No. Not brilliant. There is a proper way for an element to fail over to alternate content when the src fails for any reason. That is to display the content of the tag instead.
Nesting the video tags would have been a simpler, safer, more logical and precedented way of handling graceful failover.
Don't even get me started on how ridiculously retarded the poster attribute is. Its like an img alt attribute, except that it too can fail.
Generally going integrated is a bad bad idea because most are made by intel. But there are "decent" integrated graphics chipsets out there.
The Radeon HD 3300 integrated card is the best integrated chipset available (at least it was last year, have not paid attention this year) and will match or exceed the performance of the low end (~$50) graphics cards out there right now.
Parent is not insightful. Parent is factually incorrect.
Ethanol is not sustainable. Brazil is razing millions of acres of rainforest to get a few seasons of sugarcane after that, the nutrients are used up, the top soil is washed away and they are left with a dead spot of sandy clay.
In the US we like to think we do better, but in reality we are only delaying the inevitable. Thanks to fertilizers derived from cheap oil, we can keep the soil full of nutrients (and poisons) for an extra decade or two. But at the same time, we don't have the rainfall to support the crop growth and rely on aquifers that will take hundreds of thousands of years to replenish. When the Ogallala goes dry a couple decades from now, agriculture in the midwest ends and no other nation on earth will be able to replace the US as the worlds bread basket in a sustainable way.
Its called using your finger to turn a bunch of pages by sliding it across the edge.
The feature is enhanced in many bibles and dictionaries by indentations along the side that point specific points of interest. But it is a workable, if somewhat random, way of turning a bunch of pages at once in any book.
Since when can you not turn a lot of pages by dragging your finger down the edge of the book? If the book has divets (many bibles and dictionaries do), it is much less random. But any book has this feature.
The transparency issue has already been commented on, so I won't go there.
Pages in real books/magazines tend to do this, though there is an upper limit on translucency based on the ambient light, thickness of the paper and density of the pigment.
Applying real page behavior to a simulated page is pretty damn obvious.
I've seen that on a tactile touch display that even varies in thickness as a number of pages are turned and it is powered by the kinetic energy of the gesture.
They do. They routinely screw aspiring artists as much as possible on their first record contract or two. It is the reason you frequently notice successful artists spinning of their own production company, having been burned, they know it is the only way that they get to keep a little of the money they earn instead of handing it over to someone else.
He is stating that there are several people harassed, physically assaulted, and even murdered because some asshat took an internet argument into the real world.
The Real ID change would make doing so much, much easier.
The thing about an antibody treatment is that it is theoretically possible to actually cure someone someone with HIV.
If the antibodies are sufficiently effective they prevent the existing viruses from infecting new cells and eventually the body will run out of previously infected cells.
An investment in repairing decaying infrastructure and even putting in new infrastructure is not a zero sum game. Let the infrastructure decay long enough and you will no longer be able to support industry and commerce, leading to an exponential rate of decay. Meanwhile, working laborers will be able to afford to consume and increase the growth of industry and commerce.
The New deal gave us a national network of interstates, bridges and highways that have dramatically increased the productivity of the nation as a whole for the last 50 years. These were only designed to last about 50 years. Now after 30+ years of neglect and decay they are falling apart. Now more than ever, we need a reinvestment in national infrastructure. I am not talking about just roads and bridges; but power, water and information distribution systems as well.
No. The proper way to use a bar chick as a layer is to have her sandwiched between you and your wife. That way your output enters the bar chicks input and is then translated almost immediately to her output which enters the input of your wife. This conversion my be a little more complex, but it provides a multiplying effect to the value of the procedure.
I also forgot to mention that these sterile or semi-sterile plants can, will and do cross pollinate with nearby unmodified crops with the potential to reduce the fertility of grain supplies that were supposed to remain untainted.
I hope you enjoy the immanent extinction of the Cavendish banana monoculture due to its complete inability to resist a parasitic fungus epidemic.
Breeding brings variation. Variation means that a single specific pathogen or environmental condition is far less likely to wipe out or significantly affect an entire population.
It is bad for this biological reason, but also from the standpoint that a single company like Monsanto can effectively corner the market and hold the entire worlds food supply hostage if it is the sole source of viable seeds for major food crops.
I don't want the government to kill off GM foods. Far from it. Labeling does not indicate I want the government to regulate what technology goods are produced with. It indicates that I want responsible disclosure. Chemical additives to food do currently require disclosure in most cases. Unlabeled GM foods are permitted to sneak around that disclosure.
I want rigorous scientific tests, detailed chemical analysis and express assurances regarding the risks, concentrations and bio-accumulation of potentially hazardous chemicals newly introduced into food by genetic manipulation and even good old fashioned chemical additives before they can threaten millions of unknowing consumers.
I want the choice to boycott individual GM companies who have policies I find utterly reprehensible. If a suitable alternative to Monsanto exists, I would fully endorse it if it performed due diligence in regards to safety and disclosure.
You are wrong. In the US, the GM food industry is essentially self regulated. There is no formal process for chemical safety testing and clinical trials for GM foods like there are for prescription drugs.
I think you misunderstood my statement. My assertion is that each and every individual GM food needs to be tested and proven safe before it is allowed to enter the market. Not that you have to prove all GM food safe before any GM food enters the market. Each and every GM food needs to be labeled with the company that produced the GM, and at the very least a unique marker that would allow someone to look up the specific chemical changes in that food.
Fun fact, one of Monsanto's innovations is food that contains its own pesticides. It literally contains POISON. What we don't know is the concentration and effects of long term exposure.
I am going to have to err on the side of caution and say that GM foods need to be PROVEN SAFE before they are fed to people. If you wait until some specific gm product is proven unsafe to stop selling it, it could be to late.
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No. Not brilliant.
There is a proper way for an element to fail over to alternate content when the src fails for any reason.
That is to display the content of the tag instead.
Nesting the video tags would have been a simpler, safer, more logical and precedented way of handling graceful failover.
Don't even get me started on how ridiculously retarded the poster attribute is. Its like an img alt attribute, except that it too can fail.
Generally going integrated is a bad bad idea because most are made by intel. But there are "decent" integrated graphics chipsets out there.
The Radeon HD 3300 integrated card is the best integrated chipset available (at least it was last year, have not paid attention this year) and will match or exceed the performance of the low end (~$50) graphics cards out there right now.
Parent is not insightful. Parent is factually incorrect.
Ethanol is not sustainable. Brazil is razing millions of acres of rainforest to get a few seasons of sugarcane after that, the nutrients are used up, the top soil is washed away and they are left with a dead spot of sandy clay.
In the US we like to think we do better, but in reality we are only delaying the inevitable. Thanks to fertilizers derived from cheap oil, we can keep the soil full of nutrients (and poisons) for an extra decade or two. But at the same time, we don't have the rainfall to support the crop growth and rely on aquifers that will take hundreds of thousands of years to replenish. When the Ogallala goes dry a couple decades from now, agriculture in the midwest ends and no other nation on earth will be able to replace the US as the worlds bread basket in a sustainable way.
That would be perfect because everything produced by the govornment is in the public domain.
Yes. I have.
Its called using your finger to turn a bunch of pages by sliding it across the edge.
The feature is enhanced in many bibles and dictionaries by indentations along the side that point specific points of interest. But it is a workable, if somewhat random, way of turning a bunch of pages at once in any book.
Since when can you not turn a lot of pages by dragging your finger down the edge of the book? If the book has divets (many bibles and dictionaries do), it is much less random. But any book has this feature.
The transparency issue has already been commented on, so I won't go there.
There is prior art in actual paper books.
Adding the behavior/look/feel of a real book to the already existing features of a book simulator is pretty obvious to me.
Pages in real books/magazines tend to do this, though there is an upper limit on translucency based on the ambient light, thickness of the paper and density of the pigment.
Applying real page behavior to a simulated page is pretty damn obvious.
I've seen that on a tactile touch display that even varies in thickness as a number of pages are turned and it is powered by the kinetic energy of the gesture.
Its called a god damn book.
They do. They routinely screw aspiring artists as much as possible on their first record contract or two. It is the reason you frequently notice successful artists spinning of their own production company, having been burned, they know it is the only way that they get to keep a little of the money they earn instead of handing it over to someone else.
He is stating that there are several people harassed, physically assaulted, and even murdered because some asshat took an internet argument into the real world.
The Real ID change would make doing so much, much easier.
The thing about an antibody treatment is that it is theoretically possible to actually cure someone someone with HIV.
If the antibodies are sufficiently effective they prevent the existing viruses from infecting new cells and eventually the body will run out of previously infected cells.
At that point the person would be cured.
Except the real assholes that don't have a problem tracking you down and using real kerosene to end a flame war.
An investment in repairing decaying infrastructure and even putting in new infrastructure is not a zero sum game. Let the infrastructure decay long enough and you will no longer be able to support industry and commerce, leading to an exponential rate of decay. Meanwhile, working laborers will be able to afford to consume and increase the growth of industry and commerce.
The New deal gave us a national network of interstates, bridges and highways that have dramatically increased the productivity of the nation as a whole for the last 50 years. These were only designed to last about 50 years. Now after 30+ years of neglect and decay they are falling apart. Now more than ever, we need a reinvestment in national infrastructure. I am not talking about just roads and bridges; but power, water and information distribution systems as well.
And that is what he (or at least someone claiming to be the author of the post, I didn't verify) mentioned in a post.
He has 5 IT/networking guys under his management out of a 50 man company.
The last thing I want is advertisements targeted to my genetic profile.
No. The proper way to use a bar chick as a layer is to have her sandwiched between you and your wife. That way your output enters the bar chicks input and is then translated almost immediately to her output which enters the input of your wife. This conversion my be a little more complex, but it provides a multiplying effect to the value of the procedure.
I am trying to figure out what extorsion is.
There is also my namesake from the myths of ancient India.
Or the American Revolution, etc.
I also forgot to mention that these sterile or semi-sterile plants can, will and do cross pollinate with nearby unmodified crops with the potential to reduce the fertility of grain supplies that were supposed to remain untainted.
I hope you enjoy the immanent extinction of the Cavendish banana monoculture due to its complete inability to resist a parasitic fungus epidemic.
Breeding brings variation. Variation means that a single specific pathogen or environmental condition is far less likely to wipe out or significantly affect an entire population.
It is bad for this biological reason, but also from the standpoint that a single company like Monsanto can effectively corner the market and hold the entire worlds food supply hostage if it is the sole source of viable seeds for major food crops.
I don't want the government to kill off GM foods. Far from it. Labeling does not indicate I want the government to regulate what technology goods are produced with. It indicates that I want responsible disclosure. Chemical additives to food do currently require disclosure in most cases. Unlabeled GM foods are permitted to sneak around that disclosure.
I want rigorous scientific tests, detailed chemical analysis and express assurances regarding the risks, concentrations and bio-accumulation of potentially hazardous chemicals newly introduced into food by genetic manipulation and even good old fashioned chemical additives before they can threaten millions of unknowing consumers.
I want the choice to boycott individual GM companies who have policies I find utterly reprehensible. If a suitable alternative to Monsanto exists, I would fully endorse it if it performed due diligence in regards to safety and disclosure.
You are wrong. In the US, the GM food industry is essentially self regulated. There is no formal process for chemical safety testing and clinical trials for GM foods like there are for prescription drugs.
I think you misunderstood my statement. My assertion is that each and every individual GM food needs to be tested and proven safe before it is allowed to enter the market. Not that you have to prove all GM food safe before any GM food enters the market. Each and every GM food needs to be labeled with the company that produced the GM, and at the very least a unique marker that would allow someone to look up the specific chemical changes in that food.
Fun fact, one of Monsanto's innovations is food that contains its own pesticides. It literally contains POISON. What we don't know is the concentration and effects of long term exposure.
I am going to have to err on the side of caution and say that GM foods need to be PROVEN SAFE before they are fed to people. If you wait until some specific gm product is proven unsafe to stop selling it, it could be to late.