Priorities, man. She IS paying attention to your choices.
Couldn't have said it better. After all, it seems she's actually taking the time to be interested in something the poster is interested in. Newsflash: she probably doesn't give a crap about the game. But she would like a new computer for her efforts to indulge, I'm sure.
I mean, come on... it's a computer. They're not exactly rare items these days. I bought both my niece and nephew good computers when I bought my last one. Both went unused for ages because their parents were afraid of the net. I'm still glad I did it though.
If Oracle provides what business needs/wants.. and that's what they have been doing thus far. They will be fine. Nothing to see hear move along.
Really? I'm more tempted to think that whichever fork becomes the version in Debian (by being cooperative with the community, having the best features, whilst not going against free software policies) will be the one that gains momentum. It's hard to beat being available at the touch of a button in both a popular server-grade OS, and it's popular desktop-grade offshoot.
I'll preface this with... INAHN (I'm not a health nut), I'm just very aware of the bad things that I consume. I'm smoking a cigarette and drinking a tall glass of cold soda while I'm writing this.:)
It's a strange world where people say this as a way of convincing you to listen to them on health topics:)
I suppose you could create classes of divs in this sort of way, but then generating tables of figures would be problematic, for example. I didnt see anything in Prince's engine which handled this gracefully.
I could really use an actual example of the problem, but I suspect that what you want would be doable with the cascading aspect of CSS. Floating tables might be assigned the classes "floating" and "tabular", whereas floating figures could be assigned "floating" and "figure" if you need common features, but also separate features. For tables of figures, there is also a "display: table" option in CSS3, which essentially lets you use tables as layout tools, rather than as informational tools. In other words, it does properly what web designers did for years by breaking the rules.
On crossreference etc... Hmm. Yes, that's probably the biggest issue I can imagine. XPath and XQuery are probably the right solution there --- as an underyling tool for a simple command/gui to use of course --- but I don't know much of the details of those.
I must confess though... I haven't actually tried prince; I've been on a quest to find a modern alternative to LaTeX that supports Unicode, multiple languages, generates nice (accessible) print and HTML, works with DVCS tools, math, etc., and ideally also allows single sourcing. So far I haven't found a decent solution, but Prince looked like one of the more interesting options. My biggest problem with it is that it uses an XML syntax when I think a less verbose bracketed syntax is much better. Wrapping every single paragraph in tags is also pretty annoying.
And I suppose you also think public domain is more "free" due to the fact that a company could take a public domain cola recipe, place it in a fancy red/white can, tell everyone they must have "Coke", but refuse to give it for free, even though they only modified it slightly, rather than inventing it?
Yeah, good call. I'll take your brand of freedom please; it sounds like we'd be onto a winner with that.
On 1: What do you mean by separation between table/figure floats? In CSS, can't you just assign two different classes that are both floated, but have other different properties? There's some fundamentally different kind of float that you need?
On 2: Not that I'm discounting the possibility, but Prince's layout engine isn't good enough for you? What's wrong with it?
the ability to separate content from presentation. A closer example would be if HTML + CSS could handle all these things.
It can. CSS supports print media as well as screen media, and speech media. It's fully possible to write a document in HTML with modern features like unicode, mathml, etc., and run it through a program to get nice printed output. Unfortunately it's not quite a click-to-convert process, and it's not one many people know about. The most well-known example of it is a tool called Prince, which produces high-quality stuff like this Wikipedia page rendered to PDF via CSS. See the Prince Samples page for more.
I think Prince is proprietary, but it's freely downloadable with packages for many distros already made, and I think if people realised what a nice solution it is, we could replace TeX etc. fairly quickly, and have a modern HTMLpublication system which works well with long documents, modern vector graphics and math and languages etc., and also works well with standard software version control tools like Git.
Word is also not a screenshot-specific archive format for efficiently transmitting images by email. Word is also not a screenshot-specific archive format for efficiently capturing crash dumps and submitting bug reports.
you are not a real nerd if you do not like simulator games.
Actually, the real nerds simulate people who like simulator games. It's a cute little trick we do to identify our sims... a bit like how farmers put tags on the ears of their cows.
That kind of system would be pretty good, except that different sites have different arbitrary limits on answer lengths, and then you have to start remembering variations, with no clear reason why a password failed to work on a site (because it needed a shorter or longer variation)
Sounds awfully complicated. You could just generate a pair of two random numbers, put one in as the question and one as the answer, and store them somewhere safe.
Personally I just (essentially) disable the secret question things by battering my keyboard randomly for 160 characters or so.
No thanks. I choose my browser and platform based on important principles like freedom and openness -- principles that the web was designed to support. I've no intention to lie about that choice just badly designed game.
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Simple. You threaten someone who's spineless, and they cave. More people need to read:
http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php
Or so they tell you.
Couldn't have said it better. After all, it seems she's actually taking the time to be interested in something the poster is interested in. Newsflash: she probably doesn't give a crap about the game. But she would like a new computer for her efforts to indulge, I'm sure.
I mean, come on... it's a computer. They're not exactly rare items these days. I bought both my niece and nephew good computers when I bought my last one. Both went unused for ages because their parents were afraid of the net. I'm still glad I did it though.
Really? I'm more tempted to think that whichever fork becomes the version in Debian (by being cooperative with the community, having the best features, whilst not going against free software policies) will be the one that gains momentum. It's hard to beat being available at the touch of a button in both a popular server-grade OS, and it's popular desktop-grade offshoot.
It's a strange world where people say this as a way of convincing you to listen to them on health topics :)
I could really use an actual example of the problem, but I suspect that what you want would be doable with the cascading aspect of CSS. Floating tables might be assigned the classes "floating" and "tabular", whereas floating figures could be assigned "floating" and "figure" if you need common features, but also separate features. For tables of figures, there is also a "display: table" option in CSS3, which essentially lets you use tables as layout tools, rather than as informational tools. In other words, it does properly what web designers did for years by breaking the rules.
On crossreference etc... Hmm. Yes, that's probably the biggest issue I can imagine. XPath and XQuery are probably the right solution there --- as an underyling tool for a simple command/gui to use of course --- but I don't know much of the details of those.
I must confess though... I haven't actually tried prince; I've been on a quest to find a modern alternative to LaTeX that supports Unicode, multiple languages, generates nice (accessible) print and HTML, works with DVCS tools, math, etc., and ideally also allows single sourcing. So far I haven't found a decent solution, but Prince looked like one of the more interesting options. My biggest problem with it is that it uses an XML syntax when I think a less verbose bracketed syntax is much better. Wrapping every single paragraph in tags is also pretty annoying.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
And I suppose you also think public domain is more "free" due to the fact that a company could take a public domain cola recipe, place it in a fancy red/white can, tell everyone they must have "Coke", but refuse to give it for free, even though they only modified it slightly, rather than inventing it?
Yeah, good call. I'll take your brand of freedom please; it sounds like we'd be onto a winner with that.
The worthiness of the music is highly arguable. Especially since it's built on what people shared around campfires for tens of thousands of years.
I said "easy", not "I really care". Big difference ;)
On 1: What do you mean by separation between table/figure floats? In CSS, can't you just assign two different classes that are both floated, but have other different properties? There's some fundamentally different kind of float that you need?
On 2: Not that I'm discounting the possibility, but Prince's layout engine isn't good enough for you? What's wrong with it?
It can. CSS supports print media as well as screen media, and speech media. It's fully possible to write a document in HTML with modern features like unicode, mathml, etc., and run it through a program to get nice printed output. Unfortunately it's not quite a click-to-convert process, and it's not one many people know about. The most well-known example of it is a tool called Prince, which produces high-quality stuff like this Wikipedia page rendered to PDF via CSS. See the Prince Samples page for more.
I think Prince is proprietary, but it's freely downloadable with packages for many distros already made, and I think if people realised what a nice solution it is, we could replace TeX etc. fairly quickly, and have a modern HTMLpublication system which works well with long documents, modern vector graphics and math and languages etc., and also works well with standard software version control tools like Git.
Word is also not a screenshot-specific archive format for efficiently transmitting images by email.
Word is also not a screenshot-specific archive format for efficiently capturing crash dumps and submitting bug reports.
Yes, UK. Weird. Last I heard, it wasn't legal to ride a bike on a footpath here, much less a trike with cameras and stuff attached.
Yeah, all self-respecting geeks know that wall-mounted LCDs are for providing views of the fabled "outdoors".
This is some sort of reference to George Bush's arguably incomplete ancestral path from monkey to human, right?
Actually, the real nerds simulate people who like simulator games. It's a cute little trick we do to identify our sims... a bit like how farmers put tags on the ears of their cows.
However, at your discretion, you may also use GoogleNukewords to sell advertising space on the side of the missiles.
One customer, Lockheed, has been making quite a bit with their "If found, please return for repair and recycling" ad.
That kind of system would be pretty good, except that different sites have different arbitrary limits on answer lengths, and then you have to start remembering variations, with no clear reason why a password failed to work on a site (because it needed a shorter or longer variation)
Which is why they shouldn't sabotage the game based on user agents, if it works fine in my browser.
"Google Earth browser-plugin"
That annoying little worm thing makes all the difference ;)
Sounds awfully complicated. You could just generate a pair of two random numbers, put one in as the question and one as the answer, and store them somewhere safe.
Personally I just (essentially) disable the secret question things by battering my keyboard randomly for 160 characters or so.
It'd be pretty easy to get a list of publications, extract the initial letters, and search for the longest prefix match.
Think how the dog feels, running to his bowl for food every time the fax machine starts a handshake.
No thanks. I choose my browser and platform based on important principles like freedom and openness -- principles that the web was designed to support. I've no intention to lie about that choice just badly designed game.