How long has DOM Level 2 been out? They already have their proprietary event handling model that maps fairly well onto DOM 2 with the exception of capture support. In the years that they squandered between IE6 and IE7 they could have at least tried to create a facade that was standards-compliant. Doing nothing is a passive form of malevolence.
The fact that IE7 still inexplicably does not support the DOM Level 2 Event Model makes it difficult to believe that there are no bad intentions on Microsoft's part.
Indeed, I was speaking about the company. Naturally Speaking, though a breakthrough product, was not enough to keep Dragon afloat and it was sold to L&H shortly after I left the company.
The fact that the product itself is still going strong after being passed around from hand to hand is something that I, as a V1.0 NatSpeak developer, take not a small amount of pride in.
If you really want to serve users fix their problems
Exactly. I could not have said it better myself. And to a person, each "switcher" is ecstatic with their choice.
And lest you think I'm a total hammer-and-nail dude, there is one neighbor who could not switch because of Windows-only programs she needed for her job. For her, I applied the best protections I could. But even on well-protected systems, there are still Registry corruptions and DLL Hell to deal with.
For the general user who just wants to use their system for what it is intended without all the care and feeding needed for Windows, a Mac is the perfect hammer.
These are friends, neighbors and family that were calling, sometimes multiple times per week, with the latest virus or security hole preventing them from doing even basic things on their computers.
No all I hear from them is how happy they are with their Macs.
AJAX is a tool like any other. Like XML before it, all the hype will cause it to be used and abused for all sorts of things for which it is not suitable (remember "We don't need a database, we have XML!"?)
After the hype subsides, AJAX will become just another tool to be used when appropriate and eschewed when not.
I work for a bank. One of the BIG banks. And despite what one might think, even they are smart enough to realize that "off stage" workers don't need to be held to any silly rules about dress.
Our dress code is basically "don't forget to put on your pants/shorts". (I'm in Austin, so most of the year, it's shorts).
OK, so I've only been a Texan 10 years longer than you've been alive. But I still call longhorn excrement -- I sincerely wish you were right, but I find the average Texan has no more and no less manners than anyone else. At least judging against how Miss Anita (my late mom) rasied her littl'uns.
>but seems to miss that the stereotypical Texan is also instinctively polite towards womenfolk.
As a stereotypical Texan, I can tell you that that's a load of longhorn excrement.
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How long has DOM Level 2 been out? They already have their proprietary event handling model that maps fairly well onto DOM 2 with the exception of capture support. In the years that they squandered between IE6 and IE7 they could have at least tried to create a facade that was standards-compliant. Doing nothing is a passive form of malevolence.
The fact that IE7 still inexplicably does not support the DOM Level 2 Event Model makes it difficult to believe that there are no bad intentions on Microsoft's part.
Indeed, I was speaking about the company. Naturally Speaking, though a breakthrough product, was not enough to keep Dragon afloat and it was sold to L&H shortly after I left the company.
The fact that the product itself is still going strong after being passed around from hand to hand is something that I, as a V1.0 NatSpeak developer, take not a small amount of pride in.
Dragon is no more... and hasn't been for a long time.
NaturallySpeaking has been sold a few times to various companies.
(I keep track because I worked on V1.0)
there is no substitue.
I hear ya! Mobile phones are trying to be all these different things but when it comes down to it, they're pretty crappy as phones.
... as Windows Genuine Advantage.
Put a positive spin on the name and you can fool anyone!
And don't forget all the hours of good family fun removing all the pre-installed demo-ware crap that gets loaded.
Did anyone find it ironic that one is forced to sit through an enforced ad in order to read the article?
+1 Clever
If you really want to serve users fix their problems
Exactly. I could not have said it better myself. And to a person, each "switcher" is ecstatic with their choice.
And lest you think I'm a total hammer-and-nail dude, there is one neighbor who could not switch because of Windows-only programs she needed for her job. For her, I applied the best protections I could. But even on well-protected systems, there are still Registry corruptions and DLL Hell to deal with.
For the general user who just wants to use their system for what it is intended without all the care and feeding needed for Windows, a Mac is the perfect hammer.
I sleep just fine, thank you very much.
These are friends, neighbors and family that were calling, sometimes multiple times per week, with the latest virus or security hole preventing them from doing even basic things on their computers.
No all I hear from them is how happy they are with their Macs.
Better than Ambien!
Apple is not a software company. They are a hardware company.
Quite true. But for a not-software company they sure do produce one hell of a good OS.
Why would the general populace ever want to buy a Mac?
Almost every person that I've induced to switch or helped to switch were prompted to do so to escape the Windows virus nightmare.
Did Bill's right nipple get exposed?
... would you need a portable video display for a portable video display?
AJAX is a tool like any other. Like XML before it, all the hype will cause it to be used and abused for all sorts of things for which it is not suitable (remember "We don't need a database, we have XML!"?)
After the hype subsides, AJAX will become just another tool to be used when appropriate and eschewed when not.
I work for a bank. One of the BIG banks. And despite what one might think, even they are smart enough to realize that "off stage" workers don't need to be held to any silly rules about dress.
Our dress code is basically "don't forget to put on your pants/shorts". (I'm in Austin, so most of the year, it's shorts).
Mod +2 Funny
If it were correct, people would actually be getting smarter. And that, apparently, isn't happening.
Sounds like you are over-loading the term "convert". You have converted, thereforr, by definition, you are a convert. No zealotry implied.
P.S. If this were 20 years ago I'd have been in agreement -- things have changed in the Lone Star State.
OK, so I've only been a Texan 10 years longer than you've been alive. But I still call longhorn excrement -- I sincerely wish you were right, but I find the average Texan has no more and no less manners than anyone else. At least judging against how Miss Anita (my late mom) rasied her littl'uns.
Stereotypical Texans are as polite as can be to ladies.
I've been a Texan probably longer than you've been alive little boy. And again, I say "longhorn excrement".
>but seems to miss that the stereotypical Texan is also instinctively polite towards womenfolk. As a stereotypical Texan, I can tell you that that's a load of longhorn excrement.