God doesn't exist, so whatever you thought he said doesn't come into play here.
Sleeping with 15 year olds is perfectly legal in Sweden, for instance. Whether it is morally right to do so for a 30 year old is an entirely different dilemma (my stance is that it is morally correct if the younger takes the initative).
In thirld world nations, it is pretty common for girls to be married away at the age of 12 or so... they don't have a say in the matter.
So what is called pedophilia in the West, is common behavior elsewhere, to a certain degree (12 year olds are nearly sexually mature, but certainly not 10 year olds and younger).
Real pedophilia is somewhat more serious than having a desire for teenagers. The latter is biologically normal, but morally wrong in many parts of the world.
Teenagers are supposed to experiment with sex to get prepared for adult life. Some teenagers are more advanced than others, and also more mature. Some of them will be perfectly happy dating older people, and society should't really interfere in this without a valid reason (the bible isn't a valid reason).
And teenage girls can certainly be predators in their own right.
The American fear of letting the children see the Dick or the Nipple or what ever is indeed a reliogious belief in itself. It is Christian "ethics", a belief system not shared by atheists.
It is fucking far from "common sense" to censor bodily parts, sexual stuff and "foul" words while at the same time letting kids watch terror attacks live on network TV.
Kids can watch and see anything, but they need a guide to understand things in the world, good and bad. I believe this is the role of the parent and the teacher.
Yeah, BBEdit rocks as an ASCII editor, but sucks completely as a Unicode editor.
Does it have a font preference for Unicode? No. We get some weirdo font that doesn't really cut it mixing different alphabets and symbols.
Does it validate XHTML correctly? No. Neither does it understand Unicode class names in CSS or HTML attributes. It expresses the very Usonian idea of changing actual characters to entities.
BBEdit remains a Carbon editor, which explains why it doesn't take advantage of the key technologies in Mac OS X. $179 for an app that doesn't understand fundamental XHTML and doesn't have very basic Unicode features? Don't think so. Will check back when it has gone Cocoa and has something to offer. For now, TextEdit is superior for editing Unicode web pages.
You don't, since temperature is a statistical measure, corresponding to the mean energy of moving particles in a fairly large collection of particles. What is meant by the temperature of an individual particle is thus simply the temperature that would be if the particle's energy was translated into heat in a particle collection.
Disney is renowned for its original work, so I have a hard time believing they would be involved in this kind of rip-off. I think it is this Stanely Mouse that is the real scum. In fact, he probably took his name from that Disney character from 1928. He obviously has an obsession with Disney.
If in fact he is the originator of Sully, he should be compensated fairly. How about a lifetime subscription to Donald Duck? Disney cares about its customers and investors relations, you know. They are _not_ only in it for the money. If they were, they wouldn't get the extensive support from politicians they enjoy now, would they?
C'mon, are you all that dumb to believe in this continuing conspiracy theory?
Them designers would probably be shocked to find out that it is much easier writing cool design using proper standards. Not to mention how much easier it is to remake the design or just change it a bit...
The maintenance factor should be of major importance to businesses... as it is, they have sloppy code that takes years to debug (font tags, inline propriteary javascript, both CSS and styled HTML, sniffer code and so on), and they have to maintain several versions for various browsers. Maintaining one standards compliant version with style separated from content is so much economically sane.
Mozilla supports XHTML and some CSS3 (see below) and DOM2 (see above).
Unfortunately, Mozilla does not support DOM 2 HTML in XHTML... and probably never will, because the bug assignee doesn't seem to care about this rather crucial bug.
Btw, DOM 0 is not a standard, but a collection of common garbage from the old days. It is supported in Mozilla only for backward compatibility, and people shouldn't use it in design. Mozilla explicitly does not support IE and NN4 only stuff such as document.all and document.layers.
Yeah, some really popular sites (like Slashdot) need to use standards compliant code and not cover for browser bugs. Wired recently went XHTML and CSS2. This is the way to go. If a browser can't render it, file a bug. If it doesn't work in IE, too bad!
My own homepage doesn't render in anything but Mozilla, currently, but small, personal sites aren't gonna break or make anything (unless they come in the millions, which is unlikely).
The people at Mozilla have provided us with a tool of 99% perfect rendering. Now it is up to the web site maintainers to actually enforce the use of Mozilla (or any other browser that fully adheres to standards; there is no other currently).
But Slashdot won't take this upon its shoulders, because it doesn't believe in standards, just like M$.
"I have always expected and known this to be the case. It's the same with operating systems. Kde and Windows XP have a professional, clean, consistent look. Even if they both crashed frequently (not saying they do or not), users would still likely favor the one that looks newer, cleaner and more professional."
This is flawed, because then Mac OS X would accelerate tremendously in market share. Unless "professional" means jagged unantialiased crap fonts, gradients in the UI and everything else in dark gray, animated 8-bit gems and what have you (and in the case of KDE, nothing is consistent).
Mac OS X is the überbabe of operating systems. It's got the sexy looks, but people yet seem to prefer dull looks, frequent crashes, a plethora of viruses, constant security breeches and so on. Must be because of the one-button mouse, or because "2.4 GHz must be better than 1 GHz".
Nah, that may be true in general, but if the content is hot enuff, people will make a move, at least temporarily.
Hm, a bunch of semi-free high quality pornsites using 100% valid XHTML 1.1 encoded in UTF-16 (also in Javascript) and with extremely CSS2 dependent layout would double Mozilla's market share in a week.
These guys obviously come from the WIN-DOS world, where apps quit when you close the last window. *** NEWSFLASH *** That's completely fucked up, and unfortunately those fuckers from Redmond implement that shit in their OS X ports of WIN-DOS media player (WIMP) (however not in the Awfice suite).
The program shall quit when I say it should quit. The app should make no assumptions on my behalf, depending on how many windows are open. Jesus fucking Christ in a river crutch...
Chimera, Galeon, Phoenix... they are all Mozilla Lite. Dunno how smart this diversification is until the incredible beast has been killed.
Anyways, no need to change name. Apple Computer is not related to the Abbey Road Apple. Buying Nokia to your car? Then you are buying tires, not cell phones.
Although almost 200,000 bugs have been reported, there are not - and have not been - that many bugs in Mozilla.
Although only almost 200,000 bugs have been reported, there are - and will be - massively many more bugs that will never be discovered, less so reported.
Among these bugs are certain combinations of for instance 278 nested divs with a loose font tag amidst all.
Apple doesn't (yet) even support the standardized MPEG-4 in iTunes (nor on its.moc servers... no MIME type), so why should they support some odd and weird codec of no importance whatsoever?
MPEG-4 is the way to go. It's standard. It is here to stay for many years. It has a future. And it will have optimized encoders eventually. Just like for the other MPEG formats.
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Actually, Newton and Einstein did the same things. Newton combined the works of Kepler and Galileo into a theoretical framework that predicted helluva lot more than balls rolling on a slope (Galileo) or descriptive formulas for planet motion (Kepler). Newton generalized this into mechanics and especially a theory of gravity, that could predict the motion of the entire solar system (or more), minus "anomalies" such as retrograde motion of Mars.
Einstein in turn took Lorenz' equations and Maxwells theory of electromagnetism as a starting point. Remeber that c is defined as constant in electromagnetism, so what Einstein really did was just to combine this fact with the relativity equations. This is of course ingenious, and even more so to use Non-Euclidean geometry to extend SR to GR by curved spacetime.
Newton did away with absolute space and Einstein did away with absolute time, so their contributions are very similar in structure.
Newton _invented_ caclulus as a byproduct, though, while Einstein had to borrow extensively from recent mathematics (Minkowski space, tensors and all), all of which he had to have help with to fully understand in the context of relativity.
This fact justifies Newton being the greater of the two, because mechanics and calculus are fundamental in all of physics, whereas GR is a very specialized field. We went to the moon with the help of Newton, not Einstein.
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Well, in the mind of the commoner, Einstein is the scientist par excellence.
You can't buy t-shirts or posters with Newton. You can with Einstein. Ask people if they know a physical formula, and they'll say E=mc^2, not F=GMm/r^2 or F=ma. Say 'genius', and people think of Einstein, not Newton (although Newton probably was more ingenious than Einstein). Hell, think about it; they'd have to change the scientist icon in games like Civilization to something else...
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Then we'd have to remove der liebe Herr Einstein from the pedestal of science, and put someone else there, someone who "saw clearly where everyone else saw nothing".
Praise and honor to that new generation of phycisists, and shame on those old school amateurs!
There would be new popular books on how "close" we are to have a GUT explaining "everything". Super egos like Stephen Hawking would say: "I told you so" (even though he didn't).
A bunch of Nobel prizes currently in an undetermined Schrödinger state will await those who are lucky enough to be where the action is.
Unfortunately, the Chinese and Japanese scientists that will provide the framework of the New Theory will not end up on the cover of Time (that will instead be Steve Ballmer or some other American/Western savior of the world).
Yeah, watch out for them suckers, cuz bacteria and smaller organisms don't die in vacuum. They can hibernate for billions of years and then start multiplying a millisecond after the right condition applies. This is how life is thought to have come to earth... the idea of the primordial soup is no longer viable (at least not here).
The aliens science fiction theme thus has a valid physiological background.
{+hide-user-agent{Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC) Gecko/20021016 Mozilla 1.2/Mac OS X Jaguar [sucker web design spoof].}}.foreningssparbanken.se
With fonts looking like this, it is quite understandable that Lunix will never ever take off beyond the geek and server layers...
I wonder how they look without all this hanky-panky required to get very basic antialiasing. And if Chinese, Japanese and other fonts are then bitmapped.
What about kerning? The examples at the Register look like shit. There's nothing like Mac OS X's ATSUI in Linux?
Are you happy looking at your bitmap blocks? I would rather die before using such a poor system. Sure, it is of course speedy without such "enhancements", and that is why Lunix boxen are used as servers. No human being needs to look at it!
Are they doing well? Last time I checked, telecoms were free-falling...
So it really is a fucked up business model. Not only for the individual corporations, but also for the rest of us. Boom one year, depression the next. Give us Enron. Give us incredible growth and then free fall. How about a free car and only $2 a mile, plus gas and tax?
Fuck yearly contracts. I buy my mobile phone cheap and used and use a cash card, mostly only for incoming calls. I am free, you are a slave.
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Those are UTF-8 sequences representing curly quotes. Change your encoding accordingly. Otherwise it was a really, really good paper. Öh, bummer.
God doesn't exist, so whatever you thought he said doesn't come into play here.
Sleeping with 15 year olds is perfectly legal in Sweden, for instance. Whether it is morally right to do so for a 30 year old is an entirely different dilemma (my stance is that it is morally correct if the younger takes the initative).
In thirld world nations, it is pretty common for girls to be married away at the age of 12 or so... they don't have a say in the matter.
So what is called pedophilia in the West, is common behavior elsewhere, to a certain degree (12 year olds are nearly sexually mature, but certainly not 10 year olds and younger).
Real pedophilia is somewhat more serious than having a desire for teenagers. The latter is biologically normal, but morally wrong in many parts of the world.
Teenagers are supposed to experiment with sex to get prepared for adult life. Some teenagers are more advanced than others, and also more mature. Some of them will be perfectly happy dating older people, and society should't really interfere in this without a valid reason (the bible isn't a valid reason).
And teenage girls can certainly be predators in their own right.
The American fear of letting the children see the Dick or the Nipple or what ever is indeed a reliogious belief in itself. It is Christian "ethics", a belief system not shared by atheists.
It is fucking far from "common sense" to censor bodily parts, sexual stuff and "foul" words while at the same time letting kids watch terror attacks live on network TV.
Kids can watch and see anything, but they need a guide to understand things in the world, good and bad. I believe this is the role of the parent and the teacher.
Yeah, BBEdit rocks as an ASCII editor, but sucks completely as a Unicode editor.
Does it have a font preference for Unicode? No. We get some weirdo font that doesn't really cut it mixing different alphabets and symbols.
Does it validate XHTML correctly? No. Neither does it understand Unicode class names in CSS or HTML attributes. It expresses the very Usonian idea of changing actual characters to entities.
BBEdit remains a Carbon editor, which explains why it doesn't take advantage of the key technologies in Mac OS X. $179 for an app that doesn't understand fundamental XHTML and doesn't have very basic Unicode features? Don't think so. Will check back when it has gone Cocoa and has something to offer. For now, TextEdit is superior for editing Unicode web pages.
You don't, since temperature is a statistical measure, corresponding to the mean energy of moving particles in a fairly large collection of particles. What is meant by the temperature of an individual particle is thus simply the temperature that would be if the particle's energy was translated into heat in a particle collection.
Disney is renowned for its original work, so I have a hard time believing they would be involved in this kind of rip-off. I think it is this Stanely Mouse that is the real scum. In fact, he probably took his name from that Disney character from 1928. He obviously has an obsession with Disney.
If in fact he is the originator of Sully, he should be compensated fairly. How about a lifetime subscription to Donald Duck? Disney cares about its customers and investors relations, you know. They are _not_ only in it for the money. If they were, they wouldn't get the extensive support from politicians they enjoy now, would they?
C'mon, are you all that dumb to believe in this continuing conspiracy theory?
Neither Google nor Altavista can handle UTF-16. Try this:
Google's indexing of UTF-16 page
Bertilo's claim is thus correct.
It can search thru boring PDFs no one is ever going to read anyway, but yet can't index UTF-16 web pages? Hello!?
Besides, you can't really put your own stuff there... a limit on 5 pages, that _might_ be included in a month or two.
A good search engine takes pride in indexing everything, as fast as possible.
Them designers would probably be shocked to find out that it is much easier writing cool design using proper standards. Not to mention how much easier it is to remake the design or just change it a bit...
The maintenance factor should be of major importance to businesses... as it is, they have sloppy code that takes years to debug (font tags, inline propriteary javascript, both CSS and styled HTML, sniffer code and so on), and they have to maintain several versions for various browsers. Maintaining one standards compliant version with style separated from content is so much economically sane.
Unfortunately, Mozilla does not support DOM 2 HTML in XHTML... and probably never will, because the bug assignee doesn't seem to care about this rather crucial bug.
Btw, DOM 0 is not a standard, but a collection of common garbage from the old days. It is supported in Mozilla only for backward compatibility, and people shouldn't use it in design. Mozilla explicitly does not support IE and NN4 only stuff such as document.all and document.layers.
Yeah, some really popular sites (like Slashdot) need to use standards compliant code and not cover for browser bugs. Wired recently went XHTML and CSS2. This is the way to go. If a browser can't render it, file a bug. If it doesn't work in IE, too bad!
My own homepage doesn't render in anything but Mozilla, currently, but small, personal sites aren't gonna break or make anything (unless they come in the millions, which is unlikely).
The people at Mozilla have provided us with a tool of 99% perfect rendering. Now it is up to the web site maintainers to actually enforce the use of Mozilla (or any other browser that fully adheres to standards; there is no other currently).
But Slashdot won't take this upon its shoulders, because it doesn't believe in standards, just like M$.
So M$ wins.
"I have always expected and known this to be the case. It's the same with operating systems. Kde and Windows XP have a professional, clean, consistent look. Even if they both crashed frequently (not saying they do or not), users would still likely favor the one that looks newer, cleaner and more professional."
This is flawed, because then Mac OS X would accelerate tremendously in market share. Unless "professional" means jagged unantialiased crap fonts, gradients in the UI and everything else in dark gray, animated 8-bit gems and what have you (and in the case of KDE, nothing is consistent).
Mac OS X is the überbabe of operating systems. It's got the sexy looks, but people yet seem to prefer dull looks, frequent crashes, a plethora of viruses, constant security breeches and so on. Must be because of the one-button mouse, or because "2.4 GHz must be better than 1 GHz".
"if $site !work with $mybrowser then leave();"
Nah, that may be true in general, but if the content is hot enuff, people will make a move, at least temporarily.
Hm, a bunch of semi-free high quality pornsites using 100% valid XHTML 1.1 encoded in UTF-16 (also in Javascript) and with extremely CSS2 dependent layout would double Mozilla's market share in a week.
These guys obviously come from the WIN-DOS world, where apps quit when you close the last window. *** NEWSFLASH *** That's completely fucked up, and unfortunately those fuckers from Redmond implement that shit in their OS X ports of WIN-DOS media player (WIMP) (however not in the Awfice suite).
The program shall quit when I say it should quit. The app should make no assumptions on my behalf, depending on how many windows are open. Jesus fucking Christ in a river crutch...
Chimera, Galeon, Phoenix... they are all Mozilla Lite. Dunno how smart this diversification is until the incredible beast has been killed.
Anyways, no need to change name. Apple Computer is not related to the Abbey Road Apple. Buying Nokia to your car? Then you are buying tires, not cell phones.
Motherfucker?
Although only almost 200,000 bugs have been reported, there are - and will be - massively many more bugs that will never be discovered, less so reported.
Among these bugs are certain combinations of for instance 278 nested divs with a loose font tag amidst all.
Ogg? Egg? Ogre?
.moc servers... no MIME type), so why should they support some odd and weird codec of no importance whatsoever?
Why even bother with such a lamely named codec?
Apple doesn't (yet) even support the standardized MPEG-4 in iTunes (nor on its
MPEG-4 is the way to go. It's standard. It is here to stay for many years. It has a future. And it will have optimized encoders eventually. Just like for the other MPEG formats.
Actually, Newton and Einstein did the same things. Newton combined the works of Kepler and Galileo into a theoretical framework that predicted helluva lot more than balls rolling on a slope (Galileo) or descriptive formulas for planet motion (Kepler). Newton generalized this into mechanics and especially a theory of gravity, that could predict the motion of the entire solar system (or more), minus "anomalies" such as retrograde motion of Mars.
Einstein in turn took Lorenz' equations and Maxwells theory of electromagnetism as a starting point. Remeber that c is defined as constant in electromagnetism, so what Einstein really did was just to combine this fact with the relativity equations. This is of course ingenious, and even more so to use Non-Euclidean geometry to extend SR to GR by curved spacetime.
Newton did away with absolute space and Einstein did away with absolute time, so their contributions are very similar in structure.
Newton _invented_ caclulus as a byproduct, though, while Einstein had to borrow extensively from recent mathematics (Minkowski space, tensors and all), all of which he had to have help with to fully understand in the context of relativity.
This fact justifies Newton being the greater of the two, because mechanics and calculus are fundamental in all of physics, whereas GR is a very specialized field. We went to the moon with the help of Newton, not Einstein.
Well, in the mind of the commoner, Einstein is the scientist par excellence.
You can't buy t-shirts or posters with Newton. You can with Einstein. Ask people if they know a physical formula, and they'll say E=mc^2, not F=GMm/r^2 or F=ma. Say 'genius', and people think of Einstein, not Newton (although Newton probably was more ingenious than Einstein). Hell, think about it; they'd have to change the scientist icon in games like Civilization to something else...
Then we'd have to remove der liebe Herr Einstein from the pedestal of science, and put someone else there, someone who "saw clearly where everyone else saw nothing".
Praise and honor to that new generation of phycisists, and shame on those old school amateurs!
There would be new popular books on how "close" we are to have a GUT explaining "everything". Super egos like Stephen Hawking would say: "I told you so" (even though he didn't).
A bunch of Nobel prizes currently in an undetermined Schrödinger state will await those who are lucky enough to be where the action is.
Unfortunately, the Chinese and Japanese scientists that will provide the framework of the New Theory will not end up on the cover of Time (that will instead be Steve Ballmer or some other American/Western savior of the world).
Yeah, watch out for them suckers, cuz bacteria and smaller organisms don't die in vacuum. They can hibernate for billions of years and then start multiplying a millisecond after the right condition applies. This is how life is thought to have come to earth... the idea of the primordial soup is no longer viable (at least not here).
The aliens science fiction theme thus has a valid physiological background.
http://www.privoxy.org/
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Install, then add the following to user.action
{+hide-user-agent{Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC) Gecko/20021016 Mozilla 1.2/Mac OS X Jaguar [sucker web design spoof].}}
With fonts looking like this, it is quite understandable that Lunix will never ever take off beyond the geek and server layers...
I wonder how they look without all this hanky-panky required to get very basic antialiasing. And if Chinese, Japanese and other fonts are then bitmapped.
What about kerning? The examples at the Register look like shit. There's nothing like Mac OS X's ATSUI in Linux?
Are you happy looking at your bitmap blocks? I would rather die before using such a poor system. Sure, it is of course speedy without such "enhancements", and that is why Lunix boxen are used as servers. No human being needs to look at it!
Are they doing well? Last time I checked, telecoms were free-falling...
So it really is a fucked up business model. Not only for the individual corporations, but also for the rest of us. Boom one year, depression the next. Give us Enron. Give us incredible growth and then free fall. How about a free car and only $2 a mile, plus gas and tax?
Fuck yearly contracts. I buy my mobile phone cheap and used and use a cash card, mostly only for incoming calls. I am free, you are a slave.