Way to engage in ad hominem rather than address the point -- you know, the screen capture of Fox identifying Sanford as a democrat, or the side by side video clips proving footage was used out of turn.
Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling (.pdf) described that argument as "speculative"
Speculative? IANAL, but isn't the disclosure of personal information without that person's knowledge or consent the pretty close to the very definition of a violation of privacy?
You'll never get enough Zealots out with only fifty Gateways... We could use a government that relies less on Zealots and more on research and climbing the tech tree.
The innocuous-seeming bun, even, is so loaded with refined carbohydrates that you might as well be eating your hamburger in the middle of a donut sliced in half.
I know you meant this as a joke, but, as always, life is one step ahead, at least if you go to a Gateway Grizzlies Baseball Game. From the press release on "Baseball's Best Burger"
"May 12, 2006 - The Grizzlies and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts have teamed up to create "Baseball's Best Burger." The burger, which was debuted at the Grizzlies' December 10th sale, consists of a thick and juicy burger topped with sharp cheddar cheese and two slices of bacon. The burger is then placed in between each side of a Krispy Kreme Original Glazed doughnut."
They credit at Atlanta restauarant for inspiration, so a bacon donut cheeseburger is probably older than that. And we need studies to figure out why there is an obesity epidemic?
A better question that you should have asked is why would we care about Java being GPL-ed when it's slower, less scalable, only supports a single language, controlled by a single vendor, and YEARS behind.
I am not going to get into a pointless flamewar on speed or scalability, but Java has not been the only language on the JVM for quite some time. The first result on a Google Search for jvm languages lists over 200 languages. Granted, most of those listed are toy and/or unfinished projects, but there are solid options available for most of the main languages you list, and with JRuby, Rhino, and JSR-223, this is rapidly improving, at least for dynamic languages.
I will grant you.NET is far ahead of the JVM in terms of mixing languages in a single application.
When the Java language becomes forgotten (like all computer languages do) for the next best language, all your code is useless. But all my libraries are just a call away, no matter what language takes the place of what I currently use.
Since the JVM can and support other languages, the question for both JVM and.NET is "When the JVM/.NET runtime becomes forgotten, what happens to my code?"
This is one reason why people are excited about the GPL of Java. With an open source virtual machine, should (Sun|Microsoft) (go bankrupt|lose interest), other people can pick up the slack. In the Java world, open source JVM efforts (e.g. Kaffe) no longer have to spend the time with clean-room reimplementations, and can focus on improvements. You could say that Mono could do the same thing -- but that seems to be what Miguel is arguing now, that without explicit Microsoft cooperation Mono has to expend too much of its resources in playing catchup.
I had the same problem with my 700p, but, thanks to some help on the Opera forums, was able to find the link to Opera Mini 2, so you can "downgrade" until such time that the Palm-related issues are ironed out in Opera Mini 3.
The number of flaws doesn't matter. a slice of cheese has one flaw as a database. It isn't a database. This doesn't make it a better product.
You are vastly oversimplifying, and clearly have not funded a study of the market. Cottage cheese passes an ACID test, and I hear that Swiss Cheese is full of holes.
There are no small fixes. A famous single-character error (typing "." for "," in a FORTRAN DO loop header, so it read DO I=1.10 instead of DO I=1,10) resulted in the destruction of a spacecraft.
While I agree that even tiny changes can have large consequences, it appears the FORTRAN-lost-a-spacecraft bug is a programming urban legend that eventually made its way into computer texts as a cautionry example. (See this Google archive of a relevant 1993 alt.computer.folklore discussion on Mariner I.)
And how is setting up the IR blaster easier than just clicking in the guide to record something?
You are confused on how the TiVO works. You set up the IR blaster once, when you plug the TiVO in, and then you forget about it. It is not something you ever have to do again. If you prefer to record something by clicking on it in the guide, you can do it with TiVO. The interface is quite flexible and elegant.
And, when you do that, can you still watch a different show than you're recording? Or can you record two shows at once?
You can watch something different than what you are recording, but you cannot record two things at once (on my Series 2 -- perhaps a newer TiVO has addressed this, as people have asked for it ).
Not ASP, but if you use ASP.NET you might have problems.
If you rely on the HTML emitted by many built-in controls (and of course, many do, because that is a large part of the attraction to the tools), then you will often have that problem. It is not a fundamental problem with ASP.NET -- the default configuration of some tools often sniff for IE or Netscape, and do not know what to do with Mozilla/Firefox/Opera.
Other times, the controls will rely on document.all for not just DHTML, but form postbacks. document.all was IE 4/5's DOM, and it was rejected by the W3C, so Mozilla and the others do not support them. (Firefox might be adding this support, I am not sure.)
At any rate, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with ASP.NET that would prevent ASP.NET generated pages from working flawlessly in any browser -- like the original poster said, it all ends up as HTML. Unfortunately, the tools tend to generate that HTML along the above lines, which work best (tm) under IE and Netscape.
A developer with a good eye will be able to develop for any browser, but, sadly, too many people rely too heavily upon the tools to do the job. It is often not even a developer skillset issue -- when a certain tool lets you hit 96% of the market in 5 days, versus hitting 100% in 9 days, many businesses will tell their developers to take the 5 days. While that is the case, and while those tools default towards non-standard HTML, the problem will persist.
Just curious, why don't those menus work in Firefox?
Because, as the article indicated, the menus are "interactive features designed exclusively for Internet Explorer." The lack of support in other browsers is intentional, or at least an artifact of how their base authoring tools detect browser capabilities.
They are sending different versions of the page depending on which browser is detected. The version sent to Firefox does not have these features. If you spoof the user-agent using a user agent switching extension to tell Firefox to pretend that it is IE, it appears that they are using IE-specific extensions of the DOM, rather than W3C standard methods and objects. If standard DOM elements were used instead, Firefox would be perfectly capable of displaying the same effects. In fact, one of the points of authoring to standards is to cut costs by making browser sniffing and other such methods unnecessary.
(Both as a security measure and for its cross-platform goals, base Firefox does not support ActiveX, however, so the javascript functions -- not part of those menus -- that write out ActiveX controls would still not be supported in Firefox.)
eBay's webservers are IIS/Windows, but their applications run on Websphere, under xSeries Hardware. Their is a little PR blurb on eBay, and another one on IBM's site
I've been looking for a piece of blogging software that doesn't require a SQL server. I've been using MovableType, storing its data in a BerkleyDB file. However, I'd like to move away from MovableType (for licensing issues, as well as usability issues)
Bloxsom and Blojsom both use the filesystem to store blog entries, and require no database.
I think the issue is that she didn't just say "the company sucks," she registered "thecompany.com" for herself and put up her web page there. So if PETA had beaten mcdonalds.com in registering that domain name, it would still take you to a protest site today.
I know you are using this as a hypothetical, situation, but, in fact, PETA was involved in just that situation, but from the opposite position. A satirist beat them to peta.org (or peta.com -- I do not recall all the details), and created a "People for the Easting of Tasty Animals" site up at peta.org. PETA brought a complaint under the US Anti-cybersquatting act. The site owner claimed that, as a parody, the site was protected. The federal court agreed with PETA's claims that their trademark was being used and diluted, and had the domain name transferred. Some details are available here
The big difference between the ASP.NET paradigm and that of, say, Java Servlet Pages, or XSP, etc. lies in the event-based nature of ASP.NET pages.
Each ASP.NET page is an instance of the "Page" class, or one of its sub-classes.
This is not a new invention of.NET, as these concepts go at least as far back as Java Server Pages. Every JSP page implements JspPage (or HttpJspPage), and follows roughly the same lifecycle. The container typically provides that JspPage class, though a developer can roll his/her own, as well. (Before people jump all over me, yes, in the Java world, people rarely put the page as the top controlling object, preferring to use a Servlet as the controller and the JSPs only to render the final view.)
This is not to take anything away from.aspx -- some of it is quite nifty -- but the basic concept of a "Page" object and "Page Lifecycle" is not new to.NET; Java has had it for a while, and I am sure some geek out there will point out even older examples.
Burlington Coat Factory is significant simply because they were/are one of the first retail outlets publically to adopt Linux in both the server room and for desktops and point-of-sale terminals. Many viewed (view?) them as a model for widespread Linux adoption across a mainstream corporation.
I think Arthur C Clarke propsed that any leader that commits a country to war be excecuted at the end of it. If
In Rama III, this is exactly what happens in the Octospider community, who are eventually drawn into war with the grubby humans. Even though their war was entirely in self-defense, the Octospider leaders who finally declare war do so knowing that they are scheduled for termination at its conclusion.
As the old cliche goes, genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration, so this conclusion is not entirely surprising. Once the genius gets married and has children, suddenly a whole lot of that 95% is devoted elsewhere, and not to the body of work that made that person a "genius" in the first place.
Unicast has their gallery of examples here. See the examples for "full-screen superstitials" -- Unicast's name for their format.
Unicast claims these ads will be *less* annoying than pop-ups, because, rather than open new windows you have to close, this ad format temporarily takes over the existing window, and people are used to this style (think TV commercials).
And, for those posters who wonder what types of sites would consider using this...Unicast has a list here.
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Way to engage in ad hominem rather than address the point -- you know, the screen capture of Fox identifying Sanford as a democrat, or the side by side video clips proving footage was used out of turn.
From TFS:
Speculative? IANAL, but isn't the disclosure of personal information without that person's knowledge or consent the pretty close to the very definition of a violation of privacy?
I hear coolest features have been pushed back into the 27th release, Aamazing Aardvark.
The innocuous-seeming bun, even, is so loaded with refined carbohydrates that you might as well be eating your hamburger in the middle of a donut sliced in half.
I know you meant this as a joke, but, as always, life is one step ahead, at least if you go to a Gateway Grizzlies Baseball Game. From the press release on "Baseball's Best Burger"
They credit at Atlanta restauarant for inspiration, so a bacon donut cheeseburger is probably older than that. And we need studies to figure out why there is an obesity epidemic?
I had the same problem with my 700p, but, thanks to some help on the Opera forums, was able to find the link to Opera Mini 2, so you can "downgrade" until such time that the Palm-related issues are ironed out in Opera Mini 3.
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http://mini.opera.com/global/opera-mini-2.0.4509-
You are vastly oversimplifying, and clearly have not funded a study of the market. Cottage cheese passes an ACID test, and I hear that Swiss Cheese is full of holes.
The poster was not trying to be informative...this is a quote from Caddyshack:
Danny Noonan: I've always wanted to go to college.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
This is the problem with US High Schools; they no longer teach the classics.
There are no small fixes. A famous single-character error (typing "." for "," in a FORTRAN DO loop header, so it read DO I=1.10 instead of DO I=1,10) resulted in the destruction of a spacecraft.
While I agree that even tiny changes can have large consequences, it appears the FORTRAN-lost-a-spacecraft bug is a programming urban legend that eventually made its way into computer texts as a cautionry example. (See this Google archive of a relevant 1993 alt.computer.folklore discussion on Mariner I.)
Would that be a General Protection Fault?
You are confused on how the TiVO works. You set up the IR blaster once, when you plug the TiVO in, and then you forget about it. It is not something you ever have to do again. If you prefer to record something by clicking on it in the guide, you can do it with TiVO. The interface is quite flexible and elegant.
You can watch something different than what you are recording, but you cannot record two things at once (on my Series 2 -- perhaps a newer TiVO has addressed this, as people have asked for it ).
Not ASP, but if you use ASP.NET you might have problems.
If you rely on the HTML emitted by many built-in controls (and of course, many do, because that is a large part of the attraction to the tools), then you will often have that problem. It is not a fundamental problem with ASP.NET -- the default configuration of some tools often sniff for IE or Netscape, and do not know what to do with Mozilla/Firefox/Opera.
Other times, the controls will rely on document.all for not just DHTML, but form postbacks. document.all was IE 4/5's DOM, and it was rejected by the W3C, so Mozilla and the others do not support them. (Firefox might be adding this support, I am not sure.)
At any rate, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with ASP.NET that would prevent ASP.NET generated pages from working flawlessly in any browser -- like the original poster said, it all ends up as HTML. Unfortunately, the tools tend to generate that HTML along the above lines, which work best (tm) under IE and Netscape.
A developer with a good eye will be able to develop for any browser, but, sadly, too many people rely too heavily upon the tools to do the job. It is often not even a developer skillset issue -- when a certain tool lets you hit 96% of the market in 5 days, versus hitting 100% in 9 days, many businesses will tell their developers to take the 5 days. While that is the case, and while those tools default towards non-standard HTML, the problem will persist.
Gentlemen, start your tinfoil hats...
Because, as the article indicated, the menus are "interactive features designed exclusively for Internet Explorer." The lack of support in other browsers is intentional, or at least an artifact of how their base authoring tools detect browser capabilities.
They are sending different versions of the page depending on which browser is detected. The version sent to Firefox does not have these features. If you spoof the user-agent using a user agent switching extension to tell Firefox to pretend that it is IE, it appears that they are using IE-specific extensions of the DOM, rather than W3C standard methods and objects. If standard DOM elements were used instead, Firefox would be perfectly capable of displaying the same effects. In fact, one of the points of authoring to standards is to cut costs by making browser sniffing and other such methods unnecessary.
(Both as a security measure and for its cross-platform goals, base Firefox does not support ActiveX, however, so the javascript functions -- not part of those menus -- that write out ActiveX controls would still not be supported in Firefox.)
eBay's webservers are IIS/Windows, but their applications run on Websphere, under xSeries Hardware. Their is a little PR blurb on eBay, and another one on IBM's site
I've been looking for a piece of blogging software that doesn't require a SQL server. I've been using MovableType, storing its data in a BerkleyDB file. However, I'd like to move away from MovableType (for licensing issues, as well as usability issues)
Bloxsom and Blojsom both use the filesystem to store blog entries, and require no database.
I think the issue is that she didn't just say "the company sucks," she registered "thecompany.com" for herself and put up her web page there. So if PETA had beaten mcdonalds.com in registering that domain name, it would still take you to a protest site today.
I know you are using this as a hypothetical, situation, but, in fact, PETA was involved in just that situation, but from the opposite position. A satirist beat them to peta.org (or peta.com -- I do not recall all the details), and created a "People for the Easting of Tasty Animals" site up at peta.org. PETA brought a complaint under the US Anti-cybersquatting act. The site owner claimed that, as a parody, the site was protected. The federal court agreed with PETA's claims that their trademark was being used and diluted, and had the domain name transferred. Some details are available here
Do you really want to see President CowboyNeal?
This is not a new invention of .NET, as these concepts go at least as far back as Java Server Pages. Every JSP page implements JspPage (or HttpJspPage), and follows roughly the same lifecycle. The container typically provides that JspPage class, though a developer can roll his/her own, as well. (Before people jump all over me, yes, in the Java world, people rarely put the page as the top controlling object, preferring to use a Servlet as the controller and the JSPs only to render the final view.)
This is not to take anything away from .aspx -- some of it is quite nifty -- but the basic concept of a "Page" object and "Page Lifecycle" is not new to .NET; Java has had it for a while, and I am sure some geek out there will point out even older examples.
As the old cliche goes, genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration, so this conclusion is not entirely surprising. Once the genius gets married and has children, suddenly a whole lot of that 95% is devoted elsewhere, and not to the body of work that made that person a "genius" in the first place.
Unicast has their gallery of examples here. See the examples for "full-screen superstitials" -- Unicast's name for their format.
Unicast claims these ads will be *less* annoying than pop-ups, because, rather than open new windows you have to close, this ad format temporarily takes over the existing window, and people are used to this style (think TV commercials).
And, for those posters who wonder what types of sites would consider using this...Unicast has a list here.