What? Why? It's very easy to reverse engineer it. I could do a good bit of it myself.
If there is already a Macro language that works in a very similar way it would not take much effort to fill in the gaps and change the syntax so it's VBA compatible.
People tend not to 'upgrade', usually every 3 years when the computers are replaced, people get the latest Windows and Office on it. Which happens to be WinXP and Office2k3.
I have to say the most impressive thing about Office is VBA. It works in all Office apps and is very very simple yet exceedingly powerful. Any replacement needs perfect VBA understanding.
Sorry, but as much as I hate IE, I have to agree that the IE box model in IE5.x is better than the w3c one. The IE one offers many, many advantages and allows you to build columnar layouts which are plain impossible without using javascript or many many hacks in the w3c way (try doing a fluid layout with padding and percentage widths - it will not work in the w3c method, but it will in IE).
IE6 is also actually pretty standards compliant really. Sure, it doesn't support a lot of the CSS selectors but then again it supports a hell of a lot more DOM than Opera does, so really it cancels each other out.
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And it's not that Opera doesn't support XMLHTTPRequest which is vital for this sort of stuff?
That's why GMail doesn't work. 7.60 will have it but it's STILL missing lots of other DOM elements (inline spellchecking won't work without them, for example).
When they have a patch, it has to be backported to hundreds of languages, versions, service packs, major releases, then tested on those and finally tested with a variety of applications before they get released.
Linux/OSS tends to break binary compatibility far more often than Linux so it's much easier: you just patch the latest version of the software and [for major projects] backport it to older releases. For example, you don't see Firefox backporting all of the security fixes to earlier versions. If it was Microsoft, they'd have to port them to IE5, IE5.5 and IE6, then test on all the various OSs etc. Firefox can just say 'here is 1.0.1. Upgrade to be safe'. They'd probably offer XPI files for older versions if it was very serve though.
But yes, I agree that OSS will win this battle, but it's not just because of developer numbers. As Joel Spolsky recently said in his interview with salon.com, 90% of Microsoft is basically red-tape.
It should just _work_. Not offering multiple ways of doing things and adding hundreds of options. Mozilla Suite vs Firefox should be reason enough to show that people DON'T like LOTS of loads of options.
More RAM usage. I believe the concesus was that it is not worth saving a couple of seconds for increased RAM use and the lack of ability to do delta-upgrades in the future.
I'd also love to know. In the UK you either have a % or a grade (U, G, F, E, D, C, B, A, A*) for 'high school'. Please explain this mystery decimal point system.
Er... try using suprnova or the various TV show torrent files. Download one episode of each 'big' show, 24, Enterprise, CSI, The Shield etc etc etc - you'll soon find a lot of great shows that you either have to pay to access or wait 18 months before the terrestrial broadcasters pick them up.
Sorry, you are suggesting that we regluate the RAM market?!
The fact of the matter over the last 5 years, RAM prices have dropped and sizes have went through the roof. There is no reason _not_ to expect this to continue.
CPUs are made by 2 main companies, yet innovation and price drops are very frequent. RAM has 3, so it's even more competitive if you use that logic.
But many clients don't implement it, especially the earliest ones. If you have a group of 1,000 early clients it can force an (nearly) infinite loop, as it either strips out the TTL data or doesn't increment it properly. Either way, gnutella1 sucks.
Who pays for the refer? That's right, the advertiser. It's actually great in two ways as it means they have to pay $$$ to the refer and also pay more $$$ for bandwidth costs.
You are describing Gnutella1 which is incredibly inefficient (someone does a search query and it gets passed around the network for days in most cases, even though the user is only online for an hour or so) and generally, very crap.
Most modern p2p networks work off a 'supernode' principle which is users that the network has chosen (automatically) because it has fast upload or long uptimes on the network etc. This then runs the search queries for all the leaf nodes connected to it, which really decreases the amount of network inefficiency because the supernode is like a central server, it knows nearly all the of the files because it connects to other supernodes and in turn they index the entire network. Interestingly you can find yourself connected to splinter networks where by some odd reason the supernodes haven't found each other and split into multiple networks.
You are describing a network where everyone is a supernode. This is useless because many users don't stay online for more than an hour and in the end you basically have a huge search query swapping contest.
I think you are missing the point. African culture is very very different to American or Western European culture. In Africa, most people are more likely to go to the local witch doctor to get a cure for aids by having freshly slain chicken blood poured over them (no joke) than go to the local hospital and get real 'treatment'.
UN workers etc try and make inroads but generally they are regarded as foreigners and they are dismissed as evil etc. This was the witch doctor gets to keep charging a months wages for this so called 'cure' and yet more people die.
RAID. Either 5 or 1. Depending on your needs, I don't think most people need to store vast amounts of data over 10 years. Sure, you might need to keep accounts for that long but you can easily get something more suitable (high grade CDR or DVDR) that can store it for years.
WTF? You are basing those figures off 1970 spacecraft that were designed primarily to carry people and not cargo that doesn't need a constant temperature (well, not as much as humans), humidity or oxygen.
I'm sure we could do it for less than $10billion nowadays - automated space craft flies off, collects the Helium, and flies it back - one way. The space craft does not need to be very heavy, because all it is is effectively a huge cargo container.
You are also forgetting that we could place the energy generation on the moon itself instead of on the earth and simply beam the power back...
Have you colour calibrated both (with a 'pro' level calibration tool)? If you haven't, it's ridiculous to say that either is worse on colours - they are the exact same panel make, just the Dell is a higher quality one. Don't believe Apple with their 'we get the best ones' BS.
Of course. I'm an AMD man, and the AMD64 and Opteron are far more powerful than the G5, in almost every benchmark. I think dual CPU's are overkill, and are until we see Dual Core CPUs, which AMD is ahead of everyone in.
The G5 is also full of supply problems. Apple has had to delay two product launches (iMac G5 and eMac G5) by about 3 months because of it.
And yes, $799 is overpriced for an eMac. I don't want a crappy CRT (the eMac CRT is horrible - 72Hz at the top res!), I want a TFT or no monitor. Dell can do you a P42.8GHz, 512MB RAM, 120GB HDD and a 17" TFT Monitor for the same price. Sure, you get crappy onboard video but the 9200 32MB is a joke, and it'd cost about $70 to slot in a fairly decent AGP card, something that you can't do with the eMac.
Dell's new 20.1" (typo - sorry) widescreen has a contrast ratio of 600:1 vs 400:1 for the Apple. It is also 400cd brightness vs 350cd for the Apple IIRC.
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What? Why? It's very easy to reverse engineer it. I could do a good bit of it myself.
If there is already a Macro language that works in a very similar way it would not take much effort to fill in the gaps and change the syntax so it's VBA compatible.
People tend not to 'upgrade', usually every 3 years when the computers are replaced, people get the latest Windows and Office on it. Which happens to be WinXP and Office2k3.
I have to say the most impressive thing about Office is VBA. It works in all Office apps and is very very simple yet exceedingly powerful. Any replacement needs perfect VBA understanding.
Sorry, but as much as I hate IE, I have to agree that the IE box model in IE5.x is better than the w3c one. The IE one offers many, many advantages and allows you to build columnar layouts which are plain impossible without using javascript or many many hacks in the w3c way (try doing a fluid layout with padding and percentage widths - it will not work in the w3c method, but it will in IE).
IE6 is also actually pretty standards compliant really. Sure, it doesn't support a lot of the CSS selectors but then again it supports a hell of a lot more DOM than Opera does, so really it cancels each other out.
And it's not that Opera doesn't support XMLHTTPRequest which is vital for this sort of stuff?
That's why GMail doesn't work. 7.60 will have it but it's STILL missing lots of other DOM elements (inline spellchecking won't work without them, for example).
Yes.
Negative. Most computers have wake-on-lan and could be turned on with a comprimised home router. You need to unplug to be totally safe ;).
Microsoft's problem is testing.
When they have a patch, it has to be backported to hundreds of languages, versions, service packs, major releases, then tested on those and finally tested with a variety of applications before they get released.
Linux/OSS tends to break binary compatibility far more often than Linux so it's much easier: you just patch the latest version of the software and [for major projects] backport it to older releases. For example, you don't see Firefox backporting all of the security fixes to earlier versions. If it was Microsoft, they'd have to port them to IE5, IE5.5 and IE6, then test on all the various OSs etc. Firefox can just say 'here is 1.0.1. Upgrade to be safe'. They'd probably offer XPI files for older versions if it was very serve though.
But yes, I agree that OSS will win this battle, but it's not just because of developer numbers. As Joel Spolsky recently said in his interview with salon.com, 90% of Microsoft is basically red-tape.
No no no no no.
It should just _work_. Not offering multiple ways of doing things and adding hundreds of options. Mozilla Suite vs Firefox should be reason enough to show that people DON'T like LOTS of loads of options.
More RAM usage. I believe the concesus was that it is not worth saving a couple of seconds for increased RAM use and the lack of ability to do delta-upgrades in the future.
I'd also love to know. In the UK you either have a % or a grade (U, G, F, E, D, C, B, A, A*) for 'high school'. Please explain this mystery decimal point system.
Er... try using suprnova or the various TV show torrent files. Download one episode of each 'big' show, 24, Enterprise, CSI, The Shield etc etc etc - you'll soon find a lot of great shows that you either have to pay to access or wait 18 months before the terrestrial broadcasters pick them up.
Realistically no more than 64MB, but you mightaswell just go for a 256MB one as it's only a few dollars more for a lot more space.
Sorry, you are suggesting that we regluate the RAM market?!
The fact of the matter over the last 5 years, RAM prices have dropped and sizes have went through the roof. There is no reason _not_ to expect this to continue.
CPUs are made by 2 main companies, yet innovation and price drops are very frequent. RAM has 3, so it's even more competitive if you use that logic.
Yes, I do apolgize for labeling that as Gnutella1. I have done some more research and realize you are absolutely correct.
But many clients don't implement it, especially the earliest ones. If you have a group of 1,000 early clients it can force an (nearly) infinite loop, as it either strips out the TTL data or doesn't increment it properly. Either way, gnutella1 sucks.
Who pays for the refer? That's right, the advertiser. It's actually great in two ways as it means they have to pay $$$ to the refer and also pay more $$$ for bandwidth costs.
Absolutely not.
You are describing Gnutella1 which is incredibly inefficient (someone does a search query and it gets passed around the network for days in most cases, even though the user is only online for an hour or so) and generally, very crap.
Most modern p2p networks work off a 'supernode' principle which is users that the network has chosen (automatically) because it has fast upload or long uptimes on the network etc. This then runs the search queries for all the leaf nodes connected to it, which really decreases the amount of network inefficiency because the supernode is like a central server, it knows nearly all the of the files because it connects to other supernodes and in turn they index the entire network. Interestingly you can find yourself connected to splinter networks where by some odd reason the supernodes haven't found each other and split into multiple networks.
You are describing a network where everyone is a supernode. This is useless because many users don't stay online for more than an hour and in the end you basically have a huge search query swapping contest.
I think you are missing the point. African culture is very very different to American or Western European culture. In Africa, most people are more likely to go to the local witch doctor to get a cure for aids by having freshly slain chicken blood poured over them (no joke) than go to the local hospital and get real 'treatment'.
UN workers etc try and make inroads but generally they are regarded as foreigners and they are dismissed as evil etc. This was the witch doctor gets to keep charging a months wages for this so called 'cure' and yet more people die.
Apart from the fact you need a specialised treatment for every person.
Natural gas is very different to oil.
RAID. Either 5 or 1. Depending on your needs, I don't think most people need to store vast amounts of data over 10 years. Sure, you might need to keep accounts for that long but you can easily get something more suitable (high grade CDR or DVDR) that can store it for years.
WTF? You are basing those figures off 1970 spacecraft that were designed primarily to carry people and not cargo that doesn't need a constant temperature (well, not as much as humans), humidity or oxygen.
I'm sure we could do it for less than $10billion nowadays - automated space craft flies off, collects the Helium, and flies it back - one way. The space craft does not need to be very heavy, because all it is is effectively a huge cargo container.
You are also forgetting that we could place the energy generation on the moon itself instead of on the earth and simply beam the power back...
Have you colour calibrated both (with a 'pro' level calibration tool)? If you haven't, it's ridiculous to say that either is worse on colours - they are the exact same panel make, just the Dell is a higher quality one. Don't believe Apple with their 'we get the best ones' BS.
Of course. I'm an AMD man, and the AMD64 and Opteron are far more powerful than the G5, in almost every benchmark. I think dual CPU's are overkill, and are until we see Dual Core CPUs, which AMD is ahead of everyone in. The G5 is also full of supply problems. Apple has had to delay two product launches (iMac G5 and eMac G5) by about 3 months because of it. And yes, $799 is overpriced for an eMac. I don't want a crappy CRT (the eMac CRT is horrible - 72Hz at the top res!), I want a TFT or no monitor. Dell can do you a P42.8GHz, 512MB RAM, 120GB HDD and a 17" TFT Monitor for the same price. Sure, you get crappy onboard video but the 9200 32MB is a joke, and it'd cost about $70 to slot in a fairly decent AGP card, something that you can't do with the eMac.
Negative.
Dell's new 20.1" (typo - sorry) widescreen has a contrast ratio of 600:1 vs 400:1 for the Apple. It is also 400cd brightness vs 350cd for the Apple IIRC.