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  1. Re:The current situation is awful. on HTML V5 and XHTML V2 · · Score: 1

    The fundamental problem with CSS is that it's all about defining named things and then using them. That's a programmer's concept.


    Now that's funny, because even MS Word has the same concept. You could select one heading after the other and change the font to Comic sans, like some do. But you get annoyed as you add an other heading, because it has again the default style. That's when you learn what these style classes are for.
  2. Re:Support for multiple devices... on HTML V5 and XHTML V2 · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you include such an information in the original document? I.e. a div for pages - the desktop browser wouldn't care and you'd have a node that you can select for the transformation to smaller devices.

    If you need different page breaks, just make your divs the smallest possible break and use a couple of these for bigger pages or use different classes to mark the breaks for each platform.

    Depending on what you do or want to do on the server side, this could still be a solution and you'd have one document to rule them all.

  3. Re:Bet there still isn't a decent "Stop!" button on HTML V5 and XHTML V2 · · Score: 1

    The worst part is PHP still don't have prepare/execute statements for binding values.

    Really? http://php.net/PDO-prepare
  4. Re:Bet there still isn't a decent "Stop!" button on HTML V5 and XHTML V2 · · Score: 1

    PHP and mysql are two different things. Other DB extensions had parameterized queries for years.

  5. Re:That's easy ... on What is Bill Gates Learning From Open Source? · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Damn, "Time Machine" sounds cool... on OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The big difference is fsevent, which is also used by spotlight. Syncing 100.000 or more files with rsync can take some time, because you always have to traverse the whole tree on source and destination. Time Machine already knows what's changed.

  7. Re:True, however ... on Amazon DRM-Free Music Store Goes Beta · · Score: 1

    stop buying music from bands and labels that require DRM Yeah it's not important if you like a band, only if they have DRM. It might be that you don't like the bands you have to buy then, but at least you can feel good. If life would be that easy.

    It's a pity, but some bands have been stupid and release records on the wrong label - still their music might be great. And as music is an entertainment thing that "vote with your wallet" argument doesn't always work.
  8. Re:Does media type specify length? on Vodafone Move Invites Web Development Chaos · · Score: 1

    Like your charset you could also define the output media like it's done in CSS:
        Accept: text/html, text/html;media=pda
    Nothing fancy. And as it's still the same type, you're only more specific.

  9. Re:Not having to download the entire HTML on Vodafone Move Invites Web Development Chaos · · Score: 1

    The solution would be the Accept header. Just add a parameter like a media type. Of course clients and servers need to understand such a parameter, but it wouldn't be hard to add.

  10. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    Ok so you think it was right what they did in London to Jean Charles de Menezes because he looked strange and ran to the platform to catch the train?

  11. Re:Fortunately for America... on Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen an Austrian military aircraft? They are not really threatening.

  12. Re:"the SCO, the" on SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    but then you'd have to conjugate the noun as well and it'd become something like "die Barten, die". Or "die Bärte, die"? Bart (in this case) is not a German word, so it's "die Barts". Otherwise it would be "die Barte".
  13. Heared something different last week on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    They normally only record mail messages send between the terrorists. That's also what has to be done in the whole EU. Now the funny part - these terrorists just shared a GMX account and saved the messages as drafts instead of sending them. You can't eavesdrop a communication that never happens.

  14. Re:It's a good question ... on Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but when you say, "wenn y plus 5 gleich 10 dann ..." you are no longer using proper German word order. The problem isn't that you're using English words, but that the order of the symbols is different from the order of ordinary speech. Math doesn't always follow proper German to make it easier to distinguish the terms. If you'd say "Die Aussage ist wahr, wenn y plus 5 10 entspricht" it's very hard to write down the left and right part of the equation. You can read it out loudly and you might unterstand "... y plus 15 entspricht". That's why you mostly say the operators in order "Die Aussage ist wahr, wenn y plus 5 gleich 10".
  15. Re:It's a good question ... on Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker? · · Score: 1

    "wenn int1 3 gleicht" You're trying to make a novel out of a mathematical expression. Let me give you an example what we say in math in German:

    1 + 2 = 3

    That's "1 plus 2 ist gleich 3" - or shorter "1 plus 2 gleich 3". You see, it's the same as in English only equals is gleich in German. Now take this:

    y + 5 = 10

    That's "y plus 5 gleich 10". And now the same as you would use it in a programming language:

    if (y + 5 == 10) then ...

    That's "wenn y plus 5 gleich 10 dann ..." or in English "if y plus 5 equals 10 then ..". It's very easy for someone with German as his native language to think with "English words" and should be vice versa.
  16. Re:Your only alternative? on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 1

    close to the time they watch it, not a season later when it comes out on DVD. Welcome to the rest of the world. We get all that stuff one year later as in the US, can't buy DVDs because of that stupid region code, ... and if it's released it's after the season finished on TV, which is the same time the new season already started in the US. The companies could have a global market, but they choose to split it and annoy people, who could be their customers.
  17. Scale Up ... & Down on Learning High-Availability Server-Side Development? · · Score: 1

    You say you want a scaling application. But in the next sentence you only speak about scaling up. Scaling goes both ways and you want your application to go both ways. That's important. Otherwise you might be stuck with that ten servers you just needed for a usage peak.

  18. Re:Require login, forbid any subdirectory access. on Full-Disclosure Wins Again · · Score: 1

    7) Put ALL the session variables in the SESSION array, don't use cookies for ANYTHING ELSE. There're a bunch of things you can do with cookies and still be on the safe side. As long as it's only for read access and something that's only visible to the user you could safe the time to lookup stuff in the DB, i.e. a Nickname or the current quota limit.

    Also you can use mcrypt with Blowfish or AES for small chunks of data and store it in a cookie.

    As long as you aren't storing to much data in cookies you can use the client as session based data storage - it even scales with directly with your clients - your DB doesn't.
  19. Re:Is this how the brain fills in the blind spot? on Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a David Copperfield trick ;)

  20. Re:Dangerous on How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser · · Score: 1

    Don't try this at home. Shouldn't that be "try this at home". If you go outside you could blind other people, which is even more irresponsible.
  21. Re:Going from skiing to snowboarding on Ubuntu Linux vs. Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    It's not like you can't ski anymore after learning how to snowboard. So you might mess up three days with your snowboard and go back to skiing on you next holiday. But if you manage to learn it you have on more thing you can do next time, so your holiday gets even more fun.

    Of course it's the same with an OS. Except there are more choices. But if you know two of them you won't have much problems with the others.

  22. Re:Just move BlackHat off the US! on US Blocks Entry For German Black Hat Presenter · · Score: 1

    It's clear that this kind of conference is now impossible to gather in the US, so relocate it in a free country. Why not Mexico, South Am, East Asia, Russia ? I would be fine with Canada. In the past there've been some interesting conferences in the US, but because of the idiotic policies (storing data about me for 15 years, fingerprints, ..) I didn't go there. Same for holiday. Instead of San Francisco or Miami I went to Toronto and Vancouver.
  23. Re:Menus at the top! on Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment · · Score: 1

    [T]argets at the edge of a display are infinitely large (given that you can overshoot them endlessly without missing them)

    They are NOT "infinitely large". If they were infinitely large, then you wouldn't have to move the mouse *at all* to click on them. Calling them "infinitely large" just confuses people who know what the words "infinite" and "large" mean. So you are arguing they are infinite - the screen height or width? IIRC infinite - x = infinite.

    If someone sees a fault in my math [...]
  24. Re:This is just hilarious on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    But "the thing you already use" factor is stronger.

    Only short-term. In the long-term a better interface is more important, than staying with what you have and know.

  25. Re:Cry for relevency on W3C Considering An HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    You're right. You'll hardly ever have to use images, because for every image that's not a photography there's an element. Oh no there isn't. Maybe it was just an example. But the same applies to all the arrows used i.e. in pagination widgets (first, previous, next, last).