I really doubt the interface has much to do with it, the intranet explanation holds more water.
IE7 is simply not backwards-compatible with the psuedo-CSS in IE6 (which is a good thing, overall). Most of the well documented IE6 "hacks" break horribly in IE7, so if a site wasn't properly coded in the first place (conditional comments and so on), it could require a fairly heavy overhaul for modern browsers.
We submitted an RFE to Microsoft during the Windows 95 beta about the location of the Explorer icon in the start menu tree (buried under Accessories). So, that's always ticked me off too.
Looks like they finally fixed it in Vista, BTW, there's buttons for "Computer", "Documents" and so on.
In most cases, you wouldn't need to compromise the ISP DNS, only the DHCP server the person is using (generally a consumer router). I could see this attack being feasible with a public wireless point or a cybercafe.
Also he is confusing a bunch of different issues in his post in a poor attempt to make a point. Serving up bullshit DNS is a lot easier than getting your brother's friend's sister to give you Google's cert.
Of course, had Microsoft tried to do that in Vista's release (kick-ass new environment, with maybe a hypervisor for old NT/9x series apps), we'd be complaining that they ripped off Apple "again".
Unjustly, because every version of WinNT (even Vista32) still contains a VM for legacy DOS/Win16 software.
The problem I see with this approach is Win devs would just continue to write for the old API and there never would be any phase-out like there was in Apple-land. Even Microsoft does not use the fancy new Vista APIs like WPF.
> If the tweaks are hardware dependant, they can only be used on a card that copies the same hardware.
A lot of it is GL and other optimizations. Graphic drivers frequently have specific game optimizations that create considerable improvements in frame rate. That's an advantage they wouldn't want to share.
Point is, I guess, that the software stack in graphic drivers are significantly more complex than network cards and so on.
I don't understand why anyone would move from tried and true pdf systems for a TIFF system unless they want to lose text search for employees, regulators and the public. Handing people image based pdf instead of text files or normal pdf is a standard practice for the Bush administration that borders on criminal obstruction of justice. TIFF is the old established "tried and true" (haw) standard, PDF is the new hotness. So I doubt anyone is moving backwards here.
Also courts have requirements for electronic document formats and there is nothing non-standard about a "image based pdf" (these also support searchable OCR full text).
Legal service firms work with all of these PDF and TIFF variants all of the time. They should be able to kick out whatever you need at x cents per page (which will usually be cheaper than your time/money)
The weird TIFF formats are used for various document management products, so it really depends mostly on your workflow.
The first PCI PowerMacs actually did not ship with OpenTransport, although an extremely buggy beta version was available later. OpenTransport also did not initially work on Performas and other consumer Macs.
Not to mention that OpenTransport didn't have a PPP driver until the 1.2 version in 1996.
Believe me, I was active in the Mac community at the time, and a late 1995 Macintosh did not come with any form of consumer Internet support.
Microsoft almost immediately recognized that MSN was a mistake.
It was on Pearl Harbor Day 1995 that they announced they were going to take on Netscape by integrating a web browser into Windows.
And despite the fact that they were farting around with MSN, Windows 95 came with a TCP/IP stack and PPP driver which brought internet to the masses. At this time neither Apple nor IBM was shipping TCP/IP in the base OS.
Actually what happened is the Unix people saw Windows NT and crapped their pants and ran for the server room.
If you look at the timeline, pretty much all Motif/CDE/X11 ground to a halt right in that 1993 timeframe. As a result the Unix Desktop was so archaic that it had to be rewritten almost from scratch starting in the late 90s through today.
It's quite easy to imagine a situation where Windows would not be around. IBM was in negotiations for many years to either buy Windows or buy out Microsoft, but was unable to complete the deal.
So I don't see any alternative here than IBM OS/2, and there's lots of (business if not technical) reasons that would have been far worse than what we got from Microsoft.
What I am saying is that, in the the context of a spurned lover, someone describing themselves this way is usually trying to unjustly claim some form of moral superiority.
"I'm a nice guy! (And therefore the bitch owes me (And that's why I'm digging through her trash))"
At least that's what I've heard from women who have been in "friend zone" situations. The "Nice Guy" always ends up being not so nice. Sorry I don't have scientific studies to back this up.
Maybe they are in some large-scale statistical sense. But people have lots of semi-casual sex for lots of reasons, and it's silly to frame your thinking around some pop version of biology rather than just taking a shower and thinking of a couple jokes before heading to the kegger.
Responding to a perfectly reasonable suggestion with the statement someone should be punched in the face makes you sound llke a sane reasonable guy that doesn't need heavy psychiatric medication and years of electro-shock therapy.
Please punch your friend in the face, because that's stupid advice. It's not going to help someone who effectively has a phobia towards approaching women. Everyone rationally knows that approaching a women and getting turned down doesn't really matter, but phobias are by definition irrational. Please. The typical dorky nervous-around-girls type does not have any sort of "phobia" or other certifiable condition. And if anyone here does, you need to head to a psychologist, not read dumb posts on the internet.
Also irrational phobias are not at all like the chemical inblances that cause depression, and "Exposure Therapy" is actually how they treat them. So you're wrong.
Maybe you're in high school or a religious college or something. But women in general are just fine with being propositioned (I mean "lets go back to my place" not walking up to random people and asking for sex). In fact it's almost expected. If a guy doesn't seem aggressive enough in "making a move", he loses attraction.
So you're basically saying that the nice guys aren't really nice, they are just pretending to be nice because they think it will win them girls. I call bullshit on that. People who describe themselves as a "nice guy" are usually covering for some other serious personality defects. Its not a normal way to think of one's self. Women see this and don't see "nice", they see "potential stalker".
Just look at all the weird/creepy stuff in this thread, and honestly these people don't seem so "nice".
Also nerds tend to stereotype anyone more socially successful than them as "jerks", when in fact many of these people tend treat women very well.
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I really doubt the interface has much to do with it, the intranet explanation holds more water.
IE7 is simply not backwards-compatible with the psuedo-CSS in IE6 (which is a good thing, overall). Most of the well documented IE6 "hacks" break horribly in IE7, so if a site wasn't properly coded in the first place (conditional comments and so on), it could require a fairly heavy overhaul for modern browsers.
We submitted an RFE to Microsoft during the Windows 95 beta about the location of the Explorer icon in the start menu tree (buried under Accessories). So, that's always ticked me off too.
Looks like they finally fixed it in Vista, BTW, there's buttons for "Computer", "Documents" and so on.
> 2) They moved from BSD to SYS-V. Hey, all the other kids are doing it.
Considering Sun's bread-and-butter for many years was multiprocessor systems, this was a very wise move.
Netscape used to show a "broken lock" icon whenever browsing an unencrypted sites.
The problem was nobody knew what the icon meant and it reduced the visibility of encrypted sites.
> But, CA signing protects from a MiTM attack executed by spoofed DNS
Yup, that's the point I made a poor attempt to make.
In most cases, you wouldn't need to compromise the ISP DNS, only the DHCP server the person is using (generally a consumer router). I could see this attack being feasible with a public wireless point or a cybercafe.
Also he is confusing a bunch of different issues in his post in a poor attempt to make a point. Serving up bullshit DNS is a lot easier than getting your brother's friend's sister to give you Google's cert.
Of course, had Microsoft tried to do that in Vista's release (kick-ass new environment, with maybe a hypervisor for old NT/9x series apps), we'd be complaining that they ripped off Apple "again".
Unjustly, because every version of WinNT (even Vista32) still contains a VM for legacy DOS/Win16 software.The problem I see with this approach is Win devs would just continue to write for the old API and there never would be any phase-out like there was in Apple-land. Even Microsoft does not use the fancy new Vista APIs like WPF.
You understand we're talking about document archiving, right? Postscript is a terrible format for raster images.
> If the tweaks are hardware dependant, they can only be used on a card that copies the same hardware.
A lot of it is GL and other optimizations. Graphic drivers frequently have specific game optimizations that create considerable improvements in frame rate. That's an advantage they wouldn't want to share.
Point is, I guess, that the software stack in graphic drivers are significantly more complex than network cards and so on.
Also courts have requirements for electronic document formats and there is nothing non-standard about a "image based pdf" (these also support searchable OCR full text).
Legal service firms work with all of these PDF and TIFF variants all of the time. They should be able to kick out whatever you need at x cents per page (which will usually be cheaper than your time/money)
The weird TIFF formats are used for various document management products, so it really depends mostly on your workflow.
The first PCI PowerMacs actually did not ship with OpenTransport, although an extremely buggy beta version was available later. OpenTransport also did not initially work on Performas and other consumer Macs.
Not to mention that OpenTransport didn't have a PPP driver until the 1.2 version in 1996.
Believe me, I was active in the Mac community at the time, and a late 1995 Macintosh did not come with any form of consumer Internet support.
No Apple wasn't. At the time Win95 came out, the Mac sitting next to it had no TCP/IP.
In fact MacTCP was only available to institutional site licenses, although it was frequently pirated by ISPs.
Microsoft almost immediately recognized that MSN was a mistake.
It was on Pearl Harbor Day 1995 that they announced they were going to take on Netscape by integrating a web browser into Windows.
And despite the fact that they were farting around with MSN, Windows 95 came with a TCP/IP stack and PPP driver which brought internet to the masses. At this time neither Apple nor IBM was shipping TCP/IP in the base OS.
Actually what happened is the Unix people saw Windows NT and crapped their pants and ran for the server room.
If you look at the timeline, pretty much all Motif/CDE/X11 ground to a halt right in that 1993 timeframe. As a result the Unix Desktop was so archaic that it had to be rewritten almost from scratch starting in the late 90s through today.
It's quite easy to imagine a situation where Windows would not be around. IBM was in negotiations for many years to either buy Windows or buy out Microsoft, but was unable to complete the deal.
So I don't see any alternative here than IBM OS/2, and there's lots of (business if not technical) reasons that would have been far worse than what we got from Microsoft.
I'm still waiting to find The Guy who actually bought Windows at the suggested retail price.
Almost everyone either gets it bundled with a PC or can easily buy a discounted "OEM" copy from any computer retailer.
Last time I was at Fry's they had one box of Vista Ultimate sitting forlornly in a display case next to Novell Netware.
The friendly men in white suits have already been dispatched to your location.
I'm not saying that there isn't nice people.
What I am saying is that, in the the context of a spurned lover, someone describing themselves this way is usually trying to unjustly claim some form of moral superiority.
"I'm a nice guy! (And therefore the bitch owes me (And that's why I'm digging through her trash))"
At least that's what I've heard from women who have been in "friend zone" situations. The "Nice Guy" always ends up being not so nice. Sorry I don't have scientific studies to back this up.
Maybe they are in some large-scale statistical sense. But people have lots of semi-casual sex for lots of reasons, and it's silly to frame your thinking around some pop version of biology rather than just taking a shower and thinking of a couple jokes before heading to the kegger.
Responding to a perfectly reasonable suggestion with the statement someone should be punched in the face makes you sound llke a sane reasonable guy that doesn't need heavy psychiatric medication and years of electro-shock therapy.
Then you should be seeking treatment and not trying to project your mental issues onto the rest of society.
Also irrational phobias are not at all like the chemical inblances that cause depression, and "Exposure Therapy" is actually how they treat them. So you're wrong.
Maybe you're in high school or a religious college or something. But women in general are just fine with being propositioned (I mean "lets go back to my place" not walking up to random people and asking for sex). In fact it's almost expected. If a guy doesn't seem aggressive enough in "making a move", he loses attraction.
Just look at all the weird/creepy stuff in this thread, and honestly these people don't seem so "nice".
Also nerds tend to stereotype anyone more socially successful than them as "jerks", when in fact many of these people tend treat women very well.