Been using it with XHTML 1.1 for some years already. With four lines of PHP, HTTP Accept header detection makes it work fine in IE. Anyone who complains how hard XHTML + IE is obviously hasn't tried very hard.
Evolution hasn't stopped, because humans still mix genes the "old fashioned" way and often die before they have children. Until either of those change (for a substantial amount of the population), evolution is very much present. As an example, consider the genes that (in very indirect ways) control how willing you would be to expose yourself or your children to rigorous medical tests and operations / medication in order to make sure you / your children are able to live long enough and be healthy enough to have healthy children in turn. Barring other factors, such as errors in operations / medication and psychological effects of the procedures, genes favoring going through such treatment would be favored in the (very) long run.
Evolution isn't at all about just bodily features. Being able to adapt to any and all influences is what's important.
A lot of people seem to be completely oblivious to URLs. You could use insecure.stayaway.ng/porn without raising suspicion from *pulls out a number* 83% of the population.
It is about having some class -- Sin City is not a good movie, and Doom ain't interesting. Sorry to burst your bubble, script kiddies.
You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but why is this kind of flaming insightful? Sin City, Doom, Pulp Fiction, Half-Life and tons of other violent movies and games are not just good - They are art. And not because of the violence. Sin City is a visual masterpiece (on film and paper), Doom is a challenging game with an attitude and great graphics for its time, the dialog and humor in Pulp Fiction is fantastic, and Half-Life had a good story, interesting challenges, and a wealth of sidelines and possible continuations which grew into other games.
Unless it scales linearly with the number of users, that is a pretty useless metric for the performance of the virtualization system (No, I didn't RTFA).
I don't remember whether Illúvatar (the god) said later that it was his intention all along, but I distinctly remember Morgoth messing up the other gods' "creation song" so badly that Illúvatar had to intervene to avoid the whole universe being completely messed up.
OK, time for some reasons why the semantic web won't fail:
Spam is everywhere, but neither the web, email, or IM are useless because of that. Spam filtering will have to be built into semantic web parsers, just like everywhere else. That it hasn't been done yet is just a sign that the standards are still bleeding edge. If anything, I believe the semantic web will be much more resilient towards spam, if only because web site relationships would be better defined - Now the only only way is to link to a site, but with the semantic web you could define ways to tell the spiders "Company X is most definitely not related to us."
The user friendly semantic web is already here, in the shape of microformats. When used correctly, they could e.g. help you filter out books written about Jane Doe from books written by her, or mentioning her work, or written by her and John Doe. Microformats are simple but well defined semantically, so I believe they will be a success.
We have all but exhausted our text mining capabilities. For example, if I'm looking for pages about Jane Doe, I shouldn't lose the search results from (fan) blog posts and forums which only refer to her as "JD" or "our most glorious and exalted leader".
Mapping text data to RDF would be a huge PITA, but fortunately huge amounts of useful data is stored in relational databases. These can relatively easily be mapped to ontologies and exposed to the world.
Accessibility is very much about semantics, and it's starting to become mandated. Goodbye table layouts, hello <label> and <abbr>.
A friend of mine, and probably many others, are working on mapping ontologies to each other. When that's well understood, mapping from company A's understanding of the world to company B won't be such a big hassle, and then we can really get e.g. universal flight ticket search engines on the way.
An idea: Use the moon (or some other geologically stable object) for backup. Bury several copies in lead boxes on different natural satellites, and you've got some pretty heavy redundancy. 1 by 4 by 9 black slabs, anyone?
Botherment, another web "OS". I was hoping someone had finally seen the light WRT storing OS settings in XML. That would make it easier to search for settings (no more 1000 files in 100 directories or a crappy registry editor), use non-ASCII characters (UTF rules) with only three escape characters, and avoid syntax errors.
The important difference between faith and science is their usefulness. Faith (belief without evidence) used to be useful to explain natural phenomena (people stopped "wasting" time to explain them), but now science gives more useful answers. This is because science is based on evidence, which can be used to explain the actual workings of nature, and thereby plan into the future with measurable accuracy.
If you need a good example: How could humans ever have landed on the Moon if our society was based on faith alone? And who would care to take or research medicine? For me, it's paradoxical that people take medicine, pray, and then attribute their recovery to the praying.
Ditto, except the last part. Sony won't see another dime from me. It's not like this was some kind of minor slip; I believe it shows the company's opinion of customer rights. Some trust is just too fundamental to break.
Seriously, WTF?! Didn't RTFA, but I sure hope nobody's stupid enough to think Al-Qaeda has even an order of magnitude within the resources needed to sabotage a satellite. What were they going to use? Catapulted suicide bombers?
[...] SETI@home hasn't found any signal yet, even after years of listening.
An article about Three SETI Myths should put this statement into perspective. From the article: 'In the first twenty years of "listening," twenty-three targeted radio SETI projects conducted a total of ninety days of searching.'
If they expect you to plug this thing every day into a dock, then it stinks as a phone.
Just how many "If X then Y" statements are we going to see about this thing before people just wait and see? Of <expletive> course it'll suck if the battery time sucks.
I don't even see anything about it to justify the enormous price except for storage.
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Been using it with XHTML 1.1 for some years already. With four lines of PHP, HTTP Accept header detection makes it work fine in IE. Anyone who complains how hard XHTML + IE is obviously hasn't tried very hard.
How about supporting one, just one, standard properly before trying to make another?
Evolution hasn't stopped, because humans still mix genes the "old fashioned" way and often die before they have children. Until either of those change (for a substantial amount of the population), evolution is very much present. As an example, consider the genes that (in very indirect ways) control how willing you would be to expose yourself or your children to rigorous medical tests and operations / medication in order to make sure you / your children are able to live long enough and be healthy enough to have healthy children in turn. Barring other factors, such as errors in operations / medication and psychological effects of the procedures, genes favoring going through such treatment would be favored in the (very) long run.
Evolution isn't at all about just bodily features. Being able to adapt to any and all influences is what's important.
A lot of people seem to be completely oblivious to URLs. You could use insecure.stayaway.ng/porn without raising suspicion from *pulls out a number* 83% of the population.
You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but why is this kind of flaming insightful? Sin City, Doom, Pulp Fiction, Half-Life and tons of other violent movies and games are not just good - They are art. And not because of the violence. Sin City is a visual masterpiece (on film and paper), Doom is a challenging game with an attitude and great graphics for its time, the dialog and humor in Pulp Fiction is fantastic, and Half-Life had a good story, interesting challenges, and a wealth of sidelines and possible continuations which grew into other games.
And rounded edges. Don't forget the edges.
Unless it scales linearly with the number of users, that is a pretty useless metric for the performance of the virtualization system (No, I didn't RTFA).
I don't remember whether Illúvatar (the god) said later that it was his intention all along, but I distinctly remember Morgoth messing up the other gods' "creation song" so badly that Illúvatar had to intervene to avoid the whole universe being completely messed up.
OK, time for some reasons why the semantic web won't fail:
Spam is everywhere, but neither the web, email, or IM are useless because of that. Spam filtering will have to be built into semantic web parsers, just like everywhere else. That it hasn't been done yet is just a sign that the standards are still bleeding edge. If anything, I believe the semantic web will be much more resilient towards spam, if only because web site relationships would be better defined - Now the only only way is to link to a site, but with the semantic web you could define ways to tell the spiders "Company X is most definitely not related to us."
The user friendly semantic web is already here, in the shape of microformats. When used correctly, they could e.g. help you filter out books written about Jane Doe from books written by her, or mentioning her work, or written by her and John Doe. Microformats are simple but well defined semantically, so I believe they will be a success.
We have all but exhausted our text mining capabilities. For example, if I'm looking for pages about Jane Doe, I shouldn't lose the search results from (fan) blog posts and forums which only refer to her as "JD" or "our most glorious and exalted leader".
Mapping text data to RDF would be a huge PITA, but fortunately huge amounts of useful data is stored in relational databases. These can relatively easily be mapped to ontologies and exposed to the world.
Accessibility is very much about semantics, and it's starting to become mandated. Goodbye table layouts, hello <label> and <abbr>.
A friend of mine, and probably many others, are working on mapping ontologies to each other. When that's well understood, mapping from company A's understanding of the world to company B won't be such a big hassle, and then we can really get e.g. universal flight ticket search engines on the way.
An idea: Use the moon (or some other geologically stable object) for backup. Bury several copies in lead boxes on different natural satellites, and you've got some pretty heavy redundancy. 1 by 4 by 9 black slabs, anyone?
That kind of backup would survive the human race.
Botherment, another web "OS". I was hoping someone had finally seen the light WRT storing OS settings in XML. That would make it easier to search for settings (no more 1000 files in 100 directories or a crappy registry editor), use non-ASCII characters (UTF rules) with only three escape characters, and avoid syntax errors.
In the words of Sauron the Deceiver: Oops!
Here I was, thinking Mormons didn't hold with high tech. Well, you learn something new every day. Is your PC crank-driven, by any chance?
Is this going to get us peace forever, or Nuclear Screen of Death?
Set theory to the rescue:
(people who are stupid enough to think that open source is a communist plot) (people who are intelligent enough to use OSS)
QED
The important difference between faith and science is their usefulness. Faith (belief without evidence) used to be useful to explain natural phenomena (people stopped "wasting" time to explain them), but now science gives more useful answers. This is because science is based on evidence, which can be used to explain the actual workings of nature, and thereby plan into the future with measurable accuracy.
If you need a good example: How could humans ever have landed on the Moon if our society was based on faith alone? And who would care to take or research medicine? For me, it's paradoxical that people take medicine, pray, and then attribute their recovery to the praying.
If you want to know why, look no further than Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker - Popular science at its best.
Ditto, except the last part. Sony won't see another dime from me. It's not like this was some kind of minor slip; I believe it shows the company's opinion of customer rights. Some trust is just too fundamental to break.
The missing ingredient for a long life: Alt-135
Well, obviously the laws of physics change whenever a Linux fan changes habits.
Seriously, WTF?! Didn't RTFA, but I sure hope nobody's stupid enough to think Al-Qaeda has even an order of magnitude within the resources needed to sabotage a satellite. What were they going to use? Catapulted suicide bombers?
An article about Three SETI Myths should put this statement into perspective. From the article: 'In the first twenty years of "listening," twenty-three targeted radio SETI projects conducted a total of ninety days of searching.'
Shouldn't the unit be gross gross gross gross gross gross per fortnight?
Just how many "If X then Y" statements are we going to see about this thing before people just wait and see? Of <expletive> course it'll suck if the battery time sucks.
Obvious, really: Super simple interface.