But on the web? I don't think anyone would really notice or care that much. Plus, it'd be hard to achieve, since you can't rely on all machines rendering fonts at the same resolution, and you can't rely on fonts actually being present on all machines, and you can't rely on all the *versions* of a typeface actually being the same across different platforms. None of this is news. The web was designed to sort-of deal with these problems.
Which is what the experts knew and designed for all along. Unfortunately the "web designers" thought they knew more about design than the typographers who've been designing text for millenia, and the developers who knew enough to know what they didn't know.
That's because Nintendo thought about what it could afford to create, and what customers would buy as a games machine --- the traditional approach to selling something.
Sony, and MS in particular, seem to have entirely different goals: getting a foothold of an entertainment audience by selling something to kids, and having them grow up with it. As such, they're prepared to have a loss at the beginning, as long as the kids like MS when they're old enough for office machines and purchasing decisions, or as long as they'll boost the market for Sony's Bluray.
That ANSI-C compatibility will make it kind of annoying to implement any sort of OO interface to your app, though:/ My advice is to go with embedded python, unless you REALLY need an interpreter in 150k.
Admittedly, I'd never heard of CakePHP before. It looks like an interesting project.
As far as CakePHP solving the issue goes though... no, it won't. CakePHP is an MVC inside an interpreted-every-time V, which is part of a rebuilt-every-time MVC. This is very inefficient, obviously. It's pretty much doomed to be that way, because, as I said, PHP is designed to run inside pages, rather than to run and provide pages. CakePHP would be a reasonable alternative for MVC on legacy shared hosting that didn't provide anything but PHP, but for all intents and purposes, it should be avoided, imho.
They're referring to dynamically updating forms, such as when you have two combo boxes, select something in one, and the options change in another, or when you enter a search filter, and the table of found records updates without reloading the entire page.
Personally, I think PHP is a pretty horrible way to do web development of any real size. Web apps need to be written in proper code, with MVC, and templates, not as code embedded in individual pages.
However, this might at least this might steer some windows users away from the thing microsoft likes to pretend is reponsible for a TLD ("dot net"), which is worse.
I would expect him to listen, and propose a new bill/amendment, except if such an amendment has already been proposed for the same reasons, and dismissed. If it does get proposed, then all good people can stand up on the other side of the argument, and have the bill rejected. Simple, really.
It depends what the genes are capable of. If they already represent a fully fledged (turing complete) set of operations/attributes/skills, can accept any input, and generate any output, then there's no need for the genes to change, except perhaps for efficiency reasons.
But, of course, that's unlikely, and yes, I think they're probably misleading people here.
saying a million people in total across the entire country, were protesting, would mean 5% of the population were involved.
You're forgetting one very important fact about representative democracy: the whole point is that someone else represents us, because we don't have the time to be involved in day-to-day political governance ourselves. When ANY of us take time out of our lives to correct our politicians, then they need to take notice. It's only when the majority of people who DO something have a different view, that the minority who do something should be ignored.
Where is the abstract getting "hundreds of cores in desktops on the horizon" from? Is this actually expected soon, or are they just looking ahead a bit too eagerly?
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Oh, come on, don't be so cynical. They might be just sweeping up the last few parts of the market now that they've got the mainstream crowd, and I know they ignored requests for more linux for a long time. Still... it does count as a "response":)
p.s.: yesh, I know you were probably referring to "overwhelming";)
That's fine up to a point, but there should be a way around these limitations. In C, it's all too easy to screw things up with null pointers etc., but if we didn't have those low-level features, a lot of important software would be impossible to write.
I'm not saying that Javascript should ENCOURAGE low-level access to the document, but to flatly deny those things is to falsely limit a language. Languages, after all, are supposed to allow you to express ANYTHING.
PCs are crap. The only reason they're important is that lots of people have them, and eventually, they get everything that the better designs of computer had before.
Agreed. If debian could tell me which is the best (ie, most compatible and most featureful) combination of packages for "web serving, python, smtp, imap, and bandwidth accounting", say, then it really would be the perfect OS. For the moment, it's just the best:)
because there's no way to guarantee the document will continue to be valid.
Except that the programmer might know what they're doing. But I guess we're getting past the point of trusting people more than machines;)
Not that it's wrong to have failsafes in place, and not that XHTML isn't fine without document.write, but this "validity guarantee" argument is a little worrying.
Well, yes, but Stallman has said that he created the Free Software movement because of existing de-facto practices in Unix etc., which began to be supplanted. I believe Unix started in the '60s.
How does this work with NTP? Will the system just stay up-to-date from another system that understands the new rules, or does NTP all work on UTC so that it's not aware of this, or something?
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Which is what the experts knew and designed for all along. Unfortunately the "web designers" thought they knew more about design than the typographers who've been designing text for millenia, and the developers who knew enough to know what they didn't know.
That's because Nintendo thought about what it could afford to create, and what customers would buy as a games machine --- the traditional approach to selling something.
Sony, and MS in particular, seem to have entirely different goals: getting a foothold of an entertainment audience by selling something to kids, and having them grow up with it. As such, they're prepared to have a loss at the beginning, as long as the kids like MS when they're old enough for office machines and purchasing decisions, or as long as they'll boost the market for Sony's Bluray.
That ANSI-C compatibility will make it kind of annoying to implement any sort of OO interface to your app, though :/ My advice is to go with embedded python, unless you REALLY need an interpreter in 150k.
Admittedly, I'd never heard of CakePHP before. It looks like an interesting project.
As far as CakePHP solving the issue goes though... no, it won't. CakePHP is an MVC inside an interpreted-every-time V, which is part of a rebuilt-every-time MVC. This is very inefficient, obviously. It's pretty much doomed to be that way, because, as I said, PHP is designed to run inside pages, rather than to run and provide pages. CakePHP would be a reasonable alternative for MVC on legacy shared hosting that didn't provide anything but PHP, but for all intents and purposes, it should be avoided, imho.
They're referring to dynamically updating forms, such as when you have two combo boxes, select something in one, and the options change in another, or when you enter a search filter, and the table of found records updates without reloading the entire page.
Personally, I think PHP is a pretty horrible way to do web development of any real size. Web apps need to be written in proper code, with MVC, and templates, not as code embedded in individual pages.
However, this might at least this might steer some windows users away from the thing microsoft likes to pretend is reponsible for a TLD ("dot net"), which is worse.
I would expect him to listen, and propose a new bill/amendment, except if such an amendment has already been proposed for the same reasons, and dismissed. If it does get proposed, then all good people can stand up on the other side of the argument, and have the bill rejected. Simple, really.
It depends what the genes are capable of. If they already represent a fully fledged (turing complete) set of operations/attributes/skills, can accept any input, and generate any output, then there's no need for the genes to change, except perhaps for efficiency reasons.
But, of course, that's unlikely, and yes, I think they're probably misleading people here.
You're forgetting one very important fact about representative democracy: the whole point is that someone else represents us, because we don't have the time to be involved in day-to-day political governance ourselves. When ANY of us take time out of our lives to correct our politicians, then they need to take notice. It's only when the majority of people who DO something have a different view, that the minority who do something should be ignored.
In the UK, the price has the similar digits, but a different currency.
Where is the abstract getting "hundreds of cores in desktops on the horizon" from? Is this actually expected soon, or are they just looking ahead a bit too eagerly?
Welcome to the game.
Or the price of the games. Games are extortionately expensive lately.
Oh, come on, don't be so cynical. They might be just sweeping up the last few parts of the market now that they've got the mainstream crowd, and I know they ignored requests for more linux for a long time. Still... it does count as a "response"
p.s.: yesh, I know you were probably referring to "overwhelming"
That's fine up to a point, but there should be a way around these limitations. In C, it's all too easy to screw things up with null pointers etc., but if we didn't have those low-level features, a lot of important software would be impossible to write.
I'm not saying that Javascript should ENCOURAGE low-level access to the document, but to flatly deny those things is to falsely limit a language. Languages, after all, are supposed to allow you to express ANYTHING.
PCs are crap. The only reason they're important is that lots of people have them, and eventually, they get everything that the better designs of computer had before.
Agreed. If debian could tell me which is the best (ie, most compatible and most featureful) combination of packages for "web serving, python, smtp, imap, and bandwidth accounting", say, then it really would be the perfect OS. For the moment, it's just the best :)
Except that the programmer might know what they're doing. But I guess we're getting past the point of trusting people more than machines
Not that it's wrong to have failsafes in place, and not that XHTML isn't fine without document.write, but this "validity guarantee" argument is a little worrying.
In the UK, "pram" means a baby stroller.
Some people spend their entire adult lives trying to overcome alcohol addiction, or trying not to beat their spouse. To others, it comes naturally.
Well, yes, but Stallman has said that he created the Free Software movement because of existing de-facto practices in Unix etc., which began to be supplanted. I believe Unix started in the '60s.
...unless it's software.
Or an industry standard.
How does this work with NTP? Will the system just stay up-to-date from another system that understands the new rules, or does NTP all work on UTC so that it's not aware of this, or something?
That we're halfway to using light beams instead of cogs in a gearbox, of course!
Either that, or they've arrived, and they're going for an EVA. The post is just ambiguous.