When I read FILM in all caps in your post I spent a few moments puzzled, having never heard of this F.I.L.M. acronym nor what kind of fancy new technology it might stand for. Focused Interferometric Laser Motion? I think I've been using digital cameras for too long...
1) Would you like to make available IE on other operating systems?
Nope, and there are reasons, but I'm not telling you what they are.
2) Why did IE7 take such a long time to release after IE6?
The entire IE team was busy with much more important things, like the MSN Toolbar, and specialized changes for individual customers with deep pockets.
3) If you had more time, is there a new feature you would have liked to include in IE7?
None. We just wanted to ship in time.
4) Is there anything you consider an innovation that is unique to IE
A better phishing filter, RSS, Expose-like tab view, and a better security model.
5) What do you consider the greatest weakness of Firefox?
I wrote a cheap insult about Iceweasel, but then decided to just shut up and not say anything, but apparently my text editor bugged up or something and didn't erase the insult.
6) What approach did you take to improve browser's security, and how come the vulnerabilities have been carried over?
All the usual methods. It's hard work though, since all those attackers innovate so much -- it's an industry-wide problem, not just with us! -- and people keep irresponsibly making vulnerabilities public.
7) Would you expect IE to become as dominant as it is now if users had to specifically choose it over another?
Customers love IE so much after 10 years of using it that I'm sure it would.
8) IE7 requires WGA to run - so that applications like Wine are unable to run it. This means that web developers who are using Linux and Mac OS X will have an extremely difficult time testing their sites with IE7.
I will completely ignore your mention of WGA, treating it as self-evident that IE should require this. Therefore, it is impossible to address your concern because we won't give away Windows licenses.
9) Why is it that MS has avoided meeting at least the ACID2 spec for CSS in order to bring some semblance of comformity for developers?
We don't care about standards. We care about the real world!
10) why is Microsoft investing so much time and effort in continuing the development of IE?
The security holes and lack of features in IE were starting to reflect badly on our claims of having the most secure and innovative products.
Are you suggesting Google should try to go against a court order?
Because, uhh, they can't, short of completely withdrawing from a country (which it was proposed they do in China). After heavy fines and such, the bottom line is that eventually the police are going to turn up and shut down Google's servers themselves.
on so many levels, in so many ways, when something that was previously scarce is now plentiful, the world has become a better place, progress has been achieved
It probably came from shuffling words around trying to cram them into a short sentence. I think it's one of those things that lots of people come up with, but are each convinced they're the only person clever enough to invent it.
For all the conciliatory tone of that article, in substance it's not so much. It is viciously hostile towards developers of violent videogames, if nothing else.
As I've said for years, some video games, especially ultraviolent and killographic games and certain industry practices deserve some public condemnation. The evidence for a causal link between violent games and violent behavior is mounting. And with so much money to be made, some in the industry often seem to lose sight of their public responsibility to protect children.
Note the careful choice of words: "killographic", a word which exists solely to smear the game industry. Then he implies that video game developers are driven by shameless greed -- when the truth is that they simply have a different opinion on the morality of violence in games, and would likely prefer to make games violent even if there was no money to be made.
The truth is that game developers are as concerned about children as he is. Many of them have families themselves. They also go to great lengths to conform to their ESRB rating. If he didn't view videogame developers as demons he might not be so zealous about legally smacking them down rather than engaging a dialogue with them and working with the existing industry ratings system.
Thing is, every proposed method of stopping pain has its share of proponents who make claims just like this. I also know someone whose chronic pain at one point just stopped with no treatment and for no apparent reason. It's hard to say what's really going on here, but your experience doesn't amount to proof that Sarno is correct.
But it seems to me that emotional issues causing physical problems are an unexplored and undertreated area of modern American medicine.
That would be because it's complete quackery.
Unfortunately, the causes of long-term muscle pain and stiffness have not yet been elucidated and it tends to come and go in a random manner, allowing all sorts of bizarre hypotheses like Sarno's to flourish. But there have been solidly biologically grounded, entirely physical descriptions of the potential mechanism, notably Travell and Simons', so there's hardly the need to resort to Freudian claptrap.
Who cares? The actual way tags ended up being used is a lot more in the Slashdot spirit. I, for one, like having one-word snarky commentary right below every story.
Fuckups like this are always due to a combination of mistakes from a number of different parties, but that's no excuse for any of them to try to weasel out of it by blaming the others. Apple screwed up here and they should shut up and take responsibility.
... to people who have never actually read their writing.
It would also be very easy to produce a mathematical paper generator that would be indistinguishable from a genuine one for the layman. Would that prove anything?
Yeah, I too gave Mac OS X a shot for several weeks, and I found it somewhat better in some ways, somewhat worse in others. I certainly didn't hate it, but I didn't see any particularly compelling reason to switch away from what I knew.
Er. Your claim that it's possible to have bugs like infinite loops in XPS documents is false, from my understanding of the standard. I'm not sure what point you think I'm missing.
My point is that scrapping and rewriting the entire UI (which is probably 2/3 of the code) for the sake of one minority platform is ridiculous. A more sensible request would be for Mac GTK to be improved to use native Mac APIs.
Hmm. I don't have as much experience with form creation as you apparently do, so I'll have to take your word for it that Word is also not appropriate in many situations.
I suppose we can conclude from this discussion, then, that all formats suck.
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When I read FILM in all caps in your post I spent a few moments puzzled, having never heard of this F.I.L.M. acronym nor what kind of fancy new technology it might stand for. Focused Interferometric Laser Motion? I think I've been using digital cameras for too long...
Why not?
You also seem to be confusing "cynical" with "tragic".
Nope, and there are reasons, but I'm not telling you what they are.
The entire IE team was busy with much more important things, like the MSN Toolbar, and specialized changes for individual customers with deep pockets.
None. We just wanted to ship in time.
A better phishing filter, RSS, Expose-like tab view, and a better security model.
I wrote a cheap insult about Iceweasel, but then decided to just shut up and not say anything, but apparently my text editor bugged up or something and didn't erase the insult.
All the usual methods. It's hard work though, since all those attackers innovate so much -- it's an industry-wide problem, not just with us! -- and people keep irresponsibly making vulnerabilities public.
Customers love IE so much after 10 years of using it that I'm sure it would.
I will completely ignore your mention of WGA, treating it as self-evident that IE should require this. Therefore, it is impossible to address your concern because we won't give away Windows licenses.
We don't care about standards. We care about the real world!
The security holes and lack of features in IE were starting to reflect badly on our claims of having the most secure and innovative products.
Are you suggesting Google should try to go against a court order?
Because, uhh, they can't, short of completely withdrawing from a country (which it was proposed they do in China). After heavy fines and such, the bottom line is that eventually the police are going to turn up and shut down Google's servers themselves.
Now for plutonium!
E.g. by using Alan Moore's trick:
The birthing. Offspring emerged, grew, performed
It probably came from shuffling words around trying to cram them into a short sentence. I think it's one of those things that lots of people come up with, but are each convinced they're the only person clever enough to invent it.
For all the conciliatory tone of that article, in substance it's not so much. It is viciously hostile towards developers of violent videogames, if nothing else.
Note the careful choice of words: "killographic", a word which exists solely to smear the game industry. Then he implies that video game developers are driven by shameless greed -- when the truth is that they simply have a different opinion on the morality of violence in games, and would likely prefer to make games violent even if there was no money to be made.
The truth is that game developers are as concerned about children as he is. Many of them have families themselves. They also go to great lengths to conform to their ESRB rating. If he didn't view videogame developers as demons he might not be so zealous about legally smacking them down rather than engaging a dialogue with them and working with the existing industry ratings system.
Thing is, every proposed method of stopping pain has its share of proponents who make claims just like this. I also know someone whose chronic pain at one point just stopped with no treatment and for no apparent reason. It's hard to say what's really going on here, but your experience doesn't amount to proof that Sarno is correct.
That would be because it's complete quackery.
Unfortunately, the causes of long-term muscle pain and stiffness have not yet been elucidated and it tends to come and go in a random manner, allowing all sorts of bizarre hypotheses like Sarno's to flourish. But there have been solidly biologically grounded, entirely physical descriptions of the potential mechanism, notably Travell and Simons', so there's hardly the need to resort to Freudian claptrap.
I just set it to 2 (no close buttons at all) and use the middle mouse button to close tabs.
about:config, set browser.urlbar.hideGoButton to true
While we're at it, set browser.tabs.closeButton to 3 to revert the tab close buttons to 1.5's behavior.
Not sure about the search button, but for that you can download an extension that behaves in a way you prefer.
Who cares? The actual way tags ended up being used is a lot more in the Slashdot spirit. I, for one, like having one-word snarky commentary right below every story.
Fuckups like this are always due to a combination of mistakes from a number of different parties, but that's no excuse for any of them to try to weasel out of it by blaming the others. Apple screwed up here and they should shut up and take responsibility.
... to people who have never actually read their writing.
It would also be very easy to produce a mathematical paper generator that would be indistinguishable from a genuine one for the layman. Would that prove anything?
Yeah, I too gave Mac OS X a shot for several weeks, and I found it somewhat better in some ways, somewhat worse in others. I certainly didn't hate it, but I didn't see any particularly compelling reason to switch away from what I knew.
More to the point, didn't anyone think to RTFA? The summary is completely misleading.
Hm, yeah, you're right, I haven't looked into it lately. I'll give it a try the next time I configure a linux box.
Er. Your claim that it's possible to have bugs like infinite loops in XPS documents is false, from my understanding of the standard. I'm not sure what point you think I'm missing.
My point is that scrapping and rewriting the entire UI (which is probably 2/3 of the code) for the sake of one minority platform is ridiculous. A more sensible request would be for Mac GTK to be improved to use native Mac APIs.
No, you'd have to be "crazzy" to invoke command-line tools in Perl when there are great libraries to do the same.
On the contrary, sliced bread makes an excellent stack-oriented language. One just needs to be careful to butter each slice on the correct side.
Hmm. I don't have as much experience with form creation as you apparently do, so I'll have to take your word for it that Word is also not appropriate in many situations.
I suppose we can conclude from this discussion, then, that all formats suck.