Xforms, XML events, the xml DOM, role vs semantic style classes, throwing errors instead of making common errors part of the standard. These are all areas where xhtml2 is better than html5.
There are partial implementations available for many features of xhtml2, often as browser plugins. Just like their were for html5. Only after xhtml2 was abandoned did the major browsers start work on incorporating html5 into the browser. And even then, they have focused on things like canvas and video tags that could have been incorporated into xhtml2 without much difficulty or conflict of purpose.
HTML5 and WHATWG were a workaround to the W3C standards process because certain powerful interests didn't want to support the strictness of XHTML2.
Now that WHATWG's efforts have been accepted by W3C and the superior standard of XHTML2 has been shelved, what can we do to try and make the web work properly?
I don't block ads. But I don't see many because I do block flash and javascript on untrusted sites.
However, I am seriously considering add blocking ever since one of my "trusted sites" started using their own domain to serve some of the most horrific browser hijacking ads I have ever seen.
If copyright only no more than 20 years and breaking DRM to allow fair use, personal backups, device shifting and format shifting were not crimes and if software, math, genetic expressions and human behavior could not be patented, them maybe I would have good IP law as well.
1: atmospheric effects brings the 1370 down close to your original estimate of 1100W. Albedo has no effect. Loss of transmission is on the order of 5-10% to transmit power halfway across the US even with our current outdated grid.
2: That 8 hour time period per day included huge fudge factors to account for cloud cover and dawn/dusk. In reality you could end up getting 25% to 50% more energy than that on most days.
3: Rare earth metals? What rare earth metals? No such thing is required to construct a solar thermal plant. All you need is aluminum, steel and a bit of glass or plastic. You don't need expensive PV cells, just a shit load of mirrors and essentially the same type of steam boiler, turbines and generators that nearly every nuclear, coal, gas and oil fired plant already uses.
4: energy storage is not an issue. It can be stored directly and efficiently as heat in an underground molten salt reservoir or in super heated oil. Otherwise is can be used to electrolyze water to produce stored hydrogen gas. If for some reason that isn't enough, in times of a solar drought you can use that hydrogen or even natural gas to fire the boilers instead.
5: No, the point is that you are wrong about solar in every fundamental way. Nuclear power is a good idea. It is clean and efficient. Breeder reactors are the only way to solve the nuclear waste problem that we are already dealing with. But from a long term perspective, utilizing that great nuclear power plant in the sky is going to be more effective and sustainable for the US, Africa and Australia (where we have access to vast cloudless deserts without the limited insolation of more oblique latitudes).
If we include all energy use (even cars) the US uses about 29 PW/a (29000000000000000 Watts per year) or about 79397672826830 Watts / day.
Current solar thermal power plants can operate around 30% efficiency without much difficulty at least 8 hours per day. So each meter^2 of solar plant can generate 2640 Watts / day.
That means we can supply 100% of our energy needs with about 30074876070 meter^2 of solar plant.
That is a square in the Arizona desert 173421 meters wide (just over a hundred miles).
Of course, I really want to see us invest in nuclear power as well, but you are completely underestimating the potential of solar.
Not to discredit any of the very good points that you bring up...
But there are some of the advantages of being bipedal:
1: It weighs a lot less.
2: there is a lot less drag.
3: dynamic equalibrium allows faster turns.
4: If you need a set of limbs for some new function (flight, carrying stuff), evolution is a lot more likely to work if you convert existing limbs instead of growing a whole new pair.
Sadistic bastards. Vi was the required development environment in some of my classes at university.
Did I hit i or not? Even if I did, did the ssh program register it and transmit it to the server or not? The answer to this question determines if I am about to delete my file or type in a function name. Do I feel lucky? Well? Do I? Punk?
Also, on sufficiently low traffic roads, it can be safer to drive down the middle at night as the odds of a deer, horse or cow jumping in your path at the edge of the road is vastly higher than someone coming the opposite direction without headlights.
Cows are fed meat to supplement their diets, but that has more to do with getting them bulked up as fast as possible or keeping them producing milk as long as possible instead of supporting their natural health.
In natural settings they are known to gnaw bones. There is also a community of wild asses on an island that are known to eat bird hatchlings.
No, not really. Most people convert to veganism later in life after being omnivores through childhood and young adulthood. Most of them also either choose not to have children or have passed child rearing age when they change their diet as well.
Right. Vegan diets are extremely unhealthy for pregnant women and young children, even leading to miscarriage, disfigurement or death. It is also moderately unhealthy for almost everyone compared to a balanced diet of home made food (meat, dairy, grain, vegetables, fresh if possible, otherwise with as little chemical preservatives as possible). The only thing you can compare a vegan diet to in a positive light is the modern diet of industrially prepared chemically infused meals and fast food.
I would probably take them up on the offer. If you payed ~$600 for an original ps3, you can get a new slim ps3 and ps2 for that and still have money left over.
He was already fired, how can he quit for being asked to break the law? And yes, in asking for the password in the way they did, his supervisors where the ones breaking the law.
Because burning hydrogen won't spin a wind turbine.
But you could burn it to heat the boiler used in a solar thermal power plant that would have higher capacity and more reliability than wind power to start with, plus a much easier way of storing energy, either directly as heat or as you mentioned as electrolyzed hydrogen.
Amongst the major problems with javascript are the dom specification, inconsistant implementation, it is a prototype based language, a total lack of good development tools, semi-colon insertion,... etc.
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Xforms, XML events, the xml DOM, role vs semantic style classes, throwing errors instead of making common errors part of the standard. These are all areas where xhtml2 is better than html5.
There are partial implementations available for many features of xhtml2, often as browser plugins. Just like their were for html5. Only after xhtml2 was abandoned did the major browsers start work on incorporating html5 into the browser. And even then, they have focused on things like canvas and video tags that could have been incorporated into xhtml2 without much difficulty or conflict of purpose.
HTML5 and WHATWG were a workaround to the W3C standards process because certain powerful interests didn't want to support the strictness of XHTML2.
Now that WHATWG's efforts have been accepted by W3C and the superior standard of XHTML2 has been shelved, what can we do to try and make the web work properly?
I don't block ads. But I don't see many because I do block flash and javascript on untrusted sites.
However, I am seriously considering add blocking ever since one of my "trusted sites" started using their own domain to serve some of the most horrific browser hijacking ads I have ever seen.
I live in the US. And I have bad IP laws.
If copyright only no more than 20 years and breaking DRM to allow fair use, personal backups, device shifting and format shifting were not crimes and if software, math, genetic expressions and human behavior could not be patented, them maybe I would have good IP law as well.
You are wrong on so many levels.
1: atmospheric effects brings the 1370 down close to your original estimate of 1100W. Albedo has no effect. Loss of transmission is on the order of 5-10% to transmit power halfway across the US even with our current outdated grid.
2: That 8 hour time period per day included huge fudge factors to account for cloud cover and dawn/dusk. In reality you could end up getting 25% to 50% more energy than that on most days.
3: Rare earth metals? What rare earth metals? No such thing is required to construct a solar thermal plant. All you need is aluminum, steel and a bit of glass or plastic. You don't need expensive PV cells, just a shit load of mirrors and essentially the same type of steam boiler, turbines and generators that nearly every nuclear, coal, gas and oil fired plant already uses.
4: energy storage is not an issue. It can be stored directly and efficiently as heat in an underground molten salt reservoir or in super heated oil. Otherwise is can be used to electrolyze water to produce stored hydrogen gas. If for some reason that isn't enough, in times of a solar drought you can use that hydrogen or even natural gas to fire the boilers instead.
5: No, the point is that you are wrong about solar in every fundamental way. Nuclear power is a good idea. It is clean and efficient. Breeder reactors are the only way to solve the nuclear waste problem that we are already dealing with. But from a long term perspective, utilizing that great nuclear power plant in the sky is going to be more effective and sustainable for the US, Africa and Australia (where we have access to vast cloudless deserts without the limited insolation of more oblique latitudes).
Yup. You are right it should be 29 PWh in a year year.
You made a huge error on your math there.
If we include all energy use (even cars) the US uses about 29 PW/a (29000000000000000 Watts per year) or about 79397672826830 Watts / day.
Current solar thermal power plants can operate around 30% efficiency without much difficulty at least 8 hours per day. So each meter^2 of solar plant can generate 2640 Watts / day.
That means we can supply 100% of our energy needs with about 30074876070 meter^2 of solar plant.
That is a square in the Arizona desert 173421 meters wide (just over a hundred miles).
Of course, I really want to see us invest in nuclear power as well, but you are completely underestimating the potential of solar.
again, browser options should be able to control that behavior.
Why do you need flash developers to stream bog standard video? It really isn't like you need to rewrite the player for every new stream.
Not to discredit any of the very good points that you bring up...
But there are some of the advantages of being bipedal:
1: It weighs a lot less.
2: there is a lot less drag.
3: dynamic equalibrium allows faster turns.
4: If you need a set of limbs for some new function (flight, carrying stuff), evolution is a lot more likely to work if you convert existing limbs instead of growing a whole new pair.
Sadistic bastards. Vi was the required development environment in some of my classes at university.
Did I hit i or not?
Even if I did, did the ssh program register it and transmit it to the server or not?
The answer to this question determines if I am about to delete my file or type in a function name.
Do I feel lucky?
Well?
Do I?
Punk?
Oddly enough normal CS degrees have it worse.
At my university the average enrollment per semester in CSC 101 was over 200 students.
The average enrollment in the graduating capstone class? 10.
Also, on sufficiently low traffic roads, it can be safer to drive down the middle at night as the odds of a deer, horse or cow jumping in your path at the edge of the road is vastly higher than someone coming the opposite direction without headlights.
Cows are fed meat to supplement their diets, but that has more to do with getting them bulked up as fast as possible or keeping them producing milk as long as possible instead of supporting their natural health.
In natural settings they are known to gnaw bones. There is also a community of wild asses on an island that are known to eat bird hatchlings.
yes. there is reason for that argument.
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/dtis/coit/Policies_Forms/CCISDA_security.pdf
No, not really. Most people convert to veganism later in life after being omnivores through childhood and young adulthood. Most of them also either choose not to have children or have passed child rearing age when they change their diet as well.
Fish are remarkably easy to care for, but you may have a point about insects being easier.
Though most people I know are going to be very squeamish about eating bugs.
Right. Vegan diets are extremely unhealthy for pregnant women and young children, even leading to miscarriage, disfigurement or death. It is also moderately unhealthy for almost everyone compared to a balanced diet of home made food (meat, dairy, grain, vegetables, fresh if possible, otherwise with as little chemical preservatives as possible). The only thing you can compare a vegan diet to in a positive light is the modern diet of industrially prepared chemically infused meals and fast food.
Well... They have to get money to pay the developers somehow.
I would probably take them up on the offer. If you payed ~$600 for an original ps3, you can get a new slim ps3 and ps2 for that and still have money left over.
He was already fired, how can he quit for being asked to break the law? And yes, in asking for the password in the way they did, his supervisors where the ones breaking the law.
Because burning hydrogen won't spin a wind turbine.
But you could burn it to heat the boiler used in a solar thermal power plant that would have higher capacity and more reliability than wind power to start with, plus a much easier way of storing energy, either directly as heat or as you mentioned as electrolyzed hydrogen.
Hundreds of tons a year... Cry me a river.
As we speak hundreds of millions of tons of radioactive nuclear waste are getting blown out the top of chimney stacks of coal plants every year.
Amongst the major problems with javascript are the dom specification, inconsistant implementation, it is a prototype based language, a total lack of good development tools, semi-colon insertion,... etc.
You forgot to finish the joke.
Obvious answer as well. The real question is, what can you do about it?