No, it's not part of the standard. The reason they even exist is that FrontPage and other HTML editors don't set the document type declaration. Even setting the 4.01 loose DTD will ignore scrollbar colours in IE, as well as the onScroll and onResize Javascript events, etc. At least IE will obey the document type to the letter when it's set; trouble with most pages is that it is not set, so the broader HTML spec as extended by Microsoft is assumed.
I don't get this. I understand the laws of averages and very large numbers mean that pretty much every experience is possible, from no problems at all to the most horrible transfer imaginable.
I've transferred several domains away from NetSol to an OpenSRS registrar. In some cases I already received a renewal notice from NetSol. In every case this is what happened: transfer request submitted, request confirmed with NetSol (via email), transfer processed. 3 days. No phone calls, faxes, resubmits of request or confirmation.
I bet there are people with horror stories about transferring domains between OpenSRS resellers as well. NetSol may be evil, but they're a huge company, with millions of clients and as many renewals processed every year. There are bound to be problems. I'm not one to defend an evil company, but considering the numbers involved, I'm sure NetSol does not have a much higher rate of problem transfers than any other registrar.
don't most domain name holders know who they registered with, when their time expires, and who their options are for renewal?
Don't be silly. How could they. I only have about 5-6 personal domains, all registered ay different dates. I have no clue in hell when they expire. Hell, I'm not even sure HOW MANY domains I have, much less what they are. Now think of all the web consultants and how many domains they must have registered and are contacts for.
isn't it normally a tekkie who handles the domain name administration for a company?
Not normally. Usually the admin and billing contact is a bean counter or a manager of some sort. If you're lucky, the tech contact will be someone qualified. Of course you also have all the people with vanity domains and such who have no clue what they're doing, and if they get a renewal notice for their domain they will mail in a cheque. Hopefully though, they will be clueless enough NOT to write their CC # on the back of the business reply postcard.
You can still determine what the server is running without having to send in any envelopes. Server id string is the first thing you'll see when you connect to port 25. Of course, as soon as word got out all spam relays would change their id string to avoid getting scanned and blacklisted.
Yup, the encyclopedia example was ridiculous, but it's always hard to defend against silly arguments, they're so obviously flawed, you just don't know where or how to begin.
His other example, wife leaving over Linux... shit man, if my wife left me because I installed Linux I'd give her a good kick in the ass on her way out the door!
I think Joel is slowly getting out of touch with reality. Maybe he needs to go back and work in a real software company, like Microsoft, where they will teach him that rewriting several pages of code when you just want to fix a typo in a dialog box is a fireable offense. He used to be insightful and interesting and made good sense most of the time. But that interview was something else. Maybe it's a spoof. Yeah, that's it.
Except retarded car analogies never work when applied to computers.
Refactoring is nothing like replacing some car parts. If you have a carburator, you replace it with another carburator, not some new gee-whiz gizmo. That's not refactoring. Refactoring would be to get rid of the carbutator altogether and redesign the surrounding machinery to get by without it.
Refactoring means whole-sale rewriting of chunks of code (but not the entire program) to accomodate some future changes, necessary features, fixing inefficiencies or bugs. If you have class A talking to B through C because of some arcane conditition, and that condition goes away for some reason, you don't go out a design a new class C (a better carburator), you chuck it out, and rewrite A and B to talk to each other directly.
No, it's one of those rules everyone ignores until someone COMPLAINS. Especially if it's a big client like Microsoft. Then the organizers have to suddenly become anal and enforce every silly rule to the letter.
Hopefully you'll read the followups to your own post and see this... or maybe not.
In the forum today Taco said the subscription would bring in less money than the ad that would appear instead.
Is not the point of this subscription excercise to bring in more money into/.? What's the point then? Will subscription rates increase sharply in the future? Will there be some really nasty surprises for non-subscribers?
BTW, if I was subscribed, I would hope previewing my post would never count as a page view.
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I've seen the big ass ads. They were supposed to start on Monday. Over the weekend/. experienced some outages, I thought it was to launch the new ad format. Guess not. But on tuesday (or was it monday?) I saw one of those cnet-style ads (not quite as big). Wish I'd taken a screenshot, cause they were gone within a few minutes. The ad was right where the story goes (on the comments page), under the story icon, squishing the story text to the left. Rather tacked on and cheesy looking, which I imagine is why they were pulled right away.
As much as I love DVDs (have almost 200 of them by now), it's annoying to plunk down $30 for a silver (or gold) disc only to have 2 special editions come out a couple months later. So do you spend some more for the extras (it's ridiculous interactive menus and trailers count as extras) and try to pawn off your 'old' DVDs, or what? Then of course you have to be careful, as some 'special edition' DVDs are letterboxed, which means an extra-special anamorphic edition is just around the corner.
That's all good and all, but Kazaa does not have any of this information. The 3rd party spy-ware addons are just that, 3rd party. They give Kazaa money, and Kazaa gives them an installer.
I doubt that, but there may be a bigger trend towards releaseing a cheaper, regular, bare-bones version (for renting and people not interested in extras) and a special edition with extras. So the versions we are used to now will get a little more expensive, and hopefully the 'special' editions that aren't will stop getting produced.
The problem is when they call it "pirating", as if they are some oversea rag-tag group that takes things away from other people. It's not taking away; it's making a copy.
Oh, come on, you're acting like the word "pirate" has only one meaning. Very few words in the English language mean only a single thing.
From Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=pi rate):
pirate
n.
One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation.
A ship used for this purpose.
One who preys on others; a plunderer.
One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.
One that operates an unlicensed, illegal television or radio station.
It's right there, #3. Piracy has nothing to do with profit, you do not have to sell your warez to be a pirate. Just obtaining them is enough.
It's very simple. It's not yours, you're not authorized to reproduce a work, you're pirating. But, hey, whatever is easier for you to use to justify your actions.
Not only that, but there has never been an organization so effective in bringing about legislation specifically designed to protect its profits. Not even the oil industry. Not the military complex.
Ah, yes, this did occur to me, and I was going to take a stab at it in my post. Essentially, some people got cable/dsl when really they had no need for it. It didn't fit into their lifestyle or budget, especially now as prices are going up a bit. So if someone saw no value in always-on broadband when they first got it (but hey, it was only a little bit more than dialup, and my friend Bob said I had to have it), they won't be as squeamish about giving it up.
I read this article yesterday, and it was so painful. The very premise is bogus. You're paying about 2-3 times as much for a cable/dsl line as for dialup. While such a price may be a little hard to justify for people already on a very tight budget, chances are you can spare the dollar a day required to keep your line.
And the value in 'broadband' is not the speed really. We've heard many times now, it's the instant availability stupid. People hate to have to wait (through busy signals potentially) to get online witha modem to check their mail. They like to have ICQ/AIM running all the time to see when their friends are online and to chat. It's all about convinience.
Besides, the article is full of contradictions, for example take this bit:
[ISPs] are looking for high-speed subscriptions' profit margins to bolster their bottom line...
and later:
...operating margins excluding sales and marketing expenses for cable modem subscribers are as low as 5 percent, and they say DSL is break-even at best.
So which one is it? I work for an ISP that does DSL, and let me tell you, there are no margins on DSL. It can easily take a 2-3 years to start making money on a DSL client. Hosting (and dialup to a certain extent) and bandwidth reselling is where the margins are.
And as a later paragraph puts it, high-speed subscribers would "rather sell their grandmothers" than go back to a pokey dial-up connection. It'll be hard for anyone to convert back to a dialup connection.
The problem with your scheme is that it is WAAAAY too convoluted. There are other message boards out there implementing comment editing.
How about not allowing comment editing in these cases:
- comment has been moderated (for obvious reasons)
- comment has been replied to (also obvious I hope)
- comment was posted AC (duh!)
- 15 minutes have passed (comment editing should be for quick corrections which escaped previews, etc, not wholesale rewrites years later)
Still, the voluntary ratings system puts shackles around a studio's hands. When they give something R or NC17 they know most BIG theatres won't carry it, it's bad for image, it's bad for business, but that's where the money is. There are all too many examples of otherwise excellent movies being cut up to meet an acceptable rating (even Disney movies, which in their current state, if they weren't animation, would easily get R). Every frame you cut that is not filler takes something away from the movie.
On 2000 anyways, there is a registry hack you can do that will add Open With... to all right clicks. This Open With is really nifty, because it keeps track of all the application you've selected in the past in a submenu. So if you Open With a.txt with nt emacs, then with notepad, then word, they're all now choices in the Open With menu. Now, whenever I build a new machine I can never find how to do this, just stumble on it eventually, but all my machines have this, very useful.
I don't understand the problem with parent paths. An ASP script should be able to request any file (either in a FileSystem open or as an include) and it's up to the server to determine whether it's an allowed operation. I, as an ASP author, should not have to know, or care about, the server directory structure. If I'm in d:\webs\web1\dir1\test.asp I should be able to include test.inc,..\dir1\test.inc,..\..\web1\dir1\test.inc, or d:\webs\web1\dir1\test.inc, the _server_ should always normalize the path and check permisions starting at the root.
Not even close? There is nothing on the Windows CE screenshots that remotely reminds me of Aqua. If you're confusing the two looks to the point of calling for a lawsuit, you need glasses.
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No, it's not part of the standard. The reason they even exist is that FrontPage and other HTML editors don't set the document type declaration. Even setting the 4.01 loose DTD will ignore scrollbar colours in IE, as well as the onScroll and onResize Javascript events, etc. At least IE will obey the document type to the letter when it's set; trouble with most pages is that it is not set, so the broader HTML spec as extended by Microsoft is assumed.
I don't get this. I understand the laws of averages and very large numbers mean that pretty much every experience is possible, from no problems at all to the most horrible transfer imaginable.
I've transferred several domains away from NetSol to an OpenSRS registrar. In some cases I already received a renewal notice from NetSol. In every case this is what happened: transfer request submitted, request confirmed with NetSol (via email), transfer processed. 3 days. No phone calls, faxes, resubmits of request or confirmation.
I bet there are people with horror stories about transferring domains between OpenSRS resellers as well. NetSol may be evil, but they're a huge company, with millions of clients and as many renewals processed every year. There are bound to be problems. I'm not one to defend an evil company, but considering the numbers involved, I'm sure NetSol does not have a much higher rate of problem transfers than any other registrar.
Don't be silly. How could they. I only have about 5-6 personal domains, all registered ay different dates. I have no clue in hell when they expire. Hell, I'm not even sure HOW MANY domains I have, much less what they are. Now think of all the web consultants and how many domains they must have registered and are contacts for.
isn't it normally a tekkie who handles the domain name administration for a company?
Not normally. Usually the admin and billing contact is a bean counter or a manager of some sort. If you're lucky, the tech contact will be someone qualified. Of course you also have all the people with vanity domains and such who have no clue what they're doing, and if they get a renewal notice for their domain they will mail in a cheque. Hopefully though, they will be clueless enough NOT to write their CC # on the back of the business reply postcard.
It still does, it still does. The "No Spyware" logo is on the Morpheus page, at the bottom of the left frame. http://www.morpheus-os.com/
You can still determine what the server is running without having to send in any envelopes. Server id string is the first thing you'll see when you connect to port 25. Of course, as soon as word got out all spam relays would change their id string to avoid getting scanned and blacklisted.
Yup, the encyclopedia example was ridiculous, but it's always hard to defend against silly arguments, they're so obviously flawed, you just don't know where or how to begin.
His other example, wife leaving over Linux... shit man, if my wife left me because I installed Linux I'd give her a good kick in the ass on her way out the door!
I think Joel is slowly getting out of touch with reality. Maybe he needs to go back and work in a real software company, like Microsoft, where they will teach him that rewriting several pages of code when you just want to fix a typo in a dialog box is a fireable offense. He used to be insightful and interesting and made good sense most of the time. But that interview was something else. Maybe it's a spoof. Yeah, that's it.
Except retarded car analogies never work when applied to computers.
Refactoring is nothing like replacing some car parts. If you have a carburator, you replace it with another carburator, not some new gee-whiz gizmo. That's not refactoring. Refactoring would be to get rid of the carbutator altogether and redesign the surrounding machinery to get by without it.
Refactoring means whole-sale rewriting of chunks of code (but not the entire program) to accomodate some future changes, necessary features, fixing inefficiencies or bugs. If you have class A talking to B through C because of some arcane conditition, and that condition goes away for some reason, you don't go out a design a new class C (a better carburator), you chuck it out, and rewrite A and B to talk to each other directly.
No, it's one of those rules everyone ignores until someone COMPLAINS. Especially if it's a big client like Microsoft. Then the organizers have to suddenly become anal and enforce every silly rule to the letter.
Hopefully you'll read the followups to your own post and see this... or maybe not.
/.? What's the point then? Will subscription rates increase sharply in the future? Will there be some really nasty surprises for non-subscribers?
In the forum today Taco said the subscription would bring in less money than the ad that would appear instead.
Is not the point of this subscription excercise to bring in more money into
BTW, if I was subscribed, I would hope previewing my post would never count as a page view.
I've seen the big ass ads. They were supposed to start on Monday. Over the weekend /. experienced some outages, I thought it was to launch the new ad format. Guess not. But on tuesday (or was it monday?) I saw one of those cnet-style ads (not quite as big). Wish I'd taken a screenshot, cause they were gone within a few minutes. The ad was right where the story goes (on the comments page), under the story icon, squishing the story text to the left. Rather tacked on and cheesy looking, which I imagine is why they were pulled right away.
As much as I love DVDs (have almost 200 of them by now), it's annoying to plunk down $30 for a silver (or gold) disc only to have 2 special editions come out a couple months later. So do you spend some more for the extras (it's ridiculous interactive menus and trailers count as extras) and try to pawn off your 'old' DVDs, or what? Then of course you have to be careful, as some 'special edition' DVDs are letterboxed, which means an extra-special anamorphic edition is just around the corner.
A first one for the BSB license. I've never heard of a company being acquired under a BSD-style license before.
That's all good and all, but Kazaa does not have any of this information. The 3rd party spy-ware addons are just that, 3rd party. They give Kazaa money, and Kazaa gives them an installer.
I doubt that, but there may be a bigger trend towards releaseing a cheaper, regular, bare-bones version (for renting and people not interested in extras) and a special edition with extras. So the versions we are used to now will get a little more expensive, and hopefully the 'special' editions that aren't will stop getting produced.
Oh, come on, you're acting like the word "pirate" has only one meaning. Very few words in the English language mean only a single thing.
From Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=pi rate):
pirate
n.
It's right there, #3. Piracy has nothing to do with profit, you do not have to sell your warez to be a pirate. Just obtaining them is enough.
It's very simple. It's not yours, you're not authorized to reproduce a work, you're pirating. But, hey, whatever is easier for you to use to justify your actions.
Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong (please do), but isn't Myth the single best-selling PC game to date?
Yes it is their (RIAA's) problem.
Not only that, but there has never been an organization so effective in bringing about legislation specifically designed to protect its profits. Not even the oil industry. Not the military complex.
Ah, yes, this did occur to me, and I was going to take a stab at it in my post. Essentially, some people got cable/dsl when really they had no need for it. It didn't fit into their lifestyle or budget, especially now as prices are going up a bit. So if someone saw no value in always-on broadband when they first got it (but hey, it was only a little bit more than dialup, and my friend Bob said I had to have it), they won't be as squeamish about giving it up.
And the value in 'broadband' is not the speed really. We've heard many times now, it's the instant availability stupid. People hate to have to wait (through busy signals potentially) to get online witha modem to check their mail. They like to have ICQ/AIM running all the time to see when their friends are online and to chat. It's all about convinience.
Besides, the article is full of contradictions, for example take this bit:
[ISPs] are looking for high-speed subscriptions' profit margins to bolster their bottom line...
and later:
So which one is it? I work for an ISP that does DSL, and let me tell you, there are no margins on DSL. It can easily take a 2-3 years to start making money on a DSL client. Hosting (and dialup to a certain extent) and bandwidth reselling is where the margins are.
And as a later paragraph puts it, high-speed subscribers would "rather sell their grandmothers" than go back to a pokey dial-up connection. It'll be hard for anyone to convert back to a dialup connection.
The problem with your scheme is that it is WAAAAY too convoluted. There are other message boards out there implementing comment editing.
How about not allowing comment editing in these cases:
- comment has been moderated (for obvious reasons)
- comment has been replied to (also obvious I hope)
- comment was posted AC (duh!)
- 15 minutes have passed (comment editing should be for quick corrections which escaped previews, etc, not wholesale rewrites years later)
There, simple, problem solved.
Still, the voluntary ratings system puts shackles around a studio's hands. When they give something R or NC17 they know most BIG theatres won't carry it, it's bad for image, it's bad for business, but that's where the money is. There are all too many examples of otherwise excellent movies being cut up to meet an acceptable rating (even Disney movies, which in their current state, if they weren't animation, would easily get R). Every frame you cut that is not filler takes something away from the movie.
In many states (and other parts of the world) vehicles are treated differently, there are specific 'lemon laws' dealing with these situations.
On 2000 anyways, there is a registry hack you can do that will add Open With... to all right clicks. This Open With is really nifty, because it keeps track of all the application you've selected in the past in a submenu. So if you Open With a .txt with nt emacs, then with notepad, then word, they're all now choices in the Open With menu. Now, whenever I build a new machine I can never find how to do this, just stumble on it eventually, but all my machines have this, very useful.
I don't understand the problem with parent paths. An ASP script should be able to request any file (either in a FileSystem open or as an include) and it's up to the server to determine whether it's an allowed operation. I, as an ASP author, should not have to know, or care about, the server directory structure. If I'm in d:\webs\web1\dir1\test.asp I should be able to include test.inc, ..\dir1\test.inc, ..\..\web1\dir1\test.inc, or d:\webs\web1\dir1\test.inc, the _server_ should always normalize the path and check permisions starting at the root.
Not even close? There is nothing on the Windows CE screenshots that remotely reminds me of Aqua. If you're confusing the two looks to the point of calling for a lawsuit, you need glasses.