The point of relationships is only companions can get intimate enough with your characters. The others are just flirts.
I think gay and lesbian players would want a RT with someone they are close too in the game. I do not liek the gay planet idea. It will discourage straight players from going there and it means homophobia for the rest of the galaxy. In real life gay and lesbian people exist everwhere and I think in the dialoge would be great if the user went into the advanced settings to enable. By default keep it straight.
That way it is non offensive and kid friendly and nice for those who want a female character but have no men hitting on them either:-)
Javascript absolutely has nothing to do with Java.
Netscape realized for the web to take off as a platform it needed to do more than just display text and pictures so logic was needed. Netscape invented Livescript. Sun didn't like it and was in talks with making Java used instead of Livescript for dynamic web content.
So Netscape made a deal to rename Livescript Javascript with the contract to include jre with Netscape 3. It has nothing to do with it other than pure marketing name to confuse users to spread synergy to Java instead which is what Sun hoped as Livescript aka Javascript was very limited at the time.
Sure, rewriting the applications would take some time, but I think you'll find that you'll spend less time rolling out a C++ application that you would a Java application. There is so many more things that can go wrong with Java than a standard C++ application. And I'm not sure why you even mention having to make sure their machines are up-to-date. That's a bigger issue with having to rely on the JVM than the C++ libraries that get compiled into the application or are dynamically linked in and most installers can chain in the C++ runtime libraries (that can be set to be application specific or system wide installation -- obviously app specific causes less headaches).
Have you coded any huge +1 million lines of code projects before?
There is a reason developers fled C++ to Java back in the 1990s until recently. It doesn't make sense to go back to C++.
>. If the entrepreneur fails, he loses his life savings often.
Not the smart entrepreneur. For them, it's the investors and staff who lose out.
Only true if you have already made it. Ever watch Shark Tank?
Unless you have those sales and growth and are making money hands over fist and just need some extra capital to meet existing orders an investor wont even talk to you. The risk has to be 0 and money back guaranteed or very close to this.
True back in 1999 that wasn't the case. But in 2013 it sure as hell is. You need all of your own capital or partners. Banks today wont just give out money either. They demand a personal guarantee aka colateral (as in the repo man shows up to take your car and home if you do not pay your bills each month!) No colateral? No money.
You need to already be rich to make it big or be making the sales necessary to show other investors and pay off the bank beforehand. Maybe as the economy improves this will change but right now it is where it should be. TOUGH
All MS has to do is say "Ok, instead of having 1 months supply of Windows 8 licenses I need you to buy 5 months ahead of time!"
Then MS releases a press release saying "OMG DEMAND FOR WINDOWS 8 WENT UP 500%!" Intentionally, exgerated of course but that is my point. We all know the accounting tricks of Vista numbers where people and businesses bought them but wiped them and downgraded to XP.
Online website counters are the real way to predict adoption. If anyone is interested in the real number of people *actually using* windows 8 click here from statcounter who checks millions of websites each day? Windows 8 was 2% the last I looked. In comparison Windows 7 jumped 3x more in the same time period 3 years ago!
As people become more familiar with METRO they will tolerate them more and will start to be familiar with the UI. I suppose it is not too bad on a tablet even though it blows on a desktop.
Windows RT is a fraction of the cost of full Windows 8 which is an advantage to consumers too who just play angry birds and want to edit some office docs at home or on the road.
We should all encourage a healthy ecosystem and not just have 2 on the block to choose from? We will get better prices and innovation the more platforms we have. I would not want an Android monopoly more than the Microsoft one we had over 10 years ago to ruturn.
Samsung is not bringing the latest Galaxy either because of Apple. Sometimes losing is cheaper than fighting in court as Apple are frankly assholes who already sued and won $ 1,000,000,000 judgement already. The shareholders will not put up with that anymore.
If this is not proof that Apple is far more evil than MS I do not know what is. At least in 2013 my anti-MS zealotry I had 12 years ago is gone. I used to post comments opposite of what I write today about the evils of MS.
But today I want to see more WindowsRT tablets to keep Android, IOS, and Webkit in check for a healthier marketplace. I doubt MS will be what it once was with this competition but I believe we all benefit even if we are loyal IOS or Android users.
If you are an entrepreneur and you are not creative... well you are out of a job FAST. Infact, most entrepeneurs are out of a job fast regardless. You only hear or study about the few successful ones.
A manager is not being paid to be creative. He or she is being paid to babbysit and attend meetings all day. Ok, I am being bashful here, maybe there a few good managers, but not from what I seen. There is a reason why managers get paid less then successful entrepeneurs by a large amount of money. Their ability to bring in money/value is limited to their scope of what they are in charge of.
Entrepeneurs on the other hand change the world for millions of people.
I think it is the gardener claiming he owns your plants because he planted them and provided care and did all teh work. But the law is on your side because he provided the labor on your property. It is owned by you! Same principle with VMWare.
Of course we do not know all the details but what we do know is VMWare was part of the project, and this man worked for them at the same time. It seems to me that is highly likely he was paid to do it by VMware just on that evidence as VMWare was aware of it and kept paying him.
According to the law, VMWare owns the code he worked on in the office or on the clock. THe contract is for extra work off the clock.
THe question is was it produced at work and especially if VMWare paid him to write it. If the answer is yes then any sane judge would side with VMWare. I believe since VMWare was part of the project that he was paid to write it. Contract or not it is their property.
If I am wrong feel free to reply back. If he did this at home for example then yes, they can kiss his lawyers ass.
Wouldn't it be just easier to use no prefixes and have it magically work on all browsers?
THe point of the story was how great it would be if Webkit owned a HUGE part of the market and how MS will benefit and how webmasters would be happy. I shudder at such situation regardless of how good webkit is right now and how large a marketshare it already has. I happen to view it as another dark age as webkit would be too large if IE fell. It might even start harming firefox users all over gain.
In mobile land right now we have the IE 6 right now. I want to use Firefox mobile when my plan expires in a few months and I wish these content management systems would support standards.
So my point is to learn from your mistakes. Not repeat them and the more engines and adherence to a uniform way of functioning the better. Perhaps the reason people use webkit is because it is what comes with their tablets and phones and works everyone? Not because they love it.
Go get your Android phone and try out the new FIrefox mobile?
Now go to disney, msnbc, hbo, and other sites. How many render properly? That is why I am up an arms as an Android user.
I hate my dataplan and want to get a Mozilla FirefoxOS dumbphone in a few months. I wonder how useful it is going to be. I am not a trident fan, but rather I want MS Surface users and Nokia users as well to have the same browsing experience.
Right now I fear webkit will be the next MS, more than MS resurrecting from the dead.
Have you tried browsing the web with Firefox on Android? It feels like Netscape during 2003 all over again where IE 6 is the only browser that worked well or at all. As mobile takes over webkit will be the next IE 6.
Most web-designers do not even know how to code today. Usually some intern comes in and cuts and paste word docs into the system and she clicks the upload button. If the content management software was from 2011 it will only include -webkit support.
Go upgrade? HA, didn't we just blow $50,000 for this just over a year ago! I DONT THINK SO! etc.
Watch what happens when the W3C decided to make changes to the standard and older webkit engines do not render it properly? It will be IE 6 all over again where corps will downgrade new phones with out of date Android versions... shudder.... it gets better. Website makers will now have to put conditional comments for specific webkit versions as these corps will run outdated versions of android to run their enterprise apps. We do not want to loose those customers do we? Hmmm this sound very familiar like I heard this before?
The prefixes might cause more problems than they fix. I will wait for a few years and see what happens? I think all this will do is make new IE 6,s and IE 7s in specific webkit versions if this fucks up.
IE 10 is very close to being released. In a few months when MS puts it in WIndows Update you will see IE 9 die out fast.
Remember Webkit has hacks in it for CSS 3 and the W3C are still working out implementations on all but the most basic feature set that IE 9 has. IT is still new technology and by next end of the year HTML 5.1 and CSS 3.1 will cement it.
At this point that and jquery no longer supporting IE 8, you will see it die. By 2014, it will be the next IE 6 hopefully. Once IE 8 gets near 5% usage we can start to see next generation sites on non-mobile platforms.
Have you tried IE 10? I know the thought probably sends shiver down your spine but I have to say MS really is caring and shaking in their boots. It is a great browser. I fear webkit becoming too dominate at this point and Windows Phone users are whinning they can't view mobile sites as they cater to just webkit.
I can't advocate openstandards and bash IE 6, yet fully support webkit at the same time. I would be a hypocrite otherwise. What if you want to use FirefoxOS in your next phone? Will you be screwed over? Right now, yes.
IE has standard behavior now. Since IE 9 it passed all the acid tests. Just because you hate one browser doesn't mean you should support the entrenchment of another or support things like html5test that test non standard non implemented things. It encourages all the things that caused IE to be proprietary when implementations of things like the CSS box model came about locking corporate desktops up for decades.
Lets go to today? Right now webkit is causing problems being this decades IE 6 in terms of mobile browsing and HTML 5 and css 3.
If you own a Windows Phone (I know you do not, but bare with me..) and go to disney.com or cnn.com will it render correctly? Nope. THey use ---webkit prefixes. HTML5Test.com is part of the problem too as Google is in a pissing match on being the best browser, but what that site doesn't tell you is that these are not implemented the same as W3C drafting process.
In an open web you should be able to use the OS and browser you choose. What if you want to use a FirefoxOS phone? Will these sites still feed ---webkit specific code? THe answer is yes and you will have to click desktop version on it.
Don't you see a problem with that?
Recently, IE 10 is a great browser with good HTML 5 and CSS 3 and standards support. MS had to change as it is not the monster it once was. Google is just as evil and we all know Apple is after watching Samsung leave the US market due to crazy patent lawsuits.
Webkit is too prevalient in my opinion. We need more engines so webmasters wont do anything stupid and vendors do not get greedy and do anything stupid as well. Webkit is bringing flashbacks from IE 5. Remember at one time it was the best browser too and was just starting to convert Netscape users at the time. Chrome is the way point today.
A standards committee is what caused IE 6 inertia.
The problem is the W3C decided to use a different box model and other things in CSS that IE 5.5 and IE 6 pioneered when it was still new and cutting edge. THe response was websites igoring the W3C due to content managers being older and corps locking IE 6 to this very day to all their users as their apps were made before the new standards were set.
Chrome just invets shit and throws it out for a pissing contenst for HTML5test.com to make the geeks drool. The W3C can do something different and then you have incompatibility. Chrome might as well keep their proprietary hacks ---webkit in order not to break these mobile sites. Its 2003 all over again!
I do not give a shit whether it is opensource. I do give a shit whether it enslaves the web and enforces another decade of stagnationm, where we can't move on to HTML 6 and corps lock a special version of Chrome from this decade to support their apps.
Maybe Android 3.x will be used and corps will downgrade their phones for just that one version 10 years from now if the W3C makes changes that the current webkit does not support. Only Google's way of doing it is different.
IE 5.5 was cutting edge and MS was inventing new standards and it was the best browser back then. THe problems came when w3c decided to recommend the same standards implemented differently. Then IE 6 did things one way, and Firefox rendered them in another.
Open source or not I do not want to see that problem again.
At least Microsoft patches them and even activeX controls are signed by default, and even IE 6 will refuse to run unsigned activeX controls by default as well. Java is behind that 12 year old dinosaur!
MS may not have good intentions at all but they are moving forward and it was so frustrating when I was a java fan still last decade. You can upgrade your.NET apps and they are not browser dependent unless you put proprietary IE code in. We need a good biology anology for this one Samantha?
Several months ago I disabled the Java plugins/extensions in all the browsers I use. Know what I noticed? Absolutely nothing. No sites that I frequent used Java *at all*. My experience browsing the web didn't change an iota.
I had the exact same experience. Kind of sad actually given all the potential we could see when java was first announced. But in this world, java on the web is effectively dead.
You know its bad when ActiveX from 2001/IE6 era at least had trust signed applets witn security turning unsigned applets off by default . Fucking pathetic and shows how out of date Java really is even back in 2001! Sun really let it out to rot while Oracle wont even release fixes until a quarterly update.
May Java RIP.
I really wanted to like it as I thought with native compiler or a fat binary we could all be using Linux now with a gui framework next to none. Swing is really powerfull but ugly and slow in 1999 era hardware with JIT..NET is the future but it is tied to Windows for server apps as I can see until the next big thing has an answer and HUGE framework.
Java should be studied in I.T. management courses of greatly engineered products killed by incompetent management. Yes, java was hot and even secure shit back in 1990s! It just was never really updated extensively.
I still have found memories of programming in it even if the syntax was verbose and I shudder at the idea of Linux dying due to everyone using.NET now in the server room. If JavaFX had been around in the 1990s with real compilers and signed applets perhaps we would not have flash today.
Android is a classic example of what Java could have been 10 years ago in the browser if Sun got their shit together.
1. There is non-browser-related software that runs on Java. The software for my cheapo vector network analyzer is written in Java, for instance. Then you have other things, even system software such as Dalvik. Thus, even if we can make it go away in the browser, we can't everywhere else.
2. That brings up your point: my software didn't bring its own JRE. However, it turns out it runs just fine on OpenJRE. MY question: is OpenJDK/JRE vulnerable to this exploit? Is Dalvik? Or is this an inherent vulnerability to the language or interpreter (no matter who writes it) itself? (I hope that makes sense...)
Yep, they are all insecure. Dalvik? It is an interpretter and not run in a browser so no. OpenJDK is OracleJDK with a few proprietary libraries from Adobe and a few others replaced with equilivent functioning ones.
The exploit only works on a browser so disable it in IE and Firefox and you are good. If that program works in a browser you need to setup an IE zone and add an exception to your site, or use Firefox with noscript or set click to run as default?
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The point of relationships is only companions can get intimate enough with your characters. The others are just flirts.
I think gay and lesbian players would want a RT with someone they are close too in the game. I do not liek the gay planet idea. It will discourage straight players from going there and it means homophobia for the rest of the galaxy. In real life gay and lesbian people exist everwhere and I think in the dialoge would be great if the user went into the advanced settings to enable. By default keep it straight.
That way it is non offensive and kid friendly and nice for those who want a female character but have no men hitting on them either :-)
Javascript absolutely has nothing to do with Java.
Netscape realized for the web to take off as a platform it needed to do more than just display text and pictures so logic was needed. Netscape invented Livescript. Sun didn't like it and was in talks with making Java used instead of Livescript for dynamic web content.
So Netscape made a deal to rename Livescript Javascript with the contract to include jre with Netscape 3. It has nothing to do with it other than pure marketing name to confuse users to spread synergy to Java instead which is what Sun hoped as Livescript aka Javascript was very limited at the time.
It became a standard to this day.
Sure, rewriting the applications would take some time, but I think you'll find that you'll spend less time rolling out a C++ application that you would a Java application. There is so many more things that can go wrong with Java than a standard C++ application. And I'm not sure why you even mention having to make sure their machines are up-to-date. That's a bigger issue with having to rely on the JVM than the C++ libraries that get compiled into the application or are dynamically linked in and most installers can chain in the C++ runtime libraries (that can be set to be application specific or system wide installation -- obviously app specific causes less headaches).
Have you coded any huge +1 million lines of code projects before?
There is a reason developers fled C++ to Java back in the 1990s until recently. It doesn't make sense to go back to C++.
I use both and there are instructions here including a script where you run l.bat to set it up and sync.
However, it seems your use case is a little different than a personal backup.
You may need another text editor though
>. If the entrepreneur fails, he loses his life savings often.
Not the smart entrepreneur. For them, it's the investors and staff who lose out.
Only true if you have already made it. Ever watch Shark Tank?
Unless you have those sales and growth and are making money hands over fist and just need some extra capital to meet existing orders an investor wont even talk to you. The risk has to be 0 and money back guaranteed or very close to this.
True back in 1999 that wasn't the case. But in 2013 it sure as hell is. You need all of your own capital or partners. Banks today wont just give out money either. They demand a personal guarantee aka colateral (as in the repo man shows up to take your car and home if you do not pay your bills each month!) No colateral? No money.
You need to already be rich to make it big or be making the sales necessary to show other investors and pay off the bank beforehand. Maybe as the economy improves this will change but right now it is where it should be. TOUGH
OEM buys the licenses beforehand.
All MS has to do is say "Ok, instead of having 1 months supply of Windows 8 licenses I need you to buy 5 months ahead of time!"
Then MS releases a press release saying "OMG DEMAND FOR WINDOWS 8 WENT UP 500%!" Intentionally, exgerated of course but that is my point. We all know the accounting tricks of Vista numbers where people and businesses bought them but wiped them and downgraded to XP.
Online website counters are the real way to predict adoption. If anyone is interested in the real number of people *actually using* windows 8 click here from statcounter who checks millions of websites each day? Windows 8 was 2% the last I looked. In comparison Windows 7 jumped 3x more in the same time period 3 years ago!
In otherwords it is a dud.
People who may want to run Office for one?
As people become more familiar with METRO they will tolerate them more and will start to be familiar with the UI. I suppose it is not too bad on a tablet even though it blows on a desktop.
Windows RT is a fraction of the cost of full Windows 8 which is an advantage to consumers too who just play angry birds and want to edit some office docs at home or on the road.
We should all encourage a healthy ecosystem and not just have 2 on the block to choose from? We will get better prices and innovation the more platforms we have. I would not want an Android monopoly more than the Microsoft one we had over 10 years ago to ruturn.
Samsung is not bringing the latest Galaxy either because of Apple. Sometimes losing is cheaper than fighting in court as Apple are frankly assholes who already sued and won $ 1,000,000,000 judgement already. The shareholders will not put up with that anymore.
If this is not proof that Apple is far more evil than MS I do not know what is. At least in 2013 my anti-MS zealotry I had 12 years ago is gone. I used to post comments opposite of what I write today about the evils of MS.
But today I want to see more WindowsRT tablets to keep Android, IOS, and Webkit in check for a healthier marketplace. I doubt MS will be what it once was with this competition but I believe we all benefit even if we are loyal IOS or Android users.
A shame as Samsung made fine phones and tablets
If you are an entrepreneur and you are not creative ... well you are out of a job FAST. Infact, most entrepeneurs are out of a job fast regardless. You only hear or study about the few successful ones.
A manager is not being paid to be creative. He or she is being paid to babbysit and attend meetings all day. Ok, I am being bashful here, maybe there a few good managers, but not from what I seen. There is a reason why managers get paid less then successful entrepeneurs by a large amount of money. Their ability to bring in money/value is limited to their scope of what they are in charge of.
Entrepeneurs on the other hand change the world for millions of people.
I think you have it backwards.
I think it is the gardener claiming he owns your plants because he planted them and provided care and did all teh work. But the law is on your side because he provided the labor on your property. It is owned by you! Same principle with VMWare.
Of course we do not know all the details but what we do know is VMWare was part of the project, and this man worked for them at the same time. It seems to me that is highly likely he was paid to do it by VMware just on that evidence as VMWare was aware of it and kept paying him.
According to the law, VMWare owns the code he worked on in the office or on the clock. THe contract is for extra work off the clock.
THe question is was it produced at work and especially if VMWare paid him to write it. If the answer is yes then any sane judge would side with VMWare. I believe since VMWare was part of the project that he was paid to write it. Contract or not it is their property.
If I am wrong feel free to reply back. If he did this at home for example then yes, they can kiss his lawyers ass.
Wouldn't it be just easier to use no prefixes and have it magically work on all browsers?
THe point of the story was how great it would be if Webkit owned a HUGE part of the market and how MS will benefit and how webmasters would be happy. I shudder at such situation regardless of how good webkit is right now and how large a marketshare it already has. I happen to view it as another dark age as webkit would be too large if IE fell. It might even start harming firefox users all over gain.
In mobile land right now we have the IE 6 right now. I want to use Firefox mobile when my plan expires in a few months and I wish these content management systems would support standards.
So my point is to learn from your mistakes. Not repeat them and the more engines and adherence to a uniform way of functioning the better. Perhaps the reason people use webkit is because it is what comes with their tablets and phones and works everyone? Not because they love it.
Go get your Android phone and try out the new FIrefox mobile?
Now go to disney, msnbc, hbo, and other sites. How many render properly? That is why I am up an arms as an Android user.
I hate my dataplan and want to get a Mozilla FirefoxOS dumbphone in a few months. I wonder how useful it is going to be. I am not a trident fan, but rather I want MS Surface users and Nokia users as well to have the same browsing experience.
Right now I fear webkit will be the next MS, more than MS resurrecting from the dead.
Have you tried browsing the web with Firefox on Android? It feels like Netscape during 2003 all over again where IE 6 is the only browser that worked well or at all. As mobile takes over webkit will be the next IE 6.
Content managers upload code today.
Most web-designers do not even know how to code today. Usually some intern comes in and cuts and paste word docs into the system and she clicks the upload button. If the content management software was from 2011 it will only include -webkit support.
Go upgrade? HA, didn't we just blow $50,000 for this just over a year ago! I DONT THINK SO! etc.
Watch what happens when the W3C decided to make changes to the standard and older webkit engines do not render it properly? It will be IE 6 all over again where corps will downgrade new phones with out of date Android versions ... shudder. ... it gets better. Website makers will now have to put conditional comments for specific webkit versions as these corps will run outdated versions of android to run their enterprise apps. We do not want to loose those customers do we? Hmmm this sound very familiar like I heard this before?
The prefixes might cause more problems than they fix. I will wait for a few years and see what happens? I think all this will do is make new IE 6,s and IE 7s in specific webkit versions if this fucks up.
IE 10 is very close to being released. In a few months when MS puts it in WIndows Update you will see IE 9 die out fast.
Remember Webkit has hacks in it for CSS 3 and the W3C are still working out implementations on all but the most basic feature set that IE 9 has. IT is still new technology and by next end of the year HTML 5.1 and CSS 3.1 will cement it.
At this point that and jquery no longer supporting IE 8, you will see it die. By 2014, it will be the next IE 6 hopefully. Once IE 8 gets near 5% usage we can start to see next generation sites on non-mobile platforms.
Webkit is making MS honest.
Have you tried IE 10? I know the thought probably sends shiver down your spine but I have to say MS really is caring and shaking in their boots. It is a great browser. I fear webkit becoming too dominate at this point and Windows Phone users are whinning they can't view mobile sites as they cater to just webkit.
I can't advocate openstandards and bash IE 6, yet fully support webkit at the same time. I would be a hypocrite otherwise. What if you want to use FirefoxOS in your next phone? Will you be screwed over? Right now, yes.
IE has standard behavior now. Since IE 9 it passed all the acid tests. Just because you hate one browser doesn't mean you should support the entrenchment of another or support things like html5test that test non standard non implemented things. It encourages all the things that caused IE to be proprietary when implementations of things like the CSS box model came about locking corporate desktops up for decades.
That was over 10 years ago.
Lets go to today? Right now webkit is causing problems being this decades IE 6 in terms of mobile browsing and HTML 5 and css 3.
If you own a Windows Phone (I know you do not, but bare with me ..) and go to disney.com or cnn.com will it render correctly? Nope. THey use ---webkit prefixes. HTML5Test.com is part of the problem too as Google is in a pissing match on being the best browser, but what that site doesn't tell you is that these are not implemented the same as W3C drafting process.
In an open web you should be able to use the OS and browser you choose. What if you want to use a FirefoxOS phone? Will these sites still feed ---webkit specific code? THe answer is yes and you will have to click desktop version on it.
Don't you see a problem with that?
Recently, IE 10 is a great browser with good HTML 5 and CSS 3 and standards support. MS had to change as it is not the monster it once was. Google is just as evil and we all know Apple is after watching Samsung leave the US market due to crazy patent lawsuits.
Webkit is too prevalient in my opinion. We need more engines so webmasters wont do anything stupid and vendors do not get greedy and do anything stupid as well. Webkit is bringing flashbacks from IE 5. Remember at one time it was the best browser too and was just starting to convert Netscape users at the time. Chrome is the way point today.
A standards committee is what caused IE 6 inertia.
The problem is the W3C decided to use a different box model and other things in CSS that IE 5.5 and IE 6 pioneered when it was still new and cutting edge. THe response was websites igoring the W3C due to content managers being older and corps locking IE 6 to this very day to all their users as their apps were made before the new standards were set.
Chrome just invets shit and throws it out for a pissing contenst for HTML5test.com to make the geeks drool. The W3C can do something different and then you have incompatibility. Chrome might as well keep their proprietary hacks ---webkit in order not to break these mobile sites. Its 2003 all over again!
I do not give a shit whether it is opensource. I do give a shit whether it enslaves the web and enforces another decade of stagnationm, where we can't move on to HTML 6 and corps lock a special version of Chrome from this decade to support their apps.
Maybe Android 3.x will be used and corps will downgrade their phones for just that one version 10 years from now if the W3C makes changes that the current webkit does not support. Only Google's way of doing it is different.
IE 5.5 was cutting edge and MS was inventing new standards and it was the best browser back then. THe problems came when w3c decided to recommend the same standards implemented differently. Then IE 6 did things one way, and Firefox rendered them in another.
Open source or not I do not want to see that problem again.
Trident in IE 10 scores a decent in HTML 5/5.1 and CSS 3.
It is not the piece of crap it once was in IE 6. Just because you have not used it in 12 years doesn't mean it is the same as in 2001.
At least Microsoft patches them and even activeX controls are signed by default, and even IE 6 will refuse to run unsigned activeX controls by default as well. Java is behind that 12 year old dinosaur!
MS may not have good intentions at all but they are moving forward and it was so frustrating when I was a java fan still last decade. You can upgrade your .NET apps and they are not browser dependent unless you put proprietary IE code in. We need a good biology anology for this one Samantha?
Java really does suck today.
Several months ago I disabled the Java plugins/extensions in all the browsers I use. Know what I noticed? Absolutely nothing. No sites that I frequent used Java *at all*. My experience browsing the web didn't change an iota.
I had the exact same experience. Kind of sad actually given all the potential we could see when java was first announced. But in this world, java on the web is effectively dead.
You know its bad when ActiveX from 2001/IE6 era at least had trust signed applets witn security turning unsigned applets off by default . Fucking pathetic and shows how out of date Java really is even back in 2001! Sun really let it out to rot while Oracle wont even release fixes until a quarterly update.
May Java RIP.
I really wanted to like it as I thought with native compiler or a fat binary we could all be using Linux now with a gui framework next to none. Swing is really powerfull but ugly and slow in 1999 era hardware with JIT. .NET is the future but it is tied to Windows for server apps as I can see until the next big thing has an answer and HUGE framework.
Java should be studied in I.T. management courses of greatly engineered products killed by incompetent management. Yes, java was hot and even secure shit back in 1990s! It just was never really updated extensively.
I still have found memories of programming in it even if the syntax was verbose and I shudder at the idea of Linux dying due to everyone using .NET now in the server room. If JavaFX had been around in the 1990s with real compilers and signed applets perhaps we would not have flash today.
Android is a classic example of what Java could have been 10 years ago in the browser if Sun got their shit together.
You kind of brought up my topic:
1. There is non-browser-related software that runs on Java. The software for my cheapo vector network analyzer is written in Java, for instance. Then you have other things, even system software such as Dalvik. Thus, even if we can make it go away in the browser, we can't everywhere else.
2. That brings up your point: my software didn't bring its own JRE. However, it turns out it runs just fine on OpenJRE. MY question: is OpenJDK/JRE vulnerable to this exploit? Is Dalvik? Or is this an inherent vulnerability to the language or interpreter (no matter who writes it) itself? (I hope that makes sense...)
Yep, they are all insecure. Dalvik? It is an interpretter and not run in a browser so no. OpenJDK is OracleJDK with a few proprietary libraries from Adobe and a few others replaced with equilivent functioning ones.
The exploit only works on a browser so disable it in IE and Firefox and you are good. If that program works in a browser you need to setup an IE zone and add an exception to your site, or use Firefox with noscript or set click to run as default?