The fact that it has taken Microsoft several years to remove a feature that could have been done in a few minutes just shows that the only point of it existing was as a marketing tool.
I don't know, they can't exactly remove the part of the app that lets pages open new windows. Too many sites already had legitimate uses for opening up windows (help screens, login windows, video clips, etc.). You can't argue that the functionality shouldn't have been in Javascript in the first place, because that argument does exactly nothing to solve the problem. Unless you have a time machine, we are going to have to deal with selectively refusing to open some unrequested windows, while allowing some others to open.
IE has never had the market share to change the standards quite that much. They have messed up html quite a bit, and implemented some features terribly (such as the alpha channel on.png's and fixed background image positioning), but flat-out removing features would have caused programmers to develop just for Netscape (back in the day) or Opera/Mozilla/Konqueror (these days).
The only reason they haven't blocked ads sooner was because the IE team has been lazy lately. Since XP went out, we've gone from 6.0.0 to 6.0.28. You can't block pop-ups with just 0.0.28. You need at least 0.1, and if it's stable, 0.2.
Change it (e.g. add 1), and the whole checksum is completely different.
Sure, you might lose a couple of frames (at worst), but who cares ?
This sounds like the start of a great idea, but I'd say we should add more than one byte - 1024 bytes should be effective enough, and if my math is correct, we'd have 1.1e2466 different possible checksums for that file. It will be tough to filter out a file that has that many permutations, each one being invisible to the human eye.
I know that Safari stores its bookmarks in XML. Thus any asshole who can write a little perl can get the bookmarks out, and exchange them with (say) Netscape, which stores them in an HTML file - nearly the same thing, as far as we're concerned.
That will surely be listed on the FAQ page...
Q: How do I transfer my bookmarks from Safari to Netscape? A: It's quite simple. Just write a small perl script to parse the xml file that Safari uses (dtd can be found here) and, upon parsing the file into an associative array, walk through the array and create a Netscape-compliant HTML file. Things couldn't be easier.
I can't get the articles up, so I'm just taking your post in its own context, but I think you're expecting too many people to be able to write perl.
I assume by the smiley that you know that I know that Mr. Kodak himself did not found the company. But, a.) It's funnier to refer to the owner of a company as Mr. [company], and b.) Mr. Kodak was only a figurehead, like the Queen of England, whom Mr. Eastman hid behind while wielding enormous power.
First of all, I think the film industry will stick around, even without Kodak producing 35mm camera. They're not the only vendors in town, and I'd guess that they don't have the best high-end film cameras around.
Second, why assume that Kodak is making the right decision? Because there's a lot of money involved? Everybody's trying to say that this might be a smart decision, and it's a business decision, etc. but I wouldn't be surprised if this just turned out to be a bad decision. Break it down: companies are run by people, and people have been know to be idiots. So it's possible that this is just a stupid move, and another company is going to jump on that market share and make Mr. Kodak himself rise from the grave and beat the crap out of the fools running his company into the ground. So, I guess if the company has been run into the ground, then Mr. Kodak wouldn't really rise from the grave, he'd just make a sort of lateral move... but that's not important. Focus. Look for new competitors, and buy their stock.
What if my harddrive crashes and my CD backup gets lost?
What if you lose the shoebox full of photos, or they get wet, or hot, or dropped?
The only reason it's scary now is that everyone wants to keep everything forever, and it's probably possible to do that now. As long as you transfer your information (music, video, images, etc.) to the new platform when you upgrade, your "stuff" could always be readily accessible. In thirty years, we'll start to realize just how bad of a thing that could be.
Hell, this post will probably be in somebody's cache in thirty years, and that future-guy is going to crap his space-pants when he reads this! Booga booga booga! I am from the past! Wooooo!
this is a phrase used in the English language that means "just in the nick of time," or "at the last possible second." It isn't meant to be interpereted literally, kind of like peanut-better isn't butter with peanuts in it.
What? I think that people who write articles are only supposed to use words that have meaning. I'm going to make a guess that you don't write professionally, as anybody who had the gall to charge for their writing would not say something like that. "Oh, those are just words..."
Homer: [singing off-key] Ee-van eht niojh -- you gotta love that crazy chorus.
Lisa: What does it mean?
Homer: Ah, it doesn't mean anything. It's like, "rama-lama-ding-dong," or, "Give peace a chance."
The prices are obviously set by NASA. You see, in Canada, they use the metric system, and NASA thought they were going to go metric, but some of the guys didn't get that memo...
It was an honest mistake, folks, really. It's like rocket science.
Or maybe...
The computer industry did it! I mean, when did you ever buy a 40 GB hard drive that actually was 40 GB? They might have told Samsung to charge $400 for a $372.52 phone and say they were measuring the price differently. Yeah. If you're the only ones who measure it that way, it isn't different - it's wrong.
"The news couldn't have come at a better time," mission control told the crew.
This is the kind of thing that makes no sense and must just be there to meet the word count requirements. Here are some "better times" that this could have come: Yesterday, two days ago, the day the leak was discovered.
This also stops you from printing coins. After failing to scan a dollar bill, I attempted to use four quarters instead. This failed about 50 cents in, so I tried to use nickels instead. I managed to scan 65 cents in this time, probably because some of the coins were more worn, but it still failed.
Fortunately, it seems to be possible to use multiple types of coins to form a complete dollar, and even at higher resolutions! Unfortunately, most tellers will not accept coins made out of paper, no matter what the DPI resolution is. The consistency of metal has proven very difficult to replicate with paper, even laser jet paper.
As a final attempt to copy money, I wrote myself a check for $1, endorsed it, and attempted to scan it in. Unfortunately, I had previously printed my own checks using PS 6 with a "dollar bill" background image, and while there was some banding on the left side (I was running low on ink ad obviously couldn't afford to buy a new cartridge), Photoshop CS will not allow me to scan in these checks. I'll be ordering a new book of checks with the "Standard Blue" design from my bank; however this costs nearly $16 and I need to print up some money to buy these checks first.
It doesn't appear that anybody cares! And I'm not surprised; I don't care either. Sure, the idea might be somewhat cool, but the slashdot crowd has evolved along with the rest of the world out of the dot-com era where "cool new technology" was assumed to translate into something that will improve our lives. Just as nobody orders groceries through a web site, nobody turns on their FM radio for good entertainment anymore.
My morning commute is 20 minutes long, and I don't want to spend 12 of those minutes listening to advertisements. I don't care what American media says, I don't need to purchase products to be happy. I don't need a new SUV (or a used one, for that matter) and tonight I won't be tuning into the latest episode of Fox's newest, most outrageous reality series that everyone will be talking about tomorrow. My morning commute is where I clear my head and prepare to deal with the onslaught of crap that I'll face at work. For that, the Dodge Durango jingle just won't work - sorry, but I need <insert your favorite band here>.*
This is a solution to the wrong problem. We're not concerned with the quality of the FM radio feed, we're concerned with the idiots sending out the signal! This move is just a diversionary tactic that will result in crisp, clear crap. If I ever get tired of listening to my own albums, I'll be looking towards XM or Sirius.
*I hate when people name-drop their favorite obscure band in an attempt to show off how cool they are. Just pretend I mentioned your favorite musician. And I'll pretend that your favorite musician is as cool as mine.:)
You can say X is 10 times cheaper, or less expensive, than Y if the cost of X = the cost of Y divided by 10.
Not quite, although that is the general assumption. You have to define what "expensive" is, so let's say for example that "expensive" means the cost is $10,000. If a Windows deployment costs $9,000, then it's $1,000 less than expensive. If a Linux deployment costs $0, then it's $10,000 less than expensive - and therefore ten times less expensive. Confusing? You bet. That's why a real report would have said Linux costs 10 times as much as Winodws - but these report writers had to mention MS first because, well, they're afraid of MS. This just in, Microsoft is amazing!
"10 times less expensive" compared to Linux, eh? Well, ignoring the fact that they are comparing mainframes to intel boxes, you just have to love their wording. Ten times less expensive? What the hell does that mean? Perhaps it's 1/10th the cost, but even for marketing droids, that's a pretty stupid thing to say.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, consider this. If it's 20 degrees outside, and it's twice as cold at your friend's house, how cold is it there?
Each [device] will run a specialized version of Windows CE, the Microsoft operating system for smaller machines. The model is similar to the way Microsoft has worked with Tablet PCs, creating a specialized version of Windows XP and encouraging manufacturers to build for it.
Great! I'm sure that it well sell quite well, then. Look out Apple, you're about to be overrun by the devices using a specialized version of Windows CE, not sold directly by Microsoft, but licensed by them.
The most successful product MS has come up with so far (outside the beige box computer world) is the XBox, which I believe is the only one the company didn't farm out to vendors. Apple has it right with their design philosophy - they don't sell 50 million design variations of their iPod, just one very well designed version. MS put some good design into XBox, and it's seen decent sales. Then they avoid making any design decisions on tablet PC's, and vendors come up with a few dozen different versions, confusing customers all the way to the Apple store.
For nostalgia sake, I suppose I would like to see a few issues... if you wouldn't mind sending an issue or two my way, email me and I'll give you my address.
The backups to software on the C-64 can be found in the back of the magazine, pages 168-174. Be sure to install the latest version of "Proofreader" on page 135!
After restoring, save it to tape (or diskette, if you're lucky) and the program can be run anytime by typing LOAD "*",1 (for tape drives) or LOAD "*",8,1 (for diskette drives).
To view your other backups, insert the diskette and type LOAD "$",8. If you get no response, you may need to tap RUN/STOP/RESOTRE to resume.
Sorry, must be the New Year thing. What year are we in now? I want my Compute!
I think what would be most useful would be for you take a quick little trip to this house, and see if you can verify the info above - the post was anonymous and we have no way of knowing if it's accurate, but if you can find "Ralsky" on his mailbox it will add some credibility. Go now, and make us proud!
A recent study indicates that 80% of pollsters just make up numbers, anyway.
I wonder what effect the cell number portability will have on pollsters, though - if my landline prefix was 489, and now I'm on a cell phone with the same prefix, how will they know it's a cell? List brokers may now need to run their lists against customer lists from wireless providers, to remove any duplicates. Which will drive up costs, especially if they had to match against the national dnc registry too. Perhaps list purchasing will become prohibitively expensive!
If the average joe wanted to become a pirate, but couldn't get past the region codes, he'd probably go into something else, like kicking dogs or spilling soda in retail stores.
By making the entry barrier so high, the MPAA is contributing to the injuries of pets and the paychecks of personal injury lawyers. I thank Blockbuster for its efforts in putting a stop to this.
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IE has never had the market share to change the standards quite that much. They have messed up html quite a bit, and implemented some features terribly (such as the alpha channel on
The only reason they haven't blocked ads sooner was because the IE team has been lazy lately. Since XP went out, we've gone from 6.0.0 to 6.0.28. You can't block pop-ups with just 0.0.28. You need at least 0.1, and if it's stable, 0.2.
And 2004 is also the year of Duke Nukem Forever.
shut up, asshole! :)
Q: How do I transfer my bookmarks from Safari to Netscape?
A: It's quite simple. Just write a small perl script to parse the xml file that Safari uses (dtd can be found here) and, upon parsing the file into an associative array, walk through the array and create a Netscape-compliant HTML file. Things couldn't be easier.
I can't get the articles up, so I'm just taking your post in its own context, but I think you're expecting too many people to be able to write perl.
First of all, I think the film industry will stick around, even without Kodak producing 35mm camera. They're not the only vendors in town, and I'd guess that they don't have the best high-end film cameras around.
Second, why assume that Kodak is making the right decision? Because there's a lot of money involved? Everybody's trying to say that this might be a smart decision, and it's a business decision, etc. but I wouldn't be surprised if this just turned out to be a bad decision. Break it down: companies are run by people, and people have been know to be idiots. So it's possible that this is just a stupid move, and another company is going to jump on that market share and make Mr. Kodak himself rise from the grave and beat the crap out of the fools running his company into the ground. So, I guess if the company has been run into the ground, then Mr. Kodak wouldn't really rise from the grave, he'd just make a sort of lateral move... but that's not important. Focus. Look for new competitors, and buy their stock.
The only reason it's scary now is that everyone wants to keep everything forever, and it's probably possible to do that now. As long as you transfer your information (music, video, images, etc.) to the new platform when you upgrade, your "stuff" could always be readily accessible. In thirty years, we'll start to realize just how bad of a thing that could be.
Hell, this post will probably be in somebody's cache in thirty years, and that future-guy is going to crap his space-pants when he reads this! Booga booga booga! I am from the past! Wooooo!
No, it works both ways. If you don't lock a door, you probably don't like it, either.
The prices are obviously set by NASA. You see, in Canada, they use the metric system, and NASA thought they were going to go metric, but some of the guys didn't get that memo...
It was an honest mistake, folks, really. It's like rocket science.
Or maybe...
The computer industry did it! I mean, when did you ever buy a 40 GB hard drive that actually was 40 GB? They might have told Samsung to charge $400 for a $372.52 phone and say they were measuring the price differently. Yeah. If you're the only ones who measure it that way, it isn't different - it's wrong.
This also stops you from printing coins. After failing to scan a dollar bill, I attempted to use four quarters instead. This failed about 50 cents in, so I tried to use nickels instead. I managed to scan 65 cents in this time, probably because some of the coins were more worn, but it still failed.
Fortunately, it seems to be possible to use multiple types of coins to form a complete dollar, and even at higher resolutions! Unfortunately, most tellers will not accept coins made out of paper, no matter what the DPI resolution is. The consistency of metal has proven very difficult to replicate with paper, even laser jet paper.
As a final attempt to copy money, I wrote myself a check for $1, endorsed it, and attempted to scan it in. Unfortunately, I had previously printed my own checks using PS 6 with a "dollar bill" background image, and while there was some banding on the left side (I was running low on ink ad obviously couldn't afford to buy a new cartridge), Photoshop CS will not allow me to scan in these checks. I'll be ordering a new book of checks with the "Standard Blue" design from my bank; however this costs nearly $16 and I need to print up some money to buy these checks first.
It doesn't appear that anybody cares! And I'm not surprised; I don't care either. Sure, the idea might be somewhat cool, but the slashdot crowd has evolved along with the rest of the world out of the dot-com era where "cool new technology" was assumed to translate into something that will improve our lives. Just as nobody orders groceries through a web site, nobody turns on their FM radio for good entertainment anymore.
:)
My morning commute is 20 minutes long, and I don't want to spend 12 of those minutes listening to advertisements. I don't care what American media says, I don't need to purchase products to be happy. I don't need a new SUV (or a used one, for that matter) and tonight I won't be tuning into the latest episode of Fox's newest, most outrageous reality series that everyone will be talking about tomorrow. My morning commute is where I clear my head and prepare to deal with the onslaught of crap that I'll face at work. For that, the Dodge Durango jingle just won't work - sorry, but I need <insert your favorite band here>.*
This is a solution to the wrong problem. We're not concerned with the quality of the FM radio feed, we're concerned with the idiots sending out the signal! This move is just a diversionary tactic that will result in crisp, clear crap. If I ever get tired of listening to my own albums, I'll be looking towards XM or Sirius.
*I hate when people name-drop their favorite obscure band in an attempt to show off how cool they are. Just pretend I mentioned your favorite musician. And I'll pretend that your favorite musician is as cool as mine.
"10 times less expensive" compared to Linux, eh? Well, ignoring the fact that they are comparing mainframes to intel boxes, you just have to love their wording. Ten times less expensive? What the hell does that mean? Perhaps it's 1/10th the cost, but even for marketing droids, that's a pretty stupid thing to say.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, consider this. If it's 20 degrees outside, and it's twice as cold at your friend's house, how cold is it there?
The most successful product MS has come up with so far (outside the beige box computer world) is the XBox, which I believe is the only one the company didn't farm out to vendors. Apple has it right with their design philosophy - they don't sell 50 million design variations of their iPod, just one very well designed version. MS put some good design into XBox, and it's seen decent sales. Then they avoid making any design decisions on tablet PC's, and vendors come up with a few dozen different versions, confusing customers all the way to the Apple store.
For nostalgia sake, I suppose I would like to see a few issues... if you wouldn't mind sending an issue or two my way, email me and I'll give you my address.
And yes, my C-64 does have a RESOTRE key. I had it special-ordered from Sears.
The backups to software on the C-64 can be found in the back of the magazine, pages 168-174. Be sure to install the latest version of "Proofreader" on page 135!
After restoring, save it to tape (or diskette, if you're lucky) and the program can be run anytime by typing LOAD "*",1 (for tape drives) or LOAD "*",8,1 (for diskette drives).
To view your other backups, insert the diskette and type LOAD "$",8 . If you get no response, you may need to tap RUN/STOP/RESOTRE to resume.
Sorry, must be the New Year thing. What year are we in now? I want my Compute!
I think what would be most useful would be for you take a quick little trip to this house, and see if you can verify the info above - the post was anonymous and we have no way of knowing if it's accurate, but if you can find "Ralsky" on his mailbox it will add some credibility. Go now, and make us proud!
A recent study indicates that 80% of pollsters just make up numbers, anyway.
I wonder what effect the cell number portability will have on pollsters, though - if my landline prefix was 489, and now I'm on a cell phone with the same prefix, how will they know it's a cell? List brokers may now need to run their lists against customer lists from wireless providers, to remove any duplicates. Which will drive up costs, especially if they had to match against the national dnc registry too. Perhaps list purchasing will become prohibitively expensive!
If the average joe wanted to become a pirate, but couldn't get past the region codes, he'd probably go into something else, like kicking dogs or spilling soda in retail stores.
By making the entry barrier so high, the MPAA is contributing to the injuries of pets and the paychecks of personal injury lawyers. I thank Blockbuster for its efforts in putting a stop to this.
Still, they didn't sing the song, and the spaceship wasn't a Star of David, so I'm not going to give them credit for Jews In Space yet.