I am a self aware explosive device. I am currently sitting in a lovely park in the center of..well it doesn't really matter does it? I am programmed to detonate only when I recieve...hold please..RFID information coming in..I have to go now. bye.
Gee, that sounds *exactly* like the cause of all the problems in the browser space.
The guarantee does not make sense in either space and so do the claims in this topic that PDF is better than HTML because PDFs will always render the same in all clients.
Well, duh - that's because 99.9999% of people are using a client written by Adobe!
Besides, as it is said in Wikipedia, the reason for PDF is to render exactly the same regardless of its origin or destination and they are most appropriately used to encode the exact look of a document in a device-independent way. Unipage suffers from the common problem of webpages rendering differently in different browsers.
You are saying that PDF will render *exactly* the same regardless of the reader? I doubt that anything in the pdf file *guarantees* that. The fact that Adobe is resposible for implementing the most popular reader is the only reason anyone can make the above claim.
I could take the PDF specs and implement a crap reader that makes every document look like it was done by my 15 month old with crayons (complete with drool). There goes your *guarantee*.
In the 15 years I've been with my wife she has "blessed" or "scorned" many middle to larger purchases based on whether she dreamed positively about it.
Obviously she has to have the opportunity to "sleep on it"
Which does leave me an "out" for impulse buys! (not that there are many of those)
Maturity is closely tied to Responsibility. IMO not even then, it's when you truely accept the responsability.
I went to univeristy right after high school and bombed out. Went into the army, the Canadian Army for years after that. Since, during that time, I was never seriously in dannger of losing life or limb, no real maturing happended there (there was a lot of drinking/bar hopping though).
About 8 years later I realized the army wasn't a career. Was I becoming more mature? Nope, the money sucked.
After ditching the army I went back to school and got a CS degree (made dean's list too one year). Mature? nope. well, perhaps. Was able to concentrate although I didn't take it that seriously.
Graduated at the start of the boom, made lots of money, bought fast cars, got married. Did marriage make me 'mature'? nope.
I even bought a house and started a business and made even more money. When I had 9 employees the responsability of having these people depend on me and the business for thier livelyhoods did make me pause a few times. No big deal, the business is going gangbusters no need to truely accept the responsibility. The status quo of immaturity continued thoughout the bust. I even had a couple of kids.
Then the business tanked. Not suddenly but I could have handled it better if I had truely accepted the responsibility from the get go. Now I matured *fast*. took some wrangling (and most of my life savings) but all the *people* got thier due and the bogey man bills got paid.
That left me out of work with little prospect for employment in my town. Little savings left, a big mortgage, and 5 mouths to feed. I was 38 feeling like a 55 year old.
It took a year but I finally got a job paying less than half of what I was making before.
I am a fully mature adult now, scraping to get by. Every cent we spend is carefully accounted for. No money for gadgets, movies, dinners out, vacations. We buy our duds at a used clothing store.
My god you Fiberal supporters are stupid. You can come up with whatever reason you like to support them but the fact is that the Liberal Party is rife with a sense of entitlement and have been proven to be corruptable. What the alternative is does not matter in the slightest. Canada is democracy and any party that governs does so with a mandate from the people. Sometimes minority, sometimes majority. But in all cases the mandate has a limited lifespan.
You idiots have bought the Fiberal line that the Conservative are evil. Maybe they are and maybe they are not, but voting in a Conservative gov't is not giving them a govern for life free pass. Nobody can destroy canada in one mandate. Canada has already be wrecked pretty good to date so it's pretty hard to make it worse.
And equating the tories to the bible thumping Right in the usa is silly. The most right wing conservative is only going to be a couple of inches to the right of any US. Democrat. I usually vote conservative and I support abortion and abhore the death penalty.
Don't vote for the Fiberals and send then them the message that all the crap they've pulled over the years is ok (GST? supposed to gone no?). Vote for anybody else.
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I am a self aware explosive device. I am currently sitting in a lovely park in the center of..well it doesn't really matter does it? I am programmed to detonate only when I recieve...hold please..RFID information coming in..I have to go now. bye.
jump on the Space Elevator bandwagon. C'mon Nasa get back into being pioneers and not just an employment agency for PHd's!
The guarantee does not make sense in either space and so do the claims in this topic that PDF is better than HTML because PDFs will always render the same in all clients.
Well, duh - that's because 99.9999% of people are using a client written by Adobe!
I could take the PDF specs and implement a crap reader that makes every document look like it was done by my 15 month old with crayons (complete with drool). There goes your *guarantee*.
Obviously she has to have the opportunity to "sleep on it"
Which does leave me an "out" for impulse buys! (not that there are many of those)
I went to univeristy right after high school and bombed out. Went into the army, the Canadian Army for years after that. Since, during that time, I was never seriously in dannger of losing life or limb, no real maturing happended there (there was a lot of drinking/bar hopping though).
About 8 years later I realized the army wasn't a career. Was I becoming more mature? Nope, the money sucked.
After ditching the army I went back to school and got a CS degree (made dean's list too one year). Mature? nope. well, perhaps. Was able to concentrate although I didn't take it that seriously.
Graduated at the start of the boom, made lots of money, bought fast cars, got married. Did marriage make me 'mature'? nope.
I even bought a house and started a business and made even more money. When I had 9 employees the responsability of having these people depend on me and the business for thier livelyhoods did make me pause a few times. No big deal, the business is going gangbusters no need to truely accept the responsibility. The status quo of immaturity continued thoughout the bust. I even had a couple of kids.
Then the business tanked. Not suddenly but I could have handled it better if I had truely accepted the responsibility from the get go. Now I matured *fast*. took some wrangling (and most of my life savings) but all the *people* got thier due and the bogey man bills got paid.
That left me out of work with little prospect for employment in my town. Little savings left, a big mortgage, and 5 mouths to feed. I was 38 feeling like a 55 year old.
It took a year but I finally got a job paying less than half of what I was making before.
I am a fully mature adult now, scraping to get by. Every cent we spend is carefully accounted for. No money for gadgets, movies, dinners out, vacations. We buy our duds at a used clothing store.
I liked it better when I was immature.
My god you Fiberal supporters are stupid. You can come up with whatever reason you like to support them but the fact is that the Liberal Party is rife with a sense of entitlement and have been proven to be corruptable. What the alternative is does not matter in the slightest. Canada is democracy and any party that governs does so with a mandate from the people. Sometimes minority, sometimes majority. But in all cases the mandate has a limited lifespan.
You idiots have bought the Fiberal line that the Conservative are evil. Maybe they are and maybe they are not, but voting in a Conservative gov't is not giving them a govern for life free pass. Nobody can destroy canada in one mandate. Canada has already be wrecked pretty good to date so it's pretty hard to make it worse.
And equating the tories to the bible thumping Right in the usa is silly. The most right wing conservative is only going to be a couple of inches to the right of any US. Democrat. I usually vote conservative and I support abortion and abhore the death penalty.
Don't vote for the Fiberals and send then them the message that all the crap they've pulled over the years is ok (GST? supposed to gone no?). Vote for anybody else.