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"if you've properly separated your layout from your content"
As Han Solo said, "Well, that's the trick, isn't it?"
If your "content" is primarily plain text fuzzed up with other elements, you can do that. Most sites these days are full of GIFs, Flash, JavaScript-enabled elements that pop-up stuff and yada yada. The odds of any of this "degrading to text" is not very good.
I personally eschew all that crap (except CSS). I think Web sites should present the INFORMATION people go there for and NOTHING else unless it makes getting that information easier or more precise.
In some cases, you have to use CSS and JavaScript to replace even worse elements. I did work on the City College of San Francisco Web site which is heavily loaded with GIFs - for TEXT elements, no less - and frames. It took me weeks to design a method to replace that crap with CSS and JavaScript which would still at least LOOK like the original layout (simulating frames) - when it fact the original layout should be scrapped. When the Webmaster took my pages, he slapped them into the GIF/frame layout anyway.
Face it, most of this stuff is not going to work on cellphones or PDAs until they are considerably more powerful - which I assume will happen in due time.
Meanwhile, at City College of San Francisco, the teachers are fed up using "dumb" whiteboards that require endless numbers of dried-up ink markers, refuse to be wiped clean, or end up with permanent marks which interfere with their code presentations by introducing "fake terminators"!
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And when was the last time you found a site that just had plain HTML - no JavaScript, no Flash, no CSS, no nothing but hand-written (in NotePad) HTML?
Face it, the world is not going to change for your PDA or cellphone.
Re:Will that be 5 or 10 years experience?
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Hell, I was doing AJAX back in my System/32 RPG II days!
(Yeah, right! Ajax cleanser, maybe...)
(As an aside, I just read some article about some major financial company trying to get away from doing RPG II programming on one of their mainframes. I'm like, WHAT? Some asshole is STILL programming in RPG II?)
"Its not better than ASP.NET in any way except for the fact you can put it on servers that have free OS's."
By George I think he's got it!
Why was it somebody wanted to use ASP.NET?
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Um, was that actually hated by anybody? Did anybody know about it except Microsoft?
I think IE is hated for its complete lack of support for just about anything standard and less so for ITS non-standard features - especially the one nobody knew about (until it became useful.)
Re:Rails, great for those fed up with J2EE.
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Got that right.
Oracle's "brilliant" product for developers - Developer 2000 - involved TWO - count 'em! - TWO 800 page books on how to develop forms.
Forms which have absolutely NO WAY to be documented as to how they are constructed (other than printing out individual screens of trigger code and the like.)
One of the most pathetically incompetently designed products I've ever seen.
Anybody who uses Oracle (other than the database itself - with nothing else) is out of their minds.
I've always wanted to see a Star Wars story set after the first three, where a new Sith menace appears, and Luke and the others go seeking the "First Jedi" - the guy who discovered the Force thousands of years ago, who trained Yoda, etc.
And they find this guy in a bar/brothel, running the show, immortal, kicked back and uninterested in anything going on in the Universe except as necessary to preserve his own life.
And he tells them - like the Firesign Theater - "Everything you know is wrong." There is no Dark Side, no Light Side, it's all a matter of perspective and purpose, that there is no prophecy, and that Yoda never did understand the real Jedi philosophy and the whole Jedi Council thing was a total waste of time. And he only gets involved in the new Sith menace because he feels like it, not because he gives a shit.
And this guy is no joke, either, as he can kill an entire company of Storm Troopers by just walking past them. No choking, no electric bolts - they just die when his eyes narrow. And when he DOES throw bolts, he can blow up a Star Destroyer or a Death Star single-handed.
I think there's a detection limit. Vader could sense people close to him (such as Luke sensing him on the Death Star in Return and Vader reaching out to him in Empire), but detecting someone from orbit might be more difficult. When they sense people's deaths, as Yoda does in the current one or Obi-Wan does when the planet is destroyed in the first one, it's more general - changes in the Force.
If Jedi could sense people across thousands of miles or even light-years, nobody could have hidden from them, Jedi or not.
As for how the Jedi missed the clone army, well, none of the clones were Jedi and presumably the Force would have told them nothing. The question Mace presented was how could this have happened despite all their intelligence operations? In particular, since Count Dooku, a powerful former Jedi and presumably the object of Jedi intelligence operations, was behind that particular part of Palpatine's plan. The whole "Lost Jedi" thing would have been impossible if the Jedi could sense anybody anywhere.
As for the light side "noise", I suppose that might be possible, but you still have to wonder why Palpatine's presence only created a "sense" that something in general was wrong and not something more specific.
I tend to go along with the poster who suggested the Jedi were victims of the thing they constantly counseled others against - over-confidence in their own superiority and awareness of the situation. Even Yoda and Mace Windu had this flaw in my opinion.
Yup. Good point. They got their time-line seriously wrong, is all, I guess.
OTOH, one could argue that it was Luke sparing his father's life and refusing to turn to the Dark Side that was the catalyst for his father's redemption.
OTOH, one could argue that without Anakin birthing Luke, it wouldn't have happened either.
The real lesson might be that circumstances and consequences are what they are and it's pointless to prophesize when one cannot control the universe. Just act as if the consequences will be and are perfect - both before and after those consequences occur. Which is not to say one can't learn from those consequences.
Well, it's nice they made SOME attempt to cover this gaping hole. I once thought up the same notion as a possible addition to the "Highlander" series - have some immortals which other immortals could not sense which would give them an edge.
One could also complain that the Jedi weren't very smart to so seriously misread the "prophecy" about Anakin. Their training seems to be seriously lax if any number of their top people (Count Dooku, Anakin, the other "Missing Jedi") could just dump decades of training and switch sides. It should have been obvious to them that Obi Wan wasn't doing that great a job with Anakin, and that Anakin had serious problems.
Oh, well, it's only a relatively simple story and it only gets deep if you try to explain its ramifications in detail.
Also, I'm just miffed that one of my favorite characters in the second prequel, Count Dooku, lost his head early on in this one. And Natalie didn't have much to do but sit around and look pregnant.
Not the problems, mind you, otherwise how we can steal more elections? We just gotta rid of the DOUBTS! We gotta have a LYING PAPER TRAIL! BRING BACK CHADS!
Can't have people doubting our wonderful "democracy", can we? We might start to look like, oh, some Eastern European country, or maybe Iraq, or Syria, or Nazi Germany (ALERT! ALERT! Godwin's Law Has Been Invoked! Connection terminaasdhweweudkj
Didn't I SAY EARLIER that MORE would be cut from Longhorn before it was done?
And here we have Microsoft DIRECTLY proclaiming the benefits of a CLI interface by saying, "You can do everything from the CLI that you can do from the GUI!"
So NOW what are the Windows trolls going to do? Proclaim the new Windows CLI the best thing since...the Linux CLI?
Here we have dozens of Jedi walking around going, "The Force is strong with you, bozo!" to everybody in the story - except Palpatine - the one guy with enough Force to fry Mace Windu and blow Yoda on his ass!
What's wrong with this picture?
Sure, they suspected he was a grubby politician, but even Mace Windu, on being directly informed by Anakin that Palpatine was a Sith Dark Lord, goes "Are you sure?" Gimme a break, Mace! How about: "Search your feelings - you know this to be true!" would be a nice line at that point!
As for Yoda, greenie baby, you must have been doing something seriously wrong!
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"if you've properly separated your layout from your content"
As Han Solo said, "Well, that's the trick, isn't it?"
If your "content" is primarily plain text fuzzed up with other elements, you can do that. Most sites these days are full of GIFs, Flash, JavaScript-enabled elements that pop-up stuff and yada yada. The odds of any of this "degrading to text" is not very good.
I personally eschew all that crap (except CSS). I think Web sites should present the INFORMATION people go there for and NOTHING else unless it makes getting that information easier or more precise.
In some cases, you have to use CSS and JavaScript to replace even worse elements. I did work on the City College of San Francisco Web site which is heavily loaded with GIFs - for TEXT elements, no less - and frames. It took me weeks to design a method to replace that crap with CSS and JavaScript which would still at least LOOK like the original layout (simulating frames) - when it fact the original layout should be scrapped. When the Webmaster took my pages, he slapped them into the GIF/frame layout anyway.
Face it, most of this stuff is not going to work on cellphones or PDAs until they are considerably more powerful - which I assume will happen in due time.
Meanwhile, at City College of San Francisco, the teachers are fed up using "dumb" whiteboards that require endless numbers of dried-up ink markers, refuse to be wiped clean, or end up with permanent marks which interfere with their code presentations by introducing "fake terminators"!
And when was the last time you found a site that just had plain HTML - no JavaScript, no Flash, no CSS, no nothing but hand-written (in NotePad) HTML?
Face it, the world is not going to change for your PDA or cellphone.
Hell, I was doing AJAX back in my System/32 RPG II days!
(Yeah, right! Ajax cleanser, maybe...)
(As an aside, I just read some article about some major financial company trying to get away from doing RPG II programming on one of their mainframes. I'm like, WHAT? Some asshole is STILL programming in RPG II?)
By George I think he's got it!
"Its not better than ASP.NET in any way except for the fact you can put it on servers that have free OS's."
By George I think he's got it!
Why was it somebody wanted to use ASP.NET?
Um, was that actually hated by anybody? Did anybody know about it except Microsoft?
I think IE is hated for its complete lack of support for just about anything standard and less so for ITS non-standard features - especially the one nobody knew about (until it became useful.)
Got that right.
Oracle's "brilliant" product for developers - Developer 2000 - involved TWO - count 'em! - TWO 800 page books on how to develop forms.
Forms which have absolutely NO WAY to be documented as to how they are constructed (other than printing out individual screens of trigger code and the like.)
One of the most pathetically incompetently designed products I've ever seen.
Anybody who uses Oracle (other than the database itself - with nothing else) is out of their minds.
"write clear, readable, innocent-looking C code", right?
Wow, nobody's going to win this one.
I've always wanted to see a Star Wars story set after the first three, where a new Sith menace appears, and Luke and the others go seeking the "First Jedi" - the guy who discovered the Force thousands of years ago, who trained Yoda, etc.
And they find this guy in a bar/brothel, running the show, immortal, kicked back and uninterested in anything going on in the Universe except as necessary to preserve his own life.
And he tells them - like the Firesign Theater - "Everything you know is wrong." There is no Dark Side, no Light Side, it's all a matter of perspective and purpose, that there is no prophecy, and that Yoda never did understand the real Jedi philosophy and the whole Jedi Council thing was a total waste of time. And he only gets involved in the new Sith menace because he feels like it, not because he gives a shit.
And this guy is no joke, either, as he can kill an entire company of Storm Troopers by just walking past them. No choking, no electric bolts - they just die when his eyes narrow. And when he DOES throw bolts, he can blow up a Star Destroyer or a Death Star single-handed.
That's the Star Wars story I want to see.
I think there's a detection limit. Vader could sense people close to him (such as Luke sensing him on the Death Star in Return and Vader reaching out to him in Empire), but detecting someone from orbit might be more difficult. When they sense people's deaths, as Yoda does in the current one or Obi-Wan does when the planet is destroyed in the first one, it's more general - changes in the Force.
If Jedi could sense people across thousands of miles or even light-years, nobody could have hidden from them, Jedi or not.
As for how the Jedi missed the clone army, well, none of the clones were Jedi and presumably the Force would have told them nothing. The question Mace presented was how could this have happened despite all their intelligence operations? In particular, since Count Dooku, a powerful former Jedi and presumably the object of Jedi intelligence operations, was behind that particular part of Palpatine's plan. The whole "Lost Jedi" thing would have been impossible if the Jedi could sense anybody anywhere.
As for the light side "noise", I suppose that might be possible, but you still have to wonder why Palpatine's presence only created a "sense" that something in general was wrong and not something more specific.
I tend to go along with the poster who suggested the Jedi were victims of the thing they constantly counseled others against - over-confidence in their own superiority and awareness of the situation. Even Yoda and Mace Windu had this flaw in my opinion.
Yup. Good point. They got their time-line seriously wrong, is all, I guess.
OTOH, one could argue that it was Luke sparing his father's life and refusing to turn to the Dark Side that was the catalyst for his father's redemption.
OTOH, one could argue that without Anakin birthing Luke, it wouldn't have happened either.
The real lesson might be that circumstances and consequences are what they are and it's pointless to prophesize when one cannot control the universe. Just act as if the consequences will be and are perfect - both before and after those consequences occur. Which is not to say one can't learn from those consequences.
Hmmm... Good point.
Well, it's nice they made SOME attempt to cover this gaping hole. I once thought up the same notion as a possible addition to the "Highlander" series - have some immortals which other immortals could not sense which would give them an edge.
One could also complain that the Jedi weren't very smart to so seriously misread the "prophecy" about Anakin. Their training seems to be seriously lax if any number of their top people (Count Dooku, Anakin, the other "Missing Jedi") could just dump decades of training and switch sides. It should have been obvious to them that Obi Wan wasn't doing that great a job with Anakin, and that Anakin had serious problems.
Oh, well, it's only a relatively simple story and it only gets deep if you try to explain its ramifications in detail.
Also, I'm just miffed that one of my favorite characters in the second prequel, Count Dooku, lost his head early on in this one. And Natalie didn't have much to do but sit around and look pregnant.
and Angelina Jolie is hot.
Now, back to bed.
Not the problems, mind you, otherwise how we can steal more elections? We just gotta rid of the DOUBTS! We gotta have a LYING PAPER TRAIL! BRING BACK CHADS!
Can't have people doubting our wonderful "democracy", can we? We might start to look like, oh, some Eastern European country, or maybe Iraq, or Syria, or Nazi Germany (ALERT! ALERT! Godwin's Law Has Been Invoked! Connection terminaasdhweweudkj
Didn't I SAY EARLIER that MORE would be cut from Longhorn before it was done?
And here we have Microsoft DIRECTLY proclaiming the benefits of a CLI interface by saying, "You can do everything from the CLI that you can do from the GUI!"
So NOW what are the Windows trolls going to do? Proclaim the new Windows CLI the best thing since...the Linux CLI?
Here we have dozens of Jedi walking around going, "The Force is strong with you, bozo!" to everybody in the story - except Palpatine - the one guy with enough Force to fry Mace Windu and blow Yoda on his ass!
What's wrong with this picture?
Sure, they suspected he was a grubby politician, but even Mace Windu, on being directly informed by Anakin that Palpatine was a Sith Dark Lord, goes "Are you sure?" Gimme a break, Mace! How about: "Search your feelings - you know this to be true!" would be a nice line at that point!
As for Yoda, greenie baby, you must have been doing something seriously wrong!
I said the first 1,500 bug reports would be up by the next morning, and then said "This is what they get for releasing early."
/. humor.
I thought it was supposed to be funny. I guess I'm just not cut out for
Transhumans come up with - like stuff to reduce them to their chemical components so they can be flushed off the street with a hose.
that the Google ad above this article is:
Become A FBI Agent
Program gets you what you need in 13 months.
I can see the Tenderloin in 3D now...
Are they going to capture all the homeless, drug addicts, and hookers in 3D, too? My cheapass hotel I'm living in?
'It will exceed what has been delivered in Linux and Unix for many years'
For about ten minutes it will exceed, then the OSS boys will get back to work. Three months later, Linux will surge ahead - again.
Like the guy said in "Hackers": "Give...it...up! Is that all you got, huh? Are you nuts? Come at me!"
"Government reported incompetent at everything, including invading other nations."
Film at 11.
Kim Polese?
Kim, baby, call me! Better yet, give me your number, I'll call you. No, wait, call me. Wait...