janiero annouced as 2016 Olympics host

"Brazil will become the first South American country to host the Olympics after the city of Rio de Janeiro was chosen to stage the 2016 Games..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

So McDonald's forgot your fries again...

"Maybe, just maybe, they intended as much. Ridiculous what people will do to save a buck..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Oct

MySQL Limits

"I'd like to select a limit of 4 photos, along with the user, from a list of users I have users bob, jason and sue who have uploaded about 20 photos each. But I only want 4 photos from each of them. How do I get 12 photos, 4 from bob, 4 from jason, and 4 from sue? Must I use multiple MySQL statements?"

Read More... — Started by camperjohn in Programming / Scripting / Coding Forum

Sep

Microsoft Security Essentials Released.

"Microsoft Tuesday released its first free anti-virus software called Microsoft Security Essentials for computers running its Windows operating system."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Microsoft Windows Forum

Sep

The strongest Dad in the world

"An inspirational story about a relationship between a father and son that is bonded by unconditional love."

Read More... — Started by George L. in General Discussion

Sep

Remember When We Used to Stay Up All Night Coding ?

"If you don't remember, here's a possible reason. It turns out sleep deprivation may contribute to Alzheimers. David Holtzman looked at how sleep affected the levels of beta-amyloid protein in mice and humans. This protein causes plaques to build up in the brain, which some think cause Alzheimer's disease by killing cells."

Read More... — Started by joebert in General Discussion

Sep

G20 Summit In Pittsburgh Today

"Well today I wish I worked in Downtown Pittsburgh. Why? I'd have the day off today. Downtown is pretty much shut down today because of the G20 in town today and tomorrow. I'm not much on political or economic discussions, but since it's "close to home" and newsworthy, I thought I'd bring it up. "Why Pittsburgh?""

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in General Discussion

Sep

AT&T continues to build a bad reputation over MicroCell

"What's that? Your AT&T 3G coverage sucks in your area? Can't play with your iPhone then much, huh? Have you tried a Microcell? It's a device that you can use to route your calls over the internet (which not only improves your usage, but reduces the company's traffic as well)..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

Introducing Courier - the Microsoft tablet

"Looks like Microsoft intends to fight Apple's much-anticipated tablet with one of their own, and from what I've seen, this time they stand a good chance..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

Should I Always Use a Canonical Meta Element ?

"I've been using Googles' "canonical" meta element for a few months now and it really comes in handy. I'm actually thinking about using it for everything and anything I can generate one for on the fly whether I think I need it immediately or not."

Read More... — Started by joebert in Google Forum

Sep

Net neutrality rules to be announced by the FCC Monday

"The FCC will be announcing a broad set of rules regarding net neutrality this coming Monday. Very little is known at present about what's to be released, but all signs point to..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

eBay could have just pulled the biggest FAIL of the year

"It looks like the original Skype owners are suing eBay for copyright infringement surrounding Skype. eBay bought Skype back in '05 for a cool $2.6 billion & they've recently arranged to dump the app for 1.9 billion (talk about a loss!). Is it possible that they went through that entire purchase process the first time somehow allowing the founders to keep the copyright on the source code?"

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

Ring, ring! Pick up - Twitter's calling.

"A new service is coming to Twitter that will allow users to place short phone calls. @call is the name of the service that JaJah is bringing to Twitter today in beta. If you're interested in how it'll work, here's the jist..."

Read More... — Started by UPSGuy in General Discussion

Sep

TUTORIAL: Photo-realism Techniques in Ray Tracing

"[tuthead:3p6a80og]Introduction[/tuthead:3p6a80og] It will be obvious (from the title if nothing else) that this tutorial was completely inspired by digitalMedia's superb tutorial on Photo-realism in Vectors. Similar to Chris's tutorial, this isn't necessarily a step-by-step how to, but rather an example of what can be done."

Read More... — Started by ATNO/TW in Digital Art Tutorials

Featured Tutorial: Multi-Column Layout Using CSS Float

For this tutorial, we're targeting a layout that has three columns of content with spaces at the top and bottom for a header and footer. The page will be a fixed width and will also be centered in the browser's display area (the figure to your left).

We'll begin with an XHTML page structure in its most simple form. In the <head> of our document, we'll point to an external CSS file.

Once upon a time, web developers used the HTML element <table> to layout content columns. This practice is now recognized as cumbersome and not very semantic.

These days, instead of using <table>, we use the <div> element as a container for content. Once you get the hang of it, using <div> becomes very liberating and greatly reduces the amount of markup needed to layout a page.

This is an intermediate level tutorial that discusses one method of multi-column page layout. It assumes the reader has a good knowledge and understanding of HTML and CSS.