Then watch it assume you're on a mobile device... Or watch it assume you're on a desktop computer...
Perhaps you missed this part?
All I want is standards compliant HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JS
The point being that the website should not assume anything whatsoever about the client, other than that it accepts these things and has its own ways of handling them, thank you very much.
The whole Mozilla organisation jumped the shark some years ago, when they let the UX hoodlums and mealy-mouthed marketing types take over. Been using it since it was Phoenix 0.9.something. But now... It's been so sad, watching the cancer take hold... Pretty sure it's terminal by now.
I don't even want a site to know whether I'm on a "mobile" device. All I want is standards compliant HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JS. I don't want ANYTHING else in my browser - if I did want those things, I would put them there myself. The remote site should neither know nor care what system is implementing the standards-compliant browser I use. All the remote site really needs to know is that my user agent speaks HTTP. Nothing else, including OS/platform, user-agent, etc is any of its damn business.
Goddamn right you are. Sorry no mod points ATM, though.
Nuttiness is non-partisan. Just as Ben Carson demonstrated a while back for the conservatives, Jill Stein provides proof that a medical degree does not make a liberal especially smart, wise, or well-connected with reality, either.
I've been using various random sources--a couple of Android trainer apps based on HSK, a couple of websites like archchinese.com, some books I picked up in China, and just looking up characters that I encounter--I'm grateful for Google Translate with handwriting recognition, although I've also learnt how to use a Chinese dictionary.
Over the last year and half, I've also been working my way through a dual-language edition of Journey To The West, one of the most thoroughly enjoyable books I've ever read.
I'm not sure of the exact count, but I'm pretty sure it's somewhere between 1500 and 2000. I've had to re-learn some that I've already forgot, though.
I've been concentrating on Simplified, since my in-laws live in Guangzhou, but I've also been trying to learn the Traditional forms, as I often visit Hong Kong as well.
I can't say I'm really literate, but I know enough now that I can find my way around in areas where there's no English/Latin signage, read menus (very important since I'm highly allergic to crustaceans), and understand things like shop signs, bus/train schedules, and newspaper headlines fairly well. I'm almost to the point where I can keep up with TV/movie captioning. (For those who don't know this, nearly all of these are captioned due to the fact that many Chinese are not native Mandarin speakers.) And I know enough components/radicals that I can sometimes guess the meanings of characters I don't already know.
I originally started this project because we visit there for weeks at a time, and I didn't want my wife to be stuck with leading me around all the time. But I've also become fascinated with Chinese writing for its own sake.
And it's very cool when I can walk into a noodle shop, point to what I want on the menu board, say something like, "I want this one, pork dumpling and green onion, thanks", and see eyes open wide in surprise. Most Chinese seem to understand that it can be quite difficult for foreigners to learn their language--the writing, especially--and offer me a lot of praise and encouragement for even making the attempt. Nice folks.
Anyhow, enough about me and my glorious accomplishments. Thanks very much for your post.
Me: "This company is engaged in something that I'm catching a lot of flak for, so I'm going to need more money to make up for that, or I'll walk."
Boss: "Well, Zontar, that's just not right that you're taking so much heat for something you're personally not involved with in any way whatsoever. Here's a 30% salary increase to make you feel better."
2. MEANWHILE, IN THE REAL WORLD...
Me: "This company is engaged in something that I'm catching a lot of flak for, so I'm going to need more money to make up for that, or I'll walk."
Boss: "Well, Zontar, we're really sorry to see you go, and we wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours."
.....
Which of these two scenarios seems more likely to you?
Now you've done it - mentioned a personal accomplishment on/. which will then be denigrated by those who haven't so much as attempted such a thing.
By someone who went to the trouble of looking through my posting history to find something personal they could drop in, hoping that this would get to me.
Hm, my Indian colleagues tell me they've no problem understanding Urdu, and it's pretty well known that Pakistanis and Indians watch each others' TV shows. (At least when someone's government isn't blocking the other country's signals.)
Linguists usually describe Hindi and Urdu as being "different registers of the same Hindustani language". There are some differences in vocabulary, but the major difference is that one is written using Devanagari script and the other with Arabic script.
Have you ever visited Italy? The first time I was there, people would speak to me in Italian, I'd reply in Spanish, and I got along quite well. Had little trouble reading the newspapers once I'd twigged to the spelling differences. Can't say whether the reverse would be true, as I don't actually speak Italian. I've had similar experiences in Norway with my Swedish.
And what has where I'm from to do with any of this?
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The first one is the national anthem of Greenland. The language is Kalaallisut, a.k.a Greenlandic.
I can't figure out the second one, though.
If you're afraid to swim with the sharks, feel free to stay out of the water.
...if it comes from a marketing company, a phone company, or a cable company, it's automatically suspect until rigorously proven otherwise.
Truer words were never spoken.
Or, for you millennial types, "This."
Then watch it assume you're on a mobile device... Or watch it assume you're on a desktop computer...
Perhaps you missed this part?
All I want is standards compliant HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JS
The point being that the website should not assume anything whatsoever about the client, other than that it accepts these things and has its own ways of handling them, thank you very much.
The whole Mozilla organisation jumped the shark some years ago, when they let the UX hoodlums and mealy-mouthed marketing types take over. Been using it since it was Phoenix 0.9.something. But now... It's been so sad, watching the cancer take hold... Pretty sure it's terminal by now.
*sigh*
Romanians aren't Slavs. And both Romania and Bulgaria are EU members. Serbia's a candidate member.
I don't even want a site to know whether I'm on a "mobile" device. All I want is standards compliant HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JS. I don't want ANYTHING else in my browser - if I did want those things, I would put them there myself. The remote site should neither know nor care what system is implementing the standards-compliant browser I use. All the remote site really needs to know is that my user agent speaks HTTP. Nothing else, including OS/platform, user-agent, etc is any of its damn business.
Goddamn right you are. Sorry no mod points ATM, though.
There were many promising use cases for this functionality, which now have gone into the shitter.
Horseshit. No website has *any fucking business whatsoever* accessing my hardware in such a fashion, period.
And I am perfectly capable of reading my device's battery monitor on my own, thanks very much.
And if websites didn't on serving up "video intensive" ads, ad blockers might not be in such high demand.
And you're a complete asshole for wanting to be an enabler of this shit.
Go die in a fire.
Similar story here. I'm still using a Samsung Tab 10.2. I'd like to get an updated version, but Samsung can't be bothered to make one.
Wow, I'm banned from TruePundit, despite never having posted anything there in my life.
Apparently someone's so afraid of me that they won't even let me read their articles.
I feel special.
Nuttiness is non-partisan. Just as Ben Carson demonstrated a while back for the conservatives, Jill Stein provides proof that a medical degree does not make a liberal especially smart, wise, or well-connected with reality, either.
B-b-b-b-but aren't these examples of that "geo-political" thing that the pro-Trump/pro-Putin trolls keep harping on? *head explodes*
I can't help but view Donald Trump as a traitor to pretty much everyone who isn't Donald Trump.
I've been using various random sources--a couple of Android trainer apps based on HSK, a couple of websites like archchinese.com, some books I picked up in China, and just looking up characters that I encounter--I'm grateful for Google Translate with handwriting recognition, although I've also learnt how to use a Chinese dictionary.
Over the last year and half, I've also been working my way through a dual-language edition of Journey To The West, one of the most thoroughly enjoyable books I've ever read.
I'm not sure of the exact count, but I'm pretty sure it's somewhere between 1500 and 2000. I've had to re-learn some that I've already forgot, though.
I've been concentrating on Simplified, since my in-laws live in Guangzhou, but I've also been trying to learn the Traditional forms, as I often visit Hong Kong as well.
I can't say I'm really literate, but I know enough now that I can find my way around in areas where there's no English/Latin signage, read menus (very important since I'm highly allergic to crustaceans), and understand things like shop signs, bus/train schedules, and newspaper headlines fairly well. I'm almost to the point where I can keep up with TV/movie captioning. (For those who don't know this, nearly all of these are captioned due to the fact that many Chinese are not native Mandarin speakers.) And I know enough components/radicals that I can sometimes guess the meanings of characters I don't already know.
I originally started this project because we visit there for weeks at a time, and I didn't want my wife to be stuck with leading me around all the time. But I've also become fascinated with Chinese writing for its own sake.
And it's very cool when I can walk into a noodle shop, point to what I want on the menu board, say something like, "I want this one, pork dumpling and green onion, thanks", and see eyes open wide in surprise. Most Chinese seem to understand that it can be quite difficult for foreigners to learn their language--the writing, especially--and offer me a lot of praise and encouragement for even making the attempt. Nice folks.
Anyhow, enough about me and my glorious accomplishments. Thanks very much for your post.
1. IN SOME RANDOM SLASHDOT AC'S IMAGINATION...
Me: "This company is engaged in something that I'm catching a lot of flak for, so I'm going to need more money to make up for that, or I'll walk."
Boss: "Well, Zontar, that's just not right that you're taking so much heat for something you're personally not involved with in any way whatsoever. Here's a 30% salary increase to make you feel better."
2. MEANWHILE, IN THE REAL WORLD...
Me: "This company is engaged in something that I'm catching a lot of flak for, so I'm going to need more money to make up for that, or I'll walk."
Boss: "Well, Zontar, we're really sorry to see you go, and we wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours."
.....
Which of these two scenarios seems more likely to you?
...was not disappointed.
Now you've done it - mentioned a personal accomplishment on /. which will then be denigrated by those who haven't so much as attempted such a thing.
By someone who went to the trouble of looking through my posting history to find something personal they could drop in, hoping that this would get to me.
...and WWII, you know, that one with that Fuehrer, was caused by the Anglo-Americans and their allies for geo-political reasons.
"Oh, look at what you made me do"
Bring it on, tough guy.
Learning how to leverage one's faculties for pattern recognition has a lot to do with it, at least for me. YMMV.
Please don't use words you don't understand. It makes you look silly and uneducated.
The news reported a referendum and the referendum was won overwhelmingly by the people who wanted to leave Ukraine.
Under the watchful eye of Russian troops who conveniently forgot their proper uniforms, yes.
Hm, my Indian colleagues tell me they've no problem understanding Urdu, and it's pretty well known that Pakistanis and Indians watch each others' TV shows. (At least when someone's government isn't blocking the other country's signals.)
Linguists usually describe Hindi and Urdu as being "different registers of the same Hindustani language". There are some differences in vocabulary, but the major difference is that one is written using Devanagari script and the other with Arabic script.
Have you ever visited Italy? The first time I was there, people would speak to me in Italian, I'd reply in Spanish, and I got along quite well. Had little trouble reading the newspapers once I'd twigged to the spelling differences. Can't say whether the reverse would be true, as I don't actually speak Italian. I've had similar experiences in Norway with my Swedish.
And what has where I'm from to do with any of this?
You've never known the touch of a woman other than your mother...
...that one time when she forgot the rubber gloves.
I'm sorry, this is Slashdot, so you'll have to explain your failed attempt at being clever with a car analogy.