Vimeo's html5 player supports seeking in un-downloaded videos. I don't know exactly how it works or why Youtube doesn't support it, but it's out there.
You are assuming the point-of-sale terminal is not bugged or modified to record everything you enter and/or swipe.
The chip card uses challenge-and-response authentication to check your pin internally. It cannot easily be cloned even if the device is bugged. The system's biggest vulnerability is that magstripe cards are still accepted because they are still as easy to fake as ever. In Canada they are becoming less common and in Europe quite rare (except for American tourists).
The EMV chip-and-pin system may have other vulnerabilities but it's introduction has dramatically reduced card fraud rates everywhere that it's been introduced.
Beyond the fact that there is no reason why fine art kids can't code, as other has pointed out, the whole point of the class is to learn technical skills.
I know most/.ers haven't gone to art school, but this is how four-year programs normally work (with some flexibility, obviously): In your first year, you take general intro courses that cover a whole lot of stuff to let you work out what you want to do. In your second year, you take intro courses to the disciplines—you learn how to mix paint or how to do basic carpentry or how to pull prints. Technical skills. In your third and fourth years you develop more abstract skills like composition or colour theory or conceptual theory and start working on increasingly self-directed projects and the technical elements ideally fall into the background.
I imagine that this course is a second or third-year type of thing. There seems to be a popular belief that artists should be making what is called "art" in the game-development process (concept art, modelling, animation, whatever). But that's not why these kids are going to school: it's not a technical college degree. They aren't studying to take a job in the industry, they are studying so that a few of them can go on to be Artists. Many of them will just end up with some other job, but that's not what they are studying.
If anything, this course should actively avoid teaching storytelling or visual techniques. The kids have other classes for that stuff which will be directly applicable to games, and the ones interested enough in interactive art or games to take the course already will have good ideas of that. This class needs to be about actually putting the bolts together to make it work. Just like an intro sculpture course is about carpentry and mould-making and construction. Art school is technical, but open-ended.
These students aren't looking for jobs as commercial artists (not primarily anyway) and their course shouldn't be structured around that. It is for people who want to build interactive video or installation art, or even those who want to produce indie games or act in lead game design positions. They have to know construction, and then they can worry about concept and composition in their 4th-year painting class or after graduation or whatever.
For someone who claims to be looking out for pedestrians, this idea sure seems backward in a punish-the-victims sense. Exactly the kind of thing cyclists have to put up with from people who claim to be looking out for their safety by restricting them.
HTML, also by not employing indentation at the start of paragraphs by, has steered people toward double-spacing between paragraphs. Print media prefers not to waste the line between paragraphs and sticks with indentation of the first line of paragraphs. Books tend to reserve double spacing between paragraphs for a change of scene within a chapter, and if it occurs at a page break, a line with one to five asterisks, spaced, is employed, on whichever page it will fit.
For the last decade we've had a thing called CSS and you can indent your first lines to your heart's desire. Typesetting software for books doesn't do it unless the designer asks for it either.
If your typeface makes your periods “nearly invisible” and your sentences “very difficult to distinguish”, your problem is not the number of spaces. Use a different typeface or fire your designer.
Meanwhile, the jury is out on whether one or two spaces makes text easier to read, but having gaps in your paragraphs—which is here your justification for double-spacing—has been shown to slow reading and reduce comprehension. Don't do it.
Good typesetting is largely about eliminating unsightly gaps in the text, especially if text is justified, balancing hyphenation and spacing and line length and smaller adjustments. When you double space your sentences, all you do is add an extra step as your typographer does a search-and-replace to eliminate them. Yeah, web browsers do this automatically, but if your extra space sneaks its way into my indesign file it's just going to screw up the spacing that I have specified in the document styles, and likely carefully adjusted (if I'm doing my job well, anyway). Most likely I'm compiling several documents into one, and some of them have extra line breaks and spaces hidden away in them—often inconsistently. And I'll be really upset if it goes to print and I discover that I missed a single space someplace.
If a finished document should have larger spaces than are automatically generated by your typesetting engine and your font, then change your font, change your engine or change your stylesheet. If you're a coder you don't tolerate useless functions wasting cycles and space. I won't tolerate your extraneous spaces.
And so I end up forgetting to add html paragraph breaks to rant about typographic spacing. Perfect.
Don't do it.
Good typesetting is largely about eliminating unsightly gaps in the text, especially if text is justified, balancing hyphenation and spacing and line length and smaller adjustments. When you double space your sentences, all you do is add an extra step as your typographer does a search-and-replace to eliminate them. Yeah, web browsers do this automatically, but if your extra space sneaks its way into my indesign file it's just going to screw up the spacing that I have specified in the document styles, and likely carefully adjusted (if I'm doing my job well, anyway). Most likely I'm compiling several documents into one, and some of them have extra line breaks and spaces hidden away in them—often inconsistently. And I'll be really upset if it goes to print and I discover that I missed a single space someplace.
If a finished document should have larger spaces than are automatically generated by your typesetting engine and your font, then change your font, change your engine or change your stylesheet. If you're a coder you don't tolerate useless functions wasting cycles and space. I won't tolerate your extraneous spaces.
This story is about 12 year olds. Even if they are allowed in the state where they took place, I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that 12-year old girls are generally underrepresented in gun ownership as well as in accidental gun deaths and that perhaps these could be related.
You don't suppose this could have something to do with the fact that "Children are not allowed to possess a firearm unless in the presence of an adult" as the GGP put it?
HTML5 includes an XML model which is optional—much like the previous HTML 4/XHTML 1.x system. I expect many developers to use the XHTML syntax in their HTML5 projects for all of your reasons.
Meanwhile, the proposal for XHTML 2.0 was unsuccessful because it was created almost completely without regard for what browsers and coders were already doing—it's incompatible with previous formats, where HTML5 was designed in part to gracefully extend the old formats and incorporate emergent practices already in use on the web.
i don't understand a country where the figurehead of a FOREIGN country has some sort influence, even if symbolic. and even appears, still, on your money.
The Queen of Canada appears on our money, not simply the Queen of England nor the Queen of any other commonwealth country—although these are all the same person.
Over the 20th century various Canadian Governments made great efforts to separate themselves from a perceived role hierarchically below Britain, most notably in the Statute of Westminister of 1931 and the 1982 patriation of the constitution. Since the 1982 Constitution Act, the Queen is not permitted to be advised by any government other than that of Canada. When in Canada or acting internationally on Canada's behalf her expenses are paid by Canada's government. There is no Canadian law stating that the Queen must be the same as that of England or any other commonwealth realm, only an agreement says that commonwealth countries will not unilaterally change their succession.
Now play that same video in VLC on Windows or Linux. Your CPU usage will be way less than in OSX. Just because Flash sucks, but so does Apple's (old) video playback APIs.
Oh yes, I'm sure, especially on a several-years-old machine that doesn't actually support h.264 decoding in hardware, like the one mentioned above.
I have yet to see any significant use of Mac's, except as clients to log into Linux workstations. Almost all IC design and verification is done on some POSIX compliant OS because of the the requirements of the tools.
The Governor General's Award nominees pictured on the Canada Council website are old, because they are nominated for a major award for late-career artists. These are awards for career achievement, but the Canada Council is certainly more involved with the art scene here than you think and not just for olds. I'm employed by a non-profit artist-run centre staffed entirely by under-40s, most of us in our 20s, which is supported in part by the Canada Council as well as other federal, provincial and municipal government sources, private donors and members.
In any case, this isn't where the money goes in this case. The copyright board distributes the money through SOCAN. That means that any indie band that gets radio play (and that means a lot in Canada where the radio spectrum includes very healthy college and community radio stations distinct from their US counterparts as well as the CBC, all of which are mandated to play Canadian talent that doesn't make it onto commercial radio) will get some money. And they do—not always much, but a nice benefit and a stepping stone to a successful career.
There are perfectly good reasons to be opposed to this levy, or to dislike either the SOCAN or the federal arts-funding system (especially when the whole sector is destabilized by the expectation of unknown cuts to unknown areas, as we are now—makes budgeting tricky), but totally misunderstanding both isn't a great example.
Of course, but I never claimed to:
- be a scientist
- conduct studies
- believe the link between MMR and autism
I was previously talking about nonsense.
Fixed that for you.
Seriously. You aren't claiming anything, you're just suggesting something that you are denying having said you even believe. So why are you saying anything at all?
Because Flash is so widely used and commonly loaded, it crashes more than anything else on the mac, according to Apple's crash-reporting data. It's one of the stated reasons why apple made Safari load plugins seperately from the main application in 10.6 (the other being 64-bit compatability), because they crash so much. And the most used, most-crashy one is Flash.
Indeed, if Buffet's experience of paying a lower rate than his secretary is representative (and he believes it to be—he's willing to bet anyone a million bucks on it, allegedly), then the top 1% must be making a higher percentage of income than the percentage of taxes they pay.
But the original argument isn't playing the sexism card, it's just saying a male dominated environment turns off women. Makes sense, some people don't like the big ole arrow that gets placed on them if they're the only "other" in the room. More so with geek boy culture, which plays up the "can't get laid, fantasize about any with breasts" stereotype.
And this is not sexism? Geek boy culture emphasizing certain ideals of what masculine behavior is and discouraging people who don't want to behave that way from participating?
Sexism isn't just about direct, one-to-one discrimination.
So actually, the lack of females in comp sci may be more do to sexism against males then against females.
The problem with sexism isn't with who it's "against." Sexism is "against" everyone because a sexist society discourages people from doing what they like—or even having the chance to learn to like the things that they might.
The average male is less interested in being a nurse than the average female. Unless there is something such as discrimination turning away interested male applicants, this is the only reason more women would be in nursing than men.
Huh. Something such as discrimination. What an odd suggestion: it's not like people go around saying that being interested in nursing could be an indicator of being gay or anything. And even if that did happen, men totally don't mind it when people suggest that they are gay and there's no way that it would discourage them from following certain interests rather than others.
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Vimeo's html5 player supports seeking in un-downloaded videos. I don't know exactly how it works or why Youtube doesn't support it, but it's out there.
You are assuming the point-of-sale terminal is not bugged or modified to record everything you enter and/or swipe.
The chip card uses challenge-and-response authentication to check your pin internally. It cannot easily be cloned even if the device is bugged. The system's biggest vulnerability is that magstripe cards are still accepted because they are still as easy to fake as ever. In Canada they are becoming less common and in Europe quite rare (except for American tourists).
The EMV chip-and-pin system may have other vulnerabilities but it's introduction has dramatically reduced card fraud rates everywhere that it's been introduced.
Beyond the fact that there is no reason why fine art kids can't code, as other has pointed out, the whole point of the class is to learn technical skills.
I know most /.ers haven't gone to art school, but this is how four-year programs normally work (with some flexibility, obviously): In your first year, you take general intro courses that cover a whole lot of stuff to let you work out what you want to do. In your second year, you take intro courses to the disciplines—you learn how to mix paint or how to do basic carpentry or how to pull prints. Technical skills. In your third and fourth years you develop more abstract skills like composition or colour theory or conceptual theory and start working on increasingly self-directed projects and the technical elements ideally fall into the background.
I imagine that this course is a second or third-year type of thing. There seems to be a popular belief that artists should be making what is called "art" in the game-development process (concept art, modelling, animation, whatever). But that's not why these kids are going to school: it's not a technical college degree. They aren't studying to take a job in the industry, they are studying so that a few of them can go on to be Artists. Many of them will just end up with some other job, but that's not what they are studying.
If anything, this course should actively avoid teaching storytelling or visual techniques. The kids have other classes for that stuff which will be directly applicable to games, and the ones interested enough in interactive art or games to take the course already will have good ideas of that. This class needs to be about actually putting the bolts together to make it work. Just like an intro sculpture course is about carpentry and mould-making and construction. Art school is technical, but open-ended.
These students aren't looking for jobs as commercial artists (not primarily anyway) and their course shouldn't be structured around that. It is for people who want to build interactive video or installation art, or even those who want to produce indie games or act in lead game design positions. They have to know construction, and then they can worry about concept and composition in their 4th-year painting class or after graduation or whatever.
For someone who claims to be looking out for pedestrians, this idea sure seems backward in a punish-the-victims sense. Exactly the kind of thing cyclists have to put up with from people who claim to be looking out for their safety by restricting them.
HTML, also by not employing indentation at the start of paragraphs by, has steered people toward double-spacing between paragraphs. Print media prefers not to waste the line between paragraphs and sticks with indentation of the first line of paragraphs. Books tend to reserve double spacing between paragraphs for a change of scene within a chapter, and if it occurs at a page break, a line with one to five asterisks, spaced, is employed, on whichever page it will fit.
For the last decade we've had a thing called CSS and you can indent your first lines to your heart's desire. Typesetting software for books doesn't do it unless the designer asks for it either.
If your typeface makes your periods “nearly invisible” and your sentences “very difficult to distinguish”, your problem is not the number of spaces. Use a different typeface or fire your designer.
Meanwhile, the jury is out on whether one or two spaces makes text easier to read, but having gaps in your paragraphs—which is here your justification for double-spacing—has been shown to slow reading and reduce comprehension. Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Good typesetting is largely about eliminating unsightly gaps in the text, especially if text is justified, balancing hyphenation and spacing and line length and smaller adjustments. When you double space your sentences, all you do is add an extra step as your typographer does a search-and-replace to eliminate them. Yeah, web browsers do this automatically, but if your extra space sneaks its way into my indesign file it's just going to screw up the spacing that I have specified in the document styles, and likely carefully adjusted (if I'm doing my job well, anyway). Most likely I'm compiling several documents into one, and some of them have extra line breaks and spaces hidden away in them—often inconsistently. And I'll be really upset if it goes to print and I discover that I missed a single space someplace.
If a finished document should have larger spaces than are automatically generated by your typesetting engine and your font, then change your font, change your engine or change your stylesheet. If you're a coder you don't tolerate useless functions wasting cycles and space. I won't tolerate your extraneous spaces.
And so I end up forgetting to add html paragraph breaks to rant about typographic spacing. Perfect.
Don't do it. Good typesetting is largely about eliminating unsightly gaps in the text, especially if text is justified, balancing hyphenation and spacing and line length and smaller adjustments. When you double space your sentences, all you do is add an extra step as your typographer does a search-and-replace to eliminate them. Yeah, web browsers do this automatically, but if your extra space sneaks its way into my indesign file it's just going to screw up the spacing that I have specified in the document styles, and likely carefully adjusted (if I'm doing my job well, anyway). Most likely I'm compiling several documents into one, and some of them have extra line breaks and spaces hidden away in them—often inconsistently. And I'll be really upset if it goes to print and I discover that I missed a single space someplace. If a finished document should have larger spaces than are automatically generated by your typesetting engine and your font, then change your font, change your engine or change your stylesheet. If you're a coder you don't tolerate useless functions wasting cycles and space. I won't tolerate your extraneous spaces.
This story is about 12 year olds. Even if they are allowed in the state where they took place, I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that 12-year old girls are generally underrepresented in gun ownership as well as in accidental gun deaths and that perhaps these could be related.
You don't suppose this could have something to do with the fact that "Children are not allowed to possess a firearm unless in the presence of an adult" as the GGP put it?
Remember even 2010's IE8 has no HTML5, and IE9 won't support it well.
You should probably go look at MS's IE9 demo materials before you go making statements like this.
Most of the worst ideas in the history of the web have come from taking some web browser's 'working implementation' and making it part of a standard.
Yeah, like img. Man, what a bad idea that was.
HTML5 includes an XML model which is optional—much like the previous HTML 4/XHTML 1.x system. I expect many developers to use the XHTML syntax in their HTML5 projects for all of your reasons. Meanwhile, the proposal for XHTML 2.0 was unsuccessful because it was created almost completely without regard for what browsers and coders were already doing—it's incompatible with previous formats, where HTML5 was designed in part to gracefully extend the old formats and incorporate emergent practices already in use on the web.
i don't understand a country where the figurehead of a FOREIGN country has some sort influence, even if symbolic. and even appears, still, on your money.
The Queen of Canada appears on our money, not simply the Queen of England nor the Queen of any other commonwealth country—although these are all the same person.
Over the 20th century various Canadian Governments made great efforts to separate themselves from a perceived role hierarchically below Britain, most notably in the Statute of Westminister of 1931 and the 1982 patriation of the constitution. Since the 1982 Constitution Act, the Queen is not permitted to be advised by any government other than that of Canada. When in Canada or acting internationally on Canada's behalf her expenses are paid by Canada's government. There is no Canadian law stating that the Queen must be the same as that of England or any other commonwealth realm, only an agreement says that commonwealth countries will not unilaterally change their succession.
Now play that same video in VLC on Windows or Linux. Your CPU usage will be way less than in OSX. Just because Flash sucks, but so does Apple's (old) video playback APIs.
Oh yes, I'm sure, especially on a several-years-old machine that doesn't actually support h.264 decoding in hardware, like the one mentioned above.
I have yet to see any significant use of Mac's, except as clients to log into Linux workstations. Almost all IC design and verification is done on some POSIX compliant OS because of the the requirements of the tools.
Mac OS X is POSIX compliant.
The Governor General's Award nominees pictured on the Canada Council website are old, because they are nominated for a major award for late-career artists. These are awards for career achievement, but the Canada Council is certainly more involved with the art scene here than you think and not just for olds. I'm employed by a non-profit artist-run centre staffed entirely by under-40s, most of us in our 20s, which is supported in part by the Canada Council as well as other federal, provincial and municipal government sources, private donors and members.
In any case, this isn't where the money goes in this case. The copyright board distributes the money through SOCAN. That means that any indie band that gets radio play (and that means a lot in Canada where the radio spectrum includes very healthy college and community radio stations distinct from their US counterparts as well as the CBC, all of which are mandated to play Canadian talent that doesn't make it onto commercial radio) will get some money. And they do—not always much, but a nice benefit and a stepping stone to a successful career.
There are perfectly good reasons to be opposed to this levy, or to dislike either the SOCAN or the federal arts-funding system (especially when the whole sector is destabilized by the expectation of unknown cuts to unknown areas, as we are now—makes budgeting tricky), but totally misunderstanding both isn't a great example.
You forgot to mention several billion dollars in fines (over the entire period of the case); that card wasn't exactly "free"...
No no no, they got out of jail free as in speech, not free as in beer.
Of course, but I never claimed to: - be a scientist
- conduct studies
- believe the link between MMR and autism
I was previously talking about nonsense.
Fixed that for you.
Seriously. You aren't claiming anything, you're just suggesting something that you are denying having said you even believe. So why are you saying anything at all?
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Because Flash is so widely used and commonly loaded, it crashes more than anything else on the mac, according to Apple's crash-reporting data. It's one of the stated reasons why apple made Safari load plugins seperately from the main application in 10.6 (the other being 64-bit compatability), because they crash so much. And the most used, most-crashy one is Flash.
Indeed, if Buffet's experience of paying a lower rate than his secretary is representative (and he believes it to be—he's willing to bet anyone a million bucks on it, allegedly), then the top 1% must be making a higher percentage of income than the percentage of taxes they pay.
To summarize: you can't use SVG properly without XHTML, but there's no reason to use XHTML because it doesn't have any advantages over HTML.
Are you sure that this makes sense?
Wow! Grade school kids and university/college students and grads have different interests and different social behaviors. Who knew?
But the original argument isn't playing the sexism card, it's just saying a male dominated environment turns off women. Makes sense, some people don't like the big ole arrow that gets placed on them if they're the only "other" in the room. More so with geek boy culture, which plays up the "can't get laid, fantasize about any with breasts" stereotype.
And this is not sexism? Geek boy culture emphasizing certain ideals of what masculine behavior is and discouraging people who don't want to behave that way from participating?
Sexism isn't just about direct, one-to-one discrimination.
So actually, the lack of females in comp sci may be more do to sexism against males then against females.
The problem with sexism isn't with who it's "against." Sexism is "against" everyone because a sexist society discourages people from doing what they like—or even having the chance to learn to like the things that they might.
The average male is less interested in being a nurse than the average female. Unless there is something such as discrimination turning away interested male applicants, this is the only reason more women would be in nursing than men.
Huh. Something such as discrimination. What an odd suggestion: it's not like people go around saying that being interested in nursing could be an indicator of being gay or anything. And even if that did happen, men totally don't mind it when people suggest that they are gay and there's no way that it would discourage them from following certain interests rather than others.