It's a slick layout and is comprehensive and consistent. It will tell you what versions of IE started supporting the particular object/property/method you're looking at, as well as the version and standard in which the thing you're looking at is defined. If it says it is not part of any standard, that basically means not to expect it to work in anything but IE. Stick to objects/properties/etc that are standardized and that site will help a lot.
3) Would the RIAA/MPAA go halvesies in order to find user/password collisions for some people they suspect of being big players on a P2P network, in order to gain some access to see exactly what they're sharing?
I have no idea if a network vulnerable to this exists, and I realize they couldn't use those findings legally but it could sure put them on the track they're looking for.
Is anyone else reminded of the short story in Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House on this topic? I think of it everytime I see something like this in the news and it freaks me out a little.
Basically, the story takes place in a time when people never really HAVE to die, as long as they keep taking some kind of pill or medicine. Extended families all have to live in the same apartment, sleeping in sleeping bags all over the floors because there are so many of them, and everyone is constantly trying to kiss the butt of the eldest family member who owns everything for a spot in their will. Every little thing results in a threat to be removed from the will and left with nothing, but every year the eldest person finds a reason to keep taking the pills instead of letting themselves die. Anyway, it's Vonnegut, so whackiness ensues, etc etc. I see this as eerily close to what would happen (basically), but still one of our smallest problems in such a situation.
One such moment in particular... It was not too long after GTA 3 came out and I had been playing it a lot. I went to Walmart, which has a bank in it, and saw a big armored Brinks security van out front. Who knows what it was actually for, but the first thing that popped in my head was that it was full of cash for the bank, and I started thinking of the best way to take out any security guards and get the van back to my hideout or the guy who paid me to jack it.
... and ask, "Who cares?" Like everyone else it seems, my educational career involved about 2 years of mandatory cursive (around grades 2 and 3) after which teachers didn't care. If I was presented with a feather and a little cup of ink I would have all sorts of trouble, but it doesn't seem to hurt me much in my college education which is paid for and in which I have a 4.0. The ability to type everything (be it formal papers, personal letters, or virtual post-its) on a computer is an advancement in technology. Like many other people here I'm sure, I can type ~110 words per minute. I don't see how that would be humanly possible writing cursive with a pen and paper, so what's so wrong with it?
Actually I think HTA (HTML Applications) is the closer Microsoft technology to this. I think it was first introduced in IE 5.0 (may have been 4.x but I don't remember). Basically what you can do with it is rename any html file to.hta and it is then run and acts and has the permissions of an application. There is only one specialized HTML tag used, to specify the icon file, borders, whether or not to allow multiple instances, etc., but other than that its all HTML/CSS/Javascript/ActiveX as far as IE supports it. You also have color constants in IE which match up with the user defined system colors as well, so you can make some pretty nice looking things with it. I've made several apps I use myself and I quite like it actually.
Anyway, more information (general and reference) can be found on this page.
Sega people have said Shenmue 2 will be an Xbox title. I'm not sure about the rest of the series (since before Shenmue 1 they've said it will be like a five game or more series) though. An interview about it can be found at http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/39017.html.
Notice the top of the pic says "XDK LAUNCHER"... XDK stands for Xbox Development Kit (like SDK; what a clever variation!:p) which is the actual hardware box MS has sent out to developers. Being the clever person I am that makes me think that screen is from one of the development boxes. If that pic is from one of the demos that have been having problems in stores, it would also make one think that the hardware in stores is not the final version going on sale here in a few weeks. This would be a Good Thing (tm), unless you just want any excuse to poke fun at Microsoft.:)
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Erm, yes there are working X-Boxes.:P It looks like IGN has some kind of working prototype (http://xbox.ign.com/news/38343.html), and I remember seeing articles in the recent weeks on GameSpot and a few other sites about their hands-on expierience with near-complete games on (I would think) complete or near complete hardware, brought in to their offices.
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If Microsoft had ever released IE for Linux...
Oh my goodness, as a web designer I could think of nothing better happening...
But seriously, while IE is still far superior (go ahead and flame me all you want, make yourself feel 31337 for bashing MS:) ) I could live with IE and Mozilla(-based browsers) being the norm. If only there were a way to rid the world of Netscape 4.x's existence...
I worked on a fairly large scale network of websites for a couple years, and I can tell you that there are a lot of websites that get paid based not only ad clicks, but on ad views (a certain dollar amount per x thousand, or whatever). So ad blocking software can still hurt a site's revenue..
Uhm.. Isn't this kind of like saying "Windows can already do what Linux can do; it can be used to 'surf the web,' set up a web/mail/ftp/etc server, develop applications, etc., so no one needs Linux." ? (Please spare flaming me on that, it's what an average person might say.)
What you said is a fine decision to make for yourself, but for a company to make for its clients?
Someone else mentioned it already, but there already exists an ActiveX control which allows you to embed Mozilla within IE (or anything with ActiveX support). Go here: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm. I can't find anything about it, but if Mozilla can use ActiveX/COM/whatever controls with the <object> tag, you could go the other way and embed IE within Mozilla.;)
I bought and received one just a couple weeks ago. With the firmware that shipped on the unit, the sound was pretty horrible, but when I updated it (there was even a note shipped in the box with a URL to get updated firmware from) the sound quality was much better. I've turned it up to a point where it hurts the ears and there's no distortion at all now. Navigation takes a minute or two to get down but after that I've come to like it quite a bit. Batteries last longer than what Creative claims the Nomad Jukebox does (I get 6-8 hours on the Archos, depending on bitrate, etc.), and even longer than that with some 1600 mAh NiMH batteries (as opposed to the shipped 1500 mAh). It's quite a bit cheaper too, I've seen some listed for $309 and I got mine for $329. And the interface is, of course, better than the Nomad's; it shows up as a Fujitsu hdd in Windows, so I'd assume you could get to it under any other operating system with decent USB support.
Anyway, I just happen to like it a lot and thought I'd defend it a little.;)
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The best DOM reference I've been able to find is at MSDN:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
It's a slick layout and is comprehensive and consistent. It will tell you what versions of IE started supporting the particular object/property/method you're looking at, as well as the version and standard in which the thing you're looking at is defined. If it says it is not part of any standard, that basically means not to expect it to work in anything but IE. Stick to objects/properties/etc that are standardized and that site will help a lot.
3) Would the RIAA/MPAA go halvesies in order to find user/password collisions for some people they suspect of being big players on a P2P network, in order to gain some access to see exactly what they're sharing?
I have no idea if a network vulnerable to this exists, and I realize they couldn't use those findings legally but it could sure put them on the track they're looking for.
Is anyone else reminded of the short story in Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House on this topic? I think of it everytime I see something like this in the news and it freaks me out a little.
Basically, the story takes place in a time when people never really HAVE to die, as long as they keep taking some kind of pill or medicine. Extended families all have to live in the same apartment, sleeping in sleeping bags all over the floors because there are so many of them, and everyone is constantly trying to kiss the butt of the eldest family member who owns everything for a spot in their will. Every little thing results in a threat to be removed from the will and left with nothing, but every year the eldest person finds a reason to keep taking the pills instead of letting themselves die. Anyway, it's Vonnegut, so whackiness ensues, etc etc. I see this as eerily close to what would happen (basically), but still one of our smallest problems in such a situation.
One such moment in particular... It was not too long after GTA 3 came out and I had been playing it a lot. I went to Walmart, which has a bank in it, and saw a big armored Brinks security van out front. Who knows what it was actually for, but the first thing that popped in my head was that it was full of cash for the bank, and I started thinking of the best way to take out any security guards and get the van back to my hideout or the guy who paid me to jack it.
... and ask, "Who cares?" Like everyone else it seems, my educational career involved about 2 years of mandatory cursive (around grades 2 and 3) after which teachers didn't care. If I was presented with a feather and a little cup of ink I would have all sorts of trouble, but it doesn't seem to hurt me much in my college education which is paid for and in which I have a 4.0. The ability to type everything (be it formal papers, personal letters, or virtual post-its) on a computer is an advancement in technology. Like many other people here I'm sure, I can type ~110 words per minute. I don't see how that would be humanly possible writing cursive with a pen and paper, so what's so wrong with it?
Actually I think HTA (HTML Applications) is the closer Microsoft technology to this. I think it was first introduced in IE 5.0 (may have been 4.x but I don't remember). Basically what you can do with it is rename any html file to .hta and it is then run and acts and has the permissions of an application. There is only one specialized HTML tag used, to specify the icon file, borders, whether or not to allow multiple instances, etc., but other than that its all HTML/CSS/Javascript/ActiveX as far as IE supports it. You also have color constants in IE which match up with the user defined system colors as well, so you can make some pretty nice looking things with it. I've made several apps I use myself and I quite like it actually.
Anyway, more information (general and reference) can be found on this page.
Sega people have said Shenmue 2 will be an Xbox title. I'm not sure about the rest of the series (since before Shenmue 1 they've said it will be like a five game or more series) though. An interview about it can be found at http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/39017.html.
Notice the top of the pic says "XDK LAUNCHER"... XDK stands for Xbox Development Kit (like SDK; what a clever variation! :p) which is the actual hardware box MS has sent out to developers. Being the clever person I am that makes me think that screen is from one of the development boxes. If that pic is from one of the demos that have been having problems in stores, it would also make one think that the hardware in stores is not the final version going on sale here in a few weeks. This would be a Good Thing (tm), unless you just want any excuse to poke fun at Microsoft. :)
Erm, yes there are working X-Boxes. :P It looks like IGN has some kind of working prototype (http://xbox.ign.com/news/38343.html), and I remember seeing articles in the recent weeks on GameSpot and a few other sites about their hands-on expierience with near-complete games on (I would think) complete or near complete hardware, brought in to their offices.
If Microsoft had ever released IE for Linux... Oh my goodness, as a web designer I could think of nothing better happening... But seriously, while IE is still far superior (go ahead and flame me all you want, make yourself feel 31337 for bashing MS :) ) I could live with IE and Mozilla(-based browsers) being the norm. If only there were a way to rid the world of Netscape 4.x's existence...
I worked on a fairly large scale network of websites for a couple years, and I can tell you that there are a lot of websites that get paid based not only ad clicks, but on ad views (a certain dollar amount per x thousand, or whatever). So ad blocking software can still hurt a site's revenue..
Uhm.. Isn't this kind of like saying "Windows can already do what Linux can do; it can be used to 'surf the web,' set up a web/mail/ftp/etc server, develop applications, etc., so no one needs Linux." ? (Please spare flaming me on that, it's what an average person might say.)
What you said is a fine decision to make for yourself, but for a company to make for its clients?
Someone else mentioned it already, but there already exists an ActiveX control which allows you to embed Mozilla within IE (or anything with ActiveX support). Go here: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm. I can't find anything about it, but if Mozilla can use ActiveX/COM/whatever controls with the <object> tag, you could go the other way and embed IE within Mozilla. ;)
I bought and received one just a couple weeks ago. With the firmware that shipped on the unit, the sound was pretty horrible, but when I updated it (there was even a note shipped in the box with a URL to get updated firmware from) the sound quality was much better. I've turned it up to a point where it hurts the ears and there's no distortion at all now. Navigation takes a minute or two to get down but after that I've come to like it quite a bit. Batteries last longer than what Creative claims the Nomad Jukebox does (I get 6-8 hours on the Archos, depending on bitrate, etc.), and even longer than that with some 1600 mAh NiMH batteries (as opposed to the shipped 1500 mAh). It's quite a bit cheaper too, I've seen some listed for $309 and I got mine for $329. And the interface is, of course, better than the Nomad's; it shows up as a Fujitsu hdd in Windows, so I'd assume you could get to it under any other operating system with decent USB support.
;)
Anyway, I just happen to like it a lot and thought I'd defend it a little.