That is for certain, but that doesn't mean they don't have a million geeks rooting for them. Positive image, regardless of motivation, is icing on the cake.
And I use Explorer because there are websites that don't render properly under anything else.
I hear this case a lot around Slashdot. Honestly, how many sites do you encounter that don't work in Moz/Firefox? I surf pretty on-and-off all day (some research, some searching for code, some entertainment), and I rarely find a site that doesn't work in Firefox at least in a tolerable way. The two exceptions I can think of are MSDN (duh) and many bank sites (Why does the finance industry insist on only supporting the most targetted browser on the planet?).
Perhaps I'm just visiting the wrong sites...:/ Fortunately, my credit union's web site seems to work fine in any browser, but I believe they have it professionally developed by a third party and not some intern.
I snickered when I saw that list earlier today. Most of them are broken due to closed ports. Duh. Why not list every application that requires certain ports be open?
Any firewall can break any piece of software if it requires a port that is blocked.
I've worked with two Unisys technologies. A Unisys ClearPath NX mainframe, which like all mainframes, was about as easy to get data out of as it is taking a baby cub from a mother grizzly bear. Then there was the Unisys desktop computers (what you say?! They make desktops??) that some anti-genius decided to deploy in great quantities. Performance at its finest, I say! (Still, they were still better than the old Compcraps with SCSI hard drives that performed about as well as my old 10GB RLL drive).
Note: I really like Compaq's stuff now, but the old mid-to-late nineties Compaq stuff really stunk.
It's not the feasibility that's as important as the precedent it sets. This is just one more chip off of our freedom. The more you allow you freedom to be taken away, the easier it is to take more, especially when they think you'll stand for it as long as you can get a good deal on long distance or save a nickel on a gallon of gas.
I think teaching correct typing is absolutely necessary in school. When I was a kid tinkering with computers, I learned to type using hunt and peck. By the time they tought it in high school, it was difficult because I was used to my own method of using three fingers. I eventually got up to about 60wpm typing "the right way", but I found I could type faster using my own method and eventually switched back out of habit.
If they would have only tought it sooner, I might not have picked up the wrong way of typing. I'll admit, even though I was faster using my method, there is a speed limit I am capable of reaching, whereas I believe the "home row" approach has a higher limit.
My $0.02. Why do they wait so long to teach typing?! Like we didn't use computers until we were in high school??
Cobalt was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the headline. At the time, Cobalt was a standard in the web hosting industry. Sun allowed the likes of Plesk, Ensim, and others to innovate them to death while Cobalt lay stagnant.
Fortunately, all the good stuff is GPL'd. NetWare could die a quick death (!!) and SuSE, Evolution, and Mono would live on in OSS land. Somehow I don't think I'm that lucky though. I guess I'll just have to keep finding creative ways to code around NDS at work.
I moved to a layout which loads probably about 4 times faster than the old layout, just to get fussed by a ton of people saying they hate it.
And yet, your site uses tables for layout instead of CSS. A lot of bandwidth savings can be saved by using CSS for layout as it is cached by the browser. Additionally, it makes for cleaner code and easier separation of code from design. It also makes it easer to design a site that is ADA-compliant, since the stylesheet is ignored, you can just have it show the content in a pleasing text view.
My web site is an example. If you are using Firefox, try disabling the stylesheet. It will display in a mode that would be quite pleasant to any text reader. Alternatively, try viewing it with Lynx (same effect).
No, my site doesn't verify. I just changed the design and some things are still borked, however, you can still get the idea and effect.
I really hope this guy gets vindicated in the end. He did his job, documented his case very well, and got screwed.
Funny, where I work, my boss tells me what my job is. Sometimes it's obvious, and sometimes I have to use judgement. No matter how I tried to justify it, I don't think installing a keylogger on his computer could ever by construed as his wishes.
I think exposing his boss for being useless was a good thing (and arguably his duty), but the end doesn't justify the means, IMO.
Their whole system is built around integration - the more Microsoft you use, the more "pleasant" it's supposed to be. Exchange with Active Directory and SQL Back End, IIS for the web server, etc. If they make their products interoperate with competitor's technologies, they lose this sales tool.
We ran into this problem when we were looking to buy a new web server. The director actualyl gave me a choice on what was loaded on it. Although my last employer was a Linux shop, this place is Microsoft/Novell. As much as I love all things Linux on the server, we eventually decided to put Windows on it because a) we didn't want a third environment (Windows, Novell, Linux), b) most of our department expertise is Windows/Novell, c) Many of our apps are written in ASP, and although it wouldn't have been out of the question to rewrite them or use an emulator in the short term, it was a drawback.
I wouldn't doubt, however, that the major reason our director (is generally against free software) was okay with Linux is because Novell is backing it now, which is a good thing.
What if being vindictive makes you more money than being respected? Slate recommending a competing product could cost more money in losing their web monopoly than it means in higher subscription rates in Slate. I could see Microsoft saying, "Yeah, it might be true, but find a different way to increase readership or find another job." That's what I would say, anyway.
d'uh, it's called progress. my mobile has calendar, email, internet, mp3 and lots more and that's the way I like it.
Progress is in the eye of the beholder. Someone like me who is interested more in battery life and not getting my phone banned from certain buildings because it has a camera on it might not agree. Not to mention I like my phone to have a simple-to-navigate phonebook, which I use extensively, rather than a complex menu for games, utilities, overpriced slow Internet, settings, etc.
My two biggest desires in cell phones I buy are a) battery life and b) simple to use interface. Also, I want my ringer to sound like a telephone ring, not Flight of the Bumblebee or the theme from Cheers. I've always thought that the selection of ring-tones that actually sound like a telephone ringer are quite lousy on some phones, but thank god they offer a cheesy MIDI version of In Da Hood by 50 Cent.
a lot of high-schoolers and college students are simply on vacation this time of year.
Also, I could see the two sort of cancelling each other out (although I'd be willing to bet the college student's University has a bigger pipe than the high schooler's parent's cable modem). In the summer, I would imagine high schooler P2P use goes up and then decrease during the school year. In the non-summer months, I would think the college student use would go up during the school year and decrease during the summer months (living with the parents again, working full time, doing summer activities, etc).
(I posted the parent) I used FastMail before I switched to MailSnare. I like FastMail's interface a bit better, but they were becoming quite unreliable before I switch. It was down several times in the couple months before I switched. Also, MailSnare was a tad cheaper for the same or better features. I still think FastMail is great.
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Also disable "Show friendly HTTP errors":
Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> uncheck "Show friendly HTTP errors".
Otherwise you get the default IE 404 page instead of the one from the server, which can be annoying if you're trying to debug.
That's what quotes are for (or in this case, likely single sub-quotes). They're fun and easy to use! Something like:
emtboy9 writes "Saw this on new.com.com: 'Internet domain name registry VeriSign...'"
Perhaps if SCO had studied under Pai Mei they wouldn't be in this situation.
That is for certain, but that doesn't mean they don't have a million geeks rooting for them. Positive image, regardless of motivation, is icing on the cake.
I hear this case a lot around Slashdot. Honestly, how many sites do you encounter that don't work in Moz/Firefox? I surf pretty on-and-off all day (some research, some searching for code, some entertainment), and I rarely find a site that doesn't work in Firefox at least in a tolerable way. The two exceptions I can think of are MSDN (duh) and many bank sites (Why does the finance industry insist on only supporting the most targetted browser on the planet?).
Perhaps I'm just visiting the wrong sites... :/ Fortunately, my credit union's web site seems to work fine in any browser, but I believe they have it professionally developed by a third party and not some intern.
Heh, I like how their masthead reads, "Athens 2004 - In the True Spirit of the Games." I guess this article shows what that spirit has bcome.
I snickered when I saw that list earlier today. Most of them are broken due to closed ports. Duh. Why not list every application that requires certain ports be open?
Any firewall can break any piece of software if it requires a port that is blocked.
I've worked with two Unisys technologies. A Unisys ClearPath NX mainframe, which like all mainframes, was about as easy to get data out of as it is taking a baby cub from a mother grizzly bear. Then there was the Unisys desktop computers (what you say?! They make desktops??) that some anti-genius decided to deploy in great quantities. Performance at its finest, I say! (Still, they were still better than the old Compcraps with SCSI hard drives that performed about as well as my old 10GB RLL drive).
Note: I really like Compaq's stuff now, but the old mid-to-late nineties Compaq stuff really stunk.
That would be have been Episode 821 - Time Chasers. A classic! Hardly the worst movie they ever featured though...
It's not the feasibility that's as important as the precedent it sets. This is just one more chip off of our freedom. The more you allow you freedom to be taken away, the easier it is to take more, especially when they think you'll stand for it as long as you can get a good deal on long distance or save a nickel on a gallon of gas.
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I think teaching correct typing is absolutely necessary in school. When I was a kid tinkering with computers, I learned to type using hunt and peck. By the time they tought it in high school, it was difficult because I was used to my own method of using three fingers. I eventually got up to about 60wpm typing "the right way", but I found I could type faster using my own method and eventually switched back out of habit.
If they would have only tought it sooner, I might not have picked up the wrong way of typing. I'll admit, even though I was faster using my method, there is a speed limit I am capable of reaching, whereas I believe the "home row" approach has a higher limit.
My $0.02. Why do they wait so long to teach typing?! Like we didn't use computers until we were in high school??
Cobalt was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the headline. At the time, Cobalt was a standard in the web hosting industry. Sun allowed the likes of Plesk, Ensim, and others to innovate them to death while Cobalt lay stagnant.
Fortunately, all the good stuff is GPL'd. NetWare could die a quick death (!!) and SuSE, Evolution, and Mono would live on in OSS land. Somehow I don't think I'm that lucky though. I guess I'll just have to keep finding creative ways to code around NDS at work.
And yet, your site uses tables for layout instead of CSS. A lot of bandwidth savings can be saved by using CSS for layout as it is cached by the browser. Additionally, it makes for cleaner code and easier separation of code from design. It also makes it easer to design a site that is ADA-compliant, since the stylesheet is ignored, you can just have it show the content in a pleasing text view.
My web site is an example. If you are using Firefox, try disabling the stylesheet. It will display in a mode that would be quite pleasant to any text reader. Alternatively, try viewing it with Lynx (same effect).
No, my site doesn't verify. I just changed the design and some things are still borked, however, you can still get the idea and effect.
Yeah, and it only took them 3 years! Go team.
Funny, where I work, my boss tells me what my job is. Sometimes it's obvious, and sometimes I have to use judgement. No matter how I tried to justify it, I don't think installing a keylogger on his computer could ever by construed as his wishes.
I think exposing his boss for being useless was a good thing (and arguably his duty), but the end doesn't justify the means, IMO.
Their whole system is built around integration - the more Microsoft you use, the more "pleasant" it's supposed to be. Exchange with Active Directory and SQL Back End, IIS for the web server, etc. If they make their products interoperate with competitor's technologies, they lose this sales tool.
We ran into this problem when we were looking to buy a new web server. The director actualyl gave me a choice on what was loaded on it. Although my last employer was a Linux shop, this place is Microsoft/Novell. As much as I love all things Linux on the server, we eventually decided to put Windows on it because a) we didn't want a third environment (Windows, Novell, Linux), b) most of our department expertise is Windows/Novell, c) Many of our apps are written in ASP, and although it wouldn't have been out of the question to rewrite them or use an emulator in the short term, it was a drawback.
I wouldn't doubt, however, that the major reason our director (is generally against free software) was okay with Linux is because Novell is backing it now, which is a good thing.
What if being vindictive makes you more money than being respected? Slate recommending a competing product could cost more money in losing their web monopoly than it means in higher subscription rates in Slate. I could see Microsoft saying, "Yeah, it might be true, but find a different way to increase readership or find another job." That's what I would say, anyway.
I too am curious about the details of this procedure. What do you mean by including a "mail order" with the PO Money Order?
Progress is in the eye of the beholder. Someone like me who is interested more in battery life and not getting my phone banned from certain buildings because it has a camera on it might not agree. Not to mention I like my phone to have a simple-to-navigate phonebook, which I use extensively, rather than a complex menu for games, utilities, overpriced slow Internet, settings, etc.
My two biggest desires in cell phones I buy are a) battery life and b) simple to use interface. Also, I want my ringer to sound like a telephone ring, not Flight of the Bumblebee or the theme from Cheers. I've always thought that the selection of ring-tones that actually sound like a telephone ringer are quite lousy on some phones, but thank god they offer a cheesy MIDI version of In Da Hood by 50 Cent.
This is Slashdot - I think you're appealing to the wrong crowd ;) (with appologies to those who don't speak English as their native language)
Yeah, but I hear they'll just be rebranded components from PC Chips.
Also, I could see the two sort of cancelling each other out (although I'd be willing to bet the college student's University has a bigger pipe than the high schooler's parent's cable modem). In the summer, I would imagine high schooler P2P use goes up and then decrease during the school year. In the non-summer months, I would think the college student use would go up during the school year and decrease during the summer months (living with the parents again, working full time, doing summer activities, etc).
Clearly, you've never stood in one of life's long lines in Canada before.
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(I posted the parent) I used FastMail before I switched to MailSnare. I like FastMail's interface a bit better, but they were becoming quite unreliable before I switch. It was down several times in the couple months before I switched. Also, MailSnare was a tad cheaper for the same or better features. I still think FastMail is great.