I wrote a small AJAX app (~1300 lines of javaScript) that interfaced w/ GoogleMaps last year. Here is what I can remember that pissed me off about IE7.
1. element needed as parent to append a . WTF is a for? 2. Real shitty transparent PNG bug (map markers) that required a render function to be called twice (I wrote a sinfully ugly hack for this) 3. Awful CSS support compared to Mozilla. I remember a CSS positioning bug that was driving me nuts. For some damn reason, a relatively positioned div had to specify it's height was 100%, although it worked fine in Mozilla and even IE6.
I spent over 50% of the my time writing patches for IE. And by "writing patches" I mean scouring Google to find others with the same problems. Lucky for me, I eventually found solutions to every problem. I occasionally randomly changed CSS until I found something workable, and then adapted the design to fit the hack. I am glad I only do backend PHP stuff now.
The US is big, has man unprotected borders, and there are already hundreds of thousands if not millions of unregistered handguns in the country. More stringent guns laws will only hurt those trying to legally obtain a gun for protection. US metro areas are scary, I live in a nicer part of Minneapolis and there have been shootings with 20 ft of my Apartment entrance.
yes, ketosis doesn't consume muscle per-se, but gluconeogenesis does, which happens when you run out of glycogen stores. Aitkins is a high-protein and fat diet. You consume a VERY small amount of carbs, typically ~20 grams, relying on protein for ATP and fat for other energy.
Well... yes excessive kCals do make you fat, a low-carb diet will make you lose weight, although not in a particularly healthy manner.
Your brain needs glucose to function, which comes from protein (your muscles included), or carbohydrates. Ketones come from fats can be used to power your muscles. Your body taps stored glucose (aka glycogen) first when it needs energy. If you deplete this with an Aitkins style diet, your body goes into a constant fat (and muscle) metabolizing state known as ketosis. This is what leads to rapid weight loss.
What isn't well-understood about carbohydrates (including starches), is how the glycemic index of foods relate to weight gain. The glycemic index refers to the rate at which a particular carbohydrate/food raises your blood-sugar (aka glucose). In other words, if you are eating the same number of kCals of two different sugars, one may make you fatter.
Another particularly interesting instance of a food that makes you fatter is beer. Beer contains an enzyme(?? or other chem) that promotes fat-storage in the belly region, so again, drinking a 300kCal beer will make you fatter than a 300kCal serving of fruit, even with the same number of kCals from carbohydrates.
To clarify my earlier post. Email has replaced voice-mail for inter-office communication, which isn't critical, but important. If there was something where accuracy is critical (i.e. a report, news release, etc), it is composed at a desk, and proof read. I am not really that concerned about these things when composing 2-3 sentences that answer a question. I just dont wsnt to spekl that many things wronh in emails to co-workers and look like an idiot.
my only gripe about the iPhone is a lack of hardware keyboard. Seriously, once you have a normal thumb keyboard, you won't want to go back to tapping the screen. Especially for business emails, keystroke accuracy is essential. Misspellings make you look like a moron.
Men who each have some some real, personal motivation for conquest.
Starcraft 2 is coming out soon. I think that should keep the female-less dudes busy.
Seriously, why China? Its a stable economy, with a stable government, that has vested financial interests in our country (think Made In China). And they like Americans, at least according to my 2 friends who have lived and studied there.
Iran and Islamic Jihad is the biggest threat to US interests... Hmmmm... why did we invade Iraq? Maybe because the Saudis kicked our military out after 9/11, and we needed a new middle-east base of operations.
The article title implies that obesity is somehow healthy. The only real signifiance of the data is that obese and underweight people are more unhealthy than overweight and normal weight people. BTW, what the fuck, it doesn't show any of the data for normal weight people.
Lets not forget about the numerous studies linking diets high in fat (well, certain kinds of fat), grilled meat, and processed meat to numerous cancers of the digestive system.
The simple fact that cannot be disproven is that, the moderate intake of a variety of foods, with a heavy ephasis on complex-carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables, and with adequate fat intake (think olive-oil and fish) will improve the quality of your life, and very possibly lengthen (baring genetics) your life.
There are some people, like my grandmother, that can smoke, drink, and eat whatever the hell they want, and live to be 85. Most people fall into the category of my grandfather, where this sort of diet(high-fat), and smoking will give you a heart attack between 50-60. I look at my dad, who unintentionally eats healthy, avoids alcohol, and excersizes regularly. He is 55 and could pass for being in his mid 40s.
I learned to program with VB, and still think its an acceptable language, and I agree with you 100%. Newlines mark the end of statements unless you add a '_', you Dim As, or just Dim (strongly typed or not, wtf?), and thats all I really can remember.
As someone who has written a 1000+ line AJAX app in the last 6 months, I can tell you that cross-browser incompatibilies already make programming javascript a bitch. I can't remember too many specifics, but I know that mozilla javascript implements arrays slightly different than IE, and it was a pain in the arse to CONSTANTLY patch around DOM issues. The breakdown of my time was probably spent 20% design, 20% code, 60% patching for IE.
Noell(siq) Devine. I saw him ripping it up in high school on YouTube, now he's playing for #3 WVU. I'm sure most slashdotters don't give a fuck about football, but his YouTube highlight tapes made him hyped-up, aggressively recruited, and somewhat famous.
BTW, crows, parrots, and woodpeckers all have enlarged cerebellar portions of the brain, which corresponds to high levels of visual acuity, being able to analyze visual input, and then solve abstract problems. Read more here: http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/birdbrain.html
Crows have been observed using tools before. A particularly interesting instance of this is when they drop nuts into crosswalks at intersections, wait until cars smash them, observe the pedestrians crossing the street (its safe to cross), and retrieve the nut's meat.
Birds are damn smart, like that talking parrot who just died.
I am assuming the poster is refering to a technical trade. My mom is back in school for a M.A. of Management, and I doubt there are (m)any non-americans.
I am going to use this opportunity to rant a bit. I am currently a Junior studying compsci at a very large university (2nd-4th largest depending on the year), I'd say that around 40% of my classmates are from Asian countries, including Russia and India.
It really pisses me off to see the "becauseamericansaredumb" tag on this article... I'm american and I'm not dumb. I work hard too. This article is fucking flamebait. America has some of the best public Universities in the world. Not THE best, SOME of the best. Education has often been a metropolitian type institution, attracting scholars from all over the world. So why is it shocking for a country that represents like what, 3% of the world's population, to have a lot of people from countries with a billion people?
Smart phones or PDAs are intended for business, and mostly purchased by a company for employee use. Most people have a personal phone as well.
Here is what I want in a personal phone. 1.) very small and slim 2.) good battery life 3.) MP3 player would be nice, but not at all necessary, same with a camera
Here is what I want/need in a PDA 1.) email 2.) keyboard (hardware is nice, but soft is acceptable) 3.) web browser + wifi 4.) phone 5.) 3rd party applications
The iPhone does all the above things, minus 5. It's email support is so-so. Phones and smartphones are truly different devices. I don't want to read email on my personal phone. I like to forget about work after 5pm. Therefore, I don't need wifi or a large screen, or a large device.
I also like to forget that I am carrying a phone in my pocket, I carry a big cumbersome smart phone at work all day, and since all I really want to do is make phone calls (like most people), I want something small for personal use.
Jobs is a smart guy, but the sizes of PDA devices are prohibitive. You just need a big screen, but that translates to more surface area. Maybe in the future... but really think about the size of the device you are describing. The most prohibitive thing in ultra-mobile tech is the screen size of a device. The iPhone's size is the sweet-spot, but once the initial marketing craze is over, people will start to realize that they want a smaller phone.
Don't believe me? Carry around a smartphone all day...
for the iPhone. Perhaps they're holding off for a iNewton? I'd friggin buy an OS X PDA in a second, just for safari, and the flexibility of a UNIX subsystem would just be extra goodies.
These people would buy the spiel of the RIAA that MP3 piracy is closely linked to funding terrorism, paedophilia and the clubbing of baby seals and end up giving some poor bastard the death sentence for downloading a Celine Dion CD.
Duluth is a VERY liberal town, with a somewhat conservative outlook. In otherwords, you better DAMN well have a good case, to come into our backyard and sue some good-old-boys (ya sooper don't ya know). And frankly, as many slashdotters would agree, the RIAA often seeks excessive damages. BTW, civil cases are about proving real damages.
Just cause its wayyy uppp north (ya know), don't go making asinine assumptions about what people will and won't buy. There are 3 universities in an 120,000 person area, and I'd generally consider people in the area to be fairly reasonable.
Maybe think about it in terms of why The Sims is so popular. I actually remember reading about this guy a few weeks ago in News of The Weird that is a super-stud in Second Life, it was rather comical because he had a virtual marriage, and it sounded like he committed a lot of time to it.
Yes, some people's lives suck that badly. Others just don't like reality, and still some do it just for fun. Its like drugs maybe? It is the reason people get addicted to WoW.
It isn't about not meeting people people face-to-face, its the reason why I think people are drawn into WoW, Second Life, and some drugs (pot in particular), it is a social experience. You share a common interest with someone, and it acts a medium for social interaction.
"As long as you have a standards-compliant (or mostly-compliant) browser, you can use web apps."
Web platforms exist, they are called browsers (not trying to sound snoody). IE is not standards compliant at all. It is a royal bitch to develop for IE6 and IE7, the handling of CSS, Javascript, and DOM is extremely quirky in some cases and timeconsuming to work around.
Web apps are years away from being a replacement for many desktop applications. There isn't the network infrastructure in the US to make web apps viable, and users want to run many programs without an internet connection.
There is no easy solution to what you are describing when you say
"we're reaching the point where the OS won't even matter - all you need is the right runtime".
Java a runtime of such nature, but as you said earlier, its slow for full blown applications. Web applications are only suitable under particular circumstances. Native code will continue to be used, because it is often the best tool for the job.
BTW my brick-of-a-phone (aka. HTC vx), runs anything, has wifi, and a keyboard. But, again, it is a friggin brick with the shitty IE mobile browser. In my opinion, safari is the iPhone's killer app.
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**** 1. 1. "tbody" element needed as parent to append a "tr". WTF is a tbody for?
I wrote a small AJAX app (~1300 lines of javaScript) that interfaced w/ GoogleMaps last year.
Here is what I can remember that pissed me off about IE7.
1. element needed as parent to append a . WTF is a for?
2. Real shitty transparent PNG bug (map markers) that required a render function to be called twice (I wrote a sinfully ugly hack for this)
3. Awful CSS support compared to Mozilla. I remember a CSS positioning bug that was driving me nuts. For some damn reason, a relatively
positioned div had to specify it's height was 100%, although it worked fine in Mozilla and even IE6.
I spent over 50% of the my time writing patches for IE. And by "writing patches" I mean scouring Google to find others with the same
problems. Lucky for me, I eventually found solutions to every problem. I occasionally randomly changed CSS until I found something workable,
and then adapted the design to fit the hack. I am glad I only do backend PHP stuff now.
The US is big, has man unprotected borders, and there are already hundreds of thousands if not millions of unregistered handguns in the country. More stringent guns laws will only hurt those trying to legally obtain a gun for protection. US metro areas are scary, I live in a nicer part of Minneapolis and there have been shootings with 20 ft of my Apartment entrance.
*protein for glucose
yes, ketosis doesn't consume muscle per-se, but gluconeogenesis does, which happens when you run out of glycogen stores. Aitkins is a high-protein and fat diet. You consume a VERY small amount of carbs, typically ~20 grams, relying on protein for ATP and fat for other energy.
Well... yes excessive kCals do make you fat, a low-carb diet will make you lose weight, although not in a particularly healthy manner.
Your brain needs glucose to function, which comes from protein (your muscles included), or carbohydrates. Ketones come from fats can be used to power your muscles. Your body taps stored glucose (aka glycogen) first when it needs energy. If you deplete this with an Aitkins style diet, your body goes into a constant fat (and muscle) metabolizing state known as ketosis. This is what leads to rapid weight loss.
What isn't well-understood about carbohydrates (including starches), is how the glycemic index of foods relate to weight gain. The glycemic index refers to the rate at which a particular carbohydrate/food raises your blood-sugar (aka glucose). In other words, if you are eating the same number of kCals of two different sugars, one may make you fatter.
Another particularly interesting instance of a food that makes you fatter is beer. Beer contains an enzyme(?? or other chem) that promotes fat-storage in the belly region, so again, drinking a 300kCal beer will make you fatter than a 300kCal serving of fruit, even with the same number of kCals from carbohydrates.
To clarify my earlier post. Email has replaced voice-mail for inter-office communication, which isn't critical, but important. If there was something where accuracy is critical (i.e. a report, news release, etc), it is composed at a desk, and proof read. I am not really that concerned about these things when composing 2-3 sentences that answer a question. I just dont wsnt to spekl that many things wronh in emails to co-workers and look like an idiot.
my only gripe about the iPhone is a lack of hardware keyboard. Seriously, once you have a normal thumb keyboard, you won't want to go back to tapping the screen. Especially for business emails, keystroke accuracy is essential. Misspellings make you look like a moron.
Men who each have some some real, personal motivation for conquest.
Starcraft 2 is coming out soon. I think that should keep the female-less dudes busy.
Seriously, why China? Its a stable economy, with a stable government, that has vested financial interests in our country (think Made In China). And they like Americans, at least according to my 2 friends who have lived and studied there.
Iran and Islamic Jihad is the biggest threat to US interests... Hmmmm... why did we invade Iraq? Maybe because the Saudis kicked our military out after 9/11, and we needed a new middle-east base of operations.
The article title implies that obesity is somehow healthy. The only real signifiance of the data is that obese and underweight people are more unhealthy than overweight and normal weight people. BTW, what the fuck, it doesn't show any of the data for normal weight people.
Lets not forget about the numerous studies linking diets high in fat (well, certain kinds of fat), grilled meat, and processed meat to numerous cancers of the digestive system.
The simple fact that cannot be disproven is that, the moderate intake of a variety of foods, with a heavy ephasis on complex-carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables, and with adequate fat intake (think olive-oil and fish) will improve the quality of your life, and very possibly lengthen (baring genetics) your life.
There are some people, like my grandmother, that can smoke, drink, and eat whatever the hell they want, and live to be 85. Most people fall into the category of my grandfather, where this sort of diet(high-fat), and smoking will give you a heart attack between 50-60. I look at my dad, who unintentionally eats healthy, avoids alcohol, and excersizes regularly. He is 55 and could pass for being in his mid 40s.
I learned to program with VB, and still think its an acceptable language, and I agree with you 100%. Newlines mark the end of statements unless you add a '_', you Dim As, or just Dim (strongly typed or not, wtf?), and thats all I really can remember.
As someone who has written a 1000+ line AJAX app in the last 6 months, I can tell you that cross-browser incompatibilies already make programming javascript a bitch. I can't remember too many specifics, but I know that mozilla javascript implements arrays slightly different than IE, and it was a pain in the arse to CONSTANTLY patch around DOM issues. The breakdown of my time was probably spent 20% design, 20% code, 60% patching for IE.
Noell(siq) Devine. I saw him ripping it up in high school on YouTube, now he's playing for #3 WVU. I'm sure most slashdotters don't give a fuck about football, but his YouTube highlight tapes made him hyped-up, aggressively recruited, and somewhat famous.
BTW, crows, parrots, and woodpeckers all have enlarged cerebellar portions of the brain, which corresponds to high levels of visual acuity, being able to analyze visual input, and then solve abstract problems. Read more here: http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/birdbrain.html
1. Google "crows tools"
2. ??????????
3. Karma!
Crows have been observed using tools before. A particularly interesting instance of this is when they drop nuts into crosswalks at intersections, wait until cars smash them, observe the pedestrians crossing the street (its safe to cross), and retrieve the nut's meat.
Birds are damn smart, like that talking parrot who just died.
I am assuming the poster is refering to a technical trade. My mom is back in school for a M.A. of Management, and I doubt there are (m)any non-americans.
I am going to use this opportunity to rant a bit. I am currently a Junior studying compsci at a very large university (2nd-4th largest depending on the year), I'd say that around 40% of my classmates are from Asian countries, including Russia and India.
It really pisses me off to see the "becauseamericansaredumb" tag on this article... I'm american and I'm not dumb. I work hard too. This article is fucking flamebait. America has some of the best public Universities in the world. Not THE best, SOME of the best. Education has often been a metropolitian type institution, attracting scholars from all over the world. So why is it shocking for a country that represents like what, 3% of the world's population, to have a lot of people from countries with a billion people?
I have to disagree with both you and Mr Jobs.
Smart phones or PDAs are intended for business, and mostly purchased by a company for employee use.
Most people have a personal phone as well.
Here is what I want in a personal phone.
1.) very small and slim
2.) good battery life
3.) MP3 player would be nice, but not at all necessary, same with a camera
Here is what I want/need in a PDA
1.) email
2.) keyboard (hardware is nice, but soft is acceptable)
3.) web browser + wifi
4.) phone
5.) 3rd party applications
The iPhone does all the above things, minus 5. It's email support is so-so.
Phones and smartphones are truly different devices. I don't want to read email on my personal phone.
I like to forget about work after 5pm. Therefore, I don't need wifi or a large screen,
or a large device.
I also like to forget that I am carrying a phone in my pocket, I carry a big
cumbersome smart phone at work all day, and since all I really want to do
is make phone calls (like most people), I want something small for personal use.
Jobs is a smart guy, but the sizes of PDA devices are prohibitive. You just need a big screen,
but that translates to more surface area. Maybe in the future... but really think about the
size of the device you are describing. The most prohibitive thing in ultra-mobile tech
is the screen size of a device. The iPhone's size is the sweet-spot, but once the
initial marketing craze is over, people will start to realize that they want
a smaller phone.
Don't believe me? Carry around a smartphone all day...
for the iPhone. Perhaps they're holding off for a iNewton? I'd friggin buy an OS X PDA in a second, just for safari, and the flexibility of a UNIX subsystem would just be extra goodies.
As a Duluthian, I can't agree with the following.
These people would buy the spiel of the RIAA that MP3 piracy is closely linked to funding terrorism, paedophilia and the clubbing of baby seals and end up giving some poor bastard the death sentence for downloading a Celine Dion CD.
Duluth is a VERY liberal town, with a somewhat conservative outlook. In otherwords, you better DAMN well have a good case, to come into our backyard and sue some good-old-boys (ya sooper don't ya know). And frankly, as many slashdotters would agree, the RIAA often seeks excessive damages. BTW, civil cases are about proving real damages.
Just cause its wayyy uppp north (ya know), don't go making asinine assumptions about what people will and won't buy. There are 3 universities in an 120,000 person area, and I'd generally consider people in the area to be fairly reasonable.
BTW its speil not spiel
Maybe think about it in terms of why The Sims is so popular. I actually remember reading about this guy a few weeks ago in News of The Weird that is a super-stud in Second Life, it was rather comical because he had a virtual marriage, and it sounded like he committed a lot of time to it.
Yes, some people's lives suck that badly. Others just don't like reality, and still some do it just for fun. Its like drugs maybe? It is the reason people get addicted to WoW.
It isn't about not meeting people people face-to-face, its the reason why I think people are drawn into WoW, Second Life, and some drugs (pot in particular), it is a social experience. You share a common interest with someone, and it acts a medium for social interaction.
"As long as you have a standards-compliant (or mostly-compliant) browser, you can use web apps."
Web platforms exist, they are called browsers (not trying to sound snoody). IE is not standards compliant at all. It is a royal bitch to develop for IE6 and IE7, the handling of CSS, Javascript, and DOM is extremely quirky in some cases and timeconsuming to work around.
Web apps are years away from being a replacement for many desktop applications. There isn't the network infrastructure in the US to make web apps viable, and users want to run many programs without an internet connection.
There is no easy solution to what you are describing when you say
"we're reaching the point where the OS won't even matter - all you need is the right runtime".
Java a runtime of such nature, but as you said earlier, its slow for full blown applications. Web applications are only suitable under particular circumstances. Native code will continue to be used, because it is often the best tool for the job.
UNIX apps? Already got 'em.
How? Explain... can you run MIT scheme =)
BTW my brick-of-a-phone (aka. HTC vx), runs anything, has wifi, and a keyboard. But, again, it is a friggin brick with the shitty IE mobile browser. In my opinion, safari is the iPhone's killer app.
Hardware keyboard + Unix Apps.
Nuff said...
BTW, contrary to parent post, a Velociraptor did have a large 3-4 inch scyth-like claw.