That's a problem that's already been solved for people using subsetted fonts in the EOT format, to the extent that you can trust the user's web browser...
So, not solved at all, then. If your "DRM solution" involves trusting the client, you may as well not even bother.
We have the information we need, and we're satisfied. No need to put bells and whistles on it. If it were up to me (which it isn't), there would be no such thing as "web design". Web pages are not a fashion show, they're just means of sharing, displaying and publishing information. Let's keep it that way.
Now instead of quickly rendered and clearly legible standard fonts, web pages will be burdened with additional downloads...
If we can replace GIFs and JPEGs of text in a particular typeface saved as an image, and just allow the user to download the typeface itself once and then use it everywhere that face is called for, we would likely see a considerable reduction in page sizes. Especially when you consider that if multiple sites use the same font they could all piggyback off that single download.
... which appears to have done diddly squat over several years (the USPP was "founded" in 2006) in terms of fundraising and base building, despite Americans being more politically engaged during that time than they have been in generations.
Of the six offices that comprise the USPP's "leadership", three are vacant and two more will become so this month. To the best of my knowledge, they've fielded no candidates for office at any level and have not organized enough people to win ballot access in any state.
In short, my question is: have these guys done anything over the last three years beyond buying a domain and dumping Drupal on it?
I'd recommend getting an answer to that question before you give them any money.
A third party doesn't have to knock off one of the established two parties to have an impact. Another outcome that can be construed as success for a third party is to marshal a big enough block of voters that one of the two major parties pushes its platform in their direction in order to attract those voters. See, for instance, how the Republicans adopted the "Southern Strategy" to win over the disgruntled racist white Democrats who formed the Dixiecrat party after Roosevelt and Truman moved the Democrats towards supporting the civil rights of African-Americans.
does data encapsulation and all the other oop goodies really help you?
Yes. Putting your business logic into objects makes it easier to keep your business logic separate from your presentational logic; failure to keep those two things apart is why PHP developers get knocked for writing "spaghetti code".
If you mean "fruitful" in the sense of "be fruitful and multiply" -- i.e., go get yourself laid -- buying a Bugatti Veyron is probably the most fruitful thing you could possibly do;-)
PHP supports PostgreSQL its as simple as doing a global find-replace of mysql_ with pg_ there done. Okay a bit too simple but the mysql functions and the pg functions have the same names other than the prefixes and they behave in the same exact manner.
... or you could just use PDO, the way God intended.
Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen is a great exploration of the relationship between Heisenberg and Ernst Bohr, how the war and the A-bomb came between them (Heisenberg working on Hitler's side, Bohr on the Manhattan Project), and how those tensions influenced Heisenberg's potential sabotage. It's a great play, check it out if it's ever staged near you.
As to why Brittan wanted to fight for Poland, beats me.
In his book The Origins of the Second World War historian A.J.P. Taylor argued that the British didn't particularly want to fight for Poland; or, at least, their leaders didn't. But they were painted into a corner by decisions they'd made in response to earlier crises.
British Prime Minister Chamberlain believed that he had "appeased" Hitler at the Munich Conference by giving him part of Czechoslovakia, but Hitler went on to then conquer the rest of that country anyway. This left Chamberlain convinced that appeasement had been a failure and a hard line was needed against Germany to prevent further aggression.
As part of that new hard line, the British issued a guarantee of Poland's independence. This treaty set forth that any aggressive act against Poland by any power would trigger a declaration of war on that power by Great Britain.
The British thought this would deter Hitler from moving on Poland, but it didn't; and the British were then confronted with the fact that if they ignored or disavowed the guarantee, the reliability of all their other treaty obligations would be called into question. So the British ended up in a war they didn't want on behalf of a country they could do nothing to protect.
The Germans had their own scientists (including the brilliant Werner Heisenberg) working on an atomic-energy project. They never developed an actual bomb, though historians are split as to whether that was because of lack of resources, mismanagement/wasting time and effort on research dead-ends, or active sabotage by the German scientists involved.
Thomas Powers' book Heisenberg's War is a fascinating history of the German atomic project.
(Full disclosure: I was born and raised in Dayton, one of Forbes magazine's Fastest Dying Cities in America. So it's not like I have any room to throw stones.)
he was probably only using Notes for email, which you claim is the reason for "the main criticism and bad reputation" of Notes. He probably missed out on all the cool stuff, and just bitched about the one sucky feature.
If your product is going to have one sucky feature, it's probably best not to have that be the feature people will be using most frequently...
Seriously, the vast, vast majority of Internet users today came online long after Usenet collapsed under its own weight. Only a tiny minority (like me) remember it, and even fewer of those use it with any regularity.
Culture is a living thing; it evolves. There was a time when Usenet was definitely part of the Internet's culture, but today is not that time.
Enterprises support IE because it runs ActiveX controls. Until FF does this, it will not appear in desktop builds for the majority of Corporate America.
People make this argument -- "enterprises" won't use Firefox until it has feature X, or Y, or Z -- a lot, and it's just wrong.
"Enterprises" are lagging indicators because their IT staff are generally guided primarily by risk aversion. Even if Firefox was 100% bug-compatible with IE, they wouldn't switch, because IE runs their crappy, poorly written "enterprise applications" well enough today. Why take a chance by switching?
No, the way new technologies get into the enterprise isn't by chasing features, it's by being so insanely useful that the users start demanding it, no matter what the IT people want.
Example: the PC didn't make its way into big business back in the 70s because Apple re-engineered the Apple II to play nicely with VAXes; it made its way in because users bought them on their own dime, brought them into work, dumped 'em on their desks and told the IT staff "I need this to get my work done. Deal with it."
Slashdotters all seem to think that advertising is Google's only source of revenue...
Probably because, realistically speaking, it is. Non-advertising revenue makes up a tiny fraction of Google's overall earnings. Their most recent quarterly SEC filing makes this plain: "Advertising revenues made up 97% [of our revenues] for the three months ended March 31, 2009." All the other stuff (like selling search appliances, GDocs licensing, and the like) is the other 3%.
The point behind HDMI was to force copy protection down consumers' throats by requiring them to have a complete HDCP chain from end to end in order to use all the snazzy new features
I don't understand this statement "Tables lock your user into your content via your specific design" in that, how else are they going to view it?
Through a screen reader, maybe? In which case your table layout will completely fail, because screen readers expect the contents of TABLE tags to be, you know, tabular data.
You need to understand that blind and vision-impaired people will be among those "viewing" your page, and design accordingly.
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So, not solved at all, then. If your "DRM solution" involves trusting the client, you may as well not even bother.
If that's what you want, go use Gopher.
Oh, you say, but nobody else is on Gopher for you to share, display and publish information with? They're all on the Web? Wonder why that is...
Pro Tip: if you're going to mock people for not understanding a subject, at least be sure to spell the name of that subject correctly when you do it.
If we can replace GIFs and JPEGs of text in a particular typeface saved as an image, and just allow the user to download the typeface itself once and then use it everywhere that face is called for, we would likely see a considerable reduction in page sizes. Especially when you consider that if multiple sites use the same font they could all piggyback off that single download.
... which appears to have done diddly squat over several years (the USPP was "founded" in 2006) in terms of fundraising and base building, despite Americans being more politically engaged during that time than they have been in generations.
Of the six offices that comprise the USPP's "leadership", three are vacant and two more will become so this month. To the best of my knowledge, they've fielded no candidates for office at any level and have not organized enough people to win ballot access in any state.
In short, my question is: have these guys done anything over the last three years beyond buying a domain and dumping Drupal on it?
I'd recommend getting an answer to that question before you give them any money.
A third party doesn't have to knock off one of the established two parties to have an impact. Another outcome that can be construed as success for a third party is to marshal a big enough block of voters that one of the two major parties pushes its platform in their direction in order to attract those voters. See, for instance, how the Republicans adopted the "Southern Strategy" to win over the disgruntled racist white Democrats who formed the Dixiecrat party after Roosevelt and Truman moved the Democrats towards supporting the civil rights of African-Americans.
Yes. Putting your business logic into objects makes it easier to keep your business logic separate from your presentational logic; failure to keep those two things apart is why PHP developers get knocked for writing "spaghetti code".
If you mean "fruitful" in the sense of "be fruitful and multiply" -- i.e., go get yourself laid -- buying a Bugatti Veyron is probably the most fruitful thing you could possibly do ;-)
... or you could just use PDO, the way God intended.
Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen is a great exploration of the relationship between Heisenberg and Ernst Bohr, how the war and the A-bomb came between them (Heisenberg working on Hitler's side, Bohr on the Manhattan Project), and how those tensions influenced Heisenberg's potential sabotage. It's a great play, check it out if it's ever staged near you.
In his book The Origins of the Second World War historian A.J.P. Taylor argued that the British didn't particularly want to fight for Poland; or, at least, their leaders didn't. But they were painted into a corner by decisions they'd made in response to earlier crises.
British Prime Minister Chamberlain believed that he had "appeased" Hitler at the Munich Conference by giving him part of Czechoslovakia, but Hitler went on to then conquer the rest of that country anyway. This left Chamberlain convinced that appeasement had been a failure and a hard line was needed against Germany to prevent further aggression.
As part of that new hard line, the British issued a guarantee of Poland's independence. This treaty set forth that any aggressive act against Poland by any power would trigger a declaration of war on that power by Great Britain.
The British thought this would deter Hitler from moving on Poland, but it didn't; and the British were then confronted with the fact that if they ignored or disavowed the guarantee, the reliability of all their other treaty obligations would be called into question. So the British ended up in a war they didn't want on behalf of a country they could do nothing to protect.
The Germans had their own scientists (including the brilliant Werner Heisenberg) working on an atomic-energy project. They never developed an actual bomb, though historians are split as to whether that was because of lack of resources, mismanagement/wasting time and effort on research dead-ends, or active sabotage by the German scientists involved.
Thomas Powers' book Heisenberg's War is a fascinating history of the German atomic project.
Perhaps -- but Cleveland is gonna turn around in no time, thanks to these promotional videos!
(Full disclosure: I was born and raised in Dayton, one of Forbes magazine's Fastest Dying Cities in America. So it's not like I have any room to throw stones.)
The lag when posting a comment between hitting the "Preview" button and actually seeing the preview is downright painful.
You must be new here.
If your product is going to have one sucky feature, it's probably best not to have that be the feature people will be using most frequently...
You misspelled "history".
Seriously, the vast, vast majority of Internet users today came online long after Usenet collapsed under its own weight. Only a tiny minority (like me) remember it, and even fewer of those use it with any regularity.
Culture is a living thing; it evolves. There was a time when Usenet was definitely part of the Internet's culture, but today is not that time.
Emphasis on "was".
People make this argument -- "enterprises" won't use Firefox until it has feature X, or Y, or Z -- a lot, and it's just wrong.
"Enterprises" are lagging indicators because their IT staff are generally guided primarily by risk aversion. Even if Firefox was 100% bug-compatible with IE, they wouldn't switch, because IE runs their crappy, poorly written "enterprise applications" well enough today. Why take a chance by switching?
No, the way new technologies get into the enterprise isn't by chasing features, it's by being so insanely useful that the users start demanding it, no matter what the IT people want.
Example: the PC didn't make its way into big business back in the 70s because Apple re-engineered the Apple II to play nicely with VAXes; it made its way in because users bought them on their own dime, brought them into work, dumped 'em on their desks and told the IT staff "I need this to get my work done. Deal with it."
Probably because, realistically speaking, it is. Non-advertising revenue makes up a tiny fraction of Google's overall earnings. Their most recent quarterly SEC filing makes this plain: "Advertising revenues made up 97% [of our revenues] for the three months ended March 31, 2009." All the other stuff (like selling search appliances, GDocs licensing, and the like) is the other 3%.
There, fixed that for you.
For PHP work, Eclipse with the PHP Development Tools (PDT) package is quite nice. Though from what I hear Netbeans may be a bit ahead for PHP these days -- the latest version has complete PHP support built in.
Through a screen reader, maybe? In which case your table layout will completely fail, because screen readers expect the contents of TABLE tags to be, you know, tabular data.
You need to understand that blind and vision-impaired people will be among those "viewing" your page, and design accordingly.
Call IBM, I'm sure they will be happy to sell you one!
Stylish is an extension that lets you set up style rules on a per-site basis. Problem solved.