Safari, did what Mozilla couldn't do. Give a big name brand behind telling you boss that you need to focus on cross browsers. Firefox at the time while popular with geeks it was a tough sell to get you boss to allow you to take some time and cross browser test your site. You can Piss off Linux Users because while they are vocal they are also technical enough to know how to work around it. Mac users have a bigger mix of people and many will get quite annoyed to see the text wrapping while the screen shot had it in an other spot. Plus TV like to show their website with a Safari Window... Meaning the site really should work on a Mac.
Will this will allow Programming to become a full fledged sport. Surround by folks around the country taking it as a opportunity to drink of oversize "beer" cans. Cheering as code fails to compile or causes a major system failure in the last 10 minutes.
Yes. Microsoft really didn't get what it wanted out of Internet Explorer. The point of the browser was was to dominate the market so they could push their own standards. To make browsing the World Wide Web a windows only thing, in order to Push Active X and other technologies that tied people to windows. It didn't happen. 1. Active X security model was flawed on day 1. I remember hearing about Active X and going ARE YOU INSANE! Microsoft overestimated the self restraint the average user will have with their computer. An Alert Box saying are you sure Means they will almost always click Yes. Java Applets are far more secure because they didn't allow writing to the Clients PC drives. Or really direct access to most of their hardware. This created a new set of security problems for Microsoft where any good IT person would stop that Technology from being deployed. Thus web developers will not depend on this technology as it will be blocked and there would need to be instructions and headaches to try to get the user to enable it.
2. Flash: Small, Light, Secure and Visually Appealing (at least compared to JavaApplets or Active X) and worked on different browsers and OS's and Hardware Platforms.It seemed more like a Toy Plugin then a real threat to Microsoft so they let it slip until it was too late.
3. Javascript: In order to get market share with IE they had to embrace Javascript. That allowed developers to put put code if IE do this otherwise follow the standards. So more and more websites were cross browser compatible.
4. Safari: Microsoft dropping IE for Mac and Apple pushing Safari was a big mistake. Web Developers (many used macs) made sure their code worked on their macs first then fixed it for IE. For a business case it is hard to say you will be dropping all your mac clients. As 3% of them were Macs at the time. So if you got 3 million hits. That is 30,000 complaints.
5. Apache: Unix/Linux server based web server running most of the web sites, as Windows Servers were not big enough for enterprise level serving. So most web shops had Linux/Unix boxes around and many of them used it for workstations. So IE was the second option.
6. Windows Long Horn/and Vista. IE releases are more or less tied with the OS Releases IE 6 for XP, IE 7 for Vista IE 8 for Windows 7 IE 9 for Windows 8. Yes they are not directly tied but there is a coralation between release time of the browser and the OS. Microsoft was stupid to integrate the OS with the Browser so. As Microsoft lingered in trying to get Vista out then having Vista being a failure. IE 6 stayed around for Far too long. Thus allowing Firefox and other browsers to get a good foot hold as people are eager to get a browser that meets the needs of their faster computers with faster internet connection and want to do the cool new things well.
So IE lost their foot hold in controlling the standard. So Microsoft Bing has to gain from getting Firefox support by default. That means more traffic to their site. IE is more or less a free as in beer product so they are not making money off of it. And they lost the standards war so they cannot use their huge market share to leverage their own products that IE was suppose to enhance.
Now Google produced chrome as a browser that will run their standard compliment services faster and better then the other browsers. So they are giving away chrome as to push their own services. And they are keeping competitive with their competitors to make sure they have the best experience without pissing off the other browsers as they are welcomed to use their services too and should get a good experience as well, but having their own dominate browser allows them to raise the bar on what they can do faster then having to wait for the other browsers to support it.
That and those Mozilla People should stop screwing up and hiding their mistakes in ever increasing version numbers. Firefox group. If you want to beat Chrome... Stop making your product to look and function more like it does. You are only making your product a cheap ripoff of the other product.
Netscape was a dominate browser, IE was a cheap rip off (one of those crappy software that comes free with the OS) Then IE made their browser faster and lighter with a UI that wasn't trying to copy Netscapes look and feel. Then Firefox had started to dominate because it was faster and lighter with a UI that wasn't trying to copy IE look and feels. No chrome came out that was faster and lighter and a UI that didn't look like Firefox.
Now Firefox is remaking their product to look and feel more like chrome. Why, should I stick with Firefox if I can get a real chrome like UI from Chrome.
The difference it to a Cloud Service your information is connected to an invisible faceless person that most Cloud employees won't really care about if they do see your information it will only really be valuable in aggregate. If the data is at your own shop then the people poking around your data know you personally, and really use that information to judge you.
Think about all those poor bacteria that it kills in order to feed itself. It should be more like the moral crabs that are scavenger, at least they eat what is already dead.
Exactly, I think he did all he could ethically do, by accident he found a flaw, he reported it to the content owners... Anything past that he will just big digging his own grave. I think the only other thing he could do is report it to the authorities. But he better be able to explain "the accident" that caused him to find this information.
Who knows perhaps he just hit a honey pot. Setup to help find and track hackers who steal the information and use it for nefarious purposes.
Firefox started to whip the butt of IE because it was a small, light, fast and supported the standards well browser. Then over time and got more and more stuff, and and now is considered Large, bulky, slow, that is behind some of the standards browser. And Chrome is the new small and light one. I figure next month for Firefox 29 they will put in the email client and rename it again to Netscape Navigator 4
'We are going to have to come up with really clever ways to throw away data so we can see new stuff.'
Have all you data open on a Windows share, and a FTP. Have them available on the full internet. Make some honest mistakes in setting up permissions. Copy and Past the "wrong link" into a hackers/gaming website. Wait a while.... All your data has been replaced with illegal information. which makes it easy to clean out. Problem solved.
He may be away of it. But I think he is like a lot of other Unix/Linux people, who has some degree of autism. Where they have a hard time dealing with change.
"Apple phenomenon" takes away any doubt as to why the modern world is in such financial trouble."
People buying a product they like, causing financial trouble?
Apple is loosing market share because increase competition. Apples iPhone had a 2 year head start over the other phones. That was 2 years of being the only player in the game. Then the competition came out. Naturally people will buy the other devices.
Apple has always released the Cadillac of personal computing. Just like Cadillac's they may not be the fastest, or have the most impeded features but it has the right amounts placed in a way that makes it luxurious. Now some of the competing products are making their versions of Honda's, Toyota's, Ford's... Which are nice and have features that are better then the Cadillac but still they are not the Cadillac.
Exactly, chances are the iPad3 will be faster then the the iPad2. The fact that the iPad2 still outperforms this chip in some areas is a testament to Apples design. Chances are the iPad3 will beat out the Nvidias. Besides metrics of measurement are often used to prove any ones point. You just mix in the metrics that are "Important" to you and toss out metrics that are "Insignificant" and there you have it you can usually prove most things, and let your competitor win a few just to make it seem fare.
Because they have the most to lose. The problem is simple the fix isn't. Running a government is hard, much more complicated then those one liners that politics demands to get elected, and much more complicated then those Tea Party or the Occupy Wall Street protesters are advocating.
Energy companies are one of those few areas where these countries can hire a lot of people for good pay. The wrong energy policy would cause problems for millions of Hard working citizens. No doing anything hurts the environment to a point where other problems could outweigh the cost.
The people who speak loudest about the environment on both sides are usually the people who are miss informed the most. Giving Environmentalism a bad name. Environmental policy is all about trade offs. Yes Trade Offs! You can't be 100% green because you would kill billions of people. You cannot just disregard the environmental problems as they cannot be easily replaced.
We all see the problem... But the solution isn't that simple.
Hypercard, Basic, Access.... Giving non-programmers access to a easy to use programming language is a bad idea. The end user feels empowered, and yes can get more done. This is good for your home PC. But Business the small ones and Large Ones get average non-programmer making a program. It gets popular, it doesn't scale, data get corrupt and they loose money and they complain to the maker of such a tool that will allow a business to have hundreds of files corrupted because this simple tool to make quick programs spanned and became used by hundreds of people at once.
Then they bring it to a real programmer and has to redo everything and bitch an moan to him that it is too expensive and why are using such a tool that takes longer to develop....
I am not trying to be snotty, but average Joe user shouldn't be making programs even when they can, unless they have some sort of training or is expected to do it full time.
Slashdot moderation is usually fairly good for moderate comments or comments and discussion that doesn't make anyone angry. But if you bring up topics like... GNU or Open Source in general. Linux DRM Patents Business Religion
If you view is what the majority believes there are a bunch of moderation up of Insightful. (Although it isn't Insightful most of the time it is just someone else saying something they agreed with, so it really isn't insightful, but Average Joe Moderator will mark it as such as they though of that idea too, so because they think they are so smart if someone brought up the same point they must be equally smart and just happened to have 2 people coming up with the same idea)
If the majority of the moderators disagree then it will be flame bate or troll just because they disagree with it. And will moderate it down to prevent adequate discussion on the topic.
Oh come on! If someone did a rant like this for Windows it would be moderated +5 Insightful.
The Agenda here is to point out that Linux isn't the God of OS. It has its problems just like Windows and the others. As we giggle and glee when there is a Major Windows Issue, we like to discredit any Linux problem.
It isn't that Windows is More Secure then Linux but there are too many people running Linux feeling invincible from all the world has to attack them. The biggest problem in IT Security isn't the OS it is the Dumb Ass who runs the systems.
You can have a Windows Network running for years without a security issue. You can Have a Linux network that is attacked daily. It determine the skill of the System Administrator.
It would be Apples fault if it used a faulty battery in its product. If you took the battery out and put your own in then it would be yours or the battery manufacture, depending if it was marketed as such.
The Jonny Walker Analogy isn't really apt. It is more the case like you got some Orange Juice and the shipment of filtered water to make the juice was replaced with Alcohol and then you got drunk and killed a person while driving.
I have to remember that. That was a problem at my previous job. I was moved to the other end of the office to oversee all the developers. I was doing my job handling all the basic decisions and making sure only a few actually had to work its way up management... What happened, my manager got worried and moved his office next to mine to keep a better eye on us. As he felt we weren't doing any work. Because he only stopped by during his lunch break (and ours) where we were either out to lunch of just generally chatting to clear our heads. I should have just gotten a Candy dish and that way he would stop by at random points during the day when we were working or heads off.
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Safari, did what Mozilla couldn't do. Give a big name brand behind telling you boss that you need to focus on cross browsers. Firefox at the time while popular with geeks it was a tough sell to get you boss to allow you to take some time and cross browser test your site.
You can Piss off Linux Users because while they are vocal they are also technical enough to know how to work around it. Mac users have a bigger mix of people and many will get quite annoyed to see the text wrapping while the screen shot had it in an other spot. Plus TV like to show their website with a Safari Window... Meaning the site really should work on a Mac.
Will this will allow Programming to become a full fledged sport. Surround by folks around the country taking it as a opportunity to drink of oversize "beer" cans. Cheering as code fails to compile or causes a major system failure in the last 10 minutes.
Yes.
Microsoft really didn't get what it wanted out of Internet Explorer. The point of the browser was was to dominate the market so they could push their own standards. To make browsing the World Wide Web a windows only thing, in order to Push Active X and other technologies that tied people to windows. It didn't happen.
1. Active X security model was flawed on day 1. I remember hearing about Active X and going ARE YOU INSANE! Microsoft overestimated the self restraint the average user will have with their computer. An Alert Box saying are you sure Means they will almost always click Yes. Java Applets are far more secure because they didn't allow writing to the Clients PC drives. Or really direct access to most of their hardware. This created a new set of security problems for Microsoft where any good IT person would stop that Technology from being deployed. Thus web developers will not depend on this technology as it will be blocked and there would need to be instructions and headaches to try to get the user to enable it.
2. Flash: Small, Light, Secure and Visually Appealing (at least compared to JavaApplets or Active X) and worked on different browsers and OS's and Hardware Platforms.It seemed more like a Toy Plugin then a real threat to Microsoft so they let it slip until it was too late.
3. Javascript: In order to get market share with IE they had to embrace Javascript. That allowed developers to put put code if IE do this otherwise follow the standards. So more and more websites were cross browser compatible.
4. Safari: Microsoft dropping IE for Mac and Apple pushing Safari was a big mistake. Web Developers (many used macs) made sure their code worked on their macs first then fixed it for IE. For a business case it is hard to say you will be dropping all your mac clients. As 3% of them were Macs at the time. So if you got 3 million hits. That is 30,000 complaints.
5. Apache: Unix/Linux server based web server running most of the web sites, as Windows Servers were not big enough for enterprise level serving. So most web shops had Linux/Unix boxes around and many of them used it for workstations. So IE was the second option.
6. Windows Long Horn/and Vista. IE releases are more or less tied with the OS Releases IE 6 for XP, IE 7 for Vista IE 8 for Windows 7 IE 9 for Windows 8. Yes they are not directly tied but there is a coralation between release time of the browser and the OS. Microsoft was stupid to integrate the OS with the Browser so. As Microsoft lingered in trying to get Vista out then having Vista being a failure. IE 6 stayed around for Far too long. Thus allowing Firefox and other browsers to get a good foot hold as people are eager to get a browser that meets the needs of their faster computers with faster internet connection and want to do the cool new things well.
So IE lost their foot hold in controlling the standard. So Microsoft Bing has to gain from getting Firefox support by default. That means more traffic to their site. IE is more or less a free as in beer product so they are not making money off of it. And they lost the standards war so they cannot use their huge market share to leverage their own products that IE was suppose to enhance.
Now Google produced chrome as a browser that will run their standard compliment services faster and better then the other browsers. So they are giving away chrome as to push their own services. And they are keeping competitive with their competitors to make sure they have the best experience without pissing off the other browsers as they are welcomed to use their services too and should get a good experience as well, but having their own dominate browser allows them to raise the bar on what they can do faster then having to wait for the other browsers to support it.
That and those Mozilla People should stop screwing up and hiding their mistakes in ever increasing version numbers.
Firefox group. If you want to beat Chrome... Stop making your product to look and function more like it does. You are only making your product a cheap ripoff of the other product.
Netscape was a dominate browser, IE was a cheap rip off (one of those crappy software that comes free with the OS)
Then IE made their browser faster and lighter with a UI that wasn't trying to copy Netscapes look and feel.
Then Firefox had started to dominate because it was faster and lighter with a UI that wasn't trying to copy IE look and feels.
No chrome came out that was faster and lighter and a UI that didn't look like Firefox.
Now Firefox is remaking their product to look and feel more like chrome. Why, should I stick with Firefox if I can get a real chrome like UI from Chrome.
The difference it to a Cloud Service your information is connected to an invisible faceless person that most Cloud employees won't really care about if they do see your information it will only really be valuable in aggregate. If the data is at your own shop then the people poking around your data know you personally, and really use that information to judge you.
Think about all those poor bacteria that it kills in order to feed itself. It should be more like the moral crabs that are scavenger, at least they eat what is already dead.
Exactly, I think he did all he could ethically do, by accident he found a flaw, he reported it to the content owners... Anything past that he will just big digging his own grave. I think the only other thing he could do is report it to the authorities. But he better be able to explain "the accident" that caused him to find this information.
Who knows perhaps he just hit a honey pot. Setup to help find and track hackers who steal the information and use it for nefarious purposes.
You say this after I had debug some code programmed to run in a tape stack.
Firefox started to whip the butt of IE because it was a small, light, fast and supported the standards well browser. Then over time and got more and more stuff, and and now is considered Large, bulky, slow, that is behind some of the standards browser. And Chrome is the new small and light one.
I figure next month for Firefox 29 they will put in the email client and rename it again to Netscape Navigator 4
'We are going to have to come up with really clever ways to throw away data so we can see new stuff.'
Have all you data open on a Windows share, and a FTP. Have them available on the full internet. Make some honest mistakes in setting up permissions. Copy and Past the "wrong link" into a hackers/gaming website. Wait a while.... All your data has been replaced with illegal information. which makes it easy to clean out. Problem solved.
Not the 32bit versions though. They wont make it past 2038.
Fiber
It makes you sad because you realized you should have gone to Plastic Surgery. Kidding! Kidding!
He may be away of it. But I think he is like a lot of other Unix/Linux people, who has some degree of autism. Where they have a hard time dealing with change.
"Apple phenomenon" takes away any doubt as to why the modern world is in such financial trouble."
People buying a product they like, causing financial trouble?
Apple is loosing market share because increase competition. Apples iPhone had a 2 year head start over the other phones. That was 2 years of being the only player in the game. Then the competition came out. Naturally people will buy the other devices.
Apple has always released the Cadillac of personal computing. Just like Cadillac's they may not be the fastest, or have the most impeded features but it has the right amounts placed in a way that makes it luxurious. Now some of the competing products are making their versions of Honda's, Toyota's, Ford's... Which are nice and have features that are better then the Cadillac but still they are not the Cadillac.
Exactly, chances are the iPad3 will be faster then the the iPad2. The fact that the iPad2 still outperforms this chip in some areas is a testament to Apples design. Chances are the iPad3 will beat out the Nvidias. Besides metrics of measurement are often used to prove any ones point. You just mix in the metrics that are "Important" to you and toss out metrics that are "Insignificant" and there you have it you can usually prove most things, and let your competitor win a few just to make it seem fare.
Because they have the most to lose.
The problem is simple the fix isn't. Running a government is hard, much more complicated then those one liners that politics demands to get elected, and much more complicated then those Tea Party or the Occupy Wall Street protesters are advocating.
Energy companies are one of those few areas where these countries can hire a lot of people for good pay. The wrong energy policy would cause problems for millions of Hard working citizens. No doing anything hurts the environment to a point where other problems could outweigh the cost.
The people who speak loudest about the environment on both sides are usually the people who are miss informed the most. Giving Environmentalism a bad name.
Environmental policy is all about trade offs. Yes Trade Offs! You can't be 100% green because you would kill billions of people. You cannot just disregard the environmental problems as they cannot be easily replaced.
We all see the problem... But the solution isn't that simple.
No in Jurassic Park they didn't make Males.
Females can in theory spontaneously reproduce... Males cannot.
Hypercard, Basic, Access....
Giving non-programmers access to a easy to use programming language is a bad idea. The end user feels empowered, and yes can get more done. This is good for your home PC. But Business the small ones and Large Ones get average non-programmer making a program. It gets popular, it doesn't scale, data get corrupt and they loose money and they complain to the maker of such a tool that will allow a business to have hundreds of files corrupted because this simple tool to make quick programs spanned and became used by hundreds of people at once.
Then they bring it to a real programmer and has to redo everything and bitch an moan to him that it is too expensive and why are using such a tool that takes longer to develop....
I am not trying to be snotty, but average Joe user shouldn't be making programs even when they can, unless they have some sort of training or is expected to do it full time.
Slashdot moderation is usually fairly good for moderate comments or comments and discussion that doesn't make anyone angry.
But if you bring up topics like...
GNU or Open Source in general.
Linux
DRM
Patents
Business
Religion
If you view is what the majority believes there are a bunch of moderation up of Insightful. (Although it isn't Insightful most of the time it is just someone else saying something they agreed with, so it really isn't insightful, but Average Joe Moderator will mark it as such as they though of that idea too, so because they think they are so smart if someone brought up the same point they must be equally smart and just happened to have 2 people coming up with the same idea)
If the majority of the moderators disagree then it will be flame bate or troll just because they disagree with it. And will moderate it down to prevent adequate discussion on the topic.
Oh come on!
If someone did a rant like this for Windows it would be moderated +5 Insightful.
The Agenda here is to point out that Linux isn't the God of OS. It has its problems just like Windows and the others. As we giggle and glee when there is a Major Windows Issue, we like to discredit any Linux problem.
It isn't that Windows is More Secure then Linux but there are too many people running Linux feeling invincible from all the world has to attack them.
The biggest problem in IT Security isn't the OS it is the Dumb Ass who runs the systems.
You can have a Windows Network running for years without a security issue. You can Have a Linux network that is attacked daily. It determine the skill of the System Administrator.
Because they want to skip all sorts of legal regulations. Canada is just as bad and worse in some areas in terms of regulation.
It would be Apples fault if it used a faulty battery in its product.
If you took the battery out and put your own in then it would be yours or the battery manufacture, depending if it was marketed as such.
The Jonny Walker Analogy isn't really apt. It is more the case like you got some Orange Juice and the shipment of filtered water to make the juice was replaced with Alcohol and then you got drunk and killed a person while driving.
Either that or there will be a law requiring you to TURN OFF YOUR PHONE DURING THE FLIGHT! The plain is perfectly safe... Your phone isn't.
I have to remember that. That was a problem at my previous job. I was moved to the other end of the office to oversee all the developers. I was doing my job handling all the basic decisions and making sure only a few actually had to work its way up management... What happened, my manager got worried and moved his office next to mine to keep a better eye on us. As he felt we weren't doing any work. Because he only stopped by during his lunch break (and ours) where we were either out to lunch of just generally chatting to clear our heads.
I should have just gotten a Candy dish and that way he would stop by at random points during the day when we were working or heads off.