If you are talking about actually storing *data* in the cookie, then I can also come up some much better answers. Hell, even flat files are better than that for most purposes.
When it comes to keeping the session connection between a web app and a browser, I can't come up with any that is better. ID in url? Hidden form fields? Or god forbid, trying to keep track of a visitor via IP?
If you don't want people to have "remember me"-cookies or forget to close their browser, just time out the damn session then. Make them login again. All of the above alternatives are far worse in that respect too.
So, I assume you had something else in mind that I haven't thought of. And you will enlighten me.:)
Pick any one. It is true all the same. There are also lots of different command lines on Linux, but they are all (that I've seen) better than the Windows ones.
Nope, it is Linux that usually has a horrid GUI - I use Linux because of lots of other things such as stability, control and security. But calling Linux GUI better than Windows is as dumb as calling Windows command line better than the Linux one.
I've been using it since 1.3 alpha, and frankly it didn't take long at all. About twenty mails of each kind (junk/not junk) to start with, and a few corrections now and then was all it took.
I've been very reluctant to running mozilla since it is, well big and bloated, but I started using it as my mail client to try this feature out, and when I found out that the things I missed most (the google bar in IE and the mouse gestures in opera) both was available and working great from mozdev, I have now switched to using mozilla almost exclusively. Somehow I don't percieve it as *that* bloated anymore, maybe I was just being stubborn...:)
Is it? What do you have to back this up? Does anyone have anything to back up the facts that it is not overblown?
While I personally think that open source indeed come up with new and novel designs now and then, and think that they often do the right thing when they copy things so people can use it out of the box, I absolutely hate blanket statements like the above, that serve no other purpose than to try and get published on slashdot.
If you only had said "While I think this criticism is overblown". That would be better, at least.
Personally, I don't think it is that overblown, but it isn't always a bad thing either.
"Open? Sure it's open! Just click here... and *poof* your document is open. What's that? You mean you want to open it with something other than M$ Office? Why on earth would you want to do that?"
First one who guesses which one gets posted three times (has *that* happened yet?) in a row wins the right to resubmit, and get published, and given story from this site.:)
The 10 page license agreement is a product of the flawed and money-oriented law(yer) system of the US. That made it necessary, because americans believe they have a "right" to sue anyone over anything. It is only a matter of self-protection.
Companies only use that to their advantage to sneak in extra stuff, since they need those ten pages anyways. Now this is bad, but the license preceeds this abuse, just as the lawsuit abuse preceeds the licenses.
Hell, it is almost impossible to make heads or tails out of even the simplest of the free licenses, because they need to cover all possible holes.
Can't someone come up with a "Common sense license", or even better a "Common sense law". Of course, that would imply that there is such a thing as "Common sense", which I am starting to seriously doubt.:)
Only reason it has such impact there (and in other places)is that noone really wants to risk being not politically correct first.
Also, see the recent events in France where the politicians, when proposing laws against prostitution, were faced with the ultimatum from the hookers: "If you do that, we will tell everyone what you have done, with personal details and even how small your penis is."
I have no reason to believe that this kind of double morality would not be common everywhere else where it is pc to say that porn is bad.
I live in Sweden, work in the same industry, and I am not a gamer, at least not more than occasionally. Still, I've heard about these guys, and quite a lot, too.
I don't see how that could be avoided, if you are at all interested in the industry you work in. Maybe you are one of the many thousands of people that went through the "network engineer" courses when IT was "the future" here in Sweden? Damn, they put a lot of people through those. Nothing wrong with that, but if so, I understand that you have no real interest in this business, and probably don't keep a jour in the way geeks with no life does.;-)
That doesn't mean they need to be any good - just that they do get heard.
Since when is that much? Depending on the compiler, and how it optimizes, it is quite possible to *remove* code and end up getting a slightly bigger executable.
And the word we are looking for here is indeed "slightly".
That is why refactoring by itself is no silver bullet, and noone is saying that it is. At least, noone that has any insight. It is, however, a great tool to meet the changed requirements.
You have to Embrace Change, and in that refactoring will really, really help you a lot.
If requirements change so much it is not the same program anymore, well, then I'd not say that requirements have changed in the project. It is a whole new project, right? And then, of course, no rewrite will help you.
But if they change a lot within the same functionality, you use refactoring to get to the new goal without breaking anything, and because you have been refactoring out good interfaces as you went the changes are easier to implement. You do not code for two months, then refactor for two, the code etc. You do both all the time.
That is what I really don't understand: What are people doing to make IE go down? Mozilla, that is easy - just use it for a while. But IE never crashes, at least it hasn't happen as long time back as I can remember.
I'm also prepared to forgive Mozilla for this, after all it runs on lots of platforms etc. So a crash or two per day might be ok, if nothing else to justify some principles. But not until it gets fast, and stops taking a few minutes to come back out of swap after you've not used it for five minutes. That is when I'll use it. And that goes for using it on Linux, too.
I am losing too much time with Mozilla, that no popup-blockers or tabs can ever get back for me, although some stupid zealots say that is such a big win. No it is not. Those are good things, but doesn't really save me any time at all.
Then again, I paid for and got a professional OS (2000), not the toy and game ones (98/Me).br>
Opera still reports itself as Opera, just fools crappily written browser checks.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows 2000) Opera 7.0 [en]
If your log analyzer can't handle that (nowadays), it is time to switch to one that actually get updates. Because this is how it has been at least since Opera 4.:)
Yes, I use it to read my mail. Since that doesn't need so much speed, it is fine. Probably will never be my browser.
Then again, I don't use Phoenix either - though I do try every new release to see if I could switch to it. Not yet is all I can say.
What I do use? IE and Opera. They work great, render nicely and are fast. So, I can't block some ads? Big deal. At least maybe my favourite sites will be up for a few more weeks, due to them getting at least some money then.
IE is still set to block ActiveX and scripting, third-party cookies etc. Those are the things that bother me. Not some images.
Slashdot Mirror
If you are talking about actually storing *data* in the cookie, then I can also come up some much better answers. Hell, even flat files are better than that for most purposes.
:)
When it comes to keeping the session connection between a web app and a browser, I can't come up with any that is better. ID in url? Hidden form fields? Or god forbid, trying to keep track of a visitor via IP?
If you don't want people to have "remember me"-cookies or forget to close their browser, just time out the damn session then. Make them login again. All of the above alternatives are far worse in that respect too.
So, I assume you had something else in mind that I haven't thought of. And you will enlighten me.
... when I tried to read the article, but somehow it does seem like it explains it all:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'Ubound'
/inc/copycode.asp, line 264
Why, into step 5, of course! :)
Pick any one. It is true all the same. There are also lots of different command lines on Linux, but they are all (that I've seen) better than the Windows ones.
Nope, it is Linux that usually has a horrid GUI - I use Linux because of lots of other things such as stability, control and security. But calling Linux GUI better than Windows is as dumb as calling Windows command line better than the Linux one.
I've been using it since 1.3 alpha, and frankly it didn't take long at all. About twenty mails of each kind (junk/not junk) to start with, and a few corrections now and then was all it took.
:)
:)
I've been very reluctant to running mozilla since it is, well big and bloated, but I started using it as my mail client to try this feature out, and when I found out that the things I missed most (the google bar in IE and the mouse gestures in opera) both was available and working great from mozdev, I have now switched to using mozilla almost exclusively. Somehow I don't percieve it as *that* bloated anymore, maybe I was just being stubborn...
Google bar && Mouse gestures. There are lots of other nice goodies there too.
... the mythical man moth can handle working in swarms and get more work out.
While this criticism is overblown
Is it? What do you have to back this up? Does anyone have anything to back up the facts that it is not overblown?
While I personally think that open source indeed come up with new and novel designs now and then, and think that they often do the right thing when they copy things so people can use it out of the box, I absolutely hate blanket statements like the above, that serve no other purpose than to try and get published on slashdot.
If you only had said "While I think this criticism is overblown". That would be better, at least.
Personally, I don't think it is that overblown, but it isn't always a bad thing either.
Hell, when a car is driven truly agressively, it should need service after a few blocks, along with some other cars and a few innocent bystanders.
:)
Agressively. Bah.
Well, it was a joke question at that, too. Microsoft would never publish a specification in plaintext either. :)
Is that the specification or an example?
"Open? Sure it's open! Just click here... and *poof* your document is open. What's that? You mean you want to open it with something other than M$ Office? Why on earth would you want to do that?"
First one who guesses which one gets posted three times (has *that* happened yet?) in a row wins the right to resubmit, and get published, and given story from this site. :)
The 10 page license agreement is a product of the flawed and money-oriented law(yer) system of the US. That made it necessary, because americans believe they have a "right" to sue anyone over anything. It is only a matter of self-protection.
:)
Companies only use that to their advantage to sneak in extra stuff, since they need those ten pages anyways. Now this is bad, but the license preceeds this abuse, just as the lawsuit abuse preceeds the licenses.
Hell, it is almost impossible to make heads or tails out of even the simplest of the free licenses, because they need to cover all possible holes.
Can't someone come up with a "Common sense license", or even better a "Common sense law". Of course, that would imply that there is such a thing as "Common sense", which I am starting to seriously doubt.
Only reason it has such impact there (and in other places)is that noone really wants to risk being not politically correct first.
Also, see the recent events in France where the politicians, when proposing laws against prostitution, were faced with the ultimatum from the hookers: "If you do that, we will tell everyone what you have done, with personal details and even how small your penis is."
I have no reason to believe that this kind of double morality would not be common everywhere else where it is pc to say that porn is bad.
I live in Sweden, work in the same industry, and I am not a gamer, at least not more than occasionally. Still, I've heard about these guys, and quite a lot, too.
;-)
I don't see how that could be avoided, if you are at all interested in the industry you work in. Maybe you are one of the many thousands of people that went through the "network engineer" courses when IT was "the future" here in Sweden? Damn, they put a lot of people through those. Nothing wrong with that, but if so, I understand that you have no real interest in this business, and probably don't keep a jour in the way geeks with no life does.
That doesn't mean they need to be any good - just that they do get heard.
Since when is that much? Depending on the compiler, and how it optimizes, it is quite possible to *remove* code and end up getting a slightly bigger executable.
And the word we are looking for here is indeed "slightly".
That is why refactoring by itself is no silver bullet, and noone is saying that it is. At least, noone that has any insight. It is, however, a great tool to meet the changed requirements.
You have to Embrace Change, and in that refactoring will really, really help you a lot.
If requirements change so much it is not the same program anymore, well, then I'd not say that requirements have changed in the project. It is a whole new project, right? And then, of course, no rewrite will help you.
But if they change a lot within the same functionality, you use refactoring to get to the new goal without breaking anything, and because you have been refactoring out good interfaces as you went the changes are easier to implement. You do not code for two months, then refactor for two, the code etc. You do both all the time.
I think you are missing the point here.
That is what I really don't understand: What are people doing to make IE go down? Mozilla, that is easy - just use it for a while. But IE never crashes, at least it hasn't happen as long time back as I can remember.
I'm also prepared to forgive Mozilla for this, after all it runs on lots of platforms etc. So a crash or two per day might be ok, if nothing else to justify some principles. But not until it gets fast, and stops taking a few minutes to come back out of swap after you've not used it for five minutes. That is when I'll use it. And that goes for using it on Linux, too.
I am losing too much time with Mozilla, that no popup-blockers or tabs can ever get back for me, although some stupid zealots say that is such a big win. No it is not. Those are good things, but doesn't really save me any time at all.
Then again, I paid for and got a professional OS (2000), not the toy and game ones (98/Me).br>
Opera still reports itself as Opera, just fools crappily written browser checks.
:)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows 2000) Opera 7.0 [en]
If your log analyzer can't handle that (nowadays), it is time to switch to one that actually get updates. Because this is how it has been at least since Opera 4.
Yes, I use it to read my mail. Since that doesn't need so much speed, it is fine. Probably will never be my browser.
Then again, I don't use Phoenix either - though I do try every new release to see if I could switch to it. Not yet is all I can say.
What I do use? IE and Opera. They work great, render nicely and are fast. So, I can't block some ads? Big deal. At least maybe my favourite sites will be up for a few more weeks, due to them getting at least some money then.
IE is still set to block ActiveX and scripting, third-party cookies etc. Those are the things that bother me. Not some images.
Just kick over to Freenet, no DNS required.
;-)
Where am I gonna download a client without DNS?
I wonder if the findings could explain why the 'beautiful people' have such influence on the mass media."
:)
No, they have this influence because your hormones tell you that if you pay attention, you might be allowed to mate with the alpha male/female.
Sadly, they are wrong.
...and then requirements change, and you are up shit creek. That is still waterfall design.
;-)
Better take a look at doing requirements, design and architecture via the planning game instead, which means there is an iterative process instead.
You can thank me later.
Test first.
Thank you.