Personally, I'm for 3 year patents, 20 year copyright. Technology changes too rapidly for longer patents, but content producers should get money for a while longer. Sometimes works become popular much later after their creation, and author and his small business should be fed.
Skipping approximately.41 tile, to be precise. Meh, I don't get that argument: It's easy to incorporate this into thinking; on the other hand, hexes make for some weird movement controls if not using a mouse. I liked that I could sometimes play Civ with arrow keys.
Because, um, the "browser developers" are professional developers, too? Because, well, they know what's easiest for them to implement, and you are free to go and develop a non-browser-based app if that makes you happy?
I don't think most of/.ers have a right to be smug and condescending to browser developers. They are the ones trying to simplify things for themselves, and therefore for you. You think that Opera or Webkit developers, who have to maintain tons of code just to maintain compatibility with bugs produced by other developers, don't want those inconsistencies to disappear? You think they wouldn't like to simplify web, and hence simplify development for you and I? Guess what, they do.
I dumped XHTML1 because it doesn't have IFRAME as part of the spec, and several other cool tag attributes that browsers supported, but weren't in XHTML spec. I really needed some of those tag attributes, and was surprised that they weren't supported. I ended up going to HTML4 transitional, and now I'm just transitioning to HTML5.
I have no idea if XHTML2 changed anything. I love the idea of having everything perfectly structured as in XML, but not at expense of my development time. My primary goal is presenting an interface to the end-user, not to make things easier for a screen-scraper. HTML5 is good enough for me. Spec writers (browser developers) did a nice job actually addressing some of the needs: local storage, for example, although I'd really prefer if I were given a local sandboxed filesystem (which wasn't in the specs last time I checked). It's sad they didn't agree on codecs, it's sad that many browsers still don't implement their own standards for input field types, but overall it's a step forward.
Just hammering browser developers makes me say: "Well, yeah, go and do a better job than them."
I've had great contact with LGP's ZeroDogg (Eskild Hustvedt) over IRC regarding my inquiries about shipping of my game. While their email support people deserve a LOT of prodding, which ZeroDogg gave them, LGP is very much alive and kicking ass. Also, their news post is quoted several times in the comments here.
Obviously it doesn't, seeing how I ended up with a 0 score. Not only that, your flamebait ended up with +4 insightful.
And yes, I can honestly say that replacing Apple with Microsoft would yield almost same response from me. "Sloppy, Microsoft, but better late than never! Thanks". Not the same, but close.
I'm more surprised that a phone is subject to so many vulnerabilities. Yet again, it is a pretty sophisticated piece of software. Hence, thanks for fixing the stuff, Apple; better late security than no security.
When in Rome, do as Romans do. If they want to create a Firefox addon, they should use Firefox update infrastructure. Otherwise they're just incompetent. (Or it might be a conspiracy.)
Search Helper is bad engineering, then. Windows is not a platform with one central packaging system a la apt/dpkg, and let's not pretend Windows Update should be that replacement. Not because it's a bad thing, but because nobody expects that.
When on Windows, do it the Windows way. Each app should stand on its own. What Microsoft is doing in the last few years is just customer disappointments like this waiting to happen.
Cure is simple: Update system components! Don't automatically update plugins for other software through your own channels, if that software could do a better job at it.
Hence, to update this extension, Microsoft would have had a fourth option: build in Search Helper into the Firefox extension and just forget about it. In your words, make it "self contained".
So why doesn't the toolbar use Firefox's extension update system to update itself, or the components, or whatever? Seriously, this is either incompetence, or bad intentions. Pick one.
At university (a sub-university entity called "faculty"), in our "Communication Networks" class as well as "Network Programming" class, we used in-house developed IMUNES. Link appears to be dead at the moment, probably because of maintenance being done in the building. I'll try to summarize, though, and you can try using Google's cache.
I'm not sure if it's open source, but I believe it is free. It's a FreeBSD mini-distro that uses an X11 piece of software to allow you to graphically construct the network, and deploy mini-virtual-machines (segments of some sort) with a single click. It allows simulation of routing, of various network speeds, of packet drops, etc. You can easily see the traffic by starting Wireshark on a node (a router, a PC, whatever). You can easily log into each of these nodes.
We received IMUNES as a VMware disk image, and it worked pretty well. We received instructions on how to link individual virtualized IMUNES machines, but I can't remember how to do it right now.
As opposed to opening parent of Documents folder (home folder), opening USB stick folder, switching back to home folder, pressing ctrl+c, switching to stick, pressing ctrl+v.
Ah, sorry, drag and drop? You mean, I have to use mouse to align the folder windows too?
Please explain in which way telecommunication companies were not a dumb pipe a decade or so ago. BBS != telco. Compuserve and AOL != telcos a decade or so ago, they were BBSes, content providers. Exactly a decade ago, dot com crash, right? Were the telcos the dotcoms that crashed? No?
Telcos are dumb pipes. Some try to provide content, but that content sucks for us techies, and even others find their content much more fun at the likes of Facebook and Youtube. What do the telcos hold? News aggregation portals.
Content delivered by your service provider != Internet content; more like intranet content. If your service provider delivers Internet content, then that's the only point at which it is considered an ISP. Therefore, ISP's goal is to e a dumb pipe. Always was, always will be.
(This post is an amalgam of my experiences in Croatia and what I hear about what's the state of things in US&A.)
Meh, in case of Google I don't care, they know almost all about me already and it's probably the same about most of the Chrome users, too. You do the searches anyway. "Keystrokes, aargh." Keystrokes that you don't end up confirming by pressing enter are mistakes and therefore useless to them.
Many parts are sweet:
* Dalmatia and Istria, our seaside regions, are pretty sweet, with some islands forbidding cars. For example, on Silba, the only ground vehicle you may hear in a few weeks (provided you stay so long) are boats, tractors (for tourist-luggage-to-apartment and grocery-to-shop delivery) and occasionally a motorbike (for mail delivery).
* In Dalmatia and Istria, some cities are pretty ancient: Split, Zadar, Pula feature Roman ruins. Older parts of many Dalmatian/Istrian cities feature typical mediterranean "small streets" which are simply too small to fit a car -- therefore you walk without fear, and look around. Split also features a nicely decorated seashore called "riva". Something similar is in Trogir, too.
* Mountainous regions Lika and Gorski kotar are just beautiful. Lots of green, very little human messing around, and lots of fresh water. If you're American though, you probably have similar regions so don't bother traveling so far, except perhaps forPlitvice:-)
* Farming regions are probably just different than what you're used to. Mostly small, family farms. Some accept guests ("village tourism")
So the country is pretty sweet if you know where to go. In our capital (where I live) there is very little to see, almost nowhere to "truly rest" as a tourist (that is, somewhere peaceful), and it's mostly just a noisy, smelly, modern city.
It's nice you bothered looking it up; it's somewhat fascinating that Croatia, a country in Europe, a "forefront of Christianity" (a long-time-frontier against Turkish conquests) and therefore an important part of European history, is so unknown to many.
Not posting AC -- will probably blow some karma, but I want notification if you reply:-)
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Personally, I'm for 3 year patents, 20 year copyright. Technology changes too rapidly for longer patents, but content producers should get money for a while longer. Sometimes works become popular much later after their creation, and author and his small business should be fed.
Large corporations, on the other hand...
Skipping approximately .41 tile, to be precise. Meh, I don't get that argument: It's easy to incorporate this into thinking; on the other hand, hexes make for some weird movement controls if not using a mouse. I liked that I could sometimes play Civ with arrow keys.
Meh.
Sarcasm aside (ha ha.), not a fan, just someone who played a few installments and liked 'em.
Because, um, the "browser developers" are professional developers, too? Because, well, they know what's easiest for them to implement, and you are free to go and develop a non-browser-based app if that makes you happy?
/.ers have a right to be smug and condescending to browser developers. They are the ones trying to simplify things for themselves, and therefore for you. You think that Opera or Webkit developers, who have to maintain tons of code just to maintain compatibility with bugs produced by other developers, don't want those inconsistencies to disappear? You think they wouldn't like to simplify web, and hence simplify development for you and I? Guess what, they do.
I don't think most of
I dumped XHTML1 because it doesn't have IFRAME as part of the spec, and several other cool tag attributes that browsers supported, but weren't in XHTML spec. I really needed some of those tag attributes, and was surprised that they weren't supported. I ended up going to HTML4 transitional, and now I'm just transitioning to HTML5.
I have no idea if XHTML2 changed anything. I love the idea of having everything perfectly structured as in XML, but not at expense of my development time. My primary goal is presenting an interface to the end-user, not to make things easier for a screen-scraper. HTML5 is good enough for me. Spec writers (browser developers) did a nice job actually addressing some of the needs: local storage, for example, although I'd really prefer if I were given a local sandboxed filesystem (which wasn't in the specs last time I checked). It's sad they didn't agree on codecs, it's sad that many browsers still don't implement their own standards for input field types, but overall it's a step forward.
Just hammering browser developers makes me say: "Well, yeah, go and do a better job than them."
Hexagons? What are they doing to Civ? :D
I wouldn't be opposed to Civ5 having both hexagon and square modes. That would solve the conversion problem, too.
I've had great contact with LGP's ZeroDogg (Eskild Hustvedt) over IRC regarding my inquiries about shipping of my game. While their email support people deserve a LOT of prodding, which ZeroDogg gave them, LGP is very much alive and kicking ass. Also, their news post is quoted several times in the comments here.
Obviously it doesn't, seeing how I ended up with a 0 score. Not only that, your flamebait ended up with +4 insightful.
And yes, I can honestly say that replacing Apple with Microsoft would yield almost same response from me. "Sloppy, Microsoft, but better late than never! Thanks". Not the same, but close.
Better late than never. And it's rather easy to create mistakes when focusing not on security, but on performance and ease of use.
... it's surprising that a phone is so riddled with security flaws.
That said
I'm more surprised that a phone is subject to so many vulnerabilities. Yet again, it is a pretty sophisticated piece of software. Hence, thanks for fixing the stuff, Apple; better late security than no security.
When in Rome, do as Romans do. If they want to create a Firefox addon, they should use Firefox update infrastructure. Otherwise they're just incompetent. (Or it might be a conspiracy.)
Search Helper is bad engineering, then. Windows is not a platform with one central packaging system a la apt/dpkg, and let's not pretend Windows Update should be that replacement. Not because it's a bad thing, but because nobody expects that.
When on Windows, do it the Windows way. Each app should stand on its own. What Microsoft is doing in the last few years is just customer disappointments like this waiting to happen.
Cure is simple: Update system components! Don't automatically update plugins for other software through your own channels, if that software could do a better job at it.
Hence, to update this extension, Microsoft would have had a fourth option: build in Search Helper into the Firefox extension and just forget about it. In your words, make it "self contained".
So why doesn't the toolbar use Firefox's extension update system to update itself, or the components, or whatever? Seriously, this is either incompetence, or bad intentions. Pick one.
Indeed -- what he said.
At university (a sub-university entity called "faculty"), in our "Communication Networks" class as well as "Network Programming" class, we used in-house developed IMUNES. Link appears to be dead at the moment, probably because of maintenance being done in the building. I'll try to summarize, though, and you can try using Google's cache.
I'm not sure if it's open source, but I believe it is free. It's a FreeBSD mini-distro that uses an X11 piece of software to allow you to graphically construct the network, and deploy mini-virtual-machines (segments of some sort) with a single click. It allows simulation of routing, of various network speeds, of packet drops, etc. You can easily see the traffic by starting Wireshark on a node (a router, a PC, whatever). You can easily log into each of these nodes.
We received IMUNES as a VMware disk image, and it worked pretty well. We received instructions on how to link individual virtualized IMUNES machines, but I can't remember how to do it right now.
Seriously, that's the definition of "professional": work that you do for living.
I, for one, welcome our new Whoosh! overlords.
...that depends it on how you map it in System Preferences :)
Now seriously, mea culpa.
As opposed to opening parent of Documents folder (home folder), opening USB stick folder, switching back to home folder, pressing ctrl+c, switching to stick, pressing ctrl+v.
Ah, sorry, drag and drop? You mean, I have to use mouse to align the folder windows too?
Sincerely,
a current Mac OS X user.
...live CDs will help solve the problem of infected routers?
Doesn't seem that way to me.
a concerned citizen of Croatia
Precisely.
Please explain in which way telecommunication companies were not a dumb pipe a decade or so ago. BBS != telco. Compuserve and AOL != telcos a decade or so ago, they were BBSes, content providers. Exactly a decade ago, dot com crash, right? Were the telcos the dotcoms that crashed? No?
Telcos are dumb pipes. Some try to provide content, but that content sucks for us techies, and even others find their content much more fun at the likes of Facebook and Youtube. What do the telcos hold? News aggregation portals.
Content delivered by your service provider != Internet content; more like intranet content. If your service provider delivers Internet content, then that's the only point at which it is considered an ISP. Therefore, ISP's goal is to e a dumb pipe. Always was, always will be.
(This post is an amalgam of my experiences in Croatia and what I hear about what's the state of things in US&A.)
No, fighting the frizzies at 11.
Insidious? "Now witness the full power of this fully operational Google Privacy Extermination station."?
Seriously, just adding option during installation would not be enough, eh? And making the browser less useful post-install would be good?
Meh, in case of Google I don't care, they know almost all about me already and it's probably the same about most of the Chrome users, too. You do the searches anyway. "Keystrokes, aargh." Keystrokes that you don't end up confirming by pressing enter are mistakes and therefore useless to them.
Meh. Tinfoil.
Many parts are sweet: :-)
:-)
* Dalmatia and Istria, our seaside regions, are pretty sweet, with some islands forbidding cars. For example, on Silba, the only ground vehicle you may hear in a few weeks (provided you stay so long) are boats, tractors (for tourist-luggage-to-apartment and grocery-to-shop delivery) and occasionally a motorbike (for mail delivery).
* In Dalmatia and Istria, some cities are pretty ancient: Split, Zadar, Pula feature Roman ruins. Older parts of many Dalmatian/Istrian cities feature typical mediterranean "small streets" which are simply too small to fit a car -- therefore you walk without fear, and look around. Split also features a nicely decorated seashore called "riva". Something similar is in Trogir, too.
* Mountainous regions Lika and Gorski kotar are just beautiful. Lots of green, very little human messing around, and lots of fresh water. If you're American though, you probably have similar regions so don't bother traveling so far, except perhaps for Plitvice
* Farming regions are probably just different than what you're used to. Mostly small, family farms. Some accept guests ("village tourism")
So the country is pretty sweet if you know where to go. In our capital (where I live) there is very little to see, almost nowhere to "truly rest" as a tourist (that is, somewhere peaceful), and it's mostly just a noisy, smelly, modern city.
It's nice you bothered looking it up; it's somewhat fascinating that Croatia, a country in Europe, a "forefront of Christianity" (a long-time-frontier against Turkish conquests) and therefore an important part of European history, is so unknown to many.
Not posting AC -- will probably blow some karma, but I want notification if you reply