Although we have removed many restrictions on usage and development, we still do not permit developers to build Open AIM applications that are interoperable with other IM networks. (Multi-headed applications are now allowed). Please refer to the Developers License Agreement for additional details.
Does Pidgin fall under "do not permit developers to build Open AIM applications that are interoperable with other IM networks" or "Multi-headed applications are now allowed"?
About the only spec that Microsoft MIGHT actually be taking seriously is CSS2.1. And even then, I'm not holding my breath that they do a good job of it.
With three (Opera, Safari, Firefox) major browsers getting it right, why the hell do we have to put up with this godforsaken browser known as IE. Yeah, I know that they have the largest market share, but I wish they didn't, they just don't deserve it. Please would they just EOL it for pities sake. Yeah I know that this is probably keeping me in a job, but try explaining to management what a PoS the browser is and they still want it done yesterday./rant off
Firefox has the same feature too. Browsers have to accept tons of different types of input (html, js, css, different image formats,...) and try to make sense of it all. Third-party extensions and plugins can cause the browser to crash.
This is why, IMHO, XHTML is the better approach. If your page follows strict XHTML then there are likely to be less surprises and then parser is likely to be more robust. There is probably more handling of bad HTML in the rendering engine, than anything else.
Unfortunately, the people who designed the IE7 UI appear to have been retarded monkeys. The result is that now, almost 2 years after its release, almost a third of my users are still on IE6 [languesvivantes.com]. Personally, that is really frustrating.
The worrying thing is that they were allowed to design a bit more than the browser. I am thinking that maybe these guys were also responsible for Vista.
Shhhhh! Don't let them know we still have free-speech zones!
Its ironic the people in the country north of the USA have more free speech. In the USA the following will get you frowned upon:
- talking about communism
- talking about terrorism
- questioning whether the definition of patriotism is right
- being sympathetic to Cuba
You can't have a healthy democracy if you can't talk about the issues that matter. EU countries don't have it right either, since questioning the Holocaust is considered a hate crime!?
This has nothing to do with censorship. If he had registered his domain in Europe, there'd be no problem. Nobody would be trying to prevent people in America from viewing his site. Personally, I think it was stupid to embargo the domain, but let's not use the straw man of censorship to show our disapproval.
This is why TLDs that don't contain country names should not be in the hands of any one government, but that is just wishful thinking. Maybe we will see.edu.us and.gov.us, but I reckon pigs will fly before then.
The embargo won't end anytime soon - the Helms-Burton act [wikipedia.org] specifies that as long as a Castro remains in power, the embargo will remain enforced.
Didn't Castro just hand over power to his brother?
And if you want to save on gas, don't car-pool a Geo Metro with 3 oversized co-workers. Loading an extra 600-900 pounds in your already underperforming car is not very fuel efficient especially not going uphill (as is the case a lot here in NY and PA), use the Buick sedan or the SUV, you'll get the same mileage and a lot more comfortable ride and your car won't die after 5 years.
Totally agree. These guys should be running to work. At this point they get to use the car as a reward;)
They don't recommend against Safari, they just recommend browsers that support anti-phishing features.
Sounds basically like the current batch of browsers. I believe IE7 and FF3 supports this, but what other browsers do?
At the same time which anti-phishing techniques work best for you?
My bank recently added a new feature whereby you specify your bank code and then they show you an image you preselected in the past and ask you a question that you specified the answer to. If you are satisfied with the identity, then you specify your password.
As a representative of the asshats that tailgate...try to go a little faster than the speedlimit in the left lane, you won't get tailgated as much.
In response: you can't always speed up, since sometimes the guy in front is driving slow and the people in the next lane over are driving too close to move over. You being a dangerous driver is not helping anyone and I'll more likely brake to piss you off - that way we are both being dangerous;)
What gets me are middle lane drivers that drive at 90km/h, when the right hand lane is free, forcing everyone to over-take (ok), or under-take (not ok)
Personally I think the Macbook Air may sell well, because Apple's proven they can get users to suffer through all kinds of hardware deficiencies to get their software.
The MacBook Air is essentially a little over priced and a little ahead of its time. I wouldn't be surprised if this product sells well in Japan, since they have a very different mentality towards design and cost.
Improving power management in the hardware is a good idea, then again the problem is probably simpler. Currently PCs uses a power management protocol that doesn't seem to be easy to understand and in certain case just badly implemented. It really gets on my nerves when I buy a new motherboard and there is no way to get the system to go to sleep. I am not too sure whether to blame this on Windows, the hardware or a bad specification?
Can anyone tell me whether EFI (replacement of BIOS), provides a better way of talking with the hardware for power management needs?
Yes there are lot of expensive computers and it is possible to make computers that cost almost nothing. Then again computers with rock-bottom prices usually lack style, have very little R&D put into them and aren't usually the cutting edge.
You want a good looking computer that peforms well and you can delegate the fixes to the manufacturer? Be ready to pay for it. Anything else and you are doing all the work.
The function to turn this on programmatically is undocumented. You're not supposed to do that, you're supposed to set a flag in the app metadata to turn it on. WebKit does it programmatically because it can be embedded in any app.
Yup. At the same time, one of the developers from Apple working on Webkit even stated that he is not happy with the current state of affairs. They open up bugs asking for these APIs to be made public, but this doesn't mean that they will have these APIs made public.
If you have used ever used Unsanity's APE, you will know about third party applications using undocumented APIs and suffering because of it.
The AIR stack is essentially composed of two parallel environments. One being an embedded web browser (webkit) with javascript (ECMAScript3) bindings into the runtime. The other side is an embedded Flash 9 player with access to all that Flash offers as well as the additional AIR libraries such as sqlite. I believe FlexBuilder allows you to develop either one though I have only used it to do a Flash based AIR app.
Looking at APIs that AIR relies on shows that it could potentially be ported to any platform:
- Webkit is both open source and cross-platform
- Flash has been ported to Mac, Linux and Windows, and for other platforms there is Swfdec (the SWF specs are unoffically available without a license)
- sqlite is open source and cross-platform
Two solutions based on current reality models would be either "Nerd Idol" or "Big Brother Nerd edition". The idea would be to pit these guys and gals together and see what develops. Sure it probably wouldn't get the same ratings as the current versions, but something has to be said for cult value;)
One other approach to CAPTCHAs would be having three different images displayed, in different colours with a fourth indicating which colour text to choose. The main issue though are people who colour blind.
FOSS is needed for the simple reason that there are many solutions out there that would never existed otherwise. This culture has also helped pushed the boundaries of computing, since it is often the hobbyist mentality that will tinker, break and remake something. There are plenty of commercial solutions that would never have existed if it was not for open source.
Yes we lose something with open source, but at the same time we gain so much more.
As many observant/.ers have pointed out, it is not the French RIAA, since the last 'A' is America, and last time I looked France is in Europe (despite some beliefs). The French equivalent of the RIAA is the SCPP (Société Civile des Producteurs Phonographiques).
Slashdot Mirror
Can anyone see whether the voice & video protocols are documented. I couldn't see anything at first glance.
About the only spec that Microsoft MIGHT actually be taking seriously is CSS2.1. And even then, I'm not holding my breath that they do a good job of it.
/rant off
With three (Opera, Safari, Firefox) major browsers getting it right, why the hell do we have to put up with this godforsaken browser known as IE. Yeah, I know that they have the largest market share, but I wish they didn't, they just don't deserve it. Please would they just EOL it for pities sake. Yeah I know that this is probably keeping me in a job, but try explaining to management what a PoS the browser is and they still want it done yesterday.
Firefox has the same feature too. Browsers have to accept tons of different types of input (html, js, css, different image formats, ...) and try to make sense of it all. Third-party extensions and plugins can cause the browser to crash.
This is why, IMHO, XHTML is the better approach. If your page follows strict XHTML then there are likely to be less surprises and then parser is likely to be more robust. There is probably more handling of bad HTML in the rendering engine, than anything else.
Unfortunately, the people who designed the IE7 UI appear to have been retarded monkeys. The result is that now, almost 2 years after its release, almost a third of my users are still on IE6 [languesvivantes.com]. Personally, that is really frustrating.
The worrying thing is that they were allowed to design a bit more than the browser. I am thinking that maybe these guys were also responsible for Vista.
The real question is what is sensitive information like that doing being sent over email without encryption.
... oh, wait, heck, idiots.
You only need to send stuff encrypted if you have something to hide
It would have taken you less time to click on the link I posted then to write that sentence. From the link:
Yup, I did things back to front. Ironically many offices are still using IE6.
You still can be prosecuted by the US government upon your return from your vacation if you're caught.
Unless you have a second nationality that stamp in your passport isn't going to help things.
Shhhhh! Don't let them know we still have free-speech zones!
Its ironic the people in the country north of the USA have more free speech. In the USA the following will get you frowned upon:
- talking about communism
- talking about terrorism
- questioning whether the definition of patriotism is right
- being sympathetic to Cuba
You can't have a healthy democracy if you can't talk about the issues that matter. EU countries don't have it right either, since questioning the Holocaust is considered a hate crime!?
This has nothing to do with censorship. If he had registered his domain in Europe, there'd be no problem. Nobody would be trying to prevent people in America from viewing his site. Personally, I think it was stupid to embargo the domain, but let's not use the straw man of censorship to show our disapproval.
.edu.us and .gov.us, but I reckon pigs will fly before then.
This is why TLDs that don't contain country names should not be in the hands of any one government, but that is just wishful thinking. Maybe we will see
The embargo won't end anytime soon - the Helms-Burton act [wikipedia.org] specifies that as long as a Castro remains in power, the embargo will remain enforced.
Didn't Castro just hand over power to his brother?
And if you want to save on gas, don't car-pool a Geo Metro with 3 oversized co-workers. Loading an extra 600-900 pounds in your already underperforming car is not very fuel efficient especially not going uphill (as is the case a lot here in NY and PA), use the Buick sedan or the SUV, you'll get the same mileage and a lot more comfortable ride and your car won't die after 5 years.
;)
Totally agree. These guys should be running to work. At this point they get to use the car as a reward
They don't recommend against Safari, they just recommend browsers that support anti-phishing features.
Sounds basically like the current batch of browsers. I believe IE7 and FF3 supports this, but what other browsers do?
At the same time which anti-phishing techniques work best for you?
My bank recently added a new feature whereby you specify your bank code and then they show you an image you preselected in the past and ask you a question that you specified the answer to. If you are satisfied with the identity, then you specify your password.
As a representative of the asshats that tailgate...try to go a little faster than the speedlimit in the left lane, you won't get tailgated as much.
;)
In response: you can't always speed up, since sometimes the guy in front is driving slow and the people in the next lane over are driving too close to move over. You being a dangerous driver is not helping anyone and I'll more likely brake to piss you off - that way we are both being dangerous
What gets me are middle lane drivers that drive at 90km/h, when the right hand lane is free, forcing everyone to over-take (ok), or under-take (not ok)
Personally I think the Macbook Air may sell well, because Apple's proven they can get users to suffer through all kinds of hardware deficiencies to get their software.
The MacBook Air is essentially a little over priced and a little ahead of its time. I wouldn't be surprised if this product sells well in Japan, since they have a very different mentality towards design and cost.
Improving power management in the hardware is a good idea, then again the problem is probably simpler. Currently PCs uses a power management protocol that doesn't seem to be easy to understand and in certain case just badly implemented. It really gets on my nerves when I buy a new motherboard and there is no way to get the system to go to sleep. I am not too sure whether to blame this on Windows, the hardware or a bad specification?
Can anyone tell me whether EFI (replacement of BIOS), provides a better way of talking with the hardware for power management needs?
I have no idea what point you were trying to make, but "style" made me laugh. I'm going to go buy an iPhone because of how good I'll look with it.
You may not do that, but a suprisingly large portion of the buying public do just that.
Yes there are lot of expensive computers and it is possible to make computers that cost almost nothing. Then again computers with rock-bottom prices usually lack style, have very little R&D put into them and aren't usually the cutting edge.
You want a good looking computer that peforms well and you can delegate the fixes to the manufacturer? Be ready to pay for it. Anything else and you are doing all the work.
The function to turn this on programmatically is undocumented. You're not supposed to do that, you're supposed to set a flag in the app metadata to turn it on. WebKit does it programmatically because it can be embedded in any app.
Yup. At the same time, one of the developers from Apple working on Webkit even stated that he is not happy with the current state of affairs. They open up bugs asking for these APIs to be made public, but this doesn't mean that they will have these APIs made public.
If you have used ever used Unsanity's APE, you will know about third party applications using undocumented APIs and suffering because of it.
The AIR stack is essentially composed of two parallel environments. One being an embedded web browser (webkit) with javascript (ECMAScript3) bindings into the runtime. The other side is an embedded Flash 9 player with access to all that Flash offers as well as the additional AIR libraries such as sqlite. I believe FlexBuilder allows you to develop either one though I have only used it to do a Flash based AIR app.
Looking at APIs that AIR relies on shows that it could potentially be ported to any platform:
- Webkit is both open source and cross-platform
- Flash has been ported to Mac, Linux and Windows, and for other platforms there is Swfdec (the SWF specs are unoffically available without a license)
- sqlite is open source and cross-platform
This certainly makes it an interesting solution.
Two solutions based on current reality models would be either "Nerd Idol" or "Big Brother Nerd edition". The idea would be to pit these guys and gals together and see what develops. Sure it probably wouldn't get the same ratings as the current versions, but something has to be said for cult value ;)
One other approach to CAPTCHAs would be having three different images displayed, in different colours with a fourth indicating which colour text to choose. The main issue though are people who colour blind.
Any other ideas for a better CAPTCHA?
FOSS is needed for the simple reason that there are many solutions out there that would never existed otherwise. This culture has also helped pushed the boundaries of computing, since it is often the hobbyist mentality that will tinker, break and remake something. There are plenty of commercial solutions that would never have existed if it was not for open source.
Yes we lose something with open source, but at the same time we gain so much more.
As many observant /.ers have pointed out, it is not the French RIAA, since the last 'A' is America, and last time I looked France is in Europe (despite some beliefs). The French equivalent of the RIAA is the SCPP (Société Civile des Producteurs Phonographiques).
Is there a French branch of the EFF who could help take these slimeballs to court?