They've stated that they dont care if legacy apps break, and they proved it (somewhat) with XP SP2, and an anti-spyware tool which kicks the crap out of a lot of old code.
I'm sure I'm not the only developer out there who's had to rewrite some stuff to keep XP happy. And, despite the extra work, I see it as a good thing.
The franchise loyalty is the key here. IGN was running some big "story" on how in their online poll, 30% thought PS3 would be the most powerful vs 26% thought xbox 2.. Or something like that, the numbers arent important.
Whats this mean? It's a count of fanboys, since nobody voting has any real information to go on.
They could release a dogturd with a sony logo on it, and fanboys would lap it up. So could MS. So all this "supercomputer mega powerful OMG megaflips" are just to feed fanboys. People who enjoy video games know that the games are what'll matter in the end.
I'm more interested in what Nintendo is up to, since they seem to be the only company left who's dedicated to hardware for playing video games, and creating or licensing good games for that hardware.
Before Apple switched, every Mac related story here had hundreds of posts talking about how amazing G5 architecture is, and how its a gajillion times bettar at rendering shiny chrome windows, and whatnot.
Note to VoIP droolers, the shit ain't going to work until you're *all* using the same protocols, and it interoperates seamlessly with POTS.
Paying 10 bucks to call skype, 10 to call this, 10 to call that.. It'd add up pretty quick. And the Bells have plenty of room to slash prices if they feel the need to.
Good journalists do it by fact-checking and looking for corroborating evidence in each individual story, regardless of how long they've personally known the source.
Not all "journalists" are of the CmdrTaco variety who just post whatever shit arrived in his inbox as "teh Newz!".
All I have to do is set up an open proxy, wait for it to get on all those generated lists, and sit back and watch all the passwords, ssns and credit card numbers scroll by on my screen.
A proxy does not make you anonymous to the person running it - quite the opposite, it gives that person unfettered access to anything you do.
the Acid 2 Test covers a wide set of functionality and standards, not just from CSS2.1 and HTML 4.01, selected by the authors as a "wish list" of features they'd like to have. It's pointedly not a compliance test (from the Test Guide: "Acid2 does not guarantee conformance with any specification"). As a wish list, it is really important and useful to my team, but it isn't even intended, in my understanding, as our priority list for IE7.
They don't care about that particular test because it has no real meaning, and nothing to do with standards or compliance with anything more than it's authors field of dreams.
As for the "users telling the market" - the users dont know what the fuck its supposed to be, and dont care. I have a hard time understanding why I should care if my browser renders that smiley face or not.
You think anybody really gives a flying fuck about browser standards?/.'ers keep saying that as some sort of insult.
Why *should* anybody care?
I'm a software developer, and am hard pressed to care about who's the first to support some shit which isn't even a standard yet. (That ACID2 test is a wish-list more or less, not a ratified anything)
I've gotten more 'critical updates' for firefox than I have for IE6 over the months I've been using it.
It fails the ACID2 test, it has plenty of known security vulnerabilities.
So other than the tabs, and a bunch of yimmering about philosophy, whats better? Show me what I can show to my boss to back myself up when I start declaring that "IE is teh suck and FF is teh bestast"
I kind of like the tabs, but other than that, I fail to see what's "better". In most areas, as far as usability, it's "as good". I keep hearing how great the security is, but judging from all the critical updates I've had to get, I'm doubtful.
Boycott IE because its not standards compliant. Instead, use this other browser which is not standards compliant either, but is ideologically more correct to me.
Do you folk ever stop and wonder why no one listens to you?
Ever been to Japan? You'll see shops with racks of goods sitting out on the street, no one guarding them. When people there find a wallet, they generally turn it in at the closest police station.
You can park your motorcycle on a street in tokyo, with the keys in it, and chances are real good it'll be there when you get back. Try that in NYC.
It's purely cultural. Japanese are taught empathy from a small age - how would I feel if I lost my wallet, or someone stole my bike. The social stigma of being a thief is worse to them than anything the courts are going to hand down. In America, it just makes you a real bad-ass and cool.
They also recognize a society is made up of individuals, and its strengths and weaknesses are about those individuals.
Americans turn to the government to fix all problems. I was watching the news the other day, and the story line was something akin to "Is the government doing all it can to protect us against the heat wave?" Yeah, there's a heat wave. Fix it with laws, government!
It's not a democrat or republican thing. Americans need the government to do everything for them these days, they need a law for everything. We believe that people won't obstain from an action because it's socially unacceptable, no, it has to be against the law. We have this "it's OK if you don't get caught" mentality.
This post isnt pro-Japan or anti-America, it's just a huge difference between the cultures that I noticed.
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Go fuck yourself.
The only one on a downward spiral is you. SAT scores, both written and verbal, are as high as they've been in 25 years.
Kids are getting smarter, not dumber. That's just a pompous myth from the ivory pedestals of the far left.
I cant wait for the OSS guys to clone this capability of "doing stuff" in bash or perl!
They've stated that they dont care if legacy apps break, and they proved it (somewhat) with XP SP2, and an anti-spyware tool which kicks the crap out of a lot of old code.
I'm sure I'm not the only developer out there who's had to rewrite some stuff to keep XP happy. And, despite the extra work, I see it as a good thing.
The franchise loyalty is the key here. IGN was running some big "story" on how in their online poll, 30% thought PS3 would be the most powerful vs 26% thought xbox 2.. Or something like that, the numbers arent important.
Whats this mean? It's a count of fanboys, since nobody voting has any real information to go on.
They could release a dogturd with a sony logo on it, and fanboys would lap it up. So could MS. So all this "supercomputer mega powerful OMG megaflips" are just to feed fanboys. People who enjoy video games know that the games are what'll matter in the end.
I'm more interested in what Nintendo is up to, since they seem to be the only company left who's dedicated to hardware for playing video games, and creating or licensing good games for that hardware.
Yeah, it was a joke.
Before Apple switched, every Mac related story here had hundreds of posts talking about how amazing G5 architecture is, and how its a gajillion times bettar at rendering shiny chrome windows, and whatnot.
Games now are 49.99, but I don't pay it, and never have. I havent payed more than 40 bucks for a game, because I don't shop at wal-mart.
IIRC, the original xbox was 299 at launch.. Or was it 249?
Its got a G5 which we all know is the best processor evar, and they made mac's worth 3x the price of a comparable PC, so surely this is a bargain, no?
This whole thing reeks of "see, we can fix the shuttle in orbit so it wont a-splode anymore".
From what I understand, this type of thing is normal, and the filler stuff tends to peel out on every flight, and it's basically designed to that.
The whole thing just seems so staged. But if it keeps the shuttle from a-sploding, then good for them, I suppose.
I never said they werent straight, just ugly. And that your ears stick out.
And as for your nose and hair, I didnt bring that up. But its obviously something you're sensitive about, so I wont make a comment.
So much for stiff upper lip! I knew the chunnel was a bad idea, now you guys are sissies too!
Sounds pretty useless then.
Note to VoIP droolers, the shit ain't going to work until you're *all* using the same protocols, and it interoperates seamlessly with POTS.
Paying 10 bucks to call skype, 10 to call this, 10 to call that.. It'd add up pretty quick. And the Bells have plenty of room to slash prices if they feel the need to.
Libraries are where homeless people go to sleep and make BM.
- Peter Griffin
Did you make 20,000 exact copies of it and distribute them to anyone who wanted?
Because if you did, I bet the publisher might just have a beef with you.
Your analogy sucks.
Radicals? Killings?
I was talking about the whole charles and camilla thing.
The UK doesnt have any problems with radicals or stuff like that, because they're better than americans, as they remind us every day here on slashdot.
Get it, teeth?
UK?
Heheh
Who cares. The UK has bigger problems right now than worrying about a bunch of Spice Girl piratez.
(UK people have ugly teeth, and big ears)
Good journalists do it by fact-checking and looking for corroborating evidence in each individual story, regardless of how long they've personally known the source.
Not all "journalists" are of the CmdrTaco variety who just post whatever shit arrived in his inbox as "teh Newz!".
HAH
All I have to do is set up an open proxy, wait for it to get on all those generated lists, and sit back and watch all the passwords, ssns and credit card numbers scroll by on my screen.
A proxy does not make you anonymous to the person running it - quite the opposite, it gives that person unfettered access to anything you do.
They don't care about that particular test because it has no real meaning, and nothing to do with standards or compliance with anything more than it's authors field of dreams.
As for the "users telling the market" - the users dont know what the fuck its supposed to be, and dont care. I have a hard time understanding why I should care if my browser renders that smiley face or not.
Much ado about nothing..
You think anybody really gives a flying fuck about browser standards? /.'ers keep saying that as some sort of insult.
Why *should* anybody care?
I'm a software developer, and am hard pressed to care about who's the first to support some shit which isn't even a standard yet. (That ACID2 test is a wish-list more or less, not a ratified anything)
Insulting customers isn't good business.
Your idea is akin to having someone stand by the pumps of a gas station you run, telling every body that they should buy a hybrid civic.
Most will be annoyed, and a select few who know a bit about cars will just peg you for a dipshit. Neither will likely return.
How so?
I've gotten more 'critical updates' for firefox than I have for IE6 over the months I've been using it.
It fails the ACID2 test, it has plenty of known security vulnerabilities.
So other than the tabs, and a bunch of yimmering about philosophy, whats better? Show me what I can show to my boss to back myself up when I start declaring that "IE is teh suck and FF is teh bestast"
I kind of like the tabs, but other than that, I fail to see what's "better". In most areas, as far as usability, it's "as good". I keep hearing how great the security is, but judging from all the critical updates I've had to get, I'm doubtful.
Boycott IE because its not standards compliant. Instead, use this other browser which is not standards compliant either, but is ideologically more correct to me.
Do you folk ever stop and wonder why no one listens to you?
I dont think it'll be good and do standards an stuff.
I have a whole long list of software that doesnt exist yet that i want to boycott.
We should also boycott the HURD for not being linux.
The more you send them free food, the more you damage their agriculture industry.
The more you send them clothes, the more jobs you take from their tailors and textile workers.
They don't need handouts, they need real economic reform, and education has to be at the center of that.
The world doesn't need welfare nations.
Slashcode is a 0, linux is a 4, firefox is a 5
It goes to a hundred. And its quasi-logarithmic.
What the hell is your problem?
You're going to yell at me for being wrong, and then correct me with a reiteration of what I said?
Pfft
No, American.
Ever been to Japan? You'll see shops with racks of goods sitting out on the street, no one guarding them. When people there find a wallet, they generally turn it in at the closest police station.
You can park your motorcycle on a street in tokyo, with the keys in it, and chances are real good it'll be there when you get back. Try that in NYC.
It's purely cultural. Japanese are taught empathy from a small age - how would I feel if I lost my wallet, or someone stole my bike. The social stigma of being a thief is worse to them than anything the courts are going to hand down. In America, it just makes you a real bad-ass and cool.
They also recognize a society is made up of individuals, and its strengths and weaknesses are about those individuals.
Americans turn to the government to fix all problems. I was watching the news the other day, and the story line was something akin to "Is the government doing all it can to protect us against the heat wave?" Yeah, there's a heat wave. Fix it with laws, government!
It's not a democrat or republican thing. Americans need the government to do everything for them these days, they need a law for everything. We believe that people won't obstain from an action because it's socially unacceptable, no, it has to be against the law. We have this "it's OK if you don't get caught" mentality.
This post isnt pro-Japan or anti-America, it's just a huge difference between the cultures that I noticed.