The app market is full of shit unlike Apple's app store. It's harder to find the good stuff and it's easy to get burn by crap. It's full of test apps people made from tutorials, dozens of samey things like fart apps and broken rubbish. They need to find a way a way to replicate Apples filtering without resulting in censorship. This shouldn't be hard for the world's search giant.
Apple has got it right more than anyone else and Google still has a lot of learning to do.
Of course neighbours can discuss politics. But if the neighbours are in politics and one threatens to kick the other out of the party for not towing the party line then that is wrong.
As you say two neighbours can discuss politics and they can do it well without mentioning their party of preference so why does that party have to be there. When you vote you have 1 to N number of candidates, you research their beliefs and promises and assess which one best suits you. Why does that person have in a party?
You won't agree with everyone on every issue. It's impossible. The government shouldn't care pleasing everyone on every single issue.
Regarding parties being able to rapidly defeat the unaffiliated, I believe gets to Washington's point that the party look after their needs more than the nation. The fact that party leaders have to go around and effectively force their members to vote a certain way on certain issues means they're making the person either go against what they feel is right or what suits their constituents to serve the part. It would be good to get rid of that sort of thing.
I think we should do away with political parties completely. Either you agree with someone's views or not. The party they're in shouldn't make difference.
I prefer that we do away with political parties. George Washington seemed to be against them and didn't have one himself though afaik he was the only one so it didn't last long. I think he was spot on that the party would put their interests above the nations.
If you agree with someone why does it matter which party they're in?
There are always scary boogiemen that require the government to have more power. Not everyone uses the scary terrorists to rationalize government power grabs.
Sure if you ignore the fact corporations have caused more damage to the US than perhaps any other group including terrorists and corporations acts directly affect your way of life when you are talking about things like communication.
Otherwise why not put all roads or military in the hands of corporations? After all everyone seems to believe the government screws everything up so those two important things shouldn't be in their hands.
How's that turning out for us?
Not well but that's not really the governments fault. Can the employee be blamed when the boss fucks up? As US citizens we are their employers and can fire them. Enough citizens have opted to run the country into the ground. That's our fault but I know no one wants to take the blame and rather blame someone else.
OTOH, many of FDR's chains are with us still.
That may be so but FDR didn't start regulation of communication and the congress at the time is just as responsible if not more so for shelving the Federal Radio Commission and starting the Federal Communication Commission. It's been nearly as long as there has been radio because the government recognised the importance of it and what could go wrong with it if left alone.
The US government even stepped in on electronic telegraph regulation on a state and federal level. This is at least partially down to the regional monopolies and then the total monopoly by Western Union. The government no doubt realised that the electric telegraph is an important tool and it was in control of one company. So it's no surprise that they started earlier on regulating radio and everything coming after that.
The physical buttons do indeed work, it's just that the software basically ignores them and I've had the phone for about 2 years so I don't think I'll get anything for it. I have fixed it so it's back to normal
Breaks the home and phone button and removes options from the shut down menu is the fact that the Google Apps cache becomes corrupt. In fact supposedly it's as something basic as just a cookie becoming corrupt according to some.
I can't for the life of me understand why that should disable the home button other than the fact your Google account is so integrated into the phone that it can break things it probably should have no affect over. The fix isn't that hard. I think it would just be nice if it hadn't gone on this long (it's at least in 1.6 to 2.2) or it would tell you there is a software problem.
I'm wondering if it's just better to have a cheap phone and then some sort of PDA or tablet but then I'd feel like I'd be going back to old days with my Palm III. One device would be ideal but not if it limits my ability to make calls.
A government agency is a very dangerous beast. You have to be careful.
As are corporations which is why we need the government to watch over them and why people are supposed to watch over the government and vote accordingly, protest where necessary and keep in contact with their congressmen and senators.
I know people rather just assume the evil FDR magically started this communication regulation to start a new world order to enslave us and expect the government to sort itself out without any effort on their behalf other than watching Fox News but those people are idiots.
The FCC is all about regulating communications. What exactly do you think the internet is used for? The age of the FCC has no bearing on this mainly because no one within the FCC upon it's start is there now.
And before all the idiots come in here have a circle jerk over FDR and the FCC you have to keep in mind the FCC is only effectively an upgrade from the existing Federal Radio Commission which began under Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1926. Before that the government was regulating radio with the Radio Act of 1912.
Not that it matters if it was a republican or democrat who started this. Anyone with half a brain realises that something that greatly affects the whole nation and its education and economy should be watched over to ensure it's not shat on by corporations.
Mind you Republicans were different in those days. They didn't have an army of retards watching Fox News damaging their party.
That decision has haunted us for 70+ years and given the government virtually unlimited control to regulate our households. - How much energy we use, whether or not our water is drugged, what kind of low-flow toilet we buy (and which requires two flushes), and so on. THIS decision regarding whether the FCC can regulate private websites streaming over private cables into private homes is just as far-reaching.
The precedent could easily be used by a future FCC lawyer to argue they not only have the right to regulate the Private Internet, but also Private Cable TV and censor what is transmitted (i.e. goodbye FOX/MSNBC because they are too political, and goodbye swearing/nudity in movies or HBO).
Yet you have no problem with the government taking control of a portion of people's property to allow these companies to put up phones lines. By your logic the private companies should have to negotiate with every single land owner whose land they need to go onto.
If you want any sort of civilisation you do need someone to regulate some things. Otherwise you end up with land being polluted and trashed by corporations, every road being a toll road and the US would be one of the most backwards countries in the world if phone companies were allow to decide who they would provide service to. But I guess most rednecks are ok with that seeing how they are some of the most backwards people already.
By you logic as well there is no need for a federal government and there should be no national military. The idea that the government fucks up everything except the military is at best retarded. Fuck it, let everyone defend themselves. Surely it will be a piece of cake with all that money they'll save with no national government.
Actually if the US were doing what Egypt would then the government likely wouldn't covered that as freedom of speech and claim it's the act of terrorists, it incites violence and basically use every rule for speech to ensure you don't have the freedom to express yourself.
I am a bit unimpressed with how rubbish Android can be at telling you something is wrong. Some apps appear in the market and I can't install them. All it says it can't download them. So of course I keep trying and it fails. So is it a network error or will it never install because actually it won't run on my G1 and should it even be showing up in the market for me? It's not like it downloads it at all so it's aware of whether my phone can run it in advance so why the generic message?
I had to do a factory reset on my phone after a google created app killed the phone. I suspect it was google maps. I say that because even after doing that and maps was then updated again it would always crash everytime I started up the phone. I believe it was about a month later until it was fixed.
Today my phone and home button quit working and when bringing up the shut-down menu the only option that was there was to turn the phone off. I searched and most people just did a factory reset. I wasn't about to do that. I haven't installed any apps since the last ordeal where I had to do a factory reset and no apps were updated in ages so as far as I was concerned no factory reset should be needed.
What it was in the end is something like the cookie data for communicating to Google got corrupt for as best as I can tell no good reason. I'm not sure why that should put the phone in a nearly broken state and absolutely no warning message whatsoever so you're left thinking the buttons are broke or something worse. I found you can clear you google apps cache and log back in and it fixes it. That's ridiculous, imo. I have version 1.6 of Android and there are people with at least 2.2 experience this problem. It's not like they're unaware of it.
I can't bring myself to pay out for an iPhone but I have to say I'm really tempted. The idea of having a phone where you have to worry about it fucking up for no apparent reason and with no warning message is awful. I'm trying to convince myself that even if I get an android phone cheaper I'm still locked in a contract so it is a big deal. But even if I want to pay for an iPhone I don't entirely agree with how Apple manages their app store but more and more I understand completely why they do it.
She isn't the same person Alaska voted for. I suspect she BS'ed her way into convincing people she was something else. That explains the deletion of any content complimentary to democrats from the governor's site when becoming the VP candidate and it explains the huge drop from nearly 100% in her approval rating as she stepped into the national lime-light.
Intelligence has nothing to do with whether you can lead people. You have to be able to tell people what they want to hear. If, during an election, you were also given an army of people to train you so you don't look like a complete tit then all you have to be able to do is expand on your training.
If you had intelligence you wouldn't have to write such basic notes on your hand. It's not like she was writing deep insightful things she thought of. They were basic things she claims to believe in. Seriously someone who bangs on about tax and spend liberals needs a note reminding herself to talk about taxes? If you were intelligent or even if you had only average intelligence and you claim to read papers and then you're asked which papers it should be second nature to list them rather than not answer at all.
Yes if you ignore the fact Palin is a complete moron, has questionable ethics and she's a complete hypocrite (hand notes whilst mocking tele prompter use) and she's fake. I say she's fake because she doesn't always seem that at home with the rural life she portrays on her TV show and had at least one press release on the governor's site supporting something Democrats had done and it disappears the day it's found out she's McCain's running mate and she becomes some raging conservative. I think the fact her approval rating as a governor dropping considerably once she became famous shows she puts on an act either for her voters in Alaska or to the nation.
As a Republican I'd say she's fucking embarrassing. To the point even I'd register as an independent just to disassociate myself with anything to do with her if I was still living in the US.
In regards to the bold tag I think what he means is that bold and italics are interpreted differently from strong and emphasis by screen readers even if they look the same visually. I prefer b and i over strong and em and tbh in that instance I think screen readers should treat b/strong and i/em the same as well.
It's only hard when you're starting out, imo. Once you get the hang of it and more importantly if you use a stylesheet to blank out all of the browsers built in styles which vary then it gets easier.
A lot of the problems are that MS may think a heading should have a 3px margin and Mozilla thinks it should have 5px and that sort of crap will happen for most if not all tags.
The problem with a lot of web technologies is there was never one awesome way for people to learn everything correctly. They picked up things as they needed them so they'll miss out on things like that and they'll probably make the mistake of learning programming with PHP and think it's acceptable to make something ugly as sin and inconsistent because that's how PHP does it.
To be fair the HTML 3.2 spec did say its intention was to be used for tabular data or layout. It did state that it will cause problems with speech and text agents. Mind you the specs are dull as hell and I'm sure most people never read them but it does sound like someone did imply they could be used for that which I think was dumb even if they noted that it was bad for non-visual browsers.
They existed but the tags weren't meant to be used that way and in the HTML 3.2 spec it states that it could be used for layout but that it will cause problems speech or text agents.
A lot of the problems with layouts are that you're not in full control of the CSS. Each browser has its own representation of tags. The ideal thing is to blank out everything with a reset style sheet first. It's small and you can copy one from anyone and put no effort into creating it.
The downside is if you do blank out everything then you may have to write more styles than you originally wanted to but you're getting more control and again you can make snippets for base styles that you generally always want to reuse.
You still might get browser bugs especially for older browsers but resetting all the styles and not allowing to browser to use it's own will make your life easier and most of the work should only be more or less a one off thing then giving you something that will make your life easier in the long run.
What makes you think that? You're not doing it right if you're having problems styling a table. If you want your headings different from your data then you should be using thead and tbody. If you want different stylings per column then name the columns with a class or id which is ideal to do anyway because you can then drop in JavaScript functionality to manipulate or grab data from any column.
While I agree some aspects have definitely gotten more complicated and I think HTML5 and its video / audio aspects are a complete cock-up, there are some problems with the old way of doing whatever you want and doing layouts with tables.
It does cause problems for people who use things like screen readers. I do believe screen reader developers need to pick up their effort too but you can't really expect them to guess what you're doing when you have tables in tables in tables.
That said it annoys me when standards freaks do shit like make tables out of divs. Tables have their place and are part of semantic html and I think it's ok to bend some rules. For instance I still use the odd table for form layout. I think fuck it. It's ten times easier and works consistently.
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The app market is full of shit unlike Apple's app store. It's harder to find the good stuff and it's easy to get burn by crap. It's full of test apps people made from tutorials, dozens of samey things like fart apps and broken rubbish. They need to find a way a way to replicate Apples filtering without resulting in censorship. This shouldn't be hard for the world's search giant.
Apple has got it right more than anyone else and Google still has a lot of learning to do.
Of course neighbours can discuss politics. But if the neighbours are in politics and one threatens to kick the other out of the party for not towing the party line then that is wrong.
As you say two neighbours can discuss politics and they can do it well without mentioning their party of preference so why does that party have to be there. When you vote you have 1 to N number of candidates, you research their beliefs and promises and assess which one best suits you. Why does that person have in a party?
You won't agree with everyone on every issue. It's impossible. The government shouldn't care pleasing everyone on every single issue.
Regarding parties being able to rapidly defeat the unaffiliated, I believe gets to Washington's point that the party look after their needs more than the nation. The fact that party leaders have to go around and effectively force their members to vote a certain way on certain issues means they're making the person either go against what they feel is right or what suits their constituents to serve the part. It would be good to get rid of that sort of thing.
I think we should do away with political parties completely. Either you agree with someone's views or not. The party they're in shouldn't make difference.
I prefer that we do away with political parties. George Washington seemed to be against them and didn't have one himself though afaik he was the only one so it didn't last long. I think he was spot on that the party would put their interests above the nations.
If you agree with someone why does it matter which party they're in?
There are always scary boogiemen that require the government to have more power. Not everyone uses the scary terrorists to rationalize government power grabs.
Sure if you ignore the fact corporations have caused more damage to the US than perhaps any other group including terrorists and corporations acts directly affect your way of life when you are talking about things like communication.
Otherwise why not put all roads or military in the hands of corporations? After all everyone seems to believe the government screws everything up so those two important things shouldn't be in their hands.
How's that turning out for us?
Not well but that's not really the governments fault. Can the employee be blamed when the boss fucks up? As US citizens we are their employers and can fire them. Enough citizens have opted to run the country into the ground. That's our fault but I know no one wants to take the blame and rather blame someone else.
OTOH, many of FDR's chains are with us still.
That may be so but FDR didn't start regulation of communication and the congress at the time is just as responsible if not more so for shelving the Federal Radio Commission and starting the Federal Communication Commission. It's been nearly as long as there has been radio because the government recognised the importance of it and what could go wrong with it if left alone.
The US government even stepped in on electronic telegraph regulation on a state and federal level. This is at least partially down to the regional monopolies and then the total monopoly by Western Union. The government no doubt realised that the electric telegraph is an important tool and it was in control of one company. So it's no surprise that they started earlier on regulating radio and everything coming after that.
The physical buttons do indeed work, it's just that the software basically ignores them and I've had the phone for about 2 years so I don't think I'll get anything for it. I have fixed it so it's back to normal
Breaks the home and phone button and removes options from the shut down menu is the fact that the Google Apps cache becomes corrupt. In fact supposedly it's as something basic as just a cookie becoming corrupt according to some.
I can't for the life of me understand why that should disable the home button other than the fact your Google account is so integrated into the phone that it can break things it probably should have no affect over. The fix isn't that hard. I think it would just be nice if it hadn't gone on this long (it's at least in 1.6 to 2.2) or it would tell you there is a software problem.
I'm wondering if it's just better to have a cheap phone and then some sort of PDA or tablet but then I'd feel like I'd be going back to old days with my Palm III. One device would be ideal but not if it limits my ability to make calls.
A government agency is a very dangerous beast. You have to be careful.
As are corporations which is why we need the government to watch over them and why people are supposed to watch over the government and vote accordingly, protest where necessary and keep in contact with their congressmen and senators.
I know people rather just assume the evil FDR magically started this communication regulation to start a new world order to enslave us and expect the government to sort itself out without any effort on their behalf other than watching Fox News but those people are idiots.
The FCC is all about regulating communications. What exactly do you think the internet is used for? The age of the FCC has no bearing on this mainly because no one within the FCC upon it's start is there now.
And before all the idiots come in here have a circle jerk over FDR and the FCC you have to keep in mind the FCC is only effectively an upgrade from the existing Federal Radio Commission which began under Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1926. Before that the government was regulating radio with the Radio Act of 1912.
Not that it matters if it was a republican or democrat who started this. Anyone with half a brain realises that something that greatly affects the whole nation and its education and economy should be watched over to ensure it's not shat on by corporations.
Mind you Republicans were different in those days. They didn't have an army of retards watching Fox News damaging their party.
That decision has haunted us for 70+ years and given the government virtually unlimited control to regulate our households. - How much energy we use, whether or not our water is drugged, what kind of low-flow toilet we buy (and which requires two flushes), and so on. THIS decision regarding whether the FCC can regulate private websites streaming over private cables into private homes is just as far-reaching.
The precedent could easily be used by a future FCC lawyer to argue they not only have the right to regulate the Private Internet, but also Private Cable TV and censor what is transmitted (i.e. goodbye FOX/MSNBC because they are too political, and goodbye swearing/nudity in movies or HBO).
Yet you have no problem with the government taking control of a portion of people's property to allow these companies to put up phones lines. By your logic the private companies should have to negotiate with every single land owner whose land they need to go onto.
If you want any sort of civilisation you do need someone to regulate some things. Otherwise you end up with land being polluted and trashed by corporations, every road being a toll road and the US would be one of the most backwards countries in the world if phone companies were allow to decide who they would provide service to. But I guess most rednecks are ok with that seeing how they are some of the most backwards people already.
By you logic as well there is no need for a federal government and there should be no national military. The idea that the government fucks up everything except the military is at best retarded. Fuck it, let everyone defend themselves. Surely it will be a piece of cake with all that money they'll save with no national government.
Actually if the US were doing what Egypt would then the government likely wouldn't covered that as freedom of speech and claim it's the act of terrorists, it incites violence and basically use every rule for speech to ensure you don't have the freedom to express yourself.
Oh it's completely different. Egypt did it to hurt its citizens. The US is dong it to protect the internet.
In the next release her image will be replaced with Hayden Christensen in a George Lucas inspired M. Night Shyamalan-like twist.
No sane person thinks that Apple invents a lot but they do refine things and do it better than others in most instances.
I am a bit unimpressed with how rubbish Android can be at telling you something is wrong. Some apps appear in the market and I can't install them. All it says it can't download them. So of course I keep trying and it fails. So is it a network error or will it never install because actually it won't run on my G1 and should it even be showing up in the market for me? It's not like it downloads it at all so it's aware of whether my phone can run it in advance so why the generic message?
I had to do a factory reset on my phone after a google created app killed the phone. I suspect it was google maps. I say that because even after doing that and maps was then updated again it would always crash everytime I started up the phone. I believe it was about a month later until it was fixed.
Today my phone and home button quit working and when bringing up the shut-down menu the only option that was there was to turn the phone off. I searched and most people just did a factory reset. I wasn't about to do that. I haven't installed any apps since the last ordeal where I had to do a factory reset and no apps were updated in ages so as far as I was concerned no factory reset should be needed.
What it was in the end is something like the cookie data for communicating to Google got corrupt for as best as I can tell no good reason. I'm not sure why that should put the phone in a nearly broken state and absolutely no warning message whatsoever so you're left thinking the buttons are broke or something worse. I found you can clear you google apps cache and log back in and it fixes it. That's ridiculous, imo. I have version 1.6 of Android and there are people with at least 2.2 experience this problem. It's not like they're unaware of it.
I can't bring myself to pay out for an iPhone but I have to say I'm really tempted. The idea of having a phone where you have to worry about it fucking up for no apparent reason and with no warning message is awful. I'm trying to convince myself that even if I get an android phone cheaper I'm still locked in a contract so it is a big deal. But even if I want to pay for an iPhone I don't entirely agree with how Apple manages their app store but more and more I understand completely why they do it.
She isn't the same person Alaska voted for. I suspect she BS'ed her way into convincing people she was something else. That explains the deletion of any content complimentary to democrats from the governor's site when becoming the VP candidate and it explains the huge drop from nearly 100% in her approval rating as she stepped into the national lime-light.
Intelligence has nothing to do with whether you can lead people. You have to be able to tell people what they want to hear. If, during an election, you were also given an army of people to train you so you don't look like a complete tit then all you have to be able to do is expand on your training.
If you had intelligence you wouldn't have to write such basic notes on your hand. It's not like she was writing deep insightful things she thought of. They were basic things she claims to believe in. Seriously someone who bangs on about tax and spend liberals needs a note reminding herself to talk about taxes? If you were intelligent or even if you had only average intelligence and you claim to read papers and then you're asked which papers it should be second nature to list them rather than not answer at all.
Yes if you ignore the fact Palin is a complete moron, has questionable ethics and she's a complete hypocrite (hand notes whilst mocking tele prompter use) and she's fake. I say she's fake because she doesn't always seem that at home with the rural life she portrays on her TV show and had at least one press release on the governor's site supporting something Democrats had done and it disappears the day it's found out she's McCain's running mate and she becomes some raging conservative. I think the fact her approval rating as a governor dropping considerably once she became famous shows she puts on an act either for her voters in Alaska or to the nation.
As a Republican I'd say she's fucking embarrassing. To the point even I'd register as an independent just to disassociate myself with anything to do with her if I was still living in the US.
I rather pay and not have my book turned into TV.
In regards to the bold tag I think what he means is that bold and italics are interpreted differently from strong and emphasis by screen readers even if they look the same visually. I prefer b and i over strong and em and tbh in that instance I think screen readers should treat b/strong and i/em the same as well.
It's only hard when you're starting out, imo. Once you get the hang of it and more importantly if you use a stylesheet to blank out all of the browsers built in styles which vary then it gets easier.
A lot of the problems are that MS may think a heading should have a 3px margin and Mozilla thinks it should have 5px and that sort of crap will happen for most if not all tags.
The problem with a lot of web technologies is there was never one awesome way for people to learn everything correctly. They picked up things as they needed them so they'll miss out on things like that and they'll probably make the mistake of learning programming with PHP and think it's acceptable to make something ugly as sin and inconsistent because that's how PHP does it.
To be fair the HTML 3.2 spec did say its intention was to be used for tabular data or layout. It did state that it will cause problems with speech and text agents. Mind you the specs are dull as hell and I'm sure most people never read them but it does sound like someone did imply they could be used for that which I think was dumb even if they noted that it was bad for non-visual browsers.
They existed but the tags weren't meant to be used that way and in the HTML 3.2 spec it states that it could be used for layout but that it will cause problems speech or text agents.
A lot of the problems with layouts are that you're not in full control of the CSS. Each browser has its own representation of tags. The ideal thing is to blank out everything with a reset style sheet first. It's small and you can copy one from anyone and put no effort into creating it.
The downside is if you do blank out everything then you may have to write more styles than you originally wanted to but you're getting more control and again you can make snippets for base styles that you generally always want to reuse.
You still might get browser bugs especially for older browsers but resetting all the styles and not allowing to browser to use it's own will make your life easier and most of the work should only be more or less a one off thing then giving you something that will make your life easier in the long run.
What makes you think that? You're not doing it right if you're having problems styling a table. If you want your headings different from your data then you should be using thead and tbody. If you want different stylings per column then name the columns with a class or id which is ideal to do anyway because you can then drop in JavaScript functionality to manipulate or grab data from any column.
While I agree some aspects have definitely gotten more complicated and I think HTML5 and its video / audio aspects are a complete cock-up, there are some problems with the old way of doing whatever you want and doing layouts with tables.
It does cause problems for people who use things like screen readers. I do believe screen reader developers need to pick up their effort too but you can't really expect them to guess what you're doing when you have tables in tables in tables.
That said it annoys me when standards freaks do shit like make tables out of divs. Tables have their place and are part of semantic html and I think it's ok to bend some rules. For instance I still use the odd table for form layout. I think fuck it. It's ten times easier and works consistently.