I would have considered River and Simon to be the MAIN characters, considering their roles in the story. Malcom, Zoey, Jane and Inara were more than supporting roles also.
There were quite a few main characters present at the funeral.
HTML 4 + stuff in HTML 5 that's already been agreed on.
The problem is that it's not a finalized standard and as we've seen in the tag, there is anything but a consensus about what it should support. If each vendor goes their own way, then we'll be back to the IE6 glory days where sites either had conditionals for IE or they didn't support any other browser.
Maybe you're comfortable supporting a non-standard, but I'm not. I'm currently aiming for xhtml 1.0 strict compliance and if it doesn't validate, it doesn't get published. The reason is simple. I want the page to be compatible with all modern browsers, not just the browser du jour. The problem with a rolling spec is that you're aiming at a moving target.
The only way to manage that situation is to choose the lowest common denominator of features that the majority of browsers support...and probably a bit lower than that so you don't exclude too many.
I've had this argument before, and it's pointless...HTML will become like the meaningless term "Web 2.0"... With no standard, it will become a buzzword open to interpretation and won't actually mean anything. Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple are going to fuck this up thoroughly in hope that a clear winner of the new browser war emerges.
The battle ground is the web and casualties will be our websites.
...they are all politicians, and everything they do, or try to do,...
is generally a lie to their constituents and designed to increase their own influence and power or the influence and power of their party and/or corporate sponsors.
It's scary to think that people are gullible enough to believe them election after election. I'm, personally, sick of voting for the perceived lesser of two evils. Electing a good candidate would be nice for a change.....
Sadly, an honest politician does not exist....with the possible exception of the Paul family.
I realise that it's the Android Market, and that Google runs the show, so the myriad of Adsense serving garbage will probably never get removed. I'm just saying that if every Tom, Dick and Harry releases a Hello Adsense app in the market nobody wins.....except Adsense.
11 "Sexy Football" apps by sexy-apps.com - really...... 5 additional "Sexy Apps" by a different developer called "Sexy Apps" 642 "Sexy/Hot Girls" apps by developer "Android Apps"
All that from 1 search term....and I didn't even scratch the surface.
I've spent time just browsing apps and trying them out. Most of the time I remove them because the obvious purpose of the app is to serve ads. Some to the extent that the app doesn't function. Don't get me wrong, many free apps are tastefully sprinkled with ads....and I don't mind that. Ads in Angry Birds cover up some of the window and make it difficult to play the game, but not impossible.
Some apps, however, leave the game screen (not paused) and launch a browser window to serve up ads.
If Google wants quantity and quality, they'll need to implement some form of quality control.
Who cares if they have as many/more apps as Apple if 99.999% of them are garbage.
Not that I have an issue with hot babes, but there are a ton of pseudo-porn apps in the android market. Sometimes many by the same developer. If they want to raise their profile by catching up in quantity and quality, they should set some standards and use the rating system to remove some of the junk that's come to litter the market.
Over the weekend, I attempted two different "Lemmings" apps which were both garbage - all the reviews said they were garbage and I left my own saying the same thing. When an app gets nothing but negative reviews, it should go.
My satellite receiver is not connected to the phone line or ethernet in my house. It took several months to arrange broadband at home. When I finally got it, I decided not to connect the satellite receiver, or the blue-ray player.
1. I don't want my family going hog-wild with pay-per-view movies. 2. I don't want the blue-ray manufacturer knowing what movies I watch. If they want that info, they can offer pay me for it (and I'll still say no). 3. I don't want the satellite provider to know what I'm watching or recording. If they want that info, blah blah blah (see above). 4. I don't want to hear about how netflix doesn't play well (it's not very reliable broadband)
His point is valid. You can't store data to the cloud if you're not connected. This would alienate customers who don't have broadband....unless Sony plans on giving people broadband.
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Depends on the headers sent with the video.
One of my clients requires that streamed videos not be stored on the client machines.
What's a Beiber?
They've gone to plaid!
Sometimes data isn't intended to be written to a disk.
Do you save-to-disk every YouTube video you watch?
You mean this?
The one where they killed off all the main characters, don't you keep up with things?
Funny, I don't see the word major in that sentence anywhere.
Why worry about prequels? The movie ending left the door open to future episodes (without Wash and Book).
Main characters die....bummer.
I'd love to see new Firefly episodes because it would get Summer Glau off of that crap show "The Cape"
Wow...
So, Wash and Book were all the main characters?
I would have considered River and Simon to be the MAIN characters, considering their roles in the story. Malcom, Zoey, Jane and Inara were more than supporting roles also.
There were quite a few main characters present at the funeral.
The year 2620 will be nice.
We will finally have done away with Uranus jokes, because the planet gets renamed to Urectum.
You may not like this, but a warrant signed by a judge *is* due process.
Certainly, due process for the 10 domains the judge signed the warrant for.
The other 84,000, not so much.
HTML 4 + stuff in HTML 5 that's already been agreed on.
The problem is that it's not a finalized standard and as we've seen in the tag, there is anything but a consensus about what it should support. If each vendor goes their own way, then we'll be back to the IE6 glory days where sites either had conditionals for IE or they didn't support any other browser.
Maybe you're comfortable supporting a non-standard, but I'm not. I'm currently aiming for xhtml 1.0 strict compliance and if it doesn't validate, it doesn't get published. The reason is simple. I want the page to be compatible with all modern browsers, not just the browser du jour. The problem with a rolling spec is that you're aiming at a moving target.
The only way to manage that situation is to choose the lowest common denominator of features that the majority of browsers support...and probably a bit lower than that so you don't exclude too many.
I've had this argument before, and it's pointless...HTML will become like the meaningless term "Web 2.0"... With no standard, it will become a buzzword open to interpretation and won't actually mean anything. Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple are going to fuck this up thoroughly in hope that a clear winner of the new browser war emerges.
The battle ground is the web and casualties will be our websites.
That was WHATWG who proposed dropping version numbers.
Per Ian Jacobs the W3C HTMLWG has no plans to follow the WHATWG versionless path.
You can read about it here.
http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/02/html5-will-be-done-in-2014-what-comes-next/
At least it's got a version number. I'd much rather wait than have a numberless living HTML zombie to support.
...they are all politicians, and everything they do, or try to do, ...
is generally a lie to their constituents and designed to increase their own influence and power or the influence and power of their party and/or corporate sponsors.
It's scary to think that people are gullible enough to believe them election after election. I'm, personally, sick of voting for the perceived lesser of two evils. Electing a good candidate would be nice for a change.....
Sadly, an honest politician does not exist....with the possible exception of the Paul family.
And other perks, like the free safety nets.
But I have to search for updates to get an updated Chrome.....oh wait....I run Chromium - which doesn't auto-update......
I'd like to quote Professor Farnsworth in reply to your post...
"Wha?"
I'd be willing to bet that they're getting the phones the same way they're getting the drugs and other contraband.....from the guards.
Much of the garbage in the market is free, monetised by adsense.
"I do not think that word means what you think it means" - Fezzik
I hold other peoples opinions in very low regard. I'm a "show me don't tell me" kinda guy....I think I picked that up from a Rush song.
I realise that it's the Android Market, and that Google runs the show, so the myriad of Adsense serving garbage will probably never get removed. I'm just saying that if every Tom, Dick and Harry releases a Hello Adsense app in the market nobody wins.....except Adsense.
11 "Sexy Football" apps by sexy-apps.com - really......
5 additional "Sexy Apps" by a different developer called "Sexy Apps"
642 "Sexy/Hot Girls" apps by developer "Android Apps"
All that from 1 search term....and I didn't even scratch the surface.
I've spent time just browsing apps and trying them out. Most of the time I remove them because the obvious purpose of the app is to serve ads. Some to the extent that the app doesn't function. Don't get me wrong, many free apps are tastefully sprinkled with ads....and I don't mind that. Ads in Angry Birds cover up some of the window and make it difficult to play the game, but not impossible.
Some apps, however, leave the game screen (not paused) and launch a browser window to serve up ads.
If Google wants quantity and quality, they'll need to implement some form of quality control.
Who cares if they have as many/more apps as Apple if 99.999% of them are garbage.
Because some people are idiots.....turns out that the previous reviews were right on the money
Not that I have an issue with hot babes, but there are a ton of pseudo-porn apps in the android market. Sometimes many by the same developer. If they want to raise their profile by catching up in quantity and quality, they should set some standards and use the rating system to remove some of the junk that's come to litter the market.
Over the weekend, I attempted two different "Lemmings" apps which were both garbage - all the reviews said they were garbage and I left my own saying the same thing. When an app gets nothing but negative reviews, it should go.
Boom...
ACME rockets?
So, Mr Coyote, will you be using roller skates or a giant slingshot in that plan?
Maybe you missed this part of his comment:
...someone who will be without internet access...
My satellite receiver is not connected to the phone line or ethernet in my house. It took several months to arrange broadband at home. When I finally got it, I decided not to connect the satellite receiver, or the blue-ray player.
1. I don't want my family going hog-wild with pay-per-view movies.
2. I don't want the blue-ray manufacturer knowing what movies I watch. If they want that info, they can offer pay me for it (and I'll still say no).
3. I don't want the satellite provider to know what I'm watching or recording. If they want that info, blah blah blah (see above).
4. I don't want to hear about how netflix doesn't play well (it's not very reliable broadband)
His point is valid. You can't store data to the cloud if you're not connected. This would alienate customers who don't have broadband....unless Sony plans on giving people broadband.