as tasteless as it sounds, i initially read the caption as reading 'tsnuami series', I thought the article was about a tastless pun on the recent tsunami. Thought I'd share my misreading.
One of the original 2003 security features was to have IE warn you that you're using it, when it first installed. I wonder what ground breaking enhancements this one has
but there's a bunch of avarage users out there (the people who open email attachments named.jpg.pif) who like to know as little as possible about how computers work
You mean there's people out there whose lives don't revolve around a computer?...You're dillusional
mod the last 2 up they're absolutely right - the winapi is staying. I asked the question at channel 9 recently, and got the response that it's hard enough changing one winapi function, let alone ditching the whole lot.
All of Grime's points are well counter-argued by Dan, none of them (if you're a.NET developer and know what Grime's babling on about) hold any validity.
But like you say, it makes great AnTi-M$$$ fodder !!11111 oMg I Am TEh l33t lInuX hAck0r..
Parallelism will allow to chip developers to speed up processors ten-fold between 2005 and 2008, the executive said. "By the end of the decade, mainstream desktops will handle eight threads, mainstream servers 32 threads"...
Although great news for games players, developers and media users, how is 8 processors going to be any benefit to the average corporate desktop that uses MS Office, IE and handful of other non-processor-intensive apps?
It seems like dual and multicore technology will be a complete waste for these machines, which probably make up the majority of the desktop market.
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no, just you
Explain to people that the web is full of people trying to either destroy your data, or steal your money, and you can do away with the terminology.
can't spell hyper either (hiper? maybe hipper - cooler links?)
If Microsoft was banned, a lot of people would lose their jobs, people who rely on Microsoft products for their own product-range/services.
as tasteless as it sounds, i initially read the caption as reading 'tsnuami series', I thought the article was about a tastless pun on the recent tsunami. Thought I'd share my misreading.
or that's what she told you, when you caught her in bed with one of them. Wake up and smell the coffee my friend
yes that's what i meant, and it was pointless. It assumed that windows sys admins weren't capable of avoiding sites with spyware etc.
One of the original 2003 security features was to have IE warn you that you're using it, when it first installed. I wonder what ground breaking enhancements this one has
you've never watched the Simpsons and our favourite news reader, Kent Brockman?
but there's a bunch of avarage users out there (the people who open email attachments named .jpg.pif) who like to know as little as possible about how computers work
You mean there's people out there whose lives don't revolve around a computer?...You're dillusional
He's gay
gay
whilst Microsoft techies are fortunate to be allowed to spend 100% of their time on "forever-in-beta-quality-projects"
crikey, attack of the 13 year old flamers
mod the last 2 up they're absolutely right - the winapi is staying. I asked the question at channel 9 recently, and got the response that it's hard enough changing one winapi function, let alone ditching the whole lot.
for IIS:http://www.w3compiler.com/
there's load of tools that do this, it's not a new thing, I can't understand the fuss! The reason the exist is that whitespace costs bandwidth.
Customary slashdot anti-Microsoft, I hate them post
You can change this behaviour in the web.config file, by adding a browserCaps section: msdn
"Ah, remember when the release of a Netscape mattered? "
Ah, remember when the release of a Firefox mattered?
** Runs very far **
All of Grime's points are well counter-argued by Dan, none of them (if you're a .NET developer and know what Grime's babling on about) hold any validity.
But like you say, it makes great AnTi-M$$$ fodder !!11111 oMg I Am TEh l33t lInuX hAck0r..
To quote the intel article:
Parallelism will allow to chip developers to speed up processors ten-fold between 2005 and 2008, the executive said. "By the end of the decade, mainstream desktops will handle eight threads, mainstream servers 32 threads"...
Although great news for games players, developers and media users, how is 8 processors going to be any benefit to the average corporate desktop that uses MS Office, IE and handful of other non-processor-intensive apps?
It seems like dual and multicore technology will be a complete waste for these machines, which probably make up the majority of the desktop market.
Maybe in the US, but in the UK:
e s.html)8 00_Series.html) + £104.95 for motherboard
ATI Radeon X850 XT PE:£399.44 (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X850_Seri
2 x Geforce 6800: 2x£217.32 (£434.64) (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_6
Talking about £40 extra effectively, what will be almost twice the power
but 125gb of storage surely, 8 bits per byte unless I've been living a lie
I downloaded my browser, from 5.0 to 6 on a windows 2000 server.
About 1/2 of those downloads are upgrades, and let's be honest, and most of the features that it has are available to maxthon, avant browser...
So the revolution hasn't quite come yet
Only 374,758,170 downloads left to match the estimated 400 million worldwide IE (windows) users ;)
Avant browser
Maxthon
Have been around as long as Firefox has, both have tabbed browsing, ad blocking and popup blocking, plus mouse gestures and all the other stuff.