âoeHowever, the fact that Apple plans to ditch iTunes LPs in 2018 potentially hints at the possibility that Apple may stop selling iTunes music downloads in the near futureâ
How is not supporting a single format (LPs include extras above and beyond music - thatâ(TM)s what is being retired) a hint that they will cease all sales and move exclusively to subscriptions? Holy shit thatâ(TM)s stupid.
The reason HTML doesn't do that is that it's not about prentation. It's a semantic language, describing types and the semantic relationship of things to other things. CSS is a presentational language, concerned with layout (like width/height), colour, size, and other visual relationships. Properties like height don't mean anything to a screenreader.
Can't we just start with something we can easily drive back into extinction if it's a flop? How about Dodos? There is almost no chance of vast migratory herds of Dodos thundering across the tundra and mashing the unawares underfoot. If they start to bug us, we'll just eat them all.
Really, I think that's less an OS limitation than it is a matter of website coders not considering that someone would view the site with a (non-iOS) screen smaller than 7".
Personally, I'm still stuck on the question of why this matters at all.
One platform has a disproportionately high conversion rate in a growing, increasingly important marketing sector and you're confused about why it matters? Do you hate money?
Funny because your diamond-tipped intellect sliced right through all logic and pithy wisdom, thudded straight into the heart of cliched and lazy humour, shivering there with barely-containable ironic energy, because we know that you, the Physician of Quippery are so much smarter than that and this seemingly inept, utterly sad excuse at humour was just a meta commentary on the sad, sickly state of slashdot commentary?
What he's talking about is turning his 'art' into pamphleteering. Social responsibility is not, nor should it be, the goal of entertainers. Sting taught me that.
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast (and sequels). HARD to get into, but rewarding if you understand that they are very experimental.
It's actually Titus Groan and the sequels (Gormenghast is the second of three). The third is unfortunately a mess. But the finest fantasy ever written in my opinion.
I wouldn't call it experimental in any way - it's just atypical; it's character-driven fantasy. Grotesque and impressionistic. There's nothing else even moderately like it. If you haven't read it, do it now.
My pick for a great forgotten author - Jack Vance. Cugel's Saga is a brilliant picaresque, the Lyonesse series is wonderful, even his less successful efforts like the Tschai series are worth reading. There's something about his pacing and rhythm that I find immensely readable.
Seriously, how people can subject themselves to the crap on TV now a days boggles my mind.
I love this - when was the golden age of television that didn't pander to the lowest common denominator, didn't thrust into your eyesockets with advertisements, had shows of culture and integrity that challenged and invigorated its audiences? When was that?
TV today is as good or better than it ever has been. There are quality shows with believable, complex characterization and multi-season arcs that don't always center upon the medical or legal system. Sure, they don't build radios out of cocoanuts or learn valuable life lessons on a Princess Cruise, but you can't have it all.
"Idiot Ready" actually means 'thoughtfully designed'.
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To put it another way, Apple's current design methodology is centered around the notion that people should not have to think about how to use their computers. Let me emphasize the important part: people should not have to think. If the term "idiot" does not properly convey the notion of someone who is not willing or able to think, I am not really sure what would.
No, you don't get it at all. People should not have to learn how to use computers. Or software. That part is true.
But you're missing the point - you're not listening to why that's true. People should be able to discover, through design, how to use a computer or piece of software. That's what thoughtful design is. Paying attention to how people interact with things and using those tendencies to inform them. The idea that people should learn how computers need to be interacted with and not the other way around is ludicrous and nothing but elitism by tech-savvy types.
I'm not saying Apple is all that, but the concept is sound.
Publishing has little interest in small press and midlist authors. I'm really interested in seeing if the reduced overhead allows niche writers to flourish.
Unless some new system arrives for promoting new authors, I don't see how self-published ebooks help anything from the new author's perspective. If anything, I see them hurting things.
Vanity press has always been a joke, but it's been useful as a way of differentiating between a novice and an author that at least someone thinks is worth reading. Remove that and it's going to be a mess. New authors will be easily lost amidst the scurf if there are no barriers to publishing. How will reviewers know what to look at? How will buyers know what is the product of a craftsman versus the product of a hobbyist? How will fantasy writers get pictures of scantily-clad elven maidens to use on the cover? Once word gets out that all you need is a text document and Calibre, we're screwed.
Paint applied to a flat surface for other than the purpose of protecting that surface is the very definition of art.
Pretty sure that's the definition of painting, not art. Painting is a genre, a subset.
Art is not a thing, not a genre, not an evaluation or measure of aesthetic worth - it's a framework for investigation. The Mona Lisa is 'art' in the same way that the polio vaccine is 'science'. To call a work of art 'Art' is poor usage and leads to poor understanding. Art investigates the internal and human world just as science investigates the external and natural world. Ever wonder why the term Arts and Sciences exists? Yeah, that's not an accident.
Any definition of art requires room for painting, spoken word poetry, photography, dance, etc, etc. And - again, just like science - any definition has to allow for new avenues of investigation. For example, video games, the catalogue of 'things I found at the bottom of my shoe,' whatever. Art doesn't have to be 'good' to be art. That's how Thomas Kincade makes a living.
It will be interesting to see if the HTML5 code this generates actually runs faster than Flash on Linux and Mac (or anywhere else which has an competent HTML5 browser and incompetent Flash plug ins).
No, it will be dog slow on ALL platforms.
Us: Hey Adobe, this converted HTML5 stuff is awful!
Adobe: We know! Terrible isn't it? It sure ran nice in Flash though - maybe you should stick with that.
Slashdot Mirror
No, this is a oft quoted trope. Google is the reason Flash is dead. SEO, my friend.
âoeHowever, the fact that Apple plans to ditch iTunes LPs in 2018 potentially hints at the possibility that Apple may stop selling iTunes music downloads in the near futureâ How is not supporting a single format (LPs include extras above and beyond music - thatâ(TM)s what is being retired) a hint that they will cease all sales and move exclusively to subscriptions? Holy shit thatâ(TM)s stupid.
The reason HTML doesn't do that is that it's not about prentation. It's a semantic language, describing types and the semantic relationship of things to other things. CSS is a presentational language, concerned with layout (like width /height), colour, size, and other visual relationships. Properties like height don't mean anything to a screenreader.
1th I've heard of it too.
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"Hey baby, what's your THAC0?"
He couldn't find the 'i'.
Can't we just start with something we can easily drive back into extinction if it's a flop? How about Dodos? There is almost no chance of vast migratory herds of Dodos thundering across the tundra and mashing the unawares underfoot. If they start to bug us, we'll just eat them all.
Really, I think that's less an OS limitation than it is a matter of website coders not considering that someone would view the site with a (non-iOS) screen smaller than 7".
Heard of webkit?
Personally, I'm still stuck on the question of why this matters at all.
One platform has a disproportionately high conversion rate in a growing, increasingly important marketing sector and you're confused about why it matters? Do you hate money?
Seriously? How are an OS and an online marketplace for selling additional, non-integrated software for that OS different? You really need to ask that?
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
(It's funny, laugh...)
Funny because your diamond-tipped intellect sliced right through all logic and pithy wisdom, thudded straight into the heart of cliched and lazy humour, shivering there with barely-containable ironic energy, because we know that you, the Physician of Quippery are so much smarter than that and this seemingly inept, utterly sad excuse at humour was just a meta commentary on the sad, sickly state of slashdot commentary?
Fucking hilarious
But, God is omnipotent right? He doesn't need tools.
See how just a little thought about physics causes you to reject one of the most fundamental claims about God, his omnipotence.
Unless he is the tools. You know, he's the stuff that makes other stuff happen.
*takes another hit*
Of course that would make physicists = theologians and that may very well spark a patent dispute.
What he's talking about is turning his 'art' into pamphleteering. Social responsibility is not, nor should it be, the goal of entertainers. Sting taught me that.
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast (and sequels). HARD to get into, but rewarding if you understand that they are very experimental.
It's actually Titus Groan and the sequels (Gormenghast is the second of three). The third is unfortunately a mess. But the finest fantasy ever written in my opinion.
I wouldn't call it experimental in any way - it's just atypical; it's character-driven fantasy. Grotesque and impressionistic. There's nothing else even moderately like it. If you haven't read it, do it now.
My pick for a great forgotten author - Jack Vance. Cugel's Saga is a brilliant picaresque, the Lyonesse series is wonderful, even his less successful efforts like the Tschai series are worth reading. There's something about his pacing and rhythm that I find immensely readable.
Make Network Maintenance an elective!
Seriously, how people can subject themselves to the crap on TV now a days boggles my mind.
I love this - when was the golden age of television that didn't pander to the lowest common denominator, didn't thrust into your eyesockets with advertisements, had shows of culture and integrity that challenged and invigorated its audiences? When was that?
TV today is as good or better than it ever has been. There are quality shows with believable, complex characterization and multi-season arcs that don't always center upon the medical or legal system. Sure, they don't build radios out of cocoanuts or learn valuable life lessons on a Princess Cruise, but you can't have it all.
"Idiot Ready" actually means 'thoughtfully designed'.
No, you don't get it at all. People should not have to learn how to use computers. Or software. That part is true.
But you're missing the point - you're not listening to why that's true. People should be able to discover, through design, how to use a computer or piece of software. That's what thoughtful design is. Paying attention to how people interact with things and using those tendencies to inform them. The idea that people should learn how computers need to be interacted with and not the other way around is ludicrous and nothing but elitism by tech-savvy types.
I'm not saying Apple is all that, but the concept is sound.
I see my pattern of beginning a comment, grabbing a coffee and then coming back to finish the comment may need some work.
This is the second person you've incorrectly corrected. From TFA:
Current jacks will fit the new port design
Bullshit. No one likes new tech. We always prefer the older, slower, known quantities of grandfathered hardware. It comforts us in our dotage.
Oh bullshit. They'll take it to a repair shop, precisely because they don't know what they're doing. Get your head out of your ass.
Publishing has little interest in small press and midlist authors. I'm really interested in seeing if the reduced overhead allows niche writers to flourish.
Unless some new system arrives for promoting new authors, I don't see how self-published ebooks help anything from the new author's perspective. If anything, I see them hurting things.
Vanity press has always been a joke, but it's been useful as a way of differentiating between a novice and an author that at least someone thinks is worth reading. Remove that and it's going to be a mess. New authors will be easily lost amidst the scurf if there are no barriers to publishing. How will reviewers know what to look at? How will buyers know what is the product of a craftsman versus the product of a hobbyist? How will fantasy writers get pictures of scantily-clad elven maidens to use on the cover? Once word gets out that all you need is a text document and Calibre, we're screwed.
Paint applied to a flat surface for other than the purpose of protecting that surface is the very definition of art.
Pretty sure that's the definition of painting, not art. Painting is a genre, a subset.
Art is not a thing, not a genre, not an evaluation or measure of aesthetic worth - it's a framework for investigation. The Mona Lisa is 'art' in the same way that the polio vaccine is 'science'. To call a work of art 'Art' is poor usage and leads to poor understanding. Art investigates the internal and human world just as science investigates the external and natural world. Ever wonder why the term Arts and Sciences exists? Yeah, that's not an accident.
Any definition of art requires room for painting, spoken word poetry, photography, dance, etc, etc. And - again, just like science - any definition has to allow for new avenues of investigation. For example, video games, the catalogue of 'things I found at the bottom of my shoe,' whatever. Art doesn't have to be 'good' to be art. That's how Thomas Kincade makes a living.
It will be interesting to see if the HTML5 code this generates actually runs faster than Flash on Linux and Mac (or anywhere else which has an competent HTML5 browser and incompetent Flash plug ins).
No, it will be dog slow on ALL platforms.
Us: Hey Adobe, this converted HTML5 stuff is awful!
Adobe: We know! Terrible isn't it? It sure ran nice in Flash though - maybe you should stick with that.