On a slightly unrelated note, shouldn't we have "Australia" icons on the slashdot main page! Surely there's enough articles for a seperate section;)
I suggest using a gun. Because whenever a thread on Australia starts, it degenerates into a flamefest because some American finds out he can blame any problem in Aus on their gun gontrol.:-P
Oh, how original. You get blasted a little for being an obnoxious prick, and think that the rule restricting how the Government can interfere in people's voicing of opinions has anything to do with an Anonymous Coward pissing in the wind on a very non-government web discussion forum.
Which Sun can change at anytime, as Java is closed.
Just as "closed" as any other spec. Or what is your definition of "closed" in this regard? It's far easier to become part of the "Community" that steers Java than it is to become a member of the group that steers C++.
You mean ANSI C++?
Well, or the ISO equivalent. You know, the one with the steering group that seems obsessed with adding new features on every update... I think, because unlike the Java spec, I'll have to pay to get the C++ specs.
(I assume e.g. C++ isn't open either, then, since AT&T didn't release their source, and you'd have to pay ISO a hefty sum for the standard. But then you'll probably start yabbing about GCC, and I'll cover my ears just like you.)
Actually, relating Microsoft's system to Pokémon would be doing the latter a disservice: After all, it runs on small handhelds with 16 kB RAM consuming 0,4 Watt (or so).
But I guess the new name will result in a flood of "Windows Infected" or "Windows Afflicted" stickers...
You take the PDA. You wield the PDA. Oops! It feels deathly cold! You are using a PDA with Windows Powered (-5) {cursed} (g).
hese people (can we call them that?) are freaks. There are other, more appropriate forums and methods of expressing concerns than blocking up a city and starting riots.
... or dressing up as indians and throwing cases of tea off ships in Boston Harbor. If it weren't for "riots" you guys would still be under the Crown where you belong.
From your name I take it you're japanese? You got a lot of nerve talking about trade policy with the massive tarriff and trade walls you errect against US goods.
Substitute "American" for "Japanese" and "EU" for "US", and it comes back at you.:-P
The monstrosity of Atari under the Tramiels was certainly not
Both Commodore (CD-32? A500+? A600? A3000? C64C?) and Atari (Lynx? Jaguar? ST 1040?) made large product and marketing blunders. If they had done anything like IBM's Chaplin ads, things might have looked very different now.
The monstrosity of Atari under the Tramiels was certainly not
Both Commodore (CD-32? A500+? A600? A3000?) and Atari (Lynx? Jaguar?) made large product and marketing blunders. If they had done anything like IBM's Chaplin ads, things might have looked very different now.
"I'm sorry, but I don't buy that we can stick metal plates on the side of a metal container and expect it to fly.
I won't buy into this stuff until they have machines with feathery wings that flap like on birds. "Planes" are a technological dead-end, ornithopters will rule the skies, once they get them to work."
(I think my point with this is that "artificial limbs" doesn't mean making replicas of actual limbs and "artificial intelligence" doesn't mean making a replica of a brain; just like the winning technology for "artificial aviation" did not make a replica of a bird, but took one essence of what some birds do.)
I agree it's important to push webmasters towards better standards compliance, but not at the expense of users, some of whom will get fed up and just use Netscape. I can't really recommend Opera to non-technical friends and family because of its limited support for non-standard sites.
I maintain that you are attacking the wrong problem. Whenever a document does something strange. the browser tries to compensate - called "error recovery". All the browsers act differently when an error is encountered. For instance, Netscape (keeping Mozilla out of the discussion) treats tags one at a time, and would not understand the concepts of "parse tree" or "element content" if you shouted at it. And the more error recovery you put in, the less room there is for actually useful functionality.
Writing bad HTML is no excuse with the presence of validators - and there are no features that break valid HTML that cannot be expressed in a conforming way.
The problem, though, is that Opera only accepts W3C specs.
Plus quite a few Netscapisms.
It consistently chokes on even minor errors in HTML, and renders the page in a broken manner.
Not in my experience. This might be because I use it all the time, not every now and then.
No, Opera 3.6 will not use HTML 4.0 constructs or DHTML. Pages that rely on such features have problems anyway.
es, standards support is good. Support for the Web as it exists, full of invalid markup that most people don't fix, and don't need to fix because 95% of their readership is using a browser derived from Netscape or IE, is better.
The operative word being or. The two are sufficiently different - not to speak of version differences in each "family" - to make such goals pure and utter windmill fencing.
The Big Two are moving towards standards - shouldn't you, too?
Could you tell that to this computer (running NTWS 4.0 SP5) which just a few hours ago decided that it should tell me that it got a STOP in NTOSKRNL.EXE because some IRQ-list had a wrong count or somesuch?
*Adjusts screen colors* Oh, right, now the blue has gone away. I guess that's what you meant.
You are right: The real evil here isn't Microsoft, but the lawyers (leeches!) that make a living (vultures!) off their 'cut' in such lawsuits (ambulance-chasers!). Aren't these the same lawyers (devils!) that took a large portion (greedy monsters!) of the multi-billion settlement between the tobacco companies (also evil!) and the states? If there was any justice (hah!), people who lost their jobs due to their employer being sued to oblivion over peanuts should sue these lawyers (bastards!) for compensation.
No matter how evil you think Microsoft are, they pale in comparison to lawyers. Remember, they were hated even when Shakespeare wrote "Henry IV"...:-)
Carmack can have wet dreams about his game selling 1% of the amount that Pokémon has. What platform does the most-selling computer game run on? A handheld machine with 16 kilobyte RAM, a low-powered 16-bit processor and a small grayscale LCD screen.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
(For more power, you can get the Gameboy Color, with 32 kilobyte RAM, 56 of 32000 colors, and a slightly faster CPU.)
Back in the good old days of DOS (and thus, 80x25 page size), I had a programmer in my team who followed the "all functions must fit on one page" rule...
80x25? Luxury! I remember back in the heydays of home computers (early 80s), where all those Commodore and other machines came with a MBasic subset that allowed up to two 40-character lines to be "parsed" as a program line. For simplicity, they also let you use "?" as a shortcut for "PRINT" - this meant that if you wrote a program line of 80 characters with that shortcut, you couldn't later edit it...:-)
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I suggest using a gun. Because whenever a thread on Australia starts, it degenerates into a flamefest because some American finds out he can blame any problem in Aus on their gun gontrol. :-P
Oh, how original. You get blasted a little for being an obnoxious prick, and think that the rule restricting how the Government can interfere in people's voicing of opinions has anything to do with an Anonymous Coward pissing in the wind on a very non-government web discussion forum.
Just as "closed" as any other spec. Or what is your definition of "closed" in this regard? It's far easier to become part of the "Community" that steers Java than it is to become a member of the group that steers C++.
You mean ANSI C++?
Well, or the ISO equivalent. You know, the one with the steering group that seems obsessed with adding new features on every update... I think, because unlike the Java spec, I'll have to pay to get the C++ specs.
Get the damn language spec and virtual machine specification and get coding, don't expect to get source handed to you like bloody social security. Or trink a leetle Kaffe to get better.
(I assume e.g. C++ isn't open either, then, since AT&T didn't release their source, and you'd have to pay ISO a hefty sum for the standard. But then you'll probably start yabbing about GCC, and I'll cover my ears just like you.)
Actually, it's a class of stereotype Utility in UML. There is no escaping the powers of OO. :-P
We are OMG of Boochrg. Resistance is not a valid use case. You will be assUMLated.
Yes, but going the other way isn't too easy, unless you have Rose 98i or later: Previous versions didn't understand things like inner classes, etc.
But I guess the new name will result in a flood of "Windows Infected" or "Windows Afflicted" stickers...
You take the PDA.
You wield the PDA.
Oops! It feels deathly cold!
You are using a PDA with Windows Powered (-5) {cursed} (g).
... or dressing up as indians and throwing cases of tea off ships in Boston Harbor. If it weren't for "riots" you guys would still be under the Crown where you belong.
Substitute "American" for "Japanese" and "EU" for "US", and it comes back at you. :-P
Both Commodore (CD-32? A500+? A600? A3000? C64C?) and Atari (Lynx? Jaguar? ST 1040?) made large product and marketing blunders. If they had done anything like IBM's Chaplin ads, things might have looked very different now.
Both Commodore (CD-32? A500+? A600? A3000?) and Atari (Lynx? Jaguar?) made large product and marketing blunders. If they had done anything like IBM's Chaplin ads, things might have looked very different now.
ESCOM were German, not British, AFAIK.
"I'm sorry, but I don't buy that we can stick metal plates on the side of a metal container and expect it to fly.
I won't buy into this stuff until they have machines with feathery wings that flap like on birds. "Planes" are a technological dead-end, ornithopters will rule the skies, once they get them to work."
(I think my point with this is that "artificial limbs" doesn't mean making replicas of actual limbs and "artificial intelligence" doesn't mean making a replica of a brain; just like the winning technology for "artificial aviation" did not make a replica of a bird, but took one essence of what some birds do.)
I maintain that you are attacking the wrong problem. Whenever a document does something strange. the browser tries to compensate - called "error recovery". All the browsers act differently when an error is encountered. For instance, Netscape (keeping Mozilla out of the discussion) treats tags one at a time, and would not understand the concepts of "parse tree" or "element content" if you shouted at it. And the more error recovery you put in, the less room there is for actually useful functionality.
Writing bad HTML is no excuse with the presence of validators - and there are no features that break valid HTML that cannot be expressed in a conforming way.
Plus quite a few Netscapisms.
It consistently chokes on even minor errors in HTML, and renders the page in a broken manner.
Not in my experience. This might be because I use it all the time, not every now and then.
No, Opera 3.6 will not use HTML 4.0 constructs or DHTML. Pages that rely on such features have problems anyway.
es, standards support is good. Support for the Web as it exists, full of invalid markup that most people don't fix, and don't need to fix because 95% of their readership is using a browser derived from Netscape or IE, is better.
The operative word being or. The two are sufficiently different - not to speak of version differences in each "family" - to make such goals pure and utter windmill fencing.
The Big Two are moving towards standards - shouldn't you, too?
Careful! Some of those "All-purpose"s could be nefarious!
Could you tell that to this computer (running NTWS 4.0 SP5) which just a few hours ago decided that it should tell me that it got a STOP in NTOSKRNL.EXE because some IRQ-list had a wrong count or somesuch?
*Adjusts screen colors* Oh, right, now the blue has gone away. I guess that's what you meant.
No matter how evil you think Microsoft are, they pale in comparison to lawyers. Remember, they were hated even when Shakespeare wrote "Henry IV"... :-)
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
(For more power, you can get the Gameboy Color, with 32 kilobyte RAM, 56 of 32000 colors, and a slightly faster CPU.)
Deer Hunter will soon appear on the Gameboy Color. 32 kilobytes of RAM (plus whatever the cartridge has) is sufficient for anyone's needs. :-)
You cannot possibly be thinking about the publishers of "Writing Solid Code"?
80x25? Luxury! I remember back in the heydays of home computers (early 80s), where all those Commodore and other machines came with a MBasic subset that allowed up to two 40-character lines to be "parsed" as a program line. For simplicity, they also let you use "?" as a shortcut for "PRINT" - this meant that if you wrote a program line of 80 characters with that shortcut, you couldn't later edit it... :-)
Is that a trick question? Two dudes with moderation points chose higher than normal on it, and at least one selected "Informative".
You mean I'll lay down my sword, you'll lay down your rock, and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people?
Impersonating a religious leader is blasphemy, not war crime. :-P