...call yourselves a bunch of geeks? It's been hours since the story broke on the front page of/. and still we don't have a torrent link to the movie of the Microsoft matrix spoof? You should all hang your heads in shame.:oP
Ok, maybe blind people won't be able to use this app (how can you be sure though that they don't want to use the website and find out info about it?), however I use text mode browsers when there isn't a graphical alternative available to me (command line *nix) and thus can't access anything of value in the site. Plus, I'm pretty sure they're in breach of various laws in the U.K. that stipulate all sites must be accessible to people with various disabilities (including blindness).
at the moment you have to enter a lame "security number" to do pretty much anything on the website. Good thing I'm not blind and reliant on a screen reader isn't it. A not to people who use features like this, for the sake of those people who do not browse the internet visually (or who use a text mode browser like I find myself using occasionally)...please, for the love of god offer an alternative to the lame securty numbers.
...is that IBM must have SYSV code lying around somewhere, I mean, they licensed it for AIX. Now, it's a given that they have Linux code too. Why haven't they done a diff of the two and found out what bits are the same (and where they originally came from (i.e. BSD)).
Or...they have done this...found out SCO is talking complete and utter shit and are going to slam that in their faces at the beginning of the trial and asking for the case to be dismissed.
Belkin makes these things for home users wanting more than 1 computer to access the internet, not for corps looking to cut corners. Anyone who does that deserves for it to go pear-shaped.
...don't mean to be a maths nazi or anything, but $129 per year equates (==) to $10.75 per month.
Still, you've made a very good point, I'd never really thought about the OSX upgrades in that way before. What's $10.75 a month? A beer a week. Just put that money to one side and lo and behold next years upgrade is already paid for. Nice:o)
...I want my phone to make calls, and thats it...period. I've had so much trouble with newer phones...9 Nokia 8210's in one year (they got replaced free of charge whenever they got borked...which as you can see was often). Now, the 8210 is not a new phone, it's not even particularly advanced, but it's got more in there than I need and thus more to go wrong.
I want a phone that looks nice, is fairly small, has a vibrate function (so I can put it on silent but still know theres a call coming in, so don't even think what you were about to!;o) can make and receive calls and has a phone book function, thats it. Maybe a simple calculator, but I can do most thinks in my head anyway so that isn't even needed.
I remember old phones, they were great, I've still got a particularly unfeatured (calls,phonebook, sms and, well, thats it actually) 5 year old phone that works perfectly - well, it would if it werent tied to a crap pre-paid sim card, but I digress.
Also, when (not if) you drop a modern phone they always tend to split apart spewing your battery, sim card and case in 3 different directions. Old phones from way back when? You dropped them and they left a dent in the floor (or your foot, whichever was in the way), none of this breaking crap.
Basically, each to their own, you may want to play sonic on your NGage or whatnot, I'd rather just make a call, and get out a Gameboy Advance when I want some gaming action to keep me occupied on the move. Yes its cool and all that you can code for it in c++ and its 100's of times faster than my first computer from a purely geeky point of view, but I don't need that in a phone, not having it will not impact your ability to use the phone for what it is designed for, making and receiving calls.
...seriously, it's practially unplayable on my system (which is no slouch and easily exceeds the minimum recommended requirments stated on their website, Athlon 1800XP+, GeForce4 64mb gfx card, 1024 Mb ram). I've been running the 1.90 client for a little while and that was silky smoothe. Now, I hear bullets and can't turn round in time to take the person out, the whole system becomes jerky and unresponsive. Granted this is a first release, but seriously, playability of it sucks. The new maps, however, are very cool...but I'm waiting until 2.01 irons out all of the bugs and performance problems.
You've obviously never been here or here. Anybody who says that flash is a bad thing for some purposes after seeing fluffy ickle animals horribly maimed and killed deserves a bullet through THEIR head.;o)
Granted, on most sites it's a pointless waste of time, but for genuinly engaging content sometimes there is no other option. Go on, do something akin to the above in DHTML or SVG, wait, what's that, you can't? Didn't think so.
Oh please enlighten me, oh enlightened one, on how the fsck I am meant to maintain state in an e-commerce system without cookies?
I want to have people able to add stuff to their cart, come back to the site a month later and still have that stuff in their cart, maintain state whilst passing to a PSP (Payment Service Provider) and back again, maintaining state between pages.
Don't say a sessionid in the url, because then, to have access to their cart when they come back, people would have to bookmark the page (with the SID).
I send One cookie out on the client side of my systems, and all that consists of is a random, unique userid. It isn't tied to your ip or hostname, and it's removed from the session database if you don't have a cart, but it's there if you come back and hadn't purchased what was in your cart.
Chances are, if you put something in your shopping cart then you are interested in buying it, so I'm not going to possibly throw away a sale because I deleted your cart when it looked like you weren't coming back.
Come on, in the scheme of things $250,000 is not an awful lot, especially to a company like MicroSoft.
Morals or no, most people have a price. Had they made it something a little more interesting, say in the $1,000,000-$5,000,000 range, most everyone involved would shop their friend/brother/business associate.
If some of the recent spate of viruses were funded and unleashed by organised crime/spamming syndicates (as some have conjectured), do you really think anyone will risk being found at the bottom of a river in a fetching pair of concrete boots for 250,000?
Oh come on, you can't be serious? Do you think that they make any profit from the site? I bet the adverts are just there so that Dan doesn't have to cover the cost of hosting out of his own pocket.
I'm sure that the technology will be replicated and sold to the more unscrupulous people of this planet who could then know how much money you have on you.
Hmmm...he's only got $10, but this guy on the other hand has $150, let's go mug him.
It's probably also a case of Mozilla actually doing init stuff whilst that splashscreen is displayed. Most newbs would assume that it hadn't started and keep double clicking the icon if there weren't some visual feedback that the program is actually doing something (especially since they're used to IE starting very quickly).
What the hell are you talking about? I'm running Firebird 0.7 on a three monitor setup and have absolutely no problems. Normally I'll have one open with an API spec or something similar in window two, an ide in window 1 and another browser showing whate ver web-app I'm working on on window three. Works like a charm.
Guess the problem could be between the screen and the chair.
However, the same still holds true, many MP's hold what they term "e-surgeries" and allow you to contact them by e-mail or contact form via their website - it's just a case of finding them! I'm sure there's a list out there like exists for MEP's, anyone?
Slashdot Mirror
And you've done it again!
:/
;oP
Err, typo boyguards->boyguards.. heh..
Hmmm...me spies a freudian slip! Got anything you want to tell us Mixel?
...something tells me that they aren't running it on their 1 tflop box. ;o)
...call yourselves a bunch of geeks? It's been hours since the story broke on the front page of /. and still we don't have a torrent link to the movie of the Microsoft matrix spoof? You should all hang your heads in shame. :oP
Ok, maybe blind people won't be able to use this app (how can you be sure though that they don't want to use the website and find out info about it?), however I use text mode browsers when there isn't a graphical alternative available to me (command line *nix) and thus can't access anything of value in the site. Plus, I'm pretty sure they're in breach of various laws in the U.K. that stipulate all sites must be accessible to people with various disabilities (including blindness).
at the moment you have to enter a lame "security number" to do pretty much anything on the website. Good thing I'm not blind and reliant on a screen reader isn't it. A not to people who use features like this, for the sake of those people who do not browse the internet visually (or who use a text mode browser like I find myself using occasionally)...please, for the love of god offer an alternative to the lame securty numbers.
Um...no
If you went back in time, to say 2001, got two years experience, then went back to 2001 and got another two etc.
Thus, to fill a job now that requires impossible years of experience you need to go back in time, simple.
...is that IBM must have SYSV code lying around somewhere, I mean, they licensed it for AIX. Now, it's a given that they have Linux code too. Why haven't they done a diff of the two and found out what bits are the same (and where they originally came from (i.e. BSD)).
Or...they have done this...found out SCO is talking complete and utter shit and are going to slam that in their faces at the beginning of the trial and asking for the case to be dismissed.
Just a thought.
Prepare for bankruptcy in T-minus 90 days...
:o)
N-GAGE!
...the fact that if a sysadmin actually used a belkin router on a corp network he should ask for the money back on that "I.T. For Managers" seminar and go back to fouling things up as a PHB, the place they can do the least damage.
Belkin makes these things for home users wanting more than 1 computer to access the internet, not for corps looking to cut corners. Anyone who does that deserves for it to go pear-shaped.
...don't mean to be a maths nazi or anything, but $129 per year equates (==) to $10.75 per month.
:o)
Still, you've made a very good point, I'd never really thought about the OSX upgrades in that way before. What's $10.75 a month? A beer a week. Just put that money to one side and lo and behold next years upgrade is already paid for. Nice
...I want my phone to make calls, and thats it...period. I've had so much trouble with newer phones...9 Nokia 8210's in one year (they got replaced free of charge whenever they got borked...which as you can see was often). Now, the 8210 is not a new phone, it's not even particularly advanced, but it's got more in there than I need and thus more to go wrong.
;o) can make and receive calls and has a phone book function, thats it. Maybe a simple calculator, but I can do most thinks in my head anyway so that isn't even needed.
I want a phone that looks nice, is fairly small, has a vibrate function (so I can put it on silent but still know theres a call coming in, so don't even think what you were about to!
I remember old phones, they were great, I've still got a particularly unfeatured (calls,phonebook, sms and, well, thats it actually) 5 year old phone that works perfectly - well, it would if it werent tied to a crap pre-paid sim card, but I digress.
Also, when (not if) you drop a modern phone they always tend to split apart spewing your battery, sim card and case in 3 different directions. Old phones from way back when? You dropped them and they left a dent in the floor (or your foot, whichever was in the way), none of this breaking crap.
Basically, each to their own, you may want to play sonic on your NGage or whatnot, I'd rather just make a call, and get out a Gameboy Advance when I want some gaming action to keep me occupied on the move. Yes its cool and all that you can code for it in c++ and its 100's of times faster than my first computer from a purely geeky point of view, but I don't need that in a phone, not having it will not impact your ability to use the phone for what it is designed for, making and receiving calls.
"Worst job evar"
(weeeeeee....so thats the sound karma makes as it tumbles)
...seriously, it's practially unplayable on my system (which is no slouch and easily exceeds the minimum recommended requirments stated on their website, Athlon 1800XP+, GeForce4 64mb gfx card, 1024 Mb ram). I've been running the 1.90 client for a little while and that was silky smoothe. Now, I hear bullets and can't turn round in time to take the person out, the whole system becomes jerky and unresponsive. Granted this is a first release, but seriously, playability of it sucks. The new maps, however, are very cool...but I'm waiting until 2.01 irons out all of the bugs and performance problems.
You've obviously never been here or here. Anybody who says that flash is a bad thing for some purposes after seeing fluffy ickle animals horribly maimed and killed deserves a bullet through THEIR head. ;o)
Granted, on most sites it's a pointless waste of time, but for genuinly engaging content sometimes there is no other option. Go on, do something akin to the above in DHTML or SVG, wait, what's that, you can't? Didn't think so.
Oh please enlighten me, oh enlightened one, on how the fsck I am meant to maintain state in an e-commerce system without cookies?
I want to have people able to add stuff to their cart, come back to the site a month later and still have that stuff in their cart, maintain state whilst passing to a PSP (Payment Service Provider) and back again, maintaining state between pages.
Don't say a sessionid in the url, because then, to have access to their cart when they come back, people would have to bookmark the page (with the SID).
I send One cookie out on the client side of my systems, and all that consists of is a random, unique userid. It isn't tied to your ip or hostname, and it's removed from the session database if you don't have a cart, but it's there if you come back and hadn't purchased what was in your cart.
Chances are, if you put something in your shopping cart then you are interested in buying it, so I'm not going to possibly throw away a sale because I deleted your cart when it looked like you weren't coming back.
Come on, in the scheme of things $250,000 is not an awful lot, especially to a company like MicroSoft.
Morals or no, most people have a price. Had they made it something a little more interesting, say in the $1,000,000-$5,000,000 range, most everyone involved would shop their friend/brother/business associate.
If some of the recent spate of viruses were funded and unleashed by organised crime/spamming syndicates (as some have conjectured), do you really think anyone will risk being found at the bottom of a river in a fetching pair of concrete boots for 250,000?
8> MacOS source not available traditionally,
;o)
same argument goes for ISS
What has the International Space Station got to do with all of this?
Oh come on, you can't be serious? Do you think that they make any profit from the site? I bet the adverts are just there so that Dan doesn't have to cover the cost of hosting out of his own pocket.
Apple didn't use a BSD kernel, their userland is BSD but the kernel is a Mach kernel.
Have you made sure that some piece of software hasn't put a line in your hosts file that looks something like...
google.com someother.search.engine.ipaddress
if so just delete the line.
If you don't know where your hosts file is do a search from your start menu (it's normally in [windowsdir]\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
I'm sure that the technology will be replicated and sold to the more unscrupulous people of this planet who could then know how much money you have on you.
Hmmm...he's only got $10, but this guy on the other hand has $150, let's go mug him.
It's probably also a case of Mozilla actually doing init stuff whilst that splashscreen is displayed. Most newbs would assume that it hadn't started and keep double clicking the icon if there weren't some visual feedback that the program is actually doing something (especially since they're used to IE starting very quickly).
What the hell are you talking about? I'm running Firebird 0.7 on a three monitor setup and have absolutely no problems. Normally I'll have one open with an API spec or something similar in window two, an ide in window 1 and another browser showing whate ver web-app I'm working on on window three. Works like a charm.
Guess the problem could be between the screen and the chair.
But you get lots of points if you have a Titanic in your pants! ;o)
You're right, schoolboy error on my part!
However, the same still holds true, many MP's hold what they term "e-surgeries" and allow you to contact them by e-mail or contact form via their website - it's just a case of finding them! I'm sure there's a list out there like exists for MEP's, anyone?