Sustainabilility isn't about efficiency, its about making sure we don't use up all our resources. It maybe true that at the moment recyling isn't efficient but without investment what do you expect?
Sustainability is about using local produce so not to waste fuel on traveling. Reusing resources whenever possible (resusing clothes, computer parts, glasses etc...), Using resources effeciently (having a boiler/central heating in every house is a total waste of energy (inbodied enery in making so many boilers and heating up water with gas, it is far more efficient to have a massive woodchip boiler at the end of every road and pump hot water to the houses). Recyclings is one of the last, and least important and effective measures to do but happens that is one of the only ones people are prepared to do.
Chinese philosophy of not given its citizens many rights its one of the worst things about the country, but there ability to do good is also alot greater, I think that this is one of the examples of the advantages.
If we are all going to live on this planet I don't think we can all do what we like or the planet is going to run out of resources. Sometimes we need to be told/made to do things that we dont want to (Like polution and population control) and china have acted quickly and sensibly on both these issues.
We might see it as not having any rights or an abuse, but the same thing (just to a lesser extent) happen in the west anyway
Yeah, the * html is the only hack I use, so it will be the first thing i test for. Seeing as it looks like full standards complience is a pipe dream I hope they dont just fix half of it!
ALL OR NOTHING is what i hope or it will make my life a nightmare.
The problem is, that the average user will have an old Windows XP (not SP1 or SP2 cd) and so it doesn't come with a good firewall and its not even on.
I thought that I would have enough time to connect to windows update and download the updates before getting infected by saffer or ms blaster but I was wrong. It only took about 10 minutes to get infected.
A webdeveloper shouldn't be checking the UA string at all.
Javascript should be made using object detection and built by default to work (degraded but still usable) and CSS should be built to standards with 'fail-safe' hacks to make it work in all major browsers.
Unfortunatly time pressures and the shear amount of crazy browser bugs (in ALL browsers) can sometimes make this hard.
Surely Microsoft have learnt by now that UA detection just doesn't cut it anymore.
I really hope IE7 has improved its standards compatibility so I don't have to change to much of my code! (Hopefully none of it, if MS have done a good job)
We can only cross our fingers and hope it will pass the acid2 test (at the very least have improved some of its css)!
The problem is that after you format and reinstall with your windows xp cd, by the time you have connected to windows update and downloaded the updates you'll have gotten re-infected.
The only way I can format these days is because I know how to disable the vulnerabilities before i connect online
Yeah, after looking at it in Firefox, I can see s/he had made an effort to get it to work.
I think it is a good step in controling the look and feel of a form, but to what end? Having a form that doesn;t look at all familiar could serve to confuse users if used badly, but I guess that is true of most things. Hopefully these things will be used to improve the user experience.
I'm the poster, and I'm using Opera. Plus it didn't work properly in IE either.
Looks like it works in Firefox but I dont count 1 out of 3 (not tested Safari) as great. Something should at least work in IE, Firefox and Safari for me to consider using it.
I don't have enough time to troll through lots of music for the few wicked bands I know are out there, and I want music of the same quality as I can get from a CD.
The day they start providing such a service is the day I start buying music again (I don't download or buy music in protest of the lame state of the music industry today)
One thing I would add to that is, Once you have paid for a track you should be able to re-download it again if for some reason your computer dies etc (maybe at the fraction of the cost of the first time you did it to compensate for the bandwidth)
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Well, you can do what you probably did with windows at some point in your life and pirate it http://www.torrentreactor.net/view.php?id=5014587, see if you like it, and then use Linux
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doublethink, they tought you well!
What do you think about India?
Not to mention China is in the middle of a industrail revelution and is 'factory of the world' and has over 1 billion people in it.
America is so much worse than China it hurts
Sustainability is about using local produce so not to waste fuel on traveling. Reusing resources whenever possible (resusing clothes, computer parts, glasses etc...), Using resources effeciently (having a boiler/central heating in every house is a total waste of energy (inbodied enery in making so many boilers and heating up water with gas, it is far more efficient to have a massive woodchip boiler at the end of every road and pump hot water to the houses). Recyclings is one of the last, and least important and effective measures to do but happens that is one of the only ones people are prepared to do.
If we are all going to live on this planet I don't think we can all do what we like or the planet is going to run out of resources. Sometimes we need to be told/made to do things that we dont want to (Like polution and population control) and china have acted quickly and sensibly on both these issues.
We might see it as not having any rights or an abuse, but the same thing (just to a lesser extent) happen in the west anyway
ALL OR NOTHING is what i hope or it will make my life a nightmare.
Plus we make our websites to strict guidelines, which include the website running with either JS or CSS disabled, so i don't think it would work.
I thought that I would have enough time to connect to windows update and download the updates before getting infected by saffer or ms blaster but I was wrong. It only took about 10 minutes to get infected.
Javascript should be made using object detection and built by default to work (degraded but still usable) and CSS should be built to standards with 'fail-safe' hacks to make it work in all major browsers.
Unfortunatly time pressures and the shear amount of crazy browser bugs (in ALL browsers) can sometimes make this hard.
I really hope IE7 has improved its standards compatibility so I don't have to change to much of my code! (Hopefully none of it, if MS have done a good job)
We can only cross our fingers and hope it will pass the acid2 test (at the very least have improved some of its css)!
The only way I can format these days is because I know how to disable the vulnerabilities before i connect online
It just stinks of 1984. Tell blatant lies enough and people just believe it even though they know its not true.
I pretty sure the issue with Napster wasn;t the same at all. They used to initiate and coordinate the downloading.
Definitely, its a awesome book. Definitely worth a read.
I think it is a good step in controling the look and feel of a form, but to what end? Having a form that doesn;t look at all familiar could serve to confuse users if used badly, but I guess that is true of most things. Hopefully these things will be used to improve the user experience.
Sorry, they use it alot in one of my fav. books Red Mars. I been thinking in terms of carrots and sticks for a few years now.
Looks like it works in Firefox but I dont count 1 out of 3 (not tested Safari) as great. Something should at least work in IE, Firefox and Safari for me to consider using it.
Okay already, enough stick. Can we please have some carrots now?
10,000 not enough for you?
Well he could whistle something simple to start a program that could have done the rest? at least in theory
I don't have enough time to troll through lots of music for the few wicked bands I know are out there, and I want music of the same quality as I can get from a CD.
The day they start providing such a service is the day I start buying music again (I don't download or buy music in protest of the lame state of the music industry today)
One thing I would add to that is,
Once you have paid for a track you should be able to re-download it again if for some reason your computer dies etc (maybe at the fraction of the cost of the first time you did it to compensate for the bandwidth)
In England you can claim Squatters Rights if a house is emtpy and you enter it, if however, you break in and then sleep, it is Tresspass.