As much as I hate IE, it still bugs me how I stumbleinto Firefox rendering bugs (or in the case of map not accepting id tags under text/html, "features"), usually with something that works just fine in IE6.
I also wonder why Joe doesn't simply file for a TRO against MySpace, since they violated their own terms of service when they disabled his access without his consent. I suspect there is more to the story than we are being told.
Excerpts from Myspace's TOS: "MySpace.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the MySpace Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability."
"The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the MySpace Website and through your use of the MySpace Services. MySpace.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in MySpace.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:...
6.attempting to impersonate another Member or person;...
11. displaying an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or through the MySpace Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting a profile with a commercial purpose as one of your "Top 8" friends, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose;"
While copyright law does indeed protect derivitive works as well as original works, if the derivitive work itself is illegal than you have no stand upon which to claim copyright over it.
In other words, the original person could sue you, but Goldman suing you would be illegal, as it is not afforded copyright protection due to it itself being an illegal copy.
With City of Heroes/Villains, outfit customization is basically all you have. Since there is no equipment, your starting look is the look that you're stuck with until you buy another outfit at level... I forget which level that becomes available. 20, I think.
SWG, at least when I last played it, suffered massive lag due to its customization system. You got near a city (and its NPCs) and it took forever to render your view, sometimes disconnecting you in the process. Maybe that's gotten better in the years since I last played, but I doubt it.
EQ2 suffered the same problem as SWG but on a lesser scale.
While I think measuring typing speed as well as the password itself might work, comparing it to morse code speed is ludicrous.
Richards has apparently forgotten that morse code uses 1-key as opposed to passwords which use 47 character keys with the ability for a person to hold down the shift key to enter in an alternate version of any of those.
Which means that, when a person starts using a new password, they type it fairly slowly. However, as they get used to typing it, they gradually get faster at it.
What do you do when your own system locks you out because you've gotten better at typing your own password?
Perhaps they are developing cross-platform site code, and in the meantime, have adjusted their "IE only" message to recommend a temporary alternative for Firefox users.
A solution that doesn't work on OSX, Linux, or FreeBSD... without using WINE that is. In that case, they should be using WINE to emulate IE directly.
Most Netscape plugins seem to have fairly short names. For example: npnul32.dll (The Default plugin), npswf32.dll (Flash), nppl3260.dll (RealPlayer)...
The exception is quicktime, which uses npqtplugin7.dll (and other plugins with differences in the number).
Did I mention that all these are filenames from the about:plugins box on Firefox 2.0.0.3?
In the US, EULA's were given legal weight by Congress a number of years ago, there is a big chunk of Case Law that backs up that congressional action. Second, without EULA applicability the GPL isn't worth a dime as it IS an EULA.
Not really, as the GPL doesn't have any provisions for usage of the product, only provisions on the distribution of copies.
Which is a right you do not have without a license due to copyright laws.
Mmm, I think you have Win2K SP4 (which you had as a duplicate of SP3) placed far later than its actual release. It came out in late 2003, which places it between Win2k3 and WinXP SP2.
Also, Windows Server 2003 was a server release only. Unless you're willing to imply that your standard home user is going to shell out the ~$500 for Windows 2003 Server (and that's the cheapest version on Amazon), it's irrelevant to this discussion.
So, that leaves the final list as (2000) Win2k, (2000) Win2k SP1, (2001) WinXP, (2001) Win2k SP2, (2002) WinXP sp1, (2002) Win2k SP3, (2003) Win2k SP4, (2004) WinXP SP2, (2007) WinVista
I'm sure I don't need to point out the multi-year gap between WinXP SP2 and WinVista.
Microsoft will continue getting a free pass as long as OSX won't run on machines sold by Dell, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, etc...
Unless another OS manages to displace it in that market, that is.
2006: The year of desktop Linux? 2007: The year of desktop Linux? 2008: The year of desktop Linux? 2009: The year of desktop Linux? 2010: The year of desktop Linux?
Actually, I can think of two new features it's gotten since Windows for Workgroups: 1. The ability to open files larger than 64KB... I'm not kidding, try it. 2. The ability to save and display files in UTF-8 and UCS-2/UTF-16.
A bug in the API that the latter uses is actually part of the problem the grandparent mentioned.
Of course, no one should use Notepad for doing anything useful... As a program, it does even less than its predecessor, MS-DOS's Edit.
I was actually drawing the line between Java Applets and web applications. To be honest, it doesn't matter what's on the other end of the XMLHttpRequest, because it's still receiving (X)HTML back.
Before I start nitpicking, I'm going to point out that I said "Why not just leave the web to things that require the Internet and keep applications on the PC?" in a previous comment.
while AJAX programmers are still struggling to get buttons working
I sincerely hope you mean they're having trouble getting the code behind the button to work, because I'd be extremely worried about the state of web developers today if they can't write <input type="button" value="Text on the button face" onclick="functionCallHere()"> or a form consisting of only a submit button (if you're making it compatible with browsers that have no scripting or have scripting disabled).
Performance. I've coded in DirectX, and I've coded in Java. I'll take DirectX any day.
The term web application is not often applied to Java any more. The term "web app" these days often refers to AJAX (formerly known as DHTML) apps and, less often, Flash apps.
However, you're right, on the whole desktop apps have better performance than web apps.
Flow layout is stupid. No, seriously. What I mean is: flow layout is fine for reading - desktop publishing, embedded images, all that junk. But it's stupid for a window-based GUI. As a UI designer, I'll take the absolute positioning and "anchoring" models over browser-based flow layouts any day.
...so use absolute positioning instead. You act like it doesn't exist, which, given that you've been using the ASP.NET web designer, doesn't surprise me. While fixed position in CSS is known to not be supported by Internet Explorer 6 and older, absolute position is.
Which brings up another point not yet mentioned: The sad state of affairs with web application GUIs is almost entirely Microsoft's fault. IE6 and its rather poor support for CSS2 and DOM, which weren't addressed for 6 years, let alone fixed, coupled with its widespread use has made it the lowest common denominator.
Before someone else points this out, point 1 should read "When the connection goes down, or even lags, it can have an impact on the document you're working on."
When the connection goes down, or even lags, it can have an impact on the speed you're working on.
Implementations for CSS vary wildly.
We aren't using dumb terminals. Web Apps, almost by definition, use an interpreted language embedded into the web browser. Compiled applications (or even ones that use bytecode) will perform faster than this and without the latency that the web introduces when you change pages.
Why not just leave the web to things that require the Internet and keep applications on the PC?
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As much as I hate IE, it still bugs me how I stumble into Firefox rendering bugs (or in the case of map not accepting id tags under text/html, "features"), usually with something that works just fine in IE6.
Excerpts from Myspace's TOS:
"MySpace.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the MySpace Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability."
"The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the MySpace Website and through your use of the MySpace Services. MySpace.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in MySpace.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:
6.attempting to impersonate another Member or person;
11. displaying an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or through the MySpace Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting a profile with a commercial purpose as one of your "Top 8" friends, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose;"
While copyright law does indeed protect derivitive works as well as original works, if the derivitive work itself is illegal than you have no stand upon which to claim copyright over it.
In other words, the original person could sue you, but Goldman suing you would be illegal, as it is not afforded copyright protection due to it itself being an illegal copy.
Alcohol is also toxic to humans. Granted, you'd have to injest a lot of grain alcohol to kill you, but it can happen.
It's much quicker with other types of alcohol.
With City of Heroes/Villains, outfit customization is basically all you have. Since there is no equipment, your starting look is the look that you're stuck with until you buy another outfit at level... I forget which level that becomes available. 20, I think.
SWG, at least when I last played it, suffered massive lag due to its customization system. You got near a city (and its NPCs) and it took forever to render your view, sometimes disconnecting you in the process. Maybe that's gotten better in the years since I last played, but I doubt it.
EQ2 suffered the same problem as SWG but on a lesser scale.
While I think measuring typing speed as well as the password itself might work, comparing it to morse code speed is ludicrous.
Richards has apparently forgotten that morse code uses 1-key as opposed to passwords which use 47 character keys with the ability for a person to hold down the shift key to enter in an alternate version of any of those.
Which means that, when a person starts using a new password, they type it fairly slowly. However, as they get used to typing it, they gradually get faster at it.
What do you do when your own system locks you out because you've gotten better at typing your own password?
We call that the noscript tag.
A solution that doesn't work on OSX, Linux, or FreeBSD... without using WINE that is. In that case, they should be using WINE to emulate IE directly.
What does Nintendo of America have to do with this?
Most Netscape plugins seem to have fairly short names. For example: npnul32.dll (The Default plugin), npswf32.dll (Flash), nppl3260.dll (RealPlayer)...
The exception is quicktime, which uses npqtplugin7.dll (and other plugins with differences in the number).
Did I mention that all these are filenames from the about:plugins box on Firefox 2.0.0.3?
Well, we could be stuck with how it is with .NET... needing a separate runtime for each and every major version.
I personally would hate to have 7 different JREs, trying to figure out which one I need for which programs.
You can play as Goblins now?!
:(
*renews his account*
Wait, you tricked me!
Not really, as the GPL doesn't have any provisions for usage of the product, only provisions on the distribution of copies.
Which is a right you do not have without a license due to copyright laws.
Mmm, I think you have Win2K SP4 (which you had as a duplicate of SP3) placed far later than its actual release. It came out in late 2003, which places it between Win2k3 and WinXP SP2.
Also, Windows Server 2003 was a server release only. Unless you're willing to imply that your standard home user is going to shell out the ~$500 for Windows 2003 Server (and that's the cheapest version on Amazon), it's irrelevant to this discussion.
So, that leaves the final list as
(2000) Win2k, (2000) Win2k SP1, (2001) WinXP, (2001) Win2k SP2, (2002) WinXP sp1, (2002) Win2k SP3, (2003) Win2k SP4, (2004) WinXP SP2, (2007) WinVista
I'm sure I don't need to point out the multi-year gap between WinXP SP2 and WinVista.
Microsoft will continue getting a free pass as long as OSX won't run on machines sold by Dell, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, etc...
Unless another OS manages to displace it in that market, that is.
2006: The year of desktop Linux?
2007: The year of desktop Linux?
2008: The year of desktop Linux?
2009: The year of desktop Linux?
2010: The year of desktop Linux?
As I understand it, they did that because it looked like Windows 3.1.
Well, that and Sales people could say "You can move from Windows 3.1 to Windows New Technology 3.1 which crashes less and doesn't require DOS!"
I admit... I've done both.
However, I'm more or less replying to this so that people who have text from anonymous cowards hidden can actually see it.
Actually, I can think of two new features it's gotten since Windows for Workgroups:
1. The ability to open files larger than 64KB... I'm not kidding, try it.
2. The ability to save and display files in UTF-8 and UCS-2/UTF-16.
A bug in the API that the latter uses is actually part of the problem the grandparent mentioned.
Of course, no one should use Notepad for doing anything useful... As a program, it does even less than its predecessor, MS-DOS's Edit.
You are a pirate!
They don't?
(Note: I haven't tried Amaya, so I don't know how well it works.
I was actually drawing the line between Java Applets and web applications. To be honest, it doesn't matter what's on the other end of the XMLHttpRequest, because it's still receiving (X)HTML back.
I sincerely hope you mean they're having trouble getting the code behind the button to work, because I'd be extremely worried about the state of web developers today if they can't write <input type="button" value="Text on the button face" onclick="functionCallHere()">
or a form consisting of only a submit button (if you're making it compatible with browsers that have no scripting or have scripting disabled).
The term web application is not often applied to Java any more. The term "web app" these days often refers to AJAX (formerly known as DHTML) apps and, less often, Flash apps.
However, you're right, on the whole desktop apps have better performance than web apps.
Which brings up another point not yet mentioned: The sad state of affairs with web application GUIs is almost entirely Microsoft's fault. IE6 and its rather poor support for CSS2 and DOM, which weren't addressed for 6 years, let alone fixed, coupled with its widespread use has made it the lowest common denominator.
Before someone else points this out, point 1 should read "When the connection goes down, or even lags, it can have an impact on the document you're working on."
Web apps are great, except...:
Why not just leave the web to things that require the Internet and keep applications on the PC?
I hate to nitpick, but is there any actual evidence that Etch will replace Sarge as stable today, or is this just unsubstantiated rumor?