Me too!!!! I was reading this thread waiting to pound on Sony. Surprise, I was not the only one. I used to buy Sony because stuff just worked. But in the last 5 years, the quality has deteriorated rapidly, all over the product line. I bought their latest SW radio/travel alarm clock for $100, a little cheaper than I paid for the last (still working) model 10 years ago. It fell apart after 2 weeks of travel. In disgust, I shipped it back to their customer support, with the note that said in effect "Keep this POS, I am never buying Sony again." They called me to ask me what my note meant, I said "keep the POS". They said they were not allowed to do that, I hung up. They shipped the sorry POS back to me without any kind of apology note. From that point on, I just skip Sony when shopping for anything. The professional quality monitor GDM-F400, 3 years old, is rolling in and out of focus as I type. The VAIO portable broke after 6 months. Radio was the last straw.
Mozilla beats IE in caching No-cache pages. Many commercial sites use No-cache tag liberally. I've always hated the misuse of this tag, it wastes bandwidth and my time. With IE, No-cache pages are not cached at all, and when you use the back button, pages get reloaded. Mozilla is smarter, and seems to cache No-cache pages in the same window. I've verified this by looking at packets when surfing American Idol site, IE will send out about twice as many HTTP requests. Makes for much faster surfing with Mozilla when site is slow. Now if I only get around to writing bookmark sync for these too, I'll be able to move between the two seamlessly.
I'd declare certain Windows XP "publicly modifiable". What this means is that resellers should be allowed to repackage it any way they feel like. They could rip out MS add-ons, MS logo, add their own apps without restrictions.
The hope would be that MS would not be able to bundle crap into its OS because it would just get ripped out by resellers. For example, all marketing functionality could be taken out of IE, or substituted with the marketing material by some other high bidder, such as AOL.
You can see the Fuck Box at http://dkb3.dkbnet.com/
Be careful, I got hacked. It opened a second window on my machine, which somehow started executing C:\Windows\Temp\mep3151.TMP.exe. I am running Windows and IE6 with all the latest patches.
The most amazing hack I've ever seen was written in Forth by a guy called Fred. In 1988, I was working in an educational software startup, Prentice Associates. We were mainly coding cross-platform Apple][ & IBM PC apps. Truly cross-platform, the same Forth code ran on both. They were little graphical presentations VGA style, with some user interactivity and animations.
I was a Mac fanatic, so I enjoyed showing off the WIMP interface to Fred. He liked it, and wrote a cross-platform windowing system in Forth in about a month. It looked a bit crude, but had windows, and a core widget set (buttons, menus, checkboxes, scrollers). We used this UI to develop our apps from then on. And it was cross-platform, running on Apple & IBM PCs.
The sad part is, I could never wrap my mind around Forth like Fred did, and was stuck using his quite elegant UI to create those educational presentations. Last I heard, Fred was learning Windows, because there was no money in Forth.
I remember all of us reloading the page over and over again from a friends machine (wintermute), so that he would show up on top of the active users list.
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Americans did manage to hit Chinese embassy with a precision bomb while bombing Serbia.
American story is that it was an accident.
Serbian story is that Chinese were helping them out with signal intelligence, and Americans considered the embassy a legitimate military target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade
Me too!!!! I was reading this thread waiting to pound on Sony. Surprise, I was not the only one. I used to buy Sony because stuff just worked. But in the last 5 years, the quality has deteriorated rapidly, all over the product line.
I bought their latest SW radio/travel alarm clock for $100, a little cheaper than I paid for the last (still working) model 10 years ago. It fell apart after 2 weeks of travel. In disgust, I shipped it back to their customer support, with the note that said in effect "Keep this POS, I am never buying Sony again." They called me to ask me what my note meant, I said "keep the POS". They said they were not allowed to do that, I hung up. They shipped the sorry POS back to me without any kind of apology note. From that point on, I just skip Sony when shopping for anything.
The professional quality monitor GDM-F400, 3 years old, is rolling in and out of focus as I type. The VAIO portable broke after 6 months. Radio was the last straw.
Mozilla beats IE in caching No-cache pages. Many commercial sites use No-cache tag liberally. I've always hated the misuse of this tag, it wastes bandwidth and my time. With IE, No-cache pages are not cached at all, and when you use the back button, pages get reloaded. Mozilla is smarter, and seems to cache No-cache pages in the same window. I've verified this by looking at packets when surfing American Idol site, IE will send out about twice as many HTTP requests. Makes for much faster surfing with Mozilla when site is slow. Now if I only get around to writing bookmark sync for these too, I'll be able to move between the two seamlessly.
I'd declare certain Windows XP "publicly modifiable". What this means is that resellers should be allowed to repackage it any way they feel like. They could rip out MS add-ons, MS logo, add their own apps without restrictions.
The hope would be that MS would not be able to bundle crap into its OS because it would just get ripped out by resellers. For example, all marketing functionality could be taken out of IE, or substituted with the marketing material by some other high bidder, such as AOL.
You can see the Fuck Box at http://dkb3.dkbnet.com/
Be careful, I got hacked. It opened a second window on my machine, which somehow started executing C:\Windows\Temp\mep3151.TMP.exe. I am running Windows and IE6 with all the latest patches.
Aleks
The most amazing hack I've ever seen was written in Forth by a guy called Fred. In 1988, I was working in an educational software startup, Prentice Associates. We were mainly coding cross-platform Apple][ & IBM PC apps. Truly cross-platform, the same Forth code ran on both. They were little graphical presentations VGA style, with some user interactivity and animations.
I was a Mac fanatic, so I enjoyed showing off the WIMP interface to Fred. He liked it, and wrote a cross-platform windowing system in Forth in about a month. It looked a bit crude, but had windows, and a core widget set (buttons, menus, checkboxes, scrollers). We used this UI to develop our apps from then on. And it was cross-platform, running on Apple & IBM PCs.
The sad part is, I could never wrap my mind around Forth like Fred did, and was stuck using his quite elegant UI to create those educational presentations. Last I heard, Fred was learning Windows, because there was no money in Forth.
This is the mirror of one of the early Mosaic demos, showing off multimedia capabilities.
http://www.totic.org/nscp/demodoc/demo. html
http://web.cnam.fr/ImageWWW, I think
I remember all of us reloading the page over and over again from a friends machine (wintermute), so that he would show up on top of the active users list.