You are probably right but still it doesn't sound good. I've always thought that versatility is acknoledged to be a good thing. Now everyone is tied up to a single video codec. What happens to the development? Is it held back like at the time when it was said that IE was holding back the WWW (because of the lack of competition)? Or do we open up the spec when there's a better codec around? As a programmer, this is what I detest, changing the spec;)
Img-tag doesn't specify which image formats you must or must not use so I really don't understand why video-tag should be any different. Video-tag could just instruct the browser that "put the video in here and fetch stream from here or if user has no ability to play the video display whatever is inside the alt-attribute".
So when browser sees video-tag it renders it by using which ever video plugin or built-in mechanism is in use, be it Flash, Silverlight, Windows Media Player or whatever. Then it is up to browser vendors to offer mechanism to download, install and/or configure video player and/or codec to the browser. No need to force the whole world behind a single format.
Just my uneducated opinion. I don't know much about video codecs.
This internet voting would be absolutely fabulous! I could make sure that my wife votes correctly and not some socialist hippie party. I think we need this in Finland too!
Well, my personal and professional opinion is that there is a point where adding more resources doesn't make a difference and starts to even decrease the quality. Like in healthcare where adding more and more money to the picture starts only to build more byrocrazy and not to cure people. This is because when you all the sudden add 10 programmers to the picture you need more management for them and you need to train them. After these startup hiccups there can be at most so many people working on a single piece of code or module. It could lead to code management nightmare otherwise. So there is now 8 people doing nothing and getting bored which is not good for a programmer.
Of course I don't know if MS is at that point. It could be that hiring more talented people would do some good. Quality over substance I guess.
And besides I find the security of my Vista box quite good! My wife and I use the same Vista laptop so I made normal user account for my wife (and other for me) and didn't (and wont) tell her the administrator password. No she can't screw it up like she was able to do with XP (alltought XP, as any other NT based Windows, supports normal user accounts but it is not really practical in that manner because the lack of UAC). At work I find IIS and ASP.NET to do extremely well in case of security. All I need to do is to make sure that it is not I who makes bad decisions like it is extremely easy to do in PHP: include($_GET['something']);
It would seem to imply the security team is overwhelmed, either by the number of misreported bugs or genuine vulnerabilities.
Could be, could be not, but things aren't so easy that when you get the bug report you just go and fix the thing.
At my work I get bug reports like, and this is actual case that's been hanging around almost half a year now: "There's some problem with logging on from remote site" (my translation from Finnish).
The weird thing is that the application does not support any "remote site logon" funtionality. It took me three months to find out what the heck this means. First I thought that they were using VPN or RDP or something like that. No, they were using some half-assed VPN-over-browser thingy. Next thing was that they were not really talking about logging on to the system but totally something else but related to security and user thought that logon = security and vice versa so he wrote that it is related to logon procedure.
Now why didn't I see this problem beforehand? Because a) it was not in the requirement spec and b) their half-assed VPN system is plain broken. I can't even fix this issue because the problem is not in the application I wrote!
Let's compare this bug report to another one: "Popup window gets stuck behind main window". Now this was an easy one. I asked which popup window it is causing the trouble and fixed the thing by commanding the popup window to foreground with single line of code.
So it is 1000 times easier to fix an UI bug than some weird security bug which occurs in some weird circumstance.
Oh, and I'm not working for MS. And yes, security bugs should be fixed the minute one is found and not to wait bug report from user. It's not just that simple sometimes.
But in the end it doesn't matter who's fault it is. Project is not going forward and everybody gets unhappy and demotivated. So instead of blaming somebody I would try see how to fix the situation. If I could raise somebody's motivation to get the project done with reasonable amount of resources (I'm not talking about salary, it is proved that it is not a good motivator) or whatever then why wouldn't I? It would be a win-win situation for everyone.
This is what I detest in work. The juxtaposition between employee and employer or boss. It doesn't bring any good and could be fixed easily. But the change should come from management. As a employee, I don't feel like I'm in the position to start change things at the work all the sudden.
Btw. I've heard that manager should run the team "from the front". If that is true then it most certainly is manager's job to motivate his/her people! We, coders, aren't machines who can write lines and lines of code from day to day with the same speed and fervor, you know:)
And another just came to mind. The best boss I've ever had never really tried to be a boss. He just gave me tasks like "here is A, B and C that needs to be done, I'm counting on you." Then he got out of my way but he always was there to answer any technical questions I came up with. I felt really good to work for him because he trusted me allthought I didn't really like the company. I implemented A, B and C as good as I could just because this boss said he counted on me. Motivation can come from little things from time to time:)
For example, SQL Server Management Studio shouldn't open windows off-screen anymore
Hooray and thank you! I was so annoyed by windowses opening outside the screen so that I wrote a little program that enumerated them and moved them in to the view if necessary. Somehow it didn't occur me that this was actually a usability bug in the application:)
Nuclear waste is sealed inside a copper capsule. In 90 years radiation has lowered to a level where it is safe to hang around such a capsule without any protective gears. There is a slight change that capsule starts to leak but that is why it is lowered deep into the bedrock. Now there's some crazy theories that ice-age could cause the bedrock to break but that would mean at least 2 km of ice above the ground and I think that there's not a single Finn living in Finland at the time. And besides at the time when next ice-age comes, radiation is so low that the waste is harmful only if eaten.
Another thing came to mind just before I hit submit... There's some worries that capsule could leak into the ground water. Well first of all uranium does not dissolve in the water. Secondly there is already uranium in our soil so much that if this would be actual problem, we'd all be dead by now.
Clearly this topic is overly exaggerated.
If wind power brings positive cash flow then why there is not a single wind plant built without subsidies? And I'm talking about Finland again, don't know about other countries.
No. In Finland nuclear power companies pays hefty money to a fund that handles those things. And your other statement is plain wrong at least in here. I don't know about other coutries though.
And as I wrote, we have that "extremely hazardous material" in our soil already. It would do a great favor to extract it and use it in nuclear plants. Nuclear waste can be stucked deep into our bedrock or used up in breeder reactor (if one is built).
I wouldn't penalize nuclear power but I would stop giving them massive subsidies. Nuclear Power is "Hooked on Subsidies".
If I'm not totally in wrong here, in Finland nuclear power isn't subsidied at all. Nuclear get some investment guarantees from government but I haven't heard that money has ever changed hands.
Wind power on the other hand screaming for subsidies. Local power companies don't even build wind generators unless government guarantees them. And what's worse they are demanding guarantees that they can sell wind power totally overpriced. I'm not sure how this goes but I think that if power company sells wind power with 10 amount of money, buyer pays 4 amout of money and government (us, the taxpayers) pays 6 amount of money. And of course we pay the actual power bill also so we end up paying 6+X amount of money.
Hard to explain this in English when I don't even totally understand it in Finnish but I hope you get the point...
So what I would like... Cheap, proven, clean, unsubsidied, nuclear energy thank you. We could even open up one or two uranium mines here in Finland. There's some uranium in the ground (which is actually poisoning our wells and room air in eastern part of Finland).
It really depends who your customers are. I was once in a firm that made developing tools for programmers. I was working as a code monkey, sales support and support manager at the same time (small company) and it was actually quite a fun. I didn't have to explain how to turn on your monitor or anything hard like that. I answered questions like how to implement business logic above database layer and so on.
Lately things have changed. I switched job and now I'm answering questions like how to change the font size in Windows. And it sucks! I'm a goddamn coder and project manager, not our customer's internal support, but I can't just go and say that they (end-users) are morons, no matter how I wanted to.
So being a help desk isn't so bad if your customers aren't morons.
I played with this some time ago. I'm not really into Haskell, just wanted to see what's so special about it (yes, it has some nice features and I think guards could be a nice addition to C# but the language is not for me I think), so I don't know much about it.
Quite simply put, the reason IE is popular is because people do not care about which browser they use. A small percentage does
Well, I do care and I chose Internet Explorer. I've tried Firefox and Opera time and time again but they just doesn't feel right for me. IE6 was somewhat working browser but IE7 and now 8 are really good or at least good enough for me. This is, of course, subjective point of view but aren't them all. So why should I change? Rhetoric question...
And no, I don't work for Microsoft (in fact I don't work at all at the moment);)
There's alot more to internet than "a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet" and in fact, Tim Berners-Lee's system wouldn't work without the internet. I would say you are partly right about this since WWW (or Internet Explorer) is what the public sees as "the internet" and you are partly wrong because TFA talks about DNS which has basis in ARPAnet.
Well, eh, the statement is weird. Allthought you are technically correct but if you want or need multiple cores, heck load of memory, fastest pixel cruncher there is and so on then you need great computer. And you need great operating system to use that computer. So these two goes hand in hand./p>
Well, in fact many applications I've wrote for several companies or agencies uses this kind of client-side as well as server-side validation and I'm not sure but I think that many of my colleague uses this method also. So it is not novel and it is probably quite ordinary.
But I don't live in USA and our applications aren't used in US market so I'm not sure if this counts as prior art. Probably not.
OS X prompts you only if it needs admin rights to do something
It is no different in Vista. UAC prompts you when you are trying to do administrative things, just as you described OS X is doing.
The downside is that they'll almost always ignore the warning text and click Continue.
And excatly how does my wife click Continue when she doesn't know the administrator's password? You are not making sense here.
OSX does have (non-admin) prompts for opening downloaded apps for the first time
And this is excatly same as downloading file from the internet (with IE) and opening it for the first time (or subsequent times if you didn't select "do not prompt me again"). This has been so from the XP SP2 days if I recall.
This is a good question, and you are probably right, but the security model in OSX is a lot more clear, so it would be easier to teach users, "If you have to type in your password, something bad might happen!"
And this is different from UAC excatly how? Every time my wife (who basically use only web browser) downloads some weird looking nice_smileys_for_MSN_mssngr_now_with_virus.msi from internet and tries to install it UAC prompts her for administrator password and saves the day. I haven't told her the password of course.
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You are probably right but still it doesn't sound good. I've always thought that versatility is acknoledged to be a good thing. Now everyone is tied up to a single video codec. What happens to the development? Is it held back like at the time when it was said that IE was holding back the WWW (because of the lack of competition)? Or do we open up the spec when there's a better codec around? As a programmer, this is what I detest, changing the spec ;)
Img-tag doesn't specify which image formats you must or must not use so I really don't understand why video-tag should be any different. Video-tag could just instruct the browser that "put the video in here and fetch stream from here or if user has no ability to play the video display whatever is inside the alt-attribute".
So when browser sees video-tag it renders it by using which ever video plugin or built-in mechanism is in use, be it Flash, Silverlight, Windows Media Player or whatever. Then it is up to browser vendors to offer mechanism to download, install and/or configure video player and/or codec to the browser. No need to force the whole world behind a single format.
Just my uneducated opinion. I don't know much about video codecs.
echo 0.0.0.0 my-web-way.com >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
There. I ended up their revenue stream :)
And I thought we already had an application in Facebook called "Dream buttockses (for men only)" or something!
Yes, that sound great but I already worship the devil so I can do whatever I please as long as it's evil enough...
Unless we are talking about these who an earth would like to stand in 19" rack for the whole business day!
This internet voting would be absolutely fabulous! I could make sure that my wife votes correctly and not some socialist hippie party. I think we need this in Finland too!
Well, my personal and professional opinion is that there is a point where adding more resources doesn't make a difference and starts to even decrease the quality. Like in healthcare where adding more and more money to the picture starts only to build more byrocrazy and not to cure people. This is because when you all the sudden add 10 programmers to the picture you need more management for them and you need to train them. After these startup hiccups there can be at most so many people working on a single piece of code or module. It could lead to code management nightmare otherwise. So there is now 8 people doing nothing and getting bored which is not good for a programmer.
Of course I don't know if MS is at that point. It could be that hiring more talented people would do some good. Quality over substance I guess.
And besides I find the security of my Vista box quite good! My wife and I use the same Vista laptop so I made normal user account for my wife (and other for me) and didn't (and wont) tell her the administrator password. No she can't screw it up like she was able to do with XP (alltought XP, as any other NT based Windows, supports normal user accounts but it is not really practical in that manner because the lack of UAC). At work I find IIS and ASP.NET to do extremely well in case of security. All I need to do is to make sure that it is not I who makes bad decisions like it is extremely easy to do in PHP: include($_GET['something']);
Could be, could be not, but things aren't so easy that when you get the bug report you just go and fix the thing.
At my work I get bug reports like, and this is actual case that's been hanging around almost half a year now: "There's some problem with logging on from remote site" (my translation from Finnish).
The weird thing is that the application does not support any "remote site logon" funtionality. It took me three months to find out what the heck this means. First I thought that they were using VPN or RDP or something like that. No, they were using some half-assed VPN-over-browser thingy. Next thing was that they were not really talking about logging on to the system but totally something else but related to security and user thought that logon = security and vice versa so he wrote that it is related to logon procedure.
Now why didn't I see this problem beforehand? Because a) it was not in the requirement spec and b) their half-assed VPN system is plain broken. I can't even fix this issue because the problem is not in the application I wrote!
Let's compare this bug report to another one: "Popup window gets stuck behind main window". Now this was an easy one. I asked which popup window it is causing the trouble and fixed the thing by commanding the popup window to foreground with single line of code.
So it is 1000 times easier to fix an UI bug than some weird security bug which occurs in some weird circumstance.
Oh, and I'm not working for MS. And yes, security bugs should be fixed the minute one is found and not to wait bug report from user. It's not just that simple sometimes.
But in the end it doesn't matter who's fault it is. Project is not going forward and everybody gets unhappy and demotivated. So instead of blaming somebody I would try see how to fix the situation. If I could raise somebody's motivation to get the project done with reasonable amount of resources (I'm not talking about salary, it is proved that it is not a good motivator) or whatever then why wouldn't I? It would be a win-win situation for everyone.
This is what I detest in work. The juxtaposition between employee and employer or boss. It doesn't bring any good and could be fixed easily. But the change should come from management. As a employee, I don't feel like I'm in the position to start change things at the work all the sudden.
Btw. I've heard that manager should run the team "from the front". If that is true then it most certainly is manager's job to motivate his/her people! We, coders, aren't machines who can write lines and lines of code from day to day with the same speed and fervor, you know :)
And another just came to mind. The best boss I've ever had never really tried to be a boss. He just gave me tasks like "here is A, B and C that needs to be done, I'm counting on you." Then he got out of my way but he always was there to answer any technical questions I came up with. I felt really good to work for him because he trusted me allthought I didn't really like the company. I implemented A, B and C as good as I could just because this boss said he counted on me. Motivation can come from little things from time to time :)
Hooray and thank you! I was so annoyed by windowses opening outside the screen so that I wrote a little program that enumerated them and moved them in to the view if necessary. Somehow it didn't occur me that this was actually a usability bug in the application :)
Mining more? Mining it off the ground more likely ;) And you can mine uranium without large open quarries (is that correct term, dunno) nowadays.
Nuclear waste is sealed inside a copper capsule. In 90 years radiation has lowered to a level where it is safe to hang around such a capsule without any protective gears. There is a slight change that capsule starts to leak but that is why it is lowered deep into the bedrock. Now there's some crazy theories that ice-age could cause the bedrock to break but that would mean at least 2 km of ice above the ground and I think that there's not a single Finn living in Finland at the time. And besides at the time when next ice-age comes, radiation is so low that the waste is harmful only if eaten.
Another thing came to mind just before I hit submit... There's some worries that capsule could leak into the ground water. Well first of all uranium does not dissolve in the water. Secondly there is already uranium in our soil so much that if this would be actual problem, we'd all be dead by now.
Clearly this topic is overly exaggerated.
If wind power brings positive cash flow then why there is not a single wind plant built without subsidies? And I'm talking about Finland again, don't know about other countries.
No. In Finland nuclear power companies pays hefty money to a fund that handles those things. And your other statement is plain wrong at least in here. I don't know about other coutries though.
And as I wrote, we have that "extremely hazardous material" in our soil already. It would do a great favor to extract it and use it in nuclear plants. Nuclear waste can be stucked deep into our bedrock or used up in breeder reactor (if one is built).
If I'm not totally in wrong here, in Finland nuclear power isn't subsidied at all. Nuclear get some investment guarantees from government but I haven't heard that money has ever changed hands.
Wind power on the other hand screaming for subsidies. Local power companies don't even build wind generators unless government guarantees them. And what's worse they are demanding guarantees that they can sell wind power totally overpriced. I'm not sure how this goes but I think that if power company sells wind power with 10 amount of money, buyer pays 4 amout of money and government (us, the taxpayers) pays 6 amount of money. And of course we pay the actual power bill also so we end up paying 6+X amount of money.
Hard to explain this in English when I don't even totally understand it in Finnish but I hope you get the point...
So what I would like... Cheap, proven, clean, unsubsidied, nuclear energy thank you. We could even open up one or two uranium mines here in Finland. There's some uranium in the ground (which is actually poisoning our wells and room air in eastern part of Finland).
It really depends who your customers are. I was once in a firm that made developing tools for programmers. I was working as a code monkey, sales support and support manager at the same time (small company) and it was actually quite a fun. I didn't have to explain how to turn on your monitor or anything hard like that. I answered questions like how to implement business logic above database layer and so on.
Lately things have changed. I switched job and now I'm answering questions like how to change the font size in Windows. And it sucks! I'm a goddamn coder and project manager, not our customer's internal support, but I can't just go and say that they (end-users) are morons, no matter how I wanted to.
So being a help desk isn't so bad if your customers aren't morons.
Well, their innards are showing. The servers I mean, they're naked. Like C3PO in SW1!
I played with this some time ago. I'm not really into Haskell, just wanted to see what's so special about it (yes, it has some nice features and I think guards could be a nice addition to C# but the language is not for me I think), so I don't know much about it.
http://haskell.org/visualhaskell//
Tell that to my Oracle database server :(
Well, I do care and I chose Internet Explorer. I've tried Firefox and Opera time and time again but they just doesn't feel right for me. IE6 was somewhat working browser but IE7 and now 8 are really good or at least good enough for me. This is, of course, subjective point of view but aren't them all. So why should I change? Rhetoric question...
And no, I don't work for Microsoft (in fact I don't work at all at the moment) ;)
There's alot more to internet than "a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet" and in fact, Tim Berners-Lee's system wouldn't work without the internet. I would say you are partly right about this since WWW (or Internet Explorer) is what the public sees as "the internet" and you are partly wrong because TFA talks about DNS which has basis in ARPAnet.
Well, eh, the statement is weird. Allthought you are technically correct but if you want or need multiple cores, heck load of memory, fastest pixel cruncher there is and so on then you need great computer. And you need great operating system to use that computer. So these two goes hand in hand./p>
Well, in fact many applications I've wrote for several companies or agencies uses this kind of client-side as well as server-side validation and I'm not sure but I think that many of my colleague uses this method also. So it is not novel and it is probably quite ordinary.
But I don't live in USA and our applications aren't used in US market so I'm not sure if this counts as prior art. Probably not.
It is no different in Vista. UAC prompts you when you are trying to do administrative things, just as you described OS X is doing.
And excatly how does my wife click Continue when she doesn't know the administrator's password? You are not making sense here.
And this is excatly same as downloading file from the internet (with IE) and opening it for the first time (or subsequent times if you didn't select "do not prompt me again"). This has been so from the XP SP2 days if I recall.
And this is different from UAC excatly how? Every time my wife (who basically use only web browser) downloads some weird looking nice_smileys_for_MSN_mssngr_now_with_virus.msi from internet and tries to install it UAC prompts her for administrator password and saves the day. I haven't told her the password of course.