I hate these sites that tell my browser that the (moving) picture is actually text/html mime type. I noted this ones on Tom's hardware as well. They fixed it within hours of reading the mail though:)
IE does not use the MIME indication within HTTP, which is actually a non-compliance to the standard. One of the many.
I've had a similar experience, fortunately not within my own company. In the Netherlands the railroad company is called the NS. They had a new site created by a website bureau as well. It didn't load in Mozilla and people were sending angry messages over it - public transport is not just ment for Windows users. Some messages went to the design buruau of course (which was noted in the copyright notice at the bottom).
Basically, they had it designed to be standard compliant, but the NS themselves messed it up after receiving their hard work. Figures, since they are truly the masters of misinformation anyway. The website is now running fine, but the page about current issues is only usefull for maintainance reported at least a week in advance.
Mod parent up. The problem lies in that this is something that benefits them, not the public. You will not have a choice. And personally, I do not believe in the mayority to uphold my privacy. And it limits choice. Sure, there are others that provide the same kind of entertainment. But they may not provide what I am looking for in other fields, such as cartoons but also geographic location etc. etc.
This is such a wrong way of looking at things... What will happen is that they can do whatever pleases them - and not the general public. What happens if every theme park would implement biometric access? It's in their interest, so if one has it...
Should I be banned from themeparks? What about grocery stores? Privately owned markets? This is the same kind of argument most liberals use for employers. They can do whatever they please - if you don't like it, look for another job.
Society is there for the people that live in it. Putting any company interests in front of those of the people is plain stupid. I've got nothing against a free market place, but in every playground there should be rules.
One should be against collecting (uniquely) identifing biometrics.
Nope, the Java programmer will not make significantly more money. Reason: the one that exploits his Java programs will make the money. You know: GET THE LATEST RINGTONES, SCREENSAVERS AND GAMES FROM... NOW! commercials.
Nope, actually, they found out that it almost never landed butter side down. From a normal table hight, the bread seemed to land about 50% butter side down. From a great hight, the dent in the slice of bread caused by buttering the toast made the balance tilt towards landing on the UNbuttered side.
So OK and cancel are not verbs? To cancel something and even to ok something are pretty much used sentences in my opinion. I have just cancelled my flight...see, it's a verb!
Maybe so, but I think the argument of the Sun COO might have some merit. I think most of us (including his listeners) are smart enough to get the gist of the message.
And even though I like and use Free Software, I think it is beyond the power of the FSF to coin terms, let alone control their use. Free can mean both things, and you need the context to decide the meaning of the word.
Does anyone know which fishing rod was used to catch that fish? Shame they did not hold it up for the standard fisherman-holding-really-big-fish picture.
Even though IBM is betting on Linux as well (mainly for servers currently, but that might change) they still have a lot of Windows and Office installations, even in house. What is to say that they will use 75M on *new* licenses? Why would they not use this amount to pay of old license fees or upgrade to new ones?
I would call loosing a total of 850M to IBM to put in to their warchest not a victory - actually it is a pretty big loss. Actually, in the areas where they compete, IBM has now 850M more as well as they have 850M less.
For Microsoft it's still a win situation if you look at it in the right timescale. For now they loose money.
I'm not a pneapple farmer, I don't know any pineapple farmers, nor have I ever met a pineapple farmer. Most people in the continental US (and the non-tropical world) haven't either.
Trust me, Pineapple farmers exist. You can be pretty sure that that's where your average pine-apple in the grocery store comes from.
Yeah, now the trick is to learn the users two PIN's. One of which he will never use, but suddenly remember when he is attacked. And the first time he enters a PIN it will be a) the correct one or b) the wrong one. Maybe this is interesting for very secure operations, but most of the time this is a pretty sure way to make a mockery of the system. So I do not think that these duress codes are such a good idea anyway. Maybe that's why they are rarely discussed.
To understand why the Eclipse platform is used by so many people take a look at this (non-commercial) site, and browse through the numerous Eclipse plugins.
There are plugins for almost everything. This will take the heat off the download servers as well. It takes at least a few hours just to notice the most important plugins:)
I agree that there is a need for SWT. Just now Swing anounced that they now support the look and feel for Longhorn. Which means that the application will look just like native apps under longhorn. Well, almost. The problem with the Swing approach is that you need to emulate a GUI. This will always be a pain, it it will always work *almost* just like a native application.
SWT makes the more sane approach by using native widgets; that is, for standardized widgets like menu's. It still uses emulation for things like tab's and the like. Furthermore it comes at the expense of leaving the destructions of the widgets to the programmer.
For Eclipse you can use the Eclipse Visual Editor (VE) for simple projects. I strongly advise the Instantiations plugin (simple & commercial version) for more adhanced GUI development. Both can handle both Swing and SWT applications, by the way.
I am a long time UltraEdit user myself. But almost none of my Java code goes into UltraEdit anymore. The Eclipse IDE is much, much more productive and it's code insight / refactoring support makes the difference. The debugger is pretty good as well.
I do still use UltraEdit obviously. For example for testing the new Java 5.0 versions before eclipse supported it in their 3.1 alpha and beta versions. And it is much better for viewing log files, opening lots of text files, its hex editor is more advanced, it's support for.. well you get the gist.
But for Java projects, you need an IDE to be productive. I think Eclipse is pretty good and pretty intuitive, but there are several other good (and sometimes free) solutions.
If you use either Eclipse or UltraEdit, please become an active member of the community. Both Ian Mead of UltraEdit and the Eclipse team react pretty adequately to bug reports and feature requests as I found out.
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I hate these sites that tell my browser that the (moving) picture is actually text/html mime type. I noted this ones on Tom's hardware as well. They fixed it within hours of reading the mail though
IE does not use the MIME indication within HTTP, which is actually a non-compliance to the standard. One of the many.
I've had a similar experience, fortunately not within my own company. In the Netherlands the railroad company is called the NS. They had a new site created by a website bureau as well. It didn't load in Mozilla and people were sending angry messages over it - public transport is not just ment for Windows users. Some messages went to the design buruau of course (which was noted in the copyright notice at the bottom).
Basically, they had it designed to be standard compliant, but the NS themselves messed it up after receiving their hard work. Figures, since they are truly the masters of misinformation anyway. The website is now running fine, but the page about current issues is only usefull for maintainance reported at least a week in advance.
UU
They should place a voluntary fingerprint reader at the ghost house. I heard that biometric data can be used to reduce terror.
Mod parent up. The problem lies in that this is something that benefits them, not the public. You will not have a choice. And personally, I do not believe in the mayority to uphold my privacy.
And it limits choice. Sure, there are others that provide the same kind of entertainment. But they may not provide what I am looking for in other fields, such as cartoons but also geographic location etc. etc.
Sounds like "forcing" to me, even if it is done in a very, very, bad way.
This is such a wrong way of looking at things... What will happen is that they can do whatever pleases them - and not the general public. What happens if every theme park would implement biometric access? It's in their interest, so if one has it...
Should I be banned from themeparks? What about grocery stores? Privately owned markets? This is the same kind of argument most liberals use for employers. They can do whatever they please - if you don't like it, look for another job.
Society is there for the people that live in it. Putting any company interests in front of those of the people is plain stupid. I've got nothing against a free market place, but in every playground there should be rules.
One should be against collecting (uniquely) identifing biometrics.
Nope, the Java programmer will not make significantly more money. Reason: the one that exploits his Java programs will make the money. You know: GET THE LATEST RINGTONES, SCREENSAVERS AND GAMES FROM ... NOW! commercials.
Nope, actually, they found out that it almost never landed butter side down. From a normal table hight, the bread seemed to land about 50% butter side down. From a great hight, the dent in the slice of bread caused by buttering the toast made the balance tilt towards landing on the UNbuttered side.
In other words, the myth was busted.
Pff, you're standing on it.
I can recite any random number of over 100,000 digits easily.
So OK and cancel are not verbs? To cancel something and even to ok something are pretty much used sentences in my opinion. I have just cancelled my flight...see, it's a verb!
If she had done this deliberately your argument would hold. It does not now.
Maybe so, but I think the argument of the Sun COO might have some merit. I think most of us (including his listeners) are smart enough to get the gist of the message.
And even though I like and use Free Software, I think it is beyond the power of the FSF to coin terms, let alone control their use. Free can mean both things, and you need the context to decide the meaning of the word.
I think it should be called Stallman Software and then we wouldn't keep having this silly strife about words.
Maybe that's what we need, but I don't think it is what Stallman needs. He's cocky enough as it is, thank you.
Does anyone know which fishing rod was used to catch that fish? Shame they did not hold it up for the standard fisherman-holding-really-big-fish picture.
Even though IBM is betting on Linux as well (mainly for servers currently, but that might change) they still have a lot of Windows and Office installations, even in house. What is to say that they will use 75M on *new* licenses? Why would they not use this amount to pay of old license fees or upgrade to new ones?
I would call loosing a total of 850M to IBM to put in to their warchest not a victory - actually it is a pretty big loss. Actually, in the areas where they compete, IBM has now 850M more as well as they have 850M less.
For Microsoft it's still a win situation if you look at it in the right timescale. For now they loose money.
Ehm, why wouldn't OpenOffice (or StarOffice if you wan't to pay for it + advanced spell checker) count as a competitor to Microsoft Office?
You can also breath on a (fake) finger to get higher or lower conductivity, actually.
I'm not a pneapple farmer, I don't know any pineapple farmers, nor have I ever met a pineapple farmer. Most people in the continental US (and the non-tropical world) haven't either.
Trust me, Pineapple farmers exist. You can be pretty sure that that's where your average pine-apple in the grocery store comes from.
Yes it can: "many doors will open for you today" :)
Yeah, now the trick is to learn the users two PIN's. One of which he will never use, but suddenly remember when he is attacked. And the first time he enters a PIN it will be a) the correct one or b) the wrong one. Maybe this is interesting for very secure operations, but most of the time this is a pretty sure way to make a mockery of the system. So I do not think that these duress codes are such a good idea anyway. Maybe that's why they are rarely discussed.
There are plugins for almost everything. This will take the heat off the download servers as well. It takes at least a few hours just to notice the most important plugins :)
I agree that there is a need for SWT. Just now Swing anounced that they now support the look and feel for Longhorn. Which means that the application will look just like native apps under longhorn. Well, almost. The problem with the Swing approach is that you need to emulate a GUI. This will always be a pain, it it will always work *almost* just like a native application.
SWT makes the more sane approach by using native widgets; that is, for standardized widgets like menu's. It still uses emulation for things like tab's and the like. Furthermore it comes at the expense of leaving the destructions of the widgets to the programmer.
For Eclipse you can use the Eclipse Visual Editor (VE) for simple projects. I strongly advise the Instantiations plugin (simple & commercial version) for more adhanced GUI development. Both can handle both Swing and SWT applications, by the way.
I am a long time UltraEdit user myself. But almost none of my Java code goes into UltraEdit anymore. The Eclipse IDE is much, much more productive and it's code insight / refactoring support makes the difference. The debugger is pretty good as well.
I do still use UltraEdit obviously. For example for testing the new Java 5.0 versions before eclipse supported it in their 3.1 alpha and beta versions. And it is much better for viewing log files, opening lots of text files, its hex editor is more advanced, it's support for.. well you get the gist.
But for Java projects, you need an IDE to be productive. I think Eclipse is pretty good and pretty intuitive, but there are several other good (and sometimes free) solutions.
If you use either Eclipse or UltraEdit, please become an active member of the community. Both Ian Mead of UltraEdit and the Eclipse team react pretty adequately to bug reports and feature requests as I found out.