Let's make one thing clear - IE8 may be in standards-compliant MODE by default, but whether it's *standards-compliant* has yet to be proven. What Microsoft HAS proven (repeatedly) is that it considers compliance with standards to be a relative term. Only time will tell. I sure hope that they actually accomplish it this time; I'm tired.
YOU'RE AN IDIOT. Okay, there, just had to get that out of the way.
If you're thinking of voting for Nader in 2008, you're going to help McCain become president. The only people who would vote for Nader are ones who would vote for a Democrat instead of a Republican, so you'd only be hurting the Democratic nominee, thus helping the Republican.
"But I want to vote my conscience!" you may be thinking. I've heard this a lot. Your conscience is apparently retarded. Vote your BRAIN, assuming you have one, because if you don't, you'll get (at least) four more years of war in Iraq, probably war in Iran, and possibly elsewhere. This will, of course, continue the downward spiral of the economy. The relatively small number of people still dumb enough to vote for Nader won't possibly let Nader win, won't let Nader "have a voice in the issues," and will do NOTHING but hurt the Democratic nominee, which one would hope would be Barack Obama. Even if it's Hillary Clinton, that's still a damned sight better than McCain. C'mon!
Don't be stupid (again), people! PLEASE, I'm beggin' ya.
It's just a joke. There aren't many Opera users compared to Firefox users. If you can't tell the difference between a joke and flamebait, that's unfortunate. Are you from Norway?
Opera has a lot of nifty features, but to my mind, it's crippled by an interface that makes it take forever to figure out how to configure the thing to do what you want. I'd _love_ for the Opera folks to take the Firefox code and rewrite it to their standards. FF would be SOOO much faster. I just don't want the Opera interface.
I remember when Firefox first started it was meant to be a faster and more secure replacement for IE. Well, the longer I have been running it (many of you know that I was probably the last Slashdot IE6 holdout for various reasons) the more I realize how slow and awful it can be -- especially the last few versions.
You people are all going about it wrong. You shouldn't trade your left nut. You should trade somebody else's left nut. This is a business proposition after all.
Your proposal is acceptable. Fork over your left nut.
Get back to me when they have that is 1) shockproof and break proof 2) moisture proof 3) sub $100 (not $199, not $150, sub $100)
Well, dead tree versions sure don't meet your second condition much better than electronics.
The financial break-even point between ebooks and treebooks depends entirely on how much you read, and whether you stick to paperbacks. With ebooks being so much cheaper than their treebook counterparts, many people can break even on the price of an ebook reader within a year, and it's just gravy from that point until the thing dies. There's also the matter of things an ebook can do that a treebook simply can't.
To each their own; they each have pros and cons. I don't necessarily see ebooks as _replacements_ for treebooks.
Go with the HTC Touch on Verizon's very nice network next month (next month according to rumour, anyway). Oh, and spend a lot less on it and not have to worry about whether you're in a '3G roll-out city'. And I'm assuming the battery life will be better, what with not having to power the RDF and all...
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Anyone who doesn't think this is a bright idea is clearly a dim bulb.
Islands in the Sky was extremely Heinleinesque, which is why I loved it.
:)
Childhood's End was a pretty freaky read for a thirteen year old kid.
Choice of characters, better graphics.
How date they!
Microsoft: "Hey, wait for us - We're the leader!"
:)
I'm glad they're going to be supporting all these 'new' standards.
Was he eaten by a Grue?
IE8 has better standard compliance than Firefox 2 actually.
Many unreleased browsers do.
What's it mean "by default"? Is there a big shiny button that says "push me" on it that switches it from standards compliance to microsoft-lockin?
:)
I think it's a big shiny meta tag you can use, in case your code is really crappy and designed to depend on IE rendering flaws.
IE's not done till Google Maps won't run!
Let's make one thing clear - IE8 may be in standards-compliant MODE by default, but whether it's *standards-compliant* has yet to be proven. What Microsoft HAS proven (repeatedly) is that it considers compliance with standards to be a relative term. Only time will tell. I sure hope that they actually accomplish it this time; I'm tired.
I'm sure you look good in blue.
Bill: It's not encrypted or encoded. That's how perl usually looks.
:)
As the saying goes, "Java is executable bytecode, Perl is executable linenoise."
YOU'RE AN IDIOT. Okay, there, just had to get that out of the way.
If you're thinking of voting for Nader in 2008, you're going to help McCain become president. The only people who would vote for Nader are ones who would vote for a Democrat instead of a Republican, so you'd only be hurting the Democratic nominee, thus helping the Republican.
"But I want to vote my conscience!" you may be thinking. I've heard this a lot. Your conscience is apparently retarded. Vote your BRAIN, assuming you have one, because if you don't, you'll get (at least) four more years of war in Iraq, probably war in Iran, and possibly elsewhere. This will, of course, continue the downward spiral of the economy. The relatively small number of people still dumb enough to vote for Nader won't possibly let Nader win, won't let Nader "have a voice in the issues," and will do NOTHING but hurt the Democratic nominee, which one would hope would be Barack Obama. Even if it's Hillary Clinton, that's still a damned sight better than McCain. C'mon!
Don't be stupid (again), people! PLEASE, I'm beggin' ya.
LEARN THE NADER LESSON!
It's just a joke. There aren't many Opera users compared to Firefox users. If you can't tell the difference between a joke and flamebait, that's unfortunate. Are you from Norway?
Opera has a lot of nifty features, but to my mind, it's crippled by an interface that makes it take forever to figure out how to configure the thing to do what you want. I'd _love_ for the Opera folks to take the Firefox code and rewrite it to their standards. FF would be SOOO much faster. I just don't want the Opera interface.
it places Opera users at unnecessary risk
Yeah, both of them.
I remember when Firefox first started it was meant to be a faster and more secure replacement for IE. Well, the longer I have been running it (many of you know that I was probably the last Slashdot IE6 holdout for various reasons) the more I realize how slow and awful it can be -- especially the last few versions.
K-Meleon is your friend.
I'm surprised we haven't seen people buying/selling low Slash ID's on eBay... with all the amazing perks and what-not. Ha.
Nah, people just don't get rid of these things - they run 'em into the ground.
You people are all going about it wrong. You shouldn't trade your left nut. You should trade somebody else's left nut. This is a business proposition after all.
Your proposal is acceptable. Fork over your left nut.
You'd better laugh; I'm going to lose a job interview some day over this post when they ask me what tech. sites I frequent!
:)
Only if you fill out 'Gazzonyx' on the job app.
And I don't owe you any Mountain Dew Amp or a keyboard. I have diplomatic immunity courtesy of my sub-5-digit Slashdot UID.
But he's got a pretty sweet lifestyle, and I bet most here would trade their left nut for it.
Well...not my *left* one. That one's my favourite, you see. I know you're not supposed to have favourites, but I can't help it.
They are "giving away" ebooks just as much as slashdot is "giving away" all these fancy html documents.
My God, I never thought of that! How can Slashdot possibly afford to give all these things away for free?
Answer: Volume!
I was informed, much to my surprise, that my email address is invalid. Huh.
Did you try a 'plus' email address? Some web developers are still kinda stupid when it comes to checking email address format validity. *sigh*
Get back to me when they have that is 1) shockproof and break proof 2) moisture proof 3) sub $100 (not $199, not $150, sub $100)
Well, dead tree versions sure don't meet your second condition much better than electronics.
The financial break-even point between ebooks and treebooks depends entirely on how much you read, and whether you stick to paperbacks. With ebooks being so much cheaper than their treebook counterparts, many people can break even on the price of an ebook reader within a year, and it's just gravy from that point until the thing dies. There's also the matter of things an ebook can do that a treebook simply can't.
To each their own; they each have pros and cons. I don't necessarily see ebooks as _replacements_ for treebooks.
"Lookie Lou"
you reverse the polarity and route the energy through the EPS conduit?
Evil Alternate Universe time, I bet.
Go with the HTC Touch on Verizon's very nice network next month (next month according to rumour, anyway). Oh, and spend a lot less on it and not have to worry about whether you're in a '3G roll-out city'. And I'm assuming the battery life will be better, what with not having to power the RDF and all...
... and in Sweden we have HSPA mobile broadband - that's 7.2/1.4Mbit.
Yeah, but the downsides! You have to live in Sweden, speak Swedish, and deal with all those blondes.
Okay, so 2 out of 3 aren't bad, but still...