The original standard RFC allowed defaulting. Go read it. Now people are scrambling to change the standard after the fact. Microsoft put the finishing touches on IE10 months ago, way before the latest changes to disallow defaulting.
Corporate goodwill is worth absolutely zero. Have you not been reading the papers about the banking industry for the past four years? No, any standard that relies on corporate goodwill is toothless and won't be adopted by 99% of companies. What we need to legislature so we can sue any company that violates the standard.
The standard (if you go read the original) explicitly allows what Microsoft is doing! Go read it! Now a new copy surfaced a few weeks ago that changes this but that didn't exist when Microsoft was finishing IE10.
No, turning it on by default does NOT go against the agreed intention of DNT. Nowhere in the spec does it say anything about defaults. ALL browsers should turn it on by default, then we as a community should sue any company that chooses not to respect it.
That's just an axiom of engineering. You can craft the most beautiful, standards-compliant, pattern-invoking code ever and the next engineer to come onboard will see it as a legacy, stove-pipe, monstrosity that needs to be re-written from the ground up. Of course, his rewrite will just repeat the cycle.
The new WinRT tablets coming out will all have USB ports. They really should build the Kinect SDK into the Windows Runtime so Metro (i.e. "Modern") apps can access it. Right now only desktop apps can access the Kinect SDK.
Having developed for both, I can say that it's not easy to share code between the two. It's fairly easy to port code from one to the other (unless you're doing stuff with networking or threading) but it's not easy to get a single app to run in both worlds.
If his argument is to be believed then all desktop OS's would be irrelevant with the new BYOD trend. I don't believe it for a second. I highly doubt that my Windows Phone or Surface (let alone an iPad) is going to run Matlab, Maple, Visual Studio, Eclipse or any other massive engineering suite any time soon.
I don't see where you get that it's $120 more than the iPad. It's exactly the same price as the iPad. If you get the extra keyboard then yeah, that adds a bit to the price. I preordered my last night and I can't wait for October 26th. Christmas is coming on Halloween this year.
To True! I currently run sever servers, about a third on Apache, a third on Tomcat and a third on IIS. I am moving all my pure Apache servers over to IIS immediately in response to Apache's anouncement of not supporting the flag from IE users. I will probably move my Tomcat servers over as well at some point.
If that's what it takes to jumpstart the OEMs into making great hardware with cutting edge technology then I'm all for it. The Surface has caused several manufacturers to rethink their existing designs. I really hope they do it.
Not everything in this wide world can be represented as static state. There are lots of dynamic, parallel, and long-running actions happening all around us. It sure would be nice to trigger a processing operation with an EXECUTE verb because PUT and POST just don't make sense in that context.
You can't just make a product in total secrecy and then declare it done and have the world accept it. You need to iterate. Get a version out there, let people use it, take measurements and feedback then pivot. That's what made Windows 7 so successful. Even Steve Jobs admitted to taking customer feedback (eventually). Personally I am enjoying Windows 8 very much and I find myself going into Windows 7 (dual boot) less and less. There are a few annoyances (mostly around the metro/desktop boundary limitations) but for the most part it's great.
...and the majority seem to be Linux fans. I wonder how they're going to take this. I'm always trying to sway them to Windows and maybe I'll have more success now.
Every time a technical company/organization takes sides on social issues, they alienate roughly half of the population (at least in the US where we have a two-party system). Tech organizations should stay out of social issues, period.
What are you talking about? Sure Windows XP had bugs but that's a decade old OS. Windows 7 is extremenly solid. I've used it for two years now and have never seen a blue-screen. Not once.
...have been supported from day one. That would have put them almost to the 200K mark immediately. Sure, the experience for many apps would have been suboptimal (something like the third-party app experience on Android) but the numbers would look impressive and, as we can see from the sales of WP7, app numbers seem to be the only thing that sells devices.
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switch IE10 into IE9 compatibility mode.
The original standard RFC allowed defaulting. Go read it. Now people are scrambling to change the standard after the fact. Microsoft put the finishing touches on IE10 months ago, way before the latest changes to disallow defaulting. Corporate goodwill is worth absolutely zero. Have you not been reading the papers about the banking industry for the past four years? No, any standard that relies on corporate goodwill is toothless and won't be adopted by 99% of companies. What we need to legislature so we can sue any company that violates the standard.
The standard (if you go read the original) explicitly allows what Microsoft is doing! Go read it! Now a new copy surfaced a few weeks ago that changes this but that didn't exist when Microsoft was finishing IE10.
No, turning it on by default does NOT go against the agreed intention of DNT. Nowhere in the spec does it say anything about defaults. ALL browsers should turn it on by default, then we as a community should sue any company that chooses not to respect it.
ALL browsers should enable Do Not Track by default!!!
That's just an axiom of engineering. You can craft the most beautiful, standards-compliant, pattern-invoking code ever and the next engineer to come onboard will see it as a legacy, stove-pipe, monstrosity that needs to be re-written from the ground up. Of course, his rewrite will just repeat the cycle.
The new WinRT tablets coming out will all have USB ports. They really should build the Kinect SDK into the Windows Runtime so Metro (i.e. "Modern") apps can access it. Right now only desktop apps can access the Kinect SDK.
Having developed for both, I can say that it's not easy to share code between the two. It's fairly easy to port code from one to the other (unless you're doing stuff with networking or threading) but it's not easy to get a single app to run in both worlds.
A lot of the reports of frustrated Windows users are actually Mac users poisoning the well.
If his argument is to be believed then all desktop OS's would be irrelevant with the new BYOD trend. I don't believe it for a second. I highly doubt that my Windows Phone or Surface (let alone an iPad) is going to run Matlab, Maple, Visual Studio, Eclipse or any other massive engineering suite any time soon.
I don't see where you get that it's $120 more than the iPad. It's exactly the same price as the iPad. If you get the extra keyboard then yeah, that adds a bit to the price. I preordered my last night and I can't wait for October 26th. Christmas is coming on Halloween this year.
When several different manufacturers say things like "Our car was rated better than the Accord" then you know the Accord is the real one to beat.
Amen!!
To True! I currently run sever servers, about a third on Apache, a third on Tomcat and a third on IIS. I am moving all my pure Apache servers over to IIS immediately in response to Apache's anouncement of not supporting the flag from IE users. I will probably move my Tomcat servers over as well at some point.
Tracking should be made ILLEGAL. That's why.
...just from tracking us. It should be illegal to track someone without their permission.
If that's what it takes to jumpstart the OEMs into making great hardware with cutting edge technology then I'm all for it. The Surface has caused several manufacturers to rethink their existing designs. I really hope they do it.
Not everything in this wide world can be represented as static state. There are lots of dynamic, parallel, and long-running actions happening all around us. It sure would be nice to trigger a processing operation with an EXECUTE verb because PUT and POST just don't make sense in that context.
You can't just make a product in total secrecy and then declare it done and have the world accept it. You need to iterate. Get a version out there, let people use it, take measurements and feedback then pivot. That's what made Windows 7 so successful. Even Steve Jobs admitted to taking customer feedback (eventually). Personally I am enjoying Windows 8 very much and I find myself going into Windows 7 (dual boot) less and less. There are a few annoyances (mostly around the metro/desktop boundary limitations) but for the most part it's great.
As the article mentions, scaling issues are in certain apps like Chrome or IE9. Windows 8 itself works great.
... so they can do what they want. It doesn't affect me.
...and the majority seem to be Linux fans. I wonder how they're going to take this. I'm always trying to sway them to Windows and maybe I'll have more success now.
Every time a technical company/organization takes sides on social issues, they alienate roughly half of the population (at least in the US where we have a two-party system). Tech organizations should stay out of social issues, period.
What are you talking about? Sure Windows XP had bugs but that's a decade old OS. Windows 7 is extremenly solid. I've used it for two years now and have never seen a blue-screen. Not once.
...have been supported from day one. That would have put them almost to the 200K mark immediately. Sure, the experience for many apps would have been suboptimal (something like the third-party app experience on Android) but the numbers would look impressive and, as we can see from the sales of WP7, app numbers seem to be the only thing that sells devices.