Personally, I don't see what the big problems with the registry are.
With most old applications, I could simply copy the root directory onto another computer, and it would work fine. As apps started using the registry more often, this sometimes became impossible; programs would just refuse to work because they couldn't find the registry entries they needed. (Games are especially bad, as they often keep CD keys in the registry.) I can see why the registry could be useful, but in practice it (or perhaps just how programmers have used it) has caused me quite a lot of hassle.
To the average user, they're both just download links.
With the exception that one of them causes your computer to start uploading data to other people. The average user might be surprised when clicking on a link causes this to happen; complete Firefox-Bittorrent integration is possibly a bad idea because of this. (Although I have no problem with an extension. ^_^)
This is a generic resonse, which has nothing to do with the article. The guy who posted it posted at least one other generic "Rails" response, having absolutely zilch to do with the article.
But of course it would be the same people who push for ID that would be against any such class... unless it was completely biased towards their point of view.
I've seen dbaron's name enough in highly technical bugzilla discussions that the comment that he "might" have contributed code actually made me laugh. ^_^
One further thing that should be mentioned for those who don't know: links in slashdot comments have the rel attribute set to "no-follow"; google won't take into account such links when ranking pages. The links in the article summary are not treated this way, including the username link. (I didn't realise this until I looked at the page source.)
It's possible they also have a requirement to cut off his access to the company data. If he's switches to a rival company, they wouldn't want him brining more inside knowledge than he already has.
It's possible it's not so much "he might trash our systems" as "he's leaving for the competition; so don't let them get any more information about us than he already has."
But nobody takes a moment to realize that while swearing when you're out with your friends may be completely normal, swearing in front of strangers is rude.
False assumption 1: people only swear in front of strangers because they don't know any better. But most such people simply don't care; we call them jerks
if people would catch themselves before randomly spouting profanity amid strangers, we'd all live in a much happier, friendlier society.
False assumption 2: it's impossible to be rude or hateful without profanity. But jerks can be jerks even if you ducktape their mouths shut. It's an attitude, not the specific set of syllables they use. ^_^
why not just build the entire music player into the headsets?
Because sometimes you might want to just listen to your music through your headphones. Or maybe even broadcast it to multiple listeners in a small area. The holy grail here isn't a gadget but a modular system that can adapt to your needs simply by buying another module and plugging it into the system.
Not really... assuming you have the bandwidth it's better to avoid bittorrent, as it'll never be faster or more efficient than just quickly downloading from one source. For example, I got FF 1.5 in less than 30 seconds; it takes longer than that for Azureus to even startup on my computer! And even if I already had it open, it still takes some time to negotiate all the connections.
Oddly enough, ADV's Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi DVD's have higher production value than any other series I've seen. There were thick booklets with each disc, and a decent amount of effort was put into explaining the Japanese culture injokes with little popup bubbles. And although the voice acting was kind of jarring at first (southern accents) once you got used to it it made sense.
I realise you're a troll, but there is some pretty atrocious voice acting out there. I pref dub to sub, but the voices in elfen lied (for example) were so bad that I switched to subtitles. I guess it's possible that the original voices are also bad, but at least I don't realise that. ^_^
Regarding plugin security:s do
The idea is that you do not want to let sites trick people into pushing yes. There have been several demonstrated attacks which do this: Having a game which requires quickly and repeatedly clicking a spot on the page, and then popping up the dialogue right underneath it is one. While this can be prevented by disabling the "yes" button for a small amount of time (as Firefox does with these dialogues anyway) I think they thought: "better safe than sorry."
Actually it does. A lot of Firefox JavaScript, for example, is stored in zip files to reduce the disk space it takes up. I think it even supports opening zipped resources online.
However, after checking out OpenDocument more, you couldn't just specify a generic XSL sheet for Open Documents, and have them look like the writer wanted. All the styling information is kept in one XML file, and the content in another, with some other XML files carrying things like the metadata. And as you mentioned, all of these are stored in a zip file. That means that more is needed than a single XSLT document.
However, I think an extension for opening the format in Firefox really wouldn't be too hard to write; even if it didn't support every last line of the spec. ^_^ There's actually an OpenOffice plugin for firefox, too.
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You should look again at this part: most people can't figure out the logic. Becuase of the 5 sentances in your post, none are correct. ^_^
Yes, and you have to sleep with them to get more...
This is an area where the DS's "inferior" graphics may actually help. Money and development time can be spent on gameplay instead of art resources.
With most old applications, I could simply copy the root directory onto another computer, and it would work fine. As apps started using the registry more often, this sometimes became impossible; programs would just refuse to work because they couldn't find the registry entries they needed. (Games are especially bad, as they often keep CD keys in the registry.) I can see why the registry could be useful, but in practice it (or perhaps just how programmers have used it) has caused me quite a lot of hassle.
There can be licensing issues which prevent the release of code, depending on the legacy of the code itself. That seems to come up with games a lot...
With the exception that one of them causes your computer to start uploading data to other people. The average user might be surprised when clicking on a link causes this to happen; complete Firefox-Bittorrent integration is possibly a bad idea because of this. (Although I have no problem with an extension. ^_^)
This is a generic resonse, which has nothing to do with the article. The guy who posted it posted at least one other generic "Rails" response, having absolutely zilch to do with the article.
Why was this modded up? The article doesn't even mention code generation. It compares Ruby and Java as generic development languages.
No, it marks the beginning of people freed up from reverting constantly vandalised pages.
But of course it would be the same people who push for ID that would be against any such class... unless it was completely biased towards their point of view.
I've seen dbaron's name enough in highly technical bugzilla discussions that the comment that he "might" have contributed code actually made me laugh. ^_^
Perhaps not pissing customers off is the point?
Javascript 2 is part of mozilla's roadmap, actually. ^_^ Check out some of Brendan Eich's blog entries.
One further thing that should be mentioned for those who don't know: links in slashdot comments have the rel attribute set to "no-follow"; google won't take into account such links when ranking pages. The links in the article summary are not treated this way, including the username link. (I didn't realise this until I looked at the page source.)
It's possible they also have a requirement to cut off his access to the company data. If he's switches to a rival company, they wouldn't want him brining more inside knowledge than he already has.
It's possible it's not so much "he might trash our systems" as "he's leaving for the competition; so don't let them get any more information about us than he already has."
I think the point was that people initially claimed that 3MI wasn't dangerous.
False assumption 1: people only swear in front of strangers because they don't know any better. But most such people simply don't care; we call them jerks
if people would catch themselves before randomly spouting profanity amid strangers, we'd all live in a much happier, friendlier society.False assumption 2: it's impossible to be rude or hateful without profanity. But jerks can be jerks even if you ducktape their mouths shut. It's an attitude, not the specific set of syllables they use. ^_^
Because sometimes you might want to just listen to your music through your headphones. Or maybe even broadcast it to multiple listeners in a small area. The holy grail here isn't a gadget but a modular system that can adapt to your needs simply by buying another module and plugging it into the system.
Not really... assuming you have the bandwidth it's better to avoid bittorrent, as it'll never be faster or more efficient than just quickly downloading from one source. For example, I got FF 1.5 in less than 30 seconds; it takes longer than that for Azureus to even startup on my computer! And even if I already had it open, it still takes some time to negotiate all the connections.
Oddly enough, ADV's Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi DVD's have higher production value than any other series I've seen. There were thick booklets with each disc, and a decent amount of effort was put into explaining the Japanese culture injokes with little popup bubbles. And although the voice acting was kind of jarring at first (southern accents) once you got used to it it made sense.
I realise you're a troll, but there is some pretty atrocious voice acting out there. I pref dub to sub, but the voices in elfen lied (for example) were so bad that I switched to subtitles. I guess it's possible that the original voices are also bad, but at least I don't realise that. ^_^
Regarding plugin security:s do The idea is that you do not want to let sites trick people into pushing yes. There have been several demonstrated attacks which do this: Having a game which requires quickly and repeatedly clicking a spot on the page, and then popping up the dialogue right underneath it is one. While this can be prevented by disabling the "yes" button for a small amount of time (as Firefox does with these dialogues anyway) I think they thought: "better safe than sorry."
Maybe because the file is only 5MB? Bittorrent is not very efficient for such small files. ^_^
Actually it does. A lot of Firefox JavaScript, for example, is stored in zip files to reduce the disk space it takes up. I think it even supports opening zipped resources online.
However, after checking out OpenDocument more, you couldn't just specify a generic XSL sheet for Open Documents, and have them look like the writer wanted. All the styling information is kept in one XML file, and the content in another, with some other XML files carrying things like the metadata. And as you mentioned, all of these are stored in a zip file. That means that more is needed than a single XSLT document.
However, I think an extension for opening the format in Firefox really wouldn't be too hard to write; even if it didn't support every last line of the spec. ^_^ There's actually an OpenOffice plugin for firefox, too.