If your using XHTML then it's fairly easy to automate some of the basic accessability requirements like verifying all that anchors have description and that links are more than just one word. It's also fairly easy to put abbreviations and acronyms in with XSL, and you can automatically generate RSS feeds based on content.
You can also do a lot with CSS too, like moving the location of menus to the a menu bar for 'normal' users and to the top for users that have screen readers and the like.
Hmm.. that seems odd, Borland tools are usually well polished (especially when compaired to Microsoft Tools) as you would expect for a company that's been in the business of writing development tools for such a long time. Kylix 1 was quite buggy but Kylix 2 was a lot better (certainly better than anything else available under linux)
I never like to throw anything out and always prefer to rework the code base so that it's more appropriate for the changing specifications. This has the benefit of being much faster than a rewrite and you usually end up fixing a tonne of bugs and making the system far better instead of having to start testing all over again.
I could believe that Microsoft got a lot of code monkeys to rework the existing code base to some new specification in a fairly short period of time, purley because you can throw a hundred people in to rework code when it would be impossible to throw that many people into a rewrite.
Unless MS have done something truley magical with VS then I suggest you look at the other options e.g. Borland tools and some people even like Eclipse (which I've found to be an absolute nightmare to get anything working because all the configuration features are nested about four or five deep through a minefiled of badly named features and plugins). Borland tools have been miles nicer than anything Microsoft produced from rad design through to better management of help files.
Isn't the freedom to reuse the code one of the fundamental freedoms of the free software movement?
GPL3 seems to make it impossible for a GPL 2 project to take code from a GPL 3 project. Many GPL projects (e.g. the Linux Kernel) keep copyrights assigned to the person or company who contributed the patch, so the kernel will not be able to use GPL 3 code potentially without the permission of every contributor to the kernel.
Well, there are a number of places near where I live that will transfer old cinifilm onto DVD, I expect the same will be the case for people trying to recover data from old media in the future
My point was that Linux doesn't have to run on a PC, it runs on IBM Big Iron too, and nowadays the generic term PC (Personal Computer) has come to mean x86, which excludes Macs and other workstations.
What about public domain which the RIAA/MPAA or whatever have no right in deleting of someones computer EVER. Would this application be considered a Trojan Hours? if so I doubt the MPAA/RIAA will be prosecuted.
All they prevent is shops being broken into, the criminals move out from the center and start targeting peoples homes.
Where I live we have cameras everywhere, well everywhere there are shops to protect, places like the underpass where a woman was attached have no CCTV at all.
It does say Wales at the top of the artical, thats a bit like it saying Texus.
Jpeg - this is a compressed picture file.
What's a file, just call it a compressed picture.
PDF - portable document format, which means the file is in a format that can be read on any PC
Unless it has DRM... try explain that one. and what about PDA's and maybe Macs or Linux (even though a Mac is technically a PC I doubt a layman would make the connection)
Excell - this helps to run programs on your PC.
Replace Programs with viruses and your about there.
Java Script - a computer programming language.
Doh, Joe sixpack doesn't know what a computer programming language is, Java Script - Makes web pages interactive.
Cookies - this enables some web pages to 'remember' your previous visits - for example, an E-Commerce site might use a cookie to remember which items you've placed in your online shopping cart.
Yeh, WTF is a E-Commerce site and online mean? moron.
Worm - this is a virus that replicates itself until it fills all of the storage space on a drive or network.
Umm... not really, it's just a virus that distributes itself via the network (or over the internet for Joe)
As for filewall, maybe the author doesn't know what it means either.
Were told lots of things by the Government / Police, though they are very often untrue.
On a side note, about a year ago I traveled on the London tube network with a digital camera, pointing at and taking photos of every CCTV camera that I could find. This caused one station guard to walk up and down the platform at one station, but everywhere else there was no sign of security.
'Given that when I pay for a CD, I'm paying for the music, not the plastic and mylar'
I think that he purchased both the CD, plastic and mylar.
'If that were the case than you would have the right to download an MP3 or another type of encoding of the music for a lifetime once you bought a CD. Even after your CD is lost, stolen, scratched to hell, or sold or even given to someone else.'
That's my reason for downloading music, and it's quicker to download music than to rip it.
GTA wasn't M rated in the first place and can only be 'M' rated by some weird conspiracy about getting the christian right vote and being elected next time. (I don't think the rating has changed here in the UK)
hence my first comment about killing real things with real guns and not just on a computer/TV screen, sex doesn't even enter the equation.
p.s. You don't hear stories about all the traumatized Roman children who used to join in in orgies, so I think the Sex problem(tm) is related is a problem because of our social system and not because of the sex, all that banning things (or preventing children from having access to them) does is prolificate the social system that has caused the problem in the first place. I thought they would have learnt their lesson when Blacks were given equal rights in an attempt to prevent the prejudice in society (and let black have the vote too!)
There have still been more than enough Java exploits, either by breaking out of the sandbox or signed code being able to bypass it. Sandboxed execution of remote code is better than running it freely but still far from optimal, it's a step in the right direction but removing the extensions altogether would be better.
All software has bugs, when was the last security exploit in Java that broke out of the sandbox? (I know the original exploit targeted the class loader, which was replaced in the next release of Java)
There's probably truth in all of that, but I think the principal problem is that with finite resources there's always a tradeoff between features and security, But from the marketing I would have expected Firefox to lean more on the side of security than features, this is apparently not the case.
On as side note, I raise a bug quite some time ago saying that the owner of an iframe cannot access any information about the contents of the iframe, one reason why this is handy is so that you can resize the iframe to fit the contents without knowing how large the contents is.
The reason for the bug being closed is because it could have introduced cross site scripting errors, if their was a sandbox inplace then the chance of a cross site scripting error would have been near zero (the chance of having a hole in the sandbox)
So, good security allows you to provide more features because your not paranoid about the features being exploited.
Well, the reason I think Microsoft won was because IBM didn't stop the PC cloning business and that deal? with IBM, maybe if Apple had have allowed the MAC to be cloned it would be in the same position as Microsoft is today. The reason Linux is popular, and arguably more pervasive than Windows (Settop boxes/ mobile phones/ foobar construction sets etc...) is because anyone can copy it for free, maybe if Solaris was released under GPL it would be in the same position Linux is today.
IT's too late, the horse has already bolted, if only people would have listend to RMS and called their distributions GNU-Linux Linus may still have had a chance. The reason you can't trademark Linux is because well, there's Redhat Linux (That's GNU-Linux + lots of other stuff), and Linux programming 2nd edition (and it's not about kernel programming) and a quick google for linux turns up Linux www.microsoft.com/getthefacts Read in-depth 3rd party performance analysis of Linux & Windows.
as second on the list!!, and that's not about the Linux kernel either.
Sorry, my Bic is too powerfull for the notepad you've given to me to write my response on. This is an intermittent fault caused by you not upgrading your notepad.
Well, replace Bic with Sim card and notepad with mobile phone and you've got the standard response for random mobile phone faults.
firefox extensions are only a huge security threat because they aren't sandboxed. As someone else mentioned Java implemented a sandbox years ago (presumably because SUN new a little bit about networks and security). I would guess that IE and Firefox aren't secure because neither of the development teams were practiced in networks or security, mainly because Windows is Windows and didn't like anything else and Firefox is mainly developed by people with more time on their hands than the average security / network expert.
Hey, when I was ten I went out hunting (on my own) with a REAL gun killing REAL animals and taking them home to eat. I also drove cars and motorbikes on some 'wasteland' near where I lived. I'd take that 'M' rating with a 'liberal' pinch of salt, especially as violent crime seems to be dropping as games sales increase.
A lot of people are still running Redhat 9 and that's ancient in the OSS world, so I expect some people are still running much older versions of linux that may have the circa 2001 flaws.
Because the whole global warming thing is so politicized I like to take the view that humans are using more resources than are being produced, so in X years time the resources will run out or become scarce.
I try to encourage people to live in a sustainable fashion regardless of their view on global warming.
(There are ofcorse the people that believe that the Oil will keep flowing at a reasonable rate forever, but I don't think theres anything that can help them).
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If your using XHTML then it's fairly easy to automate some of the basic accessability requirements like verifying all that anchors have description and that links are more than just one word. It's also fairly easy to put abbreviations and acronyms in with XSL, and you can automatically generate RSS feeds based on content.
You can also do a lot with CSS too, like moving the location of menus to the a menu bar for 'normal' users and to the top for users that have screen readers and the like.
consumers, Of course they don't care about consumers. Customers on the other hand?
Anyone know the date at which the word consumers replaced the word customer?
'unlikely to be true'
That reminds me of the saying "don't put down to malice that can be accounted for by stupidity"
Hmm.. that seems odd, Borland tools are usually well polished (especially when compaired to Microsoft Tools) as you would expect for a company that's been in the business of writing development tools for such a long time. Kylix 1 was quite buggy but Kylix 2 was a lot better (certainly better than anything else available under linux)
I never like to throw anything out and always prefer to rework the code base so that it's more appropriate for the changing specifications. This has the benefit of being much faster than a rewrite and you usually end up fixing a tonne of bugs and making the system far better instead of having to start testing all over again.
I could believe that Microsoft got a lot of code monkeys to rework the existing code base to some new specification in a fairly short period of time, purley because you can throw a hundred people in to rework code when it would be impossible to throw that many people into a rewrite.
Unless MS have done something truley magical with VS then I suggest you look at the other options e.g. Borland tools and some people even like Eclipse (which I've found to be an absolute nightmare to get anything working because all the configuration features are nested about four or five deep through a minefiled of badly named features and plugins).
Borland tools have been miles nicer than anything Microsoft produced from rad design through to better management of help files.
Isn't the freedom to reuse the code one of the fundamental freedoms of the free software movement?
GPL3 seems to make it impossible for a GPL 2 project to take code from a GPL 3 project. Many GPL projects (e.g. the Linux Kernel) keep copyrights assigned to the person or company who contributed the patch, so the kernel will not be able to use GPL 3 code potentially without the permission of every contributor to the kernel.
Well, there are a number of places near where I live that will transfer old cinifilm onto DVD, I expect the same will be the case for people trying to recover data from old media in the future
My point was that Linux doesn't have to run on a PC, it runs on IBM Big Iron too, and nowadays the generic term PC (Personal Computer) has come to mean x86, which excludes Macs and other workstations.
What about public domain which the RIAA/MPAA or whatever have no right in deleting of someones computer EVER. Would this application be considered a Trojan Hours? if so I doubt the MPAA/RIAA will be prosecuted.
All they prevent is shops being broken into, the criminals move out from the center and start targeting peoples homes.
Where I live we have cameras everywhere, well everywhere there are shops to protect, places like the underpass where a woman was attached have no CCTV at all.
It does say Wales at the top of the artical, thats a bit like it saying Texus.
Jpeg - this is a compressed picture file.
What's a file, just call it a compressed picture.
PDF - portable document format, which means the file is in a format that can be read on any PC
Unless it has DRM... try explain that one. and what about PDA's and maybe Macs or Linux (even though a Mac is technically a PC I doubt a layman would make the connection)
Excell - this helps to run programs on your PC.
Replace Programs with viruses and your about there.
Java Script - a computer programming language.
Doh, Joe sixpack doesn't know what a computer programming language is,
Java Script - Makes web pages interactive.
Cookies - this enables some web pages to 'remember' your previous visits - for example, an E-Commerce site might use a cookie to remember which items you've placed in your online shopping cart.
Yeh, WTF is a E-Commerce site and online mean? moron.
Worm - this is a virus that replicates itself until it fills all of the storage space on a drive or network.
Umm... not really, it's just a virus that distributes itself via the network (or over the internet for Joe)
As for filewall, maybe the author doesn't know what it means either.
Were told lots of things by the Government / Police, though they are very often untrue.
On a side note, about a year ago I traveled on the London tube network with a digital camera, pointing at and taking photos of every CCTV camera that I could find. This caused one station guard to walk up and down the platform at one station, but everywhere else there was no sign of security.
'Given that when I pay for a CD, I'm paying for the music, not the plastic and mylar'
I think that he purchased both the CD, plastic and mylar.
'If that were the case than you would have the right to download an MP3 or another type of encoding of the music for a lifetime once you bought a CD. Even after your CD is lost, stolen, scratched to hell, or sold or even given to someone else.'
That's my reason for downloading music, and it's quicker to download music than to rip it.
GTA wasn't M rated in the first place and can only be 'M' rated by some weird conspiracy about getting the christian right vote and being elected next time. (I don't think the rating has changed here in the UK)
hence my first comment about killing real things with real guns and not just on a computer/TV screen, sex doesn't even enter the equation.
p.s. You don't hear stories about all the traumatized Roman children who used to join in in orgies, so I think the Sex problem(tm) is related is a problem because of our social system and not because of the sex, all that banning things (or preventing children from having access to them) does is prolificate the social system that has caused the problem in the first place. I thought they would have learnt their lesson when Blacks were given equal rights in an attempt to prevent the prejudice in society (and let black have the vote too!)
There have still been more than enough Java exploits, either by breaking out of the sandbox or signed code being able to bypass it. Sandboxed execution of remote code is better than running it freely but still far from optimal, it's a step in the right direction but removing the extensions altogether would be better.
All software has bugs, when was the last security exploit in Java that broke out of the sandbox? (I know the original exploit targeted the class loader, which was replaced in the next release of Java)
There's probably truth in all of that, but I think the principal problem is that with finite resources there's always a tradeoff between features and security,
But from the marketing I would have expected Firefox to lean more on the side of security than features, this is apparently not the case.
On as side note, I raise a bug quite some time ago saying that the owner of an iframe cannot access any information about the contents of the iframe, one reason why this is handy is so that you can resize the iframe to fit the contents without knowing how large the contents is.
The reason for the bug being closed is because it could have introduced cross site scripting errors, if their was a sandbox inplace then the chance of a cross site scripting error would have been near zero (the chance of having a hole in the sandbox)
So, good security allows you to provide more features because your not paranoid about the features being exploited.
All you have to do is sign the checksums so that the recipient can tell where they've come from and the jobs done.
Well, the reason I think Microsoft won was because IBM didn't stop the PC cloning business and that deal? with IBM, maybe if Apple had have allowed the MAC to be cloned it would be in the same position as Microsoft is today.
The reason Linux is popular, and arguably more pervasive than Windows (Settop boxes/ mobile phones/ foobar construction sets etc...) is because anyone can copy it for free, maybe if Solaris was released under GPL it would be in the same position Linux is today.
IT's too late, the horse has already bolted, if only people would have listend to RMS and called their distributions GNU-Linux Linus may still have had a chance.
The reason you can't trademark Linux is because well, there's Redhat Linux (That's GNU-Linux + lots of other stuff), and Linux programming 2nd edition (and it's not about kernel programming) and a quick google for linux turns up
Linux
www.microsoft.com/getthefacts Read in-depth 3rd party performance analysis of Linux & Windows.
as second on the list!!, and that's not about the Linux kernel either.
Sorry, my Bic is too powerfull for the notepad you've given to me to write my response on. This is an intermittent fault caused by you not upgrading your notepad.
Well, replace Bic with Sim card and notepad with mobile phone and you've got the standard response for random mobile phone faults.
firefox extensions are only a huge security threat because they aren't sandboxed. As someone else mentioned Java implemented a sandbox years ago (presumably because SUN new a little bit about networks and security). I would guess that IE and Firefox aren't secure because neither of the development teams were practiced in networks or security, mainly because Windows is Windows and didn't like anything else and Firefox is mainly developed by people with more time on their hands than the average security / network expert.
Well, from the looks of the news reports 'google for daisy chain, sex' young kids are already having orgies too.
Hey, when I was ten I went out hunting (on my own) with a REAL gun killing REAL animals and taking them home to eat. I also drove cars and motorbikes on some 'wasteland' near where I lived. I'd take that 'M' rating with a 'liberal' pinch of salt, especially as violent crime seems to be dropping as games sales increase.
A lot of people are still running Redhat 9 and that's ancient in the OSS world, so I expect some people are still running much older versions of linux that may have the circa 2001 flaws.
Because the whole global warming thing is so politicized I like to take the view that humans are using more resources than are being produced, so in X years time the resources will run out or become scarce.
I try to encourage people to live in a sustainable fashion regardless of their view on global warming.
(There are ofcorse the people that believe that the Oil will keep flowing at a reasonable rate forever, but I don't think theres anything that can help them).