Your timeline is a little off. 1996 leaves you with either Netscape 2.0 or 3.0 as your browser (3.0 was released mid year). Netscape 4 was the first to support CSS. Internet Explorer was at 3.0 then, which was barely usable and still pretty far behind Netscape.
I can't picture anyone using xhtml strict in 2000. Netscape 4 was still significant back then, and I really can't picture it liking XHTML all that much, although I don't know for sure.
Even at this point in time, XHTML doesn't gain you much over HTML 4 strict. You can use XML tools on the source, but that's really the only advantage. On the downside, you have to send different MIME types to IE vs Gecko to get proper rendering, and who knows how well more obscure browsers are less likely to like XHTML.
Legislation that would only allow one fundamental idea per bill would do exactly that... It would make things like this bill pretty hard to pass, and that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
That wouldn't really help in this case. Rather than labelling the bill as an Iraq Spending Bill or whatever, it would simply be given a generic Protecting Against Terrorism title. Once you do that, it's easy to justify including both the war spending and the national ID cards on the same bill.
He didn't say he wouldn't be able to find the DVD-R. He said he couldn't see the DVD-R still working when he looked for it 10 years later.
Mass produced read-only media (CDs, cartridges) tend to have a much longer shelf life than writable media does (floppy, CD-R). That was the point of the message you replied to.
There's also the issue off companies going out of business, resulting in the servers validating the DRM no longer existing.
I wish people would stop blindly coping the MS Office menu layout. Before MS Office was everywhere, word processors had the formatting options broken out into multiple menus. All the page layout options were under Layout. Formatting changes that effected the entire paragraph (line spacing, orphan/widow, etc) were under the Paragraph menu. Options only effecting the exact text selected were under Character. Now, it's all under Format.
Before, if you thought for a second about what you wanted to do, you'd know where to find an option. Switching between different Word Processors wasn't hard, because they all had the same logic.
Then MS came and said that's too complicated, lets just through EVERYTHING into the format menu. There is no logic to where things are anymore. You just dig under Format and hope to find it somewhere. OpenOffice is kinda like MS Word, but just because you found something in Word doesn't mean you'll be able to find it in OpenOffice.
Everyone seems to defend this layout by saying, "Who cares where it is in the menu. Just turn on all the toolbars and use that." Ever see how many toolbar icons there are? When you turn on even half the toolbar icons in Word, it's no longer fast to use. You spend forever figuring out which icon you need if its not one you use frequently.
Even in DOS text based word processors it was generally easier to find the options you wanted than in Word.
Sure, a GBA SP (80 USD) costs half as much as a portable DVD player (160 USD), but the GBA Video paks are more expensive. For instance, two GBA Video titles with a total of 88 minutes of episodic content cost $40, while a DVD Video box set of 528 minutes of Garfield shows costs $30.
I'm just going by my coworkers comments - I don't know firsthand the prices. But from what I've heard, KB Toys seems to regularly have the GBA Video stuff on sale for significantly less than that. As in I seem to remember hearing someone buying them for $10 or less each. At that price level people are much more likely to pick them up on an impulse.
Also, I wasn't comparing to buying DVDs, but rather to UMD's, which from what I've heard are limited to movies.
I don't think either GBA Video or PSP UMD's are that great, I'm just saying I've seen parents that seem to like GBA Videos.
Things like PSP Movies I really don't see doing all that well. As you said, you're buying the same thing twice.
As to the GBA videos, from what I've seen they tend to offer different content than they do on DVDs. It tends to be shorter content - things like a couple episodes of Pokemon or Spongebob on each GBA video cartridge. Some of my coworkers seem to think they're a good value for their kids, as they aren't that expensive. Great for keeping their kids occupied during car rides, and doesn't require as much of an attention span as watching a movie does.
The CSS standard specifies what the browser is supposed to do when it encounters errors in a style sheet. Those errors are there intentionally so that the browser's error handling can be tested.
Looking at your examples, I'd say the PHP example is the easiest to understand, followed by the Java.
All of these examples require being familiar with the storage manager to understand, but ignoring that, you can pretty much just read out loud the PHP version of the code and it'll make sense. The Java would be almost as clear, with the main difference being the for loop syntax isn't as clear (is it even valid? I've never seen loops like that in Java).
But for the Smalltalk version, honestly, I can't make any sense out of it. Even though I know what it's supposed to do, I don't have a clue why it does it.
I wouldn't consider Pikmin a good choice for people who don't play many games. You need to have *very* good control of the analog stick to play it. Move the stick a little and it moves the selection cursor. Move the stick further and it moves your character. Generally people who don't play games much are going to get frustrated with the controls very quickly.
Microsoft and Nintendo never had any type of agreement. Microsoft approached Nintendo about buying them, and Nintendo pretty much laughed at them. Reasons being a) Nintendo is highly profitable, and has been for a long time, so they have no reason to sell the company and b) Microsoft's proposal would've involved killing off the GameCube, which was already far into development.
The dual core chips with one defective core will simply be sold as single core chips. The single and dual core chips both use the same motherboards, so really the only way someone could tell them apart would be by the writing on it anyway.
As to overclocking, there's only one bus and one clock driving both chips, so you can't clock them differently.
A large reason for dropping DOS support is due to the design limitations of the x86-64 architecture. When running a 64 bit OS, the CPU does not support running 16 bit code.
Odds are most new computers will have 64 bit processors in them when the next version of Windows ships. Most people don't upgrade Windows, they just get the new version by buying a new computer. So the end result is most people running the next Windows won't even be able to run DOS apps if they wanted to.
Swapfile, pagefile, same difference. Linux systems use a swap partition - do you really think that means Linux doesn't do paging?
Try running an XP box 24/7 for a while. I leave my work machine on 24/7, and after its been on for a few days, it will start swapping things out overnight. There aren't any active processes running when I leave at night, yet the next morning each application takes 30+ seconds to load back into RAM when I click it's taskbar icon. Once everything is loaded back in, I have no more issues for the rest of the day.
My guess is once your total memory usage gets above a certain percentage of your RAM, XP will automatically page out to disk applications that are idle for long periods of time.
While you can certainly believe in God and be a scientist, you can't be a Creationist and a (good) scientist.
If you're talking about Creationist in the sense of taking the beginning of the book of Genesis literally, then you're right. But even the Pope didn't think people should take the beginning of Genesis literally.
Science tells us the universe started with the Big Bang. But science has no explanation for the big bang, or what was before it, and likely never will. Which basically leaves you at the Bible's claim of "God created the universe out of nothing" but without mentioning God. It really doesn't make a difference at all on studying science whether you believe the Big Bang happened out of nowhere or that it was caused by God.
Yeah, that behavior sucks. But that's not MDI, but rather MS's answer to people who bitched about MDI. They basically took the MDI model and the SDI model and combined them, but only taking the bad parts of each.
Word also shows that behavior, at least in the 2003 version. I think 2000 does as well.
MDI - one taskbar entry for the program, and each document exists as a subwindow within the main window. Great for the times you're working on multiple documents simultaneously and need to see both at once.
SDI - Like what you see in recent versions of Word and Excel, except each window is totally independent. More clutter this way, but you can switch documents via the usual multitasking means.
If people can easily make functional ROMZ, then the system will die.
Look at the GameBoy Advance. You can buy a flash cartridge capable of holding several games for about the price of one game. GBA ROMs are very small to download - the average game is 8MB. Hasn't hurt the GBA though.
Quake 1 felt totally different than Doom. Quake's atmosphere felt medieval. Replace the shotgun with a crossbow and you could've released Quake as a sequel to Heretic.
Quake 2 I can't really comment on. To me it felt totally different than Quake 1, and never managed to hold my interest past level 2 or so.
Season 1 of Enterprise was so-so. Season 2 (particuarly the middle third of it) was bad, but started to pick up at the end. Season 3 was good. Season 4 was very good, with the 2 or 3 part stories (which make up most of the season) being better than the standalone episodes.
Enterprise only sucks if you stopped watching before Season 3. It's understandable to stop then, but don't judge it now based on that. All Star Trek series start off on the bad side and improve as they go along, this one being no different.
I remember nightly builds would recommend you upgrading once they got to be a month or so old, and I also remember pre 1.0 releases doing that, but it's been years since I've seen Mozilla recommend me upgrade.
Looking at the Wayback Machine, here's the Mozilla.org Releases page from June 2003. Even then, the page clearly said in bold print that the releases were for testing purposes only. The page also has other warnings about not using it.
Well, these releases are about security fixes to the shared core of the seperate apps, not about features, so it does make sense to syncronize the updates.
If the Gecko core was used as a shared library, you'd be able to just download an update to that and fix both apps at once. But since the core wasn't designed for seperate apps, you have to download updates for each individually instead.
Netscape 5 was entirely based off the Netscape 4 code. Gecko was no where near ready for primetime use at the time. It was just an incremental upgrade from Netscape 4. It was scrapped because it wouldn't have been a very big step up from 4.x, and the thinking was that would've just given people an even lesser opinion of Netscape.
Netscape 6 was always planned to be Gecko + XUL. Unfortunately it took a lot longer to develop than originally expected, so they ended up rushing it out due to how long it had been since there last was a major Netscape update. Of course the rushed 6 was barely usable and just hurt Netscape's reputation more.
The open source version of the Netscape code was always called Mozilla. The Mozilla website used to always say something like "You probably shouldn't be using this unless you are a developer. Use something built off it such as Netscape instead." Which means the Mozilla Suite was never advertised, but rather they recommended people avoid using it. Hence why the suite never got a huge following. FireFox's success compared to Mozilla's is most due to the fact that that there was actually a lot of effort put into marketing FireFox, opposed to the anti-marketing of the suite.
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Your timeline is a little off. 1996 leaves you with either Netscape 2.0 or 3.0 as your browser (3.0 was released mid year). Netscape 4 was the first to support CSS. Internet Explorer was at 3.0 then, which was barely usable and still pretty far behind Netscape.
I can't picture anyone using xhtml strict in 2000. Netscape 4 was still significant back then, and I really can't picture it liking XHTML all that much, although I don't know for sure.
Even at this point in time, XHTML doesn't gain you much over HTML 4 strict. You can use XML tools on the source, but that's really the only advantage. On the downside, you have to send different MIME types to IE vs Gecko to get proper rendering, and who knows how well more obscure browsers are less likely to like XHTML.
Legislation that would only allow one fundamental idea per bill would do exactly that... It would make things like this bill pretty hard to pass, and that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
That wouldn't really help in this case. Rather than labelling the bill as an Iraq Spending Bill or whatever, it would simply be given a generic Protecting Against Terrorism title. Once you do that, it's easy to justify including both the war spending and the national ID cards on the same bill.
He didn't say he wouldn't be able to find the DVD-R. He said he couldn't see the DVD-R still working when he looked for it 10 years later.
Mass produced read-only media (CDs, cartridges) tend to have a much longer shelf life than writable media does (floppy, CD-R). That was the point of the message you replied to.
There's also the issue off companies going out of business, resulting in the servers validating the DRM no longer existing.
I wish people would stop blindly coping the MS Office menu layout. Before MS Office was everywhere, word processors had the formatting options broken out into multiple menus. All the page layout options were under Layout. Formatting changes that effected the entire paragraph (line spacing, orphan/widow, etc) were under the Paragraph menu. Options only effecting the exact text selected were under Character. Now, it's all under Format.
Before, if you thought for a second about what you wanted to do, you'd know where to find an option. Switching between different Word Processors wasn't hard, because they all had the same logic.
Then MS came and said that's too complicated, lets just through EVERYTHING into the format menu. There is no logic to where things are anymore. You just dig under Format and hope to find it somewhere. OpenOffice is kinda like MS Word, but just because you found something in Word doesn't mean you'll be able to find it in OpenOffice.
Everyone seems to defend this layout by saying, "Who cares where it is in the menu. Just turn on all the toolbars and use that." Ever see how many toolbar icons there are? When you turn on even half the toolbar icons in Word, it's no longer fast to use. You spend forever figuring out which icon you need if its not one you use frequently.
Even in DOS text based word processors it was generally easier to find the options you wanted than in Word.
Sure, a GBA SP (80 USD) costs half as much as a portable DVD player (160 USD), but the GBA Video paks are more expensive. For instance, two GBA Video titles with a total of 88 minutes of episodic content cost $40, while a DVD Video box set of 528 minutes of Garfield shows costs $30.
I'm just going by my coworkers comments - I don't know firsthand the prices. But from what I've heard, KB Toys seems to regularly have the GBA Video stuff on sale for significantly less than that. As in I seem to remember hearing someone buying them for $10 or less each. At that price level people are much more likely to pick them up on an impulse.
Also, I wasn't comparing to buying DVDs, but rather to UMD's, which from what I've heard are limited to movies.
I don't think either GBA Video or PSP UMD's are that great, I'm just saying I've seen parents that seem to like GBA Videos.
Things like PSP Movies I really don't see doing all that well. As you said, you're buying the same thing twice.
As to the GBA videos, from what I've seen they tend to offer different content than they do on DVDs. It tends to be shorter content - things like a couple episodes of Pokemon or Spongebob on each GBA video cartridge. Some of my coworkers seem to think they're a good value for their kids, as they aren't that expensive. Great for keeping their kids occupied during car rides, and doesn't require as much of an attention span as watching a movie does.
The CSS standard specifies what the browser is supposed to do when it encounters errors in a style sheet. Those errors are there intentionally so that the browser's error handling can be tested.
Looking at your examples, I'd say the PHP example is the easiest to understand, followed by the Java.
All of these examples require being familiar with the storage manager to understand, but ignoring that, you can pretty much just read out loud the PHP version of the code and it'll make sense. The Java would be almost as clear, with the main difference being the for loop syntax isn't as clear (is it even valid? I've never seen loops like that in Java).
But for the Smalltalk version, honestly, I can't make any sense out of it. Even though I know what it's supposed to do, I don't have a clue why it does it.
I wouldn't consider Pikmin a good choice for people who don't play many games. You need to have *very* good control of the analog stick to play it. Move the stick a little and it moves the selection cursor. Move the stick further and it moves your character. Generally people who don't play games much are going to get frustrated with the controls very quickly.
Microsoft and Nintendo never had any type of agreement. Microsoft approached Nintendo about buying them, and Nintendo pretty much laughed at them. Reasons being a) Nintendo is highly profitable, and has been for a long time, so they have no reason to sell the company and b) Microsoft's proposal would've involved killing off the GameCube, which was already far into development.
The dual core chips with one defective core will simply be sold as single core chips. The single and dual core chips both use the same motherboards, so really the only way someone could tell them apart would be by the writing on it anyway.
As to overclocking, there's only one bus and one clock driving both chips, so you can't clock them differently.
Yes it does. You're going to have to use QEmu or something else that's a full emulator to get DOS stuff to run on a 64 bit OS.
A large reason for dropping DOS support is due to the design limitations of the x86-64 architecture. When running a 64 bit OS, the CPU does not support running 16 bit code.
Odds are most new computers will have 64 bit processors in them when the next version of Windows ships. Most people don't upgrade Windows, they just get the new version by buying a new computer. So the end result is most people running the next Windows won't even be able to run DOS apps if they wanted to.
but what they "open" is only open to their customers. Its useless to the rest of the world.
The point of opening the code was to make Solaris better, not to make Linux/*BSD/whatever better.
Swapfile, pagefile, same difference. Linux systems use a swap partition - do you really think that means Linux doesn't do paging?
Try running an XP box 24/7 for a while. I leave my work machine on 24/7, and after its been on for a few days, it will start swapping things out overnight. There aren't any active processes running when I leave at night, yet the next morning each application takes 30+ seconds to load back into RAM when I click it's taskbar icon. Once everything is loaded back in, I have no more issues for the rest of the day.
My guess is once your total memory usage gets above a certain percentage of your RAM, XP will automatically page out to disk applications that are idle for long periods of time.
That bug has existed since the Netscape days, so they don't exactly consider it a priority.
While you can certainly believe in God and be a scientist, you can't be a Creationist and a (good) scientist.
If you're talking about Creationist in the sense of taking the beginning of the book of Genesis literally, then you're right. But even the Pope didn't think people should take the beginning of Genesis literally.
Science tells us the universe started with the Big Bang. But science has no explanation for the big bang, or what was before it, and likely never will. Which basically leaves you at the Bible's claim of "God created the universe out of nothing" but without mentioning God. It really doesn't make a difference at all on studying science whether you believe the Big Bang happened out of nowhere or that it was caused by God.
Yeah, that behavior sucks. But that's not MDI, but rather MS's answer to people who bitched about MDI. They basically took the MDI model and the SDI model and combined them, but only taking the bad parts of each.
Word also shows that behavior, at least in the 2003 version. I think 2000 does as well.
MDI - one taskbar entry for the program, and each document exists as a subwindow within the main window. Great for the times you're working on multiple documents simultaneously and need to see both at once.
SDI - Like what you see in recent versions of Word and Excel, except each window is totally independent. More clutter this way, but you can switch documents via the usual multitasking means.
If people can easily make functional ROMZ, then the system will die.
Look at the GameBoy Advance. You can buy a flash cartridge capable of holding several games for about the price of one game. GBA ROMs are very small to download - the average game is 8MB. Hasn't hurt the GBA though.
Quake 1 felt totally different than Doom. Quake's atmosphere felt medieval. Replace the shotgun with a crossbow and you could've released Quake as a sequel to Heretic.
Quake 2 I can't really comment on. To me it felt totally different than Quake 1, and never managed to hold my interest past level 2 or so.
CmdrTaco would never do that.
Season 1 of Enterprise was so-so. Season 2 (particuarly the middle third of it) was bad, but started to pick up at the end. Season 3 was good. Season 4 was very good, with the 2 or 3 part stories (which make up most of the season) being better than the standalone episodes.
Enterprise only sucks if you stopped watching before Season 3. It's understandable to stop then, but don't judge it now based on that. All Star Trek series start off on the bad side and improve as they go along, this one being no different.
I remember nightly builds would recommend you upgrading once they got to be a month or so old, and I also remember pre 1.0 releases doing that, but it's been years since I've seen Mozilla recommend me upgrade.
. org/releases/
Looking at the Wayback Machine, here's the Mozilla.org Releases page from June 2003. Even then, the page clearly said in bold print that the releases were for testing purposes only. The page also has other warnings about not using it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030627112551/mozilla
Well, these releases are about security fixes to the shared core of the seperate apps, not about features, so it does make sense to syncronize the updates.
If the Gecko core was used as a shared library, you'd be able to just download an update to that and fix both apps at once. But since the core wasn't designed for seperate apps, you have to download updates for each individually instead.
Netscape 5 was entirely based off the Netscape 4 code. Gecko was no where near ready for primetime use at the time. It was just an incremental upgrade from Netscape 4. It was scrapped because it wouldn't have been a very big step up from 4.x, and the thinking was that would've just given people an even lesser opinion of Netscape.
Netscape 6 was always planned to be Gecko + XUL. Unfortunately it took a lot longer to develop than originally expected, so they ended up rushing it out due to how long it had been since there last was a major Netscape update. Of course the rushed 6 was barely usable and just hurt Netscape's reputation more.
The open source version of the Netscape code was always called Mozilla. The Mozilla website used to always say something like "You probably shouldn't be using this unless you are a developer. Use something built off it such as Netscape instead." Which means the Mozilla Suite was never advertised, but rather they recommended people avoid using it. Hence why the suite never got a huge following. FireFox's success compared to Mozilla's is most due to the fact that that there was actually a lot of effort put into marketing FireFox, opposed to the anti-marketing of the suite.