should have been standards compliant from the start
So when MS implemented the NON-STANDARD.innerHTML DOM call, what did Firefox, Opera et al do ? Stand on their principles because it was non-standard ? Or implement it anyway, because it was actually quite a lot more convenient than DOM add node, insert node, delete node etc etc.
I call BS on standards compliance, when the so-called figureheads of compliance only comply when it suits them, but not when it might actually cost them market-share.
The only thing making marijuana legal will do is cause the price to increase by 1000% once the grubby politicians start taxing it like they do with alcohol and cigarettes.
I've never understood the reasoning behind it being illegal in the first place, as it's blatantly obvious that both cigarettes and alcohol have worse immediate / long term side effects.
But I'm happy with the status quo, as in most civilised countries, decriminalisation seems to work far better i.e. plod won't nick you for a 1/16th or an 1/8th, but will nick you if you are carrying a couple of blocks around with you.
Little tip for anyone who has "morons" in the family.
On each new USB device, create a folder (important, MUST be a folder, NOT a file), called autorun.inf. Then set the attributes on that file to +S +H +R +A (system, hidden, read only, archive).
Voila, whatever PC they promiscuously stick their USB in, this attack vector is null and void, as the virsu cannot overwrite a folder with a file of the same name.
YMMV, but since learning this tip, my missus and kids have brought home zero nastys from work, school, college etc.
Yup, and for which you pay a hefty fee every year for, otherwise the detector vans come round and scan your ass (do they still have those, haven't been in Blighty for nigh on 8 years ?).
It's a similar situation with the cable TV here. While they don't run "traditional" commercials as such, they still manage to interrupt the show every 15 minutes with pointless trailers for other shows which will be airing during the week.
SO I don't think you EVER get a full 60 minutes of programming in each hour... which is perhaps just as well, otherwise when would you run to the toilet, or make a cuppa ?
I can't imagine anything more nerve wracking that taking that vow to serve. Only 43 people in the whole history of the US have ever done that. (And don't start arguing that it's 44, one president served two non consequetive terms, so he already knew the score the second time in).
Anyway, did you stay attentive enough to listen to his speech... not a word flubbed, and very eloquent language... whether it turns out to be just political bullshit^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrhetoric remains to be seen.
A far cry from Bush, who even after 8 years could barely come up with a coherent sentence without a teleprompter in front of him and a team of writers in the background.
So do I, I'm very sure that there WAS a son of a carpenter who was wandering around the Middle East 2000 years ago, doing good deeds and preaching a culture of decent behaviour. That doesn't make him the son of some god. Bear in mind at that time, prophets and messiahs were two a penny, everyone was looking for a miracle and a saviour, as the people were suddenly realising that the Sun and the Moon probably weren't actually gods at all.
I think Life of Brian probably sums up the whole thing for me better than anything else I've seen. People will believe in anything.
Of course bearing in mind that for a 30 million company to increase it's turnover to 1 billion means it needs to increase it's client base by 3330%.
This doesn't happen overnight, especially selling consulting services for a product base which is essentially free for all and sundry to tinker with as they like. Anyone can write a patch and distribute it, then all those people don't NEED any paid support.
A closed product can increase it's turnover on support overnight, simply by finding another bug that bricks the PC or stops it connecting to the internet for example.
Until Ubuntu becomes a serious contender in the server side of things, something like Redhat did, I don't see it being a serious threat to anyone like MS.
Well couldn't those who are "concerned" just delete the friggen shortcut ?
I can just imagine a modern operating system that DIDN'T ship with a web browser... slashdot would be all over it as a dysfunctional OS. But when it's Microsoft, then it's okay ?
Ubuntu comes with a browser preinstalled, Mac OSX comes with a browser preinstalled, why can't MS ?
And has already been pointed out... shipping an OS without ANY browser simply means there's not even a convenient way to download Firefox.
So presumably those patents on the splash screen are now null and void ? Including the one for the implementation of the LZW algorithm, that they don't even own ?
I fail to see how anything "open" can also be patented... I mean what would be the point ?
What rationale drives you to continually post replies to me when you can't even be bothered to read the entirety of my post, Asshole. There, happy now, language you can possibly relate to ?
To anyone reading the thread as a whole, I think that vast majority will form the reverse conclusion.
Unable to come up with any pertinent arguments, resorting to the use of maybes, mostlys, and finally degrading into childish name calling, all you've proved is that the ability to post on slashdot is not directly proportional to the maturity of the poster.
1. Choose a 25 year old topic (for example, a Pacmangame), reinvent it using lots of buzzwords such as swarm, hive, collective, competitive, but secretly just program a system using some generic rules, and a gradient descent algorithm that will force those generic rules to conform to the behaviour we wanted in the first place. Then publish a PDF (why oh why by the way is PDF proprietary format ANY better than Microsoft's proprietary format ?), and spam it across tech news sites.
2. Make some wild claim that this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius (or similar).
At least I can commit to a damn opinion and mean it.
Network unlocks are available from the networks themselves in most countries
Most ? what about the rest ?
practically single click now, and there's next to no risk of bricking
Apart from when there is !
Look I didn't start the name calling routine, you did. I might have a bee in my bonnet, you've got the whole damn hive under yours.
Still, this is the reaction you get from iFanbois when someone tries to steal their thunder. Publicly extolling the virtues of the gold plated turd, yet secretly harbouring the suspicion that your part of an almighty con-trick.
More's to the point, why would you need an EXTERNAL IP just for your coffee machine ?
Connect your appliances on a traditional network, then map the 10.0.0.* addresses to ports on a single external IP ?
It's one thing for you to talk to your fridge from the car, but quite another to start dealing with inter-appliance politics... "Dave, the toaster oven is being nasty to me and stealing all my power again".
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should have been standards compliant from the start
So when MS implemented the NON-STANDARD .innerHTML DOM call, what did Firefox, Opera et al do ? Stand on their principles because it was non-standard ? Or implement it anyway, because it was actually quite a lot more convenient than DOM add node, insert node, delete node etc etc.
I call BS on standards compliance, when the so-called figureheads of compliance only comply when it suits them, but not when it might actually cost them market-share.
It takes more than an exciting new filesystem to get most of us excitedly excited.
I think you need to get out of the basement more often.
Do the numbers 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 mean anything to you ?
Apple have been cashing in on service packs for years.
As opposed to paying the equivalent of TWO "vista-ready" machines to be able to run OSX ?
And who deems that what gets put in the repository is trustworthy ?
Trust != Security
The only thing making marijuana legal will do is cause the price to increase by 1000% once the grubby politicians start taxing it like they do with alcohol and cigarettes.
I've never understood the reasoning behind it being illegal in the first place, as it's blatantly obvious that both cigarettes and alcohol have worse immediate / long term side effects.
But I'm happy with the status quo, as in most civilised countries, decriminalisation seems to work far better i.e. plod won't nick you for a 1/16th or an 1/8th, but will nick you if you are carrying a couple of blocks around with you.
Ctrl Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
stop and disable service: Shell Hardware Detection
When Shell Hardare Detection stops, these other services will also stop - Windows Image Acquisition.
So I have to nerf my ability to use my scanner, kust to stop things autorunning ?
Little tip for anyone who has "morons" in the family.
On each new USB device, create a folder (important, MUST be a folder, NOT a file), called autorun.inf. Then set the attributes on that file to +S +H +R +A (system, hidden, read only, archive).
Voila, whatever PC they promiscuously stick their USB in, this attack vector is null and void, as the virsu cannot overwrite a folder with a file of the same name.
YMMV, but since learning this tip, my missus and kids have brought home zero nastys from work, school, college etc.
Yup, and for which you pay a hefty fee every year for, otherwise the detector vans come round and scan your ass (do they still have those, haven't been in Blighty for nigh on 8 years ?).
It's a similar situation with the cable TV here. While they don't run "traditional" commercials as such, they still manage to interrupt the show every 15 minutes with pointless trailers for other shows which will be airing during the week.
SO I don't think you EVER get a full 60 minutes of programming in each hour ... which is perhaps just as well, otherwise when would you run to the toilet, or make a cuppa ?
First day on the job perhaps ?
I can't imagine anything more nerve wracking that taking that vow to serve. Only 43 people in the whole history of the US have ever done that. (And don't start arguing that it's 44, one president served two non consequetive terms, so he already knew the score the second time in).
Anyway, did you stay attentive enough to listen to his speech ... not a word flubbed, and very eloquent language ... whether it turns out to be just political bullshit^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrhetoric remains to be seen.
A far cry from Bush, who even after 8 years could barely come up with a coherent sentence without a teleprompter in front of him and a team of writers in the background.
I happen to believe in Jesus Christ
So do I, I'm very sure that there WAS a son of a carpenter who was wandering around the Middle East 2000 years ago, doing good deeds and preaching a culture of decent behaviour. That doesn't make him the son of some god. Bear in mind at that time, prophets and messiahs were two a penny, everyone was looking for a miracle and a saviour, as the people were suddenly realising that the Sun and the Moon probably weren't actually gods at all.
I think Life of Brian probably sums up the whole thing for me better than anything else I've seen. People will believe in anything.
Jesus, give the man a break, he was nervous !!!
I flubbed my wedding vows, Obama flubbed his inauguration speech.
Bush flubbed consistently and without logic for 8 damn years.
Of course bearing in mind that for a 30 million company to increase it's turnover to 1 billion means it needs to increase it's client base by 3330%.
This doesn't happen overnight, especially selling consulting services for a product base which is essentially free for all and sundry to tinker with as they like. Anyone can write a patch and distribute it, then all those people don't NEED any paid support.
A closed product can increase it's turnover on support overnight, simply by finding another bug that bricks the PC or stops it connecting to the internet for example.
Until Ubuntu becomes a serious contender in the server side of things, something like Redhat did, I don't see it being a serious threat to anyone like MS.
Those 10,000 developers at MS probably spent more than 30 million just on coffee and donuts in the past year.
And then duplicated by kdawson on Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Well couldn't those who are "concerned" just delete the friggen shortcut ? I can just imagine a modern operating system that DIDN'T ship with a web browser ... slashdot would be all over it as a dysfunctional OS. But when it's Microsoft, then it's okay ?
Ubuntu comes with a browser preinstalled, Mac OSX comes with a browser preinstalled, why can't MS ?
And has already been pointed out ... shipping an OS without ANY browser simply means there's not even a convenient way to download Firefox.
So presumably those patents on the splash screen are now null and void ? Including the one for the implementation of the LZW algorithm, that they don't even own ?
I fail to see how anything "open" can also be patented ... I mean what would be the point ?
What rationale drives you to continually post replies to me when you can't even be bothered to read the entirety of my post, Asshole. There, happy now, language you can possibly relate to ?
Until they get into power, and then that promise will be forgotten along with all the others.
Okay, first a prick, and now a cry baby.
To anyone reading the thread as a whole, I think that vast majority will form the reverse conclusion.
Unable to come up with any pertinent arguments, resorting to the use of maybes, mostlys, and finally degrading into childish name calling, all you've proved is that the ability to post on slashdot is not directly proportional to the maturity of the poster.
Thank you, and goodnight. You bore me.
Can we get research grant funding automatically ?
I believe the answer is yes.
1. Choose a 25 year old topic (for example, a Pacmangame), reinvent it using lots of buzzwords such as swarm, hive, collective, competitive, but secretly just program a system using some generic rules, and a gradient descent algorithm that will force those generic rules to conform to the behaviour we wanted in the first place. Then publish a PDF (why oh why by the way is PDF proprietary format ANY better than Microsoft's proprietary format ?), and spam it across tech news sites.
2. Make some wild claim that this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius (or similar).
3. ???
4. Profit !
Nonetheless, true. And apparently my orignal comment is +5 insightful. Must have hit a nerve, eh ?
At least I can commit to a damn opinion and mean it.
Network unlocks are available from the networks themselves in most countries
Most ? what about the rest ?
practically single click now, and there's next to no risk of bricking
Apart from when there is !
Look I didn't start the name calling routine, you did. I might have a bee in my bonnet, you've got the whole damn hive under yours.
Still, this is the reaction you get from iFanbois when someone tries to steal their thunder. Publicly extolling the virtues of the gold plated turd, yet secretly harbouring the suspicion that your part of an almighty con-trick.
More's to the point, why would you need an EXTERNAL IP just for your coffee machine ?
Connect your appliances on a traditional network, then map the 10.0.0.* addresses to ports on a single external IP ?
It's one thing for you to talk to your fridge from the car, but quite another to start dealing with inter-appliance politics ... "Dave, the toaster oven is being nasty to me and stealing all my power again".