Clippy and the Dog? That's 2 not dozens. You can change Clippy to another but you can't get dozens at a time and you can turn both off (which I've done). Clippy is a little more useful than the dog, but I rarely need help and when I do I just search for it in the regular help window.
Just make sure that the target platform wasn't IE all along before you go and do that. Charging extra for compatibility with the primary target platform would be a bad move.;p This would be like me writing an application for MacOS X then charging the client to port it to Win32 when the target platform was Win32 all along.
IE in XP SP2 only had minor security enhancements. The buffer overrun protection in the OS was the real jewel of that revision and has apparently protected IE in SP2 from several vulnerabilities (which are still marked as unpatched by Secunia along with crash bugs that they don't even think are exploitable....). IE 7 will probably work on the cross domain scripting issues and the spoofing/phishing issues.
You need full HTML and all the scrips to follow it;). I believe that's the code for fading out the text on zoomed elements though. Also it probably unzooms the icons;p
"Even Microsoft"? If you were surprised that MS was shipping a 64-bit C++ compiler, you have problems my friend. I'm pretty sure the Windows Platform SDK had a compiler that targeted IA64 and MS needs something to build its own apps for AMD64 so they have a x64 compatible compiler too! Oh am I surprised by that development!
But we're not getting the full hardware accelerated graphics system that will be sitting under Avalon in Longhorn. Probably won't have the new UI enhancements either. The pillars are mostly developer stuff that users wouldn't notice anyway. WinFS might've been noticable but even that isn't going to be shipping with Longhorn when it comes out.
It was nothing but a harmless joke about Clippy. There wasn't even an opinion expressed about the technology other than a possible (and funny) application of it. The most annoying thing ever would be if MS Clippy could READ it's suggestions to you while you're trying to get work done. I think one-upping MS with such an innovation would be worthwhile. And yes, the latter half of this post was a harmless joke about Clippy. This is/. where Clippy jokes run rampant in the streets.
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and if most of them were minor fixes and enhancements rather than crippling flaws?
I think it's even worse when you end up replacing C with K throughout the entire environment. How am I supposed to take it seriously when it seems to be written by a script kiddy? Oh wait...
However most of the drawing is probably being done using the same APIs in the same libraries. Making the controls look different (they are the SAME controls...) is a little different than using a completely different toolkit for each app.;p
It might make the code GPL, but until the company OKs the release in writing or by order of a higher-up, the company has full copyright and patent protection on the *NEW* code and ideas. This is the kind of thing the SCO case was about (until they stopped screaming about Linux so much). A GPL viral in the derivative works sense wouldn't be good for open source. The idea that code contributed is derivative and thus owned by the original author means that any original author could pick up their ball and go home without asking contributors; releasing only closed source versions under a new license.
You mean that proving the "viral" GPL can somehow override their rights to their employee's creations? That would be the nail in the coffin for GPL in the commercial arena.
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Clippy and the Dog? That's 2 not dozens. You can change Clippy to another but you can't get dozens at a time and you can turn both off (which I've done). Clippy is a little more useful than the dog, but I rarely need help and when I do I just search for it in the regular help window.
Just make sure that the target platform wasn't IE all along before you go and do that. Charging extra for compatibility with the primary target platform would be a bad move. ;p This would be like me writing an application for MacOS X then charging the client to port it to Win32 when the target platform was Win32 all along.
Yeah, phasing out obselete products after more than half a decade is pretty shitty.
IE in XP SP2 only had minor security enhancements. The buffer overrun protection in the OS was the real jewel of that revision and has apparently protected IE in SP2 from several vulnerabilities (which are still marked as unpatched by Secunia along with crash bugs that they don't even think are exploitable....). IE 7 will probably work on the cross domain scripting issues and the spoofing/phishing issues.
"The goal of Firefox isn't to emulate IE,"...except in regards to the user interface.
Everytime one of these stories gets posted someone links to the validator for slashdot :P
If you read the article they say it only lasts 10 million, billion, billionths of a second so it just dies on its own.
You need full HTML and all the scrips to follow it ;). I believe that's the code for fading out the text on zoomed elements though. Also it probably unzooms the icons ;p
Moderator could think the karma holder is overrated to begin with ;)
Google is preinstalled in Safari and Firefox!
"Even Microsoft"? If you were surprised that MS was shipping a 64-bit C++ compiler, you have problems my friend. I'm pretty sure the Windows Platform SDK had a compiler that targeted IA64 and MS needs something to build its own apps for AMD64 so they have a x64 compatible compiler too! Oh am I surprised by that development!
I've used various versions of MacOS. It's not that great.
What does Cairo have to do with Avalon? Avalon isn't the hardware acceleration in Longhorn. It's for building applications.
The .NET Framework is a layer on top of the Win32 API. How exactly are they going to scrap the Win32 API and use .NET?
But we're not getting the full hardware accelerated graphics system that will be sitting under Avalon in Longhorn. Probably won't have the new UI enhancements either. The pillars are mostly developer stuff that users wouldn't notice anyway. WinFS might've been noticable but even that isn't going to be shipping with Longhorn when it comes out.
It was nothing but a harmless joke about Clippy. There wasn't even an opinion expressed about the technology other than a possible (and funny) application of it. The most annoying thing ever would be if MS Clippy could READ it's suggestions to you while you're trying to get work done. I think one-upping MS with such an innovation would be worthwhile. And yes, the latter half of this post was a harmless joke about Clippy. This is /. where Clippy jokes run rampant in the streets.
and if most of them were minor fixes and enhancements rather than crippling flaws?
I left eyeball exploded when I saw it. How could you do it, Timmeh?
I think it's even worse when you end up replacing C with K throughout the entire environment. How am I supposed to take it seriously when it seems to be written by a script kiddy? Oh wait...
The different Windows versions/SKUs are essentially branches off the same tree NOT forks.
However most of the drawing is probably being done using the same APIs in the same libraries. Making the controls look different (they are the SAME controls...) is a little different than using a completely different toolkit for each app. ;p
It might make the code GPL, but until the company OKs the release in writing or by order of a higher-up, the company has full copyright and patent protection on the *NEW* code and ideas. This is the kind of thing the SCO case was about (until they stopped screaming about Linux so much). A GPL viral in the derivative works sense wouldn't be good for open source. The idea that code contributed is derivative and thus owned by the original author means that any original author could pick up their ball and go home without asking contributors; releasing only closed source versions under a new license.
You mean that proving the "viral" GPL can somehow override their rights to their employee's creations? That would be the nail in the coffin for GPL in the commercial arena.
By default, Windows XP will restart the computer for me. Take that.
or get rid of the contents of the disk?