That's the most retarded suggestion ever.. How do you suppose I should go about pdf'ing my dynamic application? generate every page and run it through a pdf convertor and present a download to the user??
The point I was driving at was that the same element e.g. a fieldset renders a lot differently in IE, Firefox and Safari. I want to see the same basic size and shape in every browser that my app is opened on, just for the sake of my sanity.. currently every web app I write has to be tested technically and 'aesthetically' on all 3 browsers separately. With a common rendering scheme I can test it on one and be confident it looks the same on the others too.
And pray tell, how is the 'user' going to change HTML/CSS on a dynamic application to suit his purposes?? He/she can use firebug to change stuff for a single session or greasemonkey to do some pre/post processing on the page to change it's appearance but that stuff's pretty limited.
I certainly don't waste time giving every user the option to customize the pages in detail.
Rather than web design standards I would rather see a bunch of browser standards:
- Make all browser's css W3c compliant standard stuff, no quirks mode.
- Make Javascript syntax and behaviour universal.
- Have W3c come up with a lightweight css and script standard for browsers on smaller devices.
- Make all browsers render the page *the same*.
- and finally, shoot everyone on the IE development team.
FTA:
In recent years, he said, "scientific integrity has been undermined and scientific research politicized in an effort to advance predetermined ideological agendas."
He then drew chuckles, commenting: "I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, not the other way around," Obama said.
hope none of the 420$ billion makes it's way towards the discovery institute.
What do you expect if programmers drive the development process? These things simply are not important to them.
Yes we should totally turn it over to the MBAs! I think 1 billion $$ might cover their golf expenses, might need a couple of billion more for their dinner and travel.
We'll use whatever's left to pay engineers to develop the UI, in strict conformance to what the MBAs say, of course.
How does limiting simultaneous apps reduce the codebase or price of the OS?
If anything, it will require another layer of checks on top of a fully functional OS to artificially limit apps.
This is Stephen Hawking and BBC, not Sarah Palin and Fox news.
Who gives a damn what he looks like. What's a 'slightly' better picture gonna do? Everyone who knows him reveres him for his mind not his body and face.
To view higher quality/High def flash, you need to get a really powerful processor. I can view high def. flash from Hulu, Veoh etc. on my MythTV box hooked to my TV but my 2 year old powerbook just cannot handle the processor requirements.
On a side note, It seems to handle much much higher definition DivX perfectly.
I agree, I would rather see them invest money in better GPU based frame rendering. I can fry an egg on my laptop after watching a 30 min high definition episode on my powerbook, not to mention the stutters, freezes, skips and out of sync audio.
This has been said umpteen time before, lemme go ahead and say it again:
Boycott movies and music!! Stop lining these lawyers' pockets with your money.
I have already stopped watching movies, haven't been to a theatre in 1 year. haven't purchased a DVD for 2 or so years.
Never bought a song off iTunes. I buy CD's from amazon and MP3's from eMusic and check the record labels at riaaradar.com. Cancelled my netflix after their retarded silverlight only player.
All these ISP's seem to be running a race for the worst consumer experience possible.
I use time warner in NC and they oversubscribe their links to death, I get a cool 16/1 at most time except the peak or holidays where it slows down to an 800kbps crawl. Every call I make to customer service gets answered by a blank 'The networks is overloaded'. This is what they are using as a excuse for introducing draconian bandwidth caps.
Nice approach Time Warner, This solution reeks of typical MBA incompetence. Invest some money in 'real' solutions, hire a couple of decent engineers and upgrade your infrastructure. Upgrade your gateway hardware, networking compaines now sell switches capable of handling 100Gbps+ of simultaneous traffic.
Lease more dark fiber, hell there's 28,000 miles of that stuff just sitting around with 8-16 extra conduits for expandability, and it's not that much of an overhead.
Asif Mandvi was born in India, far more liberal and secular than the middle eastern societies. Plus he's not a fundamentalist muslim.
I've seen many episodes of the daily show where he's making fun of Islamic jihadists.
Nobody disenfranchises muslims in any country I know of. This is simply a myth invented by fundamentalist muslims who simply cannot stand people who think and act differently from them. There are a lot of immigrants of other religions in Europe e.g. hindus, buddhists, confuscianists or even atheists and they are doing pretty well in that society. Heck, some of them are even amongst the richest people in Europe : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Mittal
The whole 'muslim opression' is an invention by their paedophilic clergy to keep their own positions intact. Take a look at the headlines and you'll see that this religions is at loggerheads with almost every other religion : Fighting christianity in the west, judaism in the middle-east, hinduism in the east, even buddhists in afghanistan and atheists in china.
If you're at war with the rest of the world, I think it's time to re-evaluate your religion .
It's mostly the same, in some accounts even less ghastly than the old testament (human sacrifice, child abuse etc. etc.)
The main problem with Islam comes from the fact that it has failed miserably to adapt to the twenty first century, where all other countries are moving towards increased secularism and freedom of choice, Islamic countries are still stuck in a medieval religious model circa 1200 a.d.
I recently purchased littleBigPlanet from blockbuster, there wasn't a CD in the rack so I asked the sales clerk and she fished out a box that looked new at a glance.
When I started opening it at home, I noticed the shrink wrap was pretty loose and didn't have the neat glued corners like other discs, it looked saran wrapped by an amateur.
Furthermore a hinge on the box was broken, the circular springy bit in the center that holds the disc had a couple of teeth missing so the disc was rattling inside and the disc itself had 2 very visible, deep and long scratches.
The store would not accept a return (package opened) or even admit they sold me a used disc for full price. I had quite a bit of argument with the store manager who kept insisting it was my fault.
Lesson learned: Never buy from a brick and mortar store again, they'll nickel and dime you to death.
You are absolutely right, a lot of research is done based on preconceived notion. These notions are either based on observation or outright hunches, and yes a lot of research is done on a per hire basis. They're collectively called 'inventions' or R&D.
Evolution on the other hand is a natural phenomenon, evidence for it can be collected not 'invented'.. sure there have been attempts at inventing evidence but the evidence alongwith it's proponents have gotten shredded to pieces by none other than their own peers.. e.g. the piltdown man.
The most brutal enemies of any scientist are other scientists who're waiting for a chance to pounce at the tiniest mistake in his paper and prove him wrong. Of course, some mistakes (innocent or deliberate) make it through the peer review process but it's not long before someone catches on to it.
All I see in these comments are anti-religious statements without much fact. You all should watch "Expelled", It is available on netflix and then talk with some facts.
Only a moronic religious nut job would consider that movie hard science or fact. Don't expect everyone to swallow that Judeo-Christian doodoo piecemeal just because you find it delicious.
You or anyone else is free to attack evolution as much as you like. All the 'sane' people want is for the attacker to postulate a theory that makes sense based on observations and/or experiment. Lamarckian evolution did challenge Darwinian evolution but there wasn't enough evidence for it.
You see in real science we observe, then experiment and finally draw conclusions. The ID theory on the other hand is staunchly glued to an idiotic conclusion and they're trying desperately to find evidence for that conclusion. Of course, they're not going to find any so the only other path remains is to fill the gaps in the evolutionary theory with their own brand of religious excrement and call it a legitimate theory.
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After the open-source geeks started coding.. they replaced all 3 with a metapackage:
sudo apt-get install all-your-base-are-belong-to-us
heh? pdf??
That's the most retarded suggestion ever.. How do you suppose I should go about pdf'ing my dynamic application? generate every page and run it through a pdf convertor and present a download to the user??
The point I was driving at was that the same element e.g. a fieldset renders a lot differently in IE, Firefox and Safari. I want to see the same basic size and shape in every browser that my app is opened on, just for the sake of my sanity.. currently every web app I write has to be tested technically and 'aesthetically' on all 3 browsers separately. With a common rendering scheme I can test it on one and be confident it looks the same on the others too.
And pray tell, how is the 'user' going to change HTML/CSS on a dynamic application to suit his purposes?? He/she can use firebug to change stuff for a single session or greasemonkey to do some pre/post processing on the page to change it's appearance but that stuff's pretty limited.
I certainly don't waste time giving every user the option to customize the pages in detail.
It's deliberate
If they drew naked chicks instead of the dog, no geek would be able to get past the cover. It'll sell pretty well though..
Rather than web design standards I would rather see a bunch of browser standards:
- Make all browser's css W3c compliant standard stuff, no quirks mode.
- Make Javascript syntax and behaviour universal.
- Have W3c come up with a lightweight css and script standard for browsers on smaller devices.
- Make all browsers render the page *the same*.
- and finally, shoot everyone on the IE development team.
FTA:
In recent years, he said, "scientific integrity has been undermined and scientific research politicized in an effort to advance predetermined ideological agendas." He then drew chuckles, commenting: "I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, not the other way around," Obama said.
hope none of the 420$ billion makes it's way towards the discovery institute.
What do you expect if programmers drive the development process? These things simply are not important to them.
Yes we should totally turn it over to the MBAs!
I think 1 billion $$ might cover their golf expenses, might need a couple of billion more for their dinner and travel.
We'll use whatever's left to pay engineers to develop the UI, in strict conformance to what the MBAs say, of course.
No more classrooms! Where will students sleep?
We're gonna breed a mutant race of sleep deprived zombies.
What's the world coming to
How does limiting simultaneous apps reduce the codebase or price of the OS?
If anything, it will require another layer of checks on top of a fully functional OS to artificially limit apps.
I estimate about 2 hours of the application crippling after release, then someone will post a freely downloadable hack to remove it.
It's a 2005 Powerbook G4.
This is Stephen Hawking and BBC, not Sarah Palin and Fox news.
Who gives a damn what he looks like. What's a 'slightly' better picture gonna do? Everyone who knows him reveres him for his mind not his body and face.
To view higher quality/High def flash, you need to get a really powerful processor. I can view high def. flash from Hulu, Veoh etc. on my MythTV box hooked to my TV but my 2 year old powerbook just cannot handle the processor requirements.
On a side note, It seems to handle much much higher definition DivX perfectly.
I agree, I would rather see them invest money in better GPU based frame rendering. I can fry an egg on my laptop after watching a 30 min high definition episode on my powerbook, not to mention the stutters, freezes, skips and out of sync audio.
Apart from that it's sandwiched by Pakistan and Afghanistan on the left and China and Burma on the right.
They don't seem to have much luck in that area either..
This has been said umpteen time before, lemme go ahead and say it again:
Boycott movies and music!! Stop lining these lawyers' pockets with your money.
I have already stopped watching movies, haven't been to a theatre in 1 year. haven't purchased a DVD for 2 or so years.
Never bought a song off iTunes. I buy CD's from amazon and MP3's from eMusic and check the record labels at riaaradar.com. Cancelled my netflix after their retarded silverlight only player.
Hit the *AA's were it hurts, their bottom line.
Try coding in a cube next to an animal lover who would discuss in great detail with the vet, the wiggling worms in her 4th cat's feces.
Once? Had to?
I'm still maintaining multiple apps written in perl, 80k+ lines of code.
Some people just have it easy in life.. *hrmmmph*
All these ISP's seem to be running a race for the worst consumer experience possible.
I use time warner in NC and they oversubscribe their links to death, I get a cool 16/1 at most time except the peak or holidays where it slows down to an 800kbps crawl. Every call I make to customer service gets answered by a blank 'The networks is overloaded'. This is what they are using as a excuse for introducing draconian bandwidth caps.
Nice approach Time Warner, This solution reeks of typical MBA incompetence. Invest some money in 'real' solutions, hire a couple of decent engineers and upgrade your infrastructure. Upgrade your gateway hardware, networking compaines now sell switches capable of handling 100Gbps+ of simultaneous traffic.
Lease more dark fiber, hell there's 28,000 miles of that stuff just sitting around with 8-16 extra conduits for expandability, and it's not that much of an overhead.
Asif Mandvi was born in India, far more liberal and secular than the middle eastern societies. Plus he's not a fundamentalist muslim.
I've seen many episodes of the daily show where he's making fun of Islamic jihadists.
Nobody disenfranchises muslims in any country I know of. This is simply a myth invented by fundamentalist muslims who simply cannot stand people who think and act differently from them. There are a lot of immigrants of other religions in Europe e.g. hindus, buddhists, confuscianists or even atheists and they are doing pretty well in that society. Heck, some of them are even amongst the richest people in Europe : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Mittal
The whole 'muslim opression' is an invention by their paedophilic clergy to keep their own positions intact. Take a look at the headlines and you'll see that this religions is at loggerheads with almost every other religion : Fighting christianity in the west, judaism in the middle-east, hinduism in the east, even buddhists in afghanistan and atheists in china.
If you're at war with the rest of the world, I think it's time to re-evaluate your religion .
It's mostly the same, in some accounts even less ghastly than the old testament (human sacrifice, child abuse etc. etc.)
The main problem with Islam comes from the fact that it has failed miserably to adapt to the twenty first century, where all other countries are moving towards increased secularism and freedom of choice, Islamic countries are still stuck in a medieval religious model circa 1200 a.d.
and altar boys.. don't forget the altar boys!
I recently purchased littleBigPlanet from blockbuster, there wasn't a CD in the rack so I asked the sales clerk and she fished out a box that looked new at a glance.
When I started opening it at home, I noticed the shrink wrap was pretty loose and didn't have the neat glued corners like other discs, it looked saran wrapped by an amateur.
Furthermore a hinge on the box was broken, the circular springy bit in the center that holds the disc had a couple of teeth missing so the disc was rattling inside and the disc itself had 2 very visible, deep and long scratches.
The store would not accept a return (package opened) or even admit they sold me a used disc for full price. I had quite a bit of argument with the store manager who kept insisting it was my fault.
Lesson learned: Never buy from a brick and mortar store again, they'll nickel and dime you to death.
You are absolutely right, a lot of research is done based on preconceived notion. These notions are either based on observation or outright hunches, and yes a lot of research is done on a per hire basis. They're collectively called 'inventions' or R&D.
Evolution on the other hand is a natural phenomenon, evidence for it can be collected not 'invented'.. sure there have been attempts at inventing evidence but the evidence alongwith it's proponents have gotten shredded to pieces by none other than their own peers.. e.g. the piltdown man.
The most brutal enemies of any scientist are other scientists who're waiting for a chance to pounce at the tiniest mistake in his paper and prove him wrong. Of course, some mistakes (innocent or deliberate) make it through the peer review process but it's not long before someone catches on to it.
All I see in these comments are anti-religious statements without much fact. You all should watch "Expelled", It is available on netflix and then talk with some facts.
Only a moronic religious nut job would consider that movie hard science or fact. Don't expect everyone to swallow that Judeo-Christian doodoo piecemeal just because you find it delicious.
Maybe you should read http://www.expelledexposed.com/ before calling them facts.
You or anyone else is free to attack evolution as much as you like. All the 'sane' people want is for the attacker to postulate a theory that makes sense based on observations and/or experiment. Lamarckian evolution did challenge Darwinian evolution but there wasn't enough evidence for it.
You see in real science we observe, then experiment and finally draw conclusions. The ID theory on the other hand is staunchly glued to an idiotic conclusion and they're trying desperately to find evidence for that conclusion. Of course, they're not going to find any so the only other path remains is to fill the gaps in the evolutionary theory with their own brand of religious excrement and call it a legitimate theory.