Although I agree, I also think that Firefox - just like Netscape - invents parts of the interface which are incompatible to IE.
Interoperability works both ways, if you want to defeat IE you take the things that it has implemented correctly and improve on that. Then you can take their customers without forcing them into a choice in which they choose the path of least resistance, iow. sticking with IE.
Just so it's clear, I'll use the browser which has the feature I need, not the other way round. The tool should be able to do what you want, otherwise it's the tool that is broken.
> Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted webpages?
**** RANT WARNING **** This is a obvious troll. It's a failed product if it can't handle the script I produce and I have to write the code in different dialects to make both browsers understand me.
It is not lazy to expect, as with many other languages that the basic code should be able to run anywhere. I shouldn't have to force my users to waste bandwidth downloading a script which is twice as long, just because two different programmers working for different organizations who view each other as the foe, program the interface differently.
That's not lazy, it's stupid!
Now that there is a popular alternative to IE it just means that webdesigners will have to work twice as long to be able to do the same work.
It's the same lame problem as with Microsoft and Sun Java support.
I use Yahoo! Hotjobs for my CV. And although I would be found in searches quite, usually I wouldn't get employer views.
Then I saw some stupid deal that HotJobs had with a proffesional CV writers, ResumeEdge.com, and looked at the example work they had. I didn't pay them, just looked at their samples.
And just by moving my Award section - I only ever got one - and my publications section - only a mention in Wired Online and ACM Queue - to the top of the page I got a job offer the next day.
I have a nice job now, but it was just amazing.
So try looking at the resume writers sites and learn from there sample work. And most importantly put yourself in the shoes of the employer, what do you think they think is important; your skills - sure; your experience - probably; how much money they can make if they hire you - absolutely!!!
Not only has there been a virus which infected the Dutch ATMs (Windows 9x), a quick search in Yahoo! showed me links to articles about virus attacks on US ATMs.
Come on jolly old British Empire, are you falling behind on the rest of the world? Prove you too can be a world leader again and can have virus infected ATMs.
I'm worried about the fact that the senatr doesn't know that this is quite common. The two or more leaders, meaning their flukies, spend quite a bit of time agreeing on what they will say about the progress made in whatever meeting.
If this senator doesn't know this then she still has lots of hard lessons to learn.
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I think you might have forgotten the disclamer.
Unless you really want me to swallow the alkaline battery I have in my mouth.
In the Netherlands we have electronic voting and I trust it as much as I would a paper ballot and an internet FORM. As soon as it's out of my hands I can't be sure it's not being tampered with.
A funny thing here is that you can't anonymously make the Brewsters Millions choice: NONE OF THE ABOVE! For that you have to walk up and publicly say you want to be taken to the vote counter to register your empty vote, you get to see the number of votes cast go up by your one.
You really see you actually voted, in as much as I trust any voting anyway...
I can vouch for it! Great, easy to config and you don't even have to modify anything in an out of the box situation.
You can add a switch or router, this includes a DSL router for connections, to the back, so you don't even have to config an ip, just raw frames passed from one to the other.
If you want to tweak it has lots of options.
In the September or October issue of Dr Dobbs' Journal they have a whole table on compile speed (c/c++) vs compile vs processor. They're conclusion in that although GCC is one of the slower ones on most platforms (cpu's) it has the most language support.
My compiles are faster on a 2.4Ghz than a 600Mhz, just try to compile the linux kernel, my question is what are you doing that your compiles are slower? -O256 optimization??? (c;
Just my $.02
After seeing this article on slashdot I contacted the company and got one. After having had it 3 weeks I discovered some problems, but none serious.
There are some problems with magnetic fields, mostly in areas with low hanging power cables,lthough it doesn't cut out the quality is less than perfect. Other sources of magnetic fields cause similar problems.
There are some Nokia compatability problems, these can be solved by using an adapter with is usually included, although I didn't get it with the sample I was send. I've tried it with a number of other phones including Toshiba, NEC and Siemens, and have had no other problems. BTW this is NOT a problem with the headset, but with Nokia socket. (I solved this with a $2 adapter with the regular jack socket replace with the small jack socket soldered on and a heat shrink cover.)
The documentation wasn't clear on how to turn it off, so I decided to leave it at home for my trip to the UK. There is a way, the photocopied documentation didn't contain this information.
Soon this will also be rolled out in Europe, probably not by me, sadly.
After reading most of the comments posted below - the flames, the calls to mod the article -1 Troll, as well as many well thought out Interesting and Funny contributions - I thought I'd actually read this article.
After reading it I was let down, a lot of the comments below have talked the article UP. Even with the reports that this article was badly thought out it looks like it was written by somebody on the outside looking in through a media cloud created by SCO, Microsoft and that stupid article on Forbes.
The comments on the "...modify the source code..." statement however are plain idiotic. Give your 2 year old the reiser code and let him type random characters in it, and if it actually compiles run it on your system, if you dare.
Sure I could modify the code, and I might not actually destroy all the data on my disk.
The argument "...was discredited decades ago..." is actually based in fact, this is one of the reasons that a consumer video recorder bought now has less buttons on it than it did when you bought your first on 20 years ago. It seems people forget that they can do it, and I can do it, and get it to compile and even run - we can even program the video to record at a specified time - but the accountants, laywers and eldery mothers - not you mum - of this world might not be able to. How many of you know people who don't even use computers for fear of breaking something.
I like my software free, as in speech, and free, as in beer, and contribute on the odd project that warrents the extra work I put in to get it to do what I need. However generally I still browse the code of projects from non reputable sources, just to make sure that it is not free, as in pay in blood. "NYT *cough*"
Most people, and I guess Mr Strauss too, are scared of open-source because it has the reputation of being a load of hackers, and if Mr Strauss wants to, he's free, as in speech, to.
That it is factually wrong can be attributed to the fact that there is just enough FUD about, and possibly a brown envelope here and there, to confuse the "...manager of technology strategy and outreach at Princeton University."
Given this situation let us further imagine that Ford still sold vehicles and moreover that the vast majority of people on the highways drove around in Fords and agreed not to copy any of the vehicles despite their innate ability to be copied.
I think you remember the story wrong, it was Ford who was fighting against restrictive patents. Offsite!
How is a broadcaster like CBS hurt by someone distributing a show on the internet?
CBS is hurt when it can't sell its new episodes of JAG to Europe and Asia because they've downloaded the new episodes. This hurts the TV networks of other nations as they lose the programming, losing the advertisement revenue that comes with them. And this hurts YOU because they can no longer afford to pay the actors the amounts that they request and not enough money is coming for developement of new series.
Can you live with depriving me of my Catherine Bell viewing pleasure.
Smack me if I'm sounding too much like the RIAA or MPAA!
It sounds to me like prohibition is slowly coming back. Not the prohibition of alcohol, but the prohibition of technology. The focus is currently on `The War on Drugs', `The War on Terror' and `The War on Technology and Customers'. All the effort to convince people to `Buy American' and `Support American Business' will be stifled by the efforts by the government to block innovation on its own soil and force it to places like Europe and Asia. Do these companies think that they can run America? It's not that Big Business is bad, just seems that they are taking the place of Big Brother. (c;
When I read microchip, I thought computer controlled release too, but as it is actually a small wafer build up of layers of polymer and whatever drug, in a similar way to what you might call a `real' microchip. I think you can use it. I very much doubt your potato chips are created in that way.
I always considered the researchchannel [1] and uwtv [2] as good science channels. So they show mainly uni lectures, but as science only channel go that's a start. I've even seen a lecture on good OO practise. There are a number more such streams, including childrens channels. And what about the discovery channel, so it's not so indepth, but it has got the science slant.
I too am not a Windows consumer, but a GNU/Linux user (enlightenment). Personally I never tried KDE so I wouldn't dare to comment on that, but afaik the all of the things mentioned you can do with the KDE taskbar, icons, clock, etc. are features which are also in Win98 and absolutely in WinXP.
Although I sometimes use the tabbed feature of Netscape, I find it just as easy to work with multiple windows as with multiple tabs.
I thought the joke about XChat and mIRC where very funny, even more so because of the fact that he saw it "...shown as 'experimental' on the XChat site." Complaining about paying coder/company for something that works... hmm... sounds like nitpicking to me... If you can't to pay for xchat YOU CAN, don't run the popup blocker and click on the banners. That's how they get paid!
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Although I agree, I also think that Firefox - just like Netscape - invents parts of the interface which are incompatible to IE.
Interoperability works both ways, if you want to defeat IE you take the things that it has implemented correctly and improve on that. Then you can take their customers without forcing them into a choice in which they choose the path of least resistance, iow. sticking with IE.
Just so it's clear, I'll use the browser which has the feature I need, not the other way round. The tool should be able to do what you want, otherwise it's the tool that is broken.
> Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted webpages?
**** RANT WARNING ****
This is a obvious troll. It's a failed product if it can't handle the script I produce and I have to write the code in different dialects to make both browsers understand me.
It is not lazy to expect, as with many other languages that the basic code should be able to run anywhere. I shouldn't have to force my users to waste bandwidth downloading a script which is twice as long, just because two different programmers working for different organizations who view each other as the foe, program the interface differently.
That's not lazy, it's stupid!
Now that there is a popular alternative to IE it just means that webdesigners will have to work twice as long to be able to do the same work.
It's the same lame problem as with Microsoft and Sun Java support.
Grumble...
**** END RANT ****
I use Yahoo! Hotjobs for my CV. And although I would be found in searches quite, usually I wouldn't get employer views.
Then I saw some stupid deal that HotJobs had with a proffesional CV writers, ResumeEdge.com, and looked at the example work they had. I didn't pay them, just looked at their samples.
And just by moving my Award section - I only ever got one - and my publications section - only a mention in Wired Online and ACM Queue - to the top of the page I got a job offer the next day.
I have a nice job now, but it was just amazing.
So try looking at the resume writers sites and learn from there sample work. And most importantly put yourself in the shoes of the employer, what do you think they think is important; your skills - sure; your experience - probably; how much money they can make if they hire you - absolutely!!!
Not only has there been a virus which infected the Dutch ATMs (Windows 9x), a quick search in Yahoo! showed me links to articles about virus attacks on US ATMs.
Come on jolly old British Empire, are you falling behind on the rest of the world? Prove you too can be a world leader again and can have virus infected ATMs.
I'm worried about the fact that the senatr doesn't know that this is quite common. The two or more leaders, meaning their flukies, spend quite a bit of time agreeing on what they will say about the progress made in whatever meeting.
If this senator doesn't know this then she still has lots of hard lessons to learn.
Unless you really want me to swallow the alkaline battery I have in my mouth.
I know: (Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)
http://www.geexbox.com
Besides from the added bonus of making the networks failover. (c;
They think it's all over, it is now...
So perhaps two bits of plastic screwed together could come to $600...
Can anybody say Anonymous Remailer?
A funny thing here is that you can't anonymously make the Brewsters Millions choice: NONE OF THE ABOVE! For that you have to walk up and publicly say you want to be taken to the vote counter to register your empty vote, you get to see the number of votes cast go up by your one.
You really see you actually voted, in as much as I trust any voting anyway...
I can vouch for it! Great, easy to config and you don't even have to modify anything in an out of the box situation.
You can add a switch or router, this includes a DSL router for connections, to the back, so you don't even have to config an ip, just raw frames passed from one to the other.
If you want to tweak it has lots of options.
My compiles are faster on a 2.4Ghz than a 600Mhz, just try to compile the linux kernel, my question is what are you doing that your compiles are slower? -O256 optimization??? (c;
Just my $.02
If a company has a test that looks for a certain DNA sequence which I have, is my body then considered prior art?
- There are some problems with magnetic fields, mostly in areas with low hanging power cables,lthough it doesn't cut out the quality is less than perfect. Other sources of magnetic fields cause similar problems.
- There are some Nokia compatability problems, these can be solved by using an adapter with is usually included, although I didn't get it with the sample I was send. I've tried it with a number of other phones including Toshiba, NEC and Siemens, and have had no other problems. BTW this is NOT a problem with the headset, but with Nokia socket. (I solved this with a $2 adapter with the regular jack socket replace with the small jack socket soldered on and a heat shrink cover.)
- The documentation wasn't clear on how to turn it off, so I decided to leave it at home for my trip to the UK. There is a way, the photocopied documentation didn't contain this information.
Soon this will also be rolled out in Europe, probably not by me, sadly.http://a768.g.akamai.net/5/768/142/3f9e9589/1a1a1a fb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841 a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3 012c01_mp4_300.mov
Where the first bold part is episode numbers 12-14 and the second the part numbers from 01-08. Between 20-26Mb each...
After reading it I was let down, a lot of the comments below have talked the article UP. Even with the reports that this article was badly thought out it looks like it was written by somebody on the outside looking in through a media cloud created by SCO, Microsoft and that stupid article on Forbes.
The comments on the "...modify the source code..." statement however are plain idiotic. Give your 2 year old the reiser code and let him type random characters in it, and if it actually compiles run it on your system, if you dare. Sure I could modify the code, and I might not actually destroy all the data on my disk.
The argument "...was discredited decades ago..." is actually based in fact, this is one of the reasons that a consumer video recorder bought now has less buttons on it than it did when you bought your first on 20 years ago. It seems people forget that they can do it, and I can do it, and get it to compile and even run - we can even program the video to record at a specified time - but the accountants, laywers and eldery mothers - not you mum - of this world might not be able to. How many of you know people who don't even use computers for fear of breaking something.
I like my software free, as in speech, and free, as in beer, and contribute on the odd project that warrents the extra work I put in to get it to do what I need. However generally I still browse the code of projects from non reputable sources, just to make sure that it is not free, as in pay in blood. "NYT *cough*"
Most people, and I guess Mr Strauss too, are scared of open-source because it has the reputation of being a load of hackers, and if Mr Strauss wants to, he's free, as in speech, to.
That it is factually wrong can be attributed to the fact that there is just enough FUD about, and possibly a brown envelope here and there, to confuse the "...manager of technology strategy and outreach at Princeton University."
Oh, yeah and stupidity.
I think you remember the story wrong, it was Ford who was fighting against restrictive patents. Offsite!
CBS is hurt when it can't sell its new episodes of JAG to Europe and Asia because they've downloaded the new episodes. This hurts the TV networks of other nations as they lose the programming, losing the advertisement revenue that comes with them. And this hurts YOU because they can no longer afford to pay the actors the amounts that they request and not enough money is coming for developement of new series.
Can you live with depriving me of my Catherine Bell viewing pleasure.
Smack me if I'm sounding too much like the RIAA or MPAA!
It sounds to me like prohibition is slowly coming back. Not the prohibition of alcohol, but the prohibition of technology. The focus is currently on `The War on Drugs', `The War on Terror' and `The War on Technology and Customers'.
All the effort to convince people to `Buy American' and `Support American Business' will be stifled by the efforts by the government to block innovation on its own soil and force it to places like Europe and Asia. Do these companies think that they can run America? It's not that Big Business is bad, just seems that they are taking the place of Big Brother. (c;
Just my $0.02
When I read microchip, I thought computer controlled release too, but as it is actually a small wafer build up of layers of polymer and whatever drug, in a similar way to what you might call a `real' microchip. I think you can use it.
I very much doubt your potato chips are created in that way.
I always considered the researchchannel [1] and uwtv [2] as good science channels. So they show
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mainly uni lectures, but as science only channel go that's a start. I've even seen a lecture on
good OO practise.
There are a number more such streams, including childrens channels. And what about the discovery
channel, so it's not so indepth, but it has got the science slant.
[1] http://www.researchchannel.org/webcast/asx/rtv-la
http://www.researchchannel.org/webcast/asx/rtv-mo
[2] http://www.uwtv.org/asx/uwtv-lan.asx
http://www.uwtv.org/asx/uwtv-modem.asx
I too am not a Windows consumer, but a GNU/Linux user (enlightenment). Personally I never tried KDE so I wouldn't dare to comment on that, but afaik the all of the things mentioned you can do with the KDE taskbar, icons, clock, etc. are features which are also in Win98 and absolutely in WinXP.
Although I sometimes use the tabbed feature of Netscape, I find it just as easy to work with multiple windows as with multiple tabs.
I thought the joke about XChat and mIRC where very funny, even more so because of the fact that he saw it "...shown as 'experimental' on the XChat site." Complaining about paying coder/company for something that works... hmm... sounds like nitpicking to me...
If you can't to pay for xchat YOU CAN, don't run the popup blocker and click on the banners. That's how they get paid!