Can you bookmark in appliations? Hit the back button?
As a developer of internal corporate web applications, I've been using javascript and xml for years to create rich environments. My only complaint is that the browser does not go far enough in creating a powerful application layer. I would prefer to be able to completely disable the history on pages without using javascript hacks so that back took you completely out of the application and back to the previous web site. I'd like editable dropdown lists and other common widgets without using javascript hacks.
The browsers page based model is outdated, and the increase in support for ajax and other new frameworks is only a good thing for the web. Hopefully new browsers, or even a whole new class of browsers will overcome the limitations of the current generation. Only then will the browser begin to replace local applications in mass.
It is easy to have big balls when surrounded by people who will tell you the rosy side of the story without having to read the real news. It is easy when you can send the children of America to fight, but never attend their funarals when they die.
Bush is nothing more than a chicken hawk, had he truly big balls he wouldn't have gone awol from the cushy national guard position for a whole year.
It is easy for him to stuff his pants with brass balls now, since his real ones have long since been removed by his own actions.
You know what the witch in the Steven Sondheim play Into the Woods says..."Nice is different then good".
Anyone can appear to others to be nice, it is significantly harder to make good choices and to be a good person. People aren't taught how to be good, they have to learn, and anyone who thinks otherwise has had their perspective seriously screwed up. Oftentimes people who were taught to be good end up doing really bad things believing it to be good, and you don't have to look very far to find examples of that. You, and all parents, need to spend more time talking with your kids about the choices they make and less time making their choices for them.
You know, the latest Moonspell (Century Media) CD came with a full length novela with its own sound track on it that was written in conjunction with the CD. That is what I call added value. Hopefully more bands and distributers will learn that there are many things worth as much or more to the consumer that can be on a CD along with music, especially since most CDs these days only have 50 or so minutes of music on them in the first place. That is the only way I see to drastically reduce casual copying.
It seems to me that if the word base is "byte" which is 8 binary bits, then the prefix, "mega", "giga", etc. should also use a binary basis. The whole word, and its context, defines the meaning, not just its prefix, so to say that mega always means 1,000,000 or kilo 1,000 is silly and clearly not the case.
On the other hand, I do think this lawsuit is 6 years too late and the marketplace has sucessfully changed to decimal based hard drives. I bitched about it 6-7 years ago when it first started happening, but have since grown distant to the issue.
Give me a break. Microsoft fully refunds your money if your call turns out to be a real bug. You are only charged if you call for technical support or for user error. The system actually works very well and I have had a lot of success in reporting bugs to Microsoft and actually getting them patched or worked around.
Of course it is still generally a lot easier to get a bug reported and fixed with an open source product, but that goes without saying.
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Can you bookmark in appliations? Hit the back button?
As a developer of internal corporate web applications, I've been using javascript and xml for years to create rich environments. My only complaint is that the browser does not go far enough in creating a powerful application layer. I would prefer to be able to completely disable the history on pages without using javascript hacks so that back took you completely out of the application and back to the previous web site. I'd like editable dropdown lists and other common widgets without using javascript hacks.
The browsers page based model is outdated, and the increase in support for ajax and other new frameworks is only a good thing for the web. Hopefully new browsers, or even a whole new class of browsers will overcome the limitations of the current generation. Only then will the browser begin to replace local applications in mass.
It is easy to have big balls when surrounded by people who will tell you the rosy side of the story without having to read the real news. It is easy when you can send the children of America to fight, but never attend their funarals when they die. Bush is nothing more than a chicken hawk, had he truly big balls he wouldn't have gone awol from the cushy national guard position for a whole year. It is easy for him to stuff his pants with brass balls now, since his real ones have long since been removed by his own actions.
You know what the witch in the Steven Sondheim play Into the Woods says..."Nice is different then good".
Anyone can appear to others to be nice, it is significantly harder to make good choices and to be a good person. People aren't taught how to be good, they have to learn, and anyone who thinks otherwise has had their perspective seriously screwed up. Oftentimes people who were taught to be good end up doing really bad things believing it to be good, and you don't have to look very far to find examples of that. You, and all parents, need to spend more time talking with your kids about the choices they make and less time making their choices for them.
You know, the latest Moonspell (Century Media) CD came with a full length novela with its own sound track on it that was written in conjunction with the CD. That is what I call added value. Hopefully more bands and distributers will learn that there are many things worth as much or more to the consumer that can be on a CD along with music, especially since most CDs these days only have 50 or so minutes of music on them in the first place. That is the only way I see to drastically reduce casual copying.
It seems to me that if the word base is "byte" which is 8 binary bits, then the prefix, "mega", "giga", etc. should also use a binary basis. The whole word, and its context, defines the meaning, not just its prefix, so to say that mega always means 1,000,000 or kilo 1,000 is silly and clearly not the case.
On the other hand, I do think this lawsuit is 6 years too late and the marketplace has sucessfully changed to decimal based hard drives. I bitched about it 6-7 years ago when it first started happening, but have since grown distant to the issue.
Even better, IMHO, is "Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker, a very entertaining and thoughtful look at infinites.
Give me a break. Microsoft fully refunds your money if your call turns out to be a real bug. You are only charged if you call for technical support or for user error. The system actually works very well and I have had a lot of success in reporting bugs to Microsoft and actually getting them patched or worked around.
Of course it is still generally a lot easier to get a bug reported and fixed with an open source product, but that goes without saying.