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Comment Web Pages Use Same Imaging Model (Score 1) 227

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

Comment Re:Not Sure How This is Wrong (Score 1) 68

"I'm probably among the oldest wave of those who can be considered digital natives"

Not by a long shot. I was born in the very early 70's (I like to obfuscate a bit) and had my first PC when I was 6. I ran a FIDO net BBS back in the early days before the interweb thing came around (just another fad, I assure you...). And there are many more like me. We connected quite a bit back then, wrote code in BASIC and C and had a good time in our nerd world.

Hell, I was graduating high school by the time you were born. :)

Comment Re:And the NEXT pandemic (Score 5, Informative) 307

No. No, they showed that Clinton would win the popular vote by 2-5% which she did. So the polls were pretty damn accurate. The Electoral College is another thing altogether and harder to predict as you essentially need to forecast 50 states plus DC accurately. This is much harder to do than get the national poll.

Please stop spreading fake news.

Comment Re:China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak (Score -1, Troll) 374

You are wrong. Your fucking Trump lies denial bullshit is old.

"I'm sick and tired of putting up with these TDS'rs anymore. "
That's because you are wrong, fail to realize he deserves hate, he spreads hate, lie continuously.

" Mueller found nothing" - FUCKING FALSE read the damn report. It is in the report. black and white.
"Impeachment failed" - I see you have no understanding of impeachment. Impeachment was a succes getting him thrown out failed.
President Trump is an Impeached president.

"actually started taking action before any of his critics did. "
another lie.

"The politicization on this started immediately"
another lie. The only "politicization " that happened was the right screaming about "politicization"

"He didn't pull funding from the CDC;"
he tried, but that failed so he disbanded critical parts of it, like the pandemic team.

" he didn't censor Dr. Fauci"
He tried, fortunately Dr, Fauci isn't a GOP puppet and just called out on his shit.

"He didn't cause a shortage of supplies."
HE did,and is, delaying resources.
Interesting you list thing that are 'technically correct' but amount to the same thing.

Anyway, hear are some quotes form your dear leader.

January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.”
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
February 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5: “The United States has, as of now, only 129 cases and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6: Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 7: “We’ll hold tremendous rallies...I’m not concerned at all.”
March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on coronavirus.”
March 9: “This blindsided the world.”
March 9: So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that! (from a tweet)
March 10: "Over a million tests have been distributed," Pence said, and "before the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distri

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