HTML is a markup language. It was NEVER designed to give a pixel-picture representation of content. EVER. That would break mobile browsing, not to mention different resolutions, and everything else.
What you're looking for is called PDF, and it works great. That makes the guarantees you want - every pixel is in its proper place.
Too many designers, used to working in pamphlets where they had complete control, moved to web design. They just aren't the same!!
NAT sucks because port forwarding sucks. If you're ever at an organization with enough IP addresses for users, it's like a breath of fresh air.
Most universities are like this. No fucking around with, well, anything. Want someone to download a file? Copy it to a directory, set up FTP on the directory, and give them your IP address. That was easy.
It's like how IP was supposed to work, after all - any Internet-routed IP address can route to any other Internet-routed IP address.
I'd be listening to FLAC on my iPod except that storage space is an issue. The entire point is that you're willing to trade-off lower sound quality for more space - on your portable player.
This just takes up more space. You're unable to play the higher-quality audio on your mp3 player (that's why you have the low-bitrate in the first place)... but you're still taking up space with it... I know! To get that space back, I'll just split the lossless audio from the 120kbps audio...
This is useless. Is there even a legitimate use case for this? The only thing I can come up with is that users are too stupid to manage their CD-rips (lossless) and lower-quality mp3s. That's a software problem - make the transfer program re-encode on transfer. I know for a fact that WMP does this, so it can't be too hard.
There's a lot of bitching about how much AT&T's network sucks. I'm not an apologist (though I have an iPhone) so let's keep objectivity in mind.
The iPhone has limited ram and a slower CPU. Websites will take a long time to render regardless of connection speed. Therefore, test a file transfer. You should get around 1.5MBps if you're on HSDPA (I think all ATT 3g is HSDPA)
I'm not arguing for a second that someplace like NYC will probably be oversubscribed. I doubt that's the problem in general (nothing like a 14.4kbps dialup for a backhaul... jeez) but it's possible if you're experiencing genuinely slow speeds.
Remember packet-radio tech will always involve latency. Over EDGE it's around 500ms, over a (good) 3g, it's about 150ms. That's something you'd be seeing if you see slow web speeds - many webpages have 50 requests, that latency adds up.
As for this lawsuit, AT&T makes no secret that 3G isn't available everywhere. It is exactly 3 obvious clicks from the homepage. If this guy expected 3g... tough. They're rolling it out pretty quick. If he didn't, or if the service is slow... perhaps he can call and tell them that he didn't contract for this level of service?
Basically, website 'speed' is not all about AT&T's oversubscription/crappyness. It's at least composed of latency, rendering speed, the page itself, and finally the speed of the network (which will fluctuate with users). Do a bulk file transfer and then talk.
And this guy probably needs to chill out. Probably
Fabrication. Apple-branded apps background. On a jailbroken phone, there are a few ways to see running processes (I use SBSettings>Processes)
Phone, Mail, Safari all stay open, pretty much all the time. You can kill safari if it's using too much memory.
There is a noticeable delay between open and "open" apps. If you tap Safari, and it zooms in instantly, you have it open. If it shows the blank window with the buttons, and a blank screen - that's really a loading screen...
You can use "backgrounder" to make any App store app of your choosing go into the background (pandora is a favorite) and jailbroken apps can do this by themselves (dTunes)
Sorry if I don't take you seriously. Without the benefit of being Apple, people have already written MobileSafari plugins.
I've jailbroken the phone. So I have copy/paste, turn-by-turn directions, tethering, (almost) full bluetooth stack, background applications (try backgrounding Pandora and browsing slashdot while in the car!), etc.
Frankly, I wish I didn't need to do that, but it was really easy. No complaints here.
(though I will admit that my RAZR was nice - A2DP, bluetooth modem, hci, ftp, usb modem - no hacking required!)
What exactly doesn't work? The two (three?) most-common brands (Intel, Broadcom, Maxwell) have open-source drivers (with a firmware blob in the case of broadcom)
The correct solution is for OpenOffice to provide a repository (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/), perhaps by a one-click on the website, and do that, if you insist on having the latest version that day and not that week. See virtualbox for an example of how to do this right.
If you'd rather have your distro testing things to make sure they work, you can wait the week.
The one where Verizon is so incompetent that they can't find their own ass with a map.
What world do you live in where you think that crazy large companies formed out of mergers with disparate functions are 'the same company'? They can't even manage to get their billing (omg super package!) right between services.
I hate Verizon as much as the next guy (overpriced DSL with no servers, super shitty phone service, etc - though I might change my mind if they rollout FiOS!) but it doesn't take any great thinking to realize that they aren't competent enough.
Like the problem with conspiracy theories. The basic problem is 'they' aren't that competent.
It's what I use my Wii for mostly. Homebrew Channel and Browser make the whole thing very comfortable.
Mostly, I use it for Gameboy games (not on virtual console) - there's a port of VisualBoy Advance. There's also a NES, SNES, and 64 emulator - along with ScummVM and Genesis, and others.
Frankly, it's great. I know that I could get it off Virtual Console, but this is actually more convenient.
After you get out of emulation (other people's work), there's a really good Mahjong game, and a few cheating programs (infinite bee power in Super Mario Galaxy), as well as Quake and Doom ports.
It's great. Much like the iPhone, all the cool stuff is unsanctioned.
Digital signals are on different frequencies (for the moment) than their analog counterparts, and usually at lower power.
My PBS affiliate is analog and physical channel 13. The digital channel is physically broadcast on channel 61, and at 10% power.
It never works.
After February 17^W^WJune 12, the digital channel will be moving back to physical 13 (which propagates better, and antennas like better) and up to full power.
So, as soon as the transition finally happens, it will work fine. Which is why I was pissed that it was held back.
First of all, it's really pretty obvious the benefit for stem cells: Nerves don't regenerate. That means that there is a real potential to fix anything caused by damaged nerves (paralysis, etc) with stem cells, by making them into nerve cells.
The private sector is pretty happy to keep working on the next Viagra. To be fair, it's a shitload of work with a low signal-to-noise ratio to get a drug that works at all. Viagra was originally a blood pressure medication.
It's hard enough to get a drug that does what we want when we know what we're doing. With stem cells, the cures are too far away (but not a lifetime!) that there's no reason to invest in it.
Plus, it's worth knowing how we form as humans.
Take a deep breath. The 'market' doesn't fix everything and give everybody a unicorn. Only most of the time;)
I was Catholic for 17 years, then became an EMT and decided a God wouldn't create a world like this - and if he did, we shouldn't worship him for it. I sure don't claim to know everybody's beliefs, but I know the official positions and most of the sub-positions.
And I'm sorry if I came off as personally insulting. That 'you' was meant as 'one', as in people in general.
Having said that, I think what Dawkins is saying is that some people are religious and nonscientific. He's calling those people stupid (really, it's ignorance).
Then he's saying there are people who believe in a God whose existence is unprovable and undetectable, and a scientific method that says he is irrelevant (if he does exist) because his existence is unprovable and undetectable.
No matter how you say it, those two ideas conflict with each other. Christianity holds that God exists, and we can't know his ways. Science holds that we shouldn't give a shit if we can't observe anything about it.
Belief in illogical -> Drooling idiot (no intelligence) or
-> Hypocrite (scientific, but holding a fundamental contradiction)
I think that people who believe in a religion are using it to compensate for the craziness of life. I don't think there's anything more to life than simple randomness, and no greater plan, so I don't use it.
But I don't think religious people are stupid. His argument, though, is being religious and scientific -at the same time- is a form of doublethink. You are holding two contradictory principles to be true... and that's where he gets his conclusion.
If you're taking a class on Christianity or Hinduism or Islam, there's no issue.
If your public university has declared an official religion, there's a problem.
Hell, I don't even think it's an issue if a professor goes around talking about how great God is. But if s/he inexplicably lowers your grade at the same time that you don't show interest, there's a big problem.
I think the issue is (and was) that people could be forced into a religious dogma. That's not the case here, and nobody serious is advocating for a moratorium on discussions of religion, anywhere.
What the hell do you think religious people have been doing? They've gone a hell of a lot further than 'bashing atheism and nonreligious people'.
I'm not a huge fan of Dawkins, but to be fair, there's a lot less of 'evangelical' atheists (and I'd bet a smaller percentage) than evangelical Christians/Muslims/etc.
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No no no no no.
That thought is breaking the Web.
HTML is a markup language. It was NEVER designed to give a pixel-picture representation of content. EVER. That would break mobile browsing, not to mention different resolutions, and everything else.
What you're looking for is called PDF, and it works great. That makes the guarantees you want - every pixel is in its proper place.
Too many designers, used to working in pamphlets where they had complete control, moved to web design. They just aren't the same!!
Ooh those bad old liberal elitists.
Fuck off. People are too stupid, and the news is too important, to leave it to the 'public'
Watergate would never have happened with a blog or some other 'you write the news' thing.
The BBC seems to work really, really well. Maybe that's the future...
NAT sucks because port forwarding sucks. If you're ever at an organization with enough IP addresses for users, it's like a breath of fresh air.
Most universities are like this. No fucking around with, well, anything. Want someone to download a file? Copy it to a directory, set up FTP on the directory, and give them your IP address. That was easy.
It's like how IP was supposed to work, after all - any Internet-routed IP address can route to any other Internet-routed IP address.
I'd be listening to FLAC on my iPod except that storage space is an issue. The entire point is that you're willing to trade-off lower sound quality for more space - on your portable player.
This just takes up more space. You're unable to play the higher-quality audio on your mp3 player (that's why you have the low-bitrate in the first place)... but you're still taking up space with it... I know! To get that space back, I'll just split the lossless audio from the 120kbps audio...
This is useless. Is there even a legitimate use case for this? The only thing I can come up with is that users are too stupid to manage their CD-rips (lossless) and lower-quality mp3s. That's a software problem - make the transfer program re-encode on transfer. I know for a fact that WMP does this, so it can't be too hard.
Probably latency. Each image, stylesheet, and JS takes about 4x as long to even request as it does on wifi.
Even low-quality 3g is still well within broadband. I got an embarassing 700kbps earlier; about as fast as my first DSL...
There's a lot of bitching about how much AT&T's network sucks. I'm not an apologist (though I have an iPhone) so let's keep objectivity in mind.
The iPhone has limited ram and a slower CPU. Websites will take a long time to render regardless of connection speed. Therefore, test a file transfer. You should get around 1.5MBps if you're on HSDPA (I think all ATT 3g is HSDPA)
I'm not arguing for a second that someplace like NYC will probably be oversubscribed. I doubt that's the problem in general (nothing like a 14.4kbps dialup for a backhaul... jeez) but it's possible if you're experiencing genuinely slow speeds.
Remember packet-radio tech will always involve latency. Over EDGE it's around 500ms, over a (good) 3g, it's about 150ms. That's something you'd be seeing if you see slow web speeds - many webpages have 50 requests, that latency adds up.
As for this lawsuit, AT&T makes no secret that 3G isn't available everywhere. It is exactly 3 obvious clicks from the homepage. If this guy expected 3g... tough. They're rolling it out pretty quick. If he didn't, or if the service is slow... perhaps he can call and tell them that he didn't contract for this level of service?
Basically, website 'speed' is not all about AT&T's oversubscription/crappyness. It's at least composed of latency, rendering speed, the page itself, and finally the speed of the network (which will fluctuate with users). Do a bulk file transfer and then talk.
And this guy probably needs to chill out. Probably
Fabrication. Apple-branded apps background. On a jailbroken phone, there are a few ways to see running processes (I use SBSettings>Processes)
Phone, Mail, Safari all stay open, pretty much all the time. You can kill safari if it's using too much memory.
There is a noticeable delay between open and "open" apps. If you tap Safari, and it zooms in instantly, you have it open. If it shows the blank window with the buttons, and a blank screen - that's really a loading screen...
You can use "backgrounder" to make any App store app of your choosing go into the background (pandora is a favorite) and jailbroken apps can do this by themselves (dTunes)
Sorry if I don't take you seriously. Without the benefit of being Apple, people have already written MobileSafari plugins.
I've jailbroken the phone. So I have copy/paste, turn-by-turn directions, tethering, (almost) full bluetooth stack, background applications (try backgrounding Pandora and browsing slashdot while in the car!), etc.
Frankly, I wish I didn't need to do that, but it was really easy. No complaints here.
(though I will admit that my RAZR was nice - A2DP, bluetooth modem, hci, ftp, usb modem - no hacking required!)
What exactly doesn't work? The two (three?) most-common brands (Intel, Broadcom, Maxwell) have open-source drivers (with a firmware blob in the case of broadcom)
Is it an external card, by USB or something?
No.
The correct solution is for OpenOffice to provide a repository (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/), perhaps by a one-click on the website, and do that, if you insist on having the latest version that day and not that week. See virtualbox for an example of how to do this right.
If you'd rather have your distro testing things to make sure they work, you can wait the week.
Tip re: wifi password - Don't set a 'wallet' password, it'll complain but not ask.
Auto-reconnection. To be fair, I don't know off the top of my head how to change it after-the-fact.
And before that, there was doskey for (at least) buffered recall.
shit happens in product demos.
Dear aunt, let's so double the killer delete select all?
I use a Wii. Almost point-and-click after the "Twilight Hack" (no hardware required!) and "Homebrew Browser"
I have NES, SNES, GameBoy/Advance, and N64 (though I think I need another gamepad for that).
All full-speed. It's really quite pleasant. Even duck hunt (with the pointer) works!
Emulation is mostly what I use my Wii for.
The one where Verizon is so incompetent that they can't find their own ass with a map.
What world do you live in where you think that crazy large companies formed out of mergers with disparate functions are 'the same company'? They can't even manage to get their billing (omg super package!) right between services.
I hate Verizon as much as the next guy (overpriced DSL with no servers, super shitty phone service, etc - though I might change my mind if they rollout FiOS!) but it doesn't take any great thinking to realize that they aren't competent enough.
Like the problem with conspiracy theories. The basic problem is 'they' aren't that competent.
It's what I use my Wii for mostly. Homebrew Channel and Browser make the whole thing very comfortable.
Mostly, I use it for Gameboy games (not on virtual console) - there's a port of VisualBoy Advance. There's also a NES, SNES, and 64 emulator - along with ScummVM and Genesis, and others.
Frankly, it's great. I know that I could get it off Virtual Console, but this is actually more convenient.
After you get out of emulation (other people's work), there's a really good Mahjong game, and a few cheating programs (infinite bee power in Super Mario Galaxy), as well as Quake and Doom ports.
It's great. Much like the iPhone, all the cool stuff is unsanctioned.
Digital signals are on different frequencies (for the moment) than their analog counterparts, and usually at lower power.
My PBS affiliate is analog and physical channel 13. The digital channel is physically broadcast on channel 61, and at 10% power.
It never works.
After February 17^W^WJune 12, the digital channel will be moving back to physical 13 (which propagates better, and antennas like better) and up to full power.
So, as soon as the transition finally happens, it will work fine. Which is why I was pissed that it was held back.
It would work as well as analog TV - and probably better, with the error correction.
*sings* every sperm is sacred...
You are full of shit.
First of all, it's really pretty obvious the benefit for stem cells: Nerves don't regenerate. That means that there is a real potential to fix anything caused by damaged nerves (paralysis, etc) with stem cells, by making them into nerve cells.
The private sector is pretty happy to keep working on the next Viagra. To be fair, it's a shitload of work with a low signal-to-noise ratio to get a drug that works at all. Viagra was originally a blood pressure medication.
It's hard enough to get a drug that does what we want when we know what we're doing. With stem cells, the cures are too far away (but not a lifetime!) that there's no reason to invest in it.
Plus, it's worth knowing how we form as humans.
Take a deep breath. The 'market' doesn't fix everything and give everybody a unicorn. Only most of the time ;)
Damn Commies...
I was Catholic for 17 years, then became an EMT and decided a God wouldn't create a world like this - and if he did, we shouldn't worship him for it. I sure don't claim to know everybody's beliefs, but I know the official positions and most of the sub-positions.
And I'm sorry if I came off as personally insulting. That 'you' was meant as 'one', as in people in general.
Having said that, I think what Dawkins is saying is that some people are religious and nonscientific. He's calling those people stupid (really, it's ignorance).
Then he's saying there are people who believe in a God whose existence is unprovable and undetectable, and a scientific method that says he is irrelevant (if he does exist) because his existence is unprovable and undetectable.
No matter how you say it, those two ideas conflict with each other. Christianity holds that God exists, and we can't know his ways. Science holds that we shouldn't give a shit if we can't observe anything about it.
His argument is:
I think that people who believe in a religion are using it to compensate for the craziness of life. I don't think there's anything more to life than simple randomness, and no greater plan, so I don't use it.
But I don't think religious people are stupid. His argument, though, is being religious and scientific -at the same time- is a form of doublethink. You are holding two contradictory principles to be true... and that's where he gets his conclusion.
If you're taking a class on Christianity or Hinduism or Islam, there's no issue.
If your public university has declared an official religion, there's a problem.
Hell, I don't even think it's an issue if a professor goes around talking about how great God is. But if s/he inexplicably lowers your grade at the same time that you don't show interest, there's a big problem.
I think the issue is (and was) that people could be forced into a religious dogma. That's not the case here, and nobody serious is advocating for a moratorium on discussions of religion, anywhere.
Full disclosure: I'm an athiest
What the hell do you think religious people have been doing? They've gone a hell of a lot further than 'bashing atheism and nonreligious people'.
I'm not a huge fan of Dawkins, but to be fair, there's a lot less of 'evangelical' atheists (and I'd bet a smaller percentage) than evangelical Christians/Muslims/etc.