I would agree, if only Microsoft didn't try to brand Linux and open source as evil. If their "Get the Facts" campaign showed Linux' strengths alongside Windows', instead of being one-sided propaganda, then we'd applaud them. But you can't call open source a cancer while using it without getting ridiculed.
Then I recommend downloading and trying prototype. It saves the mundane tasks, makes code a little easier to read, and is used by other popular frameworks.
Those cover the base scenarios. I haven't seen any good intermediate documentation. After the intros I suggest reading more reference documentation and just trying things out.
Uh, Slashdot publishes many more negative stories about the US. That doesn't make it anti-American, just like negative stories about Russia and China don't make it xenophobic.
Any news agency will tell you negative news sells better.
Doesn't XP have a big green light that tells users they're secure with a firewall and anti-virus protection? If an OS tells an average user they're secure, even if they're only marginally more secure, I wouldn't expect the average user to question it.
Remove Saddam Hussein from power... Check. (Execution was a bonus.) Increase corporate profits of friends... Check. Embolden the link between corporations and government... Check. Keep political opponents in check... Check. Increase influence in the Middle East to bring armageddon closer to fruition... Check.
Have you been asleep? What hasn't gone according to plan?
One of his suggestions is for browsers to not be forgiving when it comes to bad HTML. I've been saying this for years and it can definitely help with performance. One reason for browser bloat is the extra flexibility to handle bad HTML. If the parser and display elements were simply strict they'd be smaller and faster. I don't believe a browser should make every possible effort to display every page correctly. Either the document is right or it's wrong.
Of course the specs themselves need to be less open to interpretation, but that's another (yet related) issue.
What does the lame duck atmosphere, approval ratings, or economy have to do with anything? This administration has already accomplished most of their goals and will suffer no consequences for any actions. The president doesn't care at all about his approval ratings or changing the economy. Everything has gone pretty much according to plan, so why would they not ignore this court order?
George: You have no idea of the magnitude of this thing. If she is allowed to infiltrate this world then George Costanza as you know him ceases to exist. You see, right now I have Relationship George. But there is also Independent George. That's the George you know, the George you grew up with... Movie George, Coffee Shop George, Liar George, Bawdy George.
Jerry: I love that George.
George: Me too, and he's dying. If Relationship George walks through this door, he will kill Independent George. A George divided against itself cannot stand!
Maybe you didn't get to the third sentence. You should be able to see the details if needed.
Average users don't fix anything. So why give them details that they don't understand by default? Explain things in simple terms so they get the basic idea of the problem. When they ask someone else how to fix it the other person can read the details.
For example, the average user would understand, "No open WiFi nearby." That's enough to know basically what's going on. The techie might like to see "Authentication failed with Linksys123 or LinksysABC."
No way. Windows messages are already too arcane and often meaningless. The message should be very clear for a common (non-technical) user because most Windows users are not technical. Under each message should be an arrow that lets you expand to see the detailed technical explanation for those who need to know in order to resolve a problem.
The average user would rather let their computer remain broken then learn what DHCP is (at least in my experience). A message stating "can't connect to the internet" makes some sense to just about everyone.
You don't come back to your keyboard to find the letters rearranged (or even missing) each day
Depends on if your office is next to mine.:)
But I agree with you. I find it ridiculously annoying. Anything the vast majority of users wouldn't use should be moved to a more obscure location. Anything I never use should just sit there. I can handle not clicking it all by myself.
Bender: Fine. I'll go build my own lunar lander! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the lunar lander! And the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole thing.
FF loves to forward and back cache pages. So it caches most of the pages you've been to and pages you might go to from where you are.
I don't mind if some back pages take a little longer to load, so I set the browser.cache.memory.capacity config setting to 8000. Memory usage dropped and I see no difference in performance.
The irony is that this is coming from a company that should be promoting the cutting edge of telecommuting technology. At the very least they should promote telecommuting to sell high speed data links between work and home and video conferencing. I think they've lost sight of their core business.
60 Minutes interviewed one person who was convicted with bullet lead analysis as the only physical evidence. All other evidence was circumstantial. No one knows yet how many cases used this as evidence, so there's no way to know how many cases relied heavily on it.
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I would agree, if only Microsoft didn't try to brand Linux and open source as evil. If their "Get the Facts" campaign showed Linux' strengths alongside Windows', instead of being one-sided propaganda, then we'd applaud them. But you can't call open source a cancer while using it without getting ridiculed.
Most of microsoft.com uses distributed Akamai linux servers for protection against DDOS attacks.
MS was (and maybe still is) outsourcing web page caching to Akamai, which is using Linux servers.
Fair enough. I was awfully obnoxious, so I should make up for it with some actual information.
For a quick, but useful and accurate, starting point I like Mozilla's introduction.
Then I recommend downloading and trying prototype. It saves the mundane tasks, makes code a little easier to read, and is used by other popular frameworks.
Those cover the base scenarios. I haven't seen any good intermediate documentation. After the intros I suggest reading more reference documentation and just trying things out.
Is this really hard? Or this? Or this?
That's how must of us learned it.
Sure, no problem.
Uh, Slashdot publishes many more negative stories about the US. That doesn't make it anti-American, just like negative stories about Russia and China don't make it xenophobic.
Any news agency will tell you negative news sells better.
How about not buying a crippled product in the first place?
Doesn't XP have a big green light that tells users they're secure with a firewall and anti-virus protection? If an OS tells an average user they're secure, even if they're only marginally more secure, I wouldn't expect the average user to question it.
But where is the "sekrit world headquarters" of Linux that they intend to nuke?
The Antarctic, of course. Haven't you seen the Linux mascot?
You're kidding, right?
Remove Saddam Hussein from power... Check. (Execution was a bonus.)
Increase corporate profits of friends... Check.
Embolden the link between corporations and government... Check.
Keep political opponents in check... Check.
Increase influence in the Middle East to bring armageddon closer to fruition... Check.
Have you been asleep? What hasn't gone according to plan?
One of his suggestions is for browsers to not be forgiving when it comes to bad HTML. I've been saying this for years and it can definitely help with performance. One reason for browser bloat is the extra flexibility to handle bad HTML. If the parser and display elements were simply strict they'd be smaller and faster. I don't believe a browser should make every possible effort to display every page correctly. Either the document is right or it's wrong.
Of course the specs themselves need to be less open to interpretation, but that's another (yet related) issue.
What does the lame duck atmosphere, approval ratings, or economy have to do with anything? This administration has already accomplished most of their goals and will suffer no consequences for any actions. The president doesn't care at all about his approval ratings or changing the economy. Everything has gone pretty much according to plan, so why would they not ignore this court order?
George: You have no idea of the magnitude of this thing. If she is allowed to infiltrate this world then George Costanza as you know him ceases to exist. You see, right now I have Relationship George. But there is also Independent George. That's the George you know, the George you grew up with... Movie George, Coffee Shop George, Liar George, Bawdy George.
Jerry: I love that George.
George: Me too, and he's dying. If Relationship George walks through this door, he will kill Independent George. A George divided against itself cannot stand!
Maybe you didn't get to the third sentence. You should be able to see the details if needed.
Average users don't fix anything. So why give them details that they don't understand by default? Explain things in simple terms so they get the basic idea of the problem. When they ask someone else how to fix it the other person can read the details.
For example, the average user would understand, "No open WiFi nearby." That's enough to know basically what's going on. The techie might like to see "Authentication failed with Linksys123 or LinksysABC."
No way. Windows messages are already too arcane and often meaningless. The message should be very clear for a common (non-technical) user because most Windows users are not technical. Under each message should be an arrow that lets you expand to see the detailed technical explanation for those who need to know in order to resolve a problem.
The average user would rather let their computer remain broken then learn what DHCP is (at least in my experience). A message stating "can't connect to the internet" makes some sense to just about everyone.
You don't come back to your keyboard to find the letters rearranged (or even missing) each day
:)
Depends on if your office is next to mine.
But I agree with you. I find it ridiculously annoying. Anything the vast majority of users wouldn't use should be moved to a more obscure location. Anything I never use should just sit there. I can handle not clicking it all by myself.
Hey, what kinda party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker.
Bender: Fine. I'll go build my own lunar lander! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the lunar lander! And the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole thing.
Oops, wrong thread....
Professor Farnsworth: (Staring at blank movie screen) They don't make movies like these anymore...(blows nose)
Or...
Calculon: I've seen better acting from extras in Godzilla movies.
Was the market already flooded with laptops and ipods that run on internal combustion engines?
Apples and oranges.
FF loves to forward and back cache pages. So it caches most of the pages you've been to and pages you might go to from where you are.
I don't mind if some back pages take a little longer to load, so I set the browser.cache.memory.capacity config setting to 8000. Memory usage dropped and I see no difference in performance.
Most employees aren't responsible enough to be as effective at home as they are at work.
Proof, please? A study, perhaps?
The irony is that this is coming from a company that should be promoting the cutting edge of telecommuting technology. At the very least they should promote telecommuting to sell high speed data links between work and home and video conferencing. I think they've lost sight of their core business.
60 Minutes interviewed one person who was convicted with bullet lead analysis as the only physical evidence. All other evidence was circumstantial. No one knows yet how many cases used this as evidence, so there's no way to know how many cases relied heavily on it.