Yeah, it's not bad. My main gripe with it, is having to wait for the download of their daily picture. It makes using Bing pretty sluggish as opposed to google which pops up very quickly thanks to the minimalistic page.
We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all.
Oh so now they are going to discuss censorship with the Chinese. And they didn't decide to do this before? And it never occurred to them that the intelligence agencies of foreign governments would spy on them?
This all smells of some PR stunt. After investing billions in China and bending over violently for commie murderers, they still got their asses handed to them by Baidu. This is their way of pulling out of a losing market while looking like good guys.
Yes, JQuery has some nice ui stuff in one of its additional libraries. But the primary purpose of JQuery is for the AJAX support. Using it, you don't need to sit and worry about browser compatibility. It's also a lot easier to find and manipulate DOM objects.
What does XAML have to do with SVG? Hell if you're going to bitch about XAML, maybe you should complain about WinForms and MFC too.
Not really. WinForms and MFC are for desktop application deployment. XAML and WPF allow deployment as executable apps but also can be embedded into web applications (i.e. Silverlight).
The complaint is that Microsoft has refused to support SVG in order to force people onto Silverlight. So the complaints are completely relevant. And with Microsoft supporting VML it would be trivial to support it in IE, so it seems that someone in upper management has told them NOT to support SVG.
Yes. The most annoying are the crap that appears on TBS. In the middle of a movie, the botton third of the screen will be taken over by some ad for one of their horrible shows. The networks like doing this crap during football games too.
And this whole continual argument about how bad governments are at regulating stuff really gets up my nose as well. In what way are private businesses good at regulating anything?!
The difference is that if I don't want to pay to obtain the services of a private company then that is my choice. If, however, I decide not to pay the government for "services" like food stamps for the lazy, taxes on oil and coal, etc. then armed men with "IRS" emblazoned on the jackets will kick my door down and imprison me.
Why was this guy moded as a troll? What he's saying is all over the news in Europe.
Because MTV has been telling them for years that global warming is real. Now that everything is freezing cold, they are unwilling to admit they were wrong. So they go around throwing temper tantrums at everyone that can see with a thermometer that global warming is a pile of crap
Stop giving advice out for things you haven't tested and stop spreading FUD. Yes. You.
If you would take 30s to do some simple googling you would see that there are plenty of people having problems. You are an ass for accusing that guy of FUD without doing even a simple fact check. Yes. You.
Agreed. The problem is you get philosophers that write books about mathematics and physics. They almost always get everything wrong or blow things out of proportion. Things philosophers love to talk about without actually knowing anything about them: quantum physics, logic (especially Godel's Theorems), set theory.
I have a better idea. Let's tax campaign contributions from auto makers, auto unions, and gasoline manufacturers at 50% and the proceeds will go to fund the roads.
While I'm glad they came up with this new standard, I wish they wouldn't use the IEEE for this stuff. Now if someone wants to look at the standard they will be charged an outrageous price like $250. $250 for something that will be at most 50 pages, in other words they charge $5 per page.
A designer cannot create any required elements in a format that is not supported by the majority of the audience
I take a different approach. If I see that someone isn't using IE, I send them nice crisp SVG images. If they have IE, then I send them the larger and crappier looking PNG images. My hope is that enough people notice how they get pixelated and smeared images that take a long time to load, compared to people with a real browser who get nice images that download quickly.
I asked for a numerical analysis of numbers of American companies versus number of European companies
Oh, for a minute there I thought you were asking for something unreasonable. But all he has to do to convince you is compile data on all mergers and acquisitions in the EU. Then he has to collect all the court proceedings as well. And finally he has to make a numerical analysis of all this data. My mistake.
It's hard to believe you can function in life:
*friend comes in soaking wet*
friend> boy is it raining hard outside!
you> YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE IT'S RAINING WITHOUT EVIDENCE? WHERE ARE THE REAMS OF DATA SUPPORTING THIS?
friend> But I'm soaking wet.
you> QUIT CHAIRYPICKING!! GOD IF ONLY MORE PEOPLE WERE ON THE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING TEAM LIKE ME!!
I like how he made an assertion. Then you challenged him to give facts to back it up (since you were assuming he was just talking out of his ass like you are.) But, instead, he bitchslapped you some clear examples that back up his case.
So what is your response? That you don't like his facts and examples and want him to come up with other ones.
Just be a man and admit you got your ass handed to you.
I like it since it puts at least 1 W3C standards compliant browser on the user's machine. The average user isn't going to download a new browser if IE is on the machine. Hopefully, this gets some average users to use a standards compliant browser so that new technologies like SVG spread more quickly.
There are too many powerful companies involved in spamming (aka online marketing.) There was no way a judge was going to make it easier on the average joe. Instead we all have to pay for people wasting bandwidth with their crappy advertising and making us sit there deleting emails every day.
Do you really think that Microsoft couldn't rewrite open-source components of a frigging network driver if they wanted to?
No, I don't. They are too dumb to even implement DHCP properly on Vista. Piece of junk constantly trashes my router, requiring to pull the router's power and plug it back in. I also have to reboot the damned Vista machine too.
Go read Common Sense, the Declaration of Independence, etc and forget about the ideas there. Just look at the vocabulary those guys used. Even Lincoln's or Jefferson's speeches to common people are pretty impressive. Guys like Ted Kennedy or George Bush would be considered mentally retarded by their standards. All the books of previous generations were clearly written for a smarter audience.
The sad fact is that people are becoming dumber and dumber with each generation. Do you really think the average mouth breather in the 9th grade today is going to learn anything from these labs? The guy will be luck if they don't burn the school down.
My sister, who is a high school teacher, made the mistake of showing her students what happens when sodium makes contact with water. The knuckle draggers in her class thought it was cool and thought it would be a good idea to steal some with their bare hands and put it in their bookbags after school. Luckily my sister caught them before they did it.
I'm hoping that all of this is true. I want to tear my hair out every time I have to do special code branches for IE since MS refuse to follow W3C standards
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Yeah, it's not bad. My main gripe with it, is having to wait for the download of their daily picture. It makes using Bing pretty sluggish as opposed to google which pops up very quickly thanks to the minimalistic page.
We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all.
Oh so now they are going to discuss censorship with the Chinese. And they didn't decide to do this before? And it never occurred to them that the intelligence agencies of foreign governments would spy on them?
This all smells of some PR stunt. After investing billions in China and bending over violently for commie murderers, they still got their asses handed to them by Baidu. This is their way of pulling out of a losing market while looking like good guys.
Yes, JQuery has some nice ui stuff in one of its additional libraries. But the primary purpose of JQuery is for the AJAX support. Using it, you don't need to sit and worry about browser compatibility. It's also a lot easier to find and manipulate DOM objects.
What does XAML have to do with SVG? Hell if you're going to bitch about XAML, maybe you should complain about WinForms and MFC too.
Not really. WinForms and MFC are for desktop application deployment. XAML and WPF allow deployment as executable apps but also can be embedded into web applications (i.e. Silverlight).
The complaint is that Microsoft has refused to support SVG in order to force people onto Silverlight. So the complaints are completely relevant. And with Microsoft supporting VML it would be trivial to support it in IE, so it seems that someone in upper management has told them NOT to support SVG.
when HTML5 adoption comes around all of this garbage will be gone.
I have my doubts about html5. They'll just bury it the way they've successfully buried SVG by refusing to support it in IE.
Yes. The most annoying are the crap that appears on TBS. In the middle of a movie, the botton third of the screen will be taken over by some ad for one of their horrible shows. The networks like doing this crap during football games too.
And this whole continual argument about how bad governments are at regulating stuff really gets up my nose as well. In what way are private businesses good at regulating anything?!
The difference is that if I don't want to pay to obtain the services of a private company then that is my choice. If, however, I decide not to pay the government for "services" like food stamps for the lazy, taxes on oil and coal, etc. then armed men with "IRS" emblazoned on the jackets will kick my door down and imprison me.
Why was this guy moded as a troll? What he's saying is all over the news in Europe.
Because MTV has been telling them for years that global warming is real. Now that everything is freezing cold, they are unwilling to admit they were wrong. So they go around throwing temper tantrums at everyone that can see with a thermometer that global warming is a pile of crap
Stop giving advice out for things you haven't tested and stop spreading FUD. Yes. You.
If you would take 30s to do some simple googling you would see that there are plenty of people having problems. You are an ass for accusing that guy of FUD without doing even a simple fact check. Yes. You.
Since the collapse, Goldman Sachs has been very profitable.
They would have been bankrupt if the US hadn't bailed out AIG. The AIG bailout was just a Goldman Sachs bailout in disguise.
Agreed. The problem is you get philosophers that write books about mathematics and physics. They almost always get everything wrong or blow things out of proportion. Things philosophers love to talk about without actually knowing anything about them: quantum physics, logic (especially Godel's Theorems), set theory.
I for one welcome this new management. Maybe it means that they will finally give the fans what they want and come out with Mansquito 2.
an awesome office chair
Am i the only one noticing the painful wedgie that thing makes? It is practically inside the guy.
The Swedish porn I look at has plenty of mating between cucumbers and humans.
I have a better idea. Let's tax campaign contributions from auto makers, auto unions, and gasoline manufacturers at 50% and the proceeds will go to fund the roads.
While I'm glad they came up with this new standard, I wish they wouldn't use the IEEE for this stuff. Now if someone wants to look at the standard they will be charged an outrageous price like $250. $250 for something that will be at most 50 pages, in other words they charge $5 per page.
A designer cannot create any required elements in a format that is not supported by the majority of the audience
I take a different approach. If I see that someone isn't using IE, I send them nice crisp SVG images. If they have IE, then I send them the larger and crappier looking PNG images. My hope is that enough people notice how they get pixelated and smeared images that take a long time to load, compared to people with a real browser who get nice images that download quickly.
I asked for a numerical analysis of numbers of American companies versus number of European companies
Oh, for a minute there I thought you were asking for something unreasonable. But all he has to do to convince you is compile data on all mergers and acquisitions in the EU. Then he has to collect all the court proceedings as well. And finally he has to make a numerical analysis of all this data. My mistake.
It's hard to believe you can function in life:
*friend comes in soaking wet*
friend> boy is it raining hard outside!
you> YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE IT'S RAINING WITHOUT EVIDENCE? WHERE ARE THE REAMS OF DATA SUPPORTING THIS?
friend> But I'm soaking wet.
you> QUIT CHAIRYPICKING!! GOD IF ONLY MORE PEOPLE WERE ON THE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING TEAM LIKE ME!!
I like how he made an assertion. Then you challenged him to give facts to back it up (since you were assuming he was just talking out of his ass like you are.) But, instead, he bitchslapped you some clear examples that back up his case.
So what is your response? That you don't like his facts and examples and want him to come up with other ones.
Just be a man and admit you got your ass handed to you.
I like it since it puts at least 1 W3C standards compliant browser on the user's machine. The average user isn't going to download a new browser if IE is on the machine. Hopefully, this gets some average users to use a standards compliant browser so that new technologies like SVG spread more quickly.
There are too many powerful companies involved in spamming (aka online marketing.) There was no way a judge was going to make it easier on the average joe. Instead we all have to pay for people wasting bandwidth with their crappy advertising and making us sit there deleting emails every day.
Do you really think that Microsoft couldn't rewrite open-source components of a frigging network driver if they wanted to?
No, I don't. They are too dumb to even implement DHCP properly on Vista. Piece of junk constantly trashes my router, requiring to pull the router's power and plug it back in. I also have to reboot the damned Vista machine too.
Thanks for this. I base all my political opinions on the comics section of the newspaper.
Go read Common Sense, the Declaration of Independence, etc and forget about the ideas there. Just look at the vocabulary those guys used. Even Lincoln's or Jefferson's speeches to common people are pretty impressive. Guys like Ted Kennedy or George Bush would be considered mentally retarded by their standards. All the books of previous generations were clearly written for a smarter audience.
The sad fact is that people are becoming dumber and dumber with each generation. Do you really think the average mouth breather in the 9th grade today is going to learn anything from these labs? The guy will be luck if they don't burn the school down.
My sister, who is a high school teacher, made the mistake of showing her students what happens when sodium makes contact with water. The knuckle draggers in her class thought it was cool and thought it would be a good idea to steal some with their bare hands and put it in their bookbags after school. Luckily my sister caught them before they did it.
I'm hoping that all of this is true. I want to tear my hair out every time I have to do special code branches for IE since MS refuse to follow W3C standards