I am working for a big e-commerce website (think several hundred million euros of yearly revenue) and we are actually putting up a banner for IE6 users. We still test it for now but don't spend time on design. Most websites in France are moving in this direction.
Now, when I won't have to worry about it at all, I'll celebrate a second time !
Agreed for TCP/IP, but ASCII? how many times have I stumbled on a website with "?" or chinese characters instead of quotes.... Granted, pure 7-bit ASCII is very well defined, but for the rest it's a little grey area.
Maybe you're better at making decisions because you're in a hurry to go pee and then you actually do make a decision. If your bladder was empty you wouldn't pay attention and wouldn't make a decision. Making decisions is generally a good idea.
So to you the iPhone was just marketing and design? You should have tried one before everyone else copied it. It was leaps ahead of anything else, and the rest could barely be called "competition" since their product were so far behind. Sure, they've caught up, but please point me to a product that would offer comparable experience in june 2007.
And by "experience", I mean: browsing capabilities, voicemail handling, SMS handling, email handling, maps, upgrade procedure, firmware upgrade support (3 years on iPhones), music+video capabilities, lack of carrier crap drowning the phone, etc. Please include everything in your comparison.
Apple is one of the few tech companies that are NOT overpriced. Given their revenue and profits, the market value for Apple is just on par with any industrial company. Geeeez.
What puzzles me is companies (that are for-profit) blindly alienating customers by installing crap behind the scenes. I know that the average Joe probably notices nothing and will be hard pressed to link the firefox slowdown with the Skype install. On the other hand, skype users are not complete n00bs, so they are a population that probably has a good chance of finding out where the crap came from.
All in all, this kind of "strategy" puzzles me. What is the toolbar for anyways?
When I put my DVD in my player and press play, doesn't the DVD gets copied over to a memory buffer and then - worse - to my TV screen? How is streaming any different?
Funny you should mention that. I've been spotted to let my Chrome running for several month in a row with no issue whatsoever. In fact, the only time I restart it is whenever I have to reboot or update it.
What goes berserk with your Chrome?
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Yet with your 12 years you still didn't get the question, did you? How do you time out an executor thread that's no longer useful
Hold it! stop right there!!!
You cannot know whether it is no longer useful or not. There. Does that answer your question?
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12 years of java coding behind me, and you look like the idiot, not the AC you're replying to. If an accumulation of threads (because of refreshes) bring your tomcat instance down, it means your code is crap. Or you need a cluster because you have high traffic. Deal with it. Having automated restarts of tomcat instances or timeouts is just going to destabilize your app, which does look like it doesn't need it.
Do you guys really care, or do you just say that you care?
There are absolutely no users who think that getting rid of the status bar is a good idea. Absolutely none. Had you guys even bothered to consult with any actual users before making this change, you'd immediately have known that it was a stupid change to make.
You have obviously not even bothered to consult with any actual users before making this post. I am in favor of the status bar removal. Chrome has none and I like it this way.
If you can get a computer to understand what you mean, then it'd change UIs forever.
Per the article, a single processor would take 3 hours to process each Jeopardy answer. That would certainly qualify as "forever" in the context of a user interface.
And since computers don't go faster, it'll be like that forever.
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So what prevents you from using both? Crappy IE-only sites with IE and the rest of the web on FF...
Can't you install Firefox? Why would you want to upgrade your IE anyways?
The upgrade is called Firefox. Simple, efficient, free (as in beer and speech). What more do you want for xmas?
How it is MS's fault? Can't they install Firefox or something? IE6 is not a curse. People browsing with IE6 are !
I am working for a big e-commerce website (think several hundred million euros of yearly revenue) and we are actually putting up a banner for IE6 users. We still test it for now but don't spend time on design. Most websites in France are moving in this direction.
Now, when I won't have to worry about it at all, I'll celebrate a second time !
When it's good, you don't count.
What you are looking for: http://ieai.pieroxy.net/
Disclaimer: as my nick probably shows, it's mine.
The question is: Why would you use IE at all when there are so many better alternatives that are all free as in beer and some also free as in speech?
Because you're tired of spending 20% of your web design time supporting 7% of your audience?
Agreed for TCP/IP, but ASCII? how many times have I stumbled on a website with "?" or chinese characters instead of quotes.... Granted, pure 7-bit ASCII is very well defined, but for the rest it's a little grey area.
Another initiative of the sort: http://ieai.pieroxy.net/. The only difference is that it doesn't necessarily just target the version 6.
Disclaimer: as my nick probably shows, it's mine.
Maybe you're better at making decisions because you're in a hurry to go pee and then you actually do make a decision. If your bladder was empty you wouldn't pay attention and wouldn't make a decision. Making decisions is generally a good idea.
So to you the iPhone was just marketing and design? You should have tried one before everyone else copied it. It was leaps ahead of anything else, and the rest could barely be called "competition" since their product were so far behind. Sure, they've caught up, but please point me to a product that would offer comparable experience in june 2007.
And by "experience", I mean: browsing capabilities, voicemail handling, SMS handling, email handling, maps, upgrade procedure, firmware upgrade support (3 years on iPhones), music+video capabilities, lack of carrier crap drowning the phone, etc. Please include everything in your comparison.
Apple is one of the few tech companies that are NOT overpriced. Given their revenue and profits, the market value for Apple is just on par with any industrial company. Geeeez.
Can't we just leave him alone? I mean, when he bashes on Google openly, let the press and everyone else fire full power. It's fair game.
But now? Doesn't he deserve some privacy or even just some respect? Not because of what he's done, be because of what he is living right now.
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You got any reference for the claim that there exists software on smartphones that outsmart Deep Blue?
What puzzles me is companies (that are for-profit) blindly alienating customers by installing crap behind the scenes. I know that the average Joe probably notices nothing and will be hard pressed to link the firefox slowdown with the Skype install. On the other hand, skype users are not complete n00bs, so they are a population that probably has a good chance of finding out where the crap came from.
All in all, this kind of "strategy" puzzles me. What is the toolbar for anyways?
When I put my DVD in my player and press play, doesn't the DVD gets copied over to a memory buffer and then - worse - to my TV screen? How is streaming any different?
Funny you should mention that. I've been spotted to let my Chrome running for several month in a row with no issue whatsoever. In fact, the only time I restart it is whenever I have to reboot or update it.
What goes berserk with your Chrome?
Yet with your 12 years you still didn't get the question, did you? How do you time out an executor thread that's no longer useful
Hold it! stop right there!!!
You cannot know whether it is no longer useful or not. There. Does that answer your question?
12 years of java coding behind me, and you look like the idiot, not the AC you're replying to. If an accumulation of threads (because of refreshes) bring your tomcat instance down, it means your code is crap. Or you need a cluster because you have high traffic. Deal with it. Having automated restarts of tomcat instances or timeouts is just going to destabilize your app, which does look like it doesn't need it.
Unfortunately, we're going extinct...
Do you guys really care, or do you just say that you care?
There are absolutely no users who think that getting rid of the status bar is a good idea. Absolutely none. Had you guys even bothered to consult with any actual users before making this change, you'd immediately have known that it was a stupid change to make.
You have obviously not even bothered to consult with any actual users before making this post. I am in favor of the status bar removal. Chrome has none and I like it this way.
If you can get a computer to understand what you mean, then it'd change UIs forever.
Per the article, a single processor would take 3 hours to process each Jeopardy answer. That would certainly qualify as "forever" in the context of a user interface.
And since computers don't go faster, it'll be like that forever.