I've had this argument before, and it's pointless...HTML will become like the meaningless term "Web 2.0"... With no standard, it will become a buzzword open to interpretation and won't actually mean anything. Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple are going to fuck this up thoroughly in hope that a clear winner of the new browser war emerges.
The battle ground is the web and casualties will be our websites.
It isn't like any vendor is going to retract rendering support for an older version of (X)HTML. If this "browser war" fud-analogy is correct, it would mean certain failure for the first browser to stop supporting HTML in any of its old forms.
So yeah, moving forward with a non-standard may not be best, like, on paper, but bickering and fighting over new markup/codecs/resource allocation moving forward won't take away from the power us web developers have in using a slightly older but universally-supported version just for the sake of sidestepping the mess.
All of the websites up now, and undoubtedly all of them under construction today and well into the future... they will be fine. The only sites at-risk will be those super-early-adopters and those which were made without a basic understanding of which standard they are writing in.
Well that is the hope in HTML5... one of its most pivotal features is the Video tag. Although there's no guarantee that browser makers will want to scale things down resource-wise after HTML5 becomes ubiquitous (especially the IE/Safari bunch, for obvious reasons).
"This isn't completely surprising since Apple has made no significant changes in the antenna design to warrant a permanent fix."
You know, there's a saying about doing the same thing over and expecting a different result...
Theoretical Solution: Electro-magnetize the net when possible (not when near functioning equipment and their signal paths). Attract to gather slow-moving particles, repel to [hopefully] slow down oncoming bullets on successive passes.
Example sicknesses, associated with the corresponding distraction:
Chickenpox, age 11, Sonic 2
Food poisoning, age 16, GTA III
Flu, age 18, Metal Gear Solid 2
Dental surgery, age 21, Freelancer
Mono, age 22, (Nothing, that was awful)
I mean it's probably not so easy now being an adult, but video games have always been a huge help when it comes to getting over sicknesses. It makes perfect sense for burn victims, especially, to have an immersive type of distraction. We have the ability to, so why not?
Also, I'm not sure why they came up with a brand-new game for this, when they could have just set up Mario 64 and had them race the penguin on loop.
Precisely. Like so many unfortunate situations we face today, it may be best to have the shit hit the fan sooner than later, and shift our focuses to rebuilding from scratch a more robust system. Can't completely rebuild if you leave the foundation.
Just waiting for it to happen again... where they purposefully cut back on bandwidth and make Wikipedia really really slow. Nothing quite like wanting to read all about every MLB earned-run average champion ever but having it take more than 5 seconds to get there to make people feel like donating.
It's like when Dogfish Head brewed up a replica of an ancient Chinese beer last year. A whole new world of food and drink that we've never experienced!
It's all how you learn. If nobody points out the better way to do it, at least a few people will think Caps Lock is the only way to do that. I've seen people type 80-90wpm while doing that method. It's stupid, sure, but it's just like how I don't use my thumb to hit spacebar. You can make your own way.
Very good point. Manning likely has it coming to him for the leak, but I guess the problem is people fail to recognize WikiLeaks as a journalistic outlet. It didn't help that things have gotten so sensational. It also doesn't help that people have no idea what journalism is anymore.
...and I'll say it again. Releasing the information was, at best, arguably illegal only on a case-by-case basis, as much of it was (supposedly) public information anyhow. The backlash against its release should have zero to do with the actual content released and 100% with the act of releasing of information in general. Reactions from the Swedish GA (siezing the opportunity), the Swiss banks (fearful of entanglement), PayPal (fearful of the Fed. Gov?), etc are far overblown and are missing the point, which should be an U.S. legal one anyway.
US Gov and others are pissed because they're getting their pants pulled down. Beyond that, it's not the fault of Wikileaks that these targets have skidmarks on their undies. Embarrassment where it's due.
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I've had this argument before, and it's pointless...HTML will become like the meaningless term "Web 2.0"... With no standard, it will become a buzzword open to interpretation and won't actually mean anything. Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple are going to fuck this up thoroughly in hope that a clear winner of the new browser war emerges.
The battle ground is the web and casualties will be our websites.
It isn't like any vendor is going to retract rendering support for an older version of (X)HTML. If this "browser war" fud-analogy is correct, it would mean certain failure for the first browser to stop supporting HTML in any of its old forms.
So yeah, moving forward with a non-standard may not be best, like, on paper, but bickering and fighting over new markup/codecs/resource allocation moving forward won't take away from the power us web developers have in using a slightly older but universally-supported version just for the sake of sidestepping the mess.
All of the websites up now, and undoubtedly all of them under construction today and well into the future... they will be fine. The only sites at-risk will be those super-early-adopters and those which were made without a basic understanding of which standard they are writing in.
Well that is the hope in HTML5... one of its most pivotal features is the Video tag. Although there's no guarantee that browser makers will want to scale things down resource-wise after HTML5 becomes ubiquitous (especially the IE/Safari bunch, for obvious reasons).
Oh, well... where does that leave my favorite (and most useful) TLDs, .museum and .cat?
"This isn't completely surprising since Apple has made no significant changes in the antenna design to warrant a permanent fix."
You know, there's a saying about doing the same thing over and expecting a different result...
This is why math is important.
Theoretical Solution: Electro-magnetize the net when possible (not when near functioning equipment and their signal paths). Attract to gather slow-moving particles, repel to [hopefully] slow down oncoming bullets on successive passes.
I mean it's probably not so easy now being an adult, but video games have always been a huge help when it comes to getting over sicknesses. It makes perfect sense for burn victims, especially, to have an immersive type of distraction. We have the ability to, so why not?
Also, I'm not sure why they came up with a brand-new game for this, when they could have just set up Mario 64 and had them race the penguin on loop.
Alright, competitors, time to shine! Let's go get... uh... guys? ... you there?
Precisely. Like so many unfortunate situations we face today, it may be best to have the shit hit the fan sooner than later, and shift our focuses to rebuilding from scratch a more robust system. Can't completely rebuild if you leave the foundation.
Simple humans! Our computer models are too perfect to fail!
"Out sick" == "in beta"
With my scant knowledge of law, I know they can't claim real jurisdiction over the hacker himself. The hardware is another story, but unlikely too.
On the other hand, with my vast knowledge of how these things go, he'll probably wind up facing a stiff penalty of some sort.
Seeing "Intel Inside"r makes me realize how far that company has come.
I miss MMX technology.
Incidentally, the word "Inside" is one of those words that loses its meaning the longer you look at it.
Before we get all burn-the-town-ey... why did this happen? Who, if anyone, could have stopped it? What's our next move?
Oh yeah like word and powerpoint! I took a keyboarding course in the 9th grade, too. Pssh. I don't know if it merits its own subject, really.
Jeez everyone's a little hot under the collar today.
Just waiting for it to happen again... where they purposefully cut back on bandwidth and make Wikipedia really really slow. Nothing quite like wanting to read all about every MLB earned-run average champion ever but having it take more than 5 seconds to get there to make people feel like donating.
It's like when Dogfish Head brewed up a replica of an ancient Chinese beer last year. A whole new world of food and drink that we've never experienced!
There goes my plan to strike it rick, buy the Chernobyl area from Ukraine, and set up my own little soviet nation...
Finally every CS student can bring their time-honored declaration into tangibility!
It's all how you learn. If nobody points out the better way to do it, at least a few people will think Caps Lock is the only way to do that. I've seen people type 80-90wpm while doing that method. It's stupid, sure, but it's just like how I don't use my thumb to hit spacebar. You can make your own way.
Tragedy of the commons.... in space!!!
Very good point. Manning likely has it coming to him for the leak, but I guess the problem is people fail to recognize WikiLeaks as a journalistic outlet. It didn't help that things have gotten so sensational. It also doesn't help that people have no idea what journalism is anymore.
...and I'll say it again. Releasing the information was, at best, arguably illegal only on a case-by-case basis, as much of it was (supposedly) public information anyhow. The backlash against its release should have zero to do with the actual content released and 100% with the act of releasing of information in general. Reactions from the Swedish GA (siezing the opportunity), the Swiss banks (fearful of entanglement), PayPal (fearful of the Fed. Gov?), etc are far overblown and are missing the point, which should be an U.S. legal one anyway.
US Gov and others are pissed because they're getting their pants pulled down. Beyond that, it's not the fault of Wikileaks that these targets have skidmarks on their undies. Embarrassment where it's due.