I miss the days when flagship phones didn't cost more than 500$ and they really got me more value than their 200$ brothers.
My current phone has cost me 200$, has a battery that lasts a week (configured for low energy, and minimal use), a screen that shames my PC display, around 300GB (with a 256GB MicroSD), and the only performance issue I have found is when I try to emulate some PSP games.
Ok, I'm not a heavy smartphone user, but I wonder, seriously, what use case do modern flagship phones have that makes them worth the cost?
XML fits nicely too, with only a touch of CSS. I don't know what Amazon uses, but I find hard to believe they can't export to XML. And then use XSLT to transform it into HTML, if suits them better.
And its price tag is so obscene I'd never dare to take it out of home.
I can't even imagine a feature set interesting enough to make me pay half of that. What's the market for this? Enthusiasts, rich people and companies with money to burn?
Good to know I have 2 more days than average in my country (Spain). Still not enough, I have a friend here who has 45. I'm green with envy.
People on the other side of the pond must be really bonkers to tolerate works with no leave days.
If you're going to put one of these fake fires inside, it can work. It will look weird, but it won't set your home on fire.
They have gone from "Don't be evil" to "Be evil if it serves more ads".
Well, destroyers are still called destroyers.
I recommend to take a look at the images of this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_and_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel
Since you can get *anything* inside a <button> tag, the sky is the limit about content. The external shape of the button can be altered in many ways, but the definitive one is clip-path, which allows you to clip anything with any arbitrary shape (you can use even a SVG image to define it).
Nowadays anything is possible; usually, the main issue is choosing the right tool.
I feel a bit dirty saying it but... w3schools.com and MDN (for getting deeper) are a great combo to go from beginner to expert, if she wants to avoid formal courses and quickly learn as she does. She can learn there the basics, and then jump to a library. Or not use any, if she doesn't need them.
About libraries: depends totally on what exactly she wants to do. There are many great general purpose libraries (like Vue, React), but if she wants to make games she should use a game library (like Crafty, or Godot), if she wants to make 2D visualizations she probably should use a 2D graphics library, same for 3D (Babylon, Aframe, Three.js), for telling stories Twine is really great... That kind of choice is very personal, and there are thousands of options.
Many use cases of imagemaps were to make fancy buttons which can be made with HTML+CSS nowadays (you can use any shape, animations, some 3D effects, even video).
If that's not enough, SVG is the best bet, as you can do anything you can export graphics from Inkscape or Illustrator and use that from JS/CSS as if it were HTML (caveat: it must be pasted inside the HTML; if you insert as a image file, it won't work). Or generate them on the fly. If she already has a strong foundation on SVG and vector graphics, she may prefer to use it directly, since she already knows half what she needs.
Canvas, for 2D, would be a last resort for me, is too low level. You can do anything with it, but will have to put more effort than with the alternatives. A pro is since it has very basic features, it is very easy to learn.
Canvas for 3D: never use it directly; use always a library. For interactive 3D elements, I would recommend Aframe. Less verbose and more intuitive.
En la misma línea, habría mucho que hablar sobre la posición de Podemos con Ucrania. Poner en pie de igualdad a agresor y víctima no es pacifismo, es apoyar al agresor. Y da exactamente igual que hablemos de guerras, asesinatos, violaciones, o de relaciones laborales.
It's hard to convince somebody to change his ways when he has been doing it wrong for decades, and all his peers say it is the only way to do it. And in every police force or military are real jail material who gets there only to beat people for joy.
New generations should be easier, but probably will get contaminated by veterans.
But you can't get good professionals without good training.
Having a good training is not going to solve it, but I think is unavoidable to do so.
Maybe they have to end up resetting all of police. And have gun control laws that aren't a joke. And many other things.
Very likely.
I have the theory that at least some of the big sites got there by getting something right by mere accident which in theory it is wrong, but makes them really successful. Sometimes, people analyze it and understands it. Sometimes, not. So the day they try to fix it, they see stats going bad. So that something stays forever, without nobody knowing why, only that it works.
Wow. Talk of being overeager. You are around my 100 million, at best.
It's a way to raise engaging. You have to be always there, or nobody will read you.
Seems it is not enough.
I'm far from being an expert in this. And I can imagine there are other US-specific issues here. Being a policeman in a country where everybody can carry automatic weapons has to be really terrifying, for example.
Nobody who hasn't been thoroughly trained to defuse violent situations should even have a baton or the ability to arrest anybody.
You can't protect anybody if the only answer you know to violence is violence, the same as you can't enforce law if you don't know the law. Violence must be the last resource, not the first due to ignorance.
Beating people is never peaceful.
The kind of police not authorized to wear weapons is local police, which is supposed to call the regular police when things are getting violent. They can't even arrest people, only retain until the others come. They mostly deal with city traffic, city regulations...
It's not that there is not cases of excessive police violence here. Indeed there are more than they should, specially with riot police and border patrols. It's that they are trained to avoid it, and so it happens much less frequently than otherwise.
Being European, I find hard to believe people in the USA trying to fix this by defunding or getting more restricting laws, when it looks very clearly as an issue of incompetence due to not enough formation of future agents.
Here, to be a carrying guns police, you have to go through an open competition exam, where only a few pass, only to get to a police academy where they have to be at least 3 years, where they teach them, among other things, how to peacefully resolve all kinds of violent situations. Nearly all of them retire without ever using a gun out of a firing range.
Looking at the news, it seems all of US policemen come from another kind of police academy. The one in the films.
