Not that one is actually needed. You just need to treat each mini-roundabout as a roundabout in its own right (which it is) and give way appropriately.
A large portion of the web development community has been mocking them. It is a terrible idea to let marketing try to write technical jargon without filtering it through technical people.
Computers have had the ability to display to braille pads, and make use of other devices, that allow it's user to make use of what senses and abilities they have. New devices are locking everything out, hiding behind the DMCA and 'OMG, piracy, think of the children' to prevent the owner of the device from making use of it if their needs are different.
The iPhone (and presumably the iPad, although it might need to wait for the iOS 4 upgrade later this year) does support braille output, and has a rather good screen reader built in too!
Would it make more sense to make two different models and install handicap unfriendly ones in places where it is unlikely that handicapped users would want to use them?
The results indicate that a lot of people actually are in favour of the filter, but it seems to largely depend on how it's phrased and explained.
See Yes, Minister:
Sir Humphrey “You know what happens: nice young lady comes up to you. Obviously you want to create a good impression, you don’t want to look a fool, do you? So she starts asking you some questions: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the number of young people without jobs?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think there is a lack of discipline in our Comprehensive schools?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think young people welcome some authority and leadership in their lives?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think they respond to a challenge?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Would you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?”
Bernard Woolley: “Ohwell, I suppose I might be.”
Sir Humphrey “Yes or no?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Of course you would, Bernard. After all you told you can’t say no to that. So they don’t mention the first five questions and they publish the last one.”
Bernard Woolley: “Is that really what they do?”
Sir Humphrey “Well, not the reputable ones no, but there aren’t many of those. So alternatively the young lady can get the opposite result.”
Bernard Woolley: “How?”
Sir Humphrey “Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Are you worried about the growth of armaments?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think there is a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms against their will?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “There you are, you see Bernard. The perfect balanced sample.”
I wouldn't hold my breath on Perl 6, but progress is being made there.
The biggest problem with it, IMO, is that it masks all the work being done on Perl 5. It wasn't that long ago that Perl 5.10 was released with some nice new features (including chained file test operators and the// operator).
+ Sending a XHTML DOCTYPE to IE actually breaks it by putting IE in "legacy CSS" mode. Send a HTML4 DOCTYPE and it's not perfect, but margin and em will work at least.
Not true. Any XHTML Doctype will trigger Standards mode. Some HTML 4.x Doctypes will trigger Quirks mode. If you send an XML declaration before the Doctype, then it will trigger Quirks mode, but this is sort of forbidden in XHTML as text/html anyway (I say "sort of" becuase the spec is very badly written, it insists you follow the guidelines in Appendix C before serving as text/html... and then makes Appendix C informative and coaches in language such as "you might want to").
+ No browser has any sort of XHTML support except for Mozilla Firefox. The rest just fake it as HTML4, except for IE which correctly doesn't accept a MIME type for a document it can't handle correctly. So IE & FF are correct, Safari and Opera are broken.
I just showed Opera an XHTML document with a well formedness error. It gave up trying to parse it when it encountered the error. So Opera gets it right. (Konqueror does seem to get it wrong though).
But here's the fun part: even though Firefox correctly accepts XHTML, it disables progressive rendering and makes your site load much slower. Why would you want to do that?
And disables document.write, and probably a few other things.
So, while making XHTML compliant pages is admirable, realistically you want to serve HTML4 to current browsers.
XHTML does have a few advantages (like being able to mix it with MathML), but these don't benefit the majority of authors, and the majority of users aren't able to easily take advantage of them. At the moment HTML 4.01 Strict is the way to go almost every time.
Only true if by "degrade gracefully" you mean "write a separate version".
It is possible to write such applications so they degrade gracefully, although it is almost inevitable that there is going to be some duplication of effort as some components are implemented in two places. GMail, however, is not a good example of that - it has two seperate versions, it doesn't degrade gracefully.
Fedora is a general purpose distro. I don't know what is on each CD, but I doubt "The Desktop" is the primary factor in the decision making purpose. Fedora is used for servers and development too.
Go with a smaller distro. This is linux. You have the choice. Choose a distro that comes with everything. Choose a distro that fits on one CDROM. Choose!
Work with the Fedora team to produce a netinstall version of Fedora (or pay someone else to do it for you.
Get a friend with a faster internet connection to download it for you
I was boggling at my brother-in-law fighting popups with his copy of Internet Explorer last week.
An hour later the malware was cleaned out and the Internet Explorer icon deleted from the desktop of every family member with a shiney new Firefox logo in its place.
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There are 14 pages giving the author's opinions about the parts of the language he doesn't like. The book is a lot longer than 14 pages.
Your copy appears to be missing most of its chapters.
I didn't get one of those! I feel cheated!
Not that one is actually needed. You just need to treat each mini-roundabout as a roundabout in its own right (which it is) and give way appropriately.
Since there are multiple routes between any given entrance and exist, people in group 2 can around everyone in group 1.
This is version 14 of Perl 5. It is a major release. (Perl 6 is a new language)
We (in the UK) have had Sky Player on XBox for ages. I'm amazed America doesn't have anything similar already.
I've been mocking them too and I'm not a rival!
A large portion of the web development community has been mocking them. It is a terrible idea to let marketing try to write technical jargon without filtering it through technical people.
Of course not. Tory governments have never been about that. We elected them because Labour was out of control after too many years in power.
The iPhone (and presumably the iPad, although it might need to wait for the iOS 4 upgrade later this year) does support braille output, and has a rather good screen reader built in too!
Would it make more sense to make two different models and install handicap unfriendly ones in places where it is unlikely that handicapped users would want to use them?
Now *that* would be an unnecessary cost.
Amazon have the complete set for £16
See Yes, Minister:
Sir Humphrey “You know what happens: nice young lady comes up to you. Obviously you want to create a good impression, you don’t want to look a fool, do you? So she starts asking you some questions: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the number of young people without jobs?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think there is a lack of discipline in our Comprehensive schools?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think young people welcome some authority and leadership in their lives?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think they respond to a challenge?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Would you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?”
Bernard Woolley: “Ohwell, I suppose I might be.”
Sir Humphrey “Yes or no?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Of course you would, Bernard. After all you told you can’t say no to that. So they don’t mention the first five questions and they publish the last one.”
Bernard Woolley: “Is that really what they do?”
Sir Humphrey “Well, not the reputable ones no, but there aren’t many of those. So alternatively the young lady can get the opposite result.”
Bernard Woolley: “How?”
Sir Humphrey “Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Are you worried about the growth of armaments?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think there is a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms against their will?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?”
Bernard Woolley: “Yes”
Sir Humphrey “There you are, you see Bernard. The perfect balanced sample.”
I wouldn't hold my breath on Perl 6, but progress is being made there.
The biggest problem with it, IMO, is that it masks all the work being done on Perl 5. It wasn't that long ago that Perl 5.10 was released with some nice new features (including chained file test operators and the // operator).
Wasn't it Enlightnment, then Sawfish then Metacity?
I think you're right - which would count out E even earlier then 2003 (which is when Metacity got in)
Well it was. It was replaced by Metacity as the default window manager for Gnome over half a decade ago.
It took a fair while to warm up, and it was arc heavy so it doesn't look good unless you stick with it for a while. Its worth the effort though.
Not true. Any XHTML Doctype will trigger Standards mode. Some HTML 4.x Doctypes will trigger Quirks mode. If you send an XML declaration before the Doctype, then it will trigger Quirks mode, but this is sort of forbidden in XHTML as text/html anyway (I say "sort of" becuase the spec is very badly written, it insists you follow the guidelines in Appendix C before serving as text/html ... and then makes Appendix C informative and coaches in language such as "you might want to").
I just showed Opera an XHTML document with a well formedness error. It gave up trying to parse it when it encountered the error. So Opera gets it right. (Konqueror does seem to get it wrong though).
And disables document.write, and probably a few other things.
XHTML does have a few advantages (like being able to mix it with MathML), but these don't benefit the majority of authors, and the majority of users aren't able to easily take advantage of them. At the moment HTML 4.01 Strict is the way to go almost every time.
It is possible to write such applications so they degrade gracefully, although it is almost inevitable that there is going to be some duplication of effort as some components are implemented in two places. GMail, however, is not a good example of that - it has two seperate versions, it doesn't degrade gracefully.
s/The Sun/Slashdot/
*cough*
We know already
1. If you are using a modified source tree then you can't compare with closed source software. That isn't an option in the first place.
2. You can plan to install any patches on the second Tuesday of every month even if they are released throughout the month.
3. See 1. You don't get the option to closely track the beeding edge with Microsoft software.
4. So? As you said, it applies to both types of system, so it doesn't provide an advantage to Microsoft.
Didn't he also say, flat out, that there would be no DVD release of Episodes 4-6 until after the Prequal Trilogy was finished?
Live money?
Is that five pound note moving?
Argh! Get it off me! I can't breathe!
Fedora is a general purpose distro. I don't know what is on each CD, but I doubt "The Desktop" is the primary factor in the decision making purpose. Fedora is used for servers and development too.
If you are bandwidth challenged (as I was until recently) then you have a number of options.
Disclaimer: Some options may be overly expensive or impractical due to your geographical location. Don't winge. Pick a different option.
I was boggling at my brother-in-law fighting popups with his copy of Internet Explorer last week.
An hour later the malware was cleaned out and the Internet Explorer icon deleted from the desktop of every family member with a shiney new Firefox logo in its place.