There's already enough crying over Vista's incompatibiliy problems. If they completely replaced the Kernel, nothing would work. Sure MS could include an emulator/virtual machine of Vista, but then what would be the incentive for app developers to port their code to the new kernel when people can still use it on the old?
YES RLY... That's a constituion, I said Treaties. There's a difference.
Other EU countries may have referendums on treaties sometimes but their govs can make the decision themselves, but Ireland are required by our own constitution to have a referendum every time.
That won't happen. Microsoft is one of the biggest employers in Ireland and if they were banned from the EU then there would be thousands of unemployed Irish people. That would create a huge backlash of anti-EU feelings and seeing as Ireland is the only country who is going to have a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (Ireland are the only nation to have referendums for EU treaties), the EU would want to be quite nice to Ireland (Irish people have a habit of voting No to EU treaties).
It's slow, only has demonstration pages and is extremely badly designed.
As somebody has already mentioned, images don't have alt tags, but also there are tables used for layout (with many empty rows/cols for no apparent reason) and there are image maps. The site uses an XHTML doctype, but isn't valid XHTML. There are missing slashes for closing single tags. The divs for the popups are contained outside the body tags, that's NOT ALLOWED!
As it's such a high frequency that according to some quick research is highly susceptible to interference, wouldn't that make it difficult to integrate into a laptop or similar? And I suppose we could forget about internal cards for desktops, or expansion cards, as the steel/aluminium chassis' of PC's would block the signal?
Actually, ADSL does have contention. If I use my ADSL after 11pm I can get my full 220KBs download speed. If I use it at say 7pm, I get rougly 40KBs. That is because of the contention. I have a line with contention quoted at 24:1. If I was to get dedicated I'd be looking at 10 times the price, minimum.
Also, meant to say about the software trouble. I don't know what modem your provider would supply, but here in Ireland (and the UK as far as I know) all the providers use the Huawei modem. The Windows software/drivers is incredibly buggy. After a few weeks it needs to be uninstalled, reinstalled, during the reinstallation it crashes or can't find the drivers on the integrated flash memory and needs to be tried many times before success. I've tried this on a clean XP reinstall also.
I've heard that with a little manual configuration, it runs a lot better on linux. I'll be putting that to the test when my eeePC arrives.:)
It depends on what you will use it for. I have standard 2Mb ADSL, that's the best I can get in the rural Irish area I live. I also have a Vodafone HSDPA USB modem for my laptop for when I'm not at home. The Vodafone modem is rated at 3.6Mb but that's bullshit. When on holidays during the summer, the house I stay at is in a valley, and the Vodafone mast is at the top of one of the hills overlooking the house. I can still only get approx 1Mb connection at best, and that's the fastest connection I've found in my travels around the country. Not only that, but the latency for the Vodafone connection is huge. It's definitely not for gaming, p2p, streaming video or audio. Email and web is basically all it's good for. Also, they tend to have a relatively small monthly cap.
We all know they've run out of ways to remanufacture their products and make them look new over and over again. We all know that they want to break into the goldmine that is internet advertising. It's not just about breakthroughs and being first to the market anymore though, and Bill knows that. Microsoft have an image problem and that's what holds them back. I believe that the reason he's after Yahoo! isn't for programmers or market share, it's for their image and branding.
And the point I was making (but didn't elaborate enough on) was if they can make a mistake on reporting such a small number, what is the error margin on 1 million and 45 million?
Windows users, as consumers paying Microsoft, should be getting the OS working properly when they buy it, not 5/6 years later. Not after 3/4 service packs have been released. How many people will actually buy an alpha or beta release of software, never mind an OS? When you buy Windows, you could equate the original release to being an alpha, SP1 bringing it up to beta, SP2 up to 1.0, SP3 to 1.1, etc. But, I have to concede one thing to Microsoft, at least they release SP's for free, unlike Apple who charge you 100euro for a.1 upgrade that fixes bugs, glosses the GUI a little more, and adds a few features that can be installed though free third party add-ons anyway.
Kind of hard to progress also when you wake up some morning and find your life savings have been transferred to some dodgy account in Russia.
It isn't fleeing in terror, it's putting a hold on things until developers realise that security is as important as functionality.
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http://eol.org/ wouldn't load for me earlier, now it just gives me a 403.
There's already enough crying over Vista's incompatibiliy problems. If they completely replaced the Kernel, nothing would work. Sure MS could include an emulator/virtual machine of Vista, but then what would be the incentive for app developers to port their code to the new kernel when people can still use it on the old?
Interesting... Maybe they should fine MS another few billion and we might have lower taxes next year :) j/k
YES RLY... That's a constituion, I said Treaties. There's a difference.
Other EU countries may have referendums on treaties sometimes but their govs can make the decision themselves, but Ireland are required by our own constitution to have a referendum every time.
That won't happen. Microsoft is one of the biggest employers in Ireland and if they were banned from the EU then there would be thousands of unemployed Irish people. That would create a huge backlash of anti-EU feelings and seeing as Ireland is the only country who is going to have a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (Ireland are the only nation to have referendums for EU treaties), the EU would want to be quite nice to Ireland (Irish people have a habit of voting No to EU treaties).
You wouldn't say that if you were blind and needed a screen reader to use the web.
Apophis... Didn't he try to destroy earth with an asteroid in SG1?
Try http://www.eol.org/
It's slow, only has demonstration pages and is extremely badly designed.
As somebody has already mentioned, images don't have alt tags, but also there are tables used for layout (with many empty rows/cols for no apparent reason) and there are image maps. The site uses an XHTML doctype, but isn't valid XHTML. There are missing slashes for closing single tags. The divs for the popups are contained outside the body tags, that's NOT ALLOWED!
That's all I see, what about anybody else?
As it's such a high frequency that according to some quick research is highly susceptible to interference, wouldn't that make it difficult to integrate into a laptop or similar? And I suppose we could forget about internal cards for desktops, or expansion cards, as the steel/aluminium chassis' of PC's would block the signal?
X-rays are between 10^12(THz) and 10^15(EHz) rather than 10^9(GHz).
I could be wrong, but as far as I know, the shorter the wavelength (higher frequency), the less penetration.
So WUSB is going to be made redundant before it even becomes mainstream?
Yes, putting the laptop into standby without closing the application can seriously screw it up.
Actually, ADSL does have contention. If I use my ADSL after 11pm I can get my full 220KBs download speed. If I use it at say 7pm, I get rougly 40KBs. That is because of the contention. I have a line with contention quoted at 24:1. If I was to get dedicated I'd be looking at 10 times the price, minimum.
Also, meant to say about the software trouble. I don't know what modem your provider would supply, but here in Ireland (and the UK as far as I know) all the providers use the Huawei modem. The Windows software/drivers is incredibly buggy. After a few weeks it needs to be uninstalled, reinstalled, during the reinstallation it crashes or can't find the drivers on the integrated flash memory and needs to be tried many times before success. I've tried this on a clean XP reinstall also.
I've heard that with a little manual configuration, it runs a lot better on linux. I'll be putting that to the test when my eeePC arrives. :)
It depends on what you will use it for. I have standard 2Mb ADSL, that's the best I can get in the rural Irish area I live. I also have a Vodafone HSDPA USB modem for my laptop for when I'm not at home. The Vodafone modem is rated at 3.6Mb but that's bullshit. When on holidays during the summer, the house I stay at is in a valley, and the Vodafone mast is at the top of one of the hills overlooking the house. I can still only get approx 1Mb connection at best, and that's the fastest connection I've found in my travels around the country. Not only that, but the latency for the Vodafone connection is huge. It's definitely not for gaming, p2p, streaming video or audio. Email and web is basically all it's good for. Also, they tend to have a relatively small monthly cap.
We all know they've run out of ways to remanufacture their products and make them look new over and over again. We all know that they want to break into the goldmine that is internet advertising. It's not just about breakthroughs and being first to the market anymore though, and Bill knows that. Microsoft have an image problem and that's what holds them back. I believe that the reason he's after Yahoo! isn't for programmers or market share, it's for their image and branding.
Read the article, it all happened on Wednesday.
And the point I was making (but didn't elaborate enough on) was if they can make a mistake on reporting such a small number, what is the error margin on 1 million and 45 million?
What I meant was, if they can make a mistake on reporting such a small number, what is the error margin on 1 million and 45 million?
Police raided several homes across Quebec on Wednesday and arrested 16 people in their investigation...
The 14 suspects arrested Wednesday...
Illustrator and Flash anybody?
Windows users, as consumers paying Microsoft, should be getting the OS working properly when they buy it, not 5/6 years later. Not after 3/4 service packs have been released. How many people will actually buy an alpha or beta release of software, never mind an OS? When you buy Windows, you could equate the original release to being an alpha, SP1 bringing it up to beta, SP2 up to 1.0, SP3 to 1.1, etc. But, I have to concede one thing to Microsoft, at least they release SP's for free, unlike Apple who charge you 100euro for a .1 upgrade that fixes bugs, glosses the GUI a little more, and adds a few features that can be installed though free third party add-ons anyway.
Kind of hard to progress also when you wake up some morning and find your life savings have been transferred to some dodgy account in Russia. It isn't fleeing in terror, it's putting a hold on things until developers realise that security is as important as functionality.
The flying window logo is one of the most recognisable logo's in IT, more so than the apple or Tux.