Wow, you must not get much business. You do know that it's possible to code to standards and still have IE display it correctly, right? Get off your high horse and start actually putting some work into your sites. Your clients pay you to create a functional and aesthetically pleasing site, not to be a web activist.
No offense mister AC, because I completely feel your frustration and I agree with what you're saying, but why the hell was this modded insightful? The fact that Microsoft wants nothing to do with standards for one reason or another has been known for quite some time.
However, if every design firm started doing this at the same time, it would send a wakeup call not only to Microsoft but to all of the ignorant IE users as well. Granted this is a scenario with a 1% of actually happening, but it would be a good thing imho.
How sweet is that... Making the internet work exactly the opposite of the way we've always been told it works. The more people downloading, the faster the downloads get:D
I'm sorry. Stating the obvious, I know, but it's just so damned cool.
The better question is "how productive is that?" Honestly, if I had to deal with waiting a few seconds every time I wanted a context menu I would be pretty annoyed and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Using control as a modifier to create a contextual click I can understand. What really bugs me is the lack of a scroll wheel. That's another thing that makes people a lot more productive. A few seconds here to wait for a context menu and a few seconds there to point to the scroll bar and move it may not seem like much, but if you consider how often those actions are repeated by many users, it adds up.
That I can certainly agree with. Most of the time UTP is fine for the job. There are situations, however, when STP is very helpful. For instance, the local internet service provider here uses it on all of their fixed point wireless installs.
Well, if RJ-11 was the common connector for ethernet, then you might be right. RJ-45 has taken that spot, however, and I've seen quite a few grounded RJ-45 connectors.
Sounds interesting enough. So is the process started? Should a consortium be formed for this word to keep things on slightly more level ground (I'm thinking it's easier for an orginization to recieve a patent of this type than a single person, but I could be wrong)? On the other hand, maybe some larger orginization that is not fond of the idea of software patents would be keen on this sort of thing.
I'm sorry, I hold the patent on donating solutions to the non-patentable public domain. Don't worry about litigation, however. I'll just take your idea instead.
However, which brand has more recognition between Google and the Mozilla Foundation? If and when Google releases a browser, it will be known pretty well pretty quickly just because it's Google.
Sometimes you just have to realize when something just isn't worth implementing. For this specific application, it just makes more sense to go with USB over Firewire. USB 2 works, and there's not enough of a problem with performance to justify the extra cost of adding Firewire to it as well. I highly doubt, however, that we'll ever see Apple using USB as the primary transport method for devices where a stable and reliable data stream is integral to their operation. USB just isn't suited to that task. There are places where USB shines (higher accessibility) and there are places where Firewire shines (more stable and higher bandwidth). Apple has simply decided that extra stability and bandwidth isn't needed for this application.
I think something must have happened here in the states too... I've noticed that all of the local carriers here now offer phones at a standard list price without service. Also, doesn't GSM work with SIM cards that you could just swap into any GSM Phone? I could be wrong about that one, but it would certainly make things simpler.
People are excited to hear that IE's dominance is failing, and rather quickly*. There are many web developers out there as well as many IT techs who long for the death of the devil browser due to support nightmares associated with it. So, every time the user base grows dramatically, you will hear about it because there are a lot of other people out there who want to hear about it.
*To would-be flamers: I said nothing about this trend continuing in the future.
Just a guess, but probably because they want you to use IE.:) Microsoft does this type of stuff all of the time. They could easily implement a system for downloading updates through a program in the O/S rather than windowsupdate, but they want people to use IE, so they didn't. Not to mention, the infrastructure for windowsupdate is already there, and it doesn't make much sense to change it now.
"Changing" might have been a better term to describe the current Windows market. The fact that the nature of personal computing is changing is hard to disagree with. Apple is definately making new inroads now that OS X is seen as a stable operating system. Internet Explorer is losing marketshare for the first time in... 5 years? People seem to be waking up and realizing that there are options out there that don't include having their comptuters full of spyware. Although the number of people buying windows and other microsoft products is still growing, the number of people looking at alternative products is growing as well.
Well, I thought that was the case, but pressing f12 on my g4 here a couple of times hasn't ejected any drives. It might be due to the dual-drive setup, but I doubt it. I haven't quite figured out why it maps up that way sometimes but not others.
I have to disagree with you hear. The days of macs being incompatible are pretty much over. For one thing, the majority of pc owners don't play many games, and if they do, then they're usually the web-based java type. As far as apps go, anything that's widely used is available or has an alternative that is available on OS X. The only problem I've run into as far as compatibility goes is companies that use expensive proprietary solutions like BusinessWorks or Heap to manage their business. I don't think that will be much of a worry in the future due to the excellent developer environment in OS X.
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Wow, you must not get much business. You do know that it's possible to code to standards and still have IE display it correctly, right? Get off your high horse and start actually putting some work into your sites. Your clients pay you to create a functional and aesthetically pleasing site, not to be a web activist.
No offense mister AC, because I completely feel your frustration and I agree with what you're saying, but why the hell was this modded insightful? The fact that Microsoft wants nothing to do with standards for one reason or another has been known for quite some time.
However, if every design firm started doing this at the same time, it would send a wakeup call not only to Microsoft but to all of the ignorant IE users as well. Granted this is a scenario with a 1% of actually happening, but it would be a good thing imho.
Didn't A List Apart already take care of this task for them? I believe the code was donated and everything.
How sweet is that... Making the internet work exactly the opposite of the way we've always been told it works. The more people downloading, the faster the downloads get :D
I'm sorry. Stating the obvious, I know, but it's just so damned cool.
The better question is "how productive is that?" Honestly, if I had to deal with waiting a few seconds every time I wanted a context menu I would be pretty annoyed and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Using control as a modifier to create a contextual click I can understand. What really bugs me is the lack of a scroll wheel. That's another thing that makes people a lot more productive. A few seconds here to wait for a context menu and a few seconds there to point to the scroll bar and move it may not seem like much, but if you consider how often those actions are repeated by many users, it adds up.
That I can certainly agree with. Most of the time UTP is fine for the job. There are situations, however, when STP is very helpful. For instance, the local internet service provider here uses it on all of their fixed point wireless installs.
Oh, and for informational purposes:
grounded rj45 connector
Well, if RJ-11 was the common connector for ethernet, then you might be right. RJ-45 has taken that spot, however, and I've seen quite a few grounded RJ-45 connectors.
Sounds interesting enough. So is the process started? Should a consortium be formed for this word to keep things on slightly more level ground (I'm thinking it's easier for an orginization to recieve a patent of this type than a single person, but I could be wrong)? On the other hand, maybe some larger orginization that is not fond of the idea of software patents would be keen on this sort of thing.
Yes, that definately helps. However, until such a solution is implemented, it doesn't change things much.
I'm sorry, I hold the patent on donating solutions to the non-patentable public domain. Don't worry about litigation, however. I'll just take your idea instead.
Hmm, now that you mention it, I wonder why solar cells aren't arranged in this fashion? Maybe they are sometimes, but I've never seen it before.
However, which brand has more recognition between Google and the Mozilla Foundation? If and when Google releases a browser, it will be known pretty well pretty quickly just because it's Google.
This is why I stick mostly to NES and SNES for my gaming pleasures.
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Damned 20 second rule.
Sometimes you just have to realize when something just isn't worth implementing. For this specific application, it just makes more sense to go with USB over Firewire. USB 2 works, and there's not enough of a problem with performance to justify the extra cost of adding Firewire to it as well. I highly doubt, however, that we'll ever see Apple using USB as the primary transport method for devices where a stable and reliable data stream is integral to their operation. USB just isn't suited to that task. There are places where USB shines (higher accessibility) and there are places where Firewire shines (more stable and higher bandwidth). Apple has simply decided that extra stability and bandwidth isn't needed for this application.
No doubt, killer microbes from mars is all we need to deal with right now.
I think something must have happened here in the states too... I've noticed that all of the local carriers here now offer phones at a standard list price without service. Also, doesn't GSM work with SIM cards that you could just swap into any GSM Phone? I could be wrong about that one, but it would certainly make things simpler.
People are excited to hear that IE's dominance is failing, and rather quickly*. There are many web developers out there as well as many IT techs who long for the death of the devil browser due to support nightmares associated with it. So, every time the user base grows dramatically, you will hear about it because there are a lot of other people out there who want to hear about it.
*To would-be flamers: I said nothing about this trend continuing in the future.
Just a guess, but probably because they want you to use IE. :) Microsoft does this type of stuff all of the time. They could easily implement a system for downloading updates through a program in the O/S rather than windowsupdate, but they want people to use IE, so they didn't. Not to mention, the infrastructure for windowsupdate is already there, and it doesn't make much sense to change it now.
Just let us know when it starts looking back at you.
"Changing" might have been a better term to describe the current Windows market. The fact that the nature of personal computing is changing is hard to disagree with. Apple is definately making new inroads now that OS X is seen as a stable operating system. Internet Explorer is losing marketshare for the first time in... 5 years? People seem to be waking up and realizing that there are options out there that don't include having their comptuters full of spyware. Although the number of people buying windows and other microsoft products is still growing, the number of people looking at alternative products is growing as well.
I dunno, it was informative enough to tell me that Gnome still looks like ass...
Well, I thought that was the case, but pressing f12 on my g4 here a couple of times hasn't ejected any drives. It might be due to the dual-drive setup, but I doubt it. I haven't quite figured out why it maps up that way sometimes but not others.
I have to disagree with you hear. The days of macs being incompatible are pretty much over. For one thing, the majority of pc owners don't play many games, and if they do, then they're usually the web-based java type. As far as apps go, anything that's widely used is available or has an alternative that is available on OS X. The only problem I've run into as far as compatibility goes is companies that use expensive proprietary solutions like BusinessWorks or Heap to manage their business. I don't think that will be much of a worry in the future due to the excellent developer environment in OS X.
Any idea whether that power button would map up to the mac's eject button? That's sortof a necessity for newer macs.