Why is a standard being created for which Google Gears + Google Video/YouTube seems to be the "main thing" it's for? Somebody please tell me why HTML5 isn't worse than anything Microsoft ever tried to do with the browser - why it isn't platform lock-in.
This is a sincere question, because the previous HTML standards seemed to be really truly designed for multiple implementations, whereas this app-y version seems to already have an end application in mind and is working backwards to create the "standard."
The main thing I can't understand is why the left gets so apopleptic over Fox News or Liberty Media when they so clearly spew out essentially the same formula. It's just like I couldn't see any difference between San Francisco when I lived there and the PTL club when I lived near the NC/SC border -- both groups of people were defined by a vaguely circus-like atmosphere and never meeting a soul who didn't instantly believe the exact same things you do.
I take issue with the "very limited" subset part of your comment. Limited, yes but a lot of what you are thinking of is not the windows api. file io, process management, gdi, fonts, internet, com,.net s a lot of it is there. Some of the linux stuff won't be there on arm, so its unfair to say evertything linux is trivial and winmobile has "hardly anything". I know a LOT is there
F-u-d. WinMobile is API-compatible with Windows, so "all you need is a recompile" - except for the fact that the screen and input devices are totally different!
In C# I do lots of my U/I development using the same source code with a 320x200 WinForms app and then compile and run the same source on PPC.
They look pretty similar to me. I know what you are talking about, but Bing does a pretty good job of mimicking Google.
I did the "cheeseburger" test on it - if on Google, I search for Cheeseburger and the first page of links are all people trying to get me to buy cheeseburgers, I know Google's evilling up the results. If on the other hand I get all kinds of cool interesting things about cheeseburgers, I know I'm getting the "truth."
The result sets look almost the same to me and the output is bland enough. The margin and images don't bug me.
C++ objects are just a set of methods with a hidden "this*" parameter passed to each one. All the multiple virtual inheritance are just different ways of finding an offset to this*. Nothing stopping you from doing that in C - except you can be a lot more flexible, and just use your own logic to pass this* or that* without all that silly inheritance.
You just have to learn how to write real code, that's all:-)
Foxit has a couple of problems with some forms-based PDFs my work gave me, but on the other hand, it lets me save form field values in pdfs where acrobat won't.
It's great; I got sick of the bloat ware and "run all the time! in the background! always show up with checks for prompts for updates every time I open my browser!" that adobe has turned into.
Clearly this is their version of "Windows ain't done till Lotus won't run." They'll come out of beta when Outlook is gone, and people run it for their corporate email.
Just wait till the corruption scandals start about people using Google's infrastructure to perform massive spying (beyond what's already known). It's human nature.
I've often wondered why there isn't an option in programming languages for "while", "if", "else", "for", "do" and "function" to be written in foreign languages.
tandis que, si, d'autre, pour, faire et la fonction
when I worked at MS, I used to always install the IDS and IDW builds. Not the dailies - they never worked. But I got really tired of learning about possible features that would never really exist, and now from the outside world I'm tired of learning about betas, because it's never exactly like the shipping product. Who cares? I'll just learn about it when it's done.
It does me zero good to know about things that I'm not going to create myself. If MS will implement it in five years, I'll learn about it in five years.
The ironic thing is the scientific method ultimately brings one back to the same sorts of mysteries that Creationism want to jump straight to. Parallel universes, etc. The "god story" doesn't sound so wierd once you get to the advanced levels of stuff.
Science = Gotta Wear A Darwin Fish on your car is kind of closed-minded as anything else. It's characterized by surrounding yourself by people who exclusively think like you already think, and not being challenged.
So, all we need to do is consider this universe to be thought about by a larger more richer universe and then everything can be seen to happen automatically:-)
One of the lamer cop-outs of the late 20th century:-)
On a REAL database, like Oracle, the query optimizer will factor common expressions, eliminate unused branches, and in general execute your SQL in completely different manner than what you write.
Doing things in a "relational calculus" way, where you specify what to be done (i.e., with SQL) is superior to doing things in a "relational algebra" way (individual statements correlated by procedure code).
I've written some queries that were a dozen pages long for a individual statement, mostly because I use a python-like style where the indentation specifies the structure and thus you can string together monstrous subexpressions and not get confused. The DBA was like "you're not running that on MY box," but it ran super fast because of the query optimizer.
That's what I mean when I say MySql is a Toy, compared to DB/2, Oracle, or SQL Server. The query optimizer.
I like Office Depot things I used to go to BestBuy or Circuit City for that I don't buy on NewEgg. Cables, SD cards, maybe a keyboard, a landline telephone. They have a nice selection.
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Why is a standard being created for which Google Gears + Google Video/YouTube seems to be the "main thing" it's for? Somebody please tell me why HTML5 isn't worse than anything Microsoft ever tried to do with the browser - why it isn't platform lock-in.
This is a sincere question, because the previous HTML standards seemed to be really truly designed for multiple implementations, whereas this app-y version seems to already have an end application in mind and is working backwards to create the "standard."
The main thing I can't understand is why the left gets so apopleptic over Fox News or Liberty Media when they so clearly spew out essentially the same formula. It's just like I couldn't see any difference between San Francisco when I lived there and the PTL club when I lived near the NC/SC border -- both groups of people were defined by a vaguely circus-like atmosphere and never meeting a soul who didn't instantly believe the exact same things you do.
Um, the narrator in the story uses those actual words, and it's a major plot point of the story. Did you actually read it?
As Stephen King said, "Everything's eventual."
Yeah, man, everything's REAL eventual :-)
Great line - I keep telling myself that.
How much malware could be stopped if Porn sites couldn't prompt you to install a special codec just to view this free porn?
All I know is any time I wanted to try out apps I wrote myself on my PocketPC or give them to someone to install, I never had any trouble.
I take issue with the "very limited" subset part of your comment. Limited, yes but a lot of what you are thinking of is not the windows api. file io, process management, gdi, fonts, internet, com, .net s a lot of it is there. Some of the linux stuff won't be there on arm, so its unfair to say evertything linux is trivial and winmobile has "hardly anything". I know a LOT is there
F-u-d. WinMobile is API-compatible with Windows, so "all you need is a recompile" - except for the fact that the screen and input devices are totally different!
In C# I do lots of my U/I development using the same source code with a 320x200 WinForms app and then compile and run the same source on PPC.
They look pretty similar to me. I know what you are talking about, but Bing does a pretty good job of mimicking Google.
I did the "cheeseburger" test on it - if on Google, I search for Cheeseburger and the first page of links are all people trying to get me to buy cheeseburgers, I know Google's evilling up the results. If on the other hand I get all kinds of cool interesting things about cheeseburgers, I know I'm getting the "truth."
The result sets look almost the same to me and the output is bland enough. The margin and images don't bug me.
You wouldn't say that if you saw C done properly.
C++ objects are just a set of methods with a hidden "this*" parameter passed to each one. All the multiple virtual inheritance are just different ways of finding an offset to this*. Nothing stopping you from doing that in C - except you can be a lot more flexible, and just use your own logic to pass this* or that* without all that silly inheritance.
You just have to learn how to write real code, that's all :-)
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What is Tungsten, or Wolfram?
I'm guessing we're going to see a lot of the number 74 and W in various iterations if this catches on...
Oh my god someone actually WANTING to go back to setting IRQs and DMAs manually :-)
Hang on, I'm still tweaking my EMM386 in my Config.sys :-)
I actually did pretty good back in those days - I think I got 614K free, without using any 3rd party junk. I could get any game to run.
Foxit has a couple of problems with some forms-based PDFs my work gave me, but on the other hand, it lets me save form field values in pdfs where acrobat won't.
It's great; I got sick of the bloat ware and "run all the time! in the background! always show up with checks for prompts for updates every time I open my browser!" that adobe has turned into.
now if foxit only made a flash player
Did anyone else glance at Gliese and read that as uncomfortably close to Goatse.cx?
By the way, off topic, as it is, how does one prevent from being fooled by tinyurl links to goatse.cx?
I think Oracle on AIX is pretty powerful, and popular.
Mainstream support for XP ended last week. It's dead, Jim.
2003 to 2009 is longer than any version of Ubuntu is supported. It's had a nice life. Shoot it in the head, and move on :-)
Clearly this is their version of "Windows ain't done till Lotus won't run." They'll come out of beta when Outlook is gone, and people run it for their corporate email.
Just wait till the corruption scandals start about people using Google's infrastructure to perform massive spying (beyond what's already known). It's human nature.
I'm guessing posting here will get me the April Fools achievement!
I've often wondered why there isn't an option in programming languages for "while", "if", "else", "for", "do" and "function" to be written in foreign languages.
tandis que, si, d'autre, pour, faire et la fonction
when I worked at MS, I used to always install the IDS and IDW builds. Not the dailies - they never worked. But I got really tired of learning about possible features that would never really exist, and now from the outside world I'm tired of learning about betas, because it's never exactly like the shipping product. Who cares? I'll just learn about it when it's done.
It does me zero good to know about things that I'm not going to create myself. If MS will implement it in five years, I'll learn about it in five years.
The ironic thing is the scientific method ultimately brings one back to the same sorts of mysteries that Creationism want to jump straight to. Parallel universes, etc. The "god story" doesn't sound so wierd once you get to the advanced levels of stuff.
Science = Gotta Wear A Darwin Fish on your car is kind of closed-minded as anything else. It's characterized by surrounding yourself by people who exclusively think like you already think, and not being challenged.
That's a funny way to spell MCSD.
So, all we need to do is consider this universe to be thought about by a larger more richer universe and then everything can be seen to happen automatically :-)
One of the lamer cop-outs of the late 20th century :-)
On a REAL database, like Oracle, the query optimizer will factor common expressions, eliminate unused branches, and in general execute your SQL in completely different manner than what you write.
Doing things in a "relational calculus" way, where you specify what to be done (i.e., with SQL) is superior to doing things in a "relational algebra" way (individual statements correlated by procedure code).
I've written some queries that were a dozen pages long for a individual statement, mostly because I use a python-like style where the indentation specifies the structure and thus you can string together monstrous subexpressions and not get confused. The DBA was like "you're not running that on MY box," but it ran super fast because of the query optimizer.
That's what I mean when I say MySql is a Toy, compared to DB/2, Oracle, or SQL Server. The query optimizer.
I like Office Depot things I used to go to BestBuy or Circuit City for that I don't buy on NewEgg. Cables, SD cards, maybe a keyboard, a landline telephone. They have a nice selection.