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KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
Not really, no. We grow so much extra corn that it's easily recouped.

Don't get me wrong. This is a problem. This is not okay.

It's just this isn't quite Set The World Ablaze And Panic level bad. Is mostly just annoying. Of those three million acres, they were 'damaged' which is different than 'destroyed.' I suspect we will still have plenty of HFCS and ethanol.
KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
To put that 3 million into perspective, the US has about 90 million acres of just corn.
KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
Yup. I agree. I even find the experience fantastic on the original iPad, as well as a brand new one. I find it just fine on my phone, which isn't nearly as large a screen.

I am guessing it is an individual taste thing. That makes some sense.
KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
I wonder if that's a personal thing? Over the past year, I've been trying to join the mobile revolution - sort of. The majority of my browsing is now done on a tablet.

I read quite a few PDFs and don't actually have any complaints. I am not personally seeing any readability issues and don't mind consuming PDFs at all.

That said, I think I now understand your complaint. Thanks! I just don't personally have any trouble with it. I use multiple tablets, of varied sizes, and I've had good experiences with all of the devices. While some PDFs are horribly formatted, I find that the device choice doesn't help that and it's a design choice from the author.

But, again, thanks for helping me understand.
KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
Not really, look at the myriad rendering issues between the most popular browsers. PDF should result in pixel-for-pixel reproducibility, browsers don't do that in practice.

That's why we still test pages in different browsers and end up using browser specific code to ensure proper rendering - which often only reaches the 'close enough' format.
KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
FWIW, PDF is an open standard. There exist both open and proprietary readers and creators. It has been an open standard for nearly a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
Have you seen pandoc? That should be able to do that and the comments about results are usually positive.

https://pandoc.org/epub.html

One final thing, and wildly off topic, is that when you do your defense, remember that you probably know more about the specifics of the subject than anyone else in the room. Many folks stress over it, but you're almost certainly going to be the actual expert in the room. Good luck!
KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
I'm not sure I understand. Well, I understand what you're doing but I'm not sure why you'd dislike PDF.

PDF has the great benefit of rendering the same on every system. With very few exceptions, PDF will look exactly the same on every system and will print the same on every system.

HTML doesn't really have that same benefit.

Don't get me wrong, I think your service is a great idea for those who would like HTML formatted results, but I'm not understanding the complaint about PDF.

Could you expand on why you don't like PDF?
KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
I'd guess the two biggest issues would be bloat and expectations.

Doing so is going to add bloat that is needless to the majority of people. If they add support for Tor, people are going to expect them to add support for more protocols, from torrents to freenet to gopher.
KGIII
·há 9 anos·discuss
So far, I've only had to miss one opportunity from not having a Facebook account. Err... I've never had one. Even then, I could still have that opportunity, it'd just take a bit more work and can't be done online.

I guess that I'm trying to say that it's possible to not have social media accounts and still function in the digital world. I know others who don't have accounts but I'm going to call them passive users of the web.