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Comment Re:The tragedy of CSS (Score 1) 180

Calculation. Based on the current state of the screen.

Try these CSS Units: vh, vw, vmax, vmin, and %

Better control of height. I want to say "This div fills the rest of the container vertically/horizontally" One of the reasons tables are useful for layout is that you CAN do this by setting the width of a column to *. [...] Coool feature, missing from CSS.

display: table, display: table-cell, etc. should help you with that.

First, the block model. Seriously people, if I specify that a block has a width of 300 pixels I mean that the block has 300 pixels, and not the content inside the block without the padding. Really.

You could make an argument either way. Thankfully, we have box-sizing: border-box and box-sizing: content-box

It simply should not be necessary to have that level of expertise just to such a trivial thing.

Layout is not a trivial problem. Particularly when the layout needs to react to the viewport.

Comment Re:20 years and I still hate it (Score 1) 180

It's because of the difficulties with CSS that we have such terrible things as my personal pet peeve -- web pages that have fixed minimum or maximum widths.

We had that with tables. Remember "Best viewed in 1024x768" and similar notices?

CSS actually improved things there. Today, if the designer is competent, you can do something like a single page app that perfectly fills the viewport and everything, including fonts, scale perfectly with the size of the window. No JS required.

CSS could certainly be improved, I won't argue that, but it has helped far more than it hurt.

Comment Re:Whoa (Score 2) 132

Odd. I have the notorious ZTE Open running FFOS 1.1 around here somewhere. I'd give a significantly more positive review.

Sure, it has more RAM, 256mb, but it has none of the problems the ARS writer claims the Cloud FX phone has.

The Cloud FX whiffs on a lot of the basics. It's slow—too slow for Firefox OS.

Now I'm curious. What OS would he run on a low-end device with 128mb of RAM? Certainly not Android -- even 2.2 needed more than 128mb.

Just something like opening Solitaire takes 10 seconds (we timed it)

I know the exact app they tested! It's complete garbage. That thing would take 10 seconds to load on a high-end desktop. They should have tested some of the better games, like Asteroid Mania or Cut the Rope.

The app store is anemic, but it's certainly not the empty wasteland the author makes it out to be. There are more than enough apps and games to keep a you busy. Yes, at least in my experience, the vast majority are local apps.

Who knows, maybe the Cloud FX really is that much worse than my ZTE Open. But I have every reason to doubt that it's as bad as the author suggests.

Comment Re:Bullshit. (Score 1) 342

After all "if it doesn't fit your view point of the world, it's wrong."

That's one way for you to justify your bigotry. Surely, your opinion that women/blacks/Jews/whoever are inferior is just as valid as my opinion that they're equals.

After all, you have a few token members of your particular hated minority that agree with your particular brand of insanity, so you couldn't possibly be bigoted!

Comment Re:We really must blame someone? (Score 2) 342

Bad analogy time. That's like saying "I'm all for equal treatment and opportunities, but handicapped people want unequal treatment (wheelchair ramps, elevators)."

If you want equal opportunity, you can't just sit there and pretend that everyone is the same. Different groups have different needs and face different obstacles. By refusing to make appropriate accommodations, you perpetuate inequality.

Comment Re:Um, no! (Score 1) 534

You still have no logical explanation for a soul with an atheist position, because atheism by nature disbelieves in supernatural forces.

How many times to I have to say it? To be an atheist requires only that you don't believe any any god. You can believe in a soul, afterlife, etc. without also believing in a god. Hence, belief in a soul, afterlife, etc. is perfectly compatible with atheism.

You can change the definition of atheism to preclude that, just don't expect that anyone will accept it.

I have read a whole lot of excellent philosophical works and named 3 authors, you can't name one and can't argue your own position.

You're right. I can't find anyone who both espouses your definition of atheism and argues that the belief in a soul is compatible with it.

Why? For the same reason that I can't find a geologist who argues against the idea the center of the earth is made of pudding.

Atheism to you may include a whole bunch of other nonsense criteria, but here in reality all that is required is a belief that no gods exist.

Again, this is about YOUR argument and how ridiculous it is:

No, Hinduism and Atheism are NOT compatible. The easiest way to demonstrate that you are wrong: Hindu people believe that failures in morality/karma/dharma result in a corrupt soul and may result in reincarnation as a lesser creature as punishment.

Again, you can be an atheist and believe in both a soul and reincarnation. Why? Because neither of those believes also require the believer to believe in any god.

Those things would ONLY be incompatible with atheism if either one required a belief in god. They, very obviously, do not. Therefore, both beliefs are compatible with atheism.

I'm getting a bit tired of repeating myself here. What are you having trouble understanding?

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