You're not a professional. Actual professionals (>95% of people who say they are, aren't) use the actual specifications from the W3C, WhatWG (yeah, unfortunately), and the Mozilla Developer Network. (Or whoever designed the specific API/language.)
Yeah, right. Who cares whether it works, so long as it's consistent with the spec?
I'm not defending w3schools – I also avoid them like the plague. But sites like quirksmode.org which offer browser compatibility tables and documentation of known bugs are invaluable.
...the US university system, of which there is no peer.
The UK? It has 4 out of the top 6 in the latest world university rankings, and in proportion to population it seems on a quick scan to hold its own in the top 50.
How do you know the question asker isn't in Canada? They seem to assume that all/. readers are also mind readers who can answer "Is this legal?" without being told which jurisdictions are relevant.
Obviously, corporations are not people are not companies are not businesses, otherwise we wouldn't make the point of distinguishing them with different names.
That's about as obvious as humans not being people, because we distinguish them with different names. You may reach the right conclusion, but it's not for the right reason.
Or, possibly, they're looking for people who code a lot in their spare time instead of only doing the programming required of them in their degree
No, because as far as HR are concerned the 1000 hours of spare time you spent on your personal project don't count as experience in anything. If it's not for a company, it didn't happen.
Sorry, my post wasn't fit for an international audience. Silicon Fen already exists, has for some time, and is the home of one or two well-known companies (most notably ARM).
BTW Silicon Ben is less obvious than you might think, because it's also a common prefix in the names of Scottish mountains.
That's funny: their currently available stats place Spain at 11.65Mb/s, which is an order of magnitude more than you stated. (Greece, at 5.73, is only half an order of magnitude more).
Sure they have some states that are better, but they also have some crappy states (like Greece, Spain) that are a mere 1-2 Mbit/s.
Source? I'm in Spain and I could have 50Mbit/s if I switched to ONO. (I can't be bothered: 20Mb/s with Jazztel is good enough for me). Maybe it's 2Mb/s if you average over everyone, including those who choose to live so far out in the sticks that they don't have running water, but I'd like to see the figures.
I tried just about every non-linear video editor I could find in the Ubuntu package repository a couple of years ago and settled on Kdenlive. I didn't realise Blender had one, though. What does Blender's do better?
The widespread opposition to ID cards in the UK, probably a world leader in mass surveillance, <snip/> is unfathomable to the rest of us. Especially considering that people in these countries already have government-issued IDs that serve as de facto ID cards (driver licences, NI/SS cards, etc.).
From a UK perspective it's a combination of culture and abuse of language. The cultural side is that we associate ID cards with wartime restrictions. But the more important factor is the abuse of language.
"ID cards" in recent UK political discourse was a proxy phrase: the actual cards were the visible part backed by a database which would tie together databases from different government departments (worrying privacy campaigners); store biometric data which up to that point wasn't collected; and impose non-trivial fines on people who failed to keep their entry in the database updated. If the database had been kept to the minimum number of fields and the fines removed, it might have been popular - only having to notify one government body when you move house would be more convenient than the current system. If the database had been eliminated and the ID cards been just ID cards (without all the biometrics) - essentially a credit-card sized mini-passport for use within the EU - it might have been popular; personally I would love such an ID card. But Blair's government overreached, and it will be a good few years before a government can risk reintroducing the concept, even scaled back to mere cards.
PS UK cities may have a lot of surveillance, but most of it is far worse quality than you probably think.
I've thought for a while that it might make sense to use an Android phone as a HID for a Raspberry Pi for presentations through a projector. My phone doesn't output to a projector and the bulk of a keyboard is a portability problem for the RPi, but phone and RPi together take up less than half the space of a netbook.
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They're going for about 5 GBP on eBay, so don't get your hopes up.
They're late to the party. I saw the One Ring for sale in a souk in Muscat about seven years ago. In fact, that shop had at least two of them...
Yeah, right. Who cares whether it works, so long as it's consistent with the spec?
I'm not defending w3schools – I also avoid them like the plague. But sites like quirksmode.org which offer browser compatibility tables and documentation of known bugs are invaluable.
They are moving us to a new smoking area.
I was looking at http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings. How can you take a ranking table seriously which puts Oxford above Cambridge? ;)
...the US university system, of which there is no peer.
The UK? It has 4 out of the top 6 in the latest world university rankings, and in proportion to population it seems on a quick scan to hold its own in the top 50.
How do you know the question asker isn't in Canada? They seem to assume that all /. readers are also mind readers who can answer "Is this legal?" without being told which jurisdictions are relevant.
The construction predates Mythics, so there may be some new cards which allow it to be optimised.
This is very definitely olds for nerds. But then you didn't read the article, so you didn't see the date.
Tried to get it fixed and they said I wasn't a reliable enough source on my own fscking work!
Two words: George Lucas.
Obviously, corporations are not people are not companies are not businesses, otherwise we wouldn't make the point of distinguishing them with different names.
That's about as obvious as humans not being people, because we distinguish them with different names. You may reach the right conclusion, but it's not for the right reason.
Or, possibly, they're looking for people who code a lot in their spare time instead of only doing the programming required of them in their degree
No, because as far as HR are concerned the 1000 hours of spare time you spent on your personal project don't count as experience in anything. If it's not for a company, it didn't happen.
Sorry, my post wasn't fit for an international audience. Silicon Fen already exists, has for some time, and is the home of one or two well-known companies (most notably ARM).
BTW Silicon Ben is less obvious than you might think, because it's also a common prefix in the names of Scottish mountains.
What about Silicon Fen? Just an hour by train from Liverpool Street or King's Cross, and not likely to launch an independence campaign.
What about sub-prime mortgages?
When was the last time we needed you? What were the stakes?
Afghanistan and Iraq: support in the UN and on the ground? Or special rendition flights refuelling in Scotland?
When was the last time you needed us? What were the stakes?
The Falklands: support in the UN and the purchase of a few missiles?
That's funny: their currently available stats place Spain at 11.65Mb/s, which is an order of magnitude more than you stated. (Greece, at 5.73, is only half an order of magnitude more).
That's not so good - about 0.85Mb/s.
Source? I'm in Spain and I could have 50Mbit/s if I switched to ONO. (I can't be bothered: 20Mb/s with Jazztel is good enough for me). Maybe it's 2Mb/s if you average over everyone, including those who choose to live so far out in the sticks that they don't have running water, but I'd like to see the figures.
Mathematics requires thought, design, and artistry, but that doesn't make it patentable.
I tried just about every non-linear video editor I could find in the Ubuntu package repository a couple of years ago and settled on Kdenlive. I didn't realise Blender had one, though. What does Blender's do better?
The widespread opposition to ID cards in the UK, probably a world leader in mass surveillance, <snip /> is unfathomable to the rest of us. Especially considering that people in these countries already have government-issued IDs that serve as de facto ID cards (driver licences, NI/SS cards, etc.).
From a UK perspective it's a combination of culture and abuse of language. The cultural side is that we associate ID cards with wartime restrictions. But the more important factor is the abuse of language.
"ID cards" in recent UK political discourse was a proxy phrase: the actual cards were the visible part backed by a database which would tie together databases from different government departments (worrying privacy campaigners); store biometric data which up to that point wasn't collected; and impose non-trivial fines on people who failed to keep their entry in the database updated. If the database had been kept to the minimum number of fields and the fines removed, it might have been popular - only having to notify one government body when you move house would be more convenient than the current system. If the database had been eliminated and the ID cards been just ID cards (without all the biometrics) - essentially a credit-card sized mini-passport for use within the EU - it might have been popular; personally I would love such an ID card. But Blair's government overreached, and it will be a good few years before a government can risk reintroducing the concept, even scaled back to mere cards.
PS UK cities may have a lot of surveillance, but most of it is far worse quality than you probably think.
If they let us mod the articles most of them would be -1 Off-topic or -1 Flamebait. So they're not going to let us mod the articles.
What would be interesting is to attempt to reproduce this in a different country.
I've thought for a while that it might make sense to use an Android phone as a HID for a Raspberry Pi for presentations through a projector. My phone doesn't output to a projector and the bulk of a keyboard is a portability problem for the RPi, but phone and RPi together take up less than half the space of a netbook.