If Minecraft is something you refuse to live without, then maybe people like you can lobby the vendor for a version that doesn't use Java. But, take it from a person who has never played Minecraft: you can live without it.
It's not about me, Flamey McTrollerson. The W3C exists to promote open standards. DRM by definition is not open. Look over this page and tell me which of these points relates to the W3C endorsing DRM:
DRM is a choice for the market to make, not the open standards body. If someone wants to sell your coveted program on a DRM-laden DVD, great, go out and buy it. But don't standardize that bullshit on the open web.
Stallman is right on this. The W3C should not endorse DRM. If that means that it requires Flash for certain things, then certain companies have to be OK with using Flash to display their content to their customers. The W3C shouldn't endorse DRM, that is a battle that deserves to be fought.
So you're saying no-one uses the font tag anymore?
No, I'm saying that no competent teacher is teaching anyone to use a font tag in order to specify how text should look in a web page. As for faith in web developers, I think I'm pretty acquainted with beginner developers, I have more posts than anyone else in the W3Schools forum trying to help teach people and answer their questions. I'm surprised the people running the site finally managed to update their PHP/MySQL tutorials to use the mysqli extension instead of mysql, they were using those examples forever.
That page has 5 pieces of red text saying that the font tag is not supported in HTML5. It tells you to use CSS instead. It says that it was deprecated in HTML 4.01. The font tag is an example of people realizing their mistakes, not a reason to bash modern HTML. Even W3Schools, with all of its problems and outdated tutorials, makes sure people know that.
The CSS property you're looking for is box-sizing. If you want modern browsers to use IE's box model where the width includes border and padding, use the value 'border-box'.
Yes - but is it supported by IE7...
Does IE7 support the IE box model? I'm not sure, I'll have to get back to you on that one.
Unfortunately, such folks fall into categories like "clients", "customers" or "target audience" and its not such a good idea to tell them "piss off and come back when you've got a decent web browser".
That's true, it wouldn't be a good idea to tell them to "piss off". It would be better to just tell them that they are using an unsupported browser that no longer receives testing, and they can either upgrade their browser or pay extra to test on legacy software. That sounds a little better than "piss off".
Steam traffic goes over HTTP and is not peer-to-peer, they just have a massive content delivery network. It used to be that they would tell you which server you're downloading from. I haven't seen any evidence that I'm downloading from more than one server, let alone a peer.
Bummer. I'm done with Sprint, I bought the Evo 4G when it came out in June 2010 and they told me they were only months away from getting 4G service in Phoenix. It's never happened. Looks like I might have to go back to T-Mobile.
The summary only lists AT&T and T-Mobile, but are you saying that the unlocked HTC One would also be fully-functional on Verizon's network? Verizon clearly has the best network where I live, so I would prefer them over T-Mobile if I could use all the features on that phone.
Like Grog6 said, my signature really isn't a joke, it's not supposed to be funny. And I'm shocked that my explanation of a Yakov Smirnoff joke got modded to +5 here on Slashdot. Next someone is going to wonder why Natalie Portman would be covered in hot grits.
I apologize for confusing you all of these years. Soviet Russia jokes are from the comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who used Soviet Russia jokes to contrast life under a Communist regime with life in the US. His punchlines were that things in Soviet Russia are opposite from the US. The implication behind my signature is that in the US corporations control the government.
certainly cutbacks can be made to get per-episode costs to something low enough to kickstarter fund.
That's correct. The cutbacks would presumably be not having the original voice cast, writing team, or production crew. You would still need to purchase the rights from Fox, though. The syndication rights that Comedy Central bought from Fox are said to be the single most expensive acquisition for Comedy Central. They paid Fox $400k per episode just for syndication rights.
Maybe folks can petition asking Netflix to pick it up?
Why would Netflix pay Matt Groening and the rest of the production and acting staff to work on more episodes of a series which has been cancelled twice?
All of that assumes that life developed there like it did here, and started at the same time. For all we know their intelligent species could have been going for 10 million years before hominids showed up here. Those planets might as well be a billion years older. Maybe the planets have far more natural resources than Earth, and they never entered large wars like we did here. There's no reason to assume that we are looking at a planet that has a civilization on it equivalent to our civilization 1200 years ago, just because it's in the habitable zone of its star.
You've got 2 gigs of RAM instead of 1 or even 512mb. You've got hardware accelerated video playback.
That's fantastic, you can finally replace your 10-year-old Windows XP PC with a phone dock. Meanwhile, my PC has 8GB of RAM, a few hundred GB of SSD storage plus 2TB of HDD storage, and a GeForce GTX 580 (that comes with 512 cores, compared to your phone's 1-16; with room for a second GTX, if necessary). I'll leave out my CPU because I don't want your phone to recognize your voice and start crying. I'm not going to be replacing my PC with a phone any time soon.
The best part about it is that, like the Hubble Space telescope, we have an idea what it can show us but there will also be lots of findings we *didn't* expect.
I wonder if it will finally be capable of getting a decent picture of Pluto.
It's not about EA screwing up a single game. It's about EA's entire corporate attitude towards its competitors that it buys up, and towards its customers. BofA obviously has several bad practices going on as well, but the hate that people direct towards EA is not based on their disappointment with a single game, it's based on their disapproval of the entire way that EA runs itself.
He's not "bitching" about anything. He was asked this question:
Do you agree that we now essentially have the Dynabook, as expressed in the three tiers of modern personal computing; the notebook, tablet and smartphone? If not, what critical features do you see missing from these? Have they delivered on the promise of improving education?
He responded by saying that no, we don't have a Dynabook, that the slim laptops are the closest thing to it, and that the ideals behind the iPad are not the ideals behind the Dynabook. He's answering the guy's question, which apparently he has been asked for the past 20 years.
Tel my how I can write an app on the iPad, and then share it with whomever I want. How do I just send it to my friend across the table?
Did you try going to the App Store and looking for Codea?
Instead of making other people do the research, you could have just said "they can install the Codea app, create a project, use the Codea Runtime to package their project as an iOS app, get a developer license from Apple for $99/year, submit their app to Apple, and if it gets approved then someone else can download it". Not exactly what Alan Kay was talking about, but I guess that can be considered some form of "distribution". It doesn't help if you want your friend sitting next to you (or across the world) to play the new game you made, but hey, with Apple you can only ask for so much.
Isn’t it crystal clear that this last and most important service is quite lacking in today’s computing for the general public? Apple with the iPad and iPhone goes even further and does not allow children to download an Etoy made by another child somewhere in the world. This could not be farther from the original intentions of the entire ARPA-IPTO/PARC community in the ’60s and ’70s.
Even this is disingenuous because Apple doesn't in any way prevent a people from creating a good app uploading it to the store for free and let people download it for free.
Alan Kay is talking about a system where children can easily create toys, games, learning tools, etc in an authoring environment that they can use and then share those creations with others, and you suggest that instead they create an Apple(tm) iPad(tm) "app" and load it on the Apple(tm) App Store(tm)? This is what Alan is talking about, not a corporate-controlled cash cow. How many pre-teens do you know that are creating iOS applications? We're talking about tools to help kids learn about computing and technology, not a system that a child prodigy can use to stun adults by being proficient at. That's what Alan is talking about, and I don't think that is being disingenuous. I also don't think that you know more than Alan Kay. Once you've been a fellow at Xerox, Apple, Disney, and HP, then you can come with your valuable expertise to let us know how great the Apple ecosystem is for teaching kids about computing and technology.
The editors thought it would be pretty hilarious to make Slashdot even more unusable for April Fools'. The OMG Ponies layout was a good one, because it didn't decrease the usability of the site. Putting Rot13 all over the home page is just stupid. I'm surprised they didn't encrypt the titles also, actually.
Slashdot Mirror
If Minecraft is something you refuse to live without, then maybe people like you can lobby the vendor for a version that doesn't use Java. But, take it from a person who has never played Minecraft: you can live without it.
It's not about me, Flamey McTrollerson. The W3C exists to promote open standards. DRM by definition is not open. Look over this page and tell me which of these points relates to the W3C endorsing DRM:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission
DRM is a choice for the market to make, not the open standards body. If someone wants to sell your coveted program on a DRM-laden DVD, great, go out and buy it. But don't standardize that bullshit on the open web.
Stallman is right on this. The W3C should not endorse DRM. If that means that it requires Flash for certain things, then certain companies have to be OK with using Flash to display their content to their customers. The W3C shouldn't endorse DRM, that is a battle that deserves to be fought.
So you're saying no-one uses the font tag anymore?
No, I'm saying that no competent teacher is teaching anyone to use a font tag in order to specify how text should look in a web page. As for faith in web developers, I think I'm pretty acquainted with beginner developers, I have more posts than anyone else in the W3Schools forum trying to help teach people and answer their questions. I'm surprised the people running the site finally managed to update their PHP/MySQL tutorials to use the mysqli extension instead of mysql, they were using those examples forever.
That's an easy one. Don't install Java.
That page has 5 pieces of red text saying that the font tag is not supported in HTML5. It tells you to use CSS instead. It says that it was deprecated in HTML 4.01. The font tag is an example of people realizing their mistakes, not a reason to bash modern HTML. Even W3Schools, with all of its problems and outdated tutorials, makes sure people know that.
The CSS property you're looking for is box-sizing. If you want modern browsers to use IE's box model where the width includes border and padding, use the value 'border-box'.
Yes - but is it supported by IE7...
Does IE7 support the IE box model? I'm not sure, I'll have to get back to you on that one.
Unfortunately, such folks fall into categories like "clients", "customers" or "target audience" and its not such a good idea to tell them "piss off and come back when you've got a decent web browser".
That's true, it wouldn't be a good idea to tell them to "piss off". It would be better to just tell them that they are using an unsupported browser that no longer receives testing, and they can either upgrade their browser or pay extra to test on legacy software. That sounds a little better than "piss off".
Steam traffic goes over HTTP and is not peer-to-peer, they just have a massive content delivery network. It used to be that they would tell you which server you're downloading from. I haven't seen any evidence that I'm downloading from more than one server, let alone a peer.
steam uses torrents
Where did you hear that?
Bummer. I'm done with Sprint, I bought the Evo 4G when it came out in June 2010 and they told me they were only months away from getting 4G service in Phoenix. It's never happened. Looks like I might have to go back to T-Mobile.
The summary only lists AT&T and T-Mobile, but are you saying that the unlocked HTC One would also be fully-functional on Verizon's network? Verizon clearly has the best network where I live, so I would prefer them over T-Mobile if I could use all the features on that phone.
Like Grog6 said, my signature really isn't a joke, it's not supposed to be funny. And I'm shocked that my explanation of a Yakov Smirnoff joke got modded to +5 here on Slashdot. Next someone is going to wonder why Natalie Portman would be covered in hot grits.
I apologize for confusing you all of these years. Soviet Russia jokes are from the comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who used Soviet Russia jokes to contrast life under a Communist regime with life in the US. His punchlines were that things in Soviet Russia are opposite from the US. The implication behind my signature is that in the US corporations control the government.
certainly cutbacks can be made to get per-episode costs to something low enough to kickstarter fund.
That's correct. The cutbacks would presumably be not having the original voice cast, writing team, or production crew. You would still need to purchase the rights from Fox, though. The syndication rights that Comedy Central bought from Fox are said to be the single most expensive acquisition for Comedy Central. They paid Fox $400k per episode just for syndication rights.
Maybe folks can petition asking Netflix to pick it up?
Why would Netflix pay Matt Groening and the rest of the production and acting staff to work on more episodes of a series which has been cancelled twice?
To add to that, Wikipedia lists the age of the parent star at 7 billion years, plus or minus 4 billion. It could easily be twice as old as the sun.
All of that assumes that life developed there like it did here, and started at the same time. For all we know their intelligent species could have been going for 10 million years before hominids showed up here. Those planets might as well be a billion years older. Maybe the planets have far more natural resources than Earth, and they never entered large wars like we did here. There's no reason to assume that we are looking at a planet that has a civilization on it equivalent to our civilization 1200 years ago, just because it's in the habitable zone of its star.
You've got 2 gigs of RAM instead of 1 or even 512mb. You've got hardware accelerated video playback.
That's fantastic, you can finally replace your 10-year-old Windows XP PC with a phone dock. Meanwhile, my PC has 8GB of RAM, a few hundred GB of SSD storage plus 2TB of HDD storage, and a GeForce GTX 580 (that comes with 512 cores, compared to your phone's 1-16; with room for a second GTX, if necessary). I'll leave out my CPU because I don't want your phone to recognize your voice and start crying. I'm not going to be replacing my PC with a phone any time soon.
The best part about it is that, like the Hubble Space telescope, we have an idea what it can show us but there will also be lots of findings we *didn't* expect.
I wonder if it will finally be capable of getting a decent picture of Pluto.
It's not about EA screwing up a single game. It's about EA's entire corporate attitude towards its competitors that it buys up, and towards its customers. BofA obviously has several bad practices going on as well, but the hate that people direct towards EA is not based on their disappointment with a single game, it's based on their disapproval of the entire way that EA runs itself.
Do you go grocery shopping at the Monsanto store? Do you order your food from monsanto.com?
He's not "bitching" about anything. He was asked this question:
Do you agree that we now essentially have the Dynabook, as expressed in the three tiers of modern personal computing; the notebook, tablet and smartphone? If not, what critical features do you see missing from these? Have they delivered on the promise of improving education?
He responded by saying that no, we don't have a Dynabook, that the slim laptops are the closest thing to it, and that the ideals behind the iPad are not the ideals behind the Dynabook. He's answering the guy's question, which apparently he has been asked for the past 20 years.
Tel my how I can write an app on the iPad, and then share it with whomever I want. How do I just send it to my friend across the table?
Did you try going to the App Store and looking for Codea?
Instead of making other people do the research, you could have just said "they can install the Codea app, create a project, use the Codea Runtime to package their project as an iOS app, get a developer license from Apple for $99/year, submit their app to Apple, and if it gets approved then someone else can download it". Not exactly what Alan Kay was talking about, but I guess that can be considered some form of "distribution". It doesn't help if you want your friend sitting next to you (or across the world) to play the new game you made, but hey, with Apple you can only ask for so much.
Isn’t it crystal clear that this last and most important service is quite lacking in today’s computing for the general public? Apple with the iPad and iPhone goes even further and does not allow children to download an Etoy made by another child somewhere in the world. This could not be farther from the original intentions of the entire ARPA-IPTO/PARC community in the ’60s and ’70s.
Even this is disingenuous because Apple doesn't in any way prevent a people from creating a good app uploading it to the store for free and let people download it for free.
Alan Kay is talking about a system where children can easily create toys, games, learning tools, etc in an authoring environment that they can use and then share those creations with others, and you suggest that instead they create an Apple(tm) iPad(tm) "app" and load it on the Apple(tm) App Store(tm)? This is what Alan is talking about, not a corporate-controlled cash cow. How many pre-teens do you know that are creating iOS applications? We're talking about tools to help kids learn about computing and technology, not a system that a child prodigy can use to stun adults by being proficient at. That's what Alan is talking about, and I don't think that is being disingenuous. I also don't think that you know more than Alan Kay. Once you've been a fellow at Xerox, Apple, Disney, and HP, then you can come with your valuable expertise to let us know how great the Apple ecosystem is for teaching kids about computing and technology.
The editors thought it would be pretty hilarious to make Slashdot even more unusable for April Fools'. The OMG Ponies layout was a good one, because it didn't decrease the usability of the site. Putting Rot13 all over the home page is just stupid. I'm surprised they didn't encrypt the titles also, actually.