did you read my tag line? I know all about shockwave.exes in email. I must say I don't agree with that one bit. Just distribute a file format and make people get the player. All the time I hear people say windoze viruses don't spread because "people don't copy binaries anymore", and email attachments is what I always point at. But flash built into a web page is a common as java applets and becoming as common as javascript.
well I dont know.. when someone writes something from scratch the first version they release is usually a beta (and possibly an alpha) and even if that isn't the case it is either a 1.0 or a 0.x.. but here we have a product that is obviously beta and yet it has a version number of 6! Wow, when I see a product with a version number of six I generally expect it to not crash, not suck, not have a LOT of features that no one wants (yes, those are supposed to be removed when you're customers say "take out the sidebar, we hate the sidebar") and so the cry "it's beta" just doesn't cut it with Netscape 6 because it is version 6 of their browser. Crying beta is specifically the right of Mozilla.
why don't you use Flash? At least that standard is controlled. You wont see anyone writing non-standard flash code, and why? Because it is generated from an editor. Oh wait, maybe it's because most people hate flash with a passion.
bah.. IE is the standard, no matter what the UN wannabe's at W3C say. When you can't release a browser or publish a web page until it is W3C compliant, then you'll have something to hold onto, but until then we're stuck with Microsoft. And W3C sitting in their ivory towers essentially saying "if the web page is not compliant with this spec the browser should display an error and refuse to display the page" is not helping!
no.. I think it is a perfectly valid term.. I often build hotels on the top right corner of my screen and whenever IE lands there it looses wads of cash and very often is knocked out of the game.
bahahaha.. now THAT is funny. A software company actually improving their product to get you to buy the upgrade? As if! That's not the way it is done in the industry baby. If you want people to buy the upgrade you shove in more features and more features and more features! Even if they don't use em they're gunna want em and that's the only way you can get em to shell out their cash! But don't take my word for it, just have a read of Microsoft's first brief to their appeal. It actually spells it out as a good reason why Jackson didn't know what he was talking about. Improve the product, heh, next thing you'll be asking for an operating system that doesn't crash.
yes.. but it's KDE! I officially announce the competition: if you can deliver HTML/CSS2/Javascript/Cookies (and any of the "essentials" that I have left out) in a browser under 1.4 meg that uses less than 8 meg of memory (total) and doesn't crash every 15 minutes (read IE) I will give you a few million for it. Oh.. and if it starts up and renders web pages faster than IE, that would be nice too. If you say it's impossible then I will have truely lost faith in humanity.
bah.. it's not a "good" browser. It's a bloated crash ridden piece of shit.. but god damn it, it's the best their is ('cept possibly for opera which is great if you don't mind 5% of sites not working).
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why not, give away another broswer to gain market share, wait a minute, they have the market share! Guess they could do it out of the kindness of their hearts.
"it's too hard and it would piss people off" that's not much of a response. If you are going to link directly to a movie as was done here, there is no issue with clickthrus and we don't want the author to update the movie after Slashdot has linked to it (we want to see what was reported), so for this specific case there is no reason why it shouldn't be cached.
pffft.. if MS had their way they could just unwrite history any time they liked. No, we will not bow to copyright restrictions when it comes to software this bad. Let every man download Windows 1.01 (or 2.03 for that matter) and truely wonder what was going through Microsoft's mind at the time. Remember, when Windows first came out Microsoft was staring at a Lisa wondering how this super expensive machine could do the amazing things it did, and their futile attempts to copy it are their for your eyes to see, now and forever.
don't speed. A law is a law is a law, if you're gunna speed you might as well kill someone. If you think you should be able to speed then you should gather together all your like minded fellow citizens and get the law changed.
well here we go again. Once more Slashdot has posted a link to a "rather big file" and immediately crashed the site. Not to mention the fact that the poor slob who put this movie up on the net has had to pay through the nose for all the megabytes he has sent out (well, maybe not, but I'm sure someone somewhere is charging someone for the bandwidth). Think about it, Slashdot is an internationally visited site. There's probably a few tens of thousand of us Australians who have pulled down that clip and each and every time it has travelled under the atlantic or bounced off a satelight! Would it be so hard for Slashdot to set up servers and mirror the content before posting? Perhaps they could use some automatic caching technology to cut down on bandwidth load. How slow does the Internet run because of Slashdot?
that is what "flat tax" means. I think the original poster ment "progresive" where the idea is that as a citizen of a country you want to give your government as much money as you can afford without effecting your standard of living. So the rich can give more than the poor. Which is, quite frankly, just stupid. When I'm poor I don't want to give anything to the government - they take my money. When I'm rich I hardly think I want to do anything different, but I guess I wont notice it as much when they do come to steal my money.
heh.. I learnt to code C on Watcom C/C++ and I learnt to code C++ with gcc. When I finally got ahold of Visual C++ I already knew C and C++ and a lot of the windoze API, but I did have the joy of learning about COM and I "learnt" VB at the same time.
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well we know this is wrong. AOL is much higher than Netscape. Microsoft claims that half the people on the net are using AOL.
exactly how many Amiga hits was that?
heh.. maybe if you just ask the AOLuser they will give you their credit card number. "How would I know your screen name if I wasn't from AOL?"
heh.. they took out 6k of security bugs ;)
did you read my tag line? I know all about shockwave .exes in email. I must say I don't agree with that one bit. Just distribute a file format and make people get the player. All the time I hear people say windoze viruses don't spread because "people don't copy binaries anymore", and email attachments is what I always point at. But flash built into a web page is a common as java applets and becoming as common as javascript.
just firing a shot over the fence :)
MSHTML DLL 2,359,568 03-18-99 12:00a MSHTML.DLL
I rest my case.
IE's autocomplete rules.
tried opera?
well I dont know.. when someone writes something from scratch the first version they release is usually a beta (and possibly an alpha) and even if that isn't the case it is either a 1.0 or a 0.x.. but here we have a product that is obviously beta and yet it has a version number of 6! Wow, when I see a product with a version number of six I generally expect it to not crash, not suck, not have a LOT of features that no one wants (yes, those are supposed to be removed when you're customers say "take out the sidebar, we hate the sidebar") and so the cry "it's beta" just doesn't cut it with Netscape 6 because it is version 6 of their browser. Crying beta is specifically the right of Mozilla.
why don't you use Flash? At least that standard is controlled. You wont see anyone writing non-standard flash code, and why? Because it is generated from an editor. Oh wait, maybe it's because most people hate flash with a passion.
bah.. IE is the standard, no matter what the UN wannabe's at W3C say. When you can't release a browser or publish a web page until it is W3C compliant, then you'll have something to hold onto, but until then we're stuck with Microsoft. And W3C sitting in their ivory towers essentially saying "if the web page is not compliant with this spec the browser should display an error and refuse to display the page" is not helping!
no.. I think it is a perfectly valid term.. I often build hotels on the top right corner of my screen and whenever IE lands there it looses wads of cash and very often is knocked out of the game.
bahahaha.. now THAT is funny. A software company actually improving their product to get you to buy the upgrade? As if! That's not the way it is done in the industry baby. If you want people to buy the upgrade you shove in more features and more features and more features! Even if they don't use em they're gunna want em and that's the only way you can get em to shell out their cash! But don't take my word for it, just have a read of Microsoft's first brief to their appeal. It actually spells it out as a good reason why Jackson didn't know what he was talking about. Improve the product, heh, next thing you'll be asking for an operating system that doesn't crash.
yes.. but it's KDE! I officially announce the competition: if you can deliver HTML/CSS2/Javascript/Cookies (and any of the "essentials" that I have left out) in a browser under 1.4 meg that uses less than 8 meg of memory (total) and doesn't crash every 15 minutes (read IE) I will give you a few million for it. Oh.. and if it starts up and renders web pages faster than IE, that would be nice too. If you say it's impossible then I will have truely lost faith in humanity.
bah.. it's not a "good" browser. It's a bloated crash ridden piece of shit.. but god damn it, it's the best their is ('cept possibly for opera which is great if you don't mind 5% of sites not working).
why not, give away another broswer to gain market share, wait a minute, they have the market share! Guess they could do it out of the kindness of their hearts.
"it's too hard and it would piss people off" that's not much of a response. If you are going to link directly to a movie as was done here, there is no issue with clickthrus and we don't want the author to update the movie after Slashdot has linked to it (we want to see what was reported), so for this specific case there is no reason why it shouldn't be cached.
pffft.. if MS had their way they could just unwrite history any time they liked. No, we will not bow to copyright restrictions when it comes to software this bad. Let every man download Windows 1.01 (or 2.03 for that matter) and truely wonder what was going through Microsoft's mind at the time. Remember, when Windows first came out Microsoft was staring at a Lisa wondering how this super expensive machine could do the amazing things it did, and their futile attempts to copy it are their for your eyes to see, now and forever.
don't speed. A law is a law is a law, if you're gunna speed you might as well kill someone. If you think you should be able to speed then you should gather together all your like minded fellow citizens and get the law changed.
well here we go again. Once more Slashdot has posted a link to a "rather big file" and immediately crashed the site. Not to mention the fact that the poor slob who put this movie up on the net has had to pay through the nose for all the megabytes he has sent out (well, maybe not, but I'm sure someone somewhere is charging someone for the bandwidth). Think about it, Slashdot is an internationally visited site. There's probably a few tens of thousand of us Australians who have pulled down that clip and each and every time it has travelled under the atlantic or bounced off a satelight! Would it be so hard for Slashdot to set up servers and mirror the content before posting? Perhaps they could use some automatic caching technology to cut down on bandwidth load. How slow does the Internet run because of Slashdot?
actually I found it quite insulting.
that is what "flat tax" means. I think the original poster ment "progresive" where the idea is that as a citizen of a country you want to give your government as much money as you can afford without effecting your standard of living. So the rich can give more than the poor. Which is, quite frankly, just stupid. When I'm poor I don't want to give anything to the government - they take my money. When I'm rich I hardly think I want to do anything different, but I guess I wont notice it as much when they do come to steal my money.
us Australians are notorious for reporting stuff that just isn't true and not even apologizing.
heh.. I learnt to code C on Watcom C/C++ and I learnt to code C++ with gcc. When I finally got ahold of Visual C++ I already knew C and C++ and a lot of the windoze API, but I did have the joy of learning about COM and I "learnt" VB at the same time.