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Seriously, how is this hard? Don't trust the client, store things like geolocation data and other such things server-side.
Sure, not everything can be stored server-side but something like coordinates can easily be stored server-side (preferably linked to your current session in case you are logged in from more than one location so posts from your cellphone don't show up as posts from your home and vice-versa).
Seriously, how is this hard? Don't trust the client, store things like geolocation data and other such things server-side.
You say that as if it's not creepy.
There was no solution posted though. If you don't trust the client it doesn't matter if you store the data client side or server side.
That's a remarkably naive thing to say.
In any data-driven app, you never, ever trust the client. You do, however, trust the rules you've put into place to ensure data integrity and the logic you use to enforce them. (Well, 'trust' in the sense that you've tested the hell out of your software.) That way, even if you do have a malicious client, they can't do more harm than you're willing to allow.
That doesn't stop the client very easily spoofing their own location coordinates, before it is ever stored on the server, which is the problem the article is highlighting. The geo-locations API in HTML5 is called by clientside code, it then exists in an intermediate form before being passed to the server to store. With easily available debugging tools, you can stop the code and change that intermediate data before it gets sent off to the server. Of course, most of this is possible with native applications,
True, I'm just saying that if geolocation is truly important to you then maybe you should at least attempt to verify it server-side (by looking up the IP address of the user, if it shows the user in Germany while the client is reporting that it's in Egypt then maybe there's a problem somewhere).
My point was that as long as you don't blindly trust the client you won't have these problems. Of course, it used to be worse, I remember the good old days of the late 90s when it wasn't uncommon for websites to use
True, I'm just saying that if geolocation is truly important to you then maybe you should at least attempt to verify it server-side (by looking up the IP address of the user, if it shows the user in Germany while the client is reporting that it's in Egypt then maybe there's a problem somewhere).
That breaks a very common case where you have geolocation data - mobile data. Specifically, data roaming. Data roaming works because the roaming carrier forwards packets your phone sense out to your carrier, who then
The browser is the view, the only thing it gets sent is data to display.
Then how well does your application work offline? With HTML5 localStorage, limited though it may be, users are going to expect to be able to use your web application even with zero bars. Not everybody can afford $60 per month for the privilege to connect to the Internet during the daily commute on public transit or while in a shopping mall that provides Wi-Fi access only to employees and not to shoppers.
Then theres a good chance that an HTML app isn't the right way to go.
Stop trying to pretend HTML and JS are a proper way to make an offline app.
They AREN'T.
Just because you CAN do it, doesn't mean you fucking SHOULD do it.
HTML5 local storage should be used where it can for speed improvements and saving bandwidth, not to shoehorn HTML into something it shouldn't be. I'm sorry all you know how to do is throw around javascript and html, but that doesn't make you a developer and that doesn't mean you should tr
The other points aren't all that great either. Most of them are either irrelevant or apply equally to native apps as they do to web apps. If anything, this article seems to point towards relying more on the server and less on the client.
Don't trust the client, store things like geolocation data and other such things server-side.
Uhm, where do you think you got those coordinates from in the first place?
TFA isn't talking about sending geoip data back to browsers to store it in a cookie, it's about getting GPS data from visitors, who will want to lie about it, e.g. to get free beers for logging in at a specific spot several days in a row.
Yes, I read TFA. It wasn't very illuminating; the author essentially says that since the client side can alter the transactions, HTML5 has security problems.
That's kind of stupid; whose security are we talking about here, anyway? Clearly not the end user - and I'll feel free to use various add-ons to alter the web pages I visit to improve my security and privacy
Despite the power and awesomeness that is the growing new web environment, the browser is the client and the application runs on the server.
Rich, exciting, thrilling and awesome experiences on the client side be damned, the server, the data and the application should never trust the client. I always thought this was a fundamental reality of the web that everyone knew. But recently, with all this version number craziness we have been seeing of Firefox lately, I have come to realize that there are a lot of lessons that have to be re-learned "the hard way" along the way.
Hard Lesson #1 (for Firefox), don't screw with your users or you won't have them long.
Hard Lesson #2, it's a "browser" and a "standards compliant browser" at that. This will mean it is very replaceable or interchangeable. Don't overestimate your worth to the user. Whatever it takes to see the truth, "the browser is not the thing" ; it's how you get to the thing.
Throughout computer history, we have seen patterns emerge. The computer is too over-loaded, so move computing outward to the desktop. The desktop is too overloaded, so move computing back to the server. The desktop and the server are too overloaded and the IT departments are too burdened and expensive, so move computing "to the cloud!" (aka, someone else's servers) All these changes over time indicate a behavior of aversion -- seeking to avoid a problem. That's all well and good, but it doesn't seem to address the problem on the merits of the situation and is certainly not accepting of reality. That reality is that the data and the services are "the things." There are costs associated with those things and they must be managed. But "the things" are the things and they must be valued and handled appropriately and all the things surrounding "the things" need to be held in perspective.
"HTML5 isn't the solution for every problem."
And anyone who thought it was has not been programming for very long, or simply doesn't learn from history.
On the plus side, HTML5 should make some aspects of life a bit easier, and hopefully introduce only a small number of new challenges.
Frankly, the spec is a bit of a joke.
The semantic tags are out of date before the spec has even finalised, because it doesn't cover thing like comments tags which are prominent in todays sites, illustrating what a dumb decision it was to add a bunch of random semantic tags based on an arbitrary web survey carried out years ago. Semantics should be applied to classes just like styles are using a semantic definition language. This would of course have the advantage of allowing 3rd parties to produce semantic definition archives for no longer maintained sites etc. that browser could look up but well, there you go, that's what happens when people who apparently don't have even the slightest grasp of separation of concerns get their hands on something as fundamental as an HTML spec. It's like they didn't even realise why it's better to not have all your styles embedded in your document structure markup - i.e. your HTML and hence why CSS was developed the way it was.
Thus far it seems to have taken the web backwards in terms of compatibility, many of the new features work differently in different browsers, harking back to the days of HTML3/4 and Netscape/IE battles.
XML syntax seems discouraged which means you'll run into more people using the SGML syntax which seems to be pushed more than XML which makes the web more of a ballache to work with- no more of a push towards simple XSLT to trivially move data around and into and out of web displayable formats and instead a push away from that. I don't really care if it's served as XML or not, the point is that if it's not well formed XML it becomes a massive ballache to deal with, because XML tools and libraries are so prevalent.
The ethos surrounding HTML5 is that well, lots of old sites didn't follow newer standards, so lets make those web sites standard by taking everything they did shit, and making that standard. So great, yes, let's make shit, the standard. No, that's not how standards work- standards define a high quality that allows maximum compatibility which developers should strive to adhere to, if some don't then don't cater to them- just point out they're shit because they're not standards compliant.
Really, I don't think I'll touch it unless it gets to the point where you can't avoid it. I think I'll wait for a spec that's written by adults than a bunch of PHP kiddies who don't have the first clue about how to right good web software, and instead prefer to bung any old shit into the mix and call it a standard. Not to mention the drama about it being a living standard- good standards don't need to be living, good standards are generic and flexible enough to be future proof for a good number of years - you know, like, say, the XML spec.
It's not that I don't like some of the new features proposed in HTML5 like canvas etc., I think they're great ideas. It's just a shame the rest of it is just so painfully amateurish from a software development perspective. The net result is a spec that basically takes the web back to where it was 10 years ago- a messy inconsistent mess of arbitrary tags that needlessly duplicate functionality, causing annoying ambiguity with a dash of incompatibility chucked in to boot.
I'm hoping for a quick iteration to XHTML6, run by people who actually know what they're doing so we can just bypass the mess that is HTML5, but that's probably a bit much to hope for.
Another sad case of a XML brainwashed believer....
XSLT, trivial? Have you ever tried doing anything useful with it?
XML/XHTML was written for the parsers. HTML5 was written for web developers. You may say the standard is "shit", the practices are "amateurish" (when benchmarked against what they teach you in the textbooks), but all that counts is what people are able to do with the stuff.
Theoretical aesthetic purity is not an ends in itself. The "separation of concerns", "removal of arbitrary tags/duplicate f
For example, if people use bold text all the time, then why shouldn't we be able to bold-text? Why should we have to , or worse, write up a crazy "semantic" document and then add the XLST? Isn't that overkill?
Maybe it's just me but I'd rather do <span class="bold">. Using <b>, <center> and so on may work fine but overall using CSS to style your page is the way to go anyway.
Basically, you'll still end up with css for b, center and all those other elements because you don't want the default look of them.
Yes, and you end up with less HTML being sent to the client as well.
They are functionally the same, only your way is more bloated and uglier since you're still going to have the exact same CSS behind it, your way is rather stupid.
"Another sad case of a XML brainwashed believer...."
Believer? that implies I merely believe XML is useful. No, sorry, many of us in the real world actually find XML useful. We develop large systems where XML helps no end. I'm sorry that you've never worked on a project where XML has come in useful, but some of us are competent enought o actually use the right tool for the job.
"XSLT, trivial? Have you ever tried doing anything useful with it?"
Yes thanks. We had an old black box system that we needed to integrate with a new web based system, it produced web pages that were thankfully at least XHTML1 compliant. Because we couldn't yet get rid of this system we were fortunately able to XSLT transform the output into useful data, and feed back inputs to it to transparently integrate it with the new system. If it had only adhered to HTML5's bastardised SGML syntax then it would've been a nightmare to integrate with this legacy system.
"XML/XHTML was written for the parsers. HTML5 was written for web developers. You may say the standard is "shit", the practices are "amateurish" (when benchmarked against what they teach you in the textbooks), but all that counts is what people are able to do with the stuff."
Right, and this is the problem. Too many developers haven't come from a professional background. They write code that would make old school C++ developers, and high end Java developers alike cry themselves to sleep at night. They managed to get a basic site working in PHP once, and have moved on from their, they don't understand what MVC or OOP is and don't see why they should because they never needed it so just carry on as normal. The problem is, they're also the ones who are responsible for sites that are always falling over, getting hacked, miserably hopeless in terms of scalability. Stuff isn't put into textbooks for a laugh, or to give you something to study, it's put in there base on experience, it's put in there so that you don't repeat the mistakes made by others before you - and there's the problem, too many web developers do repeat those mistakes time and time again, which is why things like SQL injection and XSS attacks are some of the most common to this day, despite solutions to them being long available and known, well, if you read the textbooks that is.
"Theoretical aesthetic purity is not an ends in itself. The "separation of concerns", "removal of arbitrary tags/duplicate functionality", "future proof" stuffs actually make the XML/XHTML spec more useless, harder to work with, and decreases productivity. You may marvel at its aesthetic beauty, but for people like us who actually need to do things on a schedule, those restrictions hinder our productivity when there's no way to opt out of it."
You are a terribly developer. Sorry, it needs to be said. You've basically admitted you're writing terrible code just to get something working. Your code is the type of code responsible for nightmarish maintainability, horrendous bugs and security exploits. Please, get the fuck out of the software development industry now. We don't need more bad software. I understand that in some places the constraints are such that speed of development and hence reduced cost is put well over and above quality but that's not the same everywhere. Please don't assume your complete lack of focus on quality is universal.
"For example, if people use bold text all the time, then why shouldn't we be able to bold-text? Why should we have to , or worse, write up a crazy "semantic" document and then add the XLST? Isn't that overkill?"
It depends. Sure it might take you an extra 5 minutes today, but that's 5 hours saved tommorrow when you have to come back and fix things. Separating off semantics means that for larger software teams you can even have people dedicated to looking after just that, so the developers can focus on developing, without getting in each other's way.
"The HTML spec people took 10 years to realize the mistake of going the XML way. It seems that you still
It depends. Sure it might take you an extra 5 minutes today, but that's 5 hours saved tommorrow when you have to come back and fix things. Separating off semantics means that for larger software teams you can even have people dedicated to looking after just that, so the developers can focus on developing, without getting in each other's way.
The problem with your argument is that there really are many instances where that 5 hours tomorrow never come. Adopting "XHTML6" in your interpretation would mean that nobody could save those 5 minutes, even if I'm just writing a hello world page.
By adopting universal standards that are so strict and unforgiving to "sloppy" code, you're raising the overhead of development without necessarily gaining back the benefits. In fact, nobody's stopping you from using your own XHTML6 -- if the XML tools are really s
"XML/XHTML was written for the parsers. HTML5 was written for web developers"
You seem to be completely glossing over / forgetting the fact that in order for the "web developer"'s site to be farmed out, it needs to be served up by an engine, written by a software developer - one who has a metric crapton of libraries and tools all geared toward working with XML.
This is of course also completely glossing over the fact that there is basically no one in the industry anymore who is simply a "web developer". Try getting a job in a real workplace with nothing in your skillset but HTML and script, and you will be laughed out of the building. All companies want real software developers nowadays - and those developers appreciate well-formed syntax sets.
You seem to be completely glossing over / forgetting the fact that in order for the "web developer"'s site to be farmed out, it needs to be served up by an engine, written by a software developer - one who has a metric crapton of libraries and tools all geared toward working with XML.
The web engine gets high re-use; people don't write their own, they use one that's already available. Web developer's sites are written custom, and are written constantly. Therefore the standard should be built for the conven
XSLT, trivial? Have you ever tried doing anything useful with it?
XSLT can be useful? Surely that's a Slashdot Story all in itself?
XSLT, trivial? Have you ever tried doing anything useful with it?
I have. As long as you use it for its intended purpose, and don't try to calculate a square root with it (as a co-worker once did as an exercise), it's pretty easy. Trivial even, if you do it right.
XSLT, trivial? Have you ever tried doing anything useful with it?
For simple cases, you can always use CSS to style your XML, which can work rather better than using CSS to make tweaks to an unknown set of default styles that may vary from browser to browser. However, in cases where you need to transform the order/nesting of elements in the source document to display it, CSS is stuffed anyway - most non-trivial CSS-based layouts require the HTML to be formatted just so with all the elements in the right order and correctly nested.
With the increasing use of Content Manag
XML/XHTML was written for the parsers. HTML5 was written for web developers.
I'm a web developer who was also a member of the W3C's HTML Working Group [w3.org] (the group where the HTML5 spec was hammered out) during the development of HTML5, and I can tell you that if you believe that HTML5 was written for web developers, you are wrong. HTML5 was written by and for browser vendors -- Google, Apple, Mozilla, Opera, and (somewhat) Microsoft. The opinions of other Web stakeholders were of minimal concern. Concerns about the spec raised in the WG by anyone who wasn't a browser implementer were routinely shouted down with threats to withdraw from the W3C process completely by those who were. Some who advanced concerns, like accessibility professionals, were actually derided in quite personal terms by representatives of the browser vendors, both in official WG communications and in their own private back channels (like IRC), which invariably leaked. (Here's a good writeup [cnet.com] of some of the friction that existed in the WG between browser vendors and everybody else.)
There are a lot of things in HTML5 that I'm looking forward to being able to use, but if you're a web developer you shouldn't kid yourself into thinking that HTML5 was written for you. It wasn't. Almost every decision made in the development of HTML5 was made to make Google's life easier, not yours.
They do have a "web developer" edition with only the stuff important to web developers.
It sounds to me you've just run into the dipshits that write articles about XML and basically make it as difficult as humanly possible so they sound smart. If your a C++ programmer try this. Write a DTD (make up your own XML). Then use the dtd to xsd script from here [w3.org] to create an xsd. Then use this [codesynthesis.com] to create C++ templates from the xsd.
I see it differently. Your example shows how complex XML can be.
Forcing it down the throats of everyone (as my original parent seems to advocate) seems a bit drastic. Particularly as a lot of people writing (X)HTML don't work on "big complex projects".
XML syntax seems discouraged
Can you give an example of non-XML-compliant HTML5?
<title>Not XML</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
<img src="not-xml.png">
Does at at least accept the XML-valid structure too? Or is HTML5 just intended to give web developers more tedious work?
Almost every single tool in the world spits out valid XML nowadays. Browsers expecting non-XML is going to be really frustrating.
Yes, it does. In fact, you can develop polyglot documents that can be interpreted as both HTML5 and XHTML5.
XML syntax seems discouraged which means you'll run into more people using the SGML syntax
It's not even SGML syntax any more, it's pseudo-SGML that is reverse-engineered from browser implementations. Some SGML features have been dropped, some alterations have been made to compensate for common syntax errors, and error handling has been defined.
There isn't a lack of XML compatibility, HTML5 still has it's XHTML5 mode, which still fully supports XML markup. The problem is that the HTML route not only exists, but seems encouraged, which means that rather than a push towards the much better XML syntax that we've had over the last 10 years, we're now in danger of seeing a backwards trend to the much worse syntax such that we run the risk of being back where we were 10 years ago.
You may think it's no big deal but it really is. Thanks to XML's tools tha
If the spec is a jungle for web-developers it must be hell for browser-vendors. Honestly, I don't have much faith in this whole process: the spec is so difficult that no vendor will ever get it right anymore.
I'm just waiting for the day when google's NaCl is more mature and we can just send native instructions to an accelerated virtual-machine-like browser. I'm feeling it's about time for that old "keep it simple" mantra. And it's time web-developers got back into control actually.
I don't really care if it's served as XML or not, the point is that if it's not well formed XML it becomes a massive ballache to deal with, because XML tools and libraries are so prevalent.
It's only syntax, it shouldn't be a big deal. There's plenty of XML-based tools that are useful, and HTML5 goes to some lengths to define the text/html (i.e. non-XML) syntax so you can still use those tools and just translate the syntax at the edges.
The text/html and XML syntaxes are based on exactly the same underlying c
A large part of the reason HTML 5 was written at all was to standardize large parts of the behaviour in web browsers that the web relies upon --- until a few years ago, huge parts of the budgets for browsers were spent on reverse-engineering other browsers (latterly IE6, before than NN4, etc.), which resulted in a hugely anti-competitive environment. When work on HTML5 started, it was incredibly hard to write a browser that worked with the vast amount of already deployed content, and what specs there were w
The ethos surrounding HTML5 is that well, lots of old sites didn't follow newer standards, so lets make those web sites standard by taking everything they did shit, and making that standard. So great, yes, let's make shit, the standard. No, that's not how standards work- standards define a high quality that allows maximum compatibility which developers should strive to adhere to, if some don't then don't cater to them- just point out they're shit because they're not standards compliant.
Features browsers
I've done extensive, years and years of programming in Native apps and I have done quite a few years in web apps too; using various stacks and languages.
The idea that the browser is going to replace a rich client any time soon is, in my view, a fools errand. I pity those who have thrown away perfectly good money over the past 10 years trying to make this happen. There are some success stories, like webmail and web-chat and various cloud services; but these things are comparatively simple animals in terms of their data/user complexity. Also there are alot failures which have cost alot of people money.
Browsers have slowly, very slowly eaten into rich client app space. But as soon as complexity of the application reaches a certain level, i.e. level of complexity you typically encounter in an accounting or stock control system, then cost to build the product becomes prohibitive and the UI suffers significant limitations.
Webapps are harder and more expensive and more time consuming to build, and the end result is typically a poorer UI experience. Imagine trying to write something like Gimp, or Open Office, or an accounting package as a web app as opposed to a rich client? Massively more complex. HTML/HTTP has come a long way, but it has to go alot further still if it is ever going to be beaten into a semblance of an architecture that is going to give the rich client application domain a run for its money.
I think it is inevitable a cloud architecture will emerge that kills the native rich app, but I am highly doubtful that HTML/HTTP will be powering that architecture.
The hard truth is that for more than fill with patches,for more you put ugly hacks, HTML is not meant to do the work of native applications.
The problem is that you're about a decade too late with that argument. We've spent so much time and effort smashing this square peg into the round hole of HTML that the expectations are now incredibly high.
You can build real apps with HTML, just like you can build bridges with Popsicle sticks, all you need is buckets of glue.
Using WebSockets, you can implement pretty much as efficient an instant messenger as is possible in this firewalled age.
It's true that in the past, making a web page look like a native app has involved ugly hacks. HTML5 and related technologies remove the obstacles that make those hacks necessary.
You might be looking at this too narrowly. HTML is just one client platform among many. You use it when it makes sense; in particular, when you don't want the bother of installing a native app in the first place. Like all other client platforms, HTML has limitations, and only fools with lots of time and money to throw away fail to respect them. In its sweet spot, HTML offers some truly unparalleled features that no other stack can touch (such as hypertext linking, for example.)
Before modding me to oblivion, please hear what I have to say.
The whole concept of browser is wrong. Browsers are a good solution for serving static documents; it is not a good solution for delivering cross platform dynamic applications.
This article about HTML5 proves that no matter what functionality is hardcoded into the specifications, developers might need more or different functionality.
What is required for serving today's distributed world is a mechanism (a service) that does the following:
- lazy downloading of software components (data and code). Code and data are downloaded only when requested. The mechanism makes sure the code/data are cached locally, so as that if the network fails, the application is still usable.
The current technology fails at this because the downloaded software components can only be one of these:
b) a binary file that requires the installation and maintenance of an add on (flash, Java, etc), which in turn does its own maintenance, adding services to the core O/S etc.
All the above could be avoided with a unified component management mechanism.
- automatic versioning of components. Code components should be automatically versioned by the compiler, so as that the linker at the client side can request an updated component only if the available version is newer than the locally cached version. Downgrading would be automatic if the newer component's symbols do not match the symbols required by another component. The mechanism should keep the old versions of components around in case some component cannot work with the newest versions.
The current technology fails at this, because although the browsers check the version numbers of the add ons against the browser, user interaction is required for the acceptance of a solution (i.e. the users have to accept the new versions by clicking OK, meaning that they know if the new version is appropriate for them).
- both native and bytecode components. The component service should be available for native as well as bytecode components. The service will run a virtual machine, the definition of which should be a native component downloaded lazily and cached as described above.
The current technology fails at this, because it doesn't even have the concept of a component, let alone the concept of native or bytecode component. Browsers only know of addons and extensions, and each browser comes with its own addon and extension model.
- a binary (i.e. non-text) metadata protocol. All information exchanged over the network, including software components and data components, should be written in a unified metadata protocol. The protocol itself will not specify semantics, it will only specify structure. Think about this protocol as a binary version of JSON or XML.
The current technology fails at this, because all the used formats are text-based.
I know many people will disagree with the binary protocol and prefer a text protocol. The text protocol doesn't really offer any advantages over such a simple binary protocol. The main advantage of the binary protocol is speed, because of the much less data required to cross the wires compared to text. The main advantage of the text protocol is that the text buffers can be inspected as they are, but if the binary protocol is simple enough (as is JSON, for example), then very little work would be required to make a tool that displays the contents of a binary buffer.
Think about it this way: the cost of writing a tool that displays the above-described binary protocol's contents is extremely minimal when compared to the savings from using the binary protocol.
A unified communication language between computers is extremely necessary as the first basic step for inter-operation between computers: computers may not understand the semantics of the data, but at leas
Some very good analysis and thinking. I second the post about Google's Native-Client technology. The API is here [google.com].
This article about HTML5 proves that no matter what functionality is hardcoded into the specifications, developers might need more or different functionality.
That's because HTML is at too high a level of abstraction to ever sufficiently cover everything an application may need to do, or lend itself to any manageable definition of compliance. The standard needs to be on a lower level and defined by a relatively static object model with versioning defined by a set of unit tests.
You missed one major point, specifically why the browser as a universal replacement for local apps will fail, and why more generally the idea of "everything in the cloud" will fail, despite it being quite a major fad among the management types currently.
Interactivity and control.
Until technology takes a giant leap and remote or network data access becomes exactly as fast as local bus data access, locally stored data will always be faster to access than remote data, so any program that requires access t
The whole concept of browser is wrong. Browsers are a good solution for serving static documents
A Slashdot page is not a static document (anymore), and a browser is a good tool to serve it.
"formidable competitors for native apps" Are you kidding me?
How is that even with a DSL line I have to wait at least 500ms for a reaction of the so called "app" to be a "formidable competitors" for my native application? I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but even if you get JavaScript 500% more faster then it's now, it's nowhere a native application, with local stored data is.
Even slashdot.org is a very poor replacement for my email client. I take my email-lists with my local email-client anytime before I pos
>> HTML5 hard truth No. 1: Security is a nightmare The fundamental problem with client-side computing is that the user ultimately has control over the code running on the machine. In the case of Web apps, when your browser comes with a great debugging tool, this control is easier than ever to abuse.
Relying on the client not being able to understand the executed code is not even security by obscurity but even worse. Relying on client-side checks for consistent data (or even authorization - yes i have seen that) was stupid since the beginning of the web (and before).
Layer your spheres of access correctly, and there will be no bigger problem
> HTML5 hard truth No. 2: Local data storage is limited
Local storage is *always* limited. Relying on having near infinite local storage is something which also pisses me off for Desktop apps.
> HTML5 data storage capabilities are certainly an important addition, but you still can't move stored data to another machine, make copies, back it up, or open it with a different app. It's all buried deep where the browser hides it.
You is the user or the service provider? And *nobody* hinders you to implement also local backup mechanisms and free export of the data for the user. If you dont have the creativity or the knowledge to do so, then dont the fuck try to write a serious application. And if you back up you machine, your browser data is backed up with it.
> Nor can you dig into the files to see what is stored there. Sure, a programmer can take them apart, but only after studying the format and doing some hacking. They're not like spreadsheets or text documents that are easy to open with any editor, making the data less resourceful than it might otherwise be in a desktop app.
Wow. As if the average Desktop application would have completely open, understandable and easy to read data formats.....
>HTML5 hard truth No. 3: Local data can be manipulated
Uhm. did we talk about the server-side consistency check. And if its (according to the Truth Nr. 4) so much easier in the case of a pure desktop application to edit the data would that be not better in the sense of Truth Nr. 5?
> HTML5 hard truth No. 4: Offline apps are a nightmare to sync
Yes, always. Hasnt a single thing to do with HTML5
> HTML5 hard truth No. 5: The cloud owes you nothing It's not really fair to blame HTML5 for all of the structural problems with storing your data in the cloud, but the cloud is an essential part of the vision, which leverages the cloud to fix all of the headaches for installing software and backing up data.
The cloud is *not* an essential part of "the vision" of HTML5. It is a promising approach to deliver services cheap, HTML5 or not.
HTML5 hard truth No. 6: Forced upgrades aren't for everyone
Forced upgrades? We never had these before....
What is this. Sony forces updates to the PS. MS forces the installation of the WGA. Whe web-mail providers i use update senselessly all the time, since 10 years.
HTML5 hard truth No. 7: Web Workers offer no prioritization
A well written program relies on message passing and not polling. As a programmer i seldom had to prioritze threads withing an application.
HTML5 hard truth No. 8: Format incompatibilities abound
Yes, thats sad. The standard is still in the flow.
HTML5 hard truth No. 9: Implementations are browser-dependent
html has been browser-dependent since a long time, and so was java (not badly). Native applications are OS-dependent.
So what. An IT professional who thought that HTML5 would be the magic wand to overcome incompatibilities between environments with testing would have been stupid.
HTML5 hard truth No. 10: Hardware idiosyncracies bring new challenges
Funny. What you want to say: make a 3d game and it wont run as well on a handheld device without acceleration? Yes, that has been pretty much my experience the last 20 years.
HTML5 hard truth No. 11: Politics as usual
Honestly? An HTML5 only problem? Well....
Having written a (still running) patient flow management system in html3 + hidden frame + javascript - sadly no ajax it is my belief that with proper care a web interface can be used in place of certain local apps. For processes that do not involve complex graphical/video wizardry (i.e. most business apps??) HTML[5] seems adequate enough. This includes many day to day internal business applications where the benefits of management, maintenance & security outweigh most of the drawbacks: bandwidth, hw com
There are not the real problem with implementing applications with HTML5+Javascript (Except maybe 4).
Most of the things this dude list are normal challenges of any program in any platform. So some photos uploaded with a plugin got deleted by facebook? thats the problem of any website hosting content, can be deleted by the owner of the website, how it was uploaded is not important (could as well be uploaded by a nice interface? thats better).
The REAL problem of HTML5+Javascript is Javascript. Writting sm
1. There will be legacy users
2. We are upgrading to introduce new features, not a version #
3. There will be yet uncovered security bugs, this is acceptable because other systems such as the f'in router will compensate
4. Unless it is the cloud itself, the upgrade has absolutely nothing to do with the cloud, it's code, not applications (ex. the application that makes the cloud possible).
5.You must have the upgraded framework to use the upgraded apps/pages/code
6.Not every feature may work as expected, thus hot
The truth is, despite its powerful capabilities, HTML5 isn't the solution for every problem.
I want a solution for EVERY PROBLEM!
Remember how CSS was supposed to make web pages more compact, and simplify layout by avoiding old-style table based layout? Look at how that worked out.
Here's a single article from the Wall Street Journal. [wsj.com] It's 3299 lines of HTML. That doesn't include anything pulled in from style sheets.
As an exercise, I went through and took out all the junk. The actual story, plus all the formatting needed to display the full page in in its original fonts, is 77 lines. So what's the rest? Some of it is links to other stories, but that's under 100 lines. Much of the code is ad-related, even though there are only a few ads. There's a lot of "social related" stuff, which, although it takes up little screen real estate, seems to require far too much on-page code. The "login" mechanism turns out to have all the code for not only "login", but registration of a new account, as part of the page itself. That's on every page served by the Wall Street Journal. There's a vast amount of hidden content, including a "video carousel". There's personalization stuff that would turn on if the user was logged in.
When the people who code crap like that start using HTML 5 with both local storage and connections to the "cloud", it can only get worse.
If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?


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At the end of February visitors to Karnak Temples will be able to admire the second chapel of the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut after four years of restoration and reconstruction.
The chapel was constructed in limestone to worship Thebes ancient Egyptian god Amun-Re. It includes an open court and two inner halls embellished with blocks engraved with very distinguished religious scenes depicting Hatshepsut before Amun-Re, with her husband king Thutmose II, as well as their cartouches. Some of the blocks bear the name of Hatshepsut's predecessor king Thutmose III.

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You can view information pertaining to your admission to the program, requirements and forms from the Registrar's Office and your tuition/bill. You can also log in to My YU to update your contact information, marital status, etc. First-time users will need to create an account by designating a login ID and PIN. See the links below to get started:
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By Immigration Policy Center
March 19, 2013
There is a growing consensus that our immigration system is broken. Severe visa backlogs hurt U.S. businesses, undocumented workers are frequently exploited, and record levels of deportations tear families apart. While much energy is now focused on addressing these problems, one issue that is frequently overlooked is the structure and quality of justice accorded immigrants who are caught in the enforcement net. In reforming our immigration system, we must not forget that the immigration removal system—from arrest to hearing to deportation and beyond—does not reflect American values of due process and fundamental fairness.
The failure to provide a fair process to those facing expulsion from the United States is all the more disturbing given the increasing "criminalization" of the immigration enforcement system. Although immigration law is formally termed "civil," Congress has progressively expanded the number of crimes that may render an individual deportable, and immigration law violations often lead to criminal prosecutions. Further, local police now play an increasingly active role in immigration enforcement. Consequently, even relatively minor offenses can result in a person being detained in immigration custody and deported, often with no hope of ever returning to the United States.
This special report is a product of the Immigration Policy Center and the Legal Action Center of the American Immigration Council. It lays out the the incongruency of America's criminal justice system and its immigration justice system, and provides recommendations for how these problems could be fixed.
Read the report here.
Read the policy recommendations here.


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The book can be traded to other players and sold on the Auction House.
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His name brought Light to darkest Azeroth.
His valor tore the walls of mis'ry down.
The Silver Hand would ne'er do better more
than give the world the knight who'd give himself.
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His fame was not that which he sought to grow,
nor was the lordship over his own kind.
Instead he chose to fight for Lordaeron
to hope his kin would have to fight no more.
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The tragic tale of this most holy knight
will never end with his unholy death.
We honor him, and we shall give him thanks!
Uther always shall know glory and Light!
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Here are three powerful reasons why using humor attracts customers and helps communication.
This is just a quick post with a powerful message -- don't leave home without your sense of humor!
What I appreciate about this article is the reminder to add humor to the business stories you share in your marketing and branding. Because, as the article says, it attracts customers, establishes rapport, and creates alignment. And it makes us smile!
All Is Fair In Business
A shopkeeper was dismayed when a brand new business much like his own opened up next door and erected a huge sign which read 'BEST DEALS.'
He was horrified when another competitor opened up on his right, and announced its arrival with an even larger sign, reading 'LOWEST PRICES.'
The shopkeeper panicked, until he got an idea. He put the biggest sign of all over his own shop. It read: 'MAIN ENTRANCE'
See? Now go have more fun :)


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What would the invisible text be used for? It sounds similar to the idea of a spoiler tag (although that is just a black box around the selected text). If that is what you would like it for, I think it would be cool to have and can be a good idea.What else would it be used for?
Sometimes people use it for information that other posters might find sensitive. In threads dealing with death, miscarriage, pregnancy, or medical issues, for example, a poster might put the details in an "invisible" color in case some posters find them relevant, but not all posters have to read them.
I always use beige. Is that color easily seen?In one of the forum incarnations, we actually had a spoiler feature.
I can see the yellow text some people use very clearly, and so have found out all sorts of things I'd rather not know since switching to my laptop. I'd be in favor of this idea.
Wow! I've been looking for a better color than yellow, which I know shows up a little too well.Thanks, Scritzy, and sorry about that, M-theory.
The problem is that, given the range of colour options available for viewing the forum, some colours are less effective than others for the purposes of masking text.However, if you want to be really clever you can combine the glow and font colour functions (so long as they're the same colour in both cases). It's highlight-to-read, and should ensure that the text in question stays hidden on every background. This:will give you this:Your text here.
I can't see that in Flamingvixen, but I can in Internet Explorer. It shows up as slightly blurry red text. But if you change the 2 to a 9 [glow=red,9,300] it is too blurry to read. You can also change it to white [ glow=white,2,300 ][ color=white ] but in IE, that just looks like you've broken your monitor screen. Ah, the joys of computing!
Ah, darn: I'm using F!refox (and see the neat little red box with this), and didn't think to test it in IE. Thanks for posting the info and the tweak!
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Carlos Tevez scored his second Serie A goal in as many weeks as champions Juventus thumped SS Lazio 4-1 to sit second in the early standings behind SSC Napoli, 4-2 winners earlier at AC Chievo Verona.
Juventus put four unanswered goals past Lazio on their way to winning the Italian Supercoppa two weekends previously, when Tevez scored his maiden goal for the Bianconeri.
Having secured all three points for Antonio Conte's side in a 1-0 win over US Sampdoria the previous weekend, the Argentine capped a dominant display by the hosts — marked notably by a brace from Chilean Arturo Vidal — with a fine individual effort in the 80th minute.
"Putting four goals past Lazio again is a sign that our form is getting better, both on a collective and individual level," Juve coach Antonio Conte said. "We were spectacular in the first 25 minutes in terms of intensity and execution of our game plan. We were unlucky to concede the goal when we were leading 2-0."
Lazio started in positive fashion, Hernanes picking up a loose ball from Juve defender Andrea Barzagli and testing Gianluigi Buffon, with the goalkeeper having to parry for a corner, but it served only to waken Juventus from their slumber, and until Vidal's 14th-minute opener they consigned the visitors to their own third of the pitch as they launched assault after assault.
Vidal broke the deadlock in style, timing his run onto Paul Pogba's sumptuous ball perfectly to beat a poor Lazio offside trap and then flick the ball past onrushing goalkeeper Federico Marchetti.
Barely 10 minutes later, the Chilean attacking midfielder, Juve's top scorer last season, doubled the hosts' lead thanks to another well-timed move as Lazio's defense fell asleep.
This time, defender Leonardo Bonucci hit a long diagonal ball from midfield and Vidal, deep on the right flank, controlled with his right foot, before sending the ball under the flailing Marchetti with his left.
Lazio reduced the arrears barely a minute later when Gianluigi Buffon pushed Hernanes's fierce long-range drive into the path of Miroslav Klose. The big German striker rushed to get to the ball first ahead of Bonucci to shove it home and open his account for the season.
Minutes later, Buffon was forced to punch the ball out for a corner after a stinging shot from Stefan Radu and Juve had their goalkeeper to thank on the stroke of halftime when he parried another on-target effort from Hernanes.
Juve edged closer to sealing their second win of the campaign when Vucinic latched on to another perfect long ball from Bonucci, beating Marchetti with a deft touch at the goalkeeper's left-hand post.
Lazio's chances of taking anything from the match faded in the 63rd minute when Hernanes saw red for a second bookable offense, a blatant handball in the Bianconeri penalty area.
Although Lazio produced several half-chances, Vladimir Petkovic's men never really threatened and Tevez virtually sealed the victory 10 minutes from time.
A great pass from Vidal on the right flank was dummied by Vucinic and when Tevez took possession he turned Lorik Cana on the edge of the area, before beating Marchetti with a well-placed low shot.
Earlier on Saturday, Marek Hamsik scored his second brace in as many Serie A games and Gonzalo Higuain netted his first goal for Napoli as Rafael Benitez's side won 4-2 at Chievo.
Benitez hailed the "character" of the side he took charge of after Walter Mazzarri left for Inter in the summer.
"The key to our success was the boys' character. This team has the strength to make amends for mistakes they make because, up front, we have huge potential," the Spaniard said.


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He brought us Patrick Viera, Thierry Henry, Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri and Robin van Persie, but to name a few.
Now, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has seemingly unearthed yet another football sensation in the form of Santi Cazorla.
Although the 28-year-old playmaker was hardly an unknown quantity prior to his arrival at the Emirates Stadium, Cazorla was yet to play for a top European side, with no disrespect intended towards Villarreal or Malaga.
But since moving to the north London club, the Spanish international has made a name for himself in arguably the best division in the world - the Premier League.
Wenger snapped up Cazorla from Malaga in the summer for an undisclosed fee, rumoured to be just shy of £15 million. He has been their chief playmaker ever since, earning plaudits from far and wide.
The loss of players such as Alex Song, Fabregas, Nasri and most recently Van Persie has frustrated the club's fans as their eight-year trophyless spell shows no signs of stopping. But this hasn't stopped Wenger from bringing in some fantastic European talent for a modest price.
And Cazorla is the Frenchman's latest case in point - a previously unpolished gem who is now sparkling in his Arsenal surroundings.
Wenger has heaped praise on his Spanish recruit, stating: "Santi is right footed but when you watch him play you don't know.
"It shows how important that is in the modern midfield.
"Right or left foot was always important, but we forget about it sometimes. I'm surprised there are not more."
The skilful Spaniard has already received rave reviews from various sectors within the English game for his phenomenal skill, game-changing acumen, decisive one-two movements and his creation of and ability to score goals.
Although Wenger has his critics, and there have been more than usual this season, you cannot deny that he has pulled off something of a masterstroke by luring Cazorla to the Emirates.
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FOXBOROUGH – The NFL draft is like the first day of spring to Patriots owner Robert Kraft, the first day of a new season.
That day was Thursday, as the first round got underway. Kraft was at Gillette Stadium as host of the team's draft party for season ticket-holders and told them that at the end of the weekend every team owner will feel like his team got better, "but in our case, I know it to be true."
New England began the draft with just five picks, but Kraft was confident that Bill Belichick and the front-office staff were ready for anything that might come their way.
"This is like going into a game and calling an audible all of the time, because no one knows, no one is being truthful about what they're going to do, so you have to be prepared," Kraft said. "I know our folks are very well prepared, have wonderful product knowledge on what the other teams are doing and what their needs are and positioned around us and we'll see what happens."
Belichick has made multiple trades on draft weekend each year he's been with the Patriots, and it seems inevitable that he would do so again this year, particularly with his team lacking selections in the middle rounds.
"On paper it doesn't look like we have a lot of ammunition, but all you need is one team that really wants [to do a trade]," Kraft said.
Shortly after the draft began, AFC East rival Miami traded up to draft pass rusher Dion Jordan, and the Jets used their first pick on cornerback Dee Milliner. The Jets used their second first-rounder on defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson. But the Bills traded down — something the Patriots have long done with their first-round pick.
Kraft was unfazed by the thought that his team would not draft a player on the first night.
"You know what I've learned? I don't want to win the PR battles today; I want us to have whatever works to make our team better. We have a plan of what to do and whom to pick, and at the same time, given what comes our way, we're prepared," he said. "We're the only team that's had two quarterbacks start [the season] in 20 years, we have the longest-serving head coach now, and we have a lot of experience working together and trying to continue stability and we're not going to rush.
"We have the privilege of thinking long and doing whatever makes our team better this year and next year."
But whichever players do end up calling Foxborough home, Kraft knows they have a lot of work ahead of them.
"I think it's going to be very hard for someone who gets drafted to come in and start on our team. You never know, and maybe there are 2-3 players who have an opportunity to do that," he said. "The NFL is a business of quality depth management; I've been saying that since the beginning.
"If you want to be successful year in and year out in this business, you have to have depth and you have to have a plan. It doesn't happen by remote control. This is a big part of it, but a big part of it comes when the draft is over and all the homework we've done on all of the players who are eligible and the street free agents we'll get. There's an area where there's tremendous value, probably people who could make our team in various roles."
After addressing the crowd, Kraft called 25 police officers and first responders to the podium, all of whom had been involved with the Marathon bombings and their aftermath. Each received a game jersey with BOSTON across the shoulders and the No. 1 on the back.Shalise Manza Young can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @shalisemyoung.


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Ed Balls faces the threat of losing his driving licence after confirming he will not fight prosecution for failing to stop after bumping another car.
The shadow chancellor expects to be charged after the incident in Morley, Leeds, last month - although police have yet to take a final decision.
The Labour MP - who has had a series of high profile motoring offences - could have to make an humiliating appearance before magistrates even if he pleads guilty.
Writing on his blog, Mr Balls reiterated that he was unaware he had damaged the other vehicle, although he knew they had touched as he attempted a "tight" manoeuvre in a private drive.
"Another car was parked close by and I was aware the two bumpers touched. But I had no idea any damage had been done until the police got in touch a week later," he wrote.
"As soon as I was aware any damage had been done, I immediately took full responsibility for any damage caused. I've been in touch with the owner to apologise for the inconvenience and to pay for the repair to the marks on the parked car's bodywork.
"The police have to do their job. Once I'd confirmed I knew the bumpers had touched, their standard approach is to proceed to charge as they expect people to stop and check.
"I fully understand and accept that, so of course I will be accepting the charge.
"While I had no knowledge at the time that any damage had occurred, I accept their view that I should have checked.
"Getting points on my licence will be a blow - but that's the way it works."
The offence of failing to stop after an accident can mean five to 10 penalty points, driving disqualification, a fine of up to £5,000 or, in the most serious cases, a jail sentence of up to six months.
Mr Balls is understood to have three points on his licence currently - and will be in line for a ban if he ends up with 12 or more.
Last year the Morley and Outwood MP was given three points for driving through a red light on the Embankment in central London.
He was also caught speeding in West Yorkshire, for which he paid a fine and attended a speed awareness course rather than accept penalty points.
In 2010 Mr Balls said he had behaved "stupidly" after being caught talking on his mobile phone while driving - although the points he received on that occasion should have lapsed.
Sergeant Adrian Wright, of West Yorkshire Police eastern area roads policing unit, said: "Our investigation into a fail to stop collision on Commercial Street, Morley, on Saturday, April 5, is continuing.
"No-one has been summonsed for any offences at this time."


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PAX East 2014 will be your first chance to get your mitts on this year's Merch pin.
You can get a new Merch pin by spending $99 or more at either of the official PAX Merchandise booths at PAX East, while supplies last.
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R.A. - The One That Got Away
Jun 07 2012 06:40 PM | Nick Nelson in Minnesota Twins
This is the best we've ever seen from the 37-year-old right-hander, but his effectiveness is nothing new. During his first two seasons with the Mets after joining up in 2010, he posted a 3.08 ERA over 383 innings. This after spending most of the first 14 years of his career struggling to stay in the majors. That included a stop in Minnesota – his last stop before turning into a steady rotation anchor for the Mets.
Dickey is one of the most fascinating stories in today's game, for various reasons. He's a born-again Christian and philanthropist. He doesn't have an ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in his throwing elbow, yet still managed to be come a first-round draft pick in 1996. He recently climbed Mt. Kiliminjaro, along with his friend (and local media punching bag) Kevin Slowey. He also recently published a book in which he bravely details, among other things, his battle to overcome sexual abuse as a child.
As a human interest story subject, you won't find many better. And the tale of Dickey's baseball career holds plenty of intrigue too.
After failing to find much success as a conventional starter in his first decade as a pro, he became a full-time knuckleballer in 2006 with the Rangers. The process of completely overhauling his style as a pitcher, and learning to master a pitch that few in the sport's history have been able to effectively harness, was slow and fraught with turbulence. In his first start for Texas in '06, he gave up six home runs.
The Rangers quickly bailed on the experiment, but clearly there were plenty of clubs that saw something in Dickey. He went through stints in the Milwaukee and Seattle organizations before latching on with the Twins in 2009.
Pitching coach Rick Anderson spoke excitedly about the acquisition that year:
"You know what's neat about him? He's a knuckleballer, but he's got enough fastball to get people out, or use when he's behind in the count. He threw a changeup to strike a guy out the other night. He has weapons."
These are all attributes that have helped Dickey become a force in the Mets rotation, and the Twins deserve credit for recognizing them at the time.
They also may deserve criticism for failing to move him along. Was it a bad coaching approach that kept the righty from turning the corner in Minnesota? Was it the decision to use him almost exclusively as a reliever rather than have him start? Or should the Twins have simply been more patient and given him additional time to harness the knuckler and refine his command, instead of dropping him after one forgettable season?
I'm not sure there are any lessons to be taken from this situation. Dickey is a unique case. And while it's unfortunate that he couldn't find this success with the Twins, he's still a fun guy to root for, and along with his co-ace Johan Santana he makes it easy for fans in Minnesota to get behind the underdog Mets in the NL East.


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Free Caffeine Fix For All!
Since most of you seem to enjoy caffeine, I thought I'd let you know that there are THREE days this month (that's right, three!) when you can get a cuppa for free.
The first is today ( March 8 ) at participating McDonald's. They're handing out free cups of coffee to anyone who asks for it. This is because they recently beat out Starbucks in a taste test. On a related note, I just read that they're planning on expanding espresso drinks nationally.
The second is next Thursday ( March 15 ) - Starbucks is promoting its second annual "coffee break" by pouring free 12oz cups of brewed coffee between 10am - noon.
The last one is the following Wednesday ( March 21 ) - Dunkin' Donuts celebrates the first day of spring with a free 16oz cup of iced coffee.
So mark your calendars folks, free caffeine for all!
Thanks to our pals at Serious Eats for pointing us to these dates.


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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) are up 3 cents, or 1.4%, at $2.15, after Raymond James's Simon Leopold raised his rating on the shares from Outperform to Strong Buy this morning, and raised his price target to $3.50 from $2.25, writing that a number of factors could boost the company's outlook, including an improving outlook for U.S. spending on carrier infrastructure.
Recent reports from Verizon Communications (VZ) and Sprint (S) suggest the telco spending is looking better:
Following Verizon's better than expected capex forecast and Sprint's updated capex forecast, which was significantly above prior estimates, our 2013 U.S. carrier capex forecast rises to 9% growth, up from 7% in the prior quarter. Most of the growth is attributed to wireless at 18% vs. a decline of 1% for wireline. These trends bode well for Alcatel-Lucent, which derived 40% of its revenue from North America in 2012 (48% in 1Q13). Furthermore, we estimate the ratio of Verizon's and AT&T's capex to dollars spent with Alcatel-Lucent product and services remains high at 13%.
He also notes negative cash flow has been a major investor concern, but remarks last month by CEO Michael Combes suggests about a restructuring plan were also encouraging: "We believe that a successful implementation of the plan that includes an incremental €1 billion savings will be instrumental to regain investor confidence and drive share price appreciation."
And Alcatel could benefit a supplier to China's deployment of fourth-generatio "Long-term evolution," or LTE, cellular service:
China's premier announced accelerated efforts to release 4G/LTE licenses by the end of 2013 earlier this month. Given the magnitude of China Mobile's capex ($30 billion of which $7 billion will be used on wireless equipment) license resolution offers upside for Alcatel-Lucent. We estimate Alcatel-Lucent's share in this project to be near 13% with Huawei the biggest beneficiary at 25%.


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(MCT) — A Wheaton College student who died last year in a plane crash will be memorialized at a 5K run as part of the school's Homecoming celebration this month. Ramie Harris, who would've been a senior at the school this year, was killed in November alongside her father, Ray, sister, Shey, and a friend, Chris Backus, after the small airplane Ray Harris was piloting crashed near Crystal Lake. She was returning to the college after Thanksgiving break from her home in Marion, Ind.
On Saturday, Oct. 6, hundreds of Wheaton College students and alumni are expected to wear purple gym clothes and wristbands in honor of her favorite color as they tackle the race, which is held every year during the college's Homecoming weekend, said an alumni director for the college, Emily George DeLew.
Harris' mother is expected to visit Wheaton from her Indiana hometown for the race, DeLew said. One of Harris' friends and Wheaton College President Philip Ryken are expected to make statements before the race begins.
Elise Vadnais and other student government members at Wheaton College came up with the idea of dedicating this year's Homecoming 5K to Harris and presented it to the Alumni Relations team. Vadnais was junior class president last year, and also served on the Student Care committee.
A friend of Harris' who lived near her apartment, Vadnais said she visited Harris' hometown after the plane crash and went to her funeral. Getting to know her life and how many people she touched, she said she felt it was necessary to honor her at the college. As the class' president, she led a discussion last year with her council how to best honor Harris.
"It was my hope that it would be healing or least comforting to her friends and to her family," Vadnais said.
Harris, who was 21 when she died, was described by the college's president in a statement last year as a devoted Christian who transferred to Wheaton College from Purdue University the year before. Harris, who was diagnosed with narcolepsy as a teen, carried around a Bible verse with her "to give her hope as she struggled with her limitations," said Ryken.
A tribute to her on the college's website describes her as a "curious, intuitive intellectual who pursued excellence in every part of life. She loved being active — especially running. She fought through, and overcame,
Participation is open. Those who are interested should register before the race begins at 8 a.m. Oct. 6 at the Wheaton College Welcome Center or in front of the college's Edman Chapel.
For more information, visit wheaton.edu.


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Bergeron and Brown push Texas over Wyoming, 37-17
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- After winning the starting job in training camp, Texas quarterback David Ash said he'd be happy to hand off and get out of the way if it meant the Longhorns would win.
Good plan.
Joe Bergeron and Malcolm Brown both rushed for more than 100 yards and combined for three touchdowns, leading Texas to a 37-17 opening win over Wyoming on Saturday night.
While Ash was efficient and mostly mistake free in moving Texas on long scoring drives, Bergeron and Brown battered Wyoming and delivered the knockout blow late in the fourth quarter to put the game away.
Bergeron ripped a 53-yard run up the middle from the Texas nine, then capped the drive with a 17-yard touchdown, his second of the night, with 8:48 to play.
Bergeron finished with 110 yards and two touchdowns and Brown ran for 105 yards and a third-quarter touchdown for Texas.
''The more the game wears on, those guys can make some plays by breaking tackles,'' Texas coach Mack Brown said. ''You want to just keep bringing it.''
Robert Herron had touchdown catches of 82 and 22 yards for Wyoming (0-1). Cowboys quarterback Brett Smith passed for 276 yards but threw two interceptions in the second quarter that set up Texas touchdowns.
''I can't make those stupid mistakes because against a team like that, they're going to capitalize on it,'' Smith said. ''I can't put the defense in holes like that.''
Ash, who won the starting job over Case McCoy after those two shared starts in 2011, was an efficient 20-of-27 passing for 156 yards and a touchdown to Jaxon Shipley.
Ash was dogged by interceptions last season and spent most of the game throwing short passes to the sideline and to his running backs to keep drives alive. His only big mistake was a fumbled snap after Herron's second touchdown had pulled Wyoming within 31-17.
''It's my job to just go out there and operate and manage the game,'' Ash said. ''I was trying to move the chains... get it in somebody's hands and let them make a play.''
Texas needed the big plays from its defense. The Longhorns were scoreless on three of their first four possessions before the two interceptions flipped momentum.
Kenny Vaccaro's interception led to Ash's 16-yard touchdown pass to Shipley. Vaccaro then pressured Smith into making a bad throw that was picked off by Carrington Byndum to set up D.J. Monroe's 7-yard touchdown run.
Texas was seemingly on its way to an easy win until Herron made an acrobatic grab for his second touchdown and Wyoming got the ball back after Ash's fumble.
The Cowboys converted one fourth down but was stopped on another when Smith was tackled a yard short of the marker. Bergeron then burst up the middle for his big run. His second touchdown came when he broke through the line to his left and rumbled to the end zone.
''We thought we were going to score another touchdown and make it a one-score game,'' Wyoming coach Dave Christensen said. ''That's why we went for it on fourth down. A field goal wouldn't have helped us.''


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In the UK, asking for the bathroom would make people wonder why you needed a bath.The most usual word is probably "loo", whether at someone's home or in a restaurant, etc. Using the word "toilet" isn't as common as it was. In public situations-- eg pubs, restaurants, shopping centres, halls -- you'd be most likely to ask "Where are the loos?" or possible "Where is the Ladies/Gents?" I don't think the words restroom or powder room are much in use.
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Sheri R. Greak, 66, of 815 Middletown Rd., Lake City, died Monday, April 1, 2013 at Ridgmont Assisted Living Facility after a lengthy illness. She was born June 6, 1946, in McKeesport, the daughter of the late Arthur B. and Ethel R. Snyder. She married Leonard G. Greak (PSP) , and he predeceased her in death on April 29, 2003. She graduated from Holy Ghost Academy, Mercy Hospital (Pittsburgh), and Hananaham (Philadelphia) with a degree in Nursing. Mrs. Greak worked for Equafax as head of their nursing program in Harrisburg and Dallas, Texas. She worked for Dr. Michael Hall as Office RN for five years. She worked for the Office of Human Services as Protective Care for the elderly and also worked with Mental Health for the involuntary commitment cases. She loved going to Red Lobster with her grandsons for any special occasion. She was proud of her grandchildren's accomplishments in school on projects they completed. She loved pet setting for her friends and going to the YMCA to work out with friends. She had her first sky-diving experience at age 62 with her companion, John Billick. She is survived by three daughters, Kristin Eshbach (Jason) of Ridgway, Shelly Wagner of Reading, and Dawn Kinker of Florida; five sons, Michael Greak of Carlisle, Daniel Greak of Whitfield, Frank Greak of Whitfield, Keith Greak of Florida, and Donald Greak of Whitfield; 18 grandchildren, Danielle, Brooke, Logan, Jason, Josh, William, Autumn, Austin, Aidan, Arin, Michael, Crystal, Ryleah Greak, Gage, Cory and Blane Eshbach, and Elizabeth and Isabella Kruntzer; and by three great-grandchildren, Preston, Ethan, and Renae Greak. Besides her parents and husband, she was predeceased by a daughter, Shane Hill. Memorial services for Sheri Greak will be held on Saturday, April 6, at 10 a.m. in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Interment was in Lake City Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Funeral arrangements, are under the direction of the Meehan-Shilk Funeral Home. Memorial donations may be made to the Office of Human Services, or to Hospice, or to the YMCA or to CAPSEA.


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When most people talk about the future of the Internet, they think 10, maybe 20 years down the road. Philip Emeagwali thinks in millennia. Having visions of consumer electronics networked to create a "smart home" that can respond to its owner's commands? Sorry, heard that one. How about a world in which humans with chips in their brains communicate through telepathic e-mail? Forget e-mail, "t-mail" is the future.
When most people talk about the future of the Internet, they think 10, maybe 20 years down the road. Philip Emeagwali thinks in millennia. Having visions of consumer electronics networked to create a "smart home" that can respond to its owner's commands? Sorry, heard that one. How about a world in which humans with chips in their brains communicate through telepathic e-mail? Forget e-mail, "t-mail" is the future.
It's one of the provocative, some would say outlandish, ideas to flow from the formidable mind of Emeagwali, supercomputer virtuoso, Internet prophet, civil-war survivor and African hero. Superlatives abound on Emeagwali's lengthy resume. In 1989, he programmed more than 65,000 computer processors to perform the world's fastest computation: 3.1 billion calculations per second.The feat smashed the previous record and proved a network of small computers could outperform more powerful, expensive supercomputers. (Today's fastest supercomputers can perform well over a trillion calculations per second.) He has been called one of the "fathers of the Internet," alongside pioneers such as Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf.
Last year, he placed 35th among the 100 greatest Africans ever in a poll by New African magazine. The list is topped by Nelson Mandela and includes Martin Luther King, Kofi Annan and Bob Marley. Born in Nigeria, young Philip was recognized early as a math prodigy. His father drilled him to solve 100 problems an hour to help pass school entrance exams.
But at the age of 12, civil war forced him to drop out and he was conscripted into the Biafran army. He earned a high school diploma through self-teaching and won a math scholarship in the U.S. He has since earned several degrees, including a PhD in scientific computing, and delved into fields such as oceanography, meterology and oil exploration.
In recent years, Emeagwali, now 50, has used his knowledge of supercomputers to develop a theory of the Internet's evolution. He dismisses the common notion the Internet evolved out of the security needs of the U.S. defence establishment. For him, it was about finding ways for scientists to access remote supercomputers, the colossal calculators housed in scientific and military labs.
And he believes supercomputers, not software applications such as e-mail and Web browsers, will continue to drive the Net's development. A century from now, the computers at each node of the Internet will be a "zillion times" faster and more intelligent, rendering the computer, and even the Internet, obsolete. Meanwhile, bionic implants will rewire our brains into computers, he predicts. With everyone "logged on" at all times, e-mail will be telepathic.
Emeagwali realizes this sounds like science fiction, he said in an interview. But in this case of his supercomputer discovery, fiction was the spark of genius. His idea to harness the power of thousands of computers came from a book that imagined 64,000 humans around the world performing calculations to improve weather forecasting.
Emeagwali has also distinguished himself for his stand on social issues, such as the effects of colonization on Africa and the ongoing "brain drain" of promising African scholars to the West. "I'm a Black scientist and an African scientist. So when I became prominent, I tried to use that voice," said Emeagwali, a Washington-based consultant. "If the Internet and telecommunications break down the barriers of space and time, it means somebody in Africa or India could be employed in the United States or Canada."
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Farm to School and School Garden Grants Continue to Transform School Lunch
Nineteen school districts to receive nearly $1.2 million in funding for local food and education
(Salem, Ore.) –Deputy Superintendent Rob Saxton today announced the recipients of the second round of Farm to School and School Garden grants. This coming school year, school lunch for nearly 170,000 Oregon students will be significantly transformed thanks to an infusion of locally grown food and additional funds for food education. Nineteen Oregon school districts have been awarded competitive grants with 82% of the funds to be spent on purchasing Oregon food products and 18% of the funds dedicated to food-, agriculture-, and garden-based education activities. This year's awardees are: Beaverton, Bend-LaPine, Bethel, Centennial, Clatskanie, Corvallis, Hillsboro, Joseph, Lebanon, Molalla, North Powder, Oakridge, Port Orford, Portland, Rainier, Salem-Keizer, Sisters, Springfield, and Yamhill-Carlton. The total amount for this year's grants is around $1.17 million.
"This is a wonderful program that supports both the nutrition and education of our student and the economic prosperity of our local farmers, fishermen, and producers," said Deputy Superintendent Rob Saxton. "I want to thank the Oregon Legislature for their increased investment in these grants, and I look forward to seeing the innovative programs and partnerships that our schools, farmers, and producers will build in the coming months and years."
The grant program is the product of House Bill 2649—the Farm to School & School Garden Bill—passed by the Oregon State Legislature with unanimous support in 2013. This is an expansion of last year's highly successful grant program, which awarded just under $200,000 to 11 schools and resulted in the development of a number of innovative best practices. As one example, Bend LaPine's "Boat to School" program used grant funds to explore the use of local seafood, paving the way for other school districts that were not participants in the grant to begin to feature Oregon fish products on their menus.
During last year's grant, the school districts had approximately five months during the winter and early spring in which to spend the awarded funds – a time when the supply of locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables is limited. Although the schools were successful in spending the funds, this next round of grant funding covers a two-year period with a 600% increase in funding from the previous grant.
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Don't miss Rampage Jackson's farewell interview, exclusively on ESPN at 12.30am Saturday night directly before the live UFC on Fox 6 event
Rampage Jackson has expressed his wish to one day fight in front of a UK audience again, insisting UK MMA fans embarrass their American counterparts.
Rampage is set for his final UFC fight against Glover Teixeira on Saturday, after which his plans for the future remain unclear. He has vowed to fight on, but is unsure whether it will be in MMA or boxing.
Jackson's farewell fight takes place in Chicago, but he admits it is a regret of his that he has only fought in England once. That particular bout saw him beat Dan Henderson to become the first unified Pride and UFC champion.
He has spent the majority of his career fighting on box-office cards in Las Vegas and the United States in general, and Rampage claims the US crowd is the worst in the sport.
"I would honestly say the American crowd is the most negative MMA crowd ever," Jackson told ESPN.
"Fighting in front of the UK crowd - it's the only time I've done it - at the O2 Arena, I remember it being a very tough fight. I had a lot of fans and support from the UK fans and I had more energy in the fight [because of that].
"I look forward to coming back and fighting over here one day, hopefully I can one day - there's a lot of great fans, they're very knowledgeable about the sport."
Jackson highlighted the UFC 155 main event between Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos as an example of the fickle American crowd, after Dos Santos was booed at the end of a five-round battle in which he absorbed a heavy beating.
"I'm part of a dying breed of fighters who go out there and fight - whatever happens, happens. If I lose, I know both men can't walk out of the Octagon victorious," Rampage said.
"Fans sometimes don't get that. Look at Junior Dos Santos, he put on a great fight [against Velasquez] and he got booed. They cheered him when he walked in there and then booed him after a great fight. I don't understand that."
Asked if he believes the remainder of his fight career rests in MMA or boxing, Rampage replied: "I'd like to go to boxing, I think I'm something they haven't had for a while like Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson.
"If I get knocked out, I get knocked out. I'm a wrestler! But it'll be exciting, no matter what happens."


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In an article about the supposed upcoming Apple tablet, Paul Thorrot made a jab at the hype that has developed, arguing that Microsoft was first with its tablet PC initiative in the early 2000s. Daring Fireball's John Gruber disagrees with Thurrot, and claims that Apple's Newton was the first tablet. In rushing to defend their pet companies, I say both are wrong. Apple nor Microsoft have anything to do with the conceptualisation or realisation of the tablet computer.
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It comes second to the Detroit motor show in the American automotive calendar but the Los Angeles auto show was dominated by foreign manufactures, with Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche and Mercedes, Hyundai and Toyota among the firms unveiling new models.
Most of the 50 new models on show at the LA convention centre will not be new to European or British drivers, but among the most important models are the new RAV4 from Japanese carmaker Toyota, the Beetle Cabriolet from VW and Porsche's newly-unveiled Cayman sports car.
One of the most interesting was the Jaguar Land Rover stand which made a splash with the US premieres of its third-generation Range Rover and its Jaguar F-Type.
On show for the first time was the Jaguar XKR-S, the company's latest and most powerful saloon.
The F-Type and Range Rover have been displayed before but take on new relevance for the expanding firm in California, the biggest and most lucrative car market in the world.
In California - unlike the wider American market, in which the Big Three (GM, Ford and Chrysler) have 45 per cent of the market - European cars often outnumber US-badged cars, says JLR's North American president, Andy Goss.
"It is a really important market for us and Los Angeles is second only to the New York area for us in terms of Range Rover sales."
Jaguar has had a tougher time in America because of reliability problems, a poor choice of engines and a lack of all-wheel drive but the F-Type and XFR-S mark the start of a new offensive in which the XJ and XJ models get V6 engines (previously they'd had only the larger V8) and all-wheel drive, a crucial item for American luxury saloon buyers.
Jaguar design director Ian Callum, who created both cars described the XFR-S as "something very special".
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Police say both times he showed a badge and declared that he was a "detective." The man claimed he needed to seize wrist watches as evidence in each case. Both store employees refused his request and asked him to leave their stores.
Police describe the impersonator as a black male approximately 5'8" tall and 170 pounds. He was wearing dark colored jeans, a gray jacket and a red and black plaid hat.
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DES MOINES (AP) — A 29-year-old server at Fong's Pizza in Des Moines has received a tip of $500 on a bill for a small pizza and a beer.
Cassie Beverly served Seth Collins that meal on Wednesday, not knowing that the Lexington, Ky., man has been handing out such tips in honor of his brother Aaron, who died last year.
Collins told the Des Moines Register that Aaron's will asked his family to leave the $500 tips for pizza orders. His family has done so since, with the help of $60,000 donated by people who'd heard about or seen the video of the first big tip at a pizzeria in Lexington. The YouTube video has been viewed nearly 2.7 million times.
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Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has warned his team to be wary of a backlash from Australia in their three-test series after the hosts were stung by their series defeat to South Africa earlier this week.
Australia's hopes of snatching the Proteas' top test ranking ended in a crushing 309-run defeat in the third and final test in Perth on Monday, but Jayawardene took little comfort from the home side's disappointment.
"I see them as wounded soldiers - they could come back stronger against us," Jayawardene told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday, on the eve of a three-day tour match against a Chairman's XI side.
"So we just need to make sure we are ready for that and start well.
"We can't be complacent - we need to make sure we know from ball one we give them a good go at it."
Sri Lanka have their own problems coming into the first test at Hobart next week, losing their last test at home to New Zealand by 167 runs to level a two-match series 1-1, with key batsmen out of form.
Kumar Sangakkara scored five, nought and 16 in his three innings against New Zealand, but Jayawardene backed the veteran to bounce back in Sri Lanka's bid to win their first test Down Under.
"I am happy that he went through a lean phase because he'll be really hungry for runs - that's Kumar for you," Jayawardene said of the 35-year-old stalwart.
Jayawardene also said he would weigh up his future as captain after the series, which includes tests in Melbourne and Sydney, after taking on the role for a second time in the wake of Tillakaratne Dilshan's sudden resignation in January.
"After this, we get a well-deserved four weeks off, after about three years, so it gives me a bit of time to think (about) what I need to do," said Jayawardene, who captained the team for more than three years in his first stint from 2006.
"We need to groom another leader as well. It's very important to have that changeover done smoothly while the senior players are still in the side."


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