I emailed by bank about that. I bank with tdcanadatrust. They have a piece of javascript that doesn't allow me into their online banking.
Funny thing is I use tdwaterhouse for brokerage, and then I can redirect into tdcanadatrust's online banking and everything works. The javascript is on the initial page only, and not inside the main site.
I've even gone so far as to send them the offending javascript. That was two months ago.
Not everyone cares enough to support.01% of the browser market:)
And FWIW I love Firefox... It really is the best browser out there.
I recon it means you can't use their own apt repositories without paying the $40... I'm sure with a third party repository it's fine. If you can get them to work.
IIRC Xandros is one of the Linux O/S's that you could get with the $199 Wal-mart PC's... Linspire (Lindows) being the other... So they had some OEM agreement that helped them get some money I recon...
Unfortunately there's a lot of sysadmins and end users who'd disagree with you.
The biggest change was the DLL Hell updates, and the fact that you need less reboots on software installs/upgrades. In fact, most software asks me to reboot, I don't, and it still functions. Only time I really reboot is when I upgrade my detonator drivers. (And installing.net runtime, j2re, etc).
If you think XP=Win2k, yhen you don't know enough about XP. Microsoft did a lot of things right with XP.
Uhm, do you not still receive unsolicited ad-mail today? It's not a fad, it's unfortunately got some staying power.
If EVERYONE didn't respond it would be fine. Try telling that to those who fall for the infamous Nigerian scam.
FWIW, XP Sp2 is going to have built-in pop-up blocking.
I moved to Firefox for that very reason. I can't recall the last time I saw a pop-up. I only use IE when I have to.
Yes, true. patents create barriers to market entry. But if a business is producing an item to make money, then it's another cost to market entry.
Fine. I disagree with patenting DNA strands. That's dum. And software patents have gotten out of control - Microsoft patenting double-click is a prime example. But what about patents on let's say a heart valve? Let's say some brillint engineer comes up with an idea for a heart valve that can better the lives of fat americans. Yet he doesn't have the startup capital to manufacture it, and distribute it. If he shows his idea to any person / corporation with capital to invest in that idea, he's fscked because he doesn't have ownership. Big corp wins, little inventor loses.
The reality is the patent that inventor holds protects him from being ripped off by others, and proves he owns that idea. It's the motivation to produce these ideas.
Don't forget in America, Universities produce 1 engineer for every 5 lawyers. That means there's 5 people trying to figure out how to rip off every 1 inventor as I see it.
I've been saying that to IT people for years. While security is important, having a sound disaster recover plan is even more important. Your system cannot be 100% secure; it's practically impossible. It can be 99.99999999% secure, but that one time can still happen, and you had better be prepared for it.
I've seen too many IT people focus entirely on security, and forget about having a sound backup strategy. Those IT people need to get fired. Sure, playing with Arcserve or Backup Exec or whatever sux, compared to finding some new hash algorithm to further encrypt your ssh session, and let's face it, we all like learning new things, but IT isn't about that kinda stuff.
I've had yelling matches at my last employer with IT people; they insisted on not having ANY FTP server, were farting around with NDS, yet when we asked them for a restore from tape, every time there was an issue. They had a 100% failure rate on their backup tapes.
There's too many retarded IT people out there. and too many retarded IT managers out there too.
Funny thing about Canada's exchange rate though. Look at the Purchasing Power Parity of our money compared to US Dollars.
If you look at small ticket items; $10, Canadian prices are favourable. A Big Mac meal is $5 in Canada and it's $5 in America. That means Americans are paying C$8 for something we pay C$5 for.
As you move into larger items, the PPP ratio dwindles. Look at a Canon Eos for example. To buy from Canada it's $1300. In the US it's $899. In C$ that's $1250... The PPP ratio diminishes, especially when you add shipping.
Still, a large sum of consumer spending is on smaller items. In many ways, we're much better off than our American cousins.
As well, I'm missing out on the interest I'd have earned today on my RRSP contribution.
We should have the right to bill them $30 for not getting us our money the same way they charge us NSF fees. A simple apology doesn't cut it. If we apologize to our bank for bouncing a check, do they wave NSF fees? I don't think so! Love the double standard.
If he has to take a course to learn how to use bullets in a word processor, something's wrong with the user, not the software.
You can't sit there and blame the software usability every time. Sometimes users are just stupid.
Recall the old Wordperfect support email floating around where there was a power outage and the user phoned for Wordperfect support because his(or her) screen was blank?
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The main login page has a chunk of javascript:
if(!window.saveInnerWidth) {
window.onresize = resize;
window.saveInnerWidth = window.innerWidth;
window.saveInnerHeight = window.innerHeight;
}
function resize() {
if (saveInnerWidth != window.innerWidth || saveInnerHeight != window.innerHeight) {
window.history.go(0);
}
}
This fails in FireFox - it throws an infinite loop.
I emailed by bank about that. I bank with tdcanadatrust. They have a piece of javascript that doesn't allow me into their online banking.
.01% of the browser market :)
Funny thing is I use tdwaterhouse for brokerage, and then I can redirect into tdcanadatrust's online banking and everything works. The javascript is on the initial page only, and not inside the main site.
I've even gone so far as to send them the offending javascript. That was two months ago.
Not everyone cares enough to support
And FWIW I love Firefox... It really is the best browser out there.
I recon it means you can't use their own apt repositories without paying the $40... I'm sure with a third party repository it's fine. If you can get them to work.
IIRC Xandros is one of the Linux O/S's that you could get with the $199 Wal-mart PC's... Linspire (Lindows) being the other... So they had some OEM agreement that helped them get some money I recon...
I really would like that XP never happened.
.net runtime, j2re, etc).
Unfortunately there's a lot of sysadmins and end users who'd disagree with you.
The biggest change was the DLL Hell updates, and the fact that you need less reboots on software installs/upgrades. In fact, most software asks me to reboot, I don't, and it still functions. Only time I really reboot is when I upgrade my detonator drivers. (And installing
If you think XP=Win2k, yhen you don't know enough about XP. Microsoft did a lot of things right with XP.
Uhm, do you not still receive unsolicited ad-mail today? It's not a fad, it's unfortunately got some staying power. If EVERYONE didn't respond it would be fine. Try telling that to those who fall for the infamous Nigerian scam.
FWIW, XP Sp2 is going to have built-in pop-up blocking. I moved to Firefox for that very reason. I can't recall the last time I saw a pop-up. I only use IE when I have to.
Yes, true. patents create barriers to market entry. But if a business is producing an item to make money, then it's another cost to market entry.
Fine. I disagree with patenting DNA strands. That's dum. And software patents have gotten out of control - Microsoft patenting double-click is a prime example. But what about patents on let's say a heart valve? Let's say some brillint engineer comes up with an idea for a heart valve that can better the lives of fat americans. Yet he doesn't have the startup capital to manufacture it, and distribute it. If he shows his idea to any person / corporation with capital to invest in that idea, he's fscked because he doesn't have ownership. Big corp wins, little inventor loses.
The reality is the patent that inventor holds protects him from being ripped off by others, and proves he owns that idea. It's the motivation to produce these ideas.
Don't forget in America, Universities produce 1 engineer for every 5 lawyers. That means there's 5 people trying to figure out how to rip off every 1 inventor as I see it.
=D
I've been saying that to IT people for years. While security is important, having a sound disaster recover plan is even more important. Your system cannot be 100% secure; it's practically impossible. It can be 99.99999999% secure, but that one time can still happen, and you had better be prepared for it.
I've seen too many IT people focus entirely on security, and forget about having a sound backup strategy. Those IT people need to get fired. Sure, playing with Arcserve or Backup Exec or whatever sux, compared to finding some new hash algorithm to further encrypt your ssh session, and let's face it, we all like learning new things, but IT isn't about that kinda stuff.
I've had yelling matches at my last employer with IT people; they insisted on not having ANY FTP server, were farting around with NDS, yet when we asked them for a restore from tape, every time there was an issue. They had a 100% failure rate on their backup tapes.
There's too many retarded IT people out there. and too many retarded IT managers out there too.
Funny thing about Canada's exchange rate though. Look at the Purchasing Power Parity of our money compared to US Dollars. If you look at small ticket items; $10, Canadian prices are favourable. A Big Mac meal is $5 in Canada and it's $5 in America. That means Americans are paying C$8 for something we pay C$5 for. As you move into larger items, the PPP ratio dwindles. Look at a Canon Eos for example. To buy from Canada it's $1300. In the US it's $899. In C$ that's $1250... The PPP ratio diminishes, especially when you add shipping. Still, a large sum of consumer spending is on smaller items. In many ways, we're much better off than our American cousins.
Mine's going in on Sunday.
As well, I'm missing out on the interest I'd have earned today on my RRSP contribution.
We should have the right to bill them $30 for not getting us our money the same way they charge us NSF fees. A simple apology doesn't cut it. If we apologize to our bank for bouncing a check, do they wave NSF fees? I don't think so! Love the double standard.
So wouldn't 10.3.1 tyo 10.3.4 be considered hot fixes?
That's just stupid.
Not everyone has working capital to implement their ideas.
In your system the motivation to innovate is lost to corporations/individuals with working capital to implement their ideas. Society would lose out.
Yeah, I RTFA... It only mentions Windows once, and there's no reference to the amount of changes.
While I'm not an authority on those changes, rest assured the GP probably isn't either...
Alright, fair enough XP=Windows 5.1.
Symantecs really, but nonetheless...
Don't forget XP was also released to depreacate the win 9x/me line as well. From that angle it was a major upgrade.
Notice there's no XP server? If you really want to get into it, you can look at as
win2k -> win2k3...
win 9x->xp
(but that's a stretch even for me)
You're comparing apples to oranges and they mod u up as insightful?
You're comparing a major revision to a minor revision; 10.2 -> 10.3 isn't a major revision as I read it.
Upgrading from 2K to XP is like going from MacOS 9.x to OSX.
Going from OSX 10.2 to OSX 10.3 is like going from XP SP1 to XP SP2.
Upgrading from MacOS 9 to OSX on the same hardware will slow you down. Upgrading from 2k to XP on the same hardware will slow you down.
So what's the point of your observation exactly?
Uhm, just to point out that Clippy's part of office, not Windows.
If he has to take a course to learn how to use bullets in a word processor, something's wrong with the user, not the software. You can't sit there and blame the software usability every time. Sometimes users are just stupid. Recall the old Wordperfect support email floating around where there was a power outage and the user phoned for Wordperfect support because his(or her) screen was blank?
This one's easy:
3) Short sell stock
4 ???
5 File Lawsuits against IBM, Novell, Redhat, Et All
6 Profit!!!
Yeah, because hardware manufacturers design around YOUR needs, not the needs of industry.
So if YOU demanded MFM/RLL support in a hard drive, should hard drive manufcturers provide backward compatibility?
IIRC one of the key features is the processor cooling built into your case.
As well as the fact that there's three or four different sizes IIRC.
Actually, much like the search engine they've built, they'd probably get the Mail Protocol right as well...
Difference is that google indexes your message using keywords. Spamassasin reads it and forwards it on.
I'll offer you a gig of hard drive space for that... Heck, it'd almost be worth it!