HTML and CSS are flow control, in the sense that they size things to content, and if it can't fit they push it to the next line. You cannot say "reserve 100 pixels at each margin and flow the rest".
If there were some sort of compromise where you could specify actual layout in a device-independent way, it would catch on. It doesn't need to be, and cannot be, postscript-perfect.
Postscript, and PDF, don't allow resizing. That's what's really needed.
Resizing, with the ability to say whether divisions are to be resized by percentage, or not at all. And if the not-at-all sections are limited by content width or percentage.
Given that I'm not going to approach an HTML 3 layout engine, I'm not saying it's simple. But considering the complexity of CSS 3 support, I'd say there are people with the drive, capability, and incentive to pull this off.
Did the summary change from something else to "an article Serge wrote for his blog that The Guardian picked up"?
Also, are you aware that the things you write might get syndicated? My blog doesn't do that, and I would shit myself out of surprise if someone syndicated something that I wrote without me knowing.
Also, are you aware of what happens when you syndicate things? Maybe you are now, but were you?
In other words, you seem surprised. But not as surprised as I would be. So your objection seems just a little out of sorts. I grew up with syndicated writers in the newspaper, and it never once gave links to the original blog. Many citations to columnists list a syndicated source rather than the original, which is perfectly legitimate if that's your source.
I suppose now I'm just as confused as you are, but for different reasons.
"Resources and planning" is not the only way to survive the cold. While there is a disagreement with Allen's rule (surface area exposed decreases in colder climates), the generally accepted idea is that physically they were better adapted for cold.
There may have been social behaviors that account for temperature dependent survival, which is attributable to being fucking cold rather than being smart.
And the coup de grace. If they died off because of a warming earth, they were not smart enough to adapt to warm. But you're saying they were smart enough to survive cold. That doesn't follow. If they didn't need to adapt to cold, but did need to adapt to warm, then survival was a physical characteristic that required no brains.
Not saying they were dumb, but you didn't support your idea - you undermined it.
Currently using musescore and audacity. Musescore makes me want to punch it, Finale was more usable 15 years ago. Audacity just has oddities, like track being milliseconds apart and had to resync. If I used them frequently, I'd pay money to not use them.
Having moved on, is the doctor named something else, and the monster now named Frankenstein?
Nothing has changed, except that we can tell who read the book, who is old enough to have watched talkies instead, and who is young enough to talk about things they heard about but have no first hand knowledge of.
Let's all move on and let the idiots self identify. Meanwhile, the Grand Canyon is either a self aware amalgamation with difficulty speaking, a cutting edge doctor, or Peter Boyle.
Case else, I would expect Slashdot to run "Gene Wilder found in desert" as the headline.
"I hated having to take Spanish and resent it, therefore this is a great idea for the millions of people I have never met nor considered whom I assume will have the same difficulties I did, and for whom the obvious benefits of learning a foreign language are best hidden from the people who take programming classes not from curiosity but because they think they will get the advertised salary at any time in their career, and who by definition would be the ones who will benefit the most from forcible cultural exposure."
I know it doesn't sound like you said exactly that, but you did. And when you say "No, what I meant was..." all you are doing is rationalizing your explanation. Seriously, consider that maybe you really did mean pretty much this for at least 10 minutes before replying.
The people who take courses leading to med school, law school, techy, and MBA programs because of the lure of starting salary numbers statistically never get there. They change majors or drop out, and falling back on a well rounded education, on average, is much better.
A pharmacy school dropout is able to earn extra money at the call center job because she remembered enough Spanish to be able to support Spanish speaking customers, and the world is suddenly paying her for essentially no additional work. It's the preparation that counts, and you're voting to prepare everyone else's kids less.
If Chip & Pin were the answer, the financial incentives of having it in place would make it the obvious choice.
Clearly externalizing loss to the merchants and consumers is financially more attractive. And there's your answer to "Why?" No need for useless rhetoric because there is a simple answer.
If you want a more complicated answer, the merchants basically have no say and the consumers don't care, so the issue rarely gets pushed.
Re-wiring all of the point-of-sale machines would be a major expense, even if it were just software updates and testing. Even if only.01% of the POS machines have issues, that's downtime and labor expense that is far outweighed by not changing.
Sounds like you're not really aware of how credit and debit card transactions that are declared fraudulent affect the parties involved, compared to the cost of upgrading. Because that's the magic number.
To let students heading to comp sci have a break. The requirements are there, aka the system. To beat the system, aka break the rules for some, the debate is not about whether it is a foreign language. It is about waiving the requirement, which means filling a requirement with a substitute. No one, other than you and people like you who like to overreact by taking things out of context, is saying that code is a foreign language. I would prefer to focus on the $60k starting salary that will not exist for nearly anyone involved. And, why coding is more important than multicultural learning and basically brain calisthenics. Why the need?
Advanced Placement classes give you credit at most colleges. You could spend your senior (12) year getting English, calc, physics, foreign language, and maybe a few others. The tests are relatively cheap, but since we are talking about Ky here, the governor's scholars program covers the cost for 3 if you pass. 12 credits, plus mote if you take pre tests like comp sci. You can get at least one semester out of the way for a few hundred dollars.
You clearly formed an opinion based on your life so far. Can you grant that others may have had different experiences? And that they may have different valuations on things like prep time, cleanup time, ingredient availability, and countless other variables?
Based on that, can you see that a "whiner" may feel as strongly for this as you are against it? That you are a "throw crap in a crockpot and stare at it for 6 hours so I can have a pile of food that tastes like everything and nothing" whiner?
There is no truth here other than the ingredients and the blood tests. Everything else is opinion based on experience. If you don't see the point, you lack experiences which can hardly be relayed in this forum.
No official complaints means about the same as a random poster complaining. I'd say we know as much as we did before anyone posted anything. Jack and shite.
Most code is not in a style we recognize, so it requires decoding. Some code is recognizable, and it is read like literature, no decoding. Java or.net where most of the code is calling the framework, can be read if it is not overly clever. STL or rigorous C++ can be read. Any major shift from the expected paradigm requires parsing, of course. Being familiar with design patterns and best practice means you can read more and decode less, and have more to draw on. So yeah, it is both reading or decoding, depending on your skill level. If you decode more than read, you need more practice or exposure.
When confronted with an unknown technology, getting a confession is a lot easier to deal with post arrest. So you wear someone down, get the confession, and prosecute. The alternative is figuring out what the device is after the fact and realizing you missed evidence collection steps. Remember, the police are there to gather evidence against you. Not figure out the truth, because that's for the judge. Glasser should have gone with lawyer, not answering anything, unless he just wanted to be a poster child. They don't necessarily want to search you, but when they do they use your phrase. It is hardly unexpected for them to take a different approach in other circumstances. So no, not funny, not ironic. Just obvious and sad.
No, they think they got it right when you use third party. WindowShades, flying toasters, StarDock, and just about anything (exclude competition with plus pack or IE), that means they provided an infrastructure that could be extended if users chose to. Especially their developer tools, they go for bare bones - then tell you to make a plugin to make things work. Collapse all folders in solution view, that's a macro. They have a platform mindset, and if users buy third party to customize, everyone wins, eventually. Techies got different customizations, like RainMeter. But normal users always have added to the base platform.
The album was released on his new music service, which you may care about. Did you skip the headline too? Am I getting grumpier or are you people getting stupider?
How does a democrat in ca who basically votes republican when possible, stay in office? I know how it works elsewhere, but those rules don't seem to apply. So how does she spin this at election time? Or is she just the incumbent and that's good enough?
You can't correct a lack of donations without some sort of crisis. Typically, that crisis is advertising a lack of funding. Years ago they identified the same problem and worked to fix it. Obviously it was not permanent. So no, in your sense, management is not the problem. But management refuses to use donated rack space and insists on testing on real hardware for obscure platforms. Some say that's poor management, some say it is needed. Still others say if it were needed it would be funded, yet more others say corporate freeloaders use the code but don't give back, and if they did there would be no funding problem. Where you stand depends on your preconceptions mostly, and whether you read about previous shortfall announcements.
Did you read the article at all? Because no you didn't. Here's just a bit that makes this different from what you describe, apart from all of the other things that make it different. In particular, you never have a bit somewhere that is advertised to be available in the future and have devices anticipate it, in remotely the same way as release day music, books, or movies:
Amazon said the predictive shipping method might work particularly well for a popular book or other items that customers want on the day they are released. As well, Amazon might suggest items already in transit to customers using its website to ensure they are delivered, according to the patent.
We know you don't like patents. But please have a point to argue next time. Would an on die cache tell the CPU it fetched some predictive instructions that it doesn't need but might like?
Oh I can't wait for the ridiculous twisting of logic that has nothing to do with your original reply or the article but manages to find a word out of place that you can google the shit out of to make it sound like I'm wrong.
President cannot write laws. Any promise from the executive branch about the legislative is not credible. Not necessarily a lie, but a promise that cannot be kept. Lower taxes, lower crime, most of the promises of a gubernatorial or presidential candidate simply cannot be backed up. Does this make it a lie? Surely it is not ignorance. If the audience should know better, can it feel lied to?
Yes. In fact the same trend is seen in the 20-24 age bracket. Next time you feel like asking a question, pay a homeless guy a dollar to read the article and answer your question instead. Everyone wins.
Every family is a single person family? Or every member can carry their own shopping? How about we assume that it is better for a single person to do a family's shopping, and you can state how any of this is relevant.
So "jobs lost" does not imply "to China or India". I would love to see a data set of job numbers which includes things like 5 Americans were replaced by 37 Chinese. A conversion ratio. That's the only way to know if engineering jobs are going up down or sideways. Replacing 5 people with a few offshored folks and a toolchain that doubles productivity might look like a net loss, while adding QA because the design sucks looks like a net gain. It's hard to make any decent points when one anecdote says its all offshoring and another says otherwise, and we have no meaningful numbers. Not casting doubt, as this seems to be the most broad consideration given to the reasons.
How much of the certified and approved software runs on linux? Hosting Windows in a VM with exactly the same network access gives you the same problem, so that isn't a solution.
If you want to reply at all, you should find out which ones will run on Linux and let some people know about it. I couldn't find one.
And, if you're using a Diebold or NCR machine, you're using the OS they push you towards - Windows. Sure it's possible to resist, but you have to educate ATM purchasing when the vendors are saying the opposite. I'll start.
Slashdot Mirror
HTML and CSS are flow control, in the sense that they size things to content, and if it can't fit they push it to the next line. You cannot say "reserve 100 pixels at each margin and flow the rest".
If there were some sort of compromise where you could specify actual layout in a device-independent way, it would catch on. It doesn't need to be, and cannot be, postscript-perfect.
Postscript, and PDF, don't allow resizing. That's what's really needed.
Resizing, with the ability to say whether divisions are to be resized by percentage, or not at all. And if the not-at-all sections are limited by content width or percentage.
Given that I'm not going to approach an HTML 3 layout engine, I'm not saying it's simple. But considering the complexity of CSS 3 support, I'd say there are people with the drive, capability, and incentive to pull this off.
Did the summary change from something else to "an article Serge wrote for his blog that The Guardian picked up"?
Also, are you aware that the things you write might get syndicated? My blog doesn't do that, and I would shit myself out of surprise if someone syndicated something that I wrote without me knowing.
Also, are you aware of what happens when you syndicate things? Maybe you are now, but were you?
In other words, you seem surprised. But not as surprised as I would be. So your objection seems just a little out of sorts. I grew up with syndicated writers in the newspaper, and it never once gave links to the original blog. Many citations to columnists list a syndicated source rather than the original, which is perfectly legitimate if that's your source.
I suppose now I'm just as confused as you are, but for different reasons.
"Resources and planning" is not the only way to survive the cold. While there is a disagreement with Allen's rule (surface area exposed decreases in colder climates), the generally accepted idea is that physically they were better adapted for cold.
There may have been social behaviors that account for temperature dependent survival, which is attributable to being fucking cold rather than being smart.
And the coup de grace. If they died off because of a warming earth, they were not smart enough to adapt to warm. But you're saying they were smart enough to survive cold. That doesn't follow. If they didn't need to adapt to cold, but did need to adapt to warm, then survival was a physical characteristic that required no brains.
Not saying they were dumb, but you didn't support your idea - you undermined it.
Currently using musescore and audacity. Musescore makes me want to punch it, Finale was more usable 15 years ago. Audacity just has oddities, like track being milliseconds apart and had to resync.
If I used them frequently, I'd pay money to not use them.
Having moved on, is the doctor named something else, and the monster now named Frankenstein?
Nothing has changed, except that we can tell who read the book, who is old enough to have watched talkies instead, and who is young enough to talk about things they heard about but have no first hand knowledge of.
Let's all move on and let the idiots self identify. Meanwhile, the Grand Canyon is either a self aware amalgamation with difficulty speaking, a cutting edge doctor, or Peter Boyle.
Case else, I would expect Slashdot to run "Gene Wilder found in desert" as the headline.
"I hated having to take Spanish and resent it, therefore this is a great idea for the millions of people I have never met nor considered whom I assume will have the same difficulties I did, and for whom the obvious benefits of learning a foreign language are best hidden from the people who take programming classes not from curiosity but because they think they will get the advertised salary at any time in their career, and who by definition would be the ones who will benefit the most from forcible cultural exposure."
I know it doesn't sound like you said exactly that, but you did. And when you say "No, what I meant was..." all you are doing is rationalizing your explanation. Seriously, consider that maybe you really did mean pretty much this for at least 10 minutes before replying.
The people who take courses leading to med school, law school, techy, and MBA programs because of the lure of starting salary numbers statistically never get there. They change majors or drop out, and falling back on a well rounded education, on average, is much better.
A pharmacy school dropout is able to earn extra money at the call center job because she remembered enough Spanish to be able to support Spanish speaking customers, and the world is suddenly paying her for essentially no additional work. It's the preparation that counts, and you're voting to prepare everyone else's kids less.
If Chip & Pin were the answer, the financial incentives of having it in place would make it the obvious choice.
Clearly externalizing loss to the merchants and consumers is financially more attractive. And there's your answer to "Why?" No need for useless rhetoric because there is a simple answer.
If you want a more complicated answer, the merchants basically have no say and the consumers don't care, so the issue rarely gets pushed.
Re-wiring all of the point-of-sale machines would be a major expense, even if it were just software updates and testing. Even if only .01% of the POS machines have issues, that's downtime and labor expense that is far outweighed by not changing.
Sounds like you're not really aware of how credit and debit card transactions that are declared fraudulent affect the parties involved, compared to the cost of upgrading. Because that's the magic number.
To let students heading to comp sci have a break.
The requirements are there, aka the system. To beat the system, aka break the rules for some, the debate is not about whether it is a foreign language. It is about waiving the requirement, which means filling a requirement with a substitute.
No one, other than you and people like you who like to overreact by taking things out of context, is saying that code is a foreign language.
I would prefer to focus on the $60k starting salary that will not exist for nearly anyone involved. And, why coding is more important than multicultural learning and basically brain calisthenics. Why the need?
Advanced Placement classes give you credit at most colleges. You could spend your senior (12) year getting English, calc, physics, foreign language, and maybe a few others. The tests are relatively cheap, but since we are talking about Ky here, the governor's scholars program covers the cost for 3 if you pass. 12 credits, plus mote if you take pre tests like comp sci.
You can get at least one semester out of the way for a few hundred dollars.
Oddly you may be right. I found no immediate results for iThing software for fretlight or similar.
http://fretlight.com/software
You clearly formed an opinion based on your life so far. Can you grant that others may have had different experiences? And that they may have different valuations on things like prep time, cleanup time, ingredient availability, and countless other variables?
Based on that, can you see that a "whiner" may feel as strongly for this as you are against it? That you are a "throw crap in a crockpot and stare at it for 6 hours so I can have a pile of food that tastes like everything and nothing" whiner?
There is no truth here other than the ingredients and the blood tests. Everything else is opinion based on experience. If you don't see the point, you lack experiences which can hardly be relayed in this forum.
No official complaints means about the same as a random poster complaining. I'd say we know as much as we did before anyone posted anything. Jack and shite.
Most code is not in a style we recognize, so it requires decoding. Some code is recognizable, and it is read like literature, no decoding. .net where most of the code is calling the framework, can be read if it is not overly clever. STL or rigorous C++ can be read.
Java or
Any major shift from the expected paradigm requires parsing, of course.
Being familiar with design patterns and best practice means you can read more and decode less, and have more to draw on.
So yeah, it is both reading or decoding, depending on your skill level. If you decode more than read, you need more practice or exposure.
When confronted with an unknown technology, getting a confession is a lot easier to deal with post arrest. So you wear someone down, get the confession, and prosecute.
The alternative is figuring out what the device is after the fact and realizing you missed evidence collection steps.
Remember, the police are there to gather evidence against you. Not figure out the truth, because that's for the judge.
Glasser should have gone with lawyer, not answering anything, unless he just wanted to be a poster child.
They don't necessarily want to search you, but when they do they use your phrase. It is hardly unexpected for them to take a different approach in other circumstances.
So no, not funny, not ironic. Just obvious and sad.
No, they think they got it right when you use third party. WindowShades, flying toasters, StarDock, and just about anything (exclude competition with plus pack or IE), that means they provided an infrastructure that could be extended if users chose to.
Especially their developer tools, they go for bare bones - then tell you to make a plugin to make things work. Collapse all folders in solution view, that's a macro.
They have a platform mindset, and if users buy third party to customize, everyone wins, eventually. Techies got different customizations, like RainMeter. But normal users always have added to the base platform.
The album was released on his new music service, which you may care about. Did you skip the headline too?
Am I getting grumpier or are you people getting stupider?
How does a democrat in ca who basically votes republican when possible, stay in office? I know how it works elsewhere, but those rules don't seem to apply. So how does she spin this at election time?
Or is she just the incumbent and that's good enough?
You can't correct a lack of donations without some sort of crisis. Typically, that crisis is advertising a lack of funding.
Years ago they identified the same problem and worked to fix it. Obviously it was not permanent.
So no, in your sense, management is not the problem.
But management refuses to use donated rack space and insists on testing on real hardware for obscure platforms.
Some say that's poor management, some say it is needed.
Still others say if it were needed it would be funded, yet more others say corporate freeloaders use the code but don't give back, and if they did there would be no funding problem.
Where you stand depends on your preconceptions mostly, and whether you read about previous shortfall announcements.
Did you read the article at all? Because no you didn't. Here's just a bit that makes this different from what you describe, apart from all of the other things that make it different. In particular, you never have a bit somewhere that is advertised to be available in the future and have devices anticipate it, in remotely the same way as release day music, books, or movies:
Amazon said the predictive shipping method might work particularly well for a popular book or other items that customers want on the day they are released. As well, Amazon might suggest items already in transit to customers using its website to ensure they are delivered, according to the patent.
We know you don't like patents. But please have a point to argue next time. Would an on die cache tell the CPU it fetched some predictive instructions that it doesn't need but might like?
Oh I can't wait for the ridiculous twisting of logic that has nothing to do with your original reply or the article but manages to find a word out of place that you can google the shit out of to make it sound like I'm wrong.
You sounded angry. Having vented, do you feel better or no?
President cannot write laws. Any promise from the executive branch about the legislative is not credible. Not necessarily a lie, but a promise that cannot be kept. Lower taxes, lower crime, most of the promises of a gubernatorial or presidential candidate simply cannot be backed up.
Does this make it a lie? Surely it is not ignorance.
If the audience should know better, can it feel lied to?
Yes.
In fact the same trend is seen in the 20-24 age bracket.
Next time you feel like asking a question, pay a homeless guy a dollar to read the article and answer your question instead. Everyone wins.
Every family is a single person family? Or every member can carry their own shopping?
How about we assume that it is better for a single person to do a family's shopping, and you can state how any of this is relevant.
So "jobs lost" does not imply "to China or India". I would love to see a data set of job numbers which includes things like 5 Americans were replaced by 37 Chinese. A conversion ratio.
That's the only way to know if engineering jobs are going up down or sideways. Replacing 5 people with a few offshored folks and a toolchain that doubles productivity might look like a net loss, while adding QA because the design sucks looks like a net gain.
It's hard to make any decent points when one anecdote says its all offshoring and another says otherwise, and we have no meaningful numbers. Not casting doubt, as this seems to be the most broad consideration given to the reasons.
How much of the certified and approved software runs on linux? Hosting Windows in a VM with exactly the same network access gives you the same problem, so that isn't a solution.
If you want to reply at all, you should find out which ones will run on Linux and let some people know about it. I couldn't find one.
And, if you're using a Diebold or NCR machine, you're using the OS they push you towards - Windows. Sure it's possible to resist, but you have to educate ATM purchasing when the vendors are saying the opposite. I'll start.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/113997/article.html
Your turn. Replacing the OS is not trivial, unless you think you can walk up to the people who make that decision and just somehow convince them.
Again I repeat - if something is obvious, chances are there are people who have already considered it. It's all there in that article.
Oh wait that's from 2003, so far outdated by now. Okay.
http://www.diebold.com/products-services/managed-services/atm-channel-management/Pages/software-distribution.aspx
Linux does not appear, Windows does.
Your search - "linux" site:diebold.com - did not match any documents.
Your search - "unix" site:diebold.com - did not match any documents.
I tried linux and unix at ncr.com but all of the unix stuff seems to be non-ATM and the linux stuff is POS. So where ya gonna get the software?