The only people using mail anymore are junk mailers.
Amazon, Newegg, Ebay, Zappos... Junk mail is one of the post offices biggest profit items. This is like claiming the roads are only used by drug dealers and thieves.
So let's raise our taxes even more to prop up a bunch of spammers.
An apt analogy for how USPS operates is a ship with 3 rudders.
If you don't, the union gets angry and leans on politicians. That's just good policy.
The main reason that the USPS is losing money is because congress forced a 70 year prepayment of retirement benefits on the USPS
ISP contracts are not homogeneous world wide and vary greatly even between carriers in the same countries.
The price is listed in dollars and this is an English language website based in the United States featuring content mostly about American businesses, politics, and culture. In addition with a majority of its traffic originating from there, it's implied. When you're in a foreign country do you ask the person if the figure they conveyed to you is in local currency?
Latency and functionality. You cannot easily do in a browser what any apprentice coder will easily do in WPF, for example.
Convenience has a cost. While Windows Mobile may support WPF, are you going to "easily" port WPF to Android and iOS? I find it odd using a technology that is only supported by one mobile phone OS as a poor example, CSS transitions especially those supported by webkit are very impressive. If you'd like to see the power of CSS and JavaScript in a mobile browser, load this up. jQuery mobile is also a great starting point that makes fancy transitions as simple as adding a property. Kendo UI is another impressive framework. Some other examples of optimizing for mobile.
Performance. You can't expect good performance if your code runs on a FSM knows what interpreter, in FSM knows what browser.
This is a valid argument and for certain situations native applications make a lot of sense (Client side data processing, games etc.). Unfortunately you've just doubled or tripled the work you need to do, unless you want to say your amazing application is only available on a fraction of the mobile devices out there.
The task becomes even harder if you have to support many browsers (and you can never support all of them.)
You're no doubt familiar with developing around requirements Android, iOS, and web development are no different. As far as the browsers are concerned the difficulties creep up with eye candy which most newer browsers support but there is always lag, especially if you use Android fragmentation as a measure, with CSS transitions and HTML5 support.
The worst bugs are not typos; the worst bugs are race conditions, deadlocks, and misunderstanding of how the controlled object behaves.
Unit tests, integration tests, followed by real world tests. These methods will not catch everything, but they help immensely. It's extremely frustrating to deal with environments, which as a developer, you have no control over (see onsite installations for example). How about dealing with projects developed with proprietary languages? On par with bugs I would also like to point out vendor supplied outdated API documentation mixed in with conflicting answers by staff. Nearly every payment processor I've dealt with suffers from this.
The best way to have bug-free code is to not insert bugs into it in the first place:-)
Absolutely true. I hope you own an OpenBSD shirt =)
The source code??? Hmm. I'm amazed that so many commercial enterprises agreed to bend over for Apple. The source code is all they have, it's their most valuable treasure, aside from brains of the developers. I will have a look at those links later, thanks! Not that Apple should be expecting me any time soon, clutching the $99 in my hand:-)
I was incorrect with my baseless claim regarding the handling of source, and for that I apologize. I replied to my own post earlier, the code itself is signed using development and provisioning profiles. An archive is pushed to their servers which is what their black box review process is based off of. Your initial hunch was quite close to what they do, they scan for API calls and to make sure that there aren't any gross memory leaks and that your app conforms to their guidelines. Serves me right for firing off so quickly, on the bright side you don't look like a fool.
In part it's probably because I'm not planning on releasing commercial software for smartphones and tablets. If I want to put together a free application, though, I'd do it on Android. Piracy wouldn't be a problem then.
Why tie yourself to a platform, or two, when you could develop for pretty much everything with webapps and webservices? The web has become the device agnostic medium, it may not be the most efficient but it gets the job done and more and more things are SAAS.
The source code may be not enough to prevent those things. I did my share of code review
Upon further inspection I erred on the code part, they do not require this. My familiarity revolves around developing a webapp which generates code targeting multiple platforms, I'm familiar with handling the developer and provisioning profile keys and code commits but the part that talks to Apple (a series of scripts) specific to the checkout and build process were not my area. Sigh, can't let an opinion get in the way of facts now can we?
Fandroid [popsci.com] throwing stones in a glass house?
The parent's claim that Microsoft is strong arming people into a Walled Garden, and my post pointing out that Apple does the same thing, is something about Android? Thanks for keeping it relevant.
Cute, comparing Microsoft's desktop support to Apple's mobile support.
Oh, in that case lets break it down further. How's WinPhone 7 working out for the developers? Microsoft's Mobile support is even shorter and more fragmented than Apples, thanks for bringing that up.
They're still releasing security updates for Leopard, a six year old operating system.
You're honestly bringing up something which hasn't had an update in over a year? And comparing to a system which has been out for double that, and systems which receive regular updates? Why would Berkley have an article about end of support migrating off of it? Not to mention the successor (Snow Leopard) getting this nice article.
So they didn't need to hire anyone or develop any new processes, or any new systems to bring these features online? This is like claiming game developers never need to create a new engine since one already exists and works.
Apple does have a curated system. But I do not think they are spending a lot of human labor on it.
You're unfamiliar with the winding colon of their review process, there most certainly is human involvement otherwise it wouldn't take WEEKS to get something through, or deal with arbitrary rejections. Are you referring to expenses in time or personnel? Personnel are one of the largest expenses of an operation.
Perhaps an examiner will run the "ldd" equivalent against the binary; then will start the software and try a couple things... lacking the source code, there is no way to know what the software is really doing... All they can use is a threat of ejecting the bad developer from the store *after* the violation is noticed.
It's not done this way since you must supply source code. If you developed anything for iOS you'd be aware of this fact, here is a great place to educate yourself about their guidelines. And since you're uninitiated here is a run down of whats involved in submitting your first app.
As matter of fact, just a few days ago there was a discussion on Slashdot [slashdot.org] about an app that intentionally, maliciously hurt its users on mere suspicion (and a wrong one at that) of piracy.
Bummer, interestingly enough which platform features more pirated apps, or compromised apps posing as legitimate ones? Does that hurt or harm its reputation among users?
Apple cannot guarantee absence of viruses, and they don't even try.
I made no such claims other than one platform has virus scanners on it. If there weren't a demand they wouldn't exist.
Why then does Apple dwarf Microsoft dollar wise? Are you wagering on Windows 8 being a success since users can run x86 software on it, since Ecosystem size Windows wins?
. Perhaps if Apple had been willing to license out iOS to other manufacturers they could have stayed relevant -- possibly even dominant -- for longer.
That strategy might work for volume, but this also is breeding a very real problem with fragmentation. Perhaps you're familiar with the growing pains revolving around IE6 et al? Many handset manufacturers are lazy to push any kind of updates out, feature proprietary capabilities like graphics implementations and inconsistent button functionality.
It's very unlikely that anybody is going to unseat Android because it's awfully tough to compete with "free" when there's no other inertia to overcome.
There are no free meals. It's also very tough to develop stuff for free. You can see many people lament having to sit through ads for YouTube or view them on Slashdot, or news sites etc, FREE will mean this model for apps, it's already happening. Look at Freemium games, ugh.
Eventually iOS will be a lot like MacOS was in the '90s. Apple and a few other dedicated players will support it, nobody else will care.
Oddly enough I see Microsoft going this way, mobile and web are the future. iOS is where the lions share of developer revenue comes from.
It will just be nice for the rest of us when Apple once again has very little influence over the industry as a whole.
Like how all the big players are pushing for walled gardens, you don't see the alarming trend happening on the desktop either?
It's money for nothing, unless you call running an HTTP server a tough work.
Having people to deal with customers and vendors isn't trivial or that whole cost involved with handling money. How much does PCI compliance cost? Beyond that they've got a curated system, how many viruses and malware have there been available through the App store compared to Google Play/Android Marketplace? Why does Android have a virus scanners?
Now hopefully they actually write an app that uses Android properly instead of some stupid iOS port - I've seen so many that are hard to use on Android because of this.
Which version of Android would that be? Development often revolves around the least common denominator, which in Android's case is 2.2. In the real world ~15% of the market is still a significant figure. What new and useful features have been added since then? Are you aware of how many different implementations which are vendor specific, things like graphics, button functionality (interesting related blog post illustrating these points) which might hamper development? I know this isn't an end user concern but you're experiencing the symptoms of Android fragmentation.
What version of Android are these handsets running? Take a look at the SDK usage and OS versions as of this month. Looks like Gingerbread, which is from December 2010, in handset terms that's nearly a generation or two.
At least with IOS you're dealing with pretty current hardware since Apple (love it or hate it) makes it a point to support only the last two releases, and over 2/3 of devices upgraded to the newest version within a month, wish it were the same for Andorid.
Already 90% in the biggest growth market, China. Now even Paul Thurrot is calling Android "The new Windows"
It's even mimicking having the old versions refuse to die, and relatively recent releases not supported! I work at a company who does software development for mobile phones and we release software targeting Android 2.2 (think Windows XP and/or IE6) simply because the vast fragmentation present (like Windows/IE).
Just because the request from your browser goes to their server doesn't mean their server is the root source of the content; it is not at all impossible to have the website server, in handling a request for an ad with a "local" URL, make a request to the ad network server, and just relay the response to that request back to the client requesting the ad URL.
Excellent point, for a real world example of this look no further than Blizzard's properties. For example if you look at how their rich websites display content (usually a mixture of Flash Video) the SWF pull data behind the scenes from another non public/restricted source.
I just hope your layout does not depend on the ads
This is a solved problem and illustrates why it's good practice to specify dimensions.
those servers are going to be overloaded and dog slow, delaying the rendering of your page.
The whole point of putting something onto another domain is to speed things up. Many sites separate assets on to subdomains; ads, assets, and site content. On top of that I'd wager a vast majority of sites are on shared hosting, something which is grossly oversold to be profitable. Even AWS, which scales, you'll need to pay a premium for any decent IO performance for something like processing images or anything having to do with reading/writing to disk. Beyond that, how many people access stuff from WIFI? I don't think latency is the main concern, quantity downloaded (are these giant PNG graphics, video etc.) or more JS which personalizes your experience after communicating with the mothership? These matters are compounded over wireless links.
Apparently cooking is like alchemy to most people. While I'm not the world's greatest chef I do know how to prepare my own meals and making pizzas is extremely fun to do especially when you get down to making the crust. It's great to get the family involved with, too. Most breads are pretty simple to make, the most difficult part is having a decent oven. Pizza stones help out with this. Ultimately it comes down to effort and not everyone is motivated after work. BTW I like the et viola, very cool!
I'd like to begin by saying good job devs! As a developer: Yay, another version to support! IE Support already requires coddling especially for the long in the tooth IE6 & 7; granted IE9 is much better but there are still rough patches with border radius and gradients are used as well as transitions, see the table at the bottom. CSS transitions would be a very welcome addition. Maybe we can create a betting pool for how long until the next incarnation?
With their current strategy what are the chances it'll be a Windows 8 requirement? I'm off to find that guy who read the bones for Obama to do a browser reading.
If I had a kid and he / she came home from school and gave me an attitude that showed me they didn't care about school, had no interest in what they were learning and had no will to complete the work, I would go find the teacher and ask her for a full run down on why this is happening to my kid.
Obviously their attitude reflects something that's happening at school, you're conflating separate issues. The student can be inspired and not do their homework because they're lazy, intellectually or otherwise. I'm not sure if you're aware of how many distractions there are out there. That laziness is not the responsibility of the teacher. I liken this to people who want to work out, but don't actually make the effort. They want the results but they don't want to do the work. This has everything to do with the person themselves choosing to do what they want, it's arguably a cultural thing as well especially if you consider zen teachings which focus on the student. You advocate that it's all outside influences and none inside. We disagree here most likely because we're approaching this argument from multiple sides with our focuses on the age groups which span from K-Graduate.
I can do my best from a parent's view to inspire my kid but if they have no will to carry on with the material outside of the classroom then the teacher isn't doing there job and I have no hesitation in expressing that
Do you even try to differentiate between their, there, and they're? Oddly enough these are mistakes which plague native speakers. I feel like this is a greentext education discussion.
>be in a discussion about education
>repeatedly make glaring grade school mistakes
If I was going to give my kid to a teacher for hours a day they better get the best education possible out of the system, anything less and I may as well home school them.
This involves active parenting, something which is sorely lacking in many households. It's not always the teacher, there are multiple methods to get things across perhaps you've encountered this in your educational career? Some students learn well while a few eventually get assistance from their peers, an assistant, or even another instructor. Hypothetically if 90% of the students get it, and the other 10% struggle with it it may not be the teacher, or the method(s). Eventually you must learn on your own (school isn't the end all be all to Education) and figure things out on your own, and as a side effect you appreciate things more this way.
Right now you're talking about college, let's go back to elementary school. Most good school habits are formed in the early years of our lives (or does a person have multiple lives?), in grade K, 1, 2, 3 most kids are receptive to their teachers.
Was the engaging teacher your English teacher or perhaps is this a joke about elementary mistakes? If so, good job!
I still maintain that a good teacher engages the classroom and instills the want of a student to learn.
Applicable at an elementary level, beyond that the student has to want it too. That want can manifest itself from many sources, including wanting to better oneself. Or for those with goals, they may understand these are stepping stones to get where they want to be.
If you have a teacher that just throws material at you and doesn't give a rats ass then your view will probably be that homework is useless, working hard is pointless and in the end you never get anywhere.
Students, especially grade school level, should be able to get help from their parents. In a negative light one might say this is how graduate work is handled and that most certainly isn't pointless.
That is a rubbish counter-argument, since the temperature sea water freezes at is variable according to its salt content.
I specifically said salt water, as in a 1:1:1 ratio. One system uses salt water as a 0 point and another uses freshwater, one is neither superior than the other in that respect, both feature freezing points with integers. Each has its merits, although one is more sensitive (has more degrees, instead of fractional degrees).
It's a bit like saying that, because water boils at a lower temperature at the top of a tall mountain, there's no advantage in having the normal boiling point at 100 degrees celsius.
Ever think about why measurements are done at sea level?
I remember when BO2K came out. The "mouse cam" plugin was pretty cool at the time, streaming an area around where the client's mouse cursor was very cool. Sub7 2.3 was released in 2010 but by another developer who had their site hacked. Mobman, the original developer, also stated that they'll be back...
Really? You think there is still an argument for imperial units?
I just cited a very good reason, cost. Everybody who needs to use those units can already or has done so, see from science to industry and the globe spanning war machine.
What temperature does salt water freeze at?
Yes, the point was it freezes at -21.1 degrees Celsius. One system uses fresh water the other salt water as 0 points. The 100 for Fahrenheit was based around blood-heat instead of boiling water.
Really? You think there is still an argument for imperial units?
I don't like to simply list cost, however it is an important one. And the use in construction is completely valid, divisors; the same reason 60 was selected for time! There is still an argument for different languages.
and nothing could beat the simplicity of powers of ten
Base 16 has merit, simplicity in this case is subjective, as a programmer surely you must certainly appreciate bit shifting?
What's 0.21 minutes?
How time measurements came about is interesting, also as someone who programs decimal time would be awesome in theory, besides "real" fractional seconds. If someone already dislikes Imperial Units because of fractions, I see this being a harder sell.
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The only people using mail anymore are junk mailers.
Amazon, Newegg, Ebay, Zappos... Junk mail is one of the post offices biggest profit items. This is like claiming the roads are only used by drug dealers and thieves.
So let's raise our taxes even more to prop up a bunch of spammers.
An apt analogy for how USPS operates is a ship with 3 rudders.
If you don't, the union gets angry and leans on politicians. That's just good policy.
The main reason that the USPS is losing money is because congress forced a 70 year prepayment of retirement benefits on the USPS
ISP contracts are not homogeneous world wide and vary greatly even between carriers in the same countries.
The price is listed in dollars and this is an English language website based in the United States featuring content mostly about American businesses, politics, and culture. In addition with a majority of its traffic originating from there, it's implied. When you're in a foreign country do you ask the person if the figure they conveyed to you is in local currency?
Latency and functionality. You cannot easily do in a browser what any apprentice coder will easily do in WPF, for example.
Convenience has a cost. While Windows Mobile may support WPF, are you going to "easily" port WPF to Android and iOS? I find it odd using a technology that is only supported by one mobile phone OS as a poor example, CSS transitions especially those supported by webkit are very impressive. If you'd like to see the power of CSS and JavaScript in a mobile browser, load this up. jQuery mobile is also a great starting point that makes fancy transitions as simple as adding a property. Kendo UI is another impressive framework. Some other examples of optimizing for mobile.
Performance. You can't expect good performance if your code runs on a FSM knows what interpreter, in FSM knows what browser.
This is a valid argument and for certain situations native applications make a lot of sense (Client side data processing, games etc.). Unfortunately you've just doubled or tripled the work you need to do, unless you want to say your amazing application is only available on a fraction of the mobile devices out there.
The task becomes even harder if you have to support many browsers (and you can never support all of them.)
You're no doubt familiar with developing around requirements Android, iOS, and web development are no different. As far as the browsers are concerned the difficulties creep up with eye candy which most newer browsers support but there is always lag, especially if you use Android fragmentation as a measure, with CSS transitions and HTML5 support.
The worst bugs are not typos; the worst bugs are race conditions, deadlocks, and misunderstanding of how the controlled object behaves.
Unit tests, integration tests, followed by real world tests. These methods will not catch everything, but they help immensely. It's extremely frustrating to deal with environments, which as a developer, you have no control over (see onsite installations for example). How about dealing with projects developed with proprietary languages? On par with bugs I would also like to point out vendor supplied outdated API documentation mixed in with conflicting answers by staff. Nearly every payment processor I've dealt with suffers from this.
The best way to have bug-free code is to not insert bugs into it in the first place :-)
Absolutely true. I hope you own an OpenBSD shirt =)
> You are now aware that this site has users with a (great) sense of humor.
The source code??? Hmm. I'm amazed that so many commercial enterprises agreed to bend over for Apple. The source code is all they have, it's their most valuable treasure, aside from brains of the developers. I will have a look at those links later, thanks! Not that Apple should be expecting me any time soon, clutching the $99 in my hand :-)
I was incorrect with my baseless claim regarding the handling of source, and for that I apologize. I replied to my own post earlier, the code itself is signed using development and provisioning profiles. An archive is pushed to their servers which is what their black box review process is based off of. Your initial hunch was quite close to what they do, they scan for API calls and to make sure that there aren't any gross memory leaks and that your app conforms to their guidelines. Serves me right for firing off so quickly, on the bright side you don't look like a fool.
In part it's probably because I'm not planning on releasing commercial software for smartphones and tablets. If I want to put together a free application, though, I'd do it on Android. Piracy wouldn't be a problem then.
Why tie yourself to a platform, or two, when you could develop for pretty much everything with webapps and webservices? The web has become the device agnostic medium, it may not be the most efficient but it gets the job done and more and more things are SAAS.
The source code may be not enough to prevent those things. I did my share of code review
Isn't it fun feeling a design improving?
Upon further inspection I erred on the code part, they do not require this. My familiarity revolves around developing a webapp which generates code targeting multiple platforms, I'm familiar with handling the developer and provisioning profile keys and code commits but the part that talks to Apple (a series of scripts) specific to the checkout and build process were not my area. Sigh, can't let an opinion get in the way of facts now can we?
Fandroid [popsci.com] throwing stones in a glass house?
The parent's claim that Microsoft is strong arming people into a Walled Garden, and my post pointing out that Apple does the same thing, is something about Android? Thanks for keeping it relevant.
Cute, comparing Microsoft's desktop support to Apple's mobile support.
Oh, in that case lets break it down further. How's WinPhone 7 working out for the developers? Microsoft's Mobile support is even shorter and more fragmented than Apples, thanks for bringing that up.
They're still releasing security updates for Leopard, a six year old operating system.
You're honestly bringing up something which hasn't had an update in over a year? And comparing to a system which has been out for double that, and systems which receive regular updates? Why would Berkley have an article about end of support migrating off of it? Not to mention the successor (Snow Leopard) getting this nice article.
There is no additional money to spend
So they didn't need to hire anyone or develop any new processes, or any new systems to bring these features online? This is like claiming game developers never need to create a new engine since one already exists and works.
Apple does have a curated system. But I do not think they are spending a lot of human labor on it.
You're unfamiliar with the winding colon of their review process, there most certainly is human involvement otherwise it wouldn't take WEEKS to get something through, or deal with arbitrary rejections. Are you referring to expenses in time or personnel? Personnel are one of the largest expenses of an operation.
Perhaps an examiner will run the "ldd" equivalent against the binary; then will start the software and try a couple things... lacking the source code, there is no way to know what the software is really doing... All they can use is a threat of ejecting the bad developer from the store *after* the violation is noticed.
It's not done this way since you must supply source code. If you developed anything for iOS you'd be aware of this fact, here is a great place to educate yourself about their guidelines. And since you're uninitiated here is a run down of whats involved in submitting your first app.
As matter of fact, just a few days ago there was a discussion on Slashdot [slashdot.org] about an app that intentionally, maliciously hurt its users on mere suspicion (and a wrong one at that) of piracy.
Bummer, interestingly enough which platform features more pirated apps, or compromised apps posing as legitimate ones? Does that hurt or harm its reputation among users?
Apple cannot guarantee absence of viruses, and they don't even try.
I made no such claims other than one platform has virus scanners on it. If there weren't a demand they wouldn't exist.
A properly developed application is trivial to deploy for either platform.
Spoken like a true non developer.
Biggest software ecosystem will win.
Why then does Apple dwarf Microsoft dollar wise? Are you wagering on Windows 8 being a success since users can run x86 software on it, since Ecosystem size Windows wins?
. Perhaps if Apple had been willing to license out iOS to other manufacturers they could have stayed relevant -- possibly even dominant -- for longer.
That strategy might work for volume, but this also is breeding a very real problem with fragmentation. Perhaps you're familiar with the growing pains revolving around IE6 et al? Many handset manufacturers are lazy to push any kind of updates out, feature proprietary capabilities like graphics implementations and inconsistent button functionality.
It's very unlikely that anybody is going to unseat Android because it's awfully tough to compete with "free" when there's no other inertia to overcome.
There are no free meals. It's also very tough to develop stuff for free. You can see many people lament having to sit through ads for YouTube or view them on Slashdot, or news sites etc, FREE will mean this model for apps, it's already happening. Look at Freemium games, ugh.
Eventually iOS will be a lot like MacOS was in the '90s. Apple and a few other dedicated players will support it, nobody else will care.
Oddly enough I see Microsoft going this way, mobile and web are the future. iOS is where the lions share of developer revenue comes from.
It will just be nice for the rest of us when Apple once again has very little influence over the industry as a whole.
Like how all the big players are pushing for walled gardens, you don't see the alarming trend happening on the desktop either?
It's money for nothing, unless you call running an HTTP server a tough work.
Having people to deal with customers and vendors isn't trivial or that whole cost involved with handling money. How much does PCI compliance cost? Beyond that they've got a curated system, how many viruses and malware have there been available through the App store compared to Google Play/Android Marketplace? Why does Android have a virus scanners?
You cannot have any of that with the iPoor phone.
Interestingly enough Slashdot featured an article recently about the woes of a developer who spent 20% of their time for 5% of the profits. Also the App store has more money flowing through it. Looks like it's a 71/29 split with App Store leading in revenue.
Or as of a year ago $50 with a 2/year contract. $100 iPhone 4. Since many people buy phones with contracts in the US this argument is moot.
Now hopefully they actually write an app that uses Android properly instead of some stupid iOS port - I've seen so many that are hard to use on Android because of this.
Which version of Android would that be? Development often revolves around the least common denominator, which in Android's case is 2.2. In the real world ~15% of the market is still a significant figure. What new and useful features have been added since then? Are you aware of how many different implementations which are vendor specific, things like graphics, button functionality (interesting related blog post illustrating these points) which might hamper development? I know this isn't an end user concern but you're experiencing the symptoms of Android fragmentation. What version of Android are these handsets running? Take a look at the SDK usage and OS versions as of this month. Looks like Gingerbread, which is from December 2010, in handset terms that's nearly a generation or two.
At least with IOS you're dealing with pretty current hardware since Apple (love it or hate it) makes it a point to support only the last two releases, and over 2/3 of devices upgraded to the newest version within a month, wish it were the same for Andorid.
Already 90% in the biggest growth market, China. Now even Paul Thurrot is calling Android "The new Windows"
It's even mimicking having the old versions refuse to die, and relatively recent releases not supported! I work at a company who does software development for mobile phones and we release software targeting Android 2.2 (think Windows XP and/or IE6) simply because the vast fragmentation present (like Windows/IE).
Just because the request from your browser goes to their server doesn't mean their server is the root source of the content; it is not at all impossible to have the website server, in handling a request for an ad with a "local" URL, make a request to the ad network server, and just relay the response to that request back to the client requesting the ad URL.
Excellent point, for a real world example of this look no further than Blizzard's properties. For example if you look at how their rich websites display content (usually a mixture of Flash Video) the SWF pull data behind the scenes from another non public/restricted source.
I just hope your layout does not depend on the ads
This is a solved problem and illustrates why it's good practice to specify dimensions.
those servers are going to be overloaded and dog slow, delaying the rendering of your page.
The whole point of putting something onto another domain is to speed things up. Many sites separate assets on to subdomains; ads, assets, and site content. On top of that I'd wager a vast majority of sites are on shared hosting, something which is grossly oversold to be profitable. Even AWS, which scales, you'll need to pay a premium for any decent IO performance for something like processing images or anything having to do with reading/writing to disk. Beyond that, how many people access stuff from WIFI? I don't think latency is the main concern, quantity downloaded (are these giant PNG graphics, video etc.) or more JS which personalizes your experience after communicating with the mothership? These matters are compounded over wireless links.
Apparently cooking is like alchemy to most people. While I'm not the world's greatest chef I do know how to prepare my own meals and making pizzas is extremely fun to do especially when you get down to making the crust. It's great to get the family involved with, too. Most breads are pretty simple to make, the most difficult part is having a decent oven. Pizza stones help out with this. Ultimately it comes down to effort and not everyone is motivated after work. BTW I like the et viola, very cool!
I quickly looked over it, here is another similar solution which illustrates the issue. The fix involves using SVG. No other browser requires you to do that is my point.
I'd like to begin by saying good job devs! As a developer: Yay, another version to support! IE Support already requires coddling especially for the long in the tooth IE6 & 7; granted IE9 is much better but there are still rough patches with border radius and gradients are used as well as transitions, see the table at the bottom. CSS transitions would be a very welcome addition. Maybe we can create a betting pool for how long until the next incarnation?
With their current strategy what are the chances it'll be a Windows 8 requirement? I'm off to find that guy who read the bones for Obama to do a browser reading.
If I had a kid and he / she came home from school and gave me an attitude that showed me they didn't care about school, had no interest in what they were learning and had no will to complete the work, I would go find the teacher and ask her for a full run down on why this is happening to my kid.
Obviously their attitude reflects something that's happening at school, you're conflating separate issues. The student can be inspired and not do their homework because they're lazy, intellectually or otherwise. I'm not sure if you're aware of how many distractions there are out there. That laziness is not the responsibility of the teacher. I liken this to people who want to work out, but don't actually make the effort. They want the results but they don't want to do the work. This has everything to do with the person themselves choosing to do what they want, it's arguably a cultural thing as well especially if you consider zen teachings which focus on the student. You advocate that it's all outside influences and none inside. We disagree here most likely because we're approaching this argument from multiple sides with our focuses on the age groups which span from K-Graduate.
I can do my best from a parent's view to inspire my kid but if they have no will to carry on with the material outside of the classroom then the teacher isn't doing there job and I have no hesitation in expressing that
Do you even try to differentiate between their, there, and they're? Oddly enough these are mistakes which plague native speakers. I feel like this is a greentext education discussion.
>be in a discussion about education
>repeatedly make glaring grade school mistakes
If I was going to give my kid to a teacher for hours a day they better get the best education possible out of the system, anything less and I may as well home school them.
This involves active parenting, something which is sorely lacking in many households. It's not always the teacher, there are multiple methods to get things across perhaps you've encountered this in your educational career? Some students learn well while a few eventually get assistance from their peers, an assistant, or even another instructor. Hypothetically if 90% of the students get it, and the other 10% struggle with it it may not be the teacher, or the method(s). Eventually you must learn on your own (school isn't the end all be all to Education) and figure things out on your own, and as a side effect you appreciate things more this way.
Right now you're talking about college, let's go back to elementary school. Most good school habits are formed in the early years of our lives (or does a person have multiple lives?), in grade K, 1, 2, 3 most kids are receptive to their teachers.
Was the engaging teacher your English teacher or perhaps is this a joke about elementary mistakes? If so, good job!
I still maintain that a good teacher engages the classroom and instills the want of a student to learn.
Applicable at an elementary level, beyond that the student has to want it too. That want can manifest itself from many sources, including wanting to better oneself. Or for those with goals, they may understand these are stepping stones to get where they want to be.
If you have a teacher that just throws material at you and doesn't give a rats ass then your view will probably be that homework is useless, working hard is pointless and in the end you never get anywhere.
Students, especially grade school level, should be able to get help from their parents. In a negative light one might say this is how graduate work is handled and that most certainly isn't pointless.
That is a rubbish counter-argument, since the temperature sea water freezes at is variable according to its salt content.
I specifically said salt water, as in a 1:1:1 ratio. One system uses salt water as a 0 point and another uses freshwater, one is neither superior than the other in that respect, both feature freezing points with integers. Each has its merits, although one is more sensitive (has more degrees, instead of fractional degrees).
It's a bit like saying that, because water boils at a lower temperature at the top of a tall mountain, there's no advantage in having the normal boiling point at 100 degrees celsius.
Ever think about why measurements are done at sea level?
I remember when BO2K came out. The "mouse cam" plugin was pretty cool at the time, streaming an area around where the client's mouse cursor was very cool. Sub7 2.3 was released in 2010 but by another developer who had their site hacked. Mobman, the original developer, also stated that they'll be back...
+1 for nice guys.
Really? You think there is still an argument for imperial units?
I just cited a very good reason, cost. Everybody who needs to use those units can already or has done so, see from science to industry and the globe spanning war machine.
What temperature does salt water freeze at?
Yes, the point was it freezes at -21.1 degrees Celsius. One system uses fresh water the other salt water as 0 points. The 100 for Fahrenheit was based around blood-heat instead of boiling water.
Really? You think there is still an argument for imperial units?
I don't like to simply list cost, however it is an important one. And the use in construction is completely valid, divisors; the same reason 60 was selected for time! There is still an argument for different languages.
and nothing could beat the simplicity of powers of ten
Base 16 has merit, simplicity in this case is subjective, as a programmer surely you must certainly appreciate bit shifting?
What's 0.21 minutes?
How time measurements came about is interesting, also as someone who programs decimal time would be awesome in theory, besides "real" fractional seconds. If someone already dislikes Imperial Units because of fractions, I see this being a harder sell.