“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too”

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/queen-elizabeth-speech-...

If the carnivore wants food, something will have to eat the plants.

Here's the site for the new system - http://www.eircode.ie/

Another advantage of Mercator is that if you display the map from latitudes of about -85 degrees to +85 degrees you end up with a perfect square, which makes chopping the map into tiles nice and easy.

I hope this results in them improving Simplenote. I find it pretty buggy.

Agreed. I experienced a big. Bug the other day that appeared like it deleted all my notes on my iPad and online and this caused me to finally bite-the-bullet and move my notes to Evernote from my offline iPhone for fear of never being able to access them again.

Was a painful upgrade experience (and the bug resolved itself in 24 hours), but I've suffered similar sync bugs over my time with Simplenote over the past 2 years and I didn't feel safe with the service anymore.

We've had a few growing pains, particularly with 3rd-party apps. We're working with developers to move them to our latest API. If you ever encounter problems, you can email us at support@simplenoteapp.com and we'll do our best to help you out.

Agreed, lots of glitches that kept me from shelling out for the paid service. I gave it up and went back to Dropbox for OSX <-> Android syncing.

At least the buyer isn't talking about shutting it down.

Sadly, I too found it unusably buggy. I reported a number of them. Some were fixed, some weren't. Their support response times were great and I really hoped they could get it working smoothly but after a year I was still having issues and it was not to be. Shame because I loved the simplicity.

The problem with just turning cookies off (in the UK anyway) is that with the new cookie law every second site now has an annoying message telling you about their cookie policy and you are now going to see it on every page.

Some are even modal which could render the site useless.

You could use it to test if the value has been changed.

That's because Ireland has low corporation tax (12.5%) so multinational companies export their profits there and artificially inflate the GDP.

That may change however:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republ...

"Ireland's low corporate tax level of 12.5% should be doubled to 25% as part of a common rate across Europe, a cross-party group of MEPs have said."

Agreed; isn't this why this discussion should use GNP? Or would that miss some other relevant detail?

Its two negation operators. The first returns false is the object exists and true if it doesn't and the second flips that around.

So you get true if the object exists and false otherwise.

Flot requires excanvas.js to simulate the canvas in IE. Internally excanvas.js uses VML.

I said that an acceptable solution would have to use VML, not that a VML solution would have to be acceptable. The Canvas API is completely dissimilar to VML, so it's not surprising that excanvas et. al. have proven to be notoriously slow. It's not clear to me why anyone would even bother, except as a way to bolt IE support on as an afterthought. Like it or not, anything that does that is going to be commercially marginal.

As I mentioned, VML is remarkably close to SVG. So there's an obvious solution here.