I'm not saying the issue doesn't exist, I'm saying it's nothing more than nice to have.
Looking at the text or looking at the keyboard is exactly the same thing on a phone, because you're always looking at the tiny screen, no matter what you're focussing on.
If it were a desktop PC with a seperated keyboard and screen, the situation would be different entirely, but on a phone I really have no problems with having just a touch screen and no tactile feedback.
Well to be honest, having tactile feedback while typing is really nothing more than a "nice to have" feature. Especially in landscape-mode, the keys are so large and spread out that I highly doubt tactile feedback (aka 'real buttons') would result in fewer typo's or speed.
When I look at myself, I must admit I stopped using a watch about 10 years ago, when I got my first cell phone. Since then, about every single phone booth has been removed in my country and currently I play more games on my iPhone than on my DS or even my Xbox.
Now I know I'm probably not very representative for the entire population, but when I look around, I do notice a lot more people without a wrist watch...
Sadly, the language is full of these sort of things nowadays... give it another decade and Dutch will be fully understandable for people who speak English.
Well, that's sort of true. Primary school is free, altough most schools ask for an additional fee for things like school trips, lunch, decoration or special events.
AFAIK high school is not free, but is heavily subsidised. Purchase of books is mandatory, altough I do think there is a program currently being developed for free government-funded school books. Not completely sure on that situation.
All other forms of education (college, university, whatever) is not free, but also subsidised for young people. I believe people under the age of 30 pay about 1/3 of what everyone else pays to enroll. Books and all other required materials are payed by the students themselves.
And of course all of these mentions of "free" are anything but free in reality. Taxes in the Netherlands are relatively hefty, especially when compared to a nation with ultra-low taxes like the US.
Then they'll take your social security. Everybody has some form of income.
If you want to be a bum, you can be a bum. Nobody is forcing you to live in a house and you can be kicked out if you don't pay rent. But as long as you do live in a house, you will have running water.
There is nothing wrong with paying taxes and getting a nice country to live in in return for it.
If you truly live in a country where the government steals your money in the form of taxes and gives its citizens nothing in return for it, then it's definately time to leave.
It's funny you put it like that, because looking at the current NetCraft stats it seems like IIS is back to about the market share it had in 2006.
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Sure they did some work on creating Bing, but even so it did replace both MSN Search and Live Search. So it really is no surprise at all that Bing has about the same market share than those combined.
No it's not a right. It's a guarantee. "If you pay this contractor, we guarantee this contractor will provide this minimal service."
The right we're talking about here is not the fact you will get service from a contracter when you pay him for it. The right is there will be a contractor available for you if you desire the service. That right is totally free, even though the service is not.
Obviously yes. You get into a world of hurt if you don't pay your bills. You could even let things get so much out of hand they will take a portion of your salary to pay for your unpaid bills. The fact you're never denied service doesn't mean the problems don't stack up.
If I had a "right" to electricity, nobody could legally shut it off.
I don't know about the situation in your country, but here in the Netherlands your water supply is not free, but you also cannot be cut off, because every citizen has the right to running water in their house. The same thing goes with gas during winter, because you cannot deny people the ability to warm their homes, even if they don't pay for it.
Education is another example. It's not only a right, it's even mandatory for children under 16, even though there is a fee to have your kid in a school.
Having the right to something doesn't mean you get it for free.
Actually, this isn't even a thing of the future. I know a blind person who already has an application which does exactly this on his Nokia phone. He can use it to read signs on the street, letters in his mailbox and basically any text he captures with the camera on his phone.
The Iphone isn't a smartphone, so they don't exist in that market.
Well, since there is no clear definition of what a smartphone actually is, that's kind of hard to say. But I think generally a phone is considered a smartphone when it can be connected with the internet and 3rd party applications can be installed.
I don't know what definition of a smartphone you are using, but I can't think of anything that would exclude the iPhone to be honest.
I'm surprised they kept the SPARC line alive. It just doesn't seem to be necessary any more, and it was a money drain for Sun.
Well actually, the most common platform for Oracle deployment is Solaris on SPARC. So it doesn't seem so strange to me that Oracle isn't ditching their most used hardware platform now that they own it.
Actually, the video element contains more semantic information than the object element. You can put anything into an object and no automated system would be the wiser as to what you're trying to show on your page.
With the video and audio elements, multimedia finally becomes as common and straight forward on the web as images have been for a long, long time.
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Yes, 7 is ***cheap*** for education.
Whatever the price, it will always be endlessly more expensive than Linux.
I'm not saying the issue doesn't exist, I'm saying it's nothing more than nice to have.
Looking at the text or looking at the keyboard is exactly the same thing on a phone, because you're always looking at the tiny screen, no matter what you're focussing on.
If it were a desktop PC with a seperated keyboard and screen, the situation would be different entirely, but on a phone I really have no problems with having just a touch screen and no tactile feedback.
Well to be honest, having tactile feedback while typing is really nothing more than a "nice to have" feature. Especially in landscape-mode, the keys are so large and spread out that I highly doubt tactile feedback (aka 'real buttons') would result in fewer typo's or speed.
When I look at myself, I must admit I stopped using a watch about 10 years ago, when I got my first cell phone. Since then, about every single phone booth has been removed in my country and currently I play more games on my iPhone than on my DS or even my Xbox.
Now I know I'm probably not very representative for the entire population, but when I look around, I do notice a lot more people without a wrist watch...
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I love it.
Sadly, the language is full of these sort of things nowadays... give it another decade and Dutch will be fully understandable for people who speak English.
WTF? Most companies don't release nightly builds of their software.
Not when it comes to web browsers. You can get nightlies from every single other major browser, except for IE.
How does this change anything I've said in the post you're replying to?
Well, that's sort of true. Primary school is free, altough most schools ask for an additional fee for things like school trips, lunch, decoration or special events.
AFAIK high school is not free, but is heavily subsidised. Purchase of books is mandatory, altough I do think there is a program currently being developed for free government-funded school books. Not completely sure on that situation.
All other forms of education (college, university, whatever) is not free, but also subsidised for young people. I believe people under the age of 30 pay about 1/3 of what everyone else pays to enroll. Books and all other required materials are payed by the students themselves.
And of course all of these mentions of "free" are anything but free in reality. Taxes in the Netherlands are relatively hefty, especially when compared to a nation with ultra-low taxes like the US.
Then they'll take your social security. Everybody has some form of income. If you want to be a bum, you can be a bum. Nobody is forcing you to live in a house and you can be kicked out if you don't pay rent. But as long as you do live in a house, you will have running water.
They'll record you as a non-payer, sue you and eventually if you keep declining to pay they take your salary.
But during the entire process you'll still have running water.
There is nothing wrong with paying taxes and getting a nice country to live in in return for it.
If you truly live in a country where the government steals your money in the form of taxes and gives its citizens nothing in return for it, then it's definately time to leave.
No, it's not 10% over anything. It's just plain 10%. Which is actually less than what MSN and Live combined used to have 2 yrs ago.
No need to change browser, for Safari there is GreaseKit.
It's funny you put it like that, because looking at the current NetCraft stats it seems like IIS is back to about the market share it had in 2006.
Sure they did some work on creating Bing, but even so it did replace both MSN Search and Live Search. So it really is no surprise at all that Bing has about the same market share than those combined.
No it's not a right. It's a guarantee. "If you pay this contractor, we guarantee this contractor will provide this minimal service."
The right we're talking about here is not the fact you will get service from a contracter when you pay him for it. The right is there will be a contractor available for you if you desire the service. That right is totally free, even though the service is not.
Obviously yes. You get into a world of hurt if you don't pay your bills. You could even let things get so much out of hand they will take a portion of your salary to pay for your unpaid bills. The fact you're never denied service doesn't mean the problems don't stack up.
If I had a "right" to electricity, nobody could legally shut it off.
I don't know about the situation in your country, but here in the Netherlands your water supply is not free, but you also cannot be cut off, because every citizen has the right to running water in their house. The same thing goes with gas during winter, because you cannot deny people the ability to warm their homes, even if they don't pay for it.
Education is another example. It's not only a right, it's even mandatory for children under 16, even though there is a fee to have your kid in a school.
Having the right to something doesn't mean you get it for free.
Actually, this isn't even a thing of the future. I know a blind person who already has an application which does exactly this on his Nokia phone. He can use it to read signs on the street, letters in his mailbox and basically any text he captures with the camera on his phone.
The Iphone isn't a smartphone, so they don't exist in that market.
Well, since there is no clear definition of what a smartphone actually is, that's kind of hard to say. But I think generally a phone is considered a smartphone when it can be connected with the internet and 3rd party applications can be installed.
I don't know what definition of a smartphone you are using, but I can't think of anything that would exclude the iPhone to be honest.
Well that's the beauty of open standards. If someone decides to create something like this, nothing is stopping him. Or her.
I'm surprised they kept the SPARC line alive. It just doesn't seem to be necessary any more, and it was a money drain for Sun.
Well actually, the most common platform for Oracle deployment is Solaris on SPARC. So it doesn't seem so strange to me that Oracle isn't ditching their most used hardware platform now that they own it.
How is JavaScript + the canvas element not a free, open replacement for Flash?
Actually, the video element contains more semantic information than the object element. You can put anything into an object and no automated system would be the wiser as to what you're trying to show on your page.
With the video and audio elements, multimedia finally becomes as common and straight forward on the web as images have been for a long, long time.
Embed is not a standard element. It's not part of the W3C spec at all, but instead a proprietary element created by Netscape.
Besides that, it's totally unsemantic. What kind of file is being embedded? No automated system can tell, so no search for you.
Why on earth would anyone in their right mind create a website using this element in this day and age?