The problem (apparently) isn't with Mozilla, it's with Netscape 4. Fortunately, we made the sane decision to emit HTML 4.01 and CSS. We have some JavaScript, but very little of it is browser-divergent (and all of that is isolated). My primary browser is Mozilla 1.0.1; the only reason I fire up IE is for debugging (the rest of the team uses IE, so we all catch rendering bugs pretty quickly, of which there has been almost none).
It was easy to get ASP.NET's controls to all emit HTML 4.0 regardless of the browser it thought it was seeing. We just turned off the down-level rendering.
All the Web Controls we've tried work flawlessly with Mozilla. We use the DataList and DataGrid extensively, and they're great. Postback processing is no problem. Some controls are too quirky for me (like getting the Calendar to output without a ton of "style=" splashed all around), and we ended up building controls that weren't there (wizards, tabs, tree controls, etc.).
The control architecture in.NET is easily one of the best web development systems I've ever seen. It's not flawless, and I bitch about some things too much (like trying to understand the control life-cycle), but it's way better than anything I ever experienced with ASP or JSP.
I can't speak to the pain you'll have trying to ASP.NET for Netscape 4. But I can reassure you that it's not only simple but pleasant to use when developing against the standards (HTML 4.0/CSS).
Mono is free software yes? How can it end up in the hands of anything?
The owner of the software controls the license. If Microsoft wanted to own Mono, all it would have to do is buy it from the contributors. Once they own the property, they can re-license it any way they wish.
There is the matter of the existing code which is out there under the old license (they couldn't do anything about that), but if they felt it was an issue, they'd move before Mono was reasonably complete, thus leaving someone else a lot of work to get it up to speed using the old code.
This isn't really possible, since 480p is 4x3, not 16x9. I don't live in LA, so I don't know what they're actually doing, but it's not "16x9 480p".
The title for 480p is SDTV (as opposed to HDTV). Still digital, still much cleaner picture, but not high resolution.
You can buy a good quality DLP projector and screen for a lot less than $10,000, and get better size and resolution to boot. (800x600? Please!)
Up the ante to $15,000 -- the cost of the 63", which is way smaller than any size you'd get out of even the cheapest, lowest resolution projector -- and you're into a really good CRT based projector that will utterly destroy the picture quality of a plasma.
I wish people would actually read the entire content.
With a single character, you can learn the bottom half of the tree of EVERY SINGLE profession, with the given 200 points. That means with just one test character, you have a good understanding of the mechanics of all the professions.
With a single character, you can completely master three professions, and do the bottom half of a fourth.
I think most people who are knee-jerk angry don't realize how drastically different this game is gonna be from the traditional "pick your race, pick your stats, pick your profession, hope you didn't screw it up!" MMORPG character creation system we have today. If anything, it'll be more like Asheron's Call 2, which encourages players to dabble in a little bit of everything (but for all that, doesn't have enough variety).
Yep, he's serious. I worked for a company that provided software for recruiters. Bar none, they were interested in Word format resumes ONLY. We took in plain text and HTML, and converted them to Word automatically, which at least gave you a chance (if you stuff converted well).
Even when the world runs on the web, it's still hobbled by Word.:-p
Sorry, this is just not true. I'm having a hard time believing you're actually using Windows XP. There's not a font on my screen at any time that's larger than 12 pt, and they're all being sub-pixel rendered.
I can't help but think Intel would rather Linux win out in the long run.
I disagree. Intel would rather have Windows run, simply because Windows is far more approachable by the novice user. If the only choice on Intel hardware were Linux or BSD, then people like my mom wouldn't have a PC at all. They'd probably have a Mac.
Remember that on Windows XP (at least on all the installs I've ever used) it doesn't even antialias most text, so that's hardly a mainstream feature.
Ever since Windows 95, every scalable font (read: TrueType) has been capable of being anti-aliased. True, on Windows 95 you had to buy the Plus Pack! to make it happen, but it was standard and free from NT 4 on forward (1996). In Windows XP, you now have sub-pixel rendering, not just font smoothing. The Microsoft fonts are, hands down, the best hinted fonts available.
I don't know what font you were using that wasn't smoothed, but it certainly wasn't one of the mainstream Windows fonts.
Sorry, but what article did you read? He didn't mention anything about getting back to first principles. He didn't call abstractions evil. He said, in essence: "they leak, and you need to be ready to deal with that".
Please, if you want to give an opinion, can you at least read the source material before making a conclusion about it?
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It's hard to say that the Xbox is of "similar power" to the GeForce 4 4600. The video hardware in the Xbox is a modified version of the original GeForce 3. It has performance advantages to being on a dedicated bus instead of AGP, but I doubt it's capable of keeping pace with a 4600, personally.
That having been said, the games look excellent on the Xbox, because it's that "one platform only" game writing thing that consoles get and PCs don't. There's still very few games that even begin to scratch the GeForce 3's capabilities. We need to get away from big textures and T&L, and into shader country.
...it's called Lindows. This is an OS that can install in 2 minutes, has an extremely friendly UI and software download system, and has Debian at its core. Seriously. It's the first Linux distro that my mom could install and use.
My SS51 is my game system (portability), as so it runs Windows XP. I downloaded the LiveCD from Gentoo with Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo, and it would not properly boot. I use an nVidia 4200.
I haven't tried just putting Linux on the box, because I'd still need to dual-boot for the majority of my games.
A parallel-to-USB converter that is made and sold specifically for heritage printers. Ditto they have devices to serial-to-USB, presumably for modems (although I believe it virtualizes a COM port, so it will work with any device).
The whole heritage bus has to go. That means goodbye PS/2, goodbye serial, goodbye parallel. Good riddance.:)
It's not always inbound you're protecting against. You may end up with a rogue program trying to make an outbound connection, in which case a firewall that warned before allowing outgoing applications to access the net (in concert with an "approved" application list) would be appropriate. Ditto for a rogue app that wanted to set up a listener.
I don't know about you, but I would've just replaced the RAM. The hassle you went through to get a $30 part replaced is ridiculuous. I mean, how little do you value your time that you'd be willing to do that?
Actually, in some areas (even in the United States), it's illegal to have lock picking equipment in your posession without a permit. It is considered sufficient reason to arrest you on conspiracy to commit breaking and entering. Ditto for having a police scanner in a moving vehicle... some states outlaw it under the belief that it's a conspiracy to commit evasion.
There are two major drive heights for laptops: 9mm and 12.5mm. Most super slim laptops are limited to the 9mm drives, which limits choice and increases price. A larger laptop, like my Presario, uses the 12.5mm heigh drive.
They're unbelievably small compared to desktop hard drives.;)
I'll give you my experience with one hard drive: the current model IBM 60GB, 5400 RPM, 12.5mm hard drive. I put it into my Compaq Presario laptop. This drive is silent! It's unbelievable. I use this box for dev, and it regularly thrashes the hard drive -- presumably. I can't hear it if it does.:)
The guy who sits next to me has whatever default drive is in the monster Sony Vaio, and that thing is incredibly noisy.
And it's a very common way to "acknowledge" the better compositions that artists do, by using them in trailers. After Crimson Tide came out, it seemed like just about every action movie was using pieces of that soundtrack. In fact, I still occasionally hear pieces of it used.
Doing fine, huh? With forced salary reductions, lay offs, and praying for the economy to rebound... I would say "barely holding on" is a bit more of an accurate picture about Agilent.
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The problem (apparently) isn't with Mozilla, it's with Netscape 4. Fortunately, we made the sane decision to emit HTML 4.01 and CSS. We have some JavaScript, but very little of it is browser-divergent (and all of that is isolated). My primary browser is Mozilla 1.0.1; the only reason I fire up IE is for debugging (the rest of the team uses IE, so we all catch rendering bugs pretty quickly, of which there has been almost none).
.NET is easily one of the best web development systems I've ever seen. It's not flawless, and I bitch about some things too much (like trying to understand the control life-cycle), but it's way better than anything I ever experienced with ASP or JSP.
It was easy to get ASP.NET's controls to all emit HTML 4.0 regardless of the browser it thought it was seeing. We just turned off the down-level rendering.
All the Web Controls we've tried work flawlessly with Mozilla. We use the DataList and DataGrid extensively, and they're great. Postback processing is no problem. Some controls are too quirky for me (like getting the Calendar to output without a ton of "style=" splashed all around), and we ended up building controls that weren't there (wizards, tabs, tree controls, etc.).
The control architecture in
I can't speak to the pain you'll have trying to ASP.NET for Netscape 4. But I can reassure you that it's not only simple but pleasant to use when developing against the standards (HTML 4.0/CSS).
Mono is free software yes? How can it end up in the hands of anything?
The owner of the software controls the license. If Microsoft wanted to own Mono, all it would have to do is buy it from the contributors. Once they own the property, they can re-license it any way they wish.
There is the matter of the existing code which is out there under the old license (they couldn't do anything about that), but if they felt it was an issue, they'd move before Mono was reasonably complete, thus leaving someone else a lot of work to get it up to speed using the old code.
DTD is about document validation.
Schema is not only about document validation, but also about layering a rich and extensible type system into XML. DTD can't touch this.
SOAP actually went down the path of adding types to Schema until the actual Schema team did it, thereby simplifying the SOAP system quite a bit.
This isn't really possible, since 480p is 4x3, not 16x9. I don't live in LA, so I don't know what they're actually doing, but it's not "16x9 480p". The title for 480p is SDTV (as opposed to HDTV). Still digital, still much cleaner picture, but not high resolution.
You can buy a good quality DLP projector and screen for a lot less than $10,000, and get better size and resolution to boot. (800x600? Please!)
Up the ante to $15,000 -- the cost of the 63", which is way smaller than any size you'd get out of even the cheapest, lowest resolution projector -- and you're into a really good CRT based projector that will utterly destroy the picture quality of a plasma.
Whereas Unreal Championship runs on the Xbox, as will Doom 3 when it's released on the Xbox. No required upgrades. :)
I wish people would actually read the entire content.
With a single character, you can learn the bottom half of the tree of EVERY SINGLE profession, with the given 200 points. That means with just one test character, you have a good understanding of the mechanics of all the professions.
With a single character, you can completely master three professions, and do the bottom half of a fourth.
I think most people who are knee-jerk angry don't realize how drastically different this game is gonna be from the traditional "pick your race, pick your stats, pick your profession, hope you didn't screw it up!" MMORPG character creation system we have today. If anything, it'll be more like Asheron's Call 2, which encourages players to dabble in a little bit of everything (but for all that, doesn't have enough variety).
Yep, he's serious. I worked for a company that provided software for recruiters. Bar none, they were interested in Word format resumes ONLY. We took in plain text and HTML, and converted them to Word automatically, which at least gave you a chance (if you stuff converted well).
:-p
Even when the world runs on the web, it's still hobbled by Word.
Sorry, this is just not true. I'm having a hard time believing you're actually using Windows XP. There's not a font on my screen at any time that's larger than 12 pt, and they're all being sub-pixel rendered.
I disagree. Intel would rather have Windows run, simply because Windows is far more approachable by the novice user. If the only choice on Intel hardware were Linux or BSD, then people like my mom wouldn't have a PC at all. They'd probably have a Mac.
Ever since Windows 95, every scalable font (read: TrueType) has been capable of being anti-aliased. True, on Windows 95 you had to buy the Plus Pack! to make it happen, but it was standard and free from NT 4 on forward (1996). In Windows XP, you now have sub-pixel rendering, not just font smoothing. The Microsoft fonts are, hands down, the best hinted fonts available.
I don't know what font you were using that wasn't smoothed, but it certainly wasn't one of the mainstream Windows fonts.
I have an SS51 (virtual identical), and it's INCREDIBLY quiet. Way more quiet than any desktop PC I have.
Sorry, but what article did you read? He didn't mention anything about getting back to first principles. He didn't call abstractions evil. He said, in essence: "they leak, and you need to be ready to deal with that".
Please, if you want to give an opinion, can you at least read the source material before making a conclusion about it?
It's hard to say that the Xbox is of "similar power" to the GeForce 4 4600. The video hardware in the Xbox is a modified version of the original GeForce 3. It has performance advantages to being on a dedicated bus instead of AGP, but I doubt it's capable of keeping pace with a 4600, personally.
That having been said, the games look excellent on the Xbox, because it's that "one platform only" game writing thing that consoles get and PCs don't. There's still very few games that even begin to scratch the GeForce 3's capabilities. We need to get away from big textures and T&L, and into shader country.
Awww... are you angry that your Internet-inventor didn't get elected? :-p
...it's called Lindows. This is an OS that can install in 2 minutes, has an extremely friendly UI and software download system, and has Debian at its core. Seriously. It's the first Linux distro that my mom could install and use.
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My SS51 is my game system (portability), as so it runs Windows XP. I downloaded the LiveCD from Gentoo with Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo, and it would not properly boot. I use an nVidia 4200.
I haven't tried just putting Linux on the box, because I'd still need to dual-boot for the majority of my games.
A parallel-to-USB converter that is made and sold specifically for heritage printers. Ditto they have devices to serial-to-USB, presumably for modems (although I believe it virtualizes a COM port, so it will work with any device).
:)
The whole heritage bus has to go. That means goodbye PS/2, goodbye serial, goodbye parallel. Good riddance.
It's not always inbound you're protecting against. You may end up with a rogue program trying to make an outbound connection, in which case a firewall that warned before allowing outgoing applications to access the net (in concert with an "approved" application list) would be appropriate. Ditto for a rogue app that wanted to set up a listener.
I don't know about you, but I would've just replaced the RAM. The hassle you went through to get a $30 part replaced is ridiculuous. I mean, how little do you value your time that you'd be willing to do that?
Actually, in some areas (even in the United States), it's illegal to have lock picking equipment in your posession without a permit. It is considered sufficient reason to arrest you on conspiracy to commit breaking and entering. Ditto for having a police scanner in a moving vehicle... some states outlaw it under the belief that it's a conspiracy to commit evasion.
There are two major drive heights for laptops: 9mm and 12.5mm. Most super slim laptops are limited to the 9mm drives, which limits choice and increases price. A larger laptop, like my Presario, uses the 12.5mm heigh drive.
;)
They're unbelievably small compared to desktop hard drives.
I'll give you my experience with one hard drive: the current model IBM 60GB, 5400 RPM, 12.5mm hard drive. I put it into my Compaq Presario laptop. This drive is silent! It's unbelievable. I use this box for dev, and it regularly thrashes the hard drive -- presumably. I can't hear it if it does. :)
The guy who sits next to me has whatever default drive is in the monster Sony Vaio, and that thing is incredibly noisy.
And it's a very common way to "acknowledge" the better compositions that artists do, by using them in trailers. After Crimson Tide came out, it seemed like just about every action movie was using pieces of that soundtrack. In fact, I still occasionally hear pieces of it used.
Hans Zimmer is a god, after all.
Doing fine, huh? With forced salary reductions, lay offs, and praying for the economy to rebound... I would say "barely holding on" is a bit more of an accurate picture about Agilent.