I disagree, why should the coder HAVE to do work arounds/fixes just to get his site to work with non standards compliant browsers?
Because that's their job. If I paid someone a significant amount of money to create my presence on the internet, and I found out that my presence was coming in a garbled or incomplete form to 12% of my audience (or 85%, if we're talking about noncompliance with IE) then I would know the designer did not do his/her job. Simple as that.
That said, however, it will be nice once the web browser that (mostly) conforms to the standards everyone agreed to becomes the prominent browser, and people dump (or augment) the Microsoft-created standards.
No shit. The last thing you want to do is give these wackos an actual reason to think that they actually are being persecuted by Jews/minorities/socialists/whoever they pick today. Let them scream out in the open so everyone can laugh at their stupidity. If we force them underground, we won't be able to watch them, and that's the real danger.
Well, of course. There should be a balance of coverage on the site, and an array of OSes should be covered. Luckily, they are. Also, Vista is going to be a huge deal even if it ends up being a point upgrade because it's going to become the next big OS from Microsoft, and I'd bet that even on Slashdot, a majority of the people use Windows. Furthermore, this Vista article is a big deal because it showed graphical upgrades and the new WMP (eyecandy and media playing are two of the big selling points of Vista).
While I agree that we don't need breaking coverage of Ballmer's BM, that sort of coverage tends to be given more to Google, who I think happens to be creepier than Microsoft.
Yeah. No way in hell is this tech news. And nobody wants to know what's going on with an OS that has over 90% of the market.
Look at how many comments Windows stories get. It turns out that people have different interests than yours. Weird.
Don't be a dick. They're not stupid. vi + latex is harder than Word. Probably twice as hard. That is an objective statement. Even the geekiest of the geeks can appreciate that Word "just works". (Yes, I realize it's an Apple slogan.) Are Word's results not quite as good? That can be debated. But if I'm writing a paper, I want to be able to just write the paper and go. The connection between my brain and the paper should be seamless - I don't want to do, and I sure as hell shouldn't have to do, "computer stuff". It would be stupid to pick the harder of the two options for no benefit whatsoever. For the record, I use Abiword.
"Some of the new ways of playing can be fantastically fun -- think, running down the field in a new EA game, juking left and right, flipping the remote up to do a quick jump. At least some big developers are keeping their options open."
I wonder if, for this reason, they'll need to make games harder. It (hopefully) will be so intuitive that the separation between the user and the game will be gone, meaning that the controller won't trip people up anymore. And that seems to be where half the challenge actually is.
It appears we're from two different countries. From what I hear, the rules against libel and slander in the UK (or in most other English-speaking countries) are a bit broader than in the US. I think my (very short) description of the law was accurate, but only for my country. (I'm an American.)
Insightful? Microsoft isn't using it as an excuse. MSH wasn't ready for release by the time Vista will be. One has nothing to do with the other. Monad's insecurity was to be expected since it's still in alpha or maybe early beta. Therefore, it's not being released.
As an aside, am I the only person who likes what he sees so far as MSH goes?
Well, yeah. Actually. Even though it's a crappy standard, and it's not what a lot of people wanted, 90% of the market (isn't it less by now?) uses it. Look up the definition of "standard".
I hate "me too" posts, but I'm afraid I have to make one here. Microsoft isn't 100% evil, just like [blank] isn't 100% good. They're realizing that a number of people are getting screwed via pirated software, and they realize that they themselves are also getting screwed by said piracy. They're attempting to rectify the situation in a relatively unobstrusive manner. What's the problem? There's no snitching on friends, since your "friend" screwed you on stolen merchandise, in essence tricking you into criminal activity. I don't see the harm.
What the hell does any of that have to do with the law? Yes, in some strange way you own some small part of your city's traffic infrastructure, but you don't own enough of it to have control over it or have power of attorney over it. In fact, in order to reap the standard benefits of ownership, you must act in concert with the "we". There might as well not be any "I".
Keep in mind, though, that the prison sentences of Ebbers and the prison sentence of the guy who knocks over a BP are going to be about the same, even though Ebbers stole millions while the gas station thief would have got about $200.
Maybe it is. (Don't hurt me.) I don't buy into their crap, but it's not much more convenient to use iTunes as it is to use Soulseek, especially since Soulseek introduces me to new bands much more effectively and it's relatively easy to find songs. (Plus, there's a wish list for those hard-to-find grindcore bands from 1989.) I can't see what else would cause the average user to go from free services to pay services if not for fear.
If you use Firefox, etc "out of the box", then you're vulnerable to this exploit. If you use IE "out of the box", then you're not. Note that I am a Firefox user; however, in this circumstance Firefox is less secure than Internet Explorer. It doesn't matter whose fault it is. Don't complicate the situation. This is a major exploit that can bring down Firefox users.
There have been previous posts pointing to the fact that this exploit was known long ago. Mozilla (and the others) should have taken this into consideration before including a feature that very few people would need. It's a classic cost vs. benefit analysis that wasn't done - while very few average computer users need this feature (at least English-speaking ones, which most computer users are), ALL computer users, including expert users, can fall prey to this exploit.
Another complaint: Firefox's fix doesn't work. This is a big deal.
The question is invalid. What people write in their blogs doesn't have much to do with his moral integrity. (He's about 50 and he's catching up with Carnegie in amount of money given to charity, by the way.) Besides all that, we all know that people get hot and bothered about Bill Gates, but nobody cares about Torvalds or Jobs. The reason for that is they're not very well-known. I'd bet that you'd have problems finding many matches for "The participants of the genocide in Sudan are the devil!" but that doesn't make them better than Bill Gates.
I completely agree! That's why programs like that would only work within cities, as I said in my original post. I've been through plenty of areas in the country where visibility was twenty miles in any direction and I didn't even see another building. (I remember driving home from San Diego and there was a 105-mile gap in between exits that even had gas stations. My car broke down inside that gap.) That's why I always get a little bothered by the international perception that we're addicted to our cars. A lot of us really do need them if we ever want to leave our town.
Within mid-size and large cities, though, a LOT more could, and should, be done to encourage mass transit. The first step would be a major improvement in such services.
A few days ago, I gave my PC to my friend in exchange for speakers for my DVD/mp3 player. I found it so easy to do everything virtually that I ended up never doing anything actually. My GPA sucks now (in comparison) because I'd end up staying on the computer about five hours longer than I meant to and I'd forget to study. I think the internet cuts socializing time because it's even LESS work than sitting on a couch staring with your friends.
That's probably the point. From a social standpoint, would you want 150 million people on an island that tiny trying to make room for their cars? They're discouraging car use and I wish cities in America would do the same.
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Because that's their job. If I paid someone a significant amount of money to create my presence on the internet, and I found out that my presence was coming in a garbled or incomplete form to 12% of my audience (or 85%, if we're talking about noncompliance with IE) then I would know the designer did not do his/her job. Simple as that.
That said, however, it will be nice once the web browser that (mostly) conforms to the standards everyone agreed to becomes the prominent browser, and people dump (or augment) the Microsoft-created standards.
No shit. The last thing you want to do is give these wackos an actual reason to think that they actually are being persecuted by Jews/minorities/socialists/whoever they pick today. Let them scream out in the open so everyone can laugh at their stupidity. If we force them underground, we won't be able to watch them, and that's the real danger.
While I agree that we don't need breaking coverage of Ballmer's BM, that sort of coverage tends to be given more to Google, who I think happens to be creepier than Microsoft.
Why doesn't Slashdot ever do stuff like this?
Yeah. No way in hell is this tech news. And nobody wants to know what's going on with an OS that has over 90% of the market. Look at how many comments Windows stories get. It turns out that people have different interests than yours. Weird.
Don't be a dick. They're not stupid. vi + latex is harder than Word. Probably twice as hard. That is an objective statement. Even the geekiest of the geeks can appreciate that Word "just works". (Yes, I realize it's an Apple slogan.) Are Word's results not quite as good? That can be debated. But if I'm writing a paper, I want to be able to just write the paper and go. The connection between my brain and the paper should be seamless - I don't want to do, and I sure as hell shouldn't have to do, "computer stuff". It would be stupid to pick the harder of the two options for no benefit whatsoever.
For the record, I use Abiword.
I wonder if, for this reason, they'll need to make games harder. It (hopefully) will be so intuitive that the separation between the user and the game will be gone, meaning that the controller won't trip people up anymore. And that seems to be where half the challenge actually is.
It appears we're from two different countries. From what I hear, the rules against libel and slander in the UK (or in most other English-speaking countries) are a bit broader than in the US. I think my (very short) description of the law was accurate, but only for my country. (I'm an American.)
Nah. As long as you believe it to be true, it's not slander.
As an aside, am I the only person who likes what he sees so far as MSH goes?
Well, yeah. Actually. Even though it's a crappy standard, and it's not what a lot of people wanted, 90% of the market (isn't it less by now?) uses it. Look up the definition of "standard".
Ditto the RCA Lyra, although those don't carry many songs. It's an option, though.
I hate "me too" posts, but I'm afraid I have to make one here. Microsoft isn't 100% evil, just like [blank] isn't 100% good. They're realizing that a number of people are getting screwed via pirated software, and they realize that they themselves are also getting screwed by said piracy. They're attempting to rectify the situation in a relatively unobstrusive manner. What's the problem? There's no snitching on friends, since your "friend" screwed you on stolen merchandise, in essence tricking you into criminal activity. I don't see the harm.
What the hell does any of that have to do with the law? Yes, in some strange way you own some small part of your city's traffic infrastructure, but you don't own enough of it to have control over it or have power of attorney over it. In fact, in order to reap the standard benefits of ownership, you must act in concert with the "we". There might as well not be any "I".
Keep in mind, though, that the prison sentences of Ebbers and the prison sentence of the guy who knocks over a BP are going to be about the same, even though Ebbers stole millions while the gas station thief would have got about $200.
Reading at home is a leisurely activity.
Maybe it is. (Don't hurt me.) I don't buy into their crap, but it's not much more convenient to use iTunes as it is to use Soulseek, especially since Soulseek introduces me to new bands much more effectively and it's relatively easy to find songs. (Plus, there's a wish list for those hard-to-find grindcore bands from 1989.) I can't see what else would cause the average user to go from free services to pay services if not for fear.
Exactly.
It must be evil.google.com acting up again.
There have been previous posts pointing to the fact that this exploit was known long ago. Mozilla (and the others) should have taken this into consideration before including a feature that very few people would need. It's a classic cost vs. benefit analysis that wasn't done - while very few average computer users need this feature (at least English-speaking ones, which most computer users are), ALL computer users, including expert users, can fall prey to this exploit.
Another complaint: Firefox's fix doesn't work. This is a big deal.
The question is invalid. What people write in their blogs doesn't have much to do with his moral integrity. (He's about 50 and he's catching up with Carnegie in amount of money given to charity, by the way.) Besides all that, we all know that people get hot and bothered about Bill Gates, but nobody cares about Torvalds or Jobs. The reason for that is they're not very well-known. I'd bet that you'd have problems finding many matches for "The participants of the genocide in Sudan are the devil!" but that doesn't make them better than Bill Gates.
Within mid-size and large cities, though, a LOT more could, and should, be done to encourage mass transit. The first step would be a major improvement in such services.
A few days ago, I gave my PC to my friend in exchange for speakers for my DVD/mp3 player. I found it so easy to do everything virtually that I ended up never doing anything actually. My GPA sucks now (in comparison) because I'd end up staying on the computer about five hours longer than I meant to and I'd forget to study. I think the internet cuts socializing time because it's even LESS work than sitting on a couch staring with your friends.
I didn't say their plan was working :)
That's probably the point. From a social standpoint, would you want 150 million people on an island that tiny trying to make room for their cars? They're discouraging car use and I wish cities in America would do the same.