First to ditch legacy keyboard/mouse ports in favour of USB.
First to ditch parallel and serial ports.
They’ve ditched processor architectures, not once, but twice.
Now they’re the first to ditch ethernet.
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Once I got over a burst of Jobs fanboyism, it makes perfect sense. The only reason I use ethernet any more is because large file copies are faster – but with N, that’s not relevant any more. My N800 and iPhone both have no ethernet ports.
Looking at the specs, it looks like it’s not going to be most peoples primary machine – but as a portable terminal to view the content on your network, it looks gorgeous.
I was really frustrated this morning. I’ve seen the new Gmail interface, I like it, I love some of the new shortcuts ([ and ] rock my world)… but it still wasn’t enabled on my gmail account.
Just on the off-chance it was a problem, I checked my language setting. Yep, I had English (UK) selected – as soon as I switch to English (US), I’ve got the new interface version.
If you’re also frustrated, you might want to try twiddling your language as well.
A few years ago, all it took to shock us was a quick look at tubgirl or the Goatse man.
Today standards have changed – today, to shock us, it takes two girls and one cup. Today, it’s not enough just to be shocked, but we have to capture our responses and broadcast those as well.
WARNING: Only the last link is safe for work. The first two links are not safe for work. The last link is not safe for home – unless you have a video camera ready and are going to upload your reaction.
The latest unemployment rate is a stunning figure, Prime Minister John Howard says.
Mr Howard said there had been sustained low unemployment for 20 months, and the human dividend of full employment was more important than anything else.
Full employment? Unemployment figures say nothing about “full employment”. If you work 65 minutes a week for $15/hour, you’re considered employed. If 100% of the population did that, we’d have 0% unemployment, but we’d be a long way form “full employment”.
People who are not employed, are seeking work, but not available to commence a job on the date the survey was taken *because they are sick with a minor cold that day, but could start tomorrow* are not considered unemployed. People temporarily stood down from their job because of insufficient work, even if they’re seeking other work to tide them over, are considered employed, even though they’re receiving no pay and would like to be employed more.
There’s a lot of information about the definitions of unemployed, long-term unemployed, and so on, at http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/featurearticlesbyCatalogue/C9268F9DB356D154CA256A950080B3E3?OpenDocument – including graphs and charts detailing how changes that were made to the definitions of “unemployed” and “long-term unemployed” in ’01 reduced the numbers in both categories, without actually finding anyone new work.
Posted on behalf of Adam’s better half. (I’m not entirely certain that Adam exists. I’ve heard talk of him, but never met him. Hrmmm… I know people who claim to have met him, but never while I was around. This is either due to him not existing, or me not going to the right parties)
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Last year, lots of people helped out a great deal with a survey that was being conducted on Australian TV Downloading and its effect on the free-to-air networks. The media loved it… feature articles in the Australian, and 6 months later we saw the FTA networks start to alter their business models and offer downloads of selected shows.
What’s your opinion on the state of TV in Australia, and does have nice n’ fast broadband access mean you will change how you watch TV?
The guy who did the survey last time, Adam Zuchetti, has just a few weeks ago started a new research project into TV Downloading and Broadband access, and I’m hoping you guys can help him out once more in doing a short survey.
It would mean the world if you could take a look at the survey and complete it, and if you have any ideas who else would be interested in such things, please let me know.
I posted this as a comment at Mother Tongue Annoyances, but it’s (a) tied up waiting for moderation, and (b) slightly messy there, so I’m copying and pasting here. I’ve also tidied it a little – the ability to preview here lets me get it a bit neater
Phil Plait manages to clearly indicate when he’s making corrections, through not relying solely on overstriking.
I do the same: If I have an update, it will be labelled as an update. In addition, my CMS has a “Revisions” feature, which allows users to look at the history of the post and see every revision I’ve made (this may not be enabled for anonymous users, but it’s easy enough to register).
In short, to answer your direct questions:
<del/> isn’t a neccessary way to indicate deletion or correction – there are alternatives, many of them clearer
<del/> isn’t a sufficient way to indicate deletion or correction. You’re going to have to provide other information to show what the new text is, why you changed your mind, etc – and this extra information will show that there was a correction or deletion.
To address a couple of other problems with your post:
<del/> is not the same as overstrike. The w3c definition of the tag states:
User agents should render inserted and deleted text in ways that make the change obvious. For instance, inserted text may appear in a special font, deleted text may not be shown at all or be shown as struck-through or with special markings, etc.
. Strike-through is one way that <del/> might be displayed, it’s not the only way.
overstrike is not the same as <del/>. If you want to guarantee your text is displayed with an overstrike, you’d use <strike>; This is, in fact, what I use whenever I’m making changes of the sort that you describe as “crying wolf”. You should *not* assume that just because you see overstriking that the author was mis-using the <del/> tag – it’s far more likely they were using the <strike/> tag.
Using overstrike is a continuation of a tradition of using things-that-resemble-deletion-but-aren’t to indicate humour – cf The Jargon File talks about a much earlier incarnation of this.
In short, your confusion between <del/> and <strike/> is another data point in favor of seperating display information (like, overstrike?) from metadata (like, heading type, deleted/inserted, etc).
The Australian Government Consultation Blog Discussion Paper is, as the name implies, an invitation to public discussion about the potential value for government and the community in having a government “consultation blog”, what such a blog might contain, how it would be managed and so on.
NZ Police were reviewing the old Policing Act, from 1958, which had become “anachronistic” and was “written for a completely different age, not policing of today”, Superintendent McCardle said.
But drafting new legislation “shouldn’t just be the sole reserve of politicians”, he said, so the wiki was created to invite input from members of the public.