Firefox did not invent tabbed browsing and OO will never be anything more than a buggy clone of MS Office 2003. I want to like but I just can't. MS Office is a very good product.
This isn't true. Any assault without a weapon that doesn't land you an overnight visit to the hospital is a very minor charge and the perpetrators do not go to jail for "an extended period of time"--1 night is more like it. And that is if you are in a city small/peaceful enough that the cops actually give a damn to help you find the assailant.
The iP* products are consumer electronic devices, not general purpose machines. It makes perfect sense that these are locked down for the sake of reliability and performance. Not to mention the Apple business model is based on the closed nature of these products.
The desktop versions of OS X are incredibly flexible and powerful tools, with the usability bonus of a well thought out graphical shell. There is a reason programmers and IT people are migrating en mass to Mac--they are way ahead of the competition when it comes to power and flexibility compared to Windows, and reliability and usability for an end user compared to Linux.
When you purchase a Mac, you are getting a full featured development environment and sys admin toolkit out of the box.
Your points are valid but Microsoft only had to do one thing to keep Firefox at bay: continue development on IE after IE6.
IE6 was the fastest and best browser on Windows when it came out. Then they didn't improve it for YEARS, so Firefox was able to gain significant inroads. There would still be a market for Firefox but many of the mainstream users of FF would have seen no reason to switch if IE didn't suck so hard for so many years.
We all love software choice on this board, but web development was a lot easier when there was only one browser to test on on Windows.
Unfortunately, not all developers can drop IE6 support. If you have an e-commerce site, especially one that might target older or less tech savvy customers, any unsupported browser is a lost sale, and IE6 use is still high enough that this is significant.
I also question the wisdom of targeting a single browser. What if there is a huge security vulnerability in Chrome, a showstopper bug (like, it stops working on the next Windows service pack or OS X update), or Google drops development for some reason? This is almost as bad as back in the old days when devs targeted IE6 exclusively.
The difference in this fight is that Macmillan is one of the publishers signed to deliver books for Apple's iBooks store. They have somewhere to run. And credibly.
You mean to a marketplace that doesn't exist yet and a device that is 60 days out with unproven market traction? Doesn't sound very credible for me; two months of lost sales from your biggest retailer is a pretty big deal for all companies.
I can count the number of dropped calls I've had on Verizon over the past 8 years or so on my hands. The issue is AT&T, T-Mobile, and other poor quality carriers, not something inherent to the United States.
Your AJAX code cannot POST to a an HTTPS address if the page it is posted from is HTTP. Redirecting to HTTPS is the correct solution;/. does not allow this (if you go to https://slashdot.org/ you are redirected back to HTTP).
Actually/. does not make it even possible to login via HTTPS, at least with Javascript turned on. The Totally Sweet Javascript popup they use for login is sent over plain HTTP, because it is not possible to POST to HTTPS via Javascript due to the same origin policy in browsers. If it is possible to get an HTTPS login page on/., I can't figure out how to do it.
An Economist subscription also adds tremendous value. They offer the entire magazine--every single word--in audio each week to subscribers, and it is fantastic. All this for a year for the cost of what most people pay for a single month of cable. Talk about distorted priorities.
This is exactly right. The reason GMO corn exists and is widespread is that the gov't has incentivized corn production so much that it is practical to grow huge fields of it. This crop monoculture results in the excessive need of pesticides, hence the requirement of "Roundup-ready" crops in the first place.
Definitely. My old company laid off 80+% of it's IT staff and as a consolation, installed a soda machine for the remaining employees (they already had coffee).
The question to me is: is there a bigger chance of Apophis hitting Earth than the chance of catastrophic climate change due to anthropogenic global warming? Because that has the western world's attention and money, and Apophis does not.
Also, make sure you are using a build of gVim for your window manager of choice. I see so many people using regular vim in a terminal. It is much more useful to use a GUI build as you get much nicer tabbed files and OS integration. It does not turn vim into a GUI app; it just wraps it up nice so your window manager can deal with it as a first class application.
This is not informative to anyone who wants to use a recent version of Visual Studio (ie, anything since VS2003) because it does not work. There is a lame workaround to open the file externally in vim and save it back. You need to use ViEmu if you want a vi mode in VS. It is commercial software, but worth it. If you are stuck on VS5 or 6, god help you; a vi mode is not going to save you.
In any case, what the OP is looking for is actually just vim and the knowledge to use it to its full potential. Extending vim is not a "mortal sin," it is very useful and done all the time. There are plugins and examples for everything the OP wants to do, and if he likes vim he will probably like these better than clicky IDE.
Qatar, UAE, China, or the capital cities of some of the other countries would not be so bad. You could probably bribe your way to a long-term visa in many of them. But that list also has "Soviet Union" on it, so I wonder how up to date it is...
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Firefox did not invent tabbed browsing and OO will never be anything more than a buggy clone of MS Office 2003. I want to like but I just can't. MS Office is a very good product.
This isn't true. Any assault without a weapon that doesn't land you an overnight visit to the hospital is a very minor charge and the perpetrators do not go to jail for "an extended period of time"--1 night is more like it. And that is if you are in a city small/peaceful enough that the cops actually give a damn to help you find the assailant.
That is not going to do you too much good as AC...
There is nothing to tinker with, it's magic.
The iP* products are consumer electronic devices, not general purpose machines. It makes perfect sense that these are locked down for the sake of reliability and performance. Not to mention the Apple business model is based on the closed nature of these products.
The desktop versions of OS X are incredibly flexible and powerful tools, with the usability bonus of a well thought out graphical shell. There is a reason programmers and IT people are migrating en mass to Mac--they are way ahead of the competition when it comes to power and flexibility compared to Windows, and reliability and usability for an end user compared to Linux.
When you purchase a Mac, you are getting a full featured development environment and sys admin toolkit out of the box.
Your points are valid but Microsoft only had to do one thing to keep Firefox at bay: continue development on IE after IE6.
IE6 was the fastest and best browser on Windows when it came out. Then they didn't improve it for YEARS, so Firefox was able to gain significant inroads. There would still be a market for Firefox but many of the mainstream users of FF would have seen no reason to switch if IE didn't suck so hard for so many years.
We all love software choice on this board, but web development was a lot easier when there was only one browser to test on on Windows.
Unfortunately, not all developers can drop IE6 support. If you have an e-commerce site, especially one that might target older or less tech savvy customers, any unsupported browser is a lost sale, and IE6 use is still high enough that this is significant.
I also question the wisdom of targeting a single browser. What if there is a huge security vulnerability in Chrome, a showstopper bug (like, it stops working on the next Windows service pack or OS X update), or Google drops development for some reason? This is almost as bad as back in the old days when devs targeted IE6 exclusively.
The difference in this fight is that Macmillan is one of the publishers signed to deliver books for Apple's iBooks store. They have somewhere to run. And credibly.
You mean to a marketplace that doesn't exist yet and a device that is 60 days out with unproven market traction? Doesn't sound very credible for me; two months of lost sales from your biggest retailer is a pretty big deal for all companies.
I can count the number of dropped calls I've had on Verizon over the past 8 years or so on my hands. The issue is AT&T, T-Mobile, and other poor quality carriers, not something inherent to the United States.
The map on weather.com has been Live (now Bing) maps for as long as I can remember.
I'm not sure. When did you stop beating your wife?
Your AJAX code cannot POST to a an HTTPS address if the page it is posted from is HTTP. Redirecting to HTTPS is the correct solution; /. does not allow this (if you go to https://slashdot.org/ you are redirected back to HTTP).
So I guess this "feature" is one example of what is holding back encryption.
Actually /. does not make it even possible to login via HTTPS, at least with Javascript turned on. The Totally Sweet Javascript popup they use for login is sent over plain HTTP, because it is not possible to POST to HTTPS via Javascript due to the same origin policy in browsers. If it is possible to get an HTTPS login page on /., I can't figure out how to do it.
An Economist subscription also adds tremendous value. They offer the entire magazine--every single word--in audio each week to subscribers, and it is fantastic. All this for a year for the cost of what most people pay for a single month of cable. Talk about distorted priorities.
This is exactly right. The reason GMO corn exists and is widespread is that the gov't has incentivized corn production so much that it is practical to grow huge fields of it. This crop monoculture results in the excessive need of pesticides, hence the requirement of "Roundup-ready" crops in the first place.
It will affect your dating life.
Definitely. My old company laid off 80+% of it's IT staff and as a consolation, installed a soda machine for the remaining employees (they already had coffee).
The question to me is: is there a bigger chance of Apophis hitting Earth than the chance of catastrophic climate change due to anthropogenic global warming? Because that has the western world's attention and money, and Apophis does not.
Try NERDTree. It looks and operates better than project.vim and also handles tabs better.
Where's the fire???
I prefer using Alt-tab or your window manager's equivalent to GNU screen. But to each his own.
Also, make sure you are using a build of gVim for your window manager of choice. I see so many people using regular vim in a terminal. It is much more useful to use a GUI build as you get much nicer tabbed files and OS integration. It does not turn vim into a GUI app; it just wraps it up nice so your window manager can deal with it as a first class application.
This is not informative to anyone who wants to use a recent version of Visual Studio (ie, anything since VS2003) because it does not work. There is a lame workaround to open the file externally in vim and save it back. You need to use ViEmu if you want a vi mode in VS. It is commercial software, but worth it. If you are stuck on VS5 or 6, god help you; a vi mode is not going to save you.
In any case, what the OP is looking for is actually just vim and the knowledge to use it to its full potential. Extending vim is not a "mortal sin," it is very useful and done all the time. There are plugins and examples for everything the OP wants to do, and if he likes vim he will probably like these better than clicky IDE.
Qatar, UAE, China, or the capital cities of some of the other countries would not be so bad. You could probably bribe your way to a long-term visa in many of them. But that list also has "Soviet Union" on it, so I wonder how up to date it is...