I saw a friend with a concussion turned away from an emergency room after a car/skateboard accident due to lack of insurance. They told me to take him to county hospital, which happened to be ~30 miles away.
Deprecated HTML will be around, but that's no reason to continue teaching it. Whether you're a teacher or an author, the focus should be on up-to-date standards. I'm not talking about pure-CSS layouts necessarily -- you do want to be able to teach about backward compatibility -- but there's no excuse for including font tags and the like.
The evolt.org browser archive has Mozilla back to version 0.6, and other browsers going back much, much farther. Mosaic, anyone? Tim Berners-Lee's original WorldWideWeb?
Right, rather than taking action against those who would violate their stated policies (when and if it happens), they're warning someone who isn't violating them in any way on the basis that their existence may cause others to violate said policies.
The mind boggles. Where do they find people who come up with stuff like this?
Reread the grandparent post and note the following:
the most common desktop UNIX-like operating system
What he probably means that that Apple sells more desktop Unix machines than any other company. I doubt there are more people running Sun or HP Unix boxes on their desktop than there are using Macs.
Of course the article is likely not talking exclusively of desktops, so it's probalby not relevant to the discussion at hand.
I think the original poster was referring to the fact that you can be tried in a criminal court and found not guilty, then tried again in a civil court and end up paying damages for something the criminal court absolved you of. See the OJ Simpson trial for an example of this (although he is pretty obviously guilty of murder, regardless of the jury's verdict).
This is the result of the burden of proof being different for the two types of cases: "Beyond a reasonable doubt" for criminal cases, versus "the preponderance of evidence" for civil cases. A case can meet the latter without meeting the former.
Say what you will about the quality of Wikipedia articles themselves, but they're often a goldmine for references. One of the first places I look after skimming a article is the external links at the bottom of the page.
Your logs won't show how many people wanted to use your app but didn't because they had JS turned off for whatever reason.
That's not necessarily true at all. The most primitive way to see them would be to redirect people with JavaScript disable to no-javascript.html and count the hits to that page. There are any number of other, better ways to count these potential users as well.
These kinds of stats are important for anyone running an app that requires JS. I'd be extremely surprised if they don't know exactly how many non-JS browsers they have hitting their site.
Just this weekend I stayed in a hotel in Prague that announced the floors only in English. Granted, most everyone I encountered while I was there spoke at least some English, but this elevator was a strange thing to hear in a primarily non-English-speaking country.
Finally, Microsoft won't release the code because that would be helping Apple. And helping Apple (and/or Open Source) is helping the enemy that stands between Microsoft and Total World Domination(tm).
I think an argument could be made that allowing Mac IE to die is in itself helping Apple and open source, in that this will drive more people to use Safari and Firefox.
Have you ever tried running FireFox on a 1Ghz eMac with 768 megs of memory?
No, but until recently I was running Firefox on a 600MHz G3 iBook with 384 MB RAM and it ran just fine. It started slowly, sure, and while it wasn't nearly as fast as running it on a faster machine (obviously), it was perfectly usable.
Personally, I haven't had Mac IE installed for years and have never actually used it (I wasn't using MacOS prior to OS X). Good riddance, I say.
In other words, drive down to the co-lo facility you use, if it's within driving distance, and swap CDs every week or so. If it's not within easy driving distance, hire someone to do it for you.
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I saw a friend with a concussion turned away from an emergency room after a car/skateboard accident due to lack of insurance. They told me to take him to county hospital, which happened to be ~30 miles away.
Since the OP was talking about Google, I'll just mention that it's unlikely they have any lazy or stupid people working for them.
In fact, my SO interviewed with them recently and she was told that in nearly those exact words.
Deprecated HTML will be around, but that's no reason to continue teaching it. Whether you're a teacher or an author, the focus should be on up-to-date standards. I'm not talking about pure-CSS layouts necessarily -- you do want to be able to teach about backward compatibility -- but there's no excuse for including font tags and the like.
The evolt.org browser archive has Mozilla back to version 0.6, and other browsers going back much, much farther. Mosaic, anyone? Tim Berners-Lee's original WorldWideWeb?
Right, rather than taking action against those who would violate their stated policies (when and if it happens), they're warning someone who isn't violating them in any way on the basis that their existence may cause others to violate said policies.
The mind boggles. Where do they find people who come up with stuff like this?
Reread the grandparent post and note the following:
the most common desktop UNIX-like operating system
What he probably means that that Apple sells more desktop Unix machines than any other company. I doubt there are more people running Sun or HP Unix boxes on their desktop than there are using Macs.
Of course the article is likely not talking exclusively of desktops, so it's probalby not relevant to the discussion at hand.
I think the original poster was referring to the fact that you can be tried in a criminal court and found not guilty, then tried again in a civil court and end up paying damages for something the criminal court absolved you of. See the OJ Simpson trial for an example of this (although he is pretty obviously guilty of murder, regardless of the jury's verdict).
This is the result of the burden of proof being different for the two types of cases: "Beyond a reasonable doubt" for criminal cases, versus "the preponderance of evidence" for civil cases. A case can meet the latter without meeting the former.
I'm pretty sure that fits the "should almost never be used" thing, as most people don't write pages full of poetry
You haven't looked at Geocities lately, I presume?
Say what you will about the quality of Wikipedia articles themselves, but they're often a goldmine for references. One of the first places I look after skimming a article is the external links at the bottom of the page.
Your logs won't show how many people wanted to use your app but didn't because they had JS turned off for whatever reason.
That's not necessarily true at all. The most primitive way to see them would be to redirect people with JavaScript disable to no-javascript.html and count the hits to that page. There are any number of other, better ways to count these potential users as well.
These kinds of stats are important for anyone running an app that requires JS. I'd be extremely surprised if they don't know exactly how many non-JS browsers they have hitting their site.
Think 2001: The Ride.
Where do I get in line?!
Just this weekend I stayed in a hotel in Prague that announced the floors only in English. Granted, most everyone I encountered while I was there spoke at least some English, but this elevator was a strange thing to hear in a primarily non-English-speaking country.
Finally, Microsoft won't release the code because that would be helping Apple. And helping Apple (and/or Open Source) is helping the enemy that stands between Microsoft and Total World Domination(tm).
I think an argument could be made that allowing Mac IE to die is in itself helping Apple and open source, in that this will drive more people to use Safari and Firefox.
Have you ever tried running FireFox on a 1Ghz eMac with 768 megs of memory?
No, but until recently I was running Firefox on a 600MHz G3 iBook with 384 MB RAM and it ran just fine. It started slowly, sure, and while it wasn't nearly as fast as running it on a faster machine (obviously), it was perfectly usable.
Personally, I haven't had Mac IE installed for years and have never actually used it (I wasn't using MacOS prior to OS X). Good riddance, I say.
In other words, drive down to the co-lo facility you use, if it's within driving distance, and swap CDs every week or so. If it's not within easy driving distance, hire someone to do it for you.