Surely an "I'm still alive signal" sent at regular intervals would be a better option, as it would detect failures that interrupt the connection. Like this one.
some candidates had to be turned down from a position because they were IT teachers, and the position was for CompSci
How, exactly is this a bad thing? I can think of very little worse that hiring from IT to teach CS. Would you let a PE teacher teach Physics? Or an Art teacher Geography? They are separate, almost entirely unrelated fields. It's things like this which cause a lot of the confusions presented by the article.
Hear Hear. I've been waiting for RGBA and embedded fonts for years. Yes, I know I/can/ use it now, and/most/ browsers will accept CSS3, but that's not good enough for me. I see no purpose in adopting a standard before it has become standardised. So, Sir Tim, if you are reading this: hear my plea and please hurry up with CSS3. HTML5 looks interesting, and looks like it has lots of new toys, but that's no good if I still have to use image-hacks to form semi-transparent backgrounds and make items appear in the fonts I want.
On to the main topic, I see this as a great step backwards. Are people really that afraid of the X in front of XHTML? Or are they worried it's inferior because it has a lower number next to it? From the FAQ it does look like they aren't reverting to SGML which is a good thing, but makes me wonder what the point is. Surely then, this makes HTML5 XHTML2, and not the successor to HTML4.01.
The only purpose of this I can see is to force a compile of Firefox before serving my page. I'd never have to edit a standards compliant page again. But alas, Google have yet to heed this wish.
You have no right to freedom of speech on the internet. It is not an extension of the US, even if it were there is nothing preventing private entities reducing what you're allowed to say, only the government.
I can't believe I've actually found someone who doesn't think that the internet is an extension of whatever Country they call home, and demanding whatever rights their Country decides to grant them. Thank you, you have somewhat revitalised my faith in humanity.
Because he's talking bollocks, that's why. There is more gun crime in New York, than there is crime in England. Our gun control works, and shootings are a rare event, when they happen it still makes the news. The reason guns aren't involved in crime within the UK: the police aren't armed, and the citizens aren't armed. If the police or citizens have guns, then the criminals know they need guns, a whole lot more people die. And it's rarely the criminals.
The knife ban was a response to inflating knife crime, not the cause of it. And US politics has absolutely nothing to do with this topic. He was simply going through a list of subjects that he knew could spark a flame war. The definition, if you will, of flamebait.
...as an offshot of Jewish Temple worship, had elaborate furnishings and ornate decoration from the very beginning.
Actually, the Roman Catholic Church has more in common with Roman Paganism than it does with the Jewish church. While it has a lot of roots in Old Testament theology, including where it was overwritten in the new covenant; a lot of new ideas and theologies were introduced when it was incorporated into the Roman empire.
Actually, seeing as it was the forefathers of the current citizens of the USA who did the invading, it's more likely to be them who gets sued. Of course it's not precedent if it's under another legal system, so it won't matter at all.
I'm not very well informed about licencing, which is one of the reasons I'm using pre-written ones in the first place. But I thought the CC licences were more for traditional copyright (writing, images etc) than code.
-Does it require than source is shared as well, or just that the binaries are freely provided?
The main thing putting me off of the GPL currently is its association with Stallman and the FSF. Every story I hear about them causes me to loose more and more respect for them.
Are there any licences that provide the same kind of stuff without linking me to them, or should I just change the name of the GPL when I licence my software?
I do struggle to care less about this story, I was just pointing out a simple fallacy in the parent. The 3 major theme parks (incidentally the only three I have heard of) are all owned by the same people.
I am one of these people. I cannot speak for others, but for me there are a couple of reasons for this:
1)The act of speaking is difficult and physically tiring.
I have problems with all stages of the speech process. First off, I struggle converting my thoughts to the linear medium of speech; secondly I cannot always remember words, nouns in particular elude me. Finally, the worst part is the synchronisation of breathing patterns and several muscles to produces sounds.
Whereas with typed communication only two of these problems affect me. This eases communication significantly.
2)I do not read or display body language.
I receive no information from people apart from what they actually say. Meaning I loose whatever proportion of the message the anthropologists have decided is conveyed through body language this week. It also means that people constantly misread me.
In text based communication not only are people brought down to my level of only receiving what is said, and they do not misread what I say; but people put more information into the text than what is said, as it is not their only way of getting a message across.
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So while my contact list is very small (10 people) I communicate with them much more than I do when I am around them in real life.
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You have an invisible phone?
Surely an "I'm still alive signal" sent at regular intervals would be a better option, as it would detect failures that interrupt the connection. Like this one.
some candidates had to be turned down from a position because they were IT teachers, and the position was for CompSci
How, exactly is this a bad thing? I can think of very little worse that hiring from IT to teach CS. Would you let a PE teacher teach Physics? Or an Art teacher Geography? They are separate, almost entirely unrelated fields. It's things like this which cause a lot of the confusions presented by the article.
Also, if it could cure cancer, that would be a bonus.
Hear Hear. I've been waiting for RGBA and embedded fonts for years. Yes, I know I /can/ use it now, and /most/ browsers will accept CSS3, but that's not good enough for me. I see no purpose in adopting a standard before it has become standardised. So, Sir Tim, if you are reading this: hear my plea and please hurry up with CSS3. HTML5 looks interesting, and looks like it has lots of new toys, but that's no good if I still have to use image-hacks to form semi-transparent backgrounds and make items appear in the fonts I want.
On to the main topic, I see this as a great step backwards. Are people really that afraid of the X in front of XHTML? Or are they worried it's inferior because it has a lower number next to it? From the FAQ it does look like they aren't reverting to SGML which is a good thing, but makes me wonder what the point is. Surely then, this makes HTML5 XHTML2, and not the successor to HTML4.01.
The only purpose of this I can see is to force a compile of Firefox before serving my page. I'd never have to edit a standards compliant page again. But alas, Google have yet to heed this wish.
The optimum is about 55 mph. Trust me, I'm British
Okay, you got me. I'm not really a /. commenter at all, I'm just an ultra-sophisticated chat bot.
You have no right to freedom of speech on the internet. It is not an extension of the US, even if it were there is nothing preventing private entities reducing what you're allowed to say, only the government.
I can't believe I've actually found someone who doesn't think that the internet is an extension of whatever Country they call home, and demanding whatever rights their Country decides to grant them. Thank you, you have somewhat revitalised my faith in humanity.
Because he's talking bollocks, that's why. There is more gun crime in New York, than there is crime in England. Our gun control works, and shootings are a rare event, when they happen it still makes the news. The reason guns aren't involved in crime within the UK: the police aren't armed, and the citizens aren't armed. If the police or citizens have guns, then the criminals know they need guns, a whole lot more people die. And it's rarely the criminals.
The knife ban was a response to inflating knife crime, not the cause of it. And US politics has absolutely nothing to do with this topic. He was simply going through a list of subjects that he knew could spark a flame war. The definition, if you will, of flamebait.
Have you ever tried not watching BBC3 or any of the ITVs?
No, it's rhetorical tautology.
Actually, the Roman Catholic Church has more in common with Roman Paganism than it does with the Jewish church. While it has a lot of roots in Old Testament theology, including where it was overwritten in the new covenant; a lot of new ideas and theologies were introduced when it was incorporated into the Roman empire.
Actually, seeing as it was the forefathers of the current citizens of the USA who did the invading, it's more likely to be them who gets sued. Of course it's not precedent if it's under another legal system, so it won't matter at all.
I'm not very well informed about licencing, which is one of the reasons I'm using pre-written ones in the first place. But I thought the CC licences were more for traditional copyright (writing, images etc) than code.
-Does it require than source is shared as well, or just that the binaries are freely provided?
-Has this been tested in court?
The main thing putting me off of the GPL currently is its association with Stallman and the FSF. Every story I hear about them causes me to loose more and more respect for them.
Are there any licences that provide the same kind of stuff without linking me to them, or should I just change the name of the GPL when I licence my software?
Welcome to Norwich, home of free WiFi. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5297884.stm
I do struggle to care less about this story, I was just pointing out a simple fallacy in the parent. The 3 major theme parks (incidentally the only three I have heard of) are all owned by the same people.
I am one of these people. I cannot speak for others, but for me there are a couple of reasons for this:
1)The act of speaking is difficult and physically tiring.
I have problems with all stages of the speech process. First off, I struggle converting my thoughts to the linear medium of speech; secondly I cannot always remember words, nouns in particular elude me. Finally, the worst part is the synchronisation of breathing patterns and several muscles to produces sounds.
Whereas with typed communication only two of these problems affect me. This eases communication significantly.
2)I do not read or display body language.
I receive no information from people apart from what they actually say. Meaning I loose whatever proportion of the message the anthropologists have decided is conveyed through body language this week. It also means that people constantly misread me.
In text based communication not only are people brought down to my level of only receiving what is said, and they do not misread what I say; but people put more information into the text than what is said, as it is not their only way of getting a message across.
-----So while my contact list is very small (10 people) I communicate with them much more than I do when I am around them in real life.
...The 6th always tells the truth, the seventh always lies....
Don't be silly, this is the UK. A large Campaign contribution gets you a Peerage.