One poster has already mentioned peripherally that the box model might also be considered to be fixed. For me, this is the worst part of IE's CSS1 implementation, period. The box model is much lower level and basic than even absolute/relative positioning perfection. CSS folks will understand. So yes, let's get PNG alpha channel support; great. But if we can't rely on proper placement of objects from browser to browser vis basic elements like div and span... well, seems like that should be fixed first. (Admittedly, seems like a much harder, backward-comapatibility-breaking fix.)
I call shennanigans. The article says Europa is a moon of Saturn. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. I was simply adding a correction/clarification for everyone's edification.
It's not true. My 2000 Honda Insight has its original battery system; it's in excellent shape. Additionally, when I bought it, I made sure to know if the batteries were covered by the 8 yr / 80K warranty. They are.
Anyone else remember a satire of such a device created by some (NYC?) ad agency? They made an elaborate web site of the fake product to promote themselves.
A trend in the past few years which has been successfully implemented in the industry is Model Based Testing. Basicly, you define what it is you're testing, what you can do to it, and what the expected results of those actions would be. Once you have a complete valid model, you can then create any testing you want, simply asking the model, "if you're like this, and I do this, what should happen?" This can be done at an API level or an enterprise level.
The fun development part is once you've built the model, you can use any technology to develop the automation to run the resulting test cases.
I drive a Honda Insight (2000, 5-speed, silver) and get an average of 63 MPG on my 12 mile commute in mixed traffic. (The Insight is a hybrid, for those who don't know, and has a MPG calculator on the dash.)
That said, what I've discovered is that driving styles dictate mileage, in a way I didn't expect. Reading a few hybrid fan sites, I tried a driving style other than the granny-goes-to-church style. I find hybrids (or at least mine) does best when you get right up to your cruising speed as fast as is reasonably possible, depending on the assist motor, and then kick back and cruise, enjoying for the maximum amount of time your best mileage. It works!
Um, Avalon is not the IE rendering engine. It's mshtml.dll with a different code name. Avalon, on the other hand, is the visual platform for the next generation of Windows itself, Longhorn.
One issue not brought up in the article, or any of the comment's I've sorted through, is that there are several different approaches to making a hybrid, and that will affect city vs. highway mileage and their ratios.
The best known is the approach of the Prius, which uses an electric motor all the time, and a gasoline assist. This is a good (but from what I hear extremely complicated) approach.
The Honda Insight (and I believe the Civic hybrid, but I could be wrong) has a gas engine as the main source, with an electric assist.
So obviously in a city-driving comparison, the Prius is going to look better, since the Insight has its gas engine on all the time. (Unless it's at a complete stop, when the engine hibernates.)
And my 2000 Insight with 25K miles is averaging 58MPG.:)
But apparently a real lawyer did contact them. The logo is gone.
On a side note, I don't see too much useful in this. It mostly searches personal blogs. I'd have much more interest in something that allowed me to select the media.
I suspect that this idiot is simply positioning himself as the "Spam King" so he can maximize the profit from his next phase: Selling "how to make it rich selling ads on the internet" packages to retirees. After this article, he'll have the Detroit Free Press's endorsement as the #1 in the world.
As revenues start to decrease in the spam business (legal fees, increasingly complex technology), and as advertisers realize that a clickthrough != a sale, the best way to make money is to sell the dream to pensioners. I'd be surprised if that's not what he's planning.
There is a limit to the space on Tivo/ReplayTV, but you can certainly choose to keep an episode on the disc permanent-ish-ly, and alternately, you can output it to your VCR if you like a library of tapes.
As for the sharing of tapes of missed shows, preprogramming Tivo/Replay means you'll almost certainly never miss it. ReplayTV (the one I chose, disclaimer) has a broadband feature too, so you can share with other ReplayTVs, or dub a show to tape if you prefer.
But this is all moot, IMHO. I like my ReplayTV, but the stench of 'early adopter' is hovering around it. I know M$ and others are working on different and better approaches to PVRs, and I read here that the open source community is getting into it too. I think Tivo and others are indeed doomed, since they are not extensible. As soon as the box comes out that lets me record my favorite show and then burn it to DVD, the battle will be over.
On what are they premising their conclusion that software sucks?
I don't see any numbers indicating worse-ness or sucky-ness of software, or even how much more complex it's become (and that last point is actually acquireable.) I agree that it probably is worse, but they certainly aren't trying to confirm it.
It seems irresponsible to base a professional screed on the fact that some trainer starts his PowerPoint presentations with a slide that says "Most Software Sucks".
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Actually, you've pointed out the problem with pinning hopes on Standards: Even if Browser A and Browser B are both 100% compliant with Standard X, it's a virtual guarantee that they'll still be incompatible.
I believe IE is 100% compliant now for DOM/JavaScript/ECMAscript. It's virtually complete for CSS-1 (I think it misses a few, but I'm not sure on that); It's also the first browser to implement the P3P Privacy standard.
So standards are a good thing, but they've never been intended to be the silver bullet to merge everyone's divergent products into one.
MSNBC and others are reporting this as a change to Yahoo email users. Slashdot seems to be the only one correctly reporting that it's anyone with a Yahoo ID, even if they've long forgotten about it.
I, like many, registered on Yahoo a long time ago, in order to be able to use their online communities, Chat, and other services. I never set up a Yahoo email account. The email address (required in their registration) they had was my personal account on my ISP, so they would have spammed that--much worse than a free account on their server. And yes, I confirmed that even my account, with no yahoo email account attached to it, had its preferences changed too.
Really pretty outrageous. Damages the whole industry 'self-regulation' efforts, and makes it that much easier for misguided legislation to get passed.
Agreed. IBM, MS and others have tools which make the policy implementation pretty straightforward.
The question is, if a site decides to collect or retain private information at any point, should we not hold them to the highest public standard?
Is this not slashdot?
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I hope they offer "sosumi" as a ringtone...
Hmm, somehow I can't view this site in my browser, Lynx.
One poster has already mentioned peripherally that the box model might also be considered to be fixed. For me, this is the worst part of IE's CSS1 implementation, period. The box model is much lower level and basic than even absolute/relative positioning perfection. CSS folks will understand. So yes, let's get PNG alpha channel support; great. But if we can't rely on proper placement of objects from browser to browser vis basic elements like div and span... well, seems like that should be fixed first. (Admittedly, seems like a much harder, backward-comapatibility-breaking fix.)
I call shennanigans. The article says Europa is a moon of Saturn. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. I was simply adding a correction/clarification for everyone's edification.
Just wonderin...
It's not true. My 2000 Honda Insight has its original battery system; it's in excellent shape. Additionally, when I bought it, I made sure to know if the batteries were covered by the 8 yr / 80K warranty. They are.
Anyone else remember a satire of such a device created by some (NYC?) ad agency? They made an elaborate web site of the fake product to promote themselves.
Can we let this spurious meme drop? Any reference to XPSP2 seems to automatically invoke "3 out of 5". This makes us look guilty of spreading FUD.
The fun development part is once you've built the model, you can use any technology to develop the automation to run the resulting test cases.
I drive a Honda Insight (2000, 5-speed, silver) and get an average of 63 MPG on my 12 mile commute in mixed traffic. (The Insight is a hybrid, for those who don't know, and has a MPG calculator on the dash.) That said, what I've discovered is that driving styles dictate mileage, in a way I didn't expect. Reading a few hybrid fan sites, I tried a driving style other than the granny-goes-to-church style. I find hybrids (or at least mine) does best when you get right up to your cruising speed as fast as is reasonably possible, depending on the assist motor, and then kick back and cruise, enjoying for the maximum amount of time your best mileage. It works!
Um, Avalon is not the IE rendering engine. It's mshtml.dll with a different code name. Avalon, on the other hand, is the visual platform for the next generation of Windows itself, Longhorn.
One issue not brought up in the article, or any of the comment's I've sorted through, is that there are several different approaches to making a hybrid, and that will affect city vs. highway mileage and their ratios. The best known is the approach of the Prius, which uses an electric motor all the time, and a gasoline assist. This is a good (but from what I hear extremely complicated) approach. The Honda Insight (and I believe the Civic hybrid, but I could be wrong) has a gas engine as the main source, with an electric assist. So obviously in a city-driving comparison, the Prius is going to look better, since the Insight has its gas engine on all the time. (Unless it's at a complete stop, when the engine hibernates.) And my 2000 Insight with 25K miles is averaging 58MPG. :)
...er, I mean /.-ed...
the site's down for me.
On a side note, I don't see too much useful in this. It mostly searches personal blogs. I'd have much more interest in something that allowed me to select the media.
Anyone else find the slightest bit of irony that the story cited is from MSNBC, not AOL/TW/CNN/Turner or Disney/ATT?
As revenues start to decrease in the spam business (legal fees, increasingly complex technology), and as advertisers realize that a clickthrough != a sale, the best way to make money is to sell the dream to pensioners. I'd be surprised if that's not what he's planning.
My bits. Both of em.
I think you've missed some key issues.
There is a limit to the space on Tivo/ReplayTV, but you can certainly choose to keep an episode on the disc permanent-ish-ly, and alternately, you can output it to your VCR if you like a library of tapes.
As for the sharing of tapes of missed shows, preprogramming Tivo/Replay means you'll almost certainly never miss it. ReplayTV (the one I chose, disclaimer) has a broadband feature too, so you can share with other ReplayTVs, or dub a show to tape if you prefer.
But this is all moot, IMHO. I like my ReplayTV, but the stench of 'early adopter' is hovering around it. I know M$ and others are working on different and better approaches to PVRs, and I read here that the open source community is getting into it too. I think Tivo and others are indeed doomed, since they are not extensible. As soon as the box comes out that lets me record my favorite show and then burn it to DVD, the battle will be over.
My two bits.
I don't see any numbers indicating worse-ness or sucky-ness of software, or even how much more complex it's become (and that last point is actually acquireable.) I agree that it probably is worse, but they certainly aren't trying to confirm it.
It seems irresponsible to base a professional screed on the fact that some trainer starts his PowerPoint presentations with a slide that says "Most Software Sucks".
This guy sounds like Bernard Schifman's doppelganger.
I believe IE is 100% compliant now for DOM/JavaScript/ECMAscript. It's virtually complete for CSS-1 (I think it misses a few, but I'm not sure on that); It's also the first browser to implement the P3P Privacy standard.
So standards are a good thing, but they've never been intended to be the silver bullet to merge everyone's divergent products into one.
Let the flames begin... :)
I, like many, registered on Yahoo a long time ago, in order to be able to use their online communities, Chat, and other services. I never set up a Yahoo email account. The email address (required in their registration) they had was my personal account on my ISP, so they would have spammed that--much worse than a free account on their server. And yes, I confirmed that even my account, with no yahoo email account attached to it, had its preferences changed too.
Really pretty outrageous. Damages the whole industry 'self-regulation' efforts, and makes it that much easier for misguided legislation to get passed.
Should be http://validator.w3.org/p3p/20020128/p3p.pl?uri=ht tp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org
Agreed. IBM, MS and others have tools which make the policy implementation pretty straightforward. The question is, if a site decides to collect or retain private information at any point, should we not hold them to the highest public standard? Is this not slashdot?
I thought this was another article on the Boy Scouts. Durn.