Since HTML 4, frames have not been part of the standard HTML DTD. You have to use the frameset DTDs, which include all the deprecated elements including frames. As of XHTML 1.1, iframe has been dropped entirely.
They should give it a big screen and movie player capabilities, partner with Microsoft, let people "squirt" demo versions of games to each other, and call it the N-Zune. I'm sure it'd destroy the iPhone.
When the iframe was added to the browser spec a bunch of us used it to feed data to and from a server and do what ajax does today. [...] If it was wrong browser developers would pare things back.
Well, IFRAME is deprecated, as are many other horrendous mistakes.
It's not just the pirates. I have a DVD player that says it supports MPEG-4, but it doesn't actually do so. It merely supports MPEG-4 codecs in AVI files.
Similarly, those asshats at Sony couldn't be bothered to implement MPEG-4 containers, so they invented "AVCHD", which is MPEG-4 codecs in an MPEG-2 container.
I've had zero problems with my M10000, running it on Linux using the standard open source drivers, which incidentally VIA helped by releasing source for.
Perhaps you can tell us... is there some reason why TI won't make RPN calculators? It seems to me that with HP calculators like the 16C going for several times their original price on eBay, there must be a market there. HP have let their quality go to hell, so why not grab the market?
It just means the owners of zombie PCs get big bills.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Right now, the costs caused by Windows insecurity are passed on to me even though I don't run Windows. Passing those costs on to the people causing them would be much fairer.
Another reflection of US insularity is the apparent need for remakes of TV and movies that were in English in the first place.
Even stupider is that Discovery Channel and Animal Planet will take UK documentaries and dub over an American voice reading (mostly*) the exact same words. Apparently Americans can't deal with hearing someone foreign.
(*There was one interesting exception though. I watched a documentary about the U-2 incident in the UK, and then happened to see the overdubbed version of the same show in the US. For some odd reason the US version didn't mention the possibility that the information was deliberately leaked to Russia by the CIA in order to sabotage the peace talks and protect their budget.)
I once told a guy I'd let him hit me three times and if he could knock me down with any of those three punches I'd give him $20. Three hits later I was still standing and he was seriously reconsidering the idea of a fight.
Nice idea, but it didn't work out so well for Harry Houdini.
Look at how easy and how often cyber lynchings take place on Digg. A single inflamatory article stating one side of a dispute with no 3rd party corroberating evidence or investigative journalism behind it - and someone's getting 200 death threats a day over the phone or tens of thousands of people local to the area are avoiding a single car dealership "because they SO screwed so and so anonymous guy on the web".
And the only plausible solution is to teach skepticism.
Unfortunately, there's no way parents will allow schools to do that.
1. Two wrongs don't make a right. Being a sociopathic asshole as revenge still makes you a sociopathic asshole. No more, no less. It does not a moral high ground make.
So, what's your suggestion?
Criticizing how others approach a problem without offering an alternative doesn't exactly make for moral high ground either.
Build a Linux box with mt-daapd to stick the tunes on. Use a VIA EDEN motherboard, it'll run on about 6W and needs no fans, and Linux has open source drivers for all the hardware.
Plug in a Squeezebox or Roku Soundbridge to be your UI. They should find the server automatically, as should any iTunes system on the same network.
Well, here's one I just happened to price up last week:
$164.99 Asus P1-AH1 barebone $31.99 AMD Sempron 64 2800+ Palermo 1.6GHz $56.99 512MB PNY 800MHz RAM $36.99 LiteOn DVD+RW/-RW/-RAM/CD-RW burner $44.99 Seagate 80GB SATA hard drive
Total: $335.95.
Parts priced from NewEgg.com. And of course, you could use a cheap hard drive and optical drive and shave even more off, or use the money to get a faster CPU.
I've got 3 Macs in the house, but it's definitely possible to build a decent small PC for significantly less than a Mac Mini.
Java7 will only get faster with some really spiffy JVM ideas. I don't see Python, Perl, and Ruby catching up for a while.
Well, you're probably not a Ruby developer then:-) Ruby's switching to a new VM in the next release, it's part of the mainline CVS sources. I've not benchmarked it myself, but it's supposed to be 2x faster already.
Well, Windows XP exploded with a BSOD and refused to boot, so I had to reinstall. My corporate edition didn't validate. So I tried the license that came with the machine, and that didn't work either.
I think WGA is great. The more Microsoft make Windows suck, the better. Bring on the self-disabling Vista!
Well, how do you account for the wide variation in quality between different MP3 decoders? For example, I always found the MAD decoder was far better than the one in WinAMP, and better than iTunes pre-7.0.
While I agree with the conclusion based on my own listening tests (specifically, I find LAME --alt-preset standard to be better than AAC at the same bitrate, and LAME --r3mix to be as good as), I feel the need to point out that the listening test needs to be repeated for iTunes 7. Apple radically reworked the playback engine for iTunes 7, resulting in major sound quality improvements for MP3 playback, and I wouldn't be surprised if they had tweaked the encoder too.
Who is even dumb enough to make their purchases based on spam mail.
There's a saying in Europe:
"You know how dumb the average American is? Well, half of them are even dumber than that."
Seriously, though, people still fall for 419 scams all the time, and I'd think you'd have to be much dumber to go for that than to think you could make money on some stock you heard about in a spam e-mail.
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Since HTML 4, frames have not been part of the standard HTML DTD. You have to use the frameset DTDs, which include all the deprecated elements including frames. As of XHTML 1.1, iframe has been dropped entirely.
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They should give it a big screen and movie player capabilities, partner with Microsoft, let people "squirt" demo versions of games to each other, and call it the N-Zune. I'm sure it'd destroy the iPhone.
Well, IFRAME is deprecated, as are many other horrendous mistakes.
Given the short range of Bluetooth, I would think it would be fairly easy to locate the piece of equipment responsible and give it a quick kicking.
If the source code isn't available, it's not secure. Simple as that.
It's not just the pirates. I have a DVD player that says it supports MPEG-4, but it doesn't actually do so. It merely supports MPEG-4 codecs in AVI files.
Similarly, those asshats at Sony couldn't be bothered to implement MPEG-4 containers, so they invented "AVCHD", which is MPEG-4 codecs in an MPEG-2 container.
I've had zero problems with my M10000, running it on Linux using the standard open source drivers, which incidentally VIA helped by releasing source for.
Perhaps you can tell us... is there some reason why TI won't make RPN calculators? It seems to me that with HP calculators like the 16C going for several times their original price on eBay, there must be a market there. HP have let their quality go to hell, so why not grab the market?
Shipped != sold.
The article's numbers are for how many players people have actually bought.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Right now, the costs caused by Windows insecurity are passed on to me even though I don't run Windows. Passing those costs on to the people causing them would be much fairer.
Legitimate mass marketers can provide web feeds of their promo information. Like Nintendo do, for example. Or TigerDirect. Or Amazon.com.
Another reflection of US insularity is the apparent need for remakes of TV and movies that were in English in the first place.
Even stupider is that Discovery Channel and Animal Planet will take UK documentaries and dub over an American voice reading (mostly*) the exact same words. Apparently Americans can't deal with hearing someone foreign.
(*There was one interesting exception though. I watched a documentary about the U-2 incident in the UK, and then happened to see the overdubbed version of the same show in the US. For some odd reason the US version didn't mention the possibility that the information was deliberately leaked to Russia by the CIA in order to sabotage the peace talks and protect their budget.)
So basically, more Columbine-style revenge killings are the answer?
Nice idea, but it didn't work out so well for Harry Houdini.
And the only plausible solution is to teach skepticism.
Unfortunately, there's no way parents will allow schools to do that.
So, what's your suggestion?
Criticizing how others approach a problem without offering an alternative doesn't exactly make for moral high ground either.
Build a Linux box with mt-daapd to stick the tunes on. Use a VIA EDEN motherboard, it'll run on about 6W and needs no fans, and Linux has open source drivers for all the hardware.
Plug in a Squeezebox or Roku Soundbridge to be your UI. They should find the server automatically, as should any iTunes system on the same network.
Well, here's one I just happened to price up last week:
$164.99 Asus P1-AH1 barebone
$31.99 AMD Sempron 64 2800+ Palermo 1.6GHz
$56.99 512MB PNY 800MHz RAM
$36.99 LiteOn DVD+RW/-RW/-RAM/CD-RW burner
$44.99 Seagate 80GB SATA hard drive
Total: $335.95.
Parts priced from NewEgg.com. And of course, you could use a cheap hard drive and optical drive and shave even more off, or use the money to get a faster CPU.
I've got 3 Macs in the house, but it's definitely possible to build a decent small PC for significantly less than a Mac Mini.
Make domain names non-transferable. That'd kill domain squatting dead.
Of course, the registrars make money from the squatting, so they'd never do it.
Well, you're probably not a Ruby developer then :-) Ruby's switching to a new VM in the next release, it's part of the mainline CVS sources. I've not benchmarked it myself, but it's supposed to be 2x faster already.
Well, Windows XP exploded with a BSOD and refused to boot, so I had to reinstall. My corporate edition didn't validate. So I tried the license that came with the machine, and that didn't work either.
I think WGA is great. The more Microsoft make Windows suck, the better. Bring on the self-disabling Vista!
Well, how do you account for the wide variation in quality between different MP3 decoders? For example, I always found the MAD decoder was far better than the one in WinAMP, and better than iTunes pre-7.0.
While I agree with the conclusion based on my own listening tests (specifically, I find LAME --alt-preset standard to be better than AAC at the same bitrate, and LAME --r3mix to be as good as), I feel the need to point out that the listening test needs to be repeated for iTunes 7. Apple radically reworked the playback engine for iTunes 7, resulting in major sound quality improvements for MP3 playback, and I wouldn't be surprised if they had tweaked the encoder too.
Wait, are you my ex-girlfriend?
There's a saying in Europe:
"You know how dumb the average American is? Well, half of them are even dumber than that."
Seriously, though, people still fall for 419 scams all the time, and I'd think you'd have to be much dumber to go for that than to think you could make money on some stock you heard about in a spam e-mail.