There were once a time where the search was broken, and it was painful for a user of Groups search as big as myself, but that seems to have been mostly fixed by now.
Obsolete technology? Its called EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE. We're not buying 100 new projectors because Steve Jobs doesn't like VGA connectors.
Of course not, which is why there are adapters. Even before Mini DisplayPort there was mini-DVI and mini-VGA. Now VGA is being obsoleted, but it was not led by Apple and it will take until 2015 before it is gone.
USB was an obscure curiosity when Apple aggressively adopted it in the original Bondi blue iMac. I clearly remember watching the market for USB peripherals be completely driven by demand from iMac (and then other Apple model) owners at a time when PC users stayed away from the technology because it was incompatible with all their PS2, serial and parallel port peripherals. Often the place to find USB equipment was in the Apple section in stores.
And Win98's improved USB support certainly helped too.
From http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2010/06/artificial-scarcity-drm.html : "Fair use rights DRM is often used unintentionally or intentionally to take away fair use rights and sometimes sell them back, assisted by anti-circumvention provisions in laws like the DMCA that applies regardless of things like fair use rights." In this case it is of course first sale, but the point is still the same.
I even use my real name almost everywhere. In fact, I am thinking of collecting things like Reddit AMAs into an acid test that sees if an organization can tolerate it when made non-anonymous.
Don't kill software patents just to use H.264 though. Kill software patents because it is ridiculous that an algorithm is patentable just because it executes on a computer.
It's also worth noting that IE9's pre-release versions are very careful about supporting non-standard stuff with "standardized" names. For example, IE9 actually does support WebSockets just fine, but because the standard isn't finished, they use a "draft" extension on the name (websocket-draft).
Yea, remember when IE3 and IE4 rushed to implement CSS1 and CSS2 respectively even though both was released before the corresponding level became a recommendation.
To be more precise, Vista SP2 with the Platform Update. Actually there is another supplement to that update required too to fix some problems with the original for Vista SP2 and Win7 RTM but that is automatically installed when you install IE9.
but given that means new hardware for most of the people still using XP
I think 32-bit Win7 can at least in theory run on most Win2000-era and later hardware as long as you have enough RAM, thanks in part to driver compatibility.
AFRIK it is actually IE 5.x that focused on the first one, when they were competing with Netscape 4.x. IE 6 tried to be little more standard compliant. For example, they made it slightly more CSS1 compliant (enough to pass Acid1 I think), and added it as a "standards mode" triggered by DOCTYPE switching. But then they sat on it for five years, and guess what people did with the IE6 "standards mode" during the time?
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I wonder how many bash ActiveX without realizing this.
Yea, I read about foreclosure fraud where fake documents were made up to get past the requirements.
This is interesting because as of Lion, Apple isn't maintaining a JVM.
I think partly because it was such a hassle to keep up with Java security updates in the first place.
There were once a time where the search was broken, and it was painful for a user of Groups search as big as myself, but that seems to have been mostly fixed by now.
Yea, I always considered Google one of the better big companies.
Do you know what it depends on?
I think it is a lot about the arrogance set by fanboys etc.
Obsolete technology? Its called EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE. We're not buying 100 new projectors because Steve Jobs doesn't like VGA connectors.
Of course not, which is why there are adapters. Even before Mini DisplayPort there was mini-DVI and mini-VGA. Now VGA is being obsoleted, but it was not led by Apple and it will take until 2015 before it is gone.
USB was an obscure curiosity when Apple aggressively adopted it in the original Bondi blue iMac. I clearly remember watching the market for USB peripherals be completely driven by demand from iMac (and then other Apple model) owners at a time when PC users stayed away from the technology because it was incompatible with all their PS2, serial and parallel port peripherals. Often the place to find USB equipment was in the Apple section in stores.
And Win98's improved USB support certainly helped too.
From the bug itself:
Masayuki Nakano (Mozilla Japan) 2011-02-01 22:21:58 PST
Steven, why is this still open?
Steven Michaud 2011-02-02 08:59:21 PST ... so I'll do that now.
I probably just forgot to close it
From http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2010/06/artificial-scarcity-drm.html :
"Fair use rights
DRM is often used unintentionally or intentionally to take away fair use rights and sometimes sell them back, assisted by anti-circumvention provisions in laws like the DMCA that applies regardless of things like fair use rights."
In this case it is of course first sale, but the point is still the same.
I think many Sun people leaving certainly didn't help here. Over time this will be resolved though.
I even use my real name almost everywhere. In fact, I am thinking of collecting things like Reddit AMAs into an acid test that sees if an organization can tolerate it when made non-anonymous.
I am thinking of submitting it to Slashdot, but note also that you can submit articles on your own too.
Don't kill software patents just to use H.264 though. Kill software patents because it is ridiculous that an algorithm is patentable just because it executes on a computer.
It's also worth noting that IE9's pre-release versions are very careful about supporting non-standard stuff with "standardized" names. For example, IE9 actually does support WebSockets just fine, but because the standard isn't finished, they use a "draft" extension on the name (websocket-draft).
Yea, remember when IE3 and IE4 rushed to implement CSS1 and CSS2 respectively even though both was released before the corresponding level became a recommendation.
On that matter, I wonder why didn't they adopt MS's own Tasman engine that was used in Mac IE 5 instead of spending years hacking Trident.
their contract with MS which got them copies of XP for free doesn't allow for upgrades.
Upgrades to IE?
To be more precise, Vista SP2 with the Platform Update. Actually there is another supplement to that update required too to fix some problems with the original for Vista SP2 and Win7 RTM but that is automatically installed when you install IE9.
Well, at least in theory 32-bit Win7 will run on most Win2000 and later hardware as long as you have enough RAM.
but given that means new hardware for most of the people still using XP
I think 32-bit Win7 can at least in theory run on most Win2000-era and later hardware as long as you have enough RAM, thanks in part to driver compatibility.
AFRIK it is actually IE 5.x that focused on the first one, when they were competing with Netscape 4.x. IE 6 tried to be little more standard compliant. For example, they made it slightly more CSS1 compliant (enough to pass Acid1 I think), and added it as a "standards mode" triggered by DOCTYPE switching. But then they sat on it for five years, and guess what people did with the IE6 "standards mode" during the time?
No more shitty toolbars or Active X crap, just a fast browser that works.
Not exactly true, but they added ActiveX filtering in the RC to limit the impact.
Yea, I know that BoA was nowhere near PR 2.0 compliant for a while now, as do many of the other horrible big companies.
When USB flash drives replaced floppies in every day use
And support for what was renamed AutoPlay was added to XP.