Well, my point was about mathematics and the ratios between numbers as they get larger, not politics. But thank you for not making fun of my spelling of statistics in the Subject field.
You were absolutely right to be concerned about the rate of growth metric. Consider 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +...
The 2 represents a doubling of the sum so far (200%). Now the sum is 3, so the 3 represents a 100% increase. Now the sum is 6, so the 4 represents a 67% increase. Now the sum is 10, so the 5 represents a 50% increase. Now the sum is 15, so the 6 represents a 40% increase. And so on.
Now suppose that these numbers represent electricity usage. Although usage is monotonically increasing, the rate of growth is monotonically decreasing. Other commenters have pointed out that "TFA" says actual usage will go down. But you were right to be concerned. If actual usage is expected to go down, why didn't they say that? Why did they say that the rate of growth is expected to go down?? That phrase is a major red flag to identify someone who's trying to lie with statistics.
I'm paying $4/month for database (if I wanted it), ColdFusion and secure FTP for my.org sites. So free personal web hosting that requires $6 for FTP access doesn't seem like such a good deal. It's kinda like those ads I see where something's free as long as you pay for shipping and handling. Or used books on Amazon that cost only a penny, as long as you pay for shipping and handling.
I agree with what you said. ((Please moderate parent up.))
But I can't help but wonder if they're talking about Lion Server, which is optional and costs significantly extra. I don't see "PoS Directory/Authentication Mess" in the Sharing preference pane.
... 12:07 in Springfield, 12:08 in Arlington, 12:09 in Marystown, 12:10 in Winchester, 12:11 in Martinsburg, 12:12 Union City, 12:13 in St. Lawrence,...
As soon as I get interested in a doctor's waiting room magazine, the nurse calls my name. I think I'm going to actually be seen, so I leave the magazine in the waiting room. That's when I find out that it was only to cruel trick to get me to suffer waiting in a second room without anything to read.
The iPad has solved this problem once and for all. (Not that I go to the doctor's office all that often, but at least now I carry my entertainment with me.) And I'm solving all of the Expert level sudoku puzzles. So there's that.
Greasemonkey is a plug-in for Firefox that allows automatically executing your own scripts whenever you go to URLs that match a given pattern. You could easily write a script that looks at document.cookie and alters whatever cookies it sees. The only hard part would be deciding which cookies to overwrite, and how.
I realize that you left out "in intelligence" or "at computer literacy" because I'm above the median of people who are above the median of people who are above the median in intelligence. A statistic without reference is meaningless. On TV you see "50% better!" Than whom? At what? Don't be so below the median at clear expression.
The first "rivals" hotlink didn't even mention Apple. And the "downshift" link mentioned only the iPad. But I'm guessing, Apple might get a bigger piece of the pie too.
This will allow generating Tables of Contents for documentation, addressing a major nuisance with using HTML instead of more full-featured word processing applications.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Oh, I totally forgot that you had to do that with SVG images. You don't have to declare an XML namespace or prefix tags with namespace prefixes in Inline SVG. None of that. Just the tags. Much easier.
My version: "I before e, except after c, or when sounded like a, as in neighbor or weigh,... with weird, scientific and foreign exceptions."
Note that weird, scientific and foreign all fall into the weird category. Caffeine is an example of scientific. A stein is an example of a beer-containing foreign exception, and therefore the quintessential German example. On the other hand, keiretsu is not an exception, despite how Sean Connery pronounced it in Rising Sun. (It's sounded like a, if you pronounce it in a less Scottish manner. I guess he thought it was German.)
I don't think so on the Firefox 3. I was a participant in the Firefox 4 beta and had to use the beta with about:config's html5 parameter set to true to get Inline SVG to work. You don't soon forget having to jump through those kinds of hoops to get something to work. But I still have Firefox 3 at home, so I can check it after work.
I suppose that theoretically, if the screen reader knew that an img tag was an SVG image by virtue of its mime type, it could parse the SVG. But with Inline SVG in the HTML it's guaranteed to work. Even if the SVG tags aren't recognized by the screen reader, and hence ignored, the text between the tags is plain-old text and will get read aloud. That's where the pertinent info was in the charts and graphs (labels, rankings, percentages, etc), between the tags.
Nice to talk to someone else who likes SVG, by the way.
Inline SVG isn't the same thing as SVG images, which did precede HTML5. In Inline SVG the SVG tags are embedded within the HTML as if they were HTML tags. That's newer, since the creation of HTML5 spec. At the time Firefox 4 implemented it last year, then-current versions of Google Chrome, MSIE, Opera and Safari rendered the same tags as nonsense, a hopeless jumble. FF4 also implemented SMIL animation of Inline SVG first.
I know this because I had to reimplement some Java AWT charts and graphs in Canvas and Inline SVG for Section 508 compliance (accessibility). I now allow the user to choose Java AWT, Canvas or Inline SVG, according to what their browser supports. It's surprisingly easy to implement all 3, at least for the simplistic text, lines and rectangles one typically uses for charts and graphs.
The real purpose of offline web apps is to deal with the challenges of mobility, not to replace the server as the official source of data, and not to move workload off of other computers that are getting overloaded. WiFi isn't universally available. Sometimes you can't connect to the Internet. Offline web apps are a mechanism for saving updates for later upload, a note pad if you will, but one capable of storing information in a format convenient for rapid sync when reconnected. The limitations of local storage are no big deal in that context. Local storage is just a store-and-forward mechanism that you have to tailor to your particular application.
Another major advance in HTML5 is accessibility. The purpose of the new article, section, etc, tags is to provide context to screen readers for the blind. Charts and graphs rendered in Inline SVG are directly readable by screen readers, unlike the pixels generated by Canvas and Java AWT. CSS display properties of table, table-row and table-cell replace table, tr and td for information that's NOT tabular, so that screen readers will not try to read them aloud as if they were. (HTML5 acknowledges that CSS and JS are part of the browser environment. Display properties are currently listed at 10.2.2 in the spec.)
The logical data types of Web Forms 2.0 input tags allow data validation when JavaScript is off, minimizing unnecessary hits on the server when the data entered isn't correct. What a convenience to both the client and the server!
In general, it's not a good idea to jump to conclusions about what someone means, then criticize them for something they never said. Read the HTML5 spec. Much of the context of why features were added is explained there, and in pretty clear English at that.
FF6 has a new Tools > Developer submenu, and they moved Error Console, View Source and Web Console there. Moving View Source there was a big surprise. Any reasonable developer might get totally freaked out searching high and low for View Source if they didn't know about that move.
In case you missed it, Web Console in FF5+ is like the console in Firebug when you have it set to enter JS commands at the bottom of the pane. But the difference is, Web Console is always available. It's not a plug-in like Firebug. So it's something you can count on, even if you upgrade and Firebug breaks in the new version.
Doesn't most of Deer Park's spring water come from Pennsylvania nowadays? And aren't there also huge profits to be had from selling people bottled water? And isn't Deer Park a division of Nestle, the largest food and nutrition corporation in the world?
It would appear that there's a big business versus big business feud brewing. I'm pretty sure Nestle isn't going to stand for methane and carcinogens getting into their profits.
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Good point. A home subnet with only one "generic laptop" on it doesn't need gigabit Ethernet. I don't know of any subnets like that either.
Well, my point was about mathematics and the ratios between numbers as they get larger, not politics. But thank you for not making fun of my spelling of statistics in the Subject field.
You were absolutely right to be concerned about the rate of growth metric. Consider 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ...
The 2 represents a doubling of the sum so far (200%). Now the sum is 3, so the 3 represents a 100% increase. Now the sum is 6, so the 4 represents a 67% increase. Now the sum is 10, so the 5 represents a 50% increase. Now the sum is 15, so the 6 represents a 40% increase. And so on.
Now suppose that these numbers represent electricity usage. Although usage is monotonically increasing, the rate of growth is monotonically decreasing. Other commenters have pointed out that "TFA" says actual usage will go down. But you were right to be concerned. If actual usage is expected to go down, why didn't they say that? Why did they say that the rate of growth is expected to go down?? That phrase is a major red flag to identify someone who's trying to lie with statistics.
I'm paying $4/month for database (if I wanted it), ColdFusion and secure FTP for my .org sites. So free personal web hosting that requires $6 for FTP access doesn't seem like such a good deal. It's kinda like those ads I see where something's free as long as you pay for shipping and handling. Or used books on Amazon that cost only a penny, as long as you pay for shipping and handling.
I agree with what you said. ((Please moderate parent up.))
But I can't help but wonder if they're talking about Lion Server, which is optional and costs significantly extra. I don't see "PoS Directory/Authentication Mess" in the Sharing preference pane.
... 12:07 in Springfield, 12:08 in Arlington, 12:09 in Marystown, 12:10 in Winchester, 12:11 in Martinsburg, 12:12 Union City, 12:13 in St. Lawrence, ...
Where? Either Vietnamese kindergartens around the beginning of the year, or else in ancient Egypt. (Tet for tot, or Tut.)
As soon as I get interested in a doctor's waiting room magazine, the nurse calls my name. I think I'm going to actually be seen , so I leave the magazine in the waiting room. That's when I find out that it was only to cruel trick to get me to suffer waiting in a second room without anything to read.
The iPad has solved this problem once and for all. (Not that I go to the doctor's office all that often, but at least now I carry my entertainment with me.) And I'm solving all of the Expert level sudoku puzzles. So there's that.
Greasemonkey is a plug-in for Firefox that allows automatically executing your own scripts whenever you go to URLs that match a given pattern. You could easily write a script that looks at document.cookie and alters whatever cookies it sees. The only hard part would be deciding which cookies to overwrite, and how.
1/2 of everyone is below the median .
I realize that you left out "in intelligence" or "at computer literacy" because I'm above the median of people who are above the median of people who are above the median in intelligence. A statistic without reference is meaningless. On TV you see "50% better!" Than whom? At what? Don't be so below the median at clear expression.
Just curious, whom were you quoting when you put quotes around 'replacing HP'?
The first "rivals" hotlink didn't even mention Apple. And the "downshift" link mentioned only the iPad. But I'm guessing, Apple might get a bigger piece of the pie too.
...One more thing: In addition to screen readers for the blind, outliners can read the new tags and generate outlines of the content:
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/16/html5-and-the-document-outlining-algorithm/
This will allow generating Tables of Contents for documentation, addressing a major nuisance with using HTML instead of more full-featured word processing applications.
Oh, I totally forgot that you had to do that with SVG images. You don't have to declare an XML namespace or prefix tags with namespace prefixes in Inline SVG. None of that. Just the tags. Much easier.
I don't know what you mean by declarations. I used the Mac version at home and the Windows version at work. Is double-clicking a declaration? :-)
Good loopback!
My version: "I before e, except after c, or when sounded like a, as in neighbor or weigh, ... with weird, scientific and foreign exceptions."
Note that weird, scientific and foreign all fall into the weird category. Caffeine is an example of scientific. A stein is an example of a beer-containing foreign exception, and therefore the quintessential German example. On the other hand, keiretsu is not an exception, despite how Sean Connery pronounced it in Rising Sun. (It's sounded like a, if you pronounce it in a less Scottish manner. I guess he thought it was German.)
I don't think so on the Firefox 3. I was a participant in the Firefox 4 beta and had to use the beta with about:config's html5 parameter set to true to get Inline SVG to work. You don't soon forget having to jump through those kinds of hoops to get something to work. But I still have Firefox 3 at home, so I can check it after work.
I suppose that theoretically, if the screen reader knew that an img tag was an SVG image by virtue of its mime type, it could parse the SVG. But with Inline SVG in the HTML it's guaranteed to work. Even if the SVG tags aren't recognized by the screen reader, and hence ignored, the text between the tags is plain-old text and will get read aloud. That's where the pertinent info was in the charts and graphs (labels, rankings, percentages, etc), between the tags.
Nice to talk to someone else who likes SVG, by the way.
Inline SVG isn't the same thing as SVG images, which did precede HTML5. In Inline SVG the SVG tags are embedded within the HTML as if they were HTML tags. That's newer, since the creation of HTML5 spec. At the time Firefox 4 implemented it last year, then-current versions of Google Chrome, MSIE, Opera and Safari rendered the same tags as nonsense, a hopeless jumble. FF4 also implemented SMIL animation of Inline SVG first.
http://www.caniuse.com/#feat=svg-html5
http://www.caniuse.com/#feat=svg-smil
I know this because I had to reimplement some Java AWT charts and graphs in Canvas and Inline SVG for Section 508 compliance (accessibility). I now allow the user to choose Java AWT, Canvas or Inline SVG, according to what their browser supports. It's surprisingly easy to implement all 3, at least for the simplistic text, lines and rectangles one typically uses for charts and graphs.
The real purpose of offline web apps is to deal with the challenges of mobility, not to replace the server as the official source of data, and not to move workload off of other computers that are getting overloaded. WiFi isn't universally available. Sometimes you can't connect to the Internet. Offline web apps are a mechanism for saving updates for later upload, a note pad if you will, but one capable of storing information in a format convenient for rapid sync when reconnected. The limitations of local storage are no big deal in that context. Local storage is just a store-and-forward mechanism that you have to tailor to your particular application.
Another major advance in HTML5 is accessibility. The purpose of the new article, section, etc, tags is to provide context to screen readers for the blind. Charts and graphs rendered in Inline SVG are directly readable by screen readers, unlike the pixels generated by Canvas and Java AWT. CSS display properties of table, table-row and table-cell replace table, tr and td for information that's NOT tabular, so that screen readers will not try to read them aloud as if they were. (HTML5 acknowledges that CSS and JS are part of the browser environment. Display properties are currently listed at 10.2.2 in the spec.)
The logical data types of Web Forms 2.0 input tags allow data validation when JavaScript is off, minimizing unnecessary hits on the server when the data entered isn't correct. What a convenience to both the client and the server!
In general, it's not a good idea to jump to conclusions about what someone means, then criticize them for something they never said. Read the HTML5 spec. Much of the context of why features were added is explained there, and in pretty clear English at that.
HyperCard's done with a computer.
Others had prior art, from Xanadu to HyperCard. But thanks again anyway, TBL.
FF6 has a new Tools > Developer submenu, and they moved Error Console, View Source and Web Console there. Moving View Source there was a big surprise. Any reasonable developer might get totally freaked out searching high and low for View Source if they didn't know about that move.
In case you missed it, Web Console in FF5+ is like the console in Firebug when you have it set to enter JS commands at the bottom of the pane. But the difference is, Web Console is always available. It's not a plug-in like Firebug. So it's something you can count on, even if you upgrade and Firebug breaks in the new version.
Doesn't most of Deer Park's spring water come from Pennsylvania nowadays? And aren't there also huge profits to be had from selling people bottled water? And isn't Deer Park a division of Nestle, the largest food and nutrition corporation in the world?
It would appear that there's a big business versus big business feud brewing. I'm pretty sure Nestle isn't going to stand for methane and carcinogens getting into their profits.