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We’ll explore the evolution of CSS’s layout capabilities from CSS 1 to CSS 3 and beyond. Along the way we’ll talk about why equal-height columns were such big a problem, what the CSS Working Group is currently working on, and what challenges are presented by taking print design capabilities and translating them for the Web. CSS styles the web. This is its story.
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When developing in a particular environment, say Android or Cocoa, we are subconsciously aware that the APIs are essentially fixed and beyond our control. The web, however, is built by many different companies and individuals, giving consumers of the platform (web developers) a unique chance to also become contributors to its evolution. Rather than griping about how broken something on the web is, remember that you can play a part in fixing it! Here's one idea of how the web could work better. What are your suggestions?
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To make it easier to figure out what you consider to be programming I’ve made a handy little list in ascending order of what I think is easy and what I think is complex. For the record, I think that all of these except the first are programming. Programming to me is defined as making some agent perform a task, no matter whether or not that agent is a computer or simply another person. And you may start arguing about this list in 3... 2... 1... Go!
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Didn't waste my time reading it.
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I get was he was going for, but since you specifically requested arguing...
In what world is a simple smartphone application (11) more complex than either industrial ladder logic (7) or teaching someone to replace a clutch (8)?!?
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One goal of scientific publication is to share results in enough detail to allow other research teams to reproduce them and build on them. However, many recent reports have raised the alarm that a shocking amount of the published literature in fields ranging from cancer biology to psychology is not reproducible. Pharmaceuticals company Bayer, for example, recently revealed that it fails to replicate about two-thirds of published studies identifying possible drug targets. It worked in my lab.
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One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – and to practise, you need to understand the tools available. In this article, I want to introduce you to 20 different tools for creating visualisations: from simple charts to complex graphs, maps and infographics. Almost everything here is available for free, and some you have probably installed already. In table one, notice that the usefulness of this article is in a rising trend...
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Microsoft is updating all of its major product lines this year, with the new Windows 8, Office, Windows Server and Internet Explorer releases, plus ongoing updates to the software used by its Xbox gaming platform. But while Ballmer called the year “epic,” he appears ready to if not jettison those products, at least subsume them in a new wave of devices around which Microsoft can develop platforms. “I think when you look forward, our core capability will be software, [but] you’ll probably think of us more as a devices-and-services company,” Ballmer told the Times. “Which is a little different. Software powers devices and software powers these cloud services, but it’s a different form of delivery...." Microsoft beyond the Surface.
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Since free software is so pervasive these days, it might not be very hard to find something within a company's product portfolio that depends greatly on free or open source software. Once discovered, all it takes is a claim of license violation like this one to shut down that software. Red Hat's legal-fu is massive, because it's using the fact that there is still a lot of non-compliance of the GPL out there to its clear advantage. What is the actual upside of software patents versus the costs of spurious litigation?
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Researchers have uncovered active malware attacks that exploit a critical and previously unknown vulnerability in the latest versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. The attacks are being waged by the same malware group that recently exploited a separate, zero-day vulnerability in Oracle's Java software framework. The attacks install the Poison Ivy backdoor trojan when unsuspecting people browse a booby-trapped website using a fully patched version of Windows XP running the latest versions of IE 7 or IE 8... WinXP? IE7? Latest? <facepalm>
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It will be interesting too see as I like the windows phone at the moment and would like to see what the 7.8 update does to my handset.
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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let the battles continue..ITproPortal[^]
“The S4 will see some external changes but retain its popular rectangular shape with rounded corner concept."
Rounded rectangles....oo, I thought Apple had a patent for that! Maybe a deliberate dig with that wording.
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DaveAuld wrote: The S4 will see some external changes but retain its popular rectangular shape with rounded corner concept.
Rounded rectangles....oo, I thought Apple had a patent for that! Maybe a deliberate dig with that wording.
That is just...just...damn brilliant!
Full-fledged Java/.NET lover, full-fledged PHP hater.
Full-fledged Google/Microsoft lover, full-fledged Apple hater.
Full-fledged Skype lover, full-fledged YM hater.
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Article from Times of India
For the first time since the 1980s, personal computers no longer account for the majority of demand for DRAM memory chips.
Data released by market research firm IHS iSuppli on Friday showed that only 49 percent of all new DRAM chips were used to make personal computers in the second quarter, underscoring the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets at the expense of PCs.
By the end of 2013, PCs are expected to soak up just 42.8 percent of DRAM chip production, with the rest split between phones, tablets and other devices, according to IHS iSuppli.
Since Apple launched the iPad in 2010, tablets have been eating into laptop sales, slamming the profits of long-time PC heavyweights like Hewlett Packard and Dell.
Last week, top PC chipmaker Intel cut its outlook for the current quarter due to a decline in demand for its processors.
DRam chips store short-term information in PCs, smartphones and tablets to help shorten the time it takes to process information. Hard disk drives and NAND chips are used for longer-term storage of movies, music, email and other data.
While the PC market won't go away, DRAM chipmakers like Micron, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will increasingly focus their resources on developing better memory chips for mobile devices, IHS iSuppli said.
Executives and Wall Street investors are concerned that even the long-anticipated launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 platform in October may fail to give the PC industry a badly needed boost.
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Ummm... how are "smartphones, tablets" not "personal computers"? I know mine are.
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OMG Ubuntu[^]
Oscar-Winning Video Editor Demoed on Ubuntu
By Joey Sneddon, posted April 24, 2012
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Professional video editor Lightworks – used to edit many Oscar-winning films and documentaries – is one step closer to its Linux release.
Visitors to this months NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show 2012 earlier this month would’ve had chance to see a pre-alpha build of the app running on Ubuntu at the Editshare – the company behind the software – stand.
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Even if you never visit the Google Reader site itself, there’s a good chance the feed readers you do use—NetNewsWire, Reeder, Vienna, whatever—use Google Reader to sync the status of feed subscriptions across your devices. And if you’re a blogger, the same is true of most of the subscribers to your site’s feed—Google Reader has become almost everyone’s master subscription list. Here's a trick to exercise some control over when the master feed gets updated.
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Technical writing should teach someone how to do something. The easiest path to this is to be clear. A good start is by answering a couple implicit questions your reader will have. Why should I care? What new thing will I be able to do? One thing to note is that a guide is not a replacement for a reference.
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As we announced last year, we support the latest version of Google Chrome (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available) as well as the current and prior major release of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version of one of these browsers is released, we begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version. IE8 is not yet 4 years old. How long should vendors support older software?
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Are IE9/IE10 going to be available on XP machines soon?
Well, if Google manages to get some volume license sales for Windows 7/8, good for Microsoft, hey!
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: IE8 is not yet 4 years old. How long should vendors support older software?
"Should"? From a moral viewpoint or what? They're not required to support their software at all, it's a thing called service.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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