Yep - whether that is good or bad is up to the reader.
I visited Brownells.com, a major firearms parts distributor, last week while at a gun show, and imagine my surprise when I encountered their iPhone-tailored mobile site. It actually worked better than their full site...
I agree with you in concept - use the limitations of the smaller screen to pare down your content to what's really important, then question everything you add to the full-sized version.
Back in the days when I was a full-time web dev, I would generally start a document as raw HTML, and let the browser choose default styling. Once I had everything on the document I needed, only then would I start applying CSS and Javascript. Of course, the standards aren't equally supported, and some hacks were needed for practicality, and I ended up moving some things around here and there, but the idea was to build a document that could essentially be used on a text terminal, and work up into a full-fledged web page with all the whiz-bang functionality that the modern web has to offer.
"From a personal standpoint" - I don't use the above sites. That's not koolaid, that's a personal usage pattern.
I wouldn't recommend an iPhone to someone who needed one of the above sites. Indeed, I wouldn't recommend AT&T at all - their network isn't up to it in my area.
That's not a huge stumbling block, AFAIK. There is no reason you couldn't hardware decode Ogg/Theora, and I would be willing to bet the support would be there if it became the standard.
I admit I'm a bit out of my league on this part though. I'm a web developer, this discussion is a bit closer to bare metal than I'm used to.
If the government was properly limited to its moral role, and using the tax code to generate revenue instead of a means to modify behavior, this wouldn't be a problem, now would it?
Name a popular flash-only site than a majority of iPhone users visit on a regular basis on their desktop or laptop.
YouTube works on iPhone, and Safari for iPhone supports HTML5. From an industry perspective, iPhone's lack of Flash is a *good* thing. From a personal standpoint, as an iPhone user, its a small negative - something that would be nice, but to be honest, I don't really miss.
That's part of what makes Open Source what it is, though. By making your code available to be used by those who share you goals, you also open it up to be used by those who don't. That's not a problem, that's the nature of the beast.
All they've done is forked the project and turned it into something else. If that something else gains support and becomes the leader in that area, it will have done so because it is better - not necessarily technically better, mind you, but better supported, better marketed, or better funded.
If you don't like the product, you're free to fork it. That's the part of the GPL that sets it apart - it prevents one company from monopolizing a codebase by allowing *anyone* to give it a shot -- even people you don't like.
The person complaining about benefits and welfare certainly do mean those programs. Sampling bias - the people complaining about welfare are the ones that identify the above as part of it.
Someone has their facts wrong, or has deliberately redefined "welfare" to include only one small sliver. Lets take a look at 2009, shall we?
$644 billion - Social Security $408 billion - Medicare $224 billion - Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) $360 billion - Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending $260 billion - Interest on National Debt
$1,896 billion - Total mandatory spending
Compared to that, the entire rest of the budget is "only" $1,210 billion - and over half of *that* is either Dept. of Defense, or piecemeal appropriations for the "Global War on Terror".
Well over 75% of the 2009 budget was welfare, defense spending, and interest on the national debt.
NASA's 2009 appropriation was $17.6b, or just shy of 6/10th of 1 percent of the total.
No, I was speaking of the Fifth. I supposed that advocates of inspection would say that it was not unreasonable, so I used a different defense -- that proactively allowing law enforcement into the home is tantamount to forcing someone to bear witness against themselves.
You and I clearly just disagree on this, and that's fine. I long for and will continue to work towards a goal of a US where any adult citizen can purchase a automatic rifle by exchanging money and nothing else. While the consequences of this would not be nearly so dire as my opponents would suggest, they are also irrelevant. Safety and comfort are not guaranteed in a free society. I would rather have Liberty than safety any day of the week.
Oh, I'm a gun nut alright, but I'm pretty low on the paranoid scale. I don't really consider the UN to be a viable threat to my civil rights.
I'm more concerned about long-term trends in American politics. I'm active, and I make sure my voice is heard - but I also believe that government regulation of firearms is a negative trend at this point, and that I will see pre-1934-style regulation on a federal level before I die.
As for the tough-guy rhetoric - it would never happen like this. Pure mental masturbation.
I find this system to be completely intrusive and unnecessary, as an American.
No criminal record is acceptable, I suppose, though here in the US that bar seems to be getting lower and lower over time. When it was limited to felonies, and felonies were violent crimes, that was fine. But now it is expanded to white-collar crimes and domestic assault that results in a misdemeanor.
No failed psych eval makes sense, but again - that bar keeps getting lower too. I've heard tales of ex-military being denied a weapon because of a decade-old PTSD diagnosis. This only makes it less likely for them to seek treatment.
Safe storage? Fifth Amendment. No law enforcement officer will ever enter my home unless they have a warrant or are acting on an emergency.
Working knowledge of guns? How do you propose to measure this? Anyone who can read can have a "working knowledge of firearms and their use" in about 30 minutes. Sounds like an arbitrary test, to me. One that can be manipulated by whomever is responsible for administering it.
See, we Americans have a widespread cultural mistrust of government.
I don't share his beliefs on religion and government - I'm closer to an Objectivist than anything else - but he is the *only* person on television that regularly speaks about the libertarian ideas that America is founded on.
The arbitrary rules are in places because most people can't handle the freedom on a complex computing device. They download Kazaa and end up with all kinds of stuff soap won't wash off.
Jailbreaking is trivial because Apple didn't try to lock the device from hackers - only lock it to the point were your grandma and your 13-year-old can't break it surfing the net.
Out of the box, the iPhone is better on the whole than any other phone I've used. It lacks tethering, though, and that's the reason I jailbroke it. If my choice was between the iPhone w/o tethering and another smartphone (say, a Droid or Nexus One), I'd still go with the iPhone.
That said, I'm following Android closely, and liking what I see.
Beck has his moments of incredulity, but a good portion of what he has to say is just basic conservatism. Olberman, on the other hand, just seems to mock and take cheap shots at his opposition.
You inability to see that they are both approximately the same distance from center tells me that you must lean quite far to the left yourself.
As for Palin "taking the spotlight" from Obama --- well, that's because the spotlight was on Obama by default.
I'm sure you surmise much from my sig, but the fact is, I have just about equal hate for both parties. Democrats have no right to tax me to pay for someone else's healthcare or to regulate my exhalations, and Republicans have no right to tax me to bail out banks, or to fund the development of other countries.
Hell, the "religious right" is as foreign to me as it is to you, I assure you. I live in a "dry" county, where liquor sales are illegal. I fight with those nutjobs on a regular basis over the ideas of Liberty and individual rights.
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Yep - whether that is good or bad is up to the reader.
I visited Brownells.com, a major firearms parts distributor, last week while at a gun show, and imagine my surprise when I encountered their iPhone-tailored mobile site. It actually worked better than their full site...
I agree with you in concept - use the limitations of the smaller screen to pare down your content to what's really important, then question everything you add to the full-sized version.
Back in the days when I was a full-time web dev, I would generally start a document as raw HTML, and let the browser choose default styling. Once I had everything on the document I needed, only then would I start applying CSS and Javascript. Of course, the standards aren't equally supported, and some hacks were needed for practicality, and I ended up moving some things around here and there, but the idea was to build a document that could essentially be used on a text terminal, and work up into a full-fledged web page with all the whiz-bang functionality that the modern web has to offer.
I'm not aware of any way to make Flash work on the iPhone, so they must be serving h.264 through some mechanism. It may not be HTML5, though.
I never once advocated the format - you have one hell of a large chip on your shoulder there. I was just pointing out that Mozilla was pushing it.
Granted. And Netflix.
But thank God, because AT&T's network is already slow enough :)
That's going to be an even bigger issue for the iPad, though.
"From a personal standpoint" - I don't use the above sites. That's not koolaid, that's a personal usage pattern.
I wouldn't recommend an iPhone to someone who needed one of the above sites. Indeed, I wouldn't recommend AT&T at all - their network isn't up to it in my area.
That's not a huge stumbling block, AFAIK. There is no reason you couldn't hardware decode Ogg/Theora, and I would be willing to bet the support would be there if it became the standard.
I admit I'm a bit out of my league on this part though. I'm a web developer, this discussion is a bit closer to bare metal than I'm used to.
But they've heard of h.264?
The target audience here isn't the general public, its the standards organization and the browser development management teams.
If the government was properly limited to its moral role, and using the tax code to generate revenue instead of a means to modify behavior, this wouldn't be a problem, now would it?
I believe so - and the Mozilla folks are pushing for Ogg/Theora as a standard format.
Name a popular flash-only site than a majority of iPhone users visit on a regular basis on their desktop or laptop.
YouTube works on iPhone, and Safari for iPhone supports HTML5. From an industry perspective, iPhone's lack of Flash is a *good* thing. From a personal standpoint, as an iPhone user, its a small negative - something that would be nice, but to be honest, I don't really miss.
That's part of what makes Open Source what it is, though. By making your code available to be used by those who share you goals, you also open it up to be used by those who don't. That's not a problem, that's the nature of the beast.
All they've done is forked the project and turned it into something else. If that something else gains support and becomes the leader in that area, it will have done so because it is better - not necessarily technically better, mind you, but better supported, better marketed, or better funded.
If you don't like the product, you're free to fork it. That's the part of the GPL that sets it apart - it prevents one company from monopolizing a codebase by allowing *anyone* to give it a shot -- even people you don't like.
Better to educate than to ridicule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_security
Debt instruments are a liquid asset, and heavily traded.
The person complaining about benefits and welfare certainly do mean those programs. Sampling bias - the people complaining about welfare are the ones that identify the above as part of it.
Four hours, and not even a "Funny" moderation.
Even on a nerd site, I suspect most people simply didn't know this was irony.
Someone has their facts wrong, or has deliberately redefined "welfare" to include only one small sliver. Lets take a look at 2009, shall we?
$644 billion - Social Security
$408 billion - Medicare
$224 billion - Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
$360 billion - Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending
$260 billion - Interest on National Debt
$1,896 billion - Total mandatory spending
Compared to that, the entire rest of the budget is "only" $1,210 billion - and over half of *that* is either Dept. of Defense, or piecemeal appropriations for the "Global War on Terror".
Well over 75% of the 2009 budget was welfare, defense spending, and interest on the national debt.
NASA's 2009 appropriation was $17.6b, or just shy of 6/10th of 1 percent of the total.
Yes, because Toyota has built a name in quality. Rumors of people going runaway off bridges in their Highlanders would have the same result.
There is a difference between demanding that your own rights be respected, and demanding that someone else take action to make you feel comfortable.
You are perfectly free to give away your own Liberty in exchange for whatever you'd like - but you are most emphatically *not* free to give up mine.
No, I was speaking of the Fifth. I supposed that advocates of inspection would say that it was not unreasonable, so I used a different defense -- that proactively allowing law enforcement into the home is tantamount to forcing someone to bear witness against themselves.
You and I clearly just disagree on this, and that's fine. I long for and will continue to work towards a goal of a US where any adult citizen can purchase a automatic rifle by exchanging money and nothing else. While the consequences of this would not be nearly so dire as my opponents would suggest, they are also irrelevant. Safety and comfort are not guaranteed in a free society. I would rather have Liberty than safety any day of the week.
Oh, I'm a gun nut alright, but I'm pretty low on the paranoid scale. I don't really consider the UN to be a viable threat to my civil rights.
I'm more concerned about long-term trends in American politics. I'm active, and I make sure my voice is heard - but I also believe that government regulation of firearms is a negative trend at this point, and that I will see pre-1934-style regulation on a federal level before I die.
As for the tough-guy rhetoric - it would never happen like this. Pure mental masturbation.
I find this system to be completely intrusive and unnecessary, as an American.
No criminal record is acceptable, I suppose, though here in the US that bar seems to be getting lower and lower over time. When it was limited to felonies, and felonies were violent crimes, that was fine. But now it is expanded to white-collar crimes and domestic assault that results in a misdemeanor.
No failed psych eval makes sense, but again - that bar keeps getting lower too. I've heard tales of ex-military being denied a weapon because of a decade-old PTSD diagnosis. This only makes it less likely for them to seek treatment.
Safe storage? Fifth Amendment. No law enforcement officer will ever enter my home unless they have a warrant or are acting on an emergency.
Working knowledge of guns? How do you propose to measure this? Anyone who can read can have a "working knowledge of firearms and their use" in about 30 minutes. Sounds like an arbitrary test, to me. One that can be manipulated by whomever is responsible for administering it.
See, we Americans have a widespread cultural mistrust of government.
I don't share his beliefs on religion and government - I'm closer to an Objectivist than anything else - but he is the *only* person on television that regularly speaks about the libertarian ideas that America is founded on.
The arbitrary rules are in places because most people can't handle the freedom on a complex computing device. They download Kazaa and end up with all kinds of stuff soap won't wash off.
Jailbreaking is trivial because Apple didn't try to lock the device from hackers - only lock it to the point were your grandma and your 13-year-old can't break it surfing the net.
Out of the box, the iPhone is better on the whole than any other phone I've used. It lacks tethering, though, and that's the reason I jailbroke it. If my choice was between the iPhone w/o tethering and another smartphone (say, a Droid or Nexus One), I'd still go with the iPhone.
That said, I'm following Android closely, and liking what I see.
Beck has his moments of incredulity, but a good portion of what he has to say is just basic conservatism. Olberman, on the other hand, just seems to mock and take cheap shots at his opposition.
You inability to see that they are both approximately the same distance from center tells me that you must lean quite far to the left yourself.
As for Palin "taking the spotlight" from Obama --- well, that's because the spotlight was on Obama by default.
I'm sure you surmise much from my sig, but the fact is, I have just about equal hate for both parties. Democrats have no right to tax me to pay for someone else's healthcare or to regulate my exhalations, and Republicans have no right to tax me to bail out banks, or to fund the development of other countries.
Hell, the "religious right" is as foreign to me as it is to you, I assure you. I live in a "dry" county, where liquor sales are illegal. I fight with those nutjobs on a regular basis over the ideas of Liberty and individual rights.