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W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet 205

Posted by CmdrTaco from the stop-dragging-yer-feet dept.
GMGruman writes "InfoWorld's Paul Krill reports that the W3C, the standards body behind the Web standards, is urging Web developers not to use the draft HTML5 standards on their websites. This flies in the face of HTML5 support and encouragement, especially for mobile devices, by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others. The W3C says developers should avoid the draft HTML5 spec (the final version is not due for several years) because of interoperability issues across browsers."
Iphone

A Peace Plan To End the Flash-On-iPhone Fight 495

Posted by CmdrTaco from the why-can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.
GMGruman writes "As the pro- and anti-Flash camps have hardened their positions, the editors at InfoWorld have come up with a four-point peace plan that would allow Flash on the iPhone while addressing Apple's very real concerns over performance, stability, and security. Readers can vote and comment on the peace plan, which InfoWorld hopes will result in serious talks between Apple and Adobe."
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Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome 558

Posted by samzenpus from the it's-$4.99-you-f*#@ing-co^&%#@!er dept.
Attorneys for Dominica Juliano claim that she was burned and developed psychological problems after a store clerk aimed a hand-held price scanner at her face. Store attorneys say their scanners uses a harmless LED light and that the girl had serious health problems before she was scanned. From the article: "Dominica Juliano was 12 when she and her grandmother entered the Country Fair store in Erie in June 2004. A clerk allegedly called the girl 'grumpy' before flashing his hand-held bar code scanner over her face and telling her to smile. Attorneys for Ms. Juliano and her guardian say the girl was sensitive to light and burned, and later developed post-traumatic stress and Tourette's syndrome."

Comment Wing IDE (Score 2, Informative) 193

by SkelVA (#30599520) Attached to: IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability?
If you're doing web work, primarily python, Wing IDE has great VIM support. It supports custom vim configurations and all of the good stuff. It has a free version, but I threw down some cash (d to get a sweet integrated debugger and test-running capabilities. I found it superior to both Netbeans and pydev on Eclipse, but both of those also support VIM text editing (with plugins). Basically, pretty much every decent python editor I've tried has supported vim either natively or via plugins.
Graphics

Small, High-Resolution LCD Monitors? 370

Posted by samzenpus from the making-the-best-use-of-space dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I'm a veteran user of an old 17" Dell Trinitron CRT monitor. I run it at 1400x1050 with an 80Hz refresh rate — about as high as it goes before it'll go out of the monitor's scan range. More recently I've been looking to finally upgrade to an LCD monitor but found that, for the most part, every 17" monitor on the market runs natively at 1280x1024, as does every 19" monitor — I have to go for a 20" to go higher. Now yes, I know I'm complaining about just 120 pixels horizontal and 26 pixels vertical, but my laptop's 15" display runs natively at 1400x1050. Is there any standalone monitor on the market that'll natively do higher than 1280x1024 without killing my desk space?"
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iTunes Prohibits Terrorism 124

Posted by samzenpus from the great-songs-come-with-great-responsibility dept.
Afforess writes "A recent closer look at the oft-skimmed EULA agreement for iTunes has an interesting paragraph in it, Gizmodo reports. 'You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.' Although humorous, some readers suggested that this may be a defense measure to previously discussed price changes in the iTunes music store."

Comment Re:Difference of Opinion (Score 1) 291

by avanderveen (#27339637) Attached to: YouTube Music Content Takedown Continued

If only countries took the position of the Songwriters Association of Canada: Pay a small monthly fee and pirating Canadian music is legal for you, and you can opt-out of the fee if you want. But even Canada doesn't agree with it's songwriters.

I guess that's just wishful thinking though. It seems that even if everyone (including the songwriters) want this, large corporations will still find a way to lobby the government so that they can support their tactics of bullying the consumer. And that's what it comes down to in most cases: large corporations and their government involvement.

Comment Re:It's a big umbrella (Score 2, Insightful) 371

by avanderveen (#27021115) Attached to: Hope For Multi-Language Programming?

"Should I suck it up and learn to do all my programming in C++/Java/(insert other well-supported, popular language here) and unlearn ten years of philosophy, or is there hope for the multi-language development process?"

No, DON'T unlearn ten years of philosophy. DO learn to do programming in C++/Java/(insert other, imperative programming language here).

Simply by learning a new language, you should not lose abilities and ideals you gained with others (goes for scripting too). You should build on your previous experiences. Experience in functional programming languages (and scripting) goes a long way for your ability to efficiently and effectively use an imperative language. This is why a lot of colleges and universities are starting to teach Scheme as an introductory language instead of Java.

There is hope for a multi-language development process, just make sure that your capable with the languages that are more prevalent

Comment Re:Something timeless (Score 1) 257

by avanderveen (#25691111) Attached to: Which Computer Books For Prisoners?

Hmm... I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.

As far as learning programming goes, learning semantics is the most important thing. Once a person knows how to program they can quickly adapt to varying syntax's and styles. Why do you think it's so easy to move from Java to C++ or from C++ to PHP? The syntax changes a whole lot more than deprecating #includes, yet it's very easy to adapt. In fact, many upper-year programming courses are taught in a way that isn't designed for a specific language for that reason.

A book that would teach the prisoners how to program in general would be very beneficial, but then they would need an accompanying book to apply that knowledge with a language. So, you could either get them a book on programming in general and a book on a language, or you could just get something like an intro to Java book that would include all of the semantics and basics for programming as well as a good introduction to a language that is commonly used by first time programmers.

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Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu 215

Posted by kdawson from the all-eggs-one-basket dept.
David Gerard writes "Wikimedia, the organization that runs Wikipedia and associated sites, has moved its server infrastructure entirely to Ubuntu 8.04 from a hodge-podge of Ubuntu, Red Hat, and various Fedora versions. 400 servers were involved and the project has been going on for 2 years. (There's also a small amount of OpenSolaris on the backend. All open source!)"
Software

Linux 2.6.27 Out 452

Posted by timothy from the not-all-fancy-like-gnu dept.
diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux 2.6.27 has been released. It adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) for 'pure' flash-based storage, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation support for ext4, multiqueue networking, data integrity support in the block layer, a function tracer, a mmio tracer, sysprof support, improved webcam support, support for the Intel wifi 5000 series and RTL8187B network cards, a new ath9k driver for the Atheros AR5008 and AR9001 chipsets, more new drivers, and many other improvements and fixes. Full list of changes can be found here."
Operating Systems

How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux 380

Posted by timothy from the mild-claims dept.
chromatic writes "Kernel hackers Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok showed off Linux booting in five seconds at last month's Linux Plumbers Conference. Arjan and other hackers have already improved the Linux user experience by reducing power consumption and latency. O'Reilly News interviewed him about his work on improving the Linux experience with PowerTOP, LatencyTOP, and Five-Second Boot."
Censorship

IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem 412

Posted by kdawson from the can't-say-that-eh dept.
gravis777 sends us to BoingBoing for news that the International Olympic Committee has trademarked a line from the Canadian National Anthem and is threatening to sue anyone who uses it. The line in question is "with glowing hearts." "The committee is so serious about protecting the Olympic brand it managed to get a landmark piece of legislation passed in the House of Commons last year that made using certain phrases related to the Games a violation of law. The list includes the number 2010 and the word 'winter,' phrases that normally couldn't be trademarked because they are so general."

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