HTML always sucked, but it was definitely getting better with every revision.
These days we keep having discussions about how local storage in HTML5 is a nightmare waiting to happen, meanwhile just playing audio in a web browser is a challenge.
More like simplifying. Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.
This is not only a very trendy way of thinking, but also very American. Ask a Japanese person if they want their web pages simplified and minimalized so they look like American web sites. Chances are they will not be happy.
I cannot remember the last time I disabled Javascript and I'm pretty confident that somewhere north of 99.9% of users never disable it either.
So naturally, people must be forced not to have the option. Especially if that option is completely non-intrusive and requires virtually not maintenance.
Sorry, but to me this always just sounds like marketing and egotism. Once again, the people in charge are responding to complaints that have never been made... for our own good, of course.
One of the biggest disappointments is that AMD has apparently done nothing to improve the compatibility of ATI's drivers since the buyout. I think it's just the priority of the brand to offer more hardware bang for the buck, at the expense of the software. I'll take stability over performance any day.
I've had so many issues with newer Radeon drivers screwing up my system, I stopped updating once I hit Catalyst 12.02. Hardware acceleration under XP-32 is totally broken, IMO.
Last year I bought my first nVidia card in 6 years, and I'm astounded at how many of my old games now work properly. If AMD isn't going to bother making XP drivers that work, they may as well stop updating them.
Just a note: when people say "workflow", they aren't necessarily programmers, developers, or even office drones. Some of us are visual artists, musicians, gamers, home theater enthusiasts, etc.
Yes, knowing shell commands can help you make quick work of dull tasks, like mass renaming of files, but I find it pretty awkward to use things like grep, especially since there's no preview or undo. Personally, I wish UNIX hacks would work on some better GUI management tools rather than constantly celebrate the use of a rather dangerous shell prompt. GUIs are not evil if they are done well.
I cut my teeth on the Amiga, so I'm comfortable switching between the shell and the GUI seamlessly. It's a shame Windows and UNIX people still seem to want to choose only one side.
An assistant in a store was rude to me once, I decided not to shop there again.
Did you complain to the manager? I've worked with quite a few people who were rude, and the managers didn't even know. Supervisors can't watch each employee throughout the entire shift.
Might want to share a few of those experiences rather than hold a grudge forever.
Sucks, because nVidia's drivers blow away AMD's. Radeon is a nice architecture, but after years of abuse I was completely fed up with stuff not working, and my new GTX is rock solid and runs everything I throw at it.
I'm talking about Windows drivers, of course, so little of this matters to the consoles and embedded developers.
It's easy to find a mistake with brackets by using a code reformatter. Not so much when you rely only on indentation -- unless your IDE is really smart.
What would really be nice is if people would stop treating quirks and oddities as big advantages. Sometimes, something is just plain different, and that's it.
With that said, I really, really wish other languages would start supporting quotes like Perl does. I'm really sick of having to escape quotes when doing some quick-n-dirty scripting with HTML.
Want to see how the economy will have to work? Think "Star Trek Replicators"; that's why the Federation doesn't use money anymore in the 24th century.
"The wife took everything in the divorce. All I've got left is my bones."
So that's why McCoy joined StarFleet, when he certainly didn't want to. They don't have money, but they do have stuff that can be taken away to the point where you can't support yourself anymore?
Before this technology advancement, you needed to work 60-80 hours / week in order to produce enough.
No, you needed that much time to produce the same as you did before the technology became available. How much is "enough" is the missing part. Are you talking about enough food to feed your family, or enough to keep up with the Joneses?
Have you seen the Jetsons?
I'd love to know how we're supposed to sponsor our flying cars without using 100 times as much energy as we do today. I don't believe energy is an infinite resource.
Back then, the machines didn't think. What happens when we make an android that can learn, solve problems, and adapt to new environmental conditions?
Up to this point, machines have just substituted physical labor. Add some good AI and more flexible joints, and now they substitute humans. That's a whole new ball game.
It's important to say constants instead of variables. Otherwise, all the functional programming nuts will start going on about flow control and CSS not being a programming language and most logic goes right out the window.
I remember when the HD installable version of Pinball Fantasies came out for AGA Amigas. It would ask you a question like, "What's the such-and-such word described in the "Turbo" feature?" If you just retyped the work in double quotes, it would let you in about a third of the time, and if that failed, it would just forward you to a new question. It would take you literally 10 seconds or less to guess your way into the game.
The sad thing is I was 15 at the time, saving up the $40 for the game took a while, and it was one of the first games I didn't pirate.
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Wasn't he the same moron responsible for Windows 7?
HTML always sucked, but it was definitely getting better with every revision.
These days we keep having discussions about how local storage in HTML5 is a nightmare waiting to happen, meanwhile just playing audio in a web browser is a challenge.
We are not moving forward anymore.
They just removed the easy way to turn it off to prevent simple mistakes.
Simple people don't go mucking around with those settings in the first place.
Mozilla could simply move it to the "advanced" menu and be done with it.
More like simplifying. Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.
This is not only a very trendy way of thinking, but also very American. Ask a Japanese person if they want their web pages simplified and minimalized so they look like American web sites. Chances are they will not be happy.
I cannot remember the last time I disabled Javascript and I'm pretty confident that somewhere north of 99.9% of users never disable it either.
So naturally, people must be forced not to have the option. Especially if that option is completely non-intrusive and requires virtually not maintenance.
Sorry, but to me this always just sounds like marketing and egotism. Once again, the people in charge are responding to complaints that have never been made... for our own good, of course.
Okay, stretchmarks?
One of the biggest disappointments is that AMD has apparently done nothing to improve the compatibility of ATI's drivers since the buyout. I think it's just the priority of the brand to offer more hardware bang for the buck, at the expense of the software. I'll take stability over performance any day.
I've had so many issues with newer Radeon drivers screwing up my system, I stopped updating once I hit Catalyst 12.02. Hardware acceleration under XP-32 is totally broken, IMO.
Last year I bought my first nVidia card in 6 years, and I'm astounded at how many of my old games now work properly. If AMD isn't going to bother making XP drivers that work, they may as well stop updating them.
Just a note: when people say "workflow", they aren't necessarily programmers, developers, or even office drones. Some of us are visual artists, musicians, gamers, home theater enthusiasts, etc.
Yes, knowing shell commands can help you make quick work of dull tasks, like mass renaming of files, but I find it pretty awkward to use things like grep, especially since there's no preview or undo. Personally, I wish UNIX hacks would work on some better GUI management tools rather than constantly celebrate the use of a rather dangerous shell prompt. GUIs are not evil if they are done well.
I cut my teeth on the Amiga, so I'm comfortable switching between the shell and the GUI seamlessly. It's a shame Windows and UNIX people still seem to want to choose only one side.
That's the most insightful thing I've read on Slashdot within the last Twinkie shelf life.
An assistant in a store was rude to me once, I decided not to shop there again.
Did you complain to the manager? I've worked with quite a few people who were rude, and the managers didn't even know. Supervisors can't watch each employee throughout the entire shift.
Might want to share a few of those experiences rather than hold a grudge forever.
Only this car bears the quality and craftsmanship appropriate for a thread about PHP.
Unintentional car analogy?
Sucks, because nVidia's drivers blow away AMD's. Radeon is a nice architecture, but after years of abuse I was completely fed up with stuff not working, and my new GTX is rock solid and runs everything I throw at it.
I'm talking about Windows drivers, of course, so little of this matters to the consoles and embedded developers.
I thought those guys were called producers.
It also had built-in seating for 12. Not just about aesthetics, but functional, too!
The real problem is that cursing is too commonplace. It doesn't mean anything, anymore.
It's easy to find a mistake with brackets by using a code reformatter. Not so much when you rely only on indentation -- unless your IDE is really smart.
What would really be nice is if people would stop treating quirks and oddities as big advantages. Sometimes, something is just plain different, and that's it.
With that said, I really, really wish other languages would start supporting quotes like Perl does. I'm really sick of having to escape quotes when doing some quick-n-dirty scripting with HTML.
They've been slowly removing many menu items over the last few versions, so even if they keep the menu bar, there may not be much left to put on it.
Want to see how the economy will have to work? Think "Star Trek Replicators"; that's why the Federation doesn't use money anymore in the 24th century.
"The wife took everything in the divorce. All I've got left is my bones."
So that's why McCoy joined StarFleet, when he certainly didn't want to. They don't have money, but they do have stuff that can be taken away to the point where you can't support yourself anymore?
Before this technology advancement, you needed to work 60-80 hours / week in order to produce enough.
No, you needed that much time to produce the same as you did before the technology became available. How much is "enough" is the missing part. Are you talking about enough food to feed your family, or enough to keep up with the Joneses?
Have you seen the Jetsons?
I'd love to know how we're supposed to sponsor our flying cars without using 100 times as much energy as we do today. I don't believe energy is an infinite resource.
Back then, the machines didn't think. What happens when we make an android that can learn, solve problems, and adapt to new environmental conditions?
Up to this point, machines have just substituted physical labor. Add some good AI and more flexible joints, and now they substitute humans. That's a whole new ball game.
Governments do not take your money.
This is where having the word "you" refer to singular and plural at the same time is a problem.
How would this affect people who use international character sets?
It's important to say constants instead of variables. Otherwise, all the functional programming nuts will start going on about flow control and CSS not being a programming language and most logic goes right out the window.
I remember when the HD installable version of Pinball Fantasies came out for AGA Amigas. It would ask you a question like, "What's the such-and-such word described in the "Turbo" feature?" If you just retyped the work in double quotes, it would let you in about a third of the time, and if that failed, it would just forward you to a new question. It would take you literally 10 seconds or less to guess your way into the game.
The sad thing is I was 15 at the time, saving up the $40 for the game took a while, and it was one of the first games I didn't pirate.
To be fair, I assume the publishers are all too happy to have these features, and are probably demanding them as well.
Nobody wants to write software for a console free of DRM. It's just a question of which DRM will be embraced by the public.