Forums http://designdeployment.com/boards en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:53:16 GMT vBulletin 60 http://designdeployment.com/boards/images/misc/rss.jpg Forums http://designdeployment.com/boards <![CDATA[Organized Selector Chaos with dojo.behavior]]> http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13180&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT One of the most underrated parts of writing good JavaScript code is writing *maintainable* code: *readable, modular, and clean. *Just because you use... One of the most underrated parts of writing good JavaScript code is writing *maintainable* code: *readable, modular, and clean. *Just because you use a JavaScript framework doesn’t mean your code is maintainable. *Quick the contrary could be true — some frameworks make JavaScript uglier. Because of all the DOM node traversal that’s involved with modern [...]Follow Me! Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | MooTools Forge.

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More... ]]> PHP, CSS, Javascript and MySQL unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13180 Ideas For a Great Control Room? http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13179&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT lewko writes "Our company is about to build a central monitoring facility and I'm looking for ideas/suggestions about the best hardware and the best way to make it comfortable for those manning a screen. It will be manned 24x7 and operators will be monitoring a variety of systems including security, network, fire, video and more. These will be observed via local multi-monitor workstations and a common videowall. This is going to be a massively expensive exercise and we only get one chance to get it right. The facility is in a secure windowless bunker and staff will generally be in there for many hours at a time. So we have to implement design elements which make it a 'happy' place. At the same time, it has to be ergonomically sound. Lastly, we will be showing it to our clients, so without undoing the above objectives, it would be nice if it was 'cool' (yet functional). Whilst Television doesn't transfer to real life always, think 'CTU' from 24."

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13179 Transition Metal Catalysts Could be Key To Origin of Life http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13178&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT An anonymous reader writes "One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals - such as amino acids and nucleotides - have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? In a paper appearing in the current issue of The Biological Bulletin, scientists propose that a third type of catalyst could have jumpstarted metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents."

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13178 4chan Gives 90-Year-Old Vet a Great Birthday http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13177&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT Hugh Pickens writes "Members of 4chan aren't known for doing things that are cute and heart-warming and when they decide to go after someone, it's typically to subject them to ridicule. But not this time. Someone at 4chan decided that the Internet should get together and wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy birthday, and soon Lashua's local branch of the American Legion was deluged by birthday calls from people as far away as Sweden. The account someone set up for Mr. Lashua's birthday on Facebook had 3,956 'likes' and over 500 comments, most of which wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for his military service. It's not clear how 4chan originally came across a photo of Lashua, but a member of the site posted a snapshot of a flyer that was on the bulletin board at a store in Ashburnham, Massachusetts asking for guests to attend the nonagenarian's birthday on at the American Legion hall and the post took off. In contrast to their usual behavior, 4chan members 'were giving him nice phone calls and sending him nice notes' and discouraging those who wanted to do something stupid or mean. 'They were all being.. well, shucks, awful nice.'"

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13177 UK Music Industry Calls For Truce With Technology http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13176&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT Stoobalou writes "The British music industry has called for a truce with the technology firms with whom it has till now fought a bitter battle over rights, royalties and file sharing. Feargal Sharkey, CEO of lobby group UK Music, told a conference in London this week that it was time for the music and technology industries to set aside their differences and strive instead toward a common goal: nothing less than the total global domination of British music."

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13176 Senate Candidate Sued By Copyright Troll http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13175&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT The Iso writes "Las Vegas based company Righthaven found two articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle reprinted on her web site without permission, so it did what it always does: bought the rights to the articles from the Review-Journal and sued the alleged infringer, seeking unspecified damages."

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13175 The State of Household Robots http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13174&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT paulelaguna writes "The dream of owning a household robot is starting to become reality, particularly for people in Japan. There are robots to help you do the dishes, move furniture, and even robotic wheelchairs to help you get around. Really, the only question that remains for us is when do we move?"

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13174 Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post To Walls http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13173&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT angry tapir writes "A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages last week. Facebook confirmed the bug Friday, after notifying affected users of the issue. Most of the messages promised 'Free iPhones,' a common spam message on Facebook these days. Facebook says that the spammer hit thousands of profiles before the company removed the spammy photos and notified affected users. No accounts were compromised as a result of the bug."

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13173 Fidel Castro, Internet News Junkie http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13172&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT pickens writes "The LA Times reports that 84-year-old Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro consumes 200 to 300 news items a day on the World Wide Web. In a recent interview he called Web communication 'the most powerful weapon that has existed' and extolled its power to break a stranglehold on the media by 'the empire' and 'ambitious private groups that have abused it' adding that the Internet 'has put an end to secrets.... We are seeing a high level of investigative journalism, as the New York Times calls it, that is within reach of the whole world.' Well, not the whole world. Cuba has the lowest level of Internet penetration in the Western Hemisphere (lower than Haiti), plus severe government restrictions and censorship affecting those who do have access. In addition Cuban law bans using the Internet to spread information that is against what the government considers to be the social interest, norms of good behavior, the integrity of the people or national security."

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13172 Fine-Structure Constant Maybe Not So Constant http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13171&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT Kilrah_il writes "The fine-structure constant, a coupling constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction, has been measured lately by scientists from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and has been found to change slightly in light sent from quasars in galaxies as far back as 12 billion years ago. Although the results look promising, caution is advised: 'This would be sensational if it were real, but I'm still not completely convinced that it's not simply systematic errors' in the data, comments cosmologist Max Tegmark of MIT. Craig Hogan of the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., acknowledges that 'it's a competent team and a thorough analysis.' But because the work has such profound implications for physics and requires such a high level of precision measurements, 'it needs more proof before we'll believe it.'"

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13171 Hands-on With the iPad Alternatives On Display at IFA http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13170&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT Barence writes "This week's IFA show has seen a flurry of Android-based alternatives to the iPad emerge from leading manufacturers. The Samsung Galaxy Tab made a strong first impression on PC Pro's reviewer. The 7-inch tablet's TFT screen 'beams forth with rich, saturated colours and wide, wide viewing angles,' the device is capable of Full HD playback and the TouchWiz UI is 'clearly intended to draw customers away from the iFamily.' Elsewhere, ViewSonic has launched a pair of 7-inch and 10-inch tablets, the larger of which dual boots into either Android or Windows 7. 'Our first moments with Windows 7 were surprisingly painless, too: we expected the Atom processor and 1GB of memory to be horrendously sluggish, but it wasn't the case,' PC Pro reports. Finally, Toshiba's 10.1in Folio 100 marries Android 2.2 with Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform to deliver 'mighty graphics crunching power.' The build quality left a little to desire, though. 'The 14mm thick chassis feels lightweight, and even relatively gentle twisting motions left the Folio's plastic body creaking under the stress.'"

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13170 ACTA Text Leaks; US Caves On ISPs, Seeks Super-DMCA http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13169&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT An anonymous reader writes "Given the history of ACTA leaks, to no one's surprise, the latest version of the draft agreement (PDF) was leaked last night on KEI's website. The new version — which reflects changes made during an intense week of negotiations last month in Washington — shows a draft agreement that is much closer to becoming reality. Perhaps the most important story of the latest draft is how the countries are close to agreement on the Internet enforcement chapter. In the face of opposition, the US has dropped its demands on secondary liability for ISPs but is still holding out hope of establishing a super-DMCA with digital lock rules that go beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and were even rejected by US courts."

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13169 The New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13168&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT eldavojohn writes "MSNBC spoke with the senior producer of a new stereoscopic 3D game called Killzone 3 and highlighted problems they are trying to solve with being one of the first FPS 3D games for the PS3. The team ran into serious design problems, like where to put the crosshairs for the players (do they constantly hover in front of your vision?) and what to do with any of the heads-up display components. Aside from the obvious marketing thrown in at the end of the article (in a very familiar way), there is an interesting point raised concerning normalized conventions in all video games and how one ports that to the new stereoscopic 3D model — the same way directors continue to grapple with getting 3D right. Will 3D games be just as gimmicky as most 3D movies? If they are, at least Guerrilla Games is at least making it possible for the player to easily and quickly switch in and out of stereoscopic 3D while playing."

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13168 Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key To Origin of Life http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13167&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT An anonymous reader writes "One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals — such as amino acids and nucleotides — have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? In a paper appearing in the current issue of The Biological Bulletin, scientists propose that a third type of catalyst could have jumpstarted metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents."

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More... ]]> Nerd News unknownerrors http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13167 Parrot iPod-Controlled Quadricopter Launches This Week http://designdeployment.com/boards/showthread.php?t=13166&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:50:02 GMT MojoKid writes "Remote-controlled helicopters are not new, but Parrot's AR.Drone Quadricopter is set to make a splash when it goes on sale on Sept. 9th. It will use an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as a controller, and give a live video feed from two different cameras to the pilot. Each model comes with two hulls, one of them for indoor use, with protective loops around the rotors. The device creates its own Wi-Fi network, which the iOS device connects to in order to control the Quadricopter."

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