I too thought the Dreamcast was amazing, it was very capable of both 2D (Street Fighter 3) and 3D (Resident Evil) but I never used the memory cards for anything else but saving. It was just too low res to be usefull for maps and looking down to see how much ammo is left would only get you killed.
I don't really care, though it's very interesting and, if true, actually pretty cool that they pulled that off. But the war needs a winner for it to stop, so let's have a winner and be done with it. Stop the killing...
It's pretty simple really, Microsoft is built on backwards compatibility. Saying that those who are not standards compliant should be punished by IE will NOT be heard by Microsoft. It's not just that they don't agree, they don't BELIEVE that it should be that way. They feel this (misplaced?) sense of responsibility not to break the web. Nothing we say (on the IE blog or here) will change that way of thinking.
Anyway, Microsoft can scratch ACID 2 rendering now, since it will only render in IE 8 with the new meta tag (which should point out to the IE team the error of their ways).
legacy web applications produced in ASP and older ASP.net , PHP, ColdFusion, Java and Delphi
that break horribly in firefox (and even latest IE7! yes ive seen it happen)
No:
A file format (with some exceptions, like.hlp files) isn't insecure - it's the code that reads the format that's more or less secure. See how he switched from using the word 'insecure' in association with file formats, how uses the terms 'more or less secure' for describing the code they wrote.
ActionScript 3 + Flex + Adobe AIR = writing native applications that install cross platform. Good luck with that using Silverlight (or WPF).
Also, Silverlight is NOT shipping that largest framework you mention (since when did size matter anyway, for a framework). It comes with a subset of the.NET class library. Lastly, I don't think Silverlight was designed for large apps. It's a browser plugin.
Silverlight's WPF subset - Flex's MXML.
Multi language DLR - Flash AS3 runtime.
VC-1 - FLV format.
The one thing that you will not find in Silverlight is locally installable application that you have with Adobe AIR. I know it's a bit complicated, but this is how you should compare.
I'm thinking is that this is a one-time phenomenon. By the time of the next election MySpace and Facebook will probably be oh-so-yesterday. I think you're kind of missing the whole internet thing here. In 4-8-12 years these people will be old enough to vote. By then you get a free blog with your cereal box, including personal page at the then market leader in socical networking sites. The amount of twitter is huge now compared to 10 years ago, so it will be massive in 10 years.
Either everyone will ignore it (victory for traditional media since they have the 'official' message) or everyone will find the news/opinion feed that they are most comfortable with and ignore objective reporting (can't find it anyway in all those zillion youtube reactions to the debate).
Seriously, it's great that everyone can now publish and broadcast, but it's kind of a mess this way.
Microsoft would rather continue the 'war' because they can offer peace with downloadable movies (based of course on Windows Server 2010 Movie Studio Edition).
It has along way o go for that. If the corporate uses Windows they might be better of using an XBAP app, which is a full.NET application build using XAML. Right now, Silverlight doesn't even have the most basic controls, so developing a LOB app is not really feasible right now.
It's not really technical, but if you skip the first part you get some nice stuff:
If you tell me that your social network will take on facebook because it includes baby pictures then I'm going to laugh in your face. They are an established player with CIA backing. Ha!
Neither HiDef format has a "cool" name... tick Blu-ray is about as cool as it's gonna get for a disc based medium. It sounds like it could destroy planets.
Yes. I bought a new 32" TV and it's HD Ready. That should be a reason to look at HD-DVD or Blu-ray. Instead I bought a new DVD player that does upscaling. DVD's look very good, everyone that sees it is very impressed with it. There's no reason to upgrade, there is a back catalog of thousands of DVD's (I bought about 70 of them in 2007), many costing not more then 10 bucks, and they look great.
I will probably buy a console that does HD in 2008. For that choice, the disc media is not important. I will buy the console that has the games I like, at the right price.
The whole CS 3 'experience' is just that of extremely bloated software. The updater software especially is terrible. It took them 4 years to understand users don't want folders created under their My Documents folder with names like InDesign_00.1_Update or whatever they came up with to make it scary looking.
He is tired of the security problems with his PCs. Understandably so. This is from the article:
The first time I turned on the beautiful Dell I was met with a warning that I had "multiple security problems," and was led to install a security suite in a complex and tedious process. I recently 'installed' a brand new Compaq and was appalled by the crapware and multiple annoying balloons nagging me to no end about stuff I shouldn't have to care about. It was then I realized that the Personal Computer is failing. They have ever more processing power which goes to waste running software that is either expired in 3 months (Norton) or not needed at all (Nero Media Center).
This review just points out that the Windows computer is as usual loaded with inferior software that has evolved into total garbage (including the OS).
No no no, that's not the problem with his argument. I think it's a straw man, is that the correct term? You see, he says that it's either food or a laptop, but that's wrong. To illustrate this: there has been a deal for laptops in Mexico, now I don't know if John Dvorak is sending money for rice to Mexico, but my guess is no he doesn't, nobody does.
Same for India, or any other country where kids have enough to eat, and even get good education. These kids just don't have the means to get a computer and thus are missing out on a) the information highway and b) job opportunities in IT.
How hard can it be to have someone write in a blog every week. During the time between the last Beta and the final release of.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 Scott Guthrie still found the time to write about all the things going on, new features, tutorials and answered dozens of questions on every post. I admit, that guy works about 120 hours a week probably, but if it's too hard, hire someone to do it.
His blog is a great example of actually getting involved with the developers and being open about your product. I truly think that if the Trident team would move into the development division and work under Scott Guthrie that IE 8 would be a huge success. But I'm afraid they're too busy adding a Media Rights Manager toolbar or a Zune Sync plug in for the next IE.
I usually keep a separate CSS file that I include only for IE6 (with a conditional comment). That file is usually filled with about 10 one-liners that look something like this:
div.layout { zoom: 1; } div.sidebar { zoom: 1; }
Just giving elements that property can make the behave in IE. An alternative is to use height: 1%
Slashdot Mirror
I too thought the Dreamcast was amazing, it was very capable of both 2D (Street Fighter 3) and 3D (Resident Evil) but I never used the memory cards for anything else but saving. It was just too low res to be usefull for maps and looking down to see how much ammo is left would only get you killed.
I don't really care, though it's very interesting and, if true, actually pretty cool that they pulled that off. But the war needs a winner for it to stop, so let's have a winner and be done with it. Stop the killing...
Repeat 3) with new tag for each new version of IE...
It's pretty simple really, Microsoft is built on backwards compatibility. Saying that those who are not standards compliant should be punished by IE will NOT be heard by Microsoft. It's not just that they don't agree, they don't BELIEVE that it should be that way. They feel this (misplaced?) sense of responsibility not to break the web. Nothing we say (on the IE blog or here) will change that way of thinking.
Anyway, Microsoft can scratch ACID 2 rendering now, since it will only render in IE 8 with the new meta tag (which should point out to the IE team the error of their ways).
ActionScript 3 + Flex + Adobe AIR = writing native applications that install cross platform. Good luck with that using Silverlight (or WPF). Also, Silverlight is NOT shipping that largest framework you mention (since when did size matter anyway, for a framework). It comes with a subset of the .NET class library. Lastly, I don't think Silverlight was designed for large apps. It's a browser plugin.
Silverlight's WPF subset - Flex's MXML.
Multi language DLR - Flash AS3 runtime.
VC-1 - FLV format.
The one thing that you will not find in Silverlight is locally installable application that you have with Adobe AIR. I know it's a bit complicated, but this is how you should compare.
NO, his uncle in Tsjetsjenie will get the upgrades from the CIA to fight against the Russians.
Also: most kids (and adults) are sitting at home for 2 weeks during at the end of the year, playing online for 10 hours a day.
Either everyone will ignore it (victory for traditional media since they have the 'official' message) or everyone will find the news/opinion feed that they are most comfortable with and ignore objective reporting (can't find it anyway in all those zillion youtube reactions to the debate).
Seriously, it's great that everyone can now publish and broadcast, but it's kind of a mess this way.
Microsoft would rather continue the 'war' because they can offer peace with downloadable movies (based of course on Windows Server 2010 Movie Studio Edition).
It has along way o go for that. If the corporate uses Windows they might be better of using an XBAP app, which is a full .NET application build using XAML. Right now, Silverlight doesn't even have the most basic controls, so developing a LOB app is not really feasible right now.
In fact, be prepared to lose... your girlfriend.
Good luck!
Yes. I bought a new 32" TV and it's HD Ready. That should be a reason to look at HD-DVD or Blu-ray. Instead I bought a new DVD player that does upscaling. DVD's look very good, everyone that sees it is very impressed with it. There's no reason to upgrade, there is a back catalog of thousands of DVD's (I bought about 70 of them in 2007), many costing not more then 10 bucks, and they look great.
I will probably buy a console that does HD in 2008. For that choice, the disc media is not important. I will buy the console that has the games I like, at the right price.
The whole CS 3 'experience' is just that of extremely bloated software. The updater software especially is terrible. It took them 4 years to understand users don't want folders created under their My Documents folder with names like InDesign_00.1_Update or whatever they came up with to make it scary looking.
Blu-ray will win.
This review just points out that the Windows computer is as usual loaded with inferior software that has evolved into total garbage (including the OS).
Most cromulescent indeed!
And then the browser must sanitize before sending.
That's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Who to say that mandatory support would not lead to more content in and tools for Theora?
No no no, that's not the problem with his argument. I think it's a straw man, is that the correct term? You see, he says that it's either food or a laptop, but that's wrong. To illustrate this: there has been a deal for laptops in Mexico, now I don't know if John Dvorak is sending money for rice to Mexico, but my guess is no he doesn't, nobody does. Same for India, or any other country where kids have enough to eat, and even get good education. These kids just don't have the means to get a computer and thus are missing out on a) the information highway and b) job opportunities in IT.
How hard can it be to have someone write in a blog every week. During the time between the last Beta and the final release of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 Scott Guthrie still found the time to write about all the things going on, new features, tutorials and answered dozens of questions on every post. I admit, that guy works about 120 hours a week probably, but if it's too hard, hire someone to do it.
His blog is a great example of actually getting involved with the developers and being open about your product. I truly think that if the Trident team would move into the development division and work under Scott Guthrie that IE 8 would be a huge success. But I'm afraid they're too busy adding a Media Rights Manager toolbar or a Zune Sync plug in for the next IE.
I usually keep a separate CSS file that I include only for IE6 (with a conditional comment). That file is usually filled with about 10 one-liners that look something like this:
div.layout { zoom: 1; }
div.sidebar { zoom: 1; }
Just giving elements that property can make the behave in IE. An alternative is to use height: 1%