The average John and Jane Doe do not care to learn about various DTD restrictions, XSLT transformation algorhythms and the works. The whole document writing process has to be as transparent as selecting fonts, size, justification, etc. with a simple mouse clic on an icon or scrolling menu.
If you want the average secretary to adopt XML, give her something that works exactly like Word, but just happens to save everything as XML structures with style sheets formatting.
Honnestly, look at W3C's own homepage and see for yourself what clean HTML means. Already since the first XHTML draft was released almost a year ago, they have simplified their presentation, but the important stuff is still there: the documentation about WEB Publishing standards.
Sure, there are colors and neat formatting tricks, but most of that is done using CSS. Oh, there are a few icons and logos, too. Is the absence of frames and nested tables an obstacle to the content's diffusion? Well, admit it, it is not. All we need to find from W3C is there: the standards.
Also, while the obvious intention of XHTML Basic is to reconcile WML and HTML into a unified common base, note that Web Content created using this barebone standard with linked CSS sheets (as opposed to embeded style rules within the text) also has another strong advantage: it obsoletes the very concept of forcing people to "upgrade" to whatever latest version of a specific browser, which increases accessibility of the content and makes it possible to use "deprecated" browsers without loosing anything significant.
My own appreciation of XHTML Basic, from an HTML comparision point of view, is that it is about half-way between HTML 2.0 and 3.2: basic text and images, plus forms and tables, with XML rigor as a bonus. If your Web Authoring really is about content, not Flash animations demo, then XHTML Basic is all you really need.
Now seems like a good time to consider the entertainment industry's giants as a big cartel and launch an anti-trust trial at least twice as big as the one we just saw against Microsoft.
May all Actors and Musicians who have been shagged by those industries please take a stand now and help their audience put an end to the industry's disgusting monopoly and their influence on politicians, police and other industries!
I'll give you two examples of what fair use means, and how DVD's encryption breaks it:
I was born in the French-speaking spot of America known as Québec, but now live in Europe. Recently, my family sent me a DVD of a local production that became quite popular there, but I could not view it because it was encrypted for America, while my DVD player only accepts discs encoded for Europe.
It doesn't stop there.
I also happen to speak Russian and recently wanted to view DVD re-issues of classic movies from the Soviet era that some Russian friends recommended. I cannot, because Russia is in a different zone than Europe, so my DVD player refused to show them.
In effect, DSS prevented me from viewing two legally purchased DVD's, simply because of the Motion Picture Industry's greedy attitude.
So, as far as I'm concerned, the more countries that follow New Zealand's lead and demand zoneless DVD players, the merrier.
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Timezones are a good thing, because they take into account the solar position of a location. They also confirm without any doubt what part of the day a gizen country is currently living.
By contrast, that crappy SwatchTime completely blurs any Timezone distinction, which prevents people from knowing if now is a decent time to call someone at the other end of the globe. Besides, metric has its limits and Swatch just exceeded one, making the whole Swiss clock industry look like morons at the same time!
IMHO, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, Swatch should start implementing GPS-based NTP into their watches, so that those bloody bus drivers don't show up early or late at your block's bus stop!
However, I totally agree that daylight savings should go; keep the same offset to UTC all year long and never loose an hour of sleep!;-)
While Amiga folks have been talking about resurecting their platform for ages (to the point of appearing as a User Friendly joke about UFO and Elvis sightings!), Atari never stopped moving forward because Atari-licensed clones were developped and the OS constantly upgraded.
The current state of Atari is abundantly documented at Atari.ORG's community website.
What never ceases to amaze me is that new, supposedly better OS like Linux turn out to be really sloppy, crawling crap, because someone along the line trashed the old remains fast and efficient on deprecated hardware - no need to have the latest Pentium slogan that initially pushed Linux to the forefront.
Today's Linux is slow, buggy and no longer runs efficiently on a 486 with 16 MB of RAM.
By contrast, my Atari TT030 runs MiNT. Even though recent improvements of its programming library has made MiNT somewhat fatter than it was a year ago, it is still the most efficient hardware/software combination in my UNIX collection.
As for my Linux boxes, someone recently suggested that FreeBSD or OpenBSD would be more secure and more robust choices to upgrade to. I guess so, although I cannot help but wonder how long those OS will remain lean and mean, let along usable.
"It's possible to get a job there, but not easy unless you're a citizen."
It's nonetheless easier for Americans than, say, Canadians. Heck, Canadians cannot even go on vacation in some countries, without purchasing a visa upfront, whereas Americans (or any other G8 country's citizen) can just show up at the border and enjoy a last-minute vacation without any question asked.
This being said, the "spouses of Europeans AUTOMATICALLY become European citizens" part is complete and utter bullshit. In most countries, you need to stay together for at least 3 to 5 years and be proven to actually consume your marriage, then demonstrate you have needfull skills that would justify hiring a non-European, and finally prove your ability to fluently speak the local language, before anyone will even consider granting you citizenship, married or not.
Of course they are! They even control the press (e.g. Times-Warner) to make sure that no article could ever be written in favor of fair use and reverse-engineering.
Sounds like a really good reason for an anti-trust crusade to me, where every actor, journalist or musician that ever got shafted by the moguls could testify that MPEG videos, MP-3 audio clips and personal websites with links are good and empowering tools that allow them to promote themselves however they see fit, without the interferences and copyright-stealing contracts they are coerced into signing by the media corporations.
Among all the spam I regularly receive via e-mail, NONE of it is targetted at all to what I might remotely be interrested in purchasing. NONE whatsoever.
Because of this, it has become rather obvious that DoubleClick and others like them are not collecting data to enable better customer profiling.
Big Brother works for MediaClick, not for the CIA. --
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Looks like you missed the point.
The average John and Jane Doe do not care to learn about various DTD restrictions, XSLT transformation algorhythms and the works. The whole document writing process has to be as transparent as selecting fonts, size, justification, etc. with a simple mouse clic on an icon or scrolling menu.
If you want the average secretary to adopt XML, give her something that works exactly like Word, but just happens to save everything as XML structures with style sheets formatting.
--
Honnestly, look at W3C's own homepage and see for yourself what clean HTML means. Already since the first XHTML draft was released almost a year ago, they have simplified their presentation, but the important stuff is still there: the documentation about WEB Publishing standards.
Sure, there are colors and neat formatting tricks, but most of that is done using CSS. Oh, there are a few icons and logos, too. Is the absence of frames and nested tables an obstacle to the content's diffusion? Well, admit it, it is not. All we need to find from W3C is there: the standards.
Also, while the obvious intention of XHTML Basic is to reconcile WML and HTML into a unified common base, note that Web Content created using this barebone standard with linked CSS sheets (as opposed to embeded style rules within the text) also has another strong advantage: it obsoletes the very concept of forcing people to "upgrade" to whatever latest version of a specific browser, which increases accessibility of the content and makes it possible to use "deprecated" browsers without loosing anything significant.
My own appreciation of XHTML Basic, from an HTML comparision point of view, is that it is about half-way between HTML 2.0 and 3.2: basic text and images, plus forms and tables, with XML rigor as a bonus. If your Web Authoring really is about content, not Flash animations demo, then XHTML Basic is all you really need.
--
That reminds me, would you damned Yankees stop calling yourselves Americans? America is the name of a 3-part continent, not a country. Dig that!
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Now seems like a good time to consider the entertainment industry's giants as a big cartel and launch an anti-trust trial at least twice as big as the one we just saw against Microsoft.
May all Actors and Musicians who have been shagged by those industries please take a stand now and help their audience put an end to the industry's disgusting monopoly and their influence on politicians, police and other industries!
--
I'll give you two examples of what fair use means, and how DVD's encryption breaks it:
I was born in the French-speaking spot of America known as Québec, but now live in Europe. Recently, my family sent me a DVD of a local production that became quite popular there, but I could not view it because it was encrypted for America, while my DVD player only accepts discs encoded for Europe.
It doesn't stop there.
I also happen to speak Russian and recently wanted to view DVD re-issues of classic movies from the Soviet era that some Russian friends recommended. I cannot, because Russia is in a different zone than Europe, so my DVD player refused to show them.
In effect, DSS prevented me from viewing two legally purchased DVD's, simply because of the Motion Picture Industry's greedy attitude.
So, as far as I'm concerned, the more countries that follow New Zealand's lead and demand zoneless DVD players, the merrier.
--
Timezones are a good thing, because they take into account the solar position of a location. They also confirm without any doubt what part of the day a gizen country is currently living.
By contrast, that crappy SwatchTime completely blurs any Timezone distinction, which prevents people from knowing if now is a decent time to call someone at the other end of the globe. Besides, metric has its limits and Swatch just exceeded one, making the whole Swiss clock industry look like morons at the same time!
IMHO, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, Swatch should start implementing GPS-based NTP into their watches, so that those bloody bus drivers don't show up early or late at your block's bus stop!
However, I totally agree that daylight savings should go; keep the same offset to UTC all year long and never loose an hour of sleep! ;-)
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Well done, Anonymous Coward.
Do you even know what MagiC is capable of? What about MiNT? Forget about TOS itself, cause it is not the state of Atari and has not been for ages.
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While Amiga folks have been talking about resurecting their platform for ages (to the point of appearing as a User Friendly joke about UFO and Elvis sightings!), Atari never stopped moving forward because Atari-licensed clones were developped and the OS constantly upgraded.
The current state of Atari is abundantly documented at Atari.ORG's community website.
--
What never ceases to amaze me is that new, supposedly better OS like Linux turn out to be really sloppy, crawling crap, because someone along the line trashed the old remains fast and efficient on deprecated hardware - no need to have the latest Pentium slogan that initially pushed Linux to the forefront.
Today's Linux is slow, buggy and no longer runs efficiently on a 486 with 16 MB of RAM.
By contrast, my Atari TT030 runs MiNT. Even though recent improvements of its programming library has made MiNT somewhat fatter than it was a year ago, it is still the most efficient hardware/software combination in my UNIX collection.
As for my Linux boxes, someone recently suggested that FreeBSD or OpenBSD would be more secure and more robust choices to upgrade to. I guess so, although I cannot help but wonder how long those OS will remain lean and mean, let along usable.
--
"It's possible to get a job there, but not easy unless you're a citizen."
It's nonetheless easier for Americans than, say, Canadians. Heck, Canadians cannot even go on vacation in some countries, without purchasing a visa upfront, whereas Americans (or any other G8 country's citizen) can just show up at the border and enjoy a last-minute vacation without any question asked.
This being said, the "spouses of Europeans AUTOMATICALLY become European citizens" part is complete and utter bullshit. In most countries, you need to stay together for at least 3 to 5 years and be proven to actually consume your marriage, then demonstrate you have needfull skills that would justify hiring a non-European, and finally prove your ability to fluently speak the local language, before anyone will even consider granting you citizenship, married or not.
--
Of course they are! They even control the press (e.g. Times-Warner) to make sure that no article could ever be written in favor of fair use and reverse-engineering.
Sounds like a really good reason for an anti-trust crusade to me, where every actor, journalist or musician that ever got shafted by the moguls could testify that MPEG videos, MP-3 audio clips and personal websites with links are good and empowering tools that allow them to promote themselves however they see fit, without the interferences and copyright-stealing contracts they are coerced into signing by the media corporations.
--
Among all the spam I regularly receive via e-mail, NONE of it is targetted at all to what I might remotely be interrested in purchasing. NONE whatsoever.
Because of this, it has become rather obvious that DoubleClick and others like them are not collecting data to enable better customer profiling.
Big Brother works for MediaClick, not for the CIA.
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