Interesting if true. I'm already good for Mother's Day, so I'm not willing to place orders on both sites just to test this. However, the shopping carts on both seem to work fine with Moz 1.6 on Linux.
today how many MAJOR websites can't even be bothered to do even basic cross-browser compatibility checking
I don't know of any major web sites that are not cross-browser compatible (unless of course, you still worry about Netscape 4 compatibility). Care to list a few?
XAML may be the hot buzzword right now for M$ developers, but I could really care less about Win32-only technologies. Wake me when it's a cross-platform open standard, and I'll think of recommending it to my clients.
They know how to use excel so the learning curve is practically nil.
Yep, everyone's familiar with Excel's bugs and idiosyncrasies. The other day my dad and I were discussing how annoying it is that Excel assumes that fields containing numbers with leading zeros should be treated as text, and he had some complicated workaround to import his data without Excel screwing it up. Next time I'm home, I'll introduce him to OO.o Calc.
Microsoft should both deny patches to pirates, and improve their piracy prevention methods. Give the pirates a chance to wean themselves off the MS teat, and many may give Free software a chance. Currently they say, "Linux is free, Windows is free, why bother learning a new system?".
My textbook says, "In one form of dumping, a company sells products abroad at prices below its cost of production. In another, a company exports a large quantity of a product at a lower price than the same product in the home market and drives down the price of the domestic product." (Contemporary Business, 11e). Dumping is an illegal pratice. Of course, that's never stopped Microsoft before. They come from the school that believes laws are just "guidlines" and use their huge cash reserves to pay off any indiscretions.
Heh, good one. For some reason cartoony animated food (M&M guys) doesn't bother me, but I think there's a definite line that shouldn't be crossed (chicken mcnuggets playing with children).:)
Tigerdirect is selling what they claim to be "The Next Level of Computer Security for Your Home or Office". I think their definition of computer security may be a bit different than yours or mine however, as one of the major selling points is a "-110 decibel siren to sound alarm and scare off intruders". Imagine that bad boy going off every time the machine is violated by the Windows worm de jour!;)
The advantages for me were (1) I could pick Linux-friendly components, (2) I avoided the Microsoft tax, (3) I could pick AMD processors, which are simply better value than Intel processors.
I tend to agree with you, distro reviews need to go deeper than just describing the installation and package manager. They need to cover things like Redhat's kernel mods (which cause problems with certain software like winex), Mandrake's supermount (yeech), aliases, vim settings, non-standard config files. And comments on the expected life cycles for commercial distros would be nice too.
Yes, but really using inline CSS as a fancy <font> tag kinda defeats the purpose. Though I have been known to use it on occasion when certain browsers coughIEcough choked when applying multiple classes to elements.
(before any ACs flame me, I just realized my example was flawed, with the mismatched quote marks. Oops!)
It's not needed when defining only a single element, but it's not invalid. Good luck defining multiple style elements without separating them, i.e.:
<span style="font:20px bold italic Courier; color:red; background:white;'>Dude, where's my CSS?</span>
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I'll probably get it, but I'm a little concerned about the system specs. I'm "only" running a AMD 2600 with a GF4TI. Will that be enough?
Is there a way around the XPI install prompt, or are they relying on the ignorance of users who will OK to anything?
Damnitt, that's not flamebait, it's informative..
Now all we need is an Anti-Monument Laser and we'll be good to go!
Actually yes I am, thanks for asking. Sorry, but I'm taken already. Maybe you could try the bathhouse if you're really hard up tho?
Kazaa? Get a real P2P program..
Can you make it not suck this time? I gotta work with the crap your company makes, you know..
Interesting if true. I'm already good for Mother's Day, so I'm not willing to place orders on both sites just to test this. However, the shopping carts on both seem to work fine with Moz 1.6 on Linux.
today how many MAJOR websites can't even be bothered to do even basic cross-browser compatibility checking
I don't know of any major web sites that are not cross-browser compatible (unless of course, you still worry about Netscape 4 compatibility). Care to list a few?
XAML may be the hot buzzword right now for M$ developers, but I could really care less about Win32-only technologies. Wake me when it's a cross-platform open standard, and I'll think of recommending it to my clients.
Same here. Just downloaded the new Knoppix release in well under an hour. (Azureus topped out at 400KB/s)
there starts their Road to Hell
Or their Highway to Hell, even..
They know how to use excel so the learning curve is practically nil.
Yep, everyone's familiar with Excel's bugs and idiosyncrasies. The other day my dad and I were discussing how annoying it is that Excel assumes that fields containing numbers with leading zeros should be treated as text, and he had some complicated workaround to import his data without Excel screwing it up. Next time I'm home, I'll introduce him to OO.o Calc.
That's what WineX is for..
Microsoft should both deny patches to pirates, and improve their piracy prevention methods. Give the pirates a chance to wean themselves off the MS teat, and many may give Free software a chance. Currently they say, "Linux is free, Windows is free, why bother learning a new system?".
My textbook says, "In one form of dumping, a company sells products abroad at prices below its cost of production. In another, a company exports a large quantity of a product at a lower price than the same product in the home market and drives down the price of the domestic product." (Contemporary Business, 11e). Dumping is an illegal pratice. Of course, that's never stopped Microsoft before. They come from the school that believes laws are just "guidlines" and use their huge cash reserves to pay off any indiscretions.
In that case, I've got bad news for you. Microsoft wrote the BASIC that runs the 64. There's no escape! :(
Heh, good one. For some reason cartoony animated food (M&M guys) doesn't bother me, but I think there's a definite line that shouldn't be crossed (chicken mcnuggets playing with children). :)
Tigerdirect is selling what they claim to be "The Next Level of Computer Security for Your Home or Office". I think their definition of computer security may be a bit different than yours or mine however, as one of the major selling points is a "-110 decibel siren to sound alarm and scare off intruders". Imagine that bad boy going off every time the machine is violated by the Windows worm de jour! ;)
Where as others smell like bull shit, chicken shit, or even pig shit. Matching megacorps to their odor is left as an exercise to the reader.. :)
The advantages for me were (1) I could pick Linux-friendly components, (2) I avoided the Microsoft tax, (3) I could pick AMD processors, which are simply better value than Intel processors.
<aol>me too</aol>
I tend to agree with you, distro reviews need to go deeper than just describing the installation and package manager. They need to cover things like Redhat's kernel mods (which cause problems with certain software like winex), Mandrake's supermount (yeech), aliases, vim settings, non-standard config files. And comments on the expected life cycles for commercial distros would be nice too.
Yes, but really using inline CSS as a fancy <font> tag kinda defeats the purpose. Though I have been known to use it on occasion when certain browsers coughIEcough choked when applying multiple classes to elements.
(before any ACs flame me, I just realized my example was flawed, with the mismatched quote marks. Oops!)It's not needed when defining only a single element, but it's not invalid. Good luck defining multiple style elements without separating them, i.e.:
<span style="font:20px bold italic Courier; color:red; background:white;'>Dude, where's my CSS?</span>
Did anybody else read that headline as "Mitnick Helps Bust Bomb Haxxor"?
Or they could ask Jeeves:
Say, Jeeves old boy: how many servers does Google have?
Jeeves: Piss off!