"Microsoft's only downside exposure would be the potential demise of IIS, which has no financial impact because the Web server is bundled as part of the OS. And, here, Microsoft has seemingly acknowledged defeat: IIS is not available on the Home edition of XP and the Professional edition, by default, is installed without IIS.
Officials from Microsoft declined to comment on this article."
What a crock of crap. As an IIS Admin I will not sit here and act like IIS is perfect (it is a royal pain in the arse actually), but this is just clueless reporting(?). IIS has NEVER been installed by default in ANY version of NT or 2000 Workstation, Professional, etc. I know that it wasn't installed by default in NT4 Server as well. I honestly can't remember with 2000 Server. Such drivel like this really throws lots of salt in the article. If I were Microsoft, I wouldn't give this writer any air of legitimacy by responding either.
Actually Carroll and the boys do respond to the oxymoronically referred to MS Security articles. They always spit the company line about how all sofware has vulnerabilities and that (insert ABM company here)'s software isn't perfect either. It's a legitimate point maybe the first 10 or 15 times you read it, but after constantly seeing it and rarely seeing a vulnerability in (insert ABM company's name here)'s software, you start to take them with a grain of salt (as you should with any comment on a public web forum).
Not that everyones software is bug free, but MS's software obviously has more high profile vulnerabilities exposed. The reasons behind this are debatable... but it's the fact of the matter.
You really should consider plentium grade Cat-5 cable if you're going to put it inside walls and throught he ceiling. My understanding is that this is a fire safety issue, this type of wire does not emit toxic fumes when it burns. I know that it is required for commercial installs, maybe home installs are different. Whatever the case, it will probably cost a LOT more than $60 / 1000 feet.
I don't know about the Genesis having better hardware. It had a faster CPU. 12 MHz against 3.58 MHz on the SNES, but the graphics and sound processors on the SNES blew the Genesis out of the water.
I'll never forget the SEGA commercial that was talking about Genesis and it's "Blast Processing". They showed Sonic and compared it to Mario Kart in an ill-advised move that was intended to illustrate the disparity in processing speeds. Unfortunately, I saw this commercial as a freshman in High School and was STILL playing Mario Kart for hours in my college dorm while Sonic's *third* incarnation was collecting dust on the back shelf.
Lets you kill fonts, coloring, javascript, AND popups from the toolbar. In Mozilla of course...
The thing that I love about XUL is that many of the interface-related things that people brag about in other browsers can be (and have been) implemented and installed with the click of a button.
I don't think that it is good UI design either. Too easy for a user to accidently close a tab. Having it off to the side puts a minimal effort into closing the window. Which I personally think is a good decision.
The Mozilla core is actually quite fast. The slowness of the application is frequently blamed on the fact that Mozilla renders its own interface as opposed to letting the Operating System handle this.
Browsers like Galeon and Kmeleon are faster because they give this function back to the OS. As a result though, their respective looks are confined to one platform.
There are definitely advantages to both implementations, and the fact that these "children" of Mozilla are available independently on Windows and Linux says a lot about the flexibility of the gecko core (a good selling point).
I think the point is that NYC and China have relative time intervals. One hour in NYC is one hour in China. When you are dealing with interstellar entities, the whole concept of time changes since (assuming that everyone acts as we do) time is measured by the positioning and behavior of celestial bodies (orbit, rotation, distance from light source, etc.). What the hell does 5 Earth years equal in K-Paxian time?
For Prot to say that he is leaving in precisely 5 Earth years and then insinuate that this is because of conditions on K-Pax is a little unbelievable because the time reference from which his measurement is made has little bearing on the place that he is going.
Of course we know that the real answer to this is that the whole "5 year" thing gives our hero reason to travel across the country and deliver a bit of important exposition.
No proffesional [sic] Sound Master has the time to fiddle with OS, Driver or Hardware incompatibilities on a PC platform or with Software on a PC platform where the company/team engineering the software has a history of less than 10 years.
I work in the recording studios at a major US University and we have a number of PCs running Sound Forge, WaveLab, Vegas, SAW etc. and have absolutely no hardware problems (except for the temptation to upgrade all of the time due to ridiculously cheap prices). I honestly can't remember having many (any?) hardware compatibility problems since the release of Win98.
What's even more interesting is their link on CD Plants. According to our friends in the RIAA, people at CD Mastering plants need to carefully listen to every recording sent to be pressed in order to prevent mass producing an RIAA recording ("Ignorance is no excuse" they say). So I guess companies like Disc Makers are supposed to hire somebody who is familliar with every single RIAA-produced recording and listen to every order that comes through to make sure that they are in fact original recordings.
My understanding is that the PR numbers are actually equivalent to T Birds. I would imagine that since T Birds are noticably faster than equivalently clocked P IV's, this is the reason for the plus moniker. OR it could be because Model 1872 would *really* confuse Joe Sixpack.
Uhhhhhh... AMD's real success in the CPU business came without the aid of PR ratings. There is a difference between sleazy marketing and BAD marketing. In the case of the latter, AMD is guilty as charged.
Ummmm not really. You can read the text but you can't see the styling. In Mozilla the site looks just like the MozillaQuest site, but much cleaner. The MQQ designer did a lot of the wacky stuff that MAngelo does with good ol' (X)HTML and CSS.
Point taken... now tell us what body is officially responsible for defining the standard practices of coding content for the web? Microsoft is part of the W3C as well so it's not like thet have no say in these recommendations.
Sorry but XHTML is a W3C standard based on XML. The MS buzzword of the century. I find it interesting that IE can't properly render an XHTML file since they like to tout their XML support.
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What a crock of crap. As an IIS Admin I will not sit here and act like IIS is perfect (it is a royal pain in the arse actually), but this is just clueless reporting(?). IIS has NEVER been installed by default in ANY version of NT or 2000 Workstation, Professional, etc. I know that it wasn't installed by default in NT4 Server as well. I honestly can't remember with 2000 Server. Such drivel like this really throws lots of salt in the article. If I were Microsoft, I wouldn't give this writer any air of legitimacy by responding either.
Actually Carroll and the boys do respond to the oxymoronically referred to MS Security articles. They always spit the company line about how all sofware has vulnerabilities and that (insert ABM company here)'s software isn't perfect either. It's a legitimate point maybe the first 10 or 15 times you read it, but after constantly seeing it and rarely seeing a vulnerability in (insert ABM company's name here)'s software, you start to take them with a grain of salt (as you should with any comment on a public web forum).
Not that everyones software is bug free, but MS's software obviously has more high profile vulnerabilities exposed. The reasons behind this are debatable... but it's the fact of the matter.
You really should consider plentium grade Cat-5 cable if you're going to put it inside walls and throught he ceiling. My understanding is that this is a fire safety issue, this type of wire does not emit toxic fumes when it burns. I know that it is required for commercial installs, maybe home installs are different. Whatever the case, it will probably cost a LOT more than $60 / 1000 feet.
That might be a good idea if ads were the only reason to use popups.
I don't know about the Genesis having better hardware. It had a faster CPU. 12 MHz against 3.58 MHz on the SNES, but the graphics and sound processors on the SNES blew the Genesis out of the water.
I'll never forget the SEGA commercial that was talking about Genesis and it's "Blast Processing". They showed Sonic and compared it to Mario Kart in an ill-advised move that was intended to illustrate the disparity in processing speeds. Unfortunately, I saw this commercial as a freshman in High School and was STILL playing Mario Kart for hours in my college dorm while Sonic's *third* incarnation was collecting dust on the back shelf.
Try this for number 1:
o ry=applications&view=prefbar
http://www.xulplanet.com/downloads/view.cgi?categ
Lets you kill fonts, coloring, javascript, AND popups from the toolbar. In Mozilla of course...
The thing that I love about XUL is that many of the interface-related things that people brag about in other browsers can be (and have been) implemented and installed with the click of a button.
I don't think that it is good UI design either. Too easy for a user to accidently close a tab. Having it off to the side puts a minimal effort into closing the window. Which I personally think is a good decision.
The Mozilla core is actually quite fast. The slowness of the application is frequently blamed on the fact that Mozilla renders its own interface as opposed to letting the Operating System handle this.
Browsers like Galeon and Kmeleon are faster because they give this function back to the OS. As a result though, their respective looks are confined to one platform.
There are definitely advantages to both implementations, and the fact that these "children" of Mozilla are available independently on Windows and Linux says a lot about the flexibility of the gecko core (a good selling point).
Well actually the chipsets that are made by AMD (750 - 760x) are pretty reliable.
Actually I think that you mean x86-64.org
I think the point is that NYC and China have relative time intervals. One hour in NYC is one hour in China. When you are dealing with interstellar entities, the whole concept of time changes since (assuming that everyone acts as we do) time is measured by the positioning and behavior of celestial bodies (orbit, rotation, distance from light source, etc.). What the hell does 5 Earth years equal in K-Paxian time?
For Prot to say that he is leaving in precisely 5 Earth years and then insinuate that this is because of conditions on K-Pax is a little unbelievable because the time reference from which his measurement is made has little bearing on the place that he is going.
Of course we know that the real answer to this is that the whole "5 year" thing gives our hero reason to travel across the country and deliver a bit of important exposition.
Lots of good Astronomy in this one.
Sounds like you've removed it just fine. This is the beauty of Mozilla.
You my friend just stated the bottom line. If all of these bloat whiners understood this, the thread would be half as long.
I work in the recording studios at a major US University and we have a number of PCs running Sound Forge, WaveLab, Vegas, SAW etc. and have absolutely no hardware problems (except for the temptation to upgrade all of the time due to ridiculously cheap prices). I honestly can't remember having many (any?) hardware compatibility problems since the release of Win98.
Ridiculous...
Or P.C. Anywhere, Or Terminal Services, or Remote Desktop...
Get a grip brother...
And Galeon only gets its entire browsing engine from these guys.
My understanding is that the PR numbers are actually equivalent to T Birds. I would imagine that since T Birds are noticably faster than equivalently clocked P IV's, this is the reason for the plus moniker. OR it could be because Model 1872 would *really* confuse Joe Sixpack.
According to Snopes it's the truth:
http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/bush.htm
Uhhhhhh... AMD's real success in the CPU business came without the aid of PR ratings. There is a difference between sleazy marketing and BAD marketing. In the case of the latter, AMD is guilty as charged.
Ummmm not really. You can read the text but you can't see the styling. In Mozilla the site looks just like the MozillaQuest site, but much cleaner. The MQQ designer did a lot of the wacky stuff that MAngelo does with good ol' (X)HTML and CSS.
Ever hear of Fizzilla?
http://www.mozilla.org/ports/fizzilla/
Point taken... now tell us what body is officially responsible for defining the standard practices of coding content for the web? Microsoft is part of the W3C as well so it's not like thet have no say in these recommendations.
Sorry but XHTML is a W3C standard based on XML. The MS buzzword of the century. I find it interesting that IE can't properly render an XHTML file since they like to tout their XML support.
You must be playing on a PII 266 with an S3 Virge...