I just wish they would actually show the year all the time. It's extremely annoying when I'm looking at something old and I can't figure out what year it was posted in. Two digits is better than no digits.
Is this flamebait? He doesn't have any problems with censorship. The problem is that certain big spenders like Google are sucking up all the bandwidth. A proxy that doesn't go through one of the big spenders wouldn't help any.
there are a slew of people who are discriminated against and cannot be married to the people they love under the current laws [except in Massachusettes, Vermont, and New Jersey!]
Gay couples cannot get "married" (in the legal aspect) in Vermont or New Jersey. Vermont and Connecticut have civil unions; New Jersey will begin civil unions in February 2007, and several states offer domestic partnerships, but the only U.S. state currently recognizing "marriage" for gay couples is Massachusetts.
No, the WHATWG specifies that HTML 5 is not a formulation of SGML.
Sorry, that's what I meant. New versions of HTML are no longer being specified as a formulation of SGML.
I also believe that they don't have the authority until...
Anybody can write a specification demanding anything. Authority doesn't necessarily make a specification succeed. And there are lots of specifications that obsolete older ones. Newer specifications sometimes completely contradict older versions.
Think about what that requirement entails: it effectively bans people from using other forms of HTML on the web.
I didn't claim it was a good idea. For documents without a doctype, I like it, but otherwise it seems to be demanding too much.
The amount of ice in Antarctica seems to be increasing. Of course, that may actually be due to global warming, but the predictions where that global warming would decrease the amount of ice in Antarctica.
All evolution happens because of random mutations in DNA
That's not true! There are other causes of evolution, such as genetic drift and gene flow. Also, mutation doesn't have to occur for natural selection to occur.
Those "shortcuts" are part of SGML. Version 2 of HTML (unlike version 1) was declared to be a formulation of SGML, but browsers never implemented SGML parsers. However, the WHATWG specifies that HTML is no longer a formulation of SGML.
From the working draft of Web Applications 1.0:
While the HTML form [as apposed to the XML form] of HTML5 bears a close resemblance to SGML and XML, it is a separate language with its own parsing rules.
Some earlier versions of HTML (in particular from HTML2 to HTML4) were based on SGML and used SGML parsing rules. However, few (if any) web browsers ever implemented true SGML parsing for HTML documents; the only user agents to strictly handle HTML as an SGML application have historically been validators. The resulting confusion -- with validators claiming documents to have one representation while widely deployed Web browsers interoperably implemented a different representation -- has resulted in this version of HTML returning to a non-SGML basis.
Authors interested in using SGML tools in their authoring pipeline are encouraged to use the XML serialisation of HTML5 instead of the HTML serialisation.
The WHATWG also specifies that all "text/html" documents should be treated as HTML5, meaning no HTML document should be parsed as SGML.
For a.xxx TLD to work, ICANN has to create the TLD and lots of websites have to be moved. All that is required for this to work is for individuals to add class="nsfw" and rel="nsfw" to their pages. Which do you think is easier?
Not all NSFW content is pornographic, so "NSFW" is more general than "XXX".
This allows parts of individual pages to be marked instead of marking the entire website. I've seen forums where users are expected to label their NSFW threads and links. It wouldn't make any sense for those forums to be under a.xxx TLD.
PayPal can say the same thing, because they've been doing this for years! I read the linked FAQ to see what the deal with that was, and the last question says the "Virtual Debit Bar" has been discontinued due to the new "Virtual Debit Card". I don't know what all they're changing, but basically similar service has been around for quite a while.
imagine 300 million people in the same spot, trying to decide on anything
Why do people keep speaking of true Democracy like this? Is it just a coincidence that they all exaggerate as much as possible to make their point?
Imagine 300 million people with internet access (even if just through a computer at the local library), voting on whatever it is that interests them (which may be nothing). Imagine something closer to Wikipedia. It might not work well, but it's nothing like the completely retarded idea of forcing hundreds of millions of people to gather for a meeting.
Nobody's demanding to monitor everything they do 24 hours a day, just the time that they are in session and doing their jobs that we pay them to do. Many employers already record their employees while they're working and you don't see people getting too upset over that. It's what people do in their own personal time that they want to be able to keep private.
It's not that developers will never want to take advantage of all that power, it's that they might never figure out how to do it. Square Enix, for example, is creating some super amazing new graphics engine that will be used for Final Fantasy XIII and Versus XIII that only uses 4 of the 6 available synergistic processing elements (SPEs). If even a Final Fantasy game isn't enough to at least attempt using all 6 SPEs then I don't know what is.
I created an HTML page that is basically 3 text boxes: script, text in, and text out. There are many times where I want to quickly code up a little something for whatever reason, and JavaScript is a great quick-and-dirty language. Over the last couple of years I've written hundreds of simple throwaway scripts. It's really valuable when you want to reformat a big blob of text, such as changing every line from
* item
to
<li>item</li>
It counts for at least 90% of all my regular expression usage.
They do. It's been around practically forever. Does nobody ever open the preferences window and just look around at all the settings? It's the first thing I do with almost any new application I try.
And what about all those people who take the time to chat up women and go on dates, when it'd be far less effort to rape someone? They must have serious problems.
The difference is that many people have decided that dating to get sexual gratification is normal and good while jacking off to drawings of kids is OMG gross icky nasty. The real problem is people thinking they have the right to punish people for doing things they think they shouldn't, even when it doesn't hurt anyone. Like when anal sex is illegal due to certain people deciding that anal sex is gross.
Why do you say that? Most Chinese people are pretty satisfied with their government. Things are slowly improving, and China has gone through some pretty terrible times in the past when trying to make sudden transitions. It might be for the best that change is happening slowly.
It was planned at one time that Firefox 3.0 would do just that. Actually, instead of both programs using a shared library, they'd both be launched from XULRunner. I don't know if that's still the plan though.
When will people learn that you have to buy a completely new machine
About the same time they learn that their operating system isn't set in stone and can actually be changed without any physical changes to the computer.
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I just wish they would actually show the year all the time. It's extremely annoying when I'm looking at something old and I can't figure out what year it was posted in. Two digits is better than no digits.
Is this flamebait? He doesn't have any problems with censorship. The problem is that certain big spenders like Google are sucking up all the bandwidth. A proxy that doesn't go through one of the big spenders wouldn't help any.
The .mp4 container format (MPEG-4 Part 14) is based on QuickTime's .mov container format. If you want to use .mov, use .mp4 instead.
That's an important distinction for some people.
Anybody can write a specification demanding anything. Authority doesn't necessarily make a specification succeed. And there are lots of specifications that obsolete older ones. Newer specifications sometimes completely contradict older versions.
I didn't claim it was a good idea. For documents without a doctype, I like it, but otherwise it seems to be demanding too much.
What really matters is how it's implemented.
The amount of ice in Antarctica seems to be increasing. Of course, that may actually be due to global warming, but the predictions where that global warming would decrease the amount of ice in Antarctica.
That's not true! There are other causes of evolution, such as genetic drift and gene flow. Also, mutation doesn't have to occur for natural selection to occur.
From the working draft of Web Applications 1.0:
The WHATWG also specifies that all "text/html" documents should be treated as HTML5, meaning no HTML document should be parsed as SGML.
That's the funniest markup I've ever seen. I'm suddenly much more excited about SVG.
Woah! Maybe I'm just basing this on myself or social expectations, but you seem really screwed up. Maybe you should see a sexologist of something.
But then, I have no interest in sports, and there are billions of people who would find that to be quite strange.
PayPal can say the same thing, because they've been doing this for years! I read the linked FAQ to see what the deal with that was, and the last question says the "Virtual Debit Bar" has been discontinued due to the new "Virtual Debit Card". I don't know what all they're changing, but basically similar service has been around for quite a while.
Imagine 300 million people with internet access (even if just through a computer at the local library), voting on whatever it is that interests them (which may be nothing). Imagine something closer to Wikipedia. It might not work well, but it's nothing like the completely retarded idea of forcing hundreds of millions of people to gather for a meeting.
Nobody's demanding to monitor everything they do 24 hours a day, just the time that they are in session and doing their jobs that we pay them to do. Many employers already record their employees while they're working and you don't see people getting too upset over that. It's what people do in their own personal time that they want to be able to keep private.
It's not that developers will never want to take advantage of all that power, it's that they might never figure out how to do it. Square Enix, for example, is creating some super amazing new graphics engine that will be used for Final Fantasy XIII and Versus XIII that only uses 4 of the 6 available synergistic processing elements (SPEs). If even a Final Fantasy game isn't enough to at least attempt using all 6 SPEs then I don't know what is.
That's probably the best comment I've ever read on /. regarding Acid2.
They do. It's been around practically forever. Does nobody ever open the preferences window and just look around at all the settings? It's the first thing I do with almost any new application I try.
UDP hole punching is a type of NAT traversal. They terms are not synonyms.
DO NOT WANT
It was planned at one time that Firefox 3.0 would do just that. Actually, instead of both programs using a shared library, they'd both be launched from XULRunner. I don't know if that's still the plan though.