"I don't understand why ISPs would block gmail mail anyway. (I understand the invites, though.)"
One possibility is that something in GMail is tripping a spam filter. Maybe they send via HTML or they have a sig containing exactly the wrong words or something.
Honestly, I have NFI as I don't have GMail or know anybody who does. I'm only throwing this out because I've done stupid things with anti-spam rules before.
"OK, so M$ has designed a bad OS. But nobody that I know who has Windows XP and knows how to use it ever got infected with a virus. Simple rules:"
Wish those were it, but you have to be careful about 3rd party stuff you install. Everybody remember that fake copy of Word that caused problems in the Mac world a coupla weeks ago?
I agree with everything your saying, but I have an alternative approach. I take steps to minimize the damage caused by my computer randomly exploding. I have two hard drives in my machine. Not exactly mirroring one to the other, but I do make sure to keep the really important stuff copied on each one. I sometimes burn CDs, I sometimes dump to a firewire drive, I sometimes print stuff out. These aren't huge steps, a few little ones here and there. I basically operate under the premise that my computer isn't 100% reliable. I don't mean the OS, I mean the machine itself.
Frankly, that's a good attitude to have with any machine, not just Windows machines. MS left us with a scary OS, but at least they keep us on our toes when it comes to backups. Heh.
"You can continue to deny that you are a shill but a quick resding will make it apparent.
Heh you just embarrased yourself again. You obviously havent seen my posting history.
"You regularly are called on your shilling by lots of people.."
Shill? Not really. May I assume you mean more names than just shill? In that case, you are correct.
Every single time, especially your case, it was out of anger at me, and not some analysis of the facts. (Of course, if they used facts, they couldn't prove I'm a shill or MS apologist, or that I suck Billy Gates's dick, etc.) They hate Microsoft. They hate me for not joining the cool club. They call me names thinking it'll bother me. It doesn't. I get a good chuckle out of it, though.:)
"and you will never get people like me."
Oh believe me, I get you. There was a time I was like you. I used to think everybody who liked Mac was a 'fag'. I was a real dickhead then. Fortunately, I've grown out of it into a more objective lifestyle. Hopefully you'll grow out of it, too. There are very few things on this planet that are simply black and white.
I recently installed XP from a running copy of Win2k. It had an option to go download fromm automatic update and install with those changes in place. Sadly, this rules out the "wipe the drive" sort of install, plus it assumes that you already have a patched Windows install running. However, if you're doing a 'clean up the registry' sort of reinstall as opposed to a new machine install, this is viable.
I really wish Microsoft would allow one to create an 'Automatic Update' cd that you can download from a secured source. Pop that in before Windows goes online and run all that stuff. That'd be useful for any OS, really. Oh well, guess MS won't innovate there until somebody else does.
"Great! Where can I download this "standard" so I can write a conformant browser?"
Yep, that's the crappy side of de-facto standards. The consumers decide they want one thing, and the developers have little to no say about it. That's one of the reasons I get annoyed at Sony for trying their proprietary stunts. Though they're within their right to do so, I wish people in general were more aware of what was happening.
"Nokia lost it's chance with both Nintendo and Sony having shown their offerings and strutted their stuff who will even care for an updated design to the N-Gage?"
There's still a niche market. If I could get a cell phone that plays decent games for under $99, I'd consider it. Now that they've gotten some of the major issues out of the way, it might be worth another look.
Would I sell my Game Boy Advance SP for it? Oh hell no. But I do enjoy the odd game on my cell phone from time to time. Why? For the simple reason that my phone goes with me everywhere. My Game Boy... well it sits around my apartment. Maybe I think to grab it if I know I'm gonna be waiting somewhere.
So no, I don't agree that nobody will care. However, I'm not optimistic enough to think they could reach millions of units sold. They're going to have to figure something out to make it that popular. Maybe that'll happen? They have the whole wireless thing going for it. Multiplayer gaming could be cool. Who cares if only 10 thousand are on the market, nation wide, you can still find somebody to play against.
The reality is that it's probably dead. Pity, they had some of the right things in place. One way or another, I do feel that cell phones will have more gaming capabilities down the road.
Oh yeah, those are real specfic, that's why none of the browsers out there could agree on how exactly to interpret them.
"How much more fucking specific can you get?"
Are you kidding? You're not even CLOSE to being specific. Specific is when you take the behaviour of a specific tag under certain conditions and describe why it is not acting correctly. That is fucking specific. Your example was about as specific as saying Star Trek sucks.
Not quite, but it's a heck of a lot closer than "make standards support better.". Unless he got lucky, there would be no way short of getting lucky that he (or his team?) would find the right things to fix that'd make everybody happy. At least with what you provided, they'd have a starting place.
"Well now that they have decided to sell their own anti-virus software, what better than to create demand for it by developing a new browser platform in order to extort AV software sales...."
This is assuming that automatic update goes away, and I don't think that's likely. AU fixes flaws, AV gets rid of the actual viruses.
While we're at it, let's accuse Symantec of writing viruses to generate revenue.
" It looks like they will keep adding options until IE is comparable to its competitors, but with regards to web standards I doubt Microsoft will have interest."
Probably not. IE's ways of interpreting HTML is a de-facto standard. As long as it works, MS is going to put its energy into other aspects. If it's really that bad (from my own web development experience, it's not.) then the others have two options: 1.) Mimic IE. 2.) Create new interesting web features and lead the parade instead of following behind MS and bitching about it.
"What part of "better standards support" does he think is too vague? Does this guy need it spelling out to him or what (rhetorical question by the way)!"
Seeing as how it's probably being develoepd in paralell to Longhorn, you'd get just as an accurate result from any rationale here about it as a flip of the coin.
Probably to fix some stupidness with Microsoft's Media Player. Let's say you link to a.WMV file that's 100 megabytes. When you click on it, WMP fires up and sits there and does NOTHING until the whole 100 meg file is down. It appears to be frozen, and you have NFI how much you have left to XFER. If you try to start another media file that WMP monopolizes, it just kills the transfer as opposed to opening a new window. If you put it in ZIP format, you know how long it'll take to get, and you don't have WMP sitting around in limbo. Pretty lame, huh?
It can reach an audience in the 10's of millions without needing to install new software. It has a decent compression rate. It's free to author it. Etc etc etc. Tool of the devil? Grow up.
"Star Trek DS9: "To boldly go... no where. We're on a freaking space station people. We stay stationary, people... that's our job - to be dull!"
I was about to write a 3 paragraph rant about how you're wrong about DS9. But I stopped for a moment and thought "why take it seriously?"
Well this is a bit of a dilemma. Am I a nerd for initially wanting to write that pointless rebuttal, or did I escape being a nerd by thinking "eh it's just a show, so what?"
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"So, is Microsoft right or wrong on this one?"
They're wrong, of course! Uh.. later I'll come up with a reason, I was just a little short on karma.
"I don't understand why ISPs would block gmail mail anyway. (I understand the invites, though.)"
One possibility is that something in GMail is tripping a spam filter. Maybe they send via HTML or they have a sig containing exactly the wrong words or something.
Honestly, I have NFI as I don't have GMail or know anybody who does. I'm only throwing this out because I've done stupid things with anti-spam rules before.
"This is yet another reason everyone should steer clear of "free" e-mail altogether."
This does not alleviate them of the responsibility of providing a useful service.
"OK, so M$ has designed a bad OS. But nobody that I know who has Windows XP and knows how to use it ever got infected with a virus.
Simple rules:"
Wish those were it, but you have to be careful about 3rd party stuff you install. Everybody remember that fake copy of Word that caused problems in the Mac world a coupla weeks ago?
I agree with everything your saying, but I have an alternative approach. I take steps to minimize the damage caused by my computer randomly exploding. I have two hard drives in my machine. Not exactly mirroring one to the other, but I do make sure to keep the really important stuff copied on each one. I sometimes burn CDs, I sometimes dump to a firewire drive, I sometimes print stuff out. These aren't huge steps, a few little ones here and there. I basically operate under the premise that my computer isn't 100% reliable. I don't mean the OS, I mean the machine itself.
Frankly, that's a good attitude to have with any machine, not just Windows machines. MS left us with a scary OS, but at least they keep us on our toes when it comes to backups. Heh.
"Don't run windows. :D"
Better kick your gaming habit, too.
"Why do you expect there to be a lot of Frequently Asked Questions before there are any users to ask ANY questions?"
Nobody's asking "what is it?"
"You can continue to deny that you are a shill but a quick resding will make it apparent.
:)
Heh you just embarrased yourself again. You obviously havent seen my posting history.
"You regularly are called on your shilling by lots of people.."
Shill? Not really. May I assume you mean more names than just shill? In that case, you are correct.
Every single time, especially your case, it was out of anger at me, and not some analysis of the facts. (Of course, if they used facts, they couldn't prove I'm a shill or MS apologist, or that I suck Billy Gates's dick, etc.) They hate Microsoft. They hate me for not joining the cool club. They call me names thinking it'll bother me. It doesn't. I get a good chuckle out of it, though.
"and you will never get people like me."
Oh believe me, I get you. There was a time I was like you. I used to think everybody who liked Mac was a 'fag'. I was a real dickhead then. Fortunately, I've grown out of it into a more objective lifestyle. Hopefully you'll grow out of it, too. There are very few things on this planet that are simply black and white.
I recently installed XP from a running copy of Win2k. It had an option to go download fromm automatic update and install with those changes in place. Sadly, this rules out the "wipe the drive" sort of install, plus it assumes that you already have a patched Windows install running. However, if you're doing a 'clean up the registry' sort of reinstall as opposed to a new machine install, this is viable.
I really wish Microsoft would allow one to create an 'Automatic Update' cd that you can download from a secured source. Pop that in before Windows goes online and run all that stuff. That'd be useful for any OS, really. Oh well, guess MS won't innovate there until somebody else does.
"Great! Where can I download this "standard" so I can write a conformant browser?"
Yep, that's the crappy side of de-facto standards. The consumers decide they want one thing, and the developers have little to no say about it. That's one of the reasons I get annoyed at Sony for trying their proprietary stunts. Though they're within their right to do so, I wish people in general were more aware of what was happening.
"Nokia lost it's chance with both Nintendo and Sony having shown their offerings and strutted their stuff who will even care for an updated design to the N-Gage?"
There's still a niche market. If I could get a cell phone that plays decent games for under $99, I'd consider it. Now that they've gotten some of the major issues out of the way, it might be worth another look.
Would I sell my Game Boy Advance SP for it? Oh hell no. But I do enjoy the odd game on my cell phone from time to time. Why? For the simple reason that my phone goes with me everywhere. My Game Boy... well it sits around my apartment. Maybe I think to grab it if I know I'm gonna be waiting somewhere.
So no, I don't agree that nobody will care. However, I'm not optimistic enough to think they could reach millions of units sold. They're going to have to figure something out to make it that popular. Maybe that'll happen? They have the whole wireless thing going for it. Multiplayer gaming could be cool. Who cares if only 10 thousand are on the market, nation wide, you can still find somebody to play against.
The reality is that it's probably dead. Pity, they had some of the right things in place. One way or another, I do feel that cell phones will have more gaming capabilities down the road.
"The standards are described here."
Oh yeah, those are real specfic, that's why none of the browsers out there could agree on how exactly to interpret them.
"How much more fucking specific can you get?"
Are you kidding? You're not even CLOSE to being specific. Specific is when you take the behaviour of a specific tag under certain conditions and describe why it is not acting correctly. That is fucking specific. Your example was about as specific as saying Star Trek sucks.
"Correct alpha channel support. Correct cache behaivior with SSL connections. Correct CSS1 support. Correct CSS2 support"
Not quite, but it's a heck of a lot closer than "make standards support better.". Unless he got lucky, there would be no way short of getting lucky that he (or his team?) would find the right things to fix that'd make everybody happy. At least with what you provided, they'd have a starting place.
There was nothing wrong with the comment he made.
"Well now that they have decided to sell their own anti-virus software, what better than to create demand for it by developing a new browser platform in order to extort AV software sales. ..."
This is assuming that automatic update goes away, and I don't think that's likely. AU fixes flaws, AV gets rid of the actual viruses.
While we're at it, let's accuse Symantec of writing viruses to generate revenue.
" It looks like they will keep adding options until IE is comparable to its competitors, but with regards to web standards I doubt Microsoft will have interest."
Probably not. IE's ways of interpreting HTML is a de-facto standard. As long as it works, MS is going to put its energy into other aspects. If it's really that bad (from my own web development experience, it's not.) then the others have two options: 1.) Mimic IE. 2.) Create new interesting web features and lead the parade instead of following behind MS and bitching about it.
"What part of "better standards support" does he think is too vague? Does this guy need it spelling out to him or what (rhetorical question by the way)!"
He wants specifics, what's wrong with that?
"So, does this mean Longhorn will be even later?"
Seeing as how it's probably being develoepd in paralell to Longhorn, you'd get just as an accurate result from any rationale here about it as a flip of the coin.
"The cars produced by nano technology are only 2 mm long at most so getting in to them will be a bit of squeeze."
I feel another class action suit against McDonald's brewing.
"ahh, scrub it. People will still find a way to drive like idiots, even in super nanotechnologically advanced cars."
You could have saved some bandwidth by shortening your post to shit happens.
If it included a thick layer of rubber, it'd be a must have for a lot of Slashdotters here!
"Yeah but Star Trek had an interracial kiss before the soaps :)"
You're talking about Dax and Worf, right?
"the Star Wreck movie?"
That movie is in perpetual development. If Duke Nukem Forever ever comes out, Star Wreck will be the joke that takes its place.
"what's the point in zipping a WMV file ???"
.WMV file that's 100 megabytes. When you click on it, WMP fires up and sits there and does NOTHING until the whole 100 meg file is down. It appears to be frozen, and you have NFI how much you have left to XFER. If you try to start another media file that WMP monopolizes, it just kills the transfer as opposed to opening a new window. If you put it in ZIP format, you know how long it'll take to get, and you don't have WMP sitting around in limbo. Pretty lame, huh?
Probably to fix some stupidness with Microsoft's Media Player. Let's say you link to a
"WMV is a tool of the Devil."
+4 Insightful?! WMV == Bad no matter what? Eh?
It can reach an audience in the 10's of millions without needing to install new software. It has a decent compression rate. It's free to author it. Etc etc etc. Tool of the devil? Grow up.
"Star Trek DS9: "To boldly go... no where. We're on a freaking space station people. We stay stationary, people... that's our job - to be dull!"
I was about to write a 3 paragraph rant about how you're wrong about DS9. But I stopped for a moment and thought "why take it seriously?"
Well this is a bit of a dilemma. Am I a nerd for initially wanting to write that pointless rebuttal, or did I escape being a nerd by thinking "eh it's just a show, so what?"
"Personally, I'd rather see someone who looks nothing like shatner but is able to act play the part of kirk than watch a shatner-alike ham it up."
The problem with that is people that can do that have a talent they can make money with.