I wasn't asking why server side includes exist, and if you're stuck in an environment where that's all you've got, then of course by all means, please do.
Wow did you ever miss the point, nice overshoot though, I'll give you that.
If all markup were simply Well Formed, the web would be a better place. Developing markup in an xhtml-aware environment ensures your markup is well formed. This leads to semantically correct markup. This is a benefit for browsers and screen readers alike. This also tends to lead to better accessibility. THAT is why it is still better to develop in XHTML even if you end up serving it as HTML.
Yes, it would have. That's almost assuredly exactly what they did. The catch is that a switch doesn't 'feel' like hitting a base drum head at all. Try putting a drum pedal up against a wall and hitting it...doesn't feel right at all. The pedal needs to have some give, like a drum head provides a real pedal.
Being a drummer myself, the kit for the game looks passable, but most drummers I'm sure will find it somewhat lacking. Lol, Tom Sawyer on one pedal and 4 pads hehe. You lose a lot when you map all the extra bits down to 5 triggers. The fun for drummers certainly won't come from playing your favorite songs on this kit, that will always be better served on a real kit. However, in the game setting, it should suffice for it's needs.
Tricky controller to develop for a game, has to be extremely cheap while emulating somewhat closely a real kit. Not an easy task!
It's a shame we can't serve XHTML with the correct content type reliably, this is true. Ideally we could. However, you suggest throwing the baby out with the bath water. Well formed XHTML served as HTML _still_ has most of the benefits of XHTML over HTML. Especially from semantic and accessibility viewpoints.
Doesn't have to be that way. Not intended to be that way actually.
Yes, a nest of div's and span's is not much better than table soup. But by defining classes of div's and span's, we give the page the proper semantics to be understood.
By your example, object oriented languages are like tablesoup, they're all just a bunch of classes. Well, sure, until you name them and give them properties. Then they are unique classes with semantic meaning.
Learn to use the tools you've been given appropriately before trying to prove their worthlessness. There is no doubt whatsoever that good use of div's and span's is vastly superior to tablesoup.
I've never EVER thought 'Hey, I sure wish there were client side includes, so I could bung up this design on the client just as much as traditional asp bunged up the design on the server!!!'
Includes are Not A Good Thing. Their use typically exposes poor design. They are not maintainable. Wonder why traditional asp is all but dead? Ok, that's not the _only_ reason, but it's a very big one. Asp.net provided a much better architecture for designing websites that allowed for good structuring and reuse, WITHOUT includes.
And now we want these on the client?
The biggest problem with php is typically the massive overuse of includes...all together too much php code is a rats nest of includes.
Do NOT bring this to the client, PLEASE, for the love of the web, even as messed up as it already is, just Don't Do It!!!
Don't agree? Give me one good example where a client side include is a good idea. And it'd better be an example that isn't fully serviceable by using an iframe.
Go for the middle, short of that, go for the blocking corners. It really is just that simple.
I can't prove _when_ I actually figured it out, but I can't remember a time where I didn't know how to consistently win or force a draw. No one ever wanted to play the game with me...of course, I never really wanted to play after that anyways, what's the point?
a) The post you responded to was inquiring about tic-tac-toe, not checkers. (tic-tac-toe is easy to force a draw in all cases if both sides play appropriately btw)
b) Checkers is deceivingly complicated...the article mentions somewhere that it is very likely that checkers is likely more complicated than chess. Think about it, there are a lot more restrictions on chess moves, a lot more boundaries and finite paths to follow for given pieces. Not proven, but makes a lot of sense actually. Go however is indeed known to be very complex indeed, without a doubt more complex than either checkers or chess.
Gotta love english, dose doesn't fit either fwiw. Doze is pronounced the same as pose, nose etc. Dose is pronounced like close, but only if you mean close as in near. Close as in 'close up shop' is like doze.
What a mess;)
English isn't so much a set of rules as it is a set of exceptions.
My biggest english hangup is with archive...having been taught phonetically I always say ar-CHive, like 'chive', when it should be pronounced as arkive. I know this, I always think this when I say it, but it always comes out like chive.
It's not an exclusive argument though, but of course, this is/. so I must forgive the expected assumption that all is binary.
The PS2 had extra selling features that for those with a PS2 and a SDTV already, the PS3 just doesn't offer. The PS2 was the first DVD player for a LOT of people, and that worked with their SDTV as well.
Most people do NOT have HDTV's, so those people do not care about BluRay being a feature. People also tend to feel that they'd be missing out on the game experience if they were to play PS3 games on their SDTV...that does not insinuate at all that PS3 games wouldn't look better than PS2 games on an SDTV, of course not. It's just not a deal maker by any means.
Further, the massive existing PS2 base have large PS2 libraries at this point, and some of the best games to come out on the PS2 have come out recently or are coming out soon. It's not a dead horse, unlike the PS1 basically was when the PS2 came out.
Further, the game console market is much more saturated this time around than it was when the PS2 first came out.
Further, the must have PS3 games aren't there yet in the quantities required to really push adoption solely based on that front. It's coming, but we're still in the very initial uptake curve of a new console.
At this point, just about anything could happen in the future of the PS3 in terms of uptake and success, not all of which is in Sony's control.
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Getting a wee bit pissy just for the sake of being pissy aren't we?
a) composit component converters are cheap...good chance the unit will even come with one and b) where the fuck did they lie to you? Hmm?
You're taking this awfully personally, it is after all just a hunk of plastic, chips and wires. Don't have a heart attack mmkay?
That is the way music used to be. Blues in particular. Led Zeppelin was the first major blues derivative, so they got hammered pretty hard for what had simply been 'The Way Things Were' up to that point. Suddenly, every musician thought they deserved to be huge and famous too. Almost all of the super stars from that era got similar flack, the times they were a changing.
There is no new music, there are only new arrangements;)
There's no difference between mainstream music in the US vs Canada. The most popular music has rarely equated to the best music. The best music coming out of the states is most certainly not the most mainstream stuff, similar to Canada. It's just that the market in the states is 10 times the size as it is in Canada, so for every one mainstream band in Canada that is actually good, there are ~ 10 good mainstream bands in the states that are good. There is still much better music to be found on either side of the border outside of the mainstream though.
Point being, just as in the states, if one were to judge their countries musical capabilities based on the mainstream, one would have to be utterly embarrassed. Nickelback sucks ass plain and simple.
Ok, not free in any sense really, but hopefully you'll get why I used that as an example.
Gimp's relative 'freeness' has absolutely ZERO relation to it's inherent usability. This is one of the reasons why the Gimp is STILL such a usability abomination...because so many people argue it's 'freeness' as the trump for all. "But it's ui sucks!", "Yeah, but it's FREE and therefor better!"
There is an argument that non-free software evolves better UI's because since people have to PAY for that software, they are much less willing to sacrifice usability in said product. Thus developers of non-free software have a much higher motivation to produce more usable UI's.
Personally, I don't think it has to be either way myself. Bottom line is, the Gimp's UI is atrocious, and has been since it's inception. I've tried to make the switch myself at least a dozen times over the years, and it's just not worth the pain involved. Glad to see some people are indeed working on this.
Um, that article hardly debunks the origin of the QWERTY keyboard. All it even attempts to debunk is the idea that the DVORAK layout is inherently better.
QWERTY was designed first and foremost to reduce jamming of the mechanical arms in typewriters. It stuck, and is now the de-facto standard whether we like it or not.
In limited instances and certain cases, these points have some application. However, look at where mass public transit works well in the world. What is the common theme? Population density.
Now look at population density in North America...pockets of high density, not coincidentally these are the places where mass public transit is the best in NA. But for the most part, NA is not very dense population wise. It is simply prohibitively expensive to implement mass public transit as it has been in parts of europe and india.
Not saying it's impossible, just saying that it really is NOT Just That Easy.
They come across for the most part because they KNOW that they will very likely be picked up by an American in short order and Paid US Dollars to do work, which they can then take home and use to put food on their families table.
Note the important part: Americans Use Of Illegal Immigrants.
How dare you make such statements as above while completely ignoring the root of the cause. Never mind that your economy as it stands would be in for some very serious restructuring if this were to change. (Not to say that it shouldn't mind you)
And by your creed, we thus have STUPID people making STUPID laws.
The gestapo we do not need thank you very much. You sound like you want to live in a very controlled environment, and ensure that no one pisses in your soup without facing dire consequences.
Good luck with fighting the very core of humanity, of which we all are, and to which we are all fallible.
Oh, and please PLEASE stop bringing up out of context and horribly misrepresented examples, though I do realize that you are merely a STUPID person making STUPID decisions. (HINT: Read up on the hot coffee case before jumping on that band wagon again. The law most assuredly did the right thing there. And no, I won't discuss the point further, figure it out yourself.)
At any rate, I think it's not at all hypocritical to be against the internal borders that Real ID would create, while also supporting firm control over our external borders, both to the north and south. Yeah, you'd best keep us darned canucks from wandering across into your land, ruining your economy we are, terrible strain and burden we're putting on you. Never mind the steady flow of terrorists walking freely into the US from Canada.
The US needs to remember who it's friends are, before it has none left. Treating your friends like enemies won't keep them friends for long. There is no justification whatsoever for massive border control between the US and Canada, and all that can come of it is spreading of FUD.
I grew up being extremely proud to live on the northern side of the greatest undefended border in the world. My family is half American. It's a very sad age we appear to be entering.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you...unless you choose to let them.
Yet again, falls down to good parenting, and has absolutely nothing to do with the internet itself, other than being yet another medium that some parents choose to use to babysit and teach their children.
When _I_ was a child, the bullies used sticks and stones more oft than not. Count yourselves lucky chillins.
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I wasn't asking why server side includes exist, and if you're stuck in an environment where that's all you've got, then of course by all means, please do.
Wow did you ever miss the point, nice overshoot though, I'll give you that.
If all markup were simply Well Formed, the web would be a better place. Developing markup in an xhtml-aware environment ensures your markup is well formed. This leads to semantically correct markup. This is a benefit for browsers and screen readers alike. This also tends to lead to better accessibility. THAT is why it is still better to develop in XHTML even if you end up serving it as HTML.
Nice rant though.
Yes, it would have. That's almost assuredly exactly what they did. The catch is that a switch doesn't 'feel' like hitting a base drum head at all. Try putting a drum pedal up against a wall and hitting it...doesn't feel right at all. The pedal needs to have some give, like a drum head provides a real pedal.
Being a drummer myself, the kit for the game looks passable, but most drummers I'm sure will find it somewhat lacking. Lol, Tom Sawyer on one pedal and 4 pads hehe. You lose a lot when you map all the extra bits down to 5 triggers. The fun for drummers certainly won't come from playing your favorite songs on this kit, that will always be better served on a real kit. However, in the game setting, it should suffice for it's needs.
Tricky controller to develop for a game, has to be extremely cheap while emulating somewhat closely a real kit. Not an easy task!
Technically correct, and yet truly pedantic.
It's a shame we can't serve XHTML with the correct content type reliably, this is true. Ideally we could. However, you suggest throwing the baby out with the bath water. Well formed XHTML served as HTML _still_ has most of the benefits of XHTML over HTML. Especially from semantic and accessibility viewpoints.
Doesn't have to be that way. Not intended to be that way actually.
Yes, a nest of div's and span's is not much better than table soup. But by defining classes of div's and span's, we give the page the proper semantics to be understood.
By your example, object oriented languages are like tablesoup, they're all just a bunch of classes. Well, sure, until you name them and give them properties. Then they are unique classes with semantic meaning.
Learn to use the tools you've been given appropriately before trying to prove their worthlessness. There is no doubt whatsoever that good use of div's and span's is vastly superior to tablesoup.
I've never EVER thought 'Hey, I sure wish there were client side includes, so I could bung up this design on the client just as much as traditional asp bunged up the design on the server!!!'
Includes are Not A Good Thing. Their use typically exposes poor design. They are not maintainable. Wonder why traditional asp is all but dead? Ok, that's not the _only_ reason, but it's a very big one. Asp.net provided a much better architecture for designing websites that allowed for good structuring and reuse, WITHOUT includes.
And now we want these on the client?
The biggest problem with php is typically the massive overuse of includes...all together too much php code is a rats nest of includes.
Do NOT bring this to the client, PLEASE, for the love of the web, even as messed up as it already is, just Don't Do It!!!
Don't agree? Give me one good example where a client side include is a good idea. And it'd better be an example that isn't fully serviceable by using an iframe.
Even better, the article states there is a Canadian version that is 12x12. News to this Canuck I tell you, never seen such a beast.
No, it's quite easy actually.
Go for the middle, short of that, go for the blocking corners. It really is just that simple.
I can't prove _when_ I actually figured it out, but I can't remember a time where I didn't know how to consistently win or force a draw. No one ever wanted to play the game with me...of course, I never really wanted to play after that anyways, what's the point?
2 points:
a) The post you responded to was inquiring about tic-tac-toe, not checkers.
(tic-tac-toe is easy to force a draw in all cases if both sides play appropriately btw)
b) Checkers is deceivingly complicated...the article mentions somewhere that it is very likely that checkers is likely more complicated than chess. Think about it, there are a lot more restrictions on chess moves, a lot more boundaries and finite paths to follow for given pieces. Not proven, but makes a lot of sense actually. Go however is indeed known to be very complex indeed, without a doubt more complex than either checkers or chess.
Gotta love english, dose doesn't fit either fwiw.
;)
Doze is pronounced the same as pose, nose etc.
Dose is pronounced like close, but only if you mean close as in near. Close as in 'close up shop' is like doze.
What a mess
English isn't so much a set of rules as it is a set of exceptions.
My biggest english hangup is with archive...having been taught phonetically I always say ar-CHive, like 'chive', when it should be pronounced as arkive. I know this, I always think this when I say it, but it always comes out like chive.
It's not an exclusive argument though, but of course, this is /. so I must forgive the expected assumption that all is binary.
The PS2 had extra selling features that for those with a PS2 and a SDTV already, the PS3 just doesn't offer. The PS2 was the first DVD player for a LOT of people, and that worked with their SDTV as well.
Most people do NOT have HDTV's, so those people do not care about BluRay being a feature. People also tend to feel that they'd be missing out on the game experience if they were to play PS3 games on their SDTV...that does not insinuate at all that PS3 games wouldn't look better than PS2 games on an SDTV, of course not. It's just not a deal maker by any means.
Further, the massive existing PS2 base have large PS2 libraries at this point, and some of the best games to come out on the PS2 have come out recently or are coming out soon. It's not a dead horse, unlike the PS1 basically was when the PS2 came out.
Further, the game console market is much more saturated this time around than it was when the PS2 first came out.
Further, the must have PS3 games aren't there yet in the quantities required to really push adoption solely based on that front. It's coming, but we're still in the very initial uptake curve of a new console.
At this point, just about anything could happen in the future of the PS3 in terms of uptake and success, not all of which is in Sony's control.
Getting a wee bit pissy just for the sake of being pissy aren't we?
a) composit component converters are cheap...good chance the unit will even come with one and
b) where the fuck did they lie to you? Hmm?
You're taking this awfully personally, it is after all just a hunk of plastic, chips and wires. Don't have a heart attack mmkay?
Hint: Don't peel the potatoes. Fiber and nutrients! Plus of course the time saved not peeling!
You're on!
;) )
Where shall I send the $.50?
(You _did_ RTFM right? Lol
That is the way music used to be. Blues in particular. Led Zeppelin was the first major blues derivative, so they got hammered pretty hard for what had simply been 'The Way Things Were' up to that point. Suddenly, every musician thought they deserved to be huge and famous too. Almost all of the super stars from that era got similar flack, the times they were a changing.
;)
There is no new music, there are only new arrangements
There's no difference between mainstream music in the US vs Canada. The most popular music has rarely equated to the best music. The best music coming out of the states is most certainly not the most mainstream stuff, similar to Canada. It's just that the market in the states is 10 times the size as it is in Canada, so for every one mainstream band in Canada that is actually good, there are ~ 10 good mainstream bands in the states that are good. There is still much better music to be found on either side of the border outside of the mainstream though.
Point being, just as in the states, if one were to judge their countries musical capabilities based on the mainstream, one would have to be utterly embarrassed. Nickelback sucks ass plain and simple.
'Now everyones wants to steal from of google' you say?
;)
If you're going to be a smart ass, at least be smart about it. Otherwise, well, you're just being an ass
Yep, we should all drive Lada's.
Ok, not free in any sense really, but hopefully you'll get why I used that as an example.
Gimp's relative 'freeness' has absolutely ZERO relation to it's inherent usability. This is one of the reasons why the Gimp is STILL such a usability abomination...because so many people argue it's 'freeness' as the trump for all. "But it's ui sucks!", "Yeah, but it's FREE and therefor better!"
There is an argument that non-free software evolves better UI's because since people have to PAY for that software, they are much less willing to sacrifice usability in said product. Thus developers of non-free software have a much higher motivation to produce more usable UI's.
Personally, I don't think it has to be either way myself. Bottom line is, the Gimp's UI is atrocious, and has been since it's inception. I've tried to make the switch myself at least a dozen times over the years, and it's just not worth the pain involved. Glad to see some people are indeed working on this.
Um, that article hardly debunks the origin of the QWERTY keyboard. All it even attempts to debunk is the idea that the DVORAK layout is inherently better.
QWERTY was designed first and foremost to reduce jamming of the mechanical arms in typewriters. It stuck, and is now the de-facto standard whether we like it or not.
Yes, it really is Just That Simple.
Err, not even close actually.
In limited instances and certain cases, these points have some application. However, look at where mass public transit works well in the world. What is the common theme? Population density.
Now look at population density in North America...pockets of high density, not coincidentally these are the places where mass public transit is the best in NA. But for the most part, NA is not very dense population wise. It is simply prohibitively expensive to implement mass public transit as it has been in parts of europe and india.
Not saying it's impossible, just saying that it really is NOT Just That Easy.
You sure are arguing in circles...$20 is starting to look like a pretty good deal based on the points you've made in this thread.
And we wonder why FOSS acceptance is still lagging behind...
Oh give me a break.
They come across for the most part because they KNOW that they will very likely be picked up by an American in short order and Paid US Dollars to do work, which they can then take home and use to put food on their families table.
Note the important part: Americans Use Of Illegal Immigrants.
How dare you make such statements as above while completely ignoring the root of the cause.
Never mind that your economy as it stands would be in for some very serious restructuring if this were to change. (Not to say that it shouldn't mind you)
And by your creed, we thus have STUPID people making STUPID laws.
The gestapo we do not need thank you very much. You sound like you want to live in a very controlled environment, and ensure that no one pisses in your soup without facing dire consequences.
Good luck with fighting the very core of humanity, of which we all are, and to which we are all fallible.
Oh, and please PLEASE stop bringing up out of context and horribly misrepresented examples, though I do realize that you are merely a STUPID person making STUPID decisions. (HINT: Read up on the hot coffee case before jumping on that band wagon again. The law most assuredly did the right thing there. And no, I won't discuss the point further, figure it out yourself.)
The US needs to remember who it's friends are, before it has none left. Treating your friends like enemies won't keep them friends for long. There is no justification whatsoever for massive border control between the US and Canada, and all that can come of it is spreading of FUD.
I grew up being extremely proud to live on the northern side of the greatest undefended border in the world. My family is half American. It's a very sad age we appear to be entering.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you...unless you choose to let them.
Yet again, falls down to good parenting, and has absolutely nothing to do with the internet itself, other than being yet another medium that some parents choose to use to babysit and teach their children.
When _I_ was a child, the bullies used sticks and stones more oft than not. Count yourselves lucky chillins.