What worries me is the guy who already has an RFID tag in his left hand.
Doctor: Oh shit!, we let something in his hand! Assistant: But Doctor! We didn't operate on his left hand, this was only a vasectomy. Doctor:... This was a vasectomy?
...because after the scalpels been in your gut for the duration of the surgery I assume they dump them in a tin of some sort of strong disinfectant. You want them to neatly lay out there nice gorey used gut digging, spooning and screwing tools back on the tray?
If they did that, we'd end up with surgeons refusing to set the dinner table at home because it reminds them of work. Think of the consequences!
Thats the whole point of DirectX and an API! So the game developer doesn't have to worry about the underlying hardware. All that's required is porting DirectX itself to the Xbox OS and hardware, so most of the work is done by MS themselves.
The author isn't a web developer and wasn't doing it from a web developers perspective, he is not defending IE, merely stating a fact that from the users perspective IE's lacking standards support barely makes a difference. Perhaps web devs should have dropped IE like a brick and broke the web.
It's amusing that in one thread, people are complaining that Opera is ugly out of the box and shouldn't be so, and in another somebody else is saying hey extensions are OK and should be considered to compare the Firefox browser to it's full potential.
Your browsing experience is what you make it, no matter what browser you use, it's highly personal. There are no one size fits all solutions, which is what makes Firefox+Extensions and Opera's awesome configurability both truly superior to IE. Most of these feature comparison reviews are useless, as the author of the article says in his last paragraph, download and try them all and use what works for you.
SQL isn't code. It has absolutely nothing to do with PHP in any integral sense, it's entirely provided by a library. I've already pointed out that there are better libraries and methods available to PHP users as part of the standard package. I am not seeing your point, just random PHP bashing...
Sure, if I'm putting together a blog for myself security may not be my top priority and in a situation like this the "I'm too lazy and this is a pain in the ass" excuse is fine
This is great. I never knew people had blogs just for themselves. But may I ask, on the off chance that you and your insights were actually worth reading about would you give a thought to those commenting on your weblog? Their email addresses? usernames, passwords? How many of them will use the same password for their email as they will for commenting on your blog (if you have registration). How about planting some nasty javascript into your pages? Hell even if it doesn't effect others so directly, somebody who compromises your blog could possibly cause offense to those you know... at your expense.
Neglecting good practice just because doing so foreseeably only effects you is a mistake, or atleast you chose a bad example.
Since when is it the job of the language to protect you from SQL injection? I think you're confusing the language of PHP with the standard libraries it ships with, mysql_*() and co. It's worth noting that PHP *does* support prepared statement's using the 'new' object oriented mysqi interface much like the Perl DBI. This handles the casting of types and escaping of strings for you.
The root issue is that MS doesn't see web standards support as an important competitive issue.
Yet. Once IE7 has shipped with whole bunch of competitive out of the box features, Microsoft has to put it's foot down and start the real work of restoring faith in it's users. Firefox's usage may be low, but i'm sure most of remaining IE userbase must have been feeling *the ripples* even if they aren't aware of Firefox's existance or choose not to use it.
I'm of the opinion that IE7 is just a distraction, a way of catching up superficially to yank on the chains of the competition. Once it's out and the buzz has died down they are going to need that late 90's velocity right back (and they *have* said there will be more frequent updates to IE) otherwise it's going to be a gross waste of time and a huge disappointment.
The question is, will Firefox's (now large) ego survive a battering if MS really ramp it up in IE8 once Vista is out of the box and can Mozilla remain competitive? Personally I hope not, being humbled is good for the thought process.
..actually seeing as the files are already zipped and to maintain 'purity' TAR would be the most logical option. But about 90% of torrenters don't know what the smeg a tarball is..:P
point taken about the torrent, i almost forgot they can handle bundles of lots of files.
I'm downloading all 92 zip files now (with URLToys), thats all the tools and all the versions, when i'm done i'll rar them up and put a torrent somewhere;-) I suppose I best check if we are allowed to redistribute the tools before I do so, I don't fancy any wrath from Microsoft.
That could be because most normal non-technical people never need or do visit the open source project websites (except maybe mozilla.org). Most people goto software homepages to get the software but in the Linux world, and let's face it thats where most open source software is 'sold', everyone get's it through their distro's repository.
I'd be more interested in H.264/AVC decoding performance than encoding performance, that said we should be doing decoding of H.264 on GPU. Unfortunately the bastages at nVidia want you to pay extra for that privilege.
Since KDE is the most popular desktop for Linux......i'd like to see some evidence of that. All the 'popular' or 'cool' distro's out there atm seem to be using Gnome.
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What worries me is the guy who already has an RFID tag in his left hand.
... This was a vasectomy?
Doctor: Oh shit!, we let something in his hand!
Assistant: But Doctor! We didn't operate on his left hand, this was only a vasectomy.
Doctor:
...because after the scalpels been in your gut for the duration of the surgery I assume they dump them in a tin of some sort of strong disinfectant. You want them to neatly lay out there nice gorey used gut digging, spooning and screwing tools back on the tray?
If they did that, we'd end up with surgeons refusing to set the dinner table at home because it reminds them of work. Think of the consequences!
Thats the whole point of DirectX and an API! So the game developer doesn't have to worry about the underlying hardware. All that's required is porting DirectX itself to the Xbox OS and hardware, so most of the work is done by MS themselves.
The author isn't a web developer and wasn't doing it from a web developers perspective, he is not defending IE, merely stating a fact that from the users perspective IE's lacking standards support barely makes a difference. Perhaps web devs should have dropped IE like a brick and broke the web.
It's amusing that in one thread, people are complaining that Opera is ugly out of the box and shouldn't be so, and in another somebody else is saying hey extensions are OK and should be considered to compare the Firefox browser to it's full potential.
Your browsing experience is what you make it, no matter what browser you use, it's highly personal. There are no one size fits all solutions, which is what makes Firefox+Extensions and Opera's awesome configurability both truly superior to IE. Most of these feature comparison reviews are useless, as the author of the article says in his last paragraph, download and try them all and use what works for you.
SQL isn't code. It has absolutely nothing to do with PHP in any integral sense, it's entirely provided by a library. I've already pointed out that there are better libraries and methods available to PHP users as part of the standard package. I am not seeing your point, just random PHP bashing...
Sure, if I'm putting together a blog for myself security may not be my top priority and in a situation like this the "I'm too lazy and this is a pain in the ass" excuse is fine
This is great. I never knew people had blogs just for themselves. But may I ask, on the off chance that you and your insights were actually worth reading about would you give a thought to those commenting on your weblog? Their email addresses? usernames, passwords? How many of them will use the same password for their email as they will for commenting on your blog (if you have registration). How about planting some nasty javascript into your pages? Hell even if it doesn't effect others so directly, somebody who compromises your blog could possibly cause offense to those you know... at your expense.
Neglecting good practice just because doing so foreseeably only effects you is a mistake, or atleast you chose a bad example.
So...change your web host?
Since when is it the job of the language to protect you from SQL injection? I think you're confusing the language of PHP with the standard libraries it ships with, mysql_*() and co. It's worth noting that PHP *does* support prepared statement's using the 'new' object oriented mysqi interface much like the Perl DBI. This handles the casting of types and escaping of strings for you.
But IE got on top largely because it went after the 'hearts and minds' of developers
Developers! Developers! Developers!
The root issue is that MS doesn't see web standards support as an important competitive issue.
Yet. Once IE7 has shipped with whole bunch of competitive out of the box features, Microsoft has to put it's foot down and start the real work of restoring faith in it's users. Firefox's usage may be low, but i'm sure most of remaining IE userbase must have been feeling *the ripples* even if they aren't aware of Firefox's existance or choose not to use it.
I'm of the opinion that IE7 is just a distraction, a way of catching up superficially to yank on the chains of the competition. Once it's out and the buzz has died down they are going to need that late 90's velocity right back (and they *have* said there will be more frequent updates to IE) otherwise it's going to be a gross waste of time and a huge disappointment.
The question is, will Firefox's (now large) ego survive a battering if MS really ramp it up in IE8 once Vista is out of the box and can Mozilla remain competitive? Personally I hope not, being humbled is good for the thought process.
I won't be putting up a torrent, the whole lot is only 13.3 MB and the EULA (or atleast my interpretation of it) forbids you from doing so.
..actually seeing as the files are already zipped and to maintain 'purity' TAR would be the most logical option. But about 90% of torrenters don't know what the smeg a tarball is..:P
point taken about the torrent, i almost forgot they can handle bundles of lots of files.
Ta. I fixed the list. I guess URLToys isn't the sexy hotness it used to be ;-)
Complete list of the utility URL's -> here
I'm downloading all 92 zip files now (with URLToys), thats all the tools and all the versions, when i'm done i'll rar them up and put a torrent somewhere ;-) I suppose I best check if we are allowed to redistribute the tools before I do so, I don't fancy any wrath from Microsoft.
Watch this thread.
That could be because most normal non-technical people never need or do visit the open source project websites (except maybe mozilla.org). Most people goto software homepages to get the software but in the Linux world, and let's face it thats where most open source software is 'sold', everyone get's it through their distro's repository.
They're not, that's exactly what Firefox looks like by default.
Theres no reason to go download third party patch sets when you can get all the hotfixes you need in one go from Microsoft. They update the images monthly.
Weren't Microsoft releasing monthly or quarterly service pack-like roll-up's? I can't find the link atm...
I'd be more interested in H.264/AVC decoding performance than encoding performance, that said we should be doing decoding of H.264 on GPU. Unfortunately the bastages at nVidia want you to pay extra for that privilege.
thats it...you're fucking banned from using parenthesis :P
now goto your room
Since KDE is the most popular desktop for Linux... ...i'd like to see some evidence of that. All the 'popular' or 'cool' distro's out there atm seem to be using Gnome.
Would Taco like to furnish us with those stats? :P