A while a go I emailed MS about the warning that pops up for shared certificates. They don't mention the address bar coloring, but since we're on the topic, here's what they said: --------- [ME]--
The problem with "shared" SSL certificates is that they're pretty much "useless" to begin with. Certificates are issued to map a real-world site owner to a hostname and a private key used when communicating with that hostname. When the hostname doesn't match the website, there's no reason for the user to believe that certificate is presenting the private key of the site owner.
All modern browsers warn the user of this discrepancy, and in the face of one-click attack toolkits which intercept and resign SSL connections, IE7's Certificate Error page was designed to inform the users of the significant risks they face when interacting with such sites.
There are a number of options to correctly use SSL, ranging from purchasing individual certificates (available for as little as $18/year), wildcard certificates (e.g. using a *.example.com certificate to secure shopa.example.com & shopb.example.com) or using a shared server with a single hostname and corresponding digital certificate (partnersales.onlinemall.com).
Best wishes,
Eric Lawrence Program Manager Internet Explorer Trust & Networking
-----Original Message----- From: [me] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 5:27 AM To: IE External Feedback Subject: IE7 effectively makes shared ssl certificates useless.
Hello,
Many of my clients own ecommerce sites that barely earn only a small profit. They cannot afford personal ssl certificates for their websites. My hosting provider, like many others provides a shared certificate that can be used. However, IE7 is now going to present a big, intimidating warning page that effectively scares visitors away from a site. Even though a shared cert provides just as much encryption protetection for their credit card data.
IE6 presents a less-frightening dialog box warning that the domain of the site does not match the domain of the cert. This was fine. But, now with the IE7 warning page, I can forsee that most visitors will be scared away.
On behalf of the many thousands of ecommerce site operators that use shared certificates because it's all we can afford, I strongly believe that many website owners will want or need you to replace the big scary warning page with a dialog box warning or perhaps a banner at the top of the page. I also ask you to include in your warning, a clear statement that certificates that do not match the domain, or do not come from a certifying authority, do still provide encryption protection of credit card and sensitive data. Perhaps a big warning is more appropriate for sites that ask for credit card data but do not use any SSL encryption.
I'm sure that Thawte and Verisign are seeing $$s at this IE7 "feature".
I have a small sole proprietorship in Canda, and this is going to be a huge problem for me. I only do a few thousand dollars of sales per year (I have a day job), so paying for one of the 'green' certificates is WAY out of my budget. In addition my clients have ecomm websites and no money for these certs.
Now what? If I'm using a shared certificate is it going to show as yellow or red for me? This doesn't only apply to ecomm sites but also sites with a secure area like a user admin.
What a big pisser on the little guy. I don't quite understand why it is Microsoft's problem to protect the idots who don't realize they are at amason.com instead of amazon.com or whatever. Microsoft is not responsible for phishing and the hazards of the internet. Cars don't prevent me from exceeding the speed limit.
Really... what IS wrong with the 3rd party lists of known phishing sites? Why does MS have to do things in a completely idiotic pain in the ass way every time? Thanks for crapping on the little guy. I guess I'll ratchet up my get Firefox, burn IE campaign. Damn it.
Most of all, this just makes me frustrated and upset. I won't be using IE7 or developing websites for it. Screw them.
Ok... if you're storing the session id via cookie... what's the best solution for preventing cookie theft abuse? Pardon my stupidity for not knowing this already...
Listen Slashdot- please stop with the "witty" story titles. For those of us using live bookmarks or news feeds- it really sucks to have to click over to a story just to find out what the hell it is. Geez!
I don't care what the next media size or format is, as long as I don't have to friggin re-purchase my extensive movie collection. I was lucky, my collection of VHS movies was/is small. But my DVD collection has exploded. If they stop making traditional DVD players... I'm going to go postal.
It's amazing how empty some websites are when you block the ads. Kind of sad really that they have nothing substantial to present instead.
The worst and the thing that really scares me are the ads that pop-up overtop of TV shows now, along the bottom or in the corner. I realize they are trying to beat the people who zap the commercials, but what's wrong with product placement? If done well, I don't mind it. But those damn cartoony ads or the 1-800-call-sam boxes in the corner OVER TOP the show are going too far. Makes me not want to watch the show anymore- or the network. Careful- they are going to get a national backlash if this keeps up. It's happened before.
Sheesh- how soon we all forget/ignore. The Wii is intended to work with gamecube controllers which I consider to the THE best engineered game controller I've ever used- so comfortable...
And, if there isn't already, I'm sure there will be a Wii re-release of the GC controller in the Wii plastic style. There will be many, many games that do not and cannot use the Wii-mote. I also anticipate many games that give the option of using either or.
No kidding. I should have specified that it would be the same concept but not the actual current implementation. Damn... my post seems to have generated a lot of nerdy-nit-picking replys but no intelligent ones. Gotta love/.
Give me a break. It was meant to be a SIMPLE example. And the average user does not know how to write shell scripts or even what a shell is. The fact that I know how to, doesn't invalidate my point or example.
Great topic! Consumers need to support quality.
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Thank you/. for posting a story that speaks volumes about the current state of electronics and really resonates with me. I'm so fed up!
This crappy quality problem has affected cars for years... now it's backfiring and the north american automakers are scrambling to catch up to the surge in demand for quality engineering. For once people got fed up and started buying better made cars.
This is also true of electronics. Every single remote control in my house has either a rubber band holding the batteries in... or a paper-clip connecting one end of the batteries. So sad that these cheep pieces of junk can't survive a drop from a coffee table.
I've had so many hard-drives crap out on me too. I've become paranoid about backing stuff up because I expect to lose it all any moment. My HP desktop was the worst. I know have a custom built PC and I already had 1 fan die and 1 harddrive. Arg!
This is true of junky dvd players, VCRs, too. I've never had a DVD player that would play flawlessly.
My samsung CD player/stereo I got in 1996 still plays perfectly and only has a few burnt out leds in the display. The rest of my family has gone through 5 or 6 CD stereos and the CD changers keep dying in them. All made in the 2000's. Crap all of it.
I'm now much more aware of brands- I reward those with quality and I don't blindly buy a brand out of loyalty. Consumer loyalty is the height of stupidity.
Only consumer demand will change this trend of garbage quality products.
Great, I can't wait for the tappity tap sound all around me is replaced with voices yammering. Oh wait... do we all get our own offices when voice recognition goes mainstream? Ha. I can't see many offices going away from the keyboard anytime soon. Perhaps we could stop using the qwerty scheme designed to slow your fingers down...
I think it's true of both computers and video game consoles- hardware specs are becoming less and less relevant. The hardware is fast enough. It's the idocy of software and the lack of intelligent features that is really slowing me down.
For example if applications and the operating system could recognize when I'm doing the same action or series of actions repeatedly and offer to automate it. For example... I have bunch of files in a folder:
sadfsf_1.pdf ffyyos_2.pdf wytsw_3.pdf... and I'm renaming them to:
invoice_1.pdf invoice_2.pdf invoice_3.pdf... It would be a HUGE help if my OS realized that I am renaming these files by replacing everything before the underscore with the string "invoice". If my OS would offer to do the rest of them for me... how awesome would that be? Extrapolate this to any number of idiotic repetitive tasks that I do every day.
Other than that, spam email is a problem, and hard-to-find options in applications are also a pain.
KEY POINT: Intelligence not speed will bring the productivity gains of the future.
Not counting people who download tons of crap... how many average people do you think really need 250G of harddrive space? So storage will keep increasing but what good is it? Just makes it more painful when your HD crashes. I'm betting that USB drives/digital cards will replace disk storage (DVDs, HDs). Just wait. The Blue-ray/HD-DVD debate will finally get sorted out just in time for someone to fit a movie on a usb stick. Mwaa hahaha.
I know a few teachers and one of the biggest and most influential problems is how parents handle things these days.
Say Little Johnny gets a detention/suspension for bullying/cheating/not doing homework. In the past, the school's punishment (do lines, sit in detention, sent to the principal's office) was NOTHING compared to what he'd get from his parents when they found out. Now, you get parents storming to the school defending little Johnny, swearing at the teachers, threatening action if the school keeps singleing out poor cheater/bully/slacker Johnny. So Johnny is back making other kid's lives miserable. And he learns he doesn't have to behave- mom and dad will defend his bad actions, so it must be ok.
On the other hand, suppose little Johnny is a good kid but merely lacks motivation or he struggles a bit. He gets poor grades. In the past, parents would help the kid at home, ground him from TV till he brings up his grades, get him a tutor, or ask the teacher if the kid can get any extra help. Now, the parent calls up the teacher and yells about how unfair the test is, how the teacher marked Johnny harder than the other students, the class isn't geared toward poor Johnny's speed/unique learning style. Instead of valuing hard work and effort, parents blame the school. It's MUCH harder to fail now. So kids who are struggling get pushed into the next grade where it get's even harder. Parents don't want their kid to- oh my gosh- fail!! Poor Johnny's self esteem. So Johnny has a harder time next grade- no wonder he drops out.
True story- a teacher I knew had a parent come in to the school with the kid's mid-term exam which the kid failed. The parent made the teacher go through each question and show the parent where in the class notes the exact answer is, and how it applied to the curriculum. No creative thought questions were allowed according to this parent- only memorization. Oh, and written answer was unfair, only multiple choice and true/false were ok to this parent. And the teacher didn't show enough movies in class- too many assignments. Sheesh.
The big problem is that if parents don't put a value on discipline and education and effort, then neither will the kids. Kids drop out and get a job flipping burgers and the minimum wage paycheque they get gives them more feeling of self worth, than the grades on their report-card ever did. Why get yelled at by mom and dad when I don't get straight A's when I can flip burgers for a wiz-bang $6/h.
Case in point. My parents made school the # 1 priority for me and 2 of my siblings. We did great. For the fourth kid, the youngest, my parents were too old/tired/sick of fighting with kids to drill that into him. So he isn't doing so well in school even though he's very smart.
I was wondering, if FF or any browser auto-populates your login fields, couldn't someone use Ajax to just grab the values and send them to the server before you even hit submit?
Did anyone play Resident Evil 4 on gamecube? Frickin gorgeous! If the Wii is 'only' twice as powerful as the GC then I'm already blown away. Can we put this whole argument to rest now? How many people have a HD Tv? And who REALLY puts that much stock on graphics these days? Pffft- you want reflections on the belt buckles of the enemy? Play PC games. Otherwise just shut up about the whole 'only twice as powerful as the GC' crap.
IMHO the absolute BEST scenario would be if ALL of the next gen consoles rocked. If they were all spectacular and all had their own unique feature that adds to the world of gaming. This would encourage them all to work even harder to out-compete eachother for the next round. In then end, benefiting us all. Suppose one of them ends up killing all others by a huge margin. This will stifle competition- the top dog will get lazy and won't innovate so well for their next gen, and the losers won't have the money to innovate like crazy for the next round.
All in all- closer competition benefits all gamers. These fanbois defacing the wikipedia site are just idiots.
By the way, anyone know which console(s) Resident Evil 5 will be officially released on? RE4 was fabulous, can't wait for the next one.
Re:They should have been using UniversalTube.com
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Ah, but how to prove that YouTube knew of the existance of UTube before they started up their dot-com? They didn't necessarily check for UTube.com first and then register YouTube.com as a second choice. Maybe they never even thought of seeing if there's a UTube. And even if they did- so what? So now every business has to check for other domains that SOUND similar too? Bah!
There is a buggy way to get both versions at: http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone. But if you use it, then strange things will happen with both versions, and IE7 will be prone to crashes. But for the most basic of needs- testing if a website looks ok, it'll work for you.
Beware though, IE7 uses some registry keys also used by IE6, so the official answer is no, you can't run them both at the same time. Unfortunately. Kind of a kick in the teeth for web developers I think.
They should have been using UniversalTube.com
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I don't see how UTube has a leg to stand on. First of all their name is Universal Tube so they only have tradmark claim on UniversalTube.com- which they should change their marketing material to use that domain- to prevent confusion. Second, the letter U and the word You are not anywhere close to eachother except for sound. It's not like the case of McDonald's and MacDonald's. You Tube did nothing wrong and did not register a domain that looks or reads similar- just sounds similar.
UTube needs to re-think their marketing material or come up with a more appropriate domain. Or, if their bandwidth is being slammed- host the main page elsewhere with a splash page sending all the YouTube kiddies to the correct site, and the UTube customers to their actual Universal Tube company site. I wish people would stop sueing others because they were hit by some bad luck. Litigation is for stopping illegal or malicious actions, not coincidence.
I see this as being a way for older unappreciated games to get a second chance. I realize the top, most popular games will get added to the list first, but there are some old gems like B.O.B. and Goof Troop (SNES?) that I played for hours as a kid and never got to finish- I'd love a second crack at them.
This might also be a way for some GC titles that were REAL treasures (like Beyond Good & Evil) to have a second chance. Part of me is crossing my fingers that Ubisoft re-releases a 'Gold' edition of BG&E for the Wii. That game deserved more attention.
I think this will do even more to encourage the niche games and corner markets. If you can develop a game with the super cheap developer package and then distribute it cheaply online- I can see lots of good odd-ball stuff becoming available. *rubs hands together*
If you use Dreamweaver for mainly code editing, may I suggest the free HTML-Kit. Comes with lots of plugins and with all the customizing you can do, I got it to mimick DW pretty well. Faster too.
If you use DW for WYSIWYG page creation, then nevermind. Real coders don't do that.;)
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Beyond Good and Evil by Ubisoft. Fantastic game. Also, Eternal Darkness by Silicon Knights. Whew... loved those two!
A while a go I emailed MS about the warning that pops up for shared certificates. They don't mention the address bar coloring, but since we're on the topic, here's what they said:
---------
[ME]--
The problem with "shared" SSL certificates is that they're pretty much "useless" to begin with. Certificates are issued to map a real-world site owner to a hostname and a private key used when communicating with that hostname. When the hostname doesn't match the website, there's no reason for the user to believe that certificate is presenting the private key of the site owner.
All modern browsers warn the user of this discrepancy, and in the face of one-click attack toolkits which intercept and resign SSL connections, IE7's Certificate Error page was designed to inform the users of the significant risks they face when interacting with such sites.
There are a number of options to correctly use SSL, ranging from purchasing individual certificates (available for as little as $18/year), wildcard certificates (e.g. using a *.example.com certificate to secure shopa.example.com & shopb.example.com) or using a shared server with a single hostname and corresponding digital certificate (partnersales.onlinemall.com).
Best wishes,
Eric Lawrence
Program Manager
Internet Explorer Trust & Networking
-----Original Message-----
From: [me]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 5:27 AM
To: IE External Feedback
Subject: IE7 effectively makes shared ssl certificates useless.
Hello,
Many of my clients own ecommerce sites that barely earn only a small profit. They
cannot afford personal ssl certificates for their websites. My hosting
provider, like many others provides a shared certificate that can be used.
However, IE7 is now going to present a big, intimidating warning page that
effectively scares visitors away from a site. Even though a shared cert
provides just as much encryption protetection for their credit card data.
IE6 presents a less-frightening dialog box warning that the domain of the
site does not match the domain of the cert. This was fine. But, now with the
IE7 warning page, I can forsee that most visitors will be scared away.
On behalf of the many thousands of ecommerce site operators that use shared
certificates because it's all we can afford, I strongly believe that many website owners
will want or need you to replace the big scary warning page with a dialog box warning or
perhaps a banner at the top of the page. I also ask you to include in your
warning, a clear statement that certificates that do not match the domain,
or do not come from a certifying authority, do still provide encryption
protection of credit card and sensitive data. Perhaps a big warning is more
appropriate for sites that ask for credit card data but do not use any SSL
encryption.
I'm sure that Thawte and Verisign are seeing $$s at this IE7 "feature".
~[me]
And the $1000 needed for the EV SSL cert might be a quarter of her yearly sales... so, not it's not that simple.
I have a small sole proprietorship in Canda, and this is going to be a huge problem for me. I only do a few thousand dollars of sales per year (I have a day job), so paying for one of the 'green' certificates is WAY out of my budget. In addition my clients have ecomm websites and no money for these certs.
Now what? If I'm using a shared certificate is it going to show as yellow or red for me? This doesn't only apply to ecomm sites but also sites with a secure area like a user admin.
What a big pisser on the little guy. I don't quite understand why it is Microsoft's problem to protect the idots who don't realize they are at amason.com instead of amazon.com or whatever. Microsoft is not responsible for phishing and the hazards of the internet. Cars don't prevent me from exceeding the speed limit.
Really... what IS wrong with the 3rd party lists of known phishing sites? Why does MS have to do things in a completely idiotic pain in the ass way every time? Thanks for crapping on the little guy. I guess I'll ratchet up my get Firefox, burn IE campaign. Damn it.
Most of all, this just makes me frustrated and upset. I won't be using IE7 or developing websites for it. Screw them.
Ok... if you're storing the session id via cookie... what's the best solution for preventing cookie theft abuse? Pardon my stupidity for not knowing this already...
Listen Slashdot- please stop with the "witty" story titles. For those of us using live bookmarks or news feeds- it really sucks to have to click over to a story just to find out what the hell it is. Geez!
I don't care what the next media size or format is, as long as I don't have to friggin re-purchase my extensive movie collection. I was lucky, my collection of VHS movies was/is small. But my DVD collection has exploded. If they stop making traditional DVD players... I'm going to go postal.
Firefox + Adblock = Bliss.
It's amazing how empty some websites are when you block the ads. Kind of sad really that they have nothing substantial to present instead.
The worst and the thing that really scares me are the ads that pop-up overtop of TV shows now, along the bottom or in the corner. I realize they are trying to beat the people who zap the commercials, but what's wrong with product placement? If done well, I don't mind it. But those damn cartoony ads or the 1-800-call-sam boxes in the corner OVER TOP the show are going too far. Makes me not want to watch the show anymore- or the network. Careful- they are going to get a national backlash if this keeps up. It's happened before.
Sheesh- how soon we all forget/ignore. The Wii is intended to work with gamecube controllers which I consider to the THE best engineered game controller I've ever used- so comfortable...
And, if there isn't already, I'm sure there will be a Wii re-release of the GC controller in the Wii plastic style. There will be many, many games that do not and cannot use the Wii-mote. I also anticipate many games that give the option of using either or.
No kidding. I should have specified that it would be the same concept but not the actual current implementation. Damn... my post seems to have generated a lot of nerdy-nit-picking replys but no intelligent ones. Gotta love /.
Give me a break. It was meant to be a SIMPLE example. And the average user does not know how to write shell scripts or even what a shell is. The fact that I know how to, doesn't invalidate my point or example.
Thank you /. for posting a story that speaks volumes about the current state of electronics and really resonates with me. I'm so fed up!
This crappy quality problem has affected cars for years... now it's backfiring and the north american automakers are scrambling to catch up to the surge in demand for quality engineering. For once people got fed up and started buying better made cars.
This is also true of electronics. Every single remote control in my house has either a rubber band holding the batteries in... or a paper-clip connecting one end of the batteries. So sad that these cheep pieces of junk can't survive a drop from a coffee table.
I've had so many hard-drives crap out on me too. I've become paranoid about backing stuff up because I expect to lose it all any moment. My HP desktop was the worst. I know have a custom built PC and I already had 1 fan die and 1 harddrive. Arg!
This is true of junky dvd players, VCRs, too. I've never had a DVD player that would play flawlessly.
My samsung CD player/stereo I got in 1996 still plays perfectly and only has a few burnt out leds in the display. The rest of my family has gone through 5 or 6 CD stereos and the CD changers keep dying in them. All made in the 2000's. Crap all of it.
I'm now much more aware of brands- I reward those with quality and I don't blindly buy a brand out of loyalty. Consumer loyalty is the height of stupidity.
Only consumer demand will change this trend of garbage quality products.
Great, I can't wait for the tappity tap sound all around me is replaced with voices yammering. Oh wait... do we all get our own offices when voice recognition goes mainstream? Ha. I can't see many offices going away from the keyboard anytime soon. Perhaps we could stop using the qwerty scheme designed to slow your fingers down...
I think it's true of both computers and video game consoles- hardware specs are becoming less and less relevant. The hardware is fast enough. It's the idocy of software and the lack of intelligent features that is really slowing me down.
...
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For example if applications and the operating system could recognize when I'm doing the same action or series of actions repeatedly and offer to automate it. For example... I have bunch of files in a folder:
sadfsf_1.pdf
ffyyos_2.pdf
wytsw_3.pdf
and I'm renaming them to:
invoice_1.pdf
invoice_2.pdf
invoice_3.pdf
It would be a HUGE help if my OS realized that I am renaming these files by replacing everything before the underscore with the string "invoice". If my OS would offer to do the rest of them for me... how awesome would that be? Extrapolate this to any number of idiotic repetitive tasks that I do every day.
Other than that, spam email is a problem, and hard-to-find options in applications are also a pain.
KEY POINT:
Intelligence not speed will bring the productivity gains of the future.
Not counting people who download tons of crap... how many average people do you think really need 250G of harddrive space? So storage will keep increasing but what good is it? Just makes it more painful when your HD crashes. I'm betting that USB drives/digital cards will replace disk storage (DVDs, HDs). Just wait. The Blue-ray/HD-DVD debate will finally get sorted out just in time for someone to fit a movie on a usb stick. Mwaa hahaha.
I know a few teachers and one of the biggest and most influential problems is how parents handle things these days.
Say Little Johnny gets a detention/suspension for bullying/cheating/not doing homework. In the past, the school's punishment (do lines, sit in detention, sent to the principal's office) was NOTHING compared to what he'd get from his parents when they found out. Now, you get parents storming to the school defending little Johnny, swearing at the teachers, threatening action if the school keeps singleing out poor cheater/bully/slacker Johnny. So Johnny is back making other kid's lives miserable. And he learns he doesn't have to behave- mom and dad will defend his bad actions, so it must be ok.
On the other hand, suppose little Johnny is a good kid but merely lacks motivation or he struggles a bit. He gets poor grades. In the past, parents would help the kid at home, ground him from TV till he brings up his grades, get him a tutor, or ask the teacher if the kid can get any extra help. Now, the parent calls up the teacher and yells about how unfair the test is, how the teacher marked Johnny harder than the other students, the class isn't geared toward poor Johnny's speed/unique learning style. Instead of valuing hard work and effort, parents blame the school. It's MUCH harder to fail now. So kids who are struggling get pushed into the next grade where it get's even harder. Parents don't want their kid to- oh my gosh- fail!! Poor Johnny's self esteem. So Johnny has a harder time next grade- no wonder he drops out.
True story- a teacher I knew had a parent come in to the school with the kid's mid-term exam which the kid failed. The parent made the teacher go through each question and show the parent where in the class notes the exact answer is, and how it applied to the curriculum. No creative thought questions were allowed according to this parent- only memorization. Oh, and written answer was unfair, only multiple choice and true/false were ok to this parent. And the teacher didn't show enough movies in class- too many assignments. Sheesh.
The big problem is that if parents don't put a value on discipline and education and effort, then neither will the kids. Kids drop out and get a job flipping burgers and the minimum wage paycheque they get gives them more feeling of self worth, than the grades on their report-card ever did. Why get yelled at by mom and dad when I don't get straight A's when I can flip burgers for a wiz-bang $6/h.
Case in point. My parents made school the # 1 priority for me and 2 of my siblings. We did great. For the fourth kid, the youngest, my parents were too old/tired/sick of fighting with kids to drill that into him. So he isn't doing so well in school even though he's very smart.
It's the parents I tell you!
I was wondering, if FF or any browser auto-populates your login fields, couldn't someone use Ajax to just grab the values and send them to the server before you even hit submit?
Did anyone play Resident Evil 4 on gamecube? Frickin gorgeous! If the Wii is 'only' twice as powerful as the GC then I'm already blown away. Can we put this whole argument to rest now? How many people have a HD Tv? And who REALLY puts that much stock on graphics these days? Pffft- you want reflections on the belt buckles of the enemy? Play PC games. Otherwise just shut up about the whole 'only twice as powerful as the GC' crap.
:)
There, I've said my peace.
IMHO the absolute BEST scenario would be if ALL of the next gen consoles rocked. If they were all spectacular and all had their own unique feature that adds to the world of gaming. This would encourage them all to work even harder to out-compete eachother for the next round. In then end, benefiting us all. Suppose one of them ends up killing all others by a huge margin. This will stifle competition- the top dog will get lazy and won't innovate so well for their next gen, and the losers won't have the money to innovate like crazy for the next round.
All in all- closer competition benefits all gamers. These fanbois defacing the wikipedia site are just idiots.
By the way, anyone know which console(s) Resident Evil 5 will be officially released on? RE4 was fabulous, can't wait for the next one.
Ah, but how to prove that YouTube knew of the existance of UTube before they started up their dot-com? They didn't necessarily check for UTube.com first and then register YouTube.com as a second choice. Maybe they never even thought of seeing if there's a UTube. And even if they did- so what? So now every business has to check for other domains that SOUND similar too? Bah!
Yeah I know... I didn't think it would be on VC. Just maybe a relaunch of the actual game for GC and Wii. Sad wishful thinking, I know. ;)
There is a buggy way to get both versions at: http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone. But if you use it, then strange things will happen with both versions, and IE7 will be prone to crashes. But for the most basic of needs- testing if a website looks ok, it'll work for you.
Beware though, IE7 uses some registry keys also used by IE6, so the official answer is no, you can't run them both at the same time. Unfortunately. Kind of a kick in the teeth for web developers I think.
I don't see how UTube has a leg to stand on. First of all their name is Universal Tube so they only have tradmark claim on UniversalTube.com- which they should change their marketing material to use that domain- to prevent confusion. Second, the letter U and the word You are not anywhere close to eachother except for sound. It's not like the case of McDonald's and MacDonald's. You Tube did nothing wrong and did not register a domain that looks or reads similar- just sounds similar.
UTube needs to re-think their marketing material or come up with a more appropriate domain. Or, if their bandwidth is being slammed- host the main page elsewhere with a splash page sending all the YouTube kiddies to the correct site, and the UTube customers to their actual Universal Tube company site. I wish people would stop sueing others because they were hit by some bad luck. Litigation is for stopping illegal or malicious actions, not coincidence.
I see this as being a way for older unappreciated games to get a second chance. I realize the top, most popular games will get added to the list first, but there are some old gems like B.O.B. and Goof Troop (SNES?) that I played for hours as a kid and never got to finish- I'd love a second crack at them.
This might also be a way for some GC titles that were REAL treasures (like Beyond Good & Evil) to have a second chance. Part of me is crossing my fingers that Ubisoft re-releases a 'Gold' edition of BG&E for the Wii. That game deserved more attention.
I think this will do even more to encourage the niche games and corner markets. If you can develop a game with the super cheap developer package and then distribute it cheaply online- I can see lots of good odd-ball stuff becoming available. *rubs hands together*
Can somone post the list? It's down...
If you use Dreamweaver for mainly code editing, may I suggest the free HTML-Kit. Comes with lots of plugins and with all the customizing you can do, I got it to mimick DW pretty well. Faster too. If you use DW for WYSIWYG page creation, then nevermind. Real coders don't do that. ;)