And my desktop browser windows is set at 1263x941. So you're saying the designer is going to create a static composition for every permutation?
As a web programmer myself, I understand the challenges and still think that the server would essentially have to be essentially doing the auto-flow from its end to be practical, and then you're just introducing latency for no reason and increasing load page size (because of sending the mobile browser two versions). There are more possible screen sizes than you can possibly keep up with. You'd have to account for vertical and landscape resolutions for every possible phone, my Wii U gamepad, any desktop browser size....
Yes, web design gets progressively harder year by year, but WYSIWYG editing is the biggest cause of trouble. This is why I typically handcode HTML, because you really have to build it structurally, rather than visually for it to adapt properly.
On a phone, a lot - I'll turn my phone to the best orientation for a specific page.
It's not as easy to come up with production/work applications off the top of my head, because I don't generally do those in the browser. The first that comes to mind is my own grocery list and meal schedule site, which I wrote myself and is not public.
But you didn't explain why the server side is better capable of handling varied screen sizes from small phone to large phone to tablet to desktop site. If the content is different for every screen size, the work needed to do that is still going to be dynamic, not 2 or 3 static designs - there are a lot of screens and embedded browsers out there. And then a large scale app loses all chance of caching for a lot of it.
For every one that works well, there's probably 10 that are screwy.
This is teh world as normal.
let the server compute the resizing, NOT the client.
What? Explain. So every time I want to change my browser window size, the server is going to send me a new page? Or do you mean separate mobile vs desktop sites, which breaks permalinks and search results?
You are ruining this world and my time in it. My entire family are effectively refugees of governments run by people with your mentality. You destroy things. We are enemies. And if that's news to you then I'm pleased to have that advantage.
Polarizing the issue and demonizing people is exactly the political game right now. If you don't see that you're dehumanizing people and trying to ruin other people's lives just to keep yours from being ruined, you're blind to it all and I can't argue this further. You can't fix decades of abuse with a quick fix in a few years on the backs of innocent people.
Since you singled out the pension programs, I'll mention that mine is ONLY funded by payroll, through an organizaton that has received zero in appropriation from July through February. The entire funding of that pension is employees paying 9.1% of their earned wages. And the state pays 12.71% on top of that instead of 6.2% to Social Security. That means that the pension itself only adds 6.5% to the cost of an employee. And I'm already being paid less than half of market rate.
You see a couple cherry-picked examples of executive-level administrators who were overpaid to begin with getting a large pension (or had pensions from multiple jobs) and you use that to vilify the whole lot. If you believe that kind of propaganda, you're part of the problem. You know, state payroll is public record and you can look for yourself to see that my situation is a lot more common than you think.
I'm 100% certain I'm not represented by a union - I'm not stupid and I do know how to read a paystub. And yes, unions here are as corrupt as the IL government, but they're an opposing corrupt force - not the same one. They are not the reason unions exist, and if none existed, there would be no protection at all.
I'm not represented by a union. It's true that there are some union-represented groups who were able to get more out of a contract than they should have, but that's not the general case.
You didn't address that there is nothing wrong with the pension system as it was created. And if it tanks, it's not because it failed on its own. It's because money was stolen from it and was unable to earn anything because it wasn't sitting where it was supposed to.
The only way any of this could ever get corrected is if you employees reformed the institutions that represent you, but we all know you won't.
Which means what, exactly?
hating on whom you're told to hate (Rauner, herp derp)
Are you kidding? Nobody told me to hate Rauner. I decided to vote for him after a democrat governor goes to jail. And he said the right things at first, for the most part. But the first thing he did was drop the temporary income tax increase. Before fixing the spending problems. This is just a setup intended to cause the current crisis.
You're very angry, but you really don't know much about what you're talking about. You're one of the people drinking the kool-aid. You can't think rationally with that much anger, and that's why you're going for attack arguments instead of facts.
The problem is people were using a WYSIWYG mindset to try to design them. The responsive layout paradigm actually does fairly well. For an overly commercial example, just look at starbucks.com on a desktop browser and resize the window.
The world can't move on with everyone on the same screen size. Phones are here to stay as are tablets. Even Microsoft tried to advocate for resolution independence and using "Twips" as the primary unit for their VB GUI design tools. And now that their OS actually supports changing the DPI setting, you can see just how few people were forward thinking in their designs (and yes, Microsoft failed a lot at this too).
I know I'm screwed, but the pension itself was never the problem - it's been gutted for its money and would have been solvent enough on its own. I'm working to get out, but I know others who never will. Rauner tried to vilify the state workers themselves and a LOT of people believed it blindly. That's what I was arguing against - because it seemed that the OP implied that the pension was padded with so much money.
But there's no point linking me to a paywall. Especially the Tribune.
The birth of a troll. Not that he hadn't been kicked out of several other online forums for the same behavior. I've had some fun googling the alecstaar username and seeing his banned self being talked about as a sort of trolling legend, while most are unaware of his Slashdot antics.
Copyright doesn't have to expire for this to be possible. Companies can choose to officially offer free licenses to abandonware, while still selling emulated/ported versions commercially - and preventing other companies from profiting commercially on their IP. But instead, they want to re-monetize for every generation. Just look at Virtual Console on Wii and Wii U. Re-buy if you want it on 3DS too.
I just wish I could buy a used legal copy of The Neverhood for less than $30. I never played it when it was new (I was in high school and broke). The creator of the game even wants to release it, but EA isn't even willing to put in the effort to release it for the 6,000 people that posted on Gog.com that they want it too. Just think - I would pay $10-15 easily and so would most of the 6,000. How much could it possibly cost to put a release together?
Game companies are just shortsighted for not looking at long tail sales. Yes, The Neverhood would only sell maybe 10,000 more copies in 5 years. But they own the rights to dozens or hundreds of abandoned games. All they have to do is dedicate one staff person part-time with a little authority.
I used a few tricks to automate the launching of the game once Win3x started. Sometimes this was as basic as just putting a shortcut in the startup folder, but that was a final solution when nothing else worked. In general, I wanted win3x to exit when the game/app closed.
I have a great way of doing this. I have several games on my MythTV HTPC that I want to open/close by remote control. And I had to find a way to automate startup of the game and exit of Windows.
You can add an exe as an argument to win in autoexec.bat and it will run that on startup. I used a recently-created free program called runexit.exe to launch the game. When the game is exited, runexit.exe shuts down Windows.
So for a game called game.exe, it was: win C:\runexit.exe C:\gamepath\game.exe
This worked great, while trying to run the game as the Windows shell instead of progman.exe just plain didn't work.
LTE is a network, not THE Internet. It's a last mile that happens to include Internet data along with voice data.
You might as well say that Cable TV is becoming all switched digital video now and is thus also Internet. It's not. It may be data, but it's not Internet.
It's all a mess and I don't know why any of this cruft is here. Let's rewrite the whole thing with Ruby. We'll worry about bug fixes after the rewrite is done.
As an Illinois resident with a state job and tiny step toward a vested pension, I have to say you're misinformed about the pensions. Workers pay 8% of their own income toward the pensions and do not deposit into nor are eligible for Social Security benefits. The payout is not spectacular unless you were overpaid to begin with.
Most everything about Illinois corruption is true, but the pensions just aren't one of them.
All from public information he's posted himself, in case you were curious. Alexander Peter Kowalski AKA alecstaar 903 East Division Street Syracuse, N.Y
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It was an iCloud email address, but in this case, Apple's security questions were such that the answers could be found via Facebook.
And my desktop browser windows is set at 1263x941. So you're saying the designer is going to create a static composition for every permutation?
As a web programmer myself, I understand the challenges and still think that the server would essentially have to be essentially doing the auto-flow from its end to be practical, and then you're just introducing latency for no reason and increasing load page size (because of sending the mobile browser two versions). There are more possible screen sizes than you can possibly keep up with. You'd have to account for vertical and landscape resolutions for every possible phone, my Wii U gamepad, any desktop browser size....
Yes, web design gets progressively harder year by year, but WYSIWYG editing is the biggest cause of trouble. This is why I typically handcode HTML, because you really have to build it structurally, rather than visually for it to adapt properly.
On a phone, a lot - I'll turn my phone to the best orientation for a specific page.
It's not as easy to come up with production/work applications off the top of my head, because I don't generally do those in the browser. The first that comes to mind is my own grocery list and meal schedule site, which I wrote myself and is not public.
But you didn't explain why the server side is better capable of handling varied screen sizes from small phone to large phone to tablet to desktop site. If the content is different for every screen size, the work needed to do that is still going to be dynamic, not 2 or 3 static designs - there are a lot of screens and embedded browsers out there. And then a large scale app loses all chance of caching for a lot of it.
Same thing, only the screen hardware just has more than green phosphor to light up. If you light up the whole screen, you get white.
uses a time server provided by my wireless carrier.
Not exactly. From the cell tower connection itself. For GSM to work, all wireless communication must have access to a nearly perfect time source.
But Apple never signed the Temporal Convention of 2237.
Yeah, and Apple was the first to drop the floppy drive too.
It won't even penetrate our cube walls
You're supposed to drill through the wall before you try to run Ethernet through it.
For every one that works well, there's probably 10 that are screwy.
This is teh world as normal.
let the server compute the resizing, NOT the client.
What? Explain. So every time I want to change my browser window size, the server is going to send me a new page? Or do you mean separate mobile vs desktop sites, which breaks permalinks and search results?
You are ruining this world and my time in it. My entire family are effectively refugees of governments run by people with your mentality. You destroy things. We are enemies. And if that's news to you then I'm pleased to have that advantage.
Polarizing the issue and demonizing people is exactly the political game right now. If you don't see that you're dehumanizing people and trying to ruin other people's lives just to keep yours from being ruined, you're blind to it all and I can't argue this further. You can't fix decades of abuse with a quick fix in a few years on the backs of innocent people.
Since you singled out the pension programs, I'll mention that mine is ONLY funded by payroll, through an organizaton that has received zero in appropriation from July through February. The entire funding of that pension is employees paying 9.1% of their earned wages. And the state pays 12.71% on top of that instead of 6.2% to Social Security. That means that the pension itself only adds 6.5% to the cost of an employee. And I'm already being paid less than half of market rate.
You see a couple cherry-picked examples of executive-level administrators who were overpaid to begin with getting a large pension (or had pensions from multiple jobs) and you use that to vilify the whole lot. If you believe that kind of propaganda, you're part of the problem. You know, state payroll is public record and you can look for yourself to see that my situation is a lot more common than you think.
I'm 100% certain I'm not represented by a union - I'm not stupid and I do know how to read a paystub. And yes, unions here are as corrupt as the IL government, but they're an opposing corrupt force - not the same one. They are not the reason unions exist, and if none existed, there would be no protection at all.
Entirely ironic that he spams an ad-blocking program. And then will complain when his ads....get blocked.
I'm not represented by a union. It's true that there are some union-represented groups who were able to get more out of a contract than they should have, but that's not the general case.
You didn't address that there is nothing wrong with the pension system as it was created. And if it tanks, it's not because it failed on its own. It's because money was stolen from it and was unable to earn anything because it wasn't sitting where it was supposed to.
The only way any of this could ever get corrected is if you employees reformed the institutions that represent you, but we all know you won't.
Which means what, exactly?
hating on whom you're told to hate (Rauner, herp derp)
Are you kidding? Nobody told me to hate Rauner. I decided to vote for him after a democrat governor goes to jail. And he said the right things at first, for the most part. But the first thing he did was drop the temporary income tax increase. Before fixing the spending problems. This is just a setup intended to cause the current crisis.
You're very angry, but you really don't know much about what you're talking about. You're one of the people drinking the kool-aid. You can't think rationally with that much anger, and that's why you're going for attack arguments instead of facts.
Auto-flow has mostly failed.
??? I think you're behind the times.
The problem is people were using a WYSIWYG mindset to try to design them. The responsive layout paradigm actually does fairly well. For an overly commercial example, just look at starbucks.com on a desktop browser and resize the window.
The world can't move on with everyone on the same screen size. Phones are here to stay as are tablets. Even Microsoft tried to advocate for resolution independence and using "Twips" as the primary unit for their VB GUI design tools. And now that their OS actually supports changing the DPI setting, you can see just how few people were forward thinking in their designs (and yes, Microsoft failed a lot at this too).
I know I'm screwed, but the pension itself was never the problem - it's been gutted for its money and would have been solvent enough on its own. I'm working to get out, but I know others who never will. Rauner tried to vilify the state workers themselves and a LOT of people believed it blindly. That's what I was arguing against - because it seemed that the OP implied that the pension was padded with so much money.
But there's no point linking me to a paywall. Especially the Tribune.
The birth of a troll. Not that he hadn't been kicked out of several other online forums for the same behavior. I've had some fun googling the alecstaar username and seeing his banned self being talked about as a sort of trolling legend, while most are unaware of his Slashdot antics.
Or weirder, making coherent positive contributions on other web sites.
Im genuinely curious about what makes him tick
It looks like severe bipolar disorder, with Persecutory delusions - http://psycheducation.org/diag...
Copyright doesn't have to expire for this to be possible. Companies can choose to officially offer free licenses to abandonware, while still selling emulated/ported versions commercially - and preventing other companies from profiting commercially on their IP. But instead, they want to re-monetize for every generation. Just look at Virtual Console on Wii and Wii U. Re-buy if you want it on 3DS too.
I just wish I could buy a used legal copy of The Neverhood for less than $30. I never played it when it was new (I was in high school and broke). The creator of the game even wants to release it, but EA isn't even willing to put in the effort to release it for the 6,000 people that posted on Gog.com that they want it too. Just think - I would pay $10-15 easily and so would most of the 6,000. How much could it possibly cost to put a release together?
Game companies are just shortsighted for not looking at long tail sales. Yes, The Neverhood would only sell maybe 10,000 more copies in 5 years. But they own the rights to dozens or hundreds of abandoned games. All they have to do is dedicate one staff person part-time with a little authority.
XP won't run in DOSBox. Windows ME was the last system to have a DOS (vs. NT) subsystem.
But this DOES use actual Windows 3.1, just not MS-DOS. That's replaced with DOSBox.
I guess that's your method, too - it's one of the files in the vanilla 3.1 demo.
Myst and YDKJ both work on 3.1
Though Windows 95 was already out when You Don't Know Jack was released.
I used a few tricks to automate the launching of the game once Win3x started. Sometimes this was as basic as just putting a shortcut in the startup folder, but that was a final solution when nothing else worked. In general, I wanted win3x to exit when the game/app closed.
I have a great way of doing this. I have several games on my MythTV HTPC that I want to open/close by remote control. And I had to find a way to automate startup of the game and exit of Windows.
You can add an exe as an argument to win in autoexec.bat and it will run that on startup. I used a recently-created free program called runexit.exe to launch the game. When the game is exited, runexit.exe shuts down Windows.
So for a game called game.exe, it was:
win C:\runexit.exe C:\gamepath\game.exe
This worked great, while trying to run the game as the Windows shell instead of progman.exe just plain didn't work.
Beat me to it. Editors?
LTE is a network, not THE Internet. It's a last mile that happens to include Internet data along with voice data.
You might as well say that Cable TV is becoming all switched digital video now and is thus also Internet. It's not. It may be data, but it's not Internet.
Sounds like a fresh out of college coder.
It's all a mess and I don't know why any of this cruft is here. Let's rewrite the whole thing with Ruby. We'll worry about bug fixes after the rewrite is done.
As an Illinois resident with a state job and tiny step toward a vested pension, I have to say you're misinformed about the pensions. Workers pay 8% of their own income toward the pensions and do not deposit into nor are eligible for Social Security benefits. The payout is not spectacular unless you were overpaid to begin with.
Most everything about Illinois corruption is true, but the pensions just aren't one of them.
So broadband universal service will be subsidized by landline and cell users.
All from public information he's posted himself, in case you were curious.
Alexander Peter Kowalski AKA alecstaar
903 East Division Street Syracuse, N.Y
apk4776239@hotmail.com
I can't even imagine...
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