Women can and do lie, and while it's not all of them, there are enough that if you run into enough of them you'll surely run into one of the unscrupulous ones.
What concerns me is that it's not necessarily about lying, but about stupidity and our culture that supports it. If you make an accusation against someone else and you have no proof, that counts as potential slander or libel. You don't make any public accusations without at least a shred of proof. If you're putting yourself at that kind of legal risk just for the chance to whine in public, then you're dumb and impulsive. Guess what? Truth or lie, man or woman, I tend not to trust people who are dumb and impulsive!
What bugs me is that most browsers lay out the page based on image dimensions, and hardly anyone seems to use the width and height attributes. Loading images on demand isn't bad if the page layout is static.
Wait... what am I saying? For better or for worse, what web developer uses static page layout anymore? Most likely as soon as the browser launches, every web page will use Javascript to preload images -- for SPEED -- and lazy load all the content!
There are easier ways to do it, just stop writing iOS updates for out of date equipment.
That's too obvious. Apple is all about image. They enjoy maintaining the image of being a premium vendor and supporting their old devices... whether they actually do or not.
Just as well. These days, with all the dynamically loaded content everywhere, trying to grab and move the scroll bar with a mouse cursor just causes your reading position to go berserk.
Modern aircraft can, in fact, fly and land themselves. Pilots are generally just better when you look at the big picture (and even just one human pilot isn't enough for the big planes).
There's a VERY big difference between Tesla's autopiliot and a certified airliner autopilot.
people who don't understand that you need to pay full attention to driving when on autopilot.
I get really annoyed by the marketable name, "autopilot". If you have to pay full attention to what the car is doing at all times, that's not flippin' autopilot!
Probably would have helped if "they" had stuck to the SGML/XML parsing rules. I was really upset to find out that HTML5 undid all the work that XHTML was trying to do, and many of my old HTML tools don't work properly with HTML5 because they can't parse it.
Everything about HTML5 is just dumb, let alone complicated. The fact that HTML has had multiple syntax changes over the years but no longer allows you to specify a version number in your documents is very telling.
As a Pale Moon user, I've found that most rendering problems are because the web sites are explicitly testing for the browser by brand name. With stupidity like that going on, it doesn't surprise me that on occasion, even the big brand name browsers have issues.
I remember in the IE6 days when everyone was screaming about standards compliance and accessibility. Today, the only thing that matters is, "does it work in Chrome?"
Well, the 747 reminds me of an alligator with its high, narrow "eyes". Hardly beautiful, but it looks a bit organic. The A380 looks like a squishy, overweight lizard that got clobbered on the head.
The problem is that few web developers really understand why the WWW was developed as a document platform, the differences between document-centric design and application-centric design, and how to apply these principles.
In most cases, replacing documents with apps is work of the ignorant, and is truly a plague. Most sites I know that have converted from static pages to dynamic pages are so broken to the point of being almost unusable, especially with regards to standard browser navigation (shift-click and the like).
Marketing and hype always win. It may be a losing battle, but that's exactly why people like cjonslashdot and myself keep whining about the massive over-reliance on Javascript.
Companies need to stop believing that customers don't know what they want until they see it.
History is full of UI redesigns that were welcomed with open arms, even if there were no radical new features. Most of that happened in the 90's, when GUIs were still new[ish] and evolving, and just moving things around was accepted as obvious improvement. These days the computer industry is a mature market, and we have 30 years of well-established standards. Even ordinary people are well aware that rapid changes are just going to break things that are known to work.
I doubt analysis can identify all the encrypted packets coming out of a computer. There's a reason people are so spooked about Intel ME.
I was rather amazed to find that new versions of Process Explorer will happily tell me my Win10 evaluation machine is at 0% CPU and 0% disk utilization, while older versions of Process Explorer clearly show all kinds of shit going on. Running both the new and old apps side-by-side is very interesting indeed. When it comes to 1st-party software (you know, made by the people who build the OS/computer), it's hard to tell when they're lying by omission. Like it or not, It's the way of the future.
By that reasoning, only [effective] kill switches or DRM will brick a device. Remarkably, most devices these days can still be repaired with a hot air gun.
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How'd they get 300,000 employees in the first place?
Women can and do lie, and while it's not all of them, there are enough that if you run into enough of them you'll surely run into one of the unscrupulous ones.
What concerns me is that it's not necessarily about lying, but about stupidity and our culture that supports it. If you make an accusation against someone else and you have no proof, that counts as potential slander or libel. You don't make any public accusations without at least a shred of proof. If you're putting yourself at that kind of legal risk just for the chance to whine in public, then you're dumb and impulsive. Guess what? Truth or lie, man or woman, I tend not to trust people who are dumb and impulsive!
What bugs me is that most browsers lay out the page based on image dimensions, and hardly anyone seems to use the width and height attributes. Loading images on demand isn't bad if the page layout is static.
Wait... what am I saying? For better or for worse, what web developer uses static page layout anymore? Most likely as soon as the browser launches, every web page will use Javascript to preload images -- for SPEED -- and lazy load all the content!
There are easier ways to do it, just stop writing iOS updates for out of date equipment.
That's too obvious. Apple is all about image. They enjoy maintaining the image of being a premium vendor and supporting their old devices... whether they actually do or not.
They'll ditch compatibility when convenient, regardless of what the community has to say. Never forget that Apple is the king of planned obsolescence.
Just as well. These days, with all the dynamically loaded content everywhere, trying to grab and move the scroll bar with a mouse cursor just causes your reading position to go berserk.
Dang kids and all their swiping.
You know what I love most about cryptocurrency? It's decentralized!
It's the same message as when the company said Intel processors weren't very good until Apple started using them.
"Fuck you, Apple! #NeverBuyFromApple"
At which point, Apple fans roll their eyes and buy a brand new compu -- I mean, iPad.
I applaud the useful information, but still... it's never worth it to blame the user.
Slashdot has made it clear they don't want to fix the problem, so direct your frustration at them (whether it helps or not).
Musk is definitely an executive personality. It's hard for ordinary commoners to understand what motivates those kinds of people.
That's precisely why I'm as skeptical about him as I am of any other executive.
Modern aircraft can, in fact, fly and land themselves. Pilots are generally just better when you look at the big picture (and even just one human pilot isn't enough for the big planes).
There's a VERY big difference between Tesla's autopiliot and a certified airliner autopilot.
people who don't understand that you need to pay full attention to driving when on autopilot.
I get really annoyed by the marketable name, "autopilot". If you have to pay full attention to what the car is doing at all times, that's not flippin' autopilot!
Probably would have helped if "they" had stuck to the SGML/XML parsing rules. I was really upset to find out that HTML5 undid all the work that XHTML was trying to do, and many of my old HTML tools don't work properly with HTML5 because they can't parse it.
Everything about HTML5 is just dumb, let alone complicated. The fact that HTML has had multiple syntax changes over the years but no longer allows you to specify a version number in your documents is very telling.
As a Pale Moon user, I've found that most rendering problems are because the web sites are explicitly testing for the browser by brand name. With stupidity like that going on, it doesn't surprise me that on occasion, even the big brand name browsers have issues.
I remember in the IE6 days when everyone was screaming about standards compliance and accessibility. Today, the only thing that matters is, "does it work in Chrome?"
Face it, the only sane solution is to install more than one version of Firefox.
Even just as a hobby web developer, I have 6 browsers installed right now (well, technically 4 browsers, and 2 of those browsers are mixed versions).
They might see the 189$ cheap machine to be too slow and blame Microsoft instead of the low horsepower hardware.
So they won't see the connection between something really cheap and something really slow?
If they're learning something at school, it apparently isn't math and critical thinking.
Well, the 747 reminds me of an alligator with its high, narrow "eyes". Hardly beautiful, but it looks a bit organic. The A380 looks like a squishy, overweight lizard that got clobbered on the head.
machines should serve us, NEVER the other way around.
I'm not afraid of whether we can keep autonomous machines on a leash. The question is, who holds the leash?
I always tell my devs not to load from third party sites and to download and install locally instead.
But, but... that's not cloud!
The problem is that few web developers really understand why the WWW was developed as a document platform, the differences between document-centric design and application-centric design, and how to apply these principles.
In most cases, replacing documents with apps is work of the ignorant, and is truly a plague. Most sites I know that have converted from static pages to dynamic pages are so broken to the point of being almost unusable, especially with regards to standard browser navigation (shift-click and the like).
Marketing and hype always win. It may be a losing battle, but that's exactly why people like cjonslashdot and myself keep whining about the massive over-reliance on Javascript.
He has to learn again. People do not like that.
Companies need to stop believing that customers don't know what they want until they see it.
History is full of UI redesigns that were welcomed with open arms, even if there were no radical new features. Most of that happened in the 90's, when GUIs were still new[ish] and evolving, and just moving things around was accepted as obvious improvement. These days the computer industry is a mature market, and we have 30 years of well-established standards. Even ordinary people are well aware that rapid changes are just going to break things that are known to work.
Am I missing something? Amazon has plenty of the fancy dynamic loading and sliding stuff that everyone else does. It's just not badly done.
I doubt analysis can identify all the encrypted packets coming out of a computer. There's a reason people are so spooked about Intel ME.
I was rather amazed to find that new versions of Process Explorer will happily tell me my Win10 evaluation machine is at 0% CPU and 0% disk utilization, while older versions of Process Explorer clearly show all kinds of shit going on. Running both the new and old apps side-by-side is very interesting indeed. When it comes to 1st-party software (you know, made by the people who build the OS/computer), it's hard to tell when they're lying by omission. Like it or not, It's the way of the future.
By that reasoning, only [effective] kill switches or DRM will brick a device. Remarkably, most devices these days can still be repaired with a hot air gun.