Re:how many people actually _like_ windows?
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"hibernate works.
Works fine on most laptops running Linux as well"... yes but hibernation isn't just for laptops, it's a great way to save your work space regardless of type of PC. I have tried to get this working for my desktop PC on Mandrake 10.1, without any luck. Maybe it's that the distributation switches it off autoamtically when it detects that it isn't a laptop.
Yes that's a good point... flash was never designed to replace a browser. The designer of the flash application would have to supply all the features normally available in the browser - maybe you can get flash components that do this. By the way I have written DHTML code and it is *not* trivial the differences in the DOM between IE and Mozilla. About 50% of all methods are incompatible. IE7 is irrelavant. It will take about 5 years before everyone migrates to IE7.
The biggest disadvantage of ajax that I can see, is that it's written in javascript and there is no debugger available for the various web browsers (except Mozilla). Developing a large application without a debugger is not fun. Why not use flash? It seems to do everything that ajax can do, but it has a IDE and debugger available and there is the added advantage that it's cross platform (ajax requires that you write a seperate version for IE and Mozilla).
Your information points to reports writen by the people who are in charge of these experiments. Of coarse they are always going to say that the experiments are important - and I'm not saying this isn't true, but it would be interesting to hear about outsider opinions of the scientific merit. Also, manufacturing... what about the costs of lifting the raw materials into space and returning to earth?
I agree that VS is the best development IDE on the market, however this did not come about by Borland "shooting themselves in the foot". Borland origonally had a much supieror IDE (in the time before Win95 came out). Microsoft's control of the API gave them many advantages in developing a development tool, they had information about the internals of Windows and access to the entire Windows code base, which other companies did not have. Because of this everyone was afraid to buy anything other than Visual Studio and it became the defacto standard. It's impossible to compete with conditions like this - nobody will buy you product, no matter how good it - so eventually Borland just gave it up as a lost cause.
Customer's hire me to make web pages the way they want them to look like, not to please some XHTML geek fanatics. Looks like the only one his head in his ass is you.
"How about not using table layouts? If/. can do it why can't you?" Sure you can use CSS postioning, as long as you aren't too picky how you want you're page to look like. Unfortunately, in the real world customers will ask you for tricky stuff. And by the way, the CSS experts actually agree with me here:
If used properly this feature is useful to the user, many cases where you want to keep the origonal page open. If you don't like it, then use a browser that allows to switch it off. Besides that it's what my customers ask me to do... and they're the ones paying my salery (not w3.org)
I never use XHTML because of the many restrictions that it has:
Does not support flash Does not support the height attribute on the body tag, which means that you can't force a table to reach to the end of the page. does not allow you to open a link on a new page does not support the OnLoad method
These are just the the ones I've noticed. Of coarse, if you try hard you may be able to hack around them by useing javascript, but why tie yourself in knots? The real question you should be asking youself is what real benefit does XHTML give me (some vague statement about XHTML being "ready for the future" is not a benefit)
Quote from artical: "The source code itself is the specification . The level of detail required to interoperate successfully is simply not documentable - it would produce a stack of paper so high you might as well publish the source code."
However, they also say: "There is information that the Samba developers want to see: the IDL descriptions for remote procedure calls. These underpin tasks such as adding users, and adding quotas and shares, and Samba developers have successfully decoded them over the wire. But it's hard work.
"These IDL descriptions are *key* for providing interoperability with Microsoft clients," wrote the team in a submission to the EU commissioners earlier this year. "If these IDL descriptions were published, open and equal interoperability with Microsoft products would be greatly enhanced (although still not perfect)."
Allison says the Samba team has requested the IDL definitions from Microsoft annually, most recently at the 2001 CIFS conference, without success."
Obviously, this experiment is completely biased. The car was travelling at 20 km/h *towards* the transmitter. That gave the bits a higher relative velocity, allowing a higher bandwidth. I'd like to see the results for when the car was moving away from the transmitter
No he's right. OpenOffice has the most moronic user interface I have ever seen. Take for example the "auto save" feature. It prompts you *every* time if you want to save the document. This in fact defeats the whole purpose of the feature, which is to save the document automatically, i.e *without* any user intervention. Having said that, I think OpenOffice is a great word document viewer, just wouldn't want to use it as an editor.
Unfortunately, the previous attempt at "open formats" in Office 2003 has left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. In Office 2003, only the core format was documented, the auxiliary formats were in binary format as before. Also, there was problems with patents, resulting that no third party product tried to implement any Office 2003 format. So, once bitten, twice shy
If Microsoft provided a IP service that could ring *all* phone numbers would certainly kill Skype. There are a huge range of numbers that aren't accessable from Skype. This of coarse depends on which the country. In Spain for example, Skype cannot ring the special service numbers used by banks and other companies. These turn out to be very important for normal users, so in fact this what prevents people from replacing their phone compleatly and using Skype.
These are the so-called "special numbers"... This would be a killer blow to Skype if they could equal the quality of Skype and provide some extra features: * Ability to ring *all* numbers, including "special"
That's true, but the artical says uses in South Korea, Italy, Germany and Spain are switching. Far as I know file sharing is not illegal in Spain. And reciently the record companies were refused warrents in Germany.
I actaully prefer Firefoxes tabs, but Opera definately has a lot features that only half work in Firefox: * A fully working download manager * webpage zooming (works much better than firefox version) * Remebers sessions (opens at last place from where your were browsing and loads from the *cache*) * better integration with OS. (for instance KDE autoloads Opera if it was previously open, but thios doesn't work with Firefox) * Much faster development - How long since Firefox 1.0 came out?
Gimp has amazing graphics capablities, but is let down badly by some elemental bad UI design. The thing I hate the most is that the open file dialog does not open in the directory that you last used to open a file. It hard coded to the users home directory. This assumes that the user keeps all his/her graphics in one directory, which is riduculous.
This guy claims there are many development tools for Ajax. So where can we find the javascript debuggers for IE, Opera and Safari? This is the most important part of any Ajax development environment, as there will be a lot of complicated javascript and it needs to be tested on each browser you are going to support.
They'll need all the help they can to keep the lead on Intel. Intel's 90nm process was a disaster, due to leakage problems. According to here http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25512 Intels 65nm process solves some of the leakage problems and is due to be released very soon. I get the impression that this will make it on par with AMD's current 90nm process as regards power consumption. When the 45nm process comes out the leakage problem will be completly fixed completely.
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"hibernate works.
... yes but hibernation isn't just for laptops, it's a great way to save your work space regardless of type of PC. I have tried to get this working for my desktop PC on Mandrake 10.1, without any luck. Maybe it's that the distributation switches it off autoamtically when it detects that it isn't a laptop.
Works fine on most laptops running Linux as well"
But is this feature still supported?
Because Visual Interdev is a discontinued product. It has been replaced by Visual Studio.NET.
Yes that's a good point... flash was never designed to replace a browser. The designer of the flash application would have to supply all the features normally available in the browser - maybe you can get flash components that do this.
By the way I have written DHTML code and it is *not* trivial the differences in the DOM between IE and Mozilla. About 50% of all methods are incompatible. IE7 is irrelavant. It will take about 5 years before everyone migrates to IE7.
The biggest disadvantage of ajax that I can see, is that it's written in javascript and there is no debugger available for the various web browsers (except Mozilla).
Developing a large application without a debugger is not fun.
Why not use flash? It seems to do everything that ajax can do, but it has a IDE and debugger available and there is the added advantage that it's cross platform (ajax requires that you write a seperate version for IE and Mozilla).
Your information points to reports writen by the people who are in charge of these experiments. Of coarse they are always going to say that the experiments are important - and I'm not saying this isn't true, but it would be interesting to hear about outsider opinions of the scientific merit.
Also, manufacturing... what about the costs of lifting the raw materials into space and returning to earth?
Umm. They still do, and always will, sell basic phones with no extra features.
So, what's the problem?
I agree that VS is the best development IDE on the market, however this did not come about by Borland "shooting themselves in the foot".
Borland origonally had a much supieror IDE (in the time before Win95 came out).
Microsoft's control of the API gave them many advantages in developing a development tool, they had information about the internals of Windows and access to the entire Windows code base, which other companies did not have.
Because of this everyone was afraid to buy anything other than Visual Studio and it became the defacto standard. It's impossible to compete with conditions like this - nobody will buy you product, no matter how good it - so eventually Borland just gave it up as a lost cause.
Customer's hire me to make web pages the way they want them to look like, not to please some XHTML geek fanatics. Looks like the only one his head in his ass is you.
"How about not using table layouts? If /. can do it why can't you?"
Sure you can use CSS postioning, as long as you aren't too picky how you want you're page to look like. Unfortunately, in the real world customers will ask you for tricky stuff.
And by the way, the CSS experts actually agree with me here:
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/23snags.html
does not allow you to open a link on a new page
Good, I decide if I want a new page, not you.
If used properly this feature is useful to the user, many cases where you want to keep the origonal page open. If you don't like it, then use a browser that allows to switch it off.
Besides that it's what my customers ask me to do... and they're the ones paying my salery (not w3.org)
I never use XHTML because of the many restrictions that it has:
Does not support flash
Does not support the height attribute on the body tag, which means that you can't force a table to reach to the end of the page.
does not allow you to open a link on a new page
does not support the OnLoad method
These are just the the ones I've noticed. Of coarse, if you try hard you may be able to hack around them by useing javascript, but why tie yourself in knots?
The real question you should be asking youself is what real benefit does XHTML give me (some vague statement about XHTML being "ready for the future" is not a benefit)
According to this artical, the specification is worthless:s ofts_eu_concession/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/why_micro
Quote from artical:
"The source code itself is the specification . The level of detail required to interoperate successfully is simply not documentable - it would produce a stack of paper so high you might as well publish the source code."
However, they also say:
"There is information that the Samba developers want to see: the IDL descriptions for remote procedure calls. These underpin tasks such as adding users, and adding quotas and shares, and Samba developers have successfully decoded them over the wire. But it's hard work.
"These IDL descriptions are *key* for providing interoperability with Microsoft clients," wrote the team in a submission to the EU commissioners earlier this year. "If these IDL descriptions were published, open and equal interoperability with Microsoft products would be greatly enhanced (although still not perfect)."
Allison says the Samba team has requested the IDL definitions from Microsoft annually, most recently at the 2001 CIFS conference, without success."
This Ferris guy seems to have it in for Firefox. He gave them only 48 hours notice before publishing the exploit to the buffer overrun.e r+IE+flaw+report/2100-1002_3-5844431.html?tag=nl), however he in this case no exploit details were given at all.
However, he also discovered some exploits in IE (http://news.com.com/Microsoft+investigates+anoth
That sounds promising. As soon as a stable version of 2.0 comes out I will have a look at it
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Obviously, this experiment is completely biased. The car was travelling at 20 km/h *towards* the transmitter. That gave the bits a higher relative velocity, allowing a higher bandwidth.
I'd like to see the results for when the car was moving away from the transmitter
No he's right. OpenOffice has the most moronic user interface I have ever seen.
Take for example the "auto save" feature. It prompts you *every* time if you want to save the document. This in fact defeats the whole purpose of the feature, which is to save the document automatically, i.e *without* any user intervention.
Having said that, I think OpenOffice is a great word document viewer, just wouldn't want to use it as an editor.
Unfortunately, the previous attempt at "open formats" in Office 2003 has left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
In Office 2003, only the core format was documented, the auxiliary formats were in binary format as before. Also, there was problems with patents, resulting that no third party product tried to implement any Office 2003 format.
So, once bitten, twice shy
Probably, should have "previewed" that before posting... luckly nobody noticed the gibberish at the end
If Microsoft provided a IP service that could ring *all* phone numbers would certainly kill Skype.
...
There are a huge range of numbers that aren't accessable from Skype. This of coarse depends on which the country. In Spain for example, Skype cannot ring the special service numbers used by banks and other companies. These turn out to be very important for normal users, so in fact this what prevents people from replacing their phone compleatly and using Skype.
These are the so-called "special numbers"
This would be a killer blow to Skype if they could equal the quality of Skype and provide some extra features:
* Ability to ring *all* numbers, including "special"
That's true, but the artical says uses in South Korea, Italy, Germany and Spain are switching. Far as I know file sharing is not illegal in Spain. And reciently the record companies were refused warrents in Germany.
I actaully prefer Firefoxes tabs, but Opera definately has a lot features that only half work in Firefox:
* A fully working download manager
* webpage zooming (works much better than firefox version)
* Remebers sessions (opens at last place from where your were browsing and loads from the *cache*)
* better integration with OS. (for instance KDE autoloads Opera if it was previously open, but thios doesn't work with Firefox)
* Much faster development - How long since Firefox 1.0 came out?
Gimp has amazing graphics capablities, but is let down badly by some elemental bad UI design.
The thing I hate the most is that the open file dialog does not open in the directory that you last used to open a file. It hard coded to the users home directory. This assumes that the user keeps all his/her graphics in one directory, which is riduculous.
This guy claims there are many development tools for Ajax.
So where can we find the javascript debuggers for IE, Opera and Safari?
This is the most important part of any Ajax development environment, as there will be a lot of complicated javascript and it needs to be tested on each browser you are going to support.
It is possible to reduce leakage with a more advanced process.
Presumably they will use something like fully depleted SOI
They'll need all the help they can to keep the lead on Intel.
Intel's 90nm process was a disaster, due to leakage problems.
According to here http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25512 Intels 65nm process solves some of the leakage problems and is due to be released very soon.
I get the impression that this will make it on par with AMD's current 90nm process as regards power consumption.
When the 45nm process comes out the leakage problem will be completly fixed completely.