The argument about silence space combat is not that people on either ship wouldn't be able to hear sound, but that from the viewer's perspective, outside the ships, no sound would be heard.
I'm always inclined not to worry about it, because the point is to portray the experience of the protagonists from an outside viewpoint, rather than being a detached documentary.
That's somewhat missing the point expressed. There are real threats, and there are threats that are imagined without substance. It's important to keep enough perspective to be able to distinguish between the two.
It think it's worth pointing out, for anyone who might be confused, that's it's only Opera *Mini* (on any platform) that does this, not Opera Mobile (which isn't available on iOS anyway). I know it's pedantic, but I've seen plenty of people confused about this in the past, so I wanted to clarify in case anyone got the wrong end of the stick.
Also to be pedantic, it doesn't return an image of the page, it returns a compressed binary format of the content - it still renders using the browser's own fonts, etc. That allows it to save the heavy lifting of page processing, but still reflow and resize the page once downloaded.
Just because it's not obscured, doesn't make it open source. The author retains copyright, and still has the right to place it under any licensing terms he/she likes.
...is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.
^my new favorite TMBG song
Good song. But not written by them.
http://tmbw.net/wiki/Hy_Zaret_And_Lou_Singer
On the other hand, "Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun Is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)" was.
"The sun is a miasma
Of incandescent plasma
The sun's not simply made out of gas
The sun is a quagmire
It's not made of fire
Forget what you've been told in the past"
The sonic screwdriver has not been written out of the plot, although he does seem to use it more sparingly this series. Like a good magic wand, it's job is to exert the will of the user. In other words, it doesn't change what genius idea the Doctor comes up with, it just provides a useful conduit to make it happen without minutes of exposition and digging around in computer banks. Generally, for everything the screwdriver does, another method exists that would take twice as long - and not make a difference to the plot either way.
Historic perspective is all very well, but presenting it as an alternative theory is inappropriate. You wouldn't find a chemistry classroom discussing the atomic structure of wood and also offering the perspective that it might be made up of fire and earth.
Microsoft haven't been active in developing the latest version of HTML5, while the others have. That's all they mean - it's no reflection of the size of the company or their reach to customers, but in their work on the standard.
Touchscreens are great for devices that are either sitting in your lap, or you're only using for short bursts, or both. Having trialled touchscreens in an office settings, I can say that they are not comfortable.
IAAL and where I'm from, before we accuse people of serious wrongdoing such as sexually interfering with children, we make sure we have the EVIDENCE to back up such a charge. Moreover we would hope such evidence is more than merely circumstantial.
Paedophilia is an attraction to children, it doesn't necessarily imply any actual physical acts, or any criminal behaviour. Safest to keep this one in proportion.
Why do people insist on saying 'X browser is using memory more efficiently' when all they can really conclude is that 'X is using less memory'? If that memory is being used to appropriately cache resources, speed up history navigation, etc., etc. then it's not being wasted. Freeing up memory that you're going to be wanting to re-allocate and re-fill in a couple of minutes is truly wasteful.
When you only test how fast a page is ON INITIAL LOAD, you get no idea about how effectively memory is being used.
However - I've got a better idea: why don't they just store the stuff the users want to share on the central servers? I mean, hard disc space is about fsck all per megabyte these days,
the servers can run 24/7, have a super-fast connection to teh interweb (not an ADSL line with lousy upload speed) and have the latest security patches applied daily by dusky, nubile virgins (well, 1 out of 3 ain't bad). Even if the server does get hacked then it doesn't affect the end user. Much better than leaving your PC on all the time, or having someone suddenly trying to download a video when you're in the middle of a networked deathmatch...
Joe Public shouldn't need to know about uploading, or hosting plans, or bandwidth caps, or service contracts or the like. Opera open, files open. Opera closed, files gone. Like opening and closing a window.
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Yep, I'll bet that a profitable browser company that continues to expand and make more money year after year is definitely in trouble.
People have been predicting the death of Opera Software for over a decade now, and yet they're still making huge waves in the internet market.
When will people start to realise that you don't need to be the most popular product on the market to be successful? The browser market is absolutely huge, remember. Even 1% of the entire market is millions of satisfied users. The only thing that matters is that open standards are implemented, then we all win.
Remember, it's a whole ecosystem we're talking about, which includes non-living aspects as well.
The destruction of a few species won't destroy the planet, much as heart disease won't kill a human instantly.
Removing the heart would be more akin to drying up all the oceans - no water flowing, dehydration for almost all plants and animals, with no means of adapting. It's not the nature of the change, it's the scale, speed and interdependency.
Cells don't evolve within the lifetime of the organism, because they are restricted to a single set of DNA. They are still sets of interconnected processing units each handling a specific task with no knowledge of the whole.
It's not about the features that some browsers support now, it's about using those implementations as references to make sure that when other browsers support them, they support them compatibly.
You may not notice now, but you will notice in the future.
Which is exactly why you're not going to see this in release builds for quite some time. Both Safari and Opera have considerable QA teams lined up to test these changes against real-life sites. Things WILL break, and they WILL need to be fixed. This is why Safari 3.1 wasn't delayed until passing Acid3, and why the Opera fixes are unlikely to make it into the 9.5 release.
Which aren't used when standards-compliant pages are rendered. Standards mode = no styled scrollbars. Quirks mode = styled scrollbars. They implement IE scrollbars because IE-designed pages ask for them. Win-win!
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So, the upshot is that LibreOffice is great, as long as you rarely have to use it?
A month is 1/12th of a solar cycle, a week is 1/4 of a lunar cycle.
The argument about silence space combat is not that people on either ship wouldn't be able to hear sound, but that from the viewer's perspective, outside the ships, no sound would be heard. I'm always inclined not to worry about it, because the point is to portray the experience of the protagonists from an outside viewpoint, rather than being a detached documentary.
That's somewhat missing the point expressed. There are real threats, and there are threats that are imagined without substance. It's important to keep enough perspective to be able to distinguish between the two.
It think it's worth pointing out, for anyone who might be confused, that's it's only Opera *Mini* (on any platform) that does this, not Opera Mobile (which isn't available on iOS anyway). I know it's pedantic, but I've seen plenty of people confused about this in the past, so I wanted to clarify in case anyone got the wrong end of the stick. Also to be pedantic, it doesn't return an image of the page, it returns a compressed binary format of the content - it still renders using the browser's own fonts, etc. That allows it to save the heavy lifting of page processing, but still reflow and resize the page once downloaded.
Just because it's not obscured, doesn't make it open source. The author retains copyright, and still has the right to place it under any licensing terms he/she likes.
...is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.
^my new favorite TMBG song
Good song. But not written by them. http://tmbw.net/wiki/Hy_Zaret_And_Lou_Singer On the other hand, "Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun Is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)" was. "The sun is a miasma Of incandescent plasma The sun's not simply made out of gas The sun is a quagmire It's not made of fire Forget what you've been told in the past"
The sonic screwdriver has not been written out of the plot, although he does seem to use it more sparingly this series. Like a good magic wand, it's job is to exert the will of the user. In other words, it doesn't change what genius idea the Doctor comes up with, it just provides a useful conduit to make it happen without minutes of exposition and digging around in computer banks. Generally, for everything the screwdriver does, another method exists that would take twice as long - and not make a difference to the plot either way.
Historic perspective is all very well, but presenting it as an alternative theory is inappropriate. You wouldn't find a chemistry classroom discussing the atomic structure of wood and also offering the perspective that it might be made up of fire and earth.
Microsoft haven't been active in developing the latest version of HTML5, while the others have. That's all they mean - it's no reflection of the size of the company or their reach to customers, but in their work on the standard.
Touchscreens are great for devices that are either sitting in your lap, or you're only using for short bursts, or both. Having trialled touchscreens in an office settings, I can say that they are not comfortable.
IAAL and where I'm from, before we accuse people of serious wrongdoing such as sexually interfering with children, we make sure we have the EVIDENCE to back up such a charge. Moreover we would hope such evidence is more than merely circumstantial.
Paedophilia is an attraction to children, it doesn't necessarily imply any actual physical acts, or any criminal behaviour. Safest to keep this one in proportion.
What's insensitive about saying that I used to be friends with a Jehovah's Witness? Are you not allowed to have friends or something?!
That's nothing. I used to play D&D with a Jehovah's Witness.
Maybe... http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/climate-change-a-consensus-among-scientists/ "In fact, when you adjust the PetitionProject’s odd categorisation – they filed ‘chemical engineers’ as chemists and physical engineers as ‘physicists’ – the total number of engineers who signed the petition, by our reckoning, jumps to 49%"
Why do people insist on saying 'X browser is using memory more efficiently' when all they can really conclude is that 'X is using less memory'? If that memory is being used to appropriately cache resources, speed up history navigation, etc., etc. then it's not being wasted. Freeing up memory that you're going to be wanting to re-allocate and re-fill in a couple of minutes is truly wasteful. When you only test how fast a page is ON INITIAL LOAD, you get no idea about how effectively memory is being used.
However - I've got a better idea: why don't they just store the stuff the users want to share on the central servers? I mean, hard disc space is about fsck all per megabyte these days, the servers can run 24/7, have a super-fast connection to teh interweb (not an ADSL line with lousy upload speed) and have the latest security patches applied daily by dusky, nubile virgins (well, 1 out of 3 ain't bad). Even if the server does get hacked then it doesn't affect the end user. Much better than leaving your PC on all the time, or having someone suddenly trying to download a video when you're in the middle of a networked deathmatch...
Joe Public shouldn't need to know about uploading, or hosting plans, or bandwidth caps, or service contracts or the like. Opera open, files open. Opera closed, files gone. Like opening and closing a window.
Yep, I'll bet that a profitable browser company that continues to expand and make more money year after year is definitely in trouble. People have been predicting the death of Opera Software for over a decade now, and yet they're still making huge waves in the internet market. When will people start to realise that you don't need to be the most popular product on the market to be successful? The browser market is absolutely huge, remember. Even 1% of the entire market is millions of satisfied users. The only thing that matters is that open standards are implemented, then we all win.
Probably around the time you realise that object-oriented doesn't mean class-oriented.
Remember, it's a whole ecosystem we're talking about, which includes non-living aspects as well. The destruction of a few species won't destroy the planet, much as heart disease won't kill a human instantly. Removing the heart would be more akin to drying up all the oceans - no water flowing, dehydration for almost all plants and animals, with no means of adapting. It's not the nature of the change, it's the scale, speed and interdependency. Cells don't evolve within the lifetime of the organism, because they are restricted to a single set of DNA. They are still sets of interconnected processing units each handling a specific task with no knowledge of the whole.
It's not about the features that some browsers support now, it's about using those implementations as references to make sure that when other browsers support them, they support them compatibly. You may not notice now, but you will notice in the future.
A lot of Acid3 is testing scripting, DOM support, animation - most of which is/will be unavailable in Mini, due to it's very nature.
Which is exactly why you're not going to see this in release builds for quite some time. Both Safari and Opera have considerable QA teams lined up to test these changes against real-life sites. Things WILL break, and they WILL need to be fixed. This is why Safari 3.1 wasn't delayed until passing Acid3, and why the Opera fixes are unlikely to make it into the 9.5 release.
Which aren't used when standards-compliant pages are rendered.
Standards mode = no styled scrollbars.
Quirks mode = styled scrollbars.
They implement IE scrollbars because IE-designed pages ask for them. Win-win!