What - you never heard of platform-independent applications. Java is still around, and runs just fine, now that the hardware hides most of the suckage.
And yes, you can run Java on a chromebook. Or you know, you can do what people have always done - paid for a program that does what they want. I happily paid for simcity2k, 3k, 4, because they do what I wanted after trying the original. If you think it should be free, you're certainly welcome to write and release a free one for any application, any platform. Nobody owes you making it available just because... same as it's possible to write Java applications that run fine under Windows but that you can't compile the source except under a *nixish system. And no, that doesn't violate the GPL if you're doing open source. Flaws in the underlying file system implementation are the problem of the file system manufacturer.
Florida wasn't necessary to win. And the whole Castro thing was stupid for the last 50 years. Someone should have stepped up to the plate and said so long ago, instead of leaving the US in violation of dozens of UN resolutions.
Never bothered with conference calling, though it was automatic in the boonies with party lines where my aunt and uncle lived:-) Store-and-forward is only needed when one party isn't available live, and we've been doing that long before the days of home computers as well - it's called an answering machine. Mine could store 20 x 5 minute messages, and I hated using it, but sometimes it came in handy, which is why I bought it in the first place, back in the day when high tech messaging meant a fax machine and a CB base station...
Most women won't make a decision as to whether to sleep with you based on the car you drive. This is especially true now that among millennials, women are the majority of car buyers, and that there are now more women drivers than men.
And of course post-millennials no longer see cars as all that big a deal either. A guy trying to get laid by using a car as a prop is more likely to have success if he's gay and trying to pick up a bro. Times have changed, and are continuing to change. Self-driving cars are going to make it less likely for people to bother with the expense of owning a car - and the concomitant attachment to it.
The whole "cars as chick magnets" is more a male fantasy today than a reality. I don't care what a guy drives, it doesn't magically have any sort of "halo effect" on my opinion of him. It would actually have a negative effect if it's obvious he sees his car as a shortcut into my panties.
Most of the "writers" can eat shit and die. For example, money is the incentive for a lot of the fake news sites. Without making money off ad traffic, they'll have to go back to stealing hubcaps. Same thing with the conspiracy sites, Facebook and Twitter, and considering how crappy it's become, even slashdot.
You don't need css or javascript to resize, zoom, or rotate maps or any other images. There are plenty of image libraries that can do that directly inside an application. How do you think it's done in image editors? Games? You DON'T NEED A WEB APP. EVER. It is the most ridiculous way to do anything.
So does Clinton. She even admitted to multiple, months-long memory loses where she didn't really understand what was going on around her. And the whole world got to see how out of touch with reality she was on election night when she was so shocked at losing that she couldn't bring herself to thank her workers, even though polls had said it would be close.
It's a crazy world - they're both equally unqualified, but hey, blame the Russians. 2018 will be time to blame China and North Korea again. And the Muslims.
Silicon Valley folks are in for some nasty surprises once their grey hairs start coming in.
They won't care - they didn't care before dementia set in, why should they after? They'll just want to figure out how to leverage their own dementia into another unicorn IPO. Nothing - NOTHING - else matters as much.
Self-selected study populations only tell you about people who choose to fill in forms. Do you really believe them to be representative of the population in general?
"Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution and Cognitive Decline in Older Women" - apparently only in women, or maybe all the old men wandered away and couldn't be found. They can be identified by having their pants pulled up to their armpits and hitting on women even though they can't remember why.
Ask any Prius owner. They'll tell you yes. That's how you know they're lying sacks of sh*t.:-) Or look in their driveway - their second vehicle is an SUV or a king cab pickup.
Smog tends to accumulate around city cores, especially at ground level, because of the buildings that slow down the breezes that would tend to disperse it in open areas around highways. The burbs aren't as bad because the buildings are not as tall, and building density is not as high - plus there's these amazing things called lawns and trees.
You can't prove that. All we know for sure is that demented people live close to highways.
Or under them. Where you live is dictated mostly by economics. You might need to live hear your job, or specific schools for your kids, or whatever. This is a great example of how correlation is not causation, and even the correlation may be an artifact.
It's like the reverse correlation between male income and the size of women's breasts they find attractive - the more a guy makes, the smaller the boobies he prefers. It's also how you spot the nouveau riche beer-store lottery winner - his new girlfriend has the biggest breasts money can buy. Does his preference change over time? Who knows - they always end up broke again too quickly to get enough data.:-)
There's plenty of ASCII porn even today - very profitable. Never heard of stuff like "50 Shades of Grey?" Or if you want to go the classic route, there's "The Story of O". Much smaller downloads than videos or even pictures.
Many of the images on facebook are images of text - crappy sayings shared by people for no real reason. Total waste of bandwidth because people can't be original and others are trying to get shares by posting their text messages as images. As for video - I try to avoid it because it's mostly crap, and if it's autoplay then it's a given that it's 100% crap. Doesn't matter what site.
We have IPv6. Every device can have its own address, no centralized dns needed. Get rid of the crap, and let everyone host whatever they want. Without ads, css, javascript "web applications", latency and bandwidth are more easily controlled. Ditto for security - just look at all the malware we get through ad networks.
The idea of software components was that people could build their own combinations of components to process data the way they wanted. For example, don't want images in facebook or twitter? Create a facebook or twitter-specific app with no image component. Don't want javascript. Ditto. Repeat with css, or the ability to download externally-referenced files.
Want a word processor that doesn't have smart quotes? No problem. That uses Wordstar-style keyboard shortcuts?
Better yet, a mobile app that doesn't have auto-correct and doesn't automatically hook into the system spelling library. And doesn't display emojis!!! (Seriously, an avocado is supposed to represent a penis now? If your penis looks like an avacodo, don't bother seeing a doctor - it's already so far gone it will just come off by itself.)
No dns also has the advantage of no dns-hijacking. No tracking at the dns server. And you can create your own hosts file to translate between human-understandable names and ip numbers without having to worry that someone else might be using the same name for another ip - you'll get your customization, they'll get theirs.
There's no reason people shouldn't do direct device-to-device rather than going through 3rd-party servers for everything. Bandwidth is cheap. Software is free. The way we use the internet currently is too web-centric (the browser is a shit platform that will never be made secure, and nobody can say otherwise and keep a straight face unless they're a pathological liar), because 3rd parties make their money off it. Imagine if we extended the current web paradigm to things like phone calls - you have to listen to an ad before you can dial the other person, and then you have to wait while they listen to an ad before they can talk to you. People would refuse it outright.
How did we become so stupid?
BBSs were doing store-and-forward, so even people not wanting to be connected 24/7 is a solved problem, one that worked fast enough even at 1200/2400 baud (and really flew at 9600) because nobody was bothering with graphics and pictures (except roboboard bbs, which had its own set of glyphs that auto-updated the first time a new one was encountered so it could be stored locally, enabling very fast graphics interfaces, even for online games, on a crappy 2400 baud connection).
Even a modest data plan should allow everyone to self-host whatever they want, with no ads, no crap. Real applications mean that there's no need to download tons of crap to make a browser behave like an application, so bandwidth shouldn't be an issue. Game graphics, for example, can be embedded as resources in the app, available immediately once the app is installed. No bothering to hit the server to find out if the cached version of an image has been changed, or worse, using a cached version that is broken.
You don't know what you're talking about. CSS routinely destroys layouts on mobile devices - even on sites with a mobile-specific URL. It also is ridiculous in terms of wasting space on ultra-wide displays. Even plain text is better.
The original poster claimed that the voters preferred Clinton. The voters didn't prefer any of them, including Clinton and Trump. The majority didn't vote for either of them - too bad that in such cases you don't have a do-over - Bernie Sanders would be president today.
The last time I looked, Opera didn't work any more. It was so bad that they should have been ashamed of themselves. And now that the Chinese control it...
And no, you can't disable everything in Firefox any more. Even using add-ins that block downloading css and javascript don't work properly if it's in the head of the document. And then there's disabling embedded data, such as base64-encoded images, instead of links to an image. And disabling individual html tags.
Serif fonts by themselves don't solve the problem. I've actually tested various "solutions", and serif fonts by themselves are not as good as serif small-caps monospace.
Descenders are a waste of vertical space, requiring all lines to have extra space just to accommodate the few letters that require descenders. There's a reason why there are no descenders in upper-case letters (and we really should travel back in time and take the people who invented both lowercase letters and "handwriting script" and shoot their great-grandparents - ask any pharmacist who's had to decipher a prescription. A lot of it is "guess what the doctor meant" taking into account previous prescriptions and feedback from the customer. I've got prescriptions that I KNOW what they are for and I can't read them. When I worked in a pharmacy, there were occasions where I was asked to take a guess because my handwriting is normally super-messy to begin with... and doctors get miffed if you call them too often to tell them they can't write properly.
Also, lead is toxic - and you miss my point - there's no reason to try to squish thinner letters together any more, since there is no cost to material to either cast the type or for paper to display it when we're talking about electronic displays.
Try coding using a non-fixed width font - it absolutely sucks. There's a reason people don't do it. Same reason that court transcripts are all-monospace.
Also, your definition of kerning purposefully omits the first definition - "adjust the spacing between (letters or characters) in a piece of text to be printed." This applies no matter whether it's all-caps or mixed case.
There's a reason we went thousands of years without lowercase letters. And even today, trademark submissions are in all-caps.
Try not to be too brain-dead, even for an AC. We should all be able to self-host whatever we want on our own devices (after all, with IPv6 it's not like we can't all have our own block of IPs), and share whatever we want the way we want. No CSS, no Javascript, and no ads would mean a lot less concern about bandwidth and latency, and a lot more choice in developing applications that can render those data as the user wishes, instead of using the f*cked-up web browser, which is an unfixable security hole from hell.
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What - you never heard of platform-independent applications. Java is still around, and runs just fine, now that the hardware hides most of the suckage.
And yes, you can run Java on a chromebook. Or you know, you can do what people have always done - paid for a program that does what they want. I happily paid for simcity2k, 3k, 4, because they do what I wanted after trying the original. If you think it should be free, you're certainly welcome to write and release a free one for any application, any platform. Nobody owes you making it available just because ... same as it's possible to write Java applications that run fine under Windows but that you can't compile the source except under a *nixish system. And no, that doesn't violate the GPL if you're doing open source. Flaws in the underlying file system implementation are the problem of the file system manufacturer.
Florida wasn't necessary to win. And the whole Castro thing was stupid for the last 50 years. Someone should have stepped up to the plate and said so long ago, instead of leaving the US in violation of dozens of UN resolutions.
Never bothered with conference calling, though it was automatic in the boonies with party lines where my aunt and uncle lived:-) Store-and-forward is only needed when one party isn't available live, and we've been doing that long before the days of home computers as well - it's called an answering machine. Mine could store 20 x 5 minute messages, and I hated using it, but sometimes it came in handy, which is why I bought it in the first place, back in the day when high tech messaging meant a fax machine and a CB base station ...
Most women won't make a decision as to whether to sleep with you based on the car you drive. This is especially true now that among millennials, women are the majority of car buyers, and that there are now more women drivers than men.
And of course post-millennials no longer see cars as all that big a deal either. A guy trying to get laid by using a car as a prop is more likely to have success if he's gay and trying to pick up a bro. Times have changed, and are continuing to change. Self-driving cars are going to make it less likely for people to bother with the expense of owning a car - and the concomitant attachment to it.
The whole "cars as chick magnets" is more a male fantasy today than a reality. I don't care what a guy drives, it doesn't magically have any sort of "halo effect" on my opinion of him. It would actually have a negative effect if it's obvious he sees his car as a shortcut into my panties.
Most of the "writers" can eat shit and die. For example, money is the incentive for a lot of the fake news sites. Without making money off ad traffic, they'll have to go back to stealing hubcaps. Same thing with the conspiracy sites, Facebook and Twitter, and considering how crappy it's become, even slashdot.
You don't need css or javascript to resize, zoom, or rotate maps or any other images. There are plenty of image libraries that can do that directly inside an application. How do you think it's done in image editors? Games? You DON'T NEED A WEB APP. EVER. It is the most ridiculous way to do anything.
You're so stuck in the 90's it's not funny.
Never heard of multiple columns, multiple windows, etc? Even back in the bad old days pre-dos we had these.
Here there was never a charge for local calling, going back at least 60 years. Guess we were lucky with our gubbamint-regulated monopoly. :-)
So does Clinton. She even admitted to multiple, months-long memory loses where she didn't really understand what was going on around her. And the whole world got to see how out of touch with reality she was on election night when she was so shocked at losing that she couldn't bring herself to thank her workers, even though polls had said it would be close.
It's a crazy world - they're both equally unqualified, but hey, blame the Russians. 2018 will be time to blame China and North Korea again. And the Muslims.
Silicon Valley folks are in for some nasty surprises once their grey hairs start coming in.
They won't care - they didn't care before dementia set in, why should they after? They'll just want to figure out how to leverage their own dementia into another unicorn IPO. Nothing - NOTHING - else matters as much.
Self-selected study populations only tell you about people who choose to fill in forms. Do you really believe them to be representative of the population in general?
"Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution and Cognitive Decline in Older Women" - apparently only in women, or maybe all the old men wandered away and couldn't be found. They can be identified by having their pants pulled up to their armpits and hitting on women even though they can't remember why.
Do Priuses get you laid?
Ask any Prius owner. They'll tell you yes. That's how you know they're lying sacks of sh*t. :-) Or look in their driveway - their second vehicle is an SUV or a king cab pickup.
Smog tends to accumulate around city cores, especially at ground level, because of the buildings that slow down the breezes that would tend to disperse it in open areas around highways. The burbs aren't as bad because the buildings are not as tall, and building density is not as high - plus there's these amazing things called lawns and trees.
You can't prove that. All we know for sure is that demented people live close to highways.
Or under them. Where you live is dictated mostly by economics. You might need to live hear your job, or specific schools for your kids, or whatever. This is a great example of how correlation is not causation, and even the correlation may be an artifact.
It's like the reverse correlation between male income and the size of women's breasts they find attractive - the more a guy makes, the smaller the boobies he prefers. It's also how you spot the nouveau riche beer-store lottery winner - his new girlfriend has the biggest breasts money can buy. Does his preference change over time? Who knows - they always end up broke again too quickly to get enough data. :-)
Hmmm, good luck with ASCII Porn..
There's plenty of ASCII porn even today - very profitable. Never heard of stuff like "50 Shades of Grey?" Or if you want to go the classic route, there's "The Story of O". Much smaller downloads than videos or even pictures.
Many of the images on facebook are images of text - crappy sayings shared by people for no real reason. Total waste of bandwidth because people can't be original and others are trying to get shares by posting their text messages as images. As for video - I try to avoid it because it's mostly crap, and if it's autoplay then it's a given that it's 100% crap. Doesn't matter what site.
I've used both links and lynx. They're FAST. Why aren't they taking the internet by storm? They don't come installed by default by Microsoft.
We have IPv6. Every device can have its own address, no centralized dns needed. Get rid of the crap, and let everyone host whatever they want. Without ads, css, javascript "web applications", latency and bandwidth are more easily controlled. Ditto for security - just look at all the malware we get through ad networks.
The idea of software components was that people could build their own combinations of components to process data the way they wanted. For example, don't want images in facebook or twitter? Create a facebook or twitter-specific app with no image component. Don't want javascript. Ditto. Repeat with css, or the ability to download externally-referenced files.
Want a word processor that doesn't have smart quotes? No problem. That uses Wordstar-style keyboard shortcuts?
Better yet, a mobile app that doesn't have auto-correct and doesn't automatically hook into the system spelling library. And doesn't display emojis!!! (Seriously, an avocado is supposed to represent a penis now? If your penis looks like an avacodo, don't bother seeing a doctor - it's already so far gone it will just come off by itself.)
No dns also has the advantage of no dns-hijacking. No tracking at the dns server. And you can create your own hosts file to translate between human-understandable names and ip numbers without having to worry that someone else might be using the same name for another ip - you'll get your customization, they'll get theirs.
There's no reason people shouldn't do direct device-to-device rather than going through 3rd-party servers for everything. Bandwidth is cheap. Software is free. The way we use the internet currently is too web-centric (the browser is a shit platform that will never be made secure, and nobody can say otherwise and keep a straight face unless they're a pathological liar), because 3rd parties make their money off it. Imagine if we extended the current web paradigm to things like phone calls - you have to listen to an ad before you can dial the other person, and then you have to wait while they listen to an ad before they can talk to you. People would refuse it outright.
How did we become so stupid?
BBSs were doing store-and-forward, so even people not wanting to be connected 24/7 is a solved problem, one that worked fast enough even at 1200/2400 baud (and really flew at 9600) because nobody was bothering with graphics and pictures (except roboboard bbs, which had its own set of glyphs that auto-updated the first time a new one was encountered so it could be stored locally, enabling very fast graphics interfaces, even for online games, on a crappy 2400 baud connection).
Even a modest data plan should allow everyone to self-host whatever they want, with no ads, no crap. Real applications mean that there's no need to download tons of crap to make a browser behave like an application, so bandwidth shouldn't be an issue. Game graphics, for example, can be embedded as resources in the app, available immediately once the app is installed. No bothering to hit the server to find out if the cached version of an image has been changed, or worse, using a cached version that is broken.
You don't know what you're talking about. CSS routinely destroys layouts on mobile devices - even on sites with a mobile-specific URL. It also is ridiculous in terms of wasting space on ultra-wide displays. Even plain text is better.
The original poster claimed that the voters preferred Clinton. The voters didn't prefer any of them, including Clinton and Trump. The majority didn't vote for either of them - too bad that in such cases you don't have a do-over - Bernie Sanders would be president today.
The last time I looked, Opera didn't work any more. It was so bad that they should have been ashamed of themselves. And now that the Chinese control it ...
And no, you can't disable everything in Firefox any more. Even using add-ins that block downloading css and javascript don't work properly if it's in the head of the document. And then there's disabling embedded data, such as base64-encoded images, instead of links to an image. And disabling individual html tags.
Serif fonts by themselves don't solve the problem. I've actually tested various "solutions", and serif fonts by themselves are not as good as serif small-caps monospace.
Descenders are a waste of vertical space, requiring all lines to have extra space just to accommodate the few letters that require descenders. There's a reason why there are no descenders in upper-case letters (and we really should travel back in time and take the people who invented both lowercase letters and "handwriting script" and shoot their great-grandparents - ask any pharmacist who's had to decipher a prescription. A lot of it is "guess what the doctor meant" taking into account previous prescriptions and feedback from the customer. I've got prescriptions that I KNOW what they are for and I can't read them. When I worked in a pharmacy, there were occasions where I was asked to take a guess because my handwriting is normally super-messy to begin with ... and doctors get miffed if you call them too often to tell them they can't write properly.
Also, lead is toxic - and you miss my point - there's no reason to try to squish thinner letters together any more, since there is no cost to material to either cast the type or for paper to display it when we're talking about electronic displays.
Try coding using a non-fixed width font - it absolutely sucks. There's a reason people don't do it. Same reason that court transcripts are all-monospace.
Also, your definition of kerning purposefully omits the first definition - "adjust the spacing between (letters or characters) in a piece of text to be printed." This applies no matter whether it's all-caps or mixed case.
There's a reason we went thousands of years without lowercase letters. And even today, trademark submissions are in all-caps.
Try not to be too brain-dead, even for an AC. We should all be able to self-host whatever we want on our own devices (after all, with IPv6 it's not like we can't all have our own block of IPs), and share whatever we want the way we want. No CSS, no Javascript, and no ads would mean a lot less concern about bandwidth and latency, and a lot more choice in developing applications that can render those data as the user wishes, instead of using the f*cked-up web browser, which is an unfixable security hole from hell.
And how does that have to do anything with my pointing out that the poster was lying when they said that Clinton won a majority of the popular vote?