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Interesting that the dailymail looks and reads like the onion only it pretends to be for real:

The chips do not error check each other but instead perform exactly the same tasks, so that they can check the other for errors.

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iOS 6 is doing binary diffs when you update an app. I have rather large app in the store and when I pushed a minor update, download took only a few seconds. This would have been impossible if it downloaded the whole thing, my internet connection is not that fast.

This is a lot of noise about nothing. They passed a well meant report on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU (not a law) containing this sentence: Calls on the EU and its Member States to take concrete action on its resolution of 16 September 1997[1] on discrimination against women in advertising, which called for a ban on all forms of pornography in the media and on the advertising of sex tourism.

The mentioned report is itself contains this sentence: 5. Calls for statutory measures to prevent any form of pornography in the media and in advertising and for a ban on advertising for pornographic products and sex tourism;

This was passed already in 1997.

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT...

With an insight into font technologies, this is actually very easy to solve. Opentype fonts can contain TrueType or Postscript curves. These two have a very different approach to hinting: In TrueType the font is clever and the renderer is stupid (lots of very complicated hints in the font). In Postscript the font only has a few simple hints, and the renderer does the rest.

On Windows an unhinted TrueType text font looks horrid, an unhinted Postscript font is ok.

So, if you want an unhinted font, because you're using icons, just use TrueType shapes and don't hint them (like Font Awesome seems to do) (This doesn't cover the native mac renderer, it ignores any hints and does all the work itself)

That's actually an issue with that specific font. Try editing the first Verdana Example (3/4 Ale..), that works for me for 1234/5678.

No, it's not. It works like it's suppossed to do for any (not actual regex) /d+ \/ /d+ . See screenshot here: http://imgur.com/gwlHJ

Fonts supporting the frac feature have a separate set of smaller numbers, and these get dynamically composed into fractions once you type them.

It's not the video or whatever, it's just observing some basic rules:

-Combine external JavaScript

-Enable gzip compression

-Leverage browser caching

(As suggesteg by Chromes Inspector)

As well as

-Using css embeds where possible

-Severside caching if they don't do that already

So, to style the 235th word in a text, I'd have to do #main { -letter-size: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .... 0.5em; }

Why wouldn't I simply wrap it in a span, then it even works on browser with JS switched off. Uh, and once I have to edit the copy and add a single word somewhere, everything breaks.

Currently not it seems. It doesn't seem to matter from where I call videoElement.webkitEnterFullscreen(), it always works (in Safari)