My sites degrade gracefully for IE...
Design for worst case, then pretty it up for best case (many of us are doing it the other way round).
Providing *acceptable* baseline experiences for older browsers doesn’t reduce the overall experience.
Users of these browsers (IE 6,7,8 and various other older browsers) should expect to not have the full web experience that the html5 capable browsers enjoy. But, they'll simply miss some rounded corners, drop shadows and nicer typography, but the essence of the pages are the same. Hopefully this technique will also push users towards the newer browsers...
I assure you my pages *do* work in IE6, but they certainly look much better in Safari 5, Chrome, Opera (and to a certain extent Firefox).
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42% profit is just factoring the cost of the parts
This is not including R&D, manufacturing, transportation, marketing etc...
It's not a financial thing - in fact I'm running it all off a Mac Pro, with XP running through Parallels for IE6 & IE7. But it would be a pain in the ass to have to run 2 VMs (one with IE6 & IE7 the other with IE8) *just* for checking my web pages.
Maybe it's just me being lazy, but it would make a huge difference if I could check all three main browsers in the one VM...
Does anyone know if it is possible to run IE6, IE7 and IE8 on one system without multiple VMs for my web site testing..?
I've been using MultipleIE http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE for testing in IE6 & IE7 alongside each other, but it is not compatible with IE8 and it looks like there is no intention to make it so...
Am I just gonna have multiple VMs or is there a more elegant solution?
and the steam cannon - they wanted to get it up to 200PSI, but time conspired against them and it only got to 65PSI. The cannonball travelled a mile, it might well have hit the San Francisco suburbs if they'd tripled the PSI..!
and the chicken cannon firing at non-birdstrike approved windshields.
Damn, my experiences couldn't be more different...
MacDonalds tastes like s**t to me and I'm an omnivore! MacDonalds is lowest common denominator food, it is tolerable for its price but that's about it. MacDonalds *is* cheap but saying it tastes awesome is a stretch too far for me!
Subway - fresh bread - WOW! Go to a Deli, you'll get nice fresh bread there and *much* nicer fillings, it'll probably be cheaper than Subway too. And Subway is *not* healthy - look and see how much fat and salt their fillings have...
My '96 Audi A3 has 125,000 miles on the clock and still running beautifully, same with the 280E Merc which has damn near 160,000 on it with no major problems with either in over a decade. YMMV Yes Japanese cars do pretty well in the long term (now a days) - but they devalue SOOOO quickly too - at least the German cars hold their value pretty well.
"A normal smartphone users spends around 100 megs a month. Including constant syncs with his company exchange server. An advanced smartphone user spends about the double of that. The iPhone 2 will be launched with a 300 meg data plan. Not flat-rate. Coincidence? I think not."
The UK iPhone 3G plan with O2 still has unlimited data (http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/paymonthly) - does this mean that for *once* the UK isn't getting screwed!?
Up will follow WALL-E for Pixar, featuring the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger and Jordan Nagai.
Tinkerbell will go direct-to-DVD, followed by three sequels. So four Tinkerbell films all together.
Rapunzel is back! Not only that, but the classic story will be done in full CGI.
King of the Elvesis another film coming from Disney animation in 2012, and it's based on a Phillip K. Dick story.
Toy Story and Toy Story 2 to be released in 3-D in 2009 and 2010.
Toy Story 3 hits theaters on June 18, 2010
Newt will be Pixar's film in 2011, and it comes with this description: "What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they can't stand each other?
I still have not seen this SDK apple said was coming. That would be because the SDK will not be released until February 2008 as they stated in the press release...
Perhaps a not-so-expensive feature would be IRdA like the palm has. Then you could run it as a universal TV remote control
Yup, that would be nice - but I'm hoping the bluetooth/wi-fi capabilities of the iPhone are utilised so the iPhone can operate as a remote for my Mac mini PVR/media centre...
My music library is in the region of 80GB - however the iPhone will get plugged into my MacBook Pro and therefore sync'd pretty much every day.
The iPhone is not about having your entire catalogue on it - it is about having what you need until you next sync...
I used to use a big iPod that held my entire catalogue - but I rarely use it now - instead I use a 4GB nano - which more than holds enough to see me through the 24 or 48 hours till I next plug it in to my machine and put some new music on - and I listen to A LOT of music in those 24 - 48 hours.
Maybe I'm unusual for syncing/changing the music on my iPod/iPhone though..?
I found that with an iPod containing 80GB of music it would take me 10 minutes before I started journeys because I was deciding what to listen to - so I then created a daily playlist which held roughly my next 2 or 3 days of music - and it is this playlist I now sync up to the iPhone and the big iPod is largely unused...
You can turn sync off by unchecking the "Sync music" check-box in the music tab of iPod...
Or you can get it to sync only certain playlists - I have an iPod and an iPod nano playlist which is what I use to sync - I add and remove albums from these playlists and then just plug in my iPod and go. I don't really see your problem with these solutions.
"Put bluntly, if I were PM I'd either shut down or ignore such petition sites..."
But this is a *Government* petition site - set-up by Mr Blair's own government to find out the UK's general thoughts and leanings on matters that affect them...
Once the government know the general feelings *then* they can open the topic up to debate.
"for games like Zelda the use of the Wii remote is just rather "meh". IMO it didn't add anything to Zelda and I would not have enjoyed the game any less using a Wavebird. "
Go back and play ocarina of time or windwaker (as I have recently done) and then make that comment again - you will find that it is largely untrue. Yes the sword fighting by waggling the wiimote is a touch contrived but the pointing abilites of the wiimote (for the hookshot, ball & chain, boomerang, bow & arrow etc.) makes using these weapons *fun*. And for me felt like I was more skillfull - riding epona whilst taking down flying beasts with my bow and arrow and using the boomerang the extinguish the burning cart. Doing that with a wavebird would be *much* harder and certainly less enjoyable...
"Once, I watched my friend plug in his iPod shuffle on a brand new installation of iTunes without turning off the autosync crap. Genius of end-user experience Apple decided that iTunes's default behavior would be to erase all his files so that it would be synced with his new blank library. He was pissed and has been using Anapod Explorer ever since."
When you insert an iPod (with music on already) into a vanilla iTunes - a nag box is displayed saying "Are you sure you want to sync IPOD'SNAME with this library? This will completely erase the current contents of your iPod." I say your friend should learn to read what he is clicking OK for...
Dangermouse didn't just take the tracks verbatim though.
He use the acapellas of J Z's Black album and used *samples* from The Beatles' White album - he didn't just play the acapella over tracks from the White album - he sampled, cut up and looped small samples from the tracks and remade/remixed the Beatles tracks.
No he didn't get sample clearance but to say that this is the same as somone who just took a track and put new lyrics over it is unfair in my opinion. Not to mention that The Grey album was not released on a label that is suing people for 'stealing' music.
iPod + iTunes not fantastic marketing efforts? Both are clear first place in their market and the adverts have won numerous awards. I love the iTunes 7 Web site too.
"For example all the vodcasts out there are described as being for the iPod Video even though the PSP plays them too."
The press calls *all* MP3 players iPods too - it's a quick and easy way to write 'generic portable mp3 player'
"Overpiced products, the whole "we want the Mac to be seen as a serious machine so we won't encourage gaming on it" philosophy they used to have. The whole abandonment of the "home computer" market so they could sell overpriced Mac's to art departments in corporations."
Apple is an incredibly successful and profitable company, *even* on 4% (or similar) market-share.
Now that the 'Apple tax' is *much* less than it used to be (in fact Apple are now very competitive pricing-wise in the price ranges that they work in) Apple's computer sales have gone up - the MacBook and the MacBook Pro are doing especially well.::hugs Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro::
Apple has changed a lot since Steve came back - their philosophy has changed a lot too. The Mac mini, iMac and MacBook aimed squarely at the consumer/home market. AirPort Express allows streaming of iTunes around your house very easily. The forthcoming iTV DVR/set-top box will do similar for video. FrontRow etc...
Combine the price reduction with the fact that you can run OS X, XP, *NIX easily off their entire product line, iTV, apps like iLife and FrontRow built-in I think we'll start seeing Macs *everywhere*...
"Which console manufacturer makes a console that not only can play AAC, can rip CD's into it? Sony."
You do know AAC is not an Apple proprietry format? The iTunes Store uses AAC protected with their FairPlay DRM (creating a.m4p file). Sony does not (nor does anyone else) make hardware or software that will play iTunes Store files because Apple don't license out FairPlay.
"Which console manufacture makes consoles and portables that can play iPod video content? Sony"
You do know h264 is not an Apple proprietry format? The iTunes Store movies/videos are saved as h264 files and are once again protected with Fairplay and won't play on any other hardware than your iPods and on authorised machines running iTunes.
"Which console manufacture makes a portable device that can play AAC? Sony"
See my first point.
"Which console manufacturer sucks at marketing which is why they haven't trounced everyone else with their technologically superior products? Sony."
So now you're implying Apple sucks at marketing!?
Or are you trying to say Sony has failed to trounce MS/Nintendo because of marketing and not the MASSIVE price tag of the PS3 and MASSIVE shortages of hardware? Let us not forget the PSX was inferior to the N64 but Sony certainly won that round. the PS2 was technologically inferior to the xbox and gamecube but again Sony definitely won that round too. Sony didn't win those rounds by technologically superior hardware.
Aye totally - it's posibly good business sense - but it may well end up being like the beginning of the DS: which was a very slow burner for the first few months but has since been a phenominal success. *crosses fingers*
Will that be too late then? I doubt it personally; especially with Zelda at launch and Metroid, SSB & Mario not far behind but it is sounding all too familiar to the launch of the Cube (which I know wasn't a failure but could have been so much more...). I hope the online stuff comes quickly and is done well (even better than the DS i.e. one friend code for the system rather than one per game) and is adopted by 3rd parties who also make use of the innovate control method rather than adapting their games to work on the Wii-mote.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a problem per se but the system I was planning to buy on launch (console + extra controller + Red Steel + Zelda) is a fair bit more expensive than I was expecting. And with the Wii-mote + nunchuck being so expensive: the day SSB comes out will be expensive for me too. I'm just not *as* interested as I once was (I've still put in a pre-order though;) felt a strange thing to do at my age...)
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London would be a bad choice for this shopping spree, what with the UK having a VAT (tax on the things you buy) rate of 20% at the moment...
My sites degrade gracefully for IE...
Design for worst case, then pretty it up for best case (many of us are doing it the other way round).
Providing *acceptable* baseline experiences for older browsers doesn’t reduce the overall experience.
Users of these browsers (IE 6,7,8 and various other older browsers) should expect to not have the full web experience that the html5 capable browsers enjoy. But, they'll simply miss some rounded corners, drop shadows and nicer typography, but the essence of the pages are the same. Hopefully this technique will also push users towards the newer browsers...
I assure you my pages *do* work in IE6, but they certainly look much better in Safari 5, Chrome, Opera (and to a certain extent Firefox).
42% profit is just factoring the cost of the parts
This is not including R&D, manufacturing, transportation, marketing etc...
Last I checked Firefox doesn't pass the Acid3 test either though - 94/100...
Just found an interesting article http://blog.mozmonkey.com/2008/vpc-ie6-ie7-ie8-on-mac-os-x/ not tried it out yet but will be giving it a go a bit later in the week :)
It's not a financial thing - in fact I'm running it all off a Mac Pro, with XP running through Parallels for IE6 & IE7. But it would be a pain in the ass to have to run 2 VMs (one with IE6 & IE7 the other with IE8) *just* for checking my web pages.
Maybe it's just me being lazy, but it would make a huge difference if I could check all three main browsers in the one VM...
Does anyone know if it is possible to run IE6, IE7 and IE8 on one system without multiple VMs for my web site testing..?
I've been using MultipleIE http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE for testing in IE6 & IE7 alongside each other, but it is not compatible with IE8 and it looks like there is no intention to make it so...
Am I just gonna have multiple VMs or is there a more elegant solution?
and the steam cannon - they wanted to get it up to 200PSI, but time conspired against them and it only got to 65PSI. The cannonball travelled a mile, it might well have hit the San Francisco suburbs if they'd tripled the PSI..!
and the chicken cannon firing at non-birdstrike approved windshields.
We all make miscalculations!
Damn, my experiences couldn't be more different...
MacDonalds tastes like s**t to me and I'm an omnivore! MacDonalds is lowest common denominator food, it is tolerable for its price but that's about it. MacDonalds *is* cheap but saying it tastes awesome is a stretch too far for me!
Subway - fresh bread - WOW! Go to a Deli, you'll get nice fresh bread there and *much* nicer fillings, it'll probably be cheaper than Subway too. And Subway is *not* healthy - look and see how much fat and salt their fillings have...
My '96 Audi A3 has 125,000 miles on the clock and still running beautifully, same with the 280E Merc which has damn near 160,000 on it with no major problems with either in over a decade. YMMV Yes Japanese cars do pretty well in the long term (now a days) - but they devalue SOOOO quickly too - at least the German cars hold their value pretty well.
"A normal smartphone users spends around 100 megs a month. Including constant syncs with his company exchange server. An advanced smartphone user spends about the double of that. The iPhone 2 will be launched with a 300 meg data plan. Not flat-rate. Coincidence? I think not."
The UK iPhone 3G plan with O2 still has unlimited data (http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/paymonthly) - does this mean that for *once* the UK isn't getting screwed!?
Perhaps a not-so-expensive feature would be IRdA like the palm has. Then you could run it as a universal TV remote control
Yup, that would be nice - but I'm hoping the bluetooth/wi-fi capabilities of the iPhone are utilised so the iPhone can operate as a remote for my Mac mini PVR/media centre...
My music library is in the region of 80GB - however the iPhone will get plugged into my MacBook Pro and therefore sync'd pretty much every day. The iPhone is not about having your entire catalogue on it - it is about having what you need until you next sync...
I used to use a big iPod that held my entire catalogue - but I rarely use it now - instead I use a 4GB nano - which more than holds enough to see me through the 24 or 48 hours till I next plug it in to my machine and put some new music on - and I listen to A LOT of music in those 24 - 48 hours.
Maybe I'm unusual for syncing/changing the music on my iPod/iPhone though..?
I found that with an iPod containing 80GB of music it would take me 10 minutes before I started journeys because I was deciding what to listen to - so I then created a daily playlist which held roughly my next 2 or 3 days of music - and it is this playlist I now sync up to the iPhone and the big iPod is largely unused...
You can turn sync off by unchecking the "Sync music" check-box in the music tab of iPod...
Or you can get it to sync only certain playlists - I have an iPod and an iPod nano playlist which is what I use to sync - I add and remove albums from these playlists and then just plug in my iPod and go. I don't really see your problem with these solutions.
"Put bluntly, if I were PM I'd either shut down or ignore such petition sites..."
But this is a *Government* petition site - set-up by Mr Blair's own government to find out the UK's general thoughts and leanings on matters that affect them...
Once the government know the general feelings *then* they can open the topic up to debate.
"for games like Zelda the use of the Wii remote is just rather "meh". IMO it didn't add anything to Zelda and I would not have enjoyed the game any less using a Wavebird. "
Go back and play ocarina of time or windwaker (as I have recently done) and then make that comment again - you will find that it is largely untrue. Yes the sword fighting by waggling the wiimote is a touch contrived but the pointing abilites of the wiimote (for the hookshot, ball & chain, boomerang, bow & arrow etc.) makes using these weapons *fun*. And for me felt like I was more skillfull - riding epona whilst taking down flying beasts with my bow and arrow and using the boomerang the extinguish the burning cart. Doing that with a wavebird would be *much* harder and certainly less enjoyable...
What other DRM is there in OS X apart from FairPlay?
What other DRM are Apple pushing?
No, it displays this nagbox whenever you plug in an iPod that isn't currently sync'd to the library.
"Once, I watched my friend plug in his iPod shuffle on a brand new installation of iTunes without turning off the autosync crap. Genius of end-user experience Apple decided that iTunes's default behavior would be to erase all his files so that it would be synced with his new blank library. He was pissed and has been using Anapod Explorer ever since."
When you insert an iPod (with music on already) into a vanilla iTunes - a nag box is displayed saying "Are you sure you want to sync IPOD'SNAME with this library? This will completely erase the current contents of your iPod."
I say your friend should learn to read what he is clicking OK for...
Dangermouse didn't just take the tracks verbatim though.
He use the acapellas of J Z's Black album and used *samples* from The Beatles' White album - he didn't just play the acapella over tracks from the White album - he sampled, cut up and looped small samples from the tracks and remade/remixed the Beatles tracks.
No he didn't get sample clearance but to say that this is the same as somone who just took a track and put new lyrics over it is unfair in my opinion. Not to mention that The Grey album was not released on a label that is suing people for 'stealing' music.
iPod + iTunes not fantastic marketing efforts? Both are clear first place in their market and the adverts have won numerous awards. I love the iTunes 7 Web site too.
::hugs Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro::
"For example all the vodcasts out there are described as being for the iPod Video even though the PSP plays them too."
The press calls *all* MP3 players iPods too - it's a quick and easy way to write 'generic portable mp3 player'
"Overpiced products, the whole "we want the Mac to be seen as a serious machine so we won't encourage gaming on it" philosophy they used to have. The whole abandonment of the "home computer" market so they could sell overpriced Mac's to art departments in corporations."
Apple is an incredibly successful and profitable company, *even* on 4% (or similar) market-share.
Now that the 'Apple tax' is *much* less than it used to be (in fact Apple are now very competitive pricing-wise in the price ranges that they work in) Apple's computer sales have gone up - the MacBook and the MacBook Pro are doing especially well.
Apple has changed a lot since Steve came back - their philosophy has changed a lot too. The Mac mini, iMac and MacBook aimed squarely at the consumer/home market. AirPort Express allows streaming of iTunes around your house very easily. The forthcoming iTV DVR/set-top box will do similar for video. FrontRow etc...
Combine the price reduction with the fact that you can run OS X, XP, *NIX easily off their entire product line, iTV, apps like iLife and FrontRow built-in I think we'll start seeing Macs *everywhere*...
"Which console manufacturer makes a console that not only can play AAC, can rip CD's into it? Sony." .m4p file). Sony does not (nor does anyone else) make hardware or software that will play iTunes Store files because Apple don't license out FairPlay.
You do know AAC is not an Apple proprietry format? The iTunes Store uses AAC protected with their FairPlay DRM (creating a
"Which console manufacture makes consoles and portables that can play iPod video content? Sony"
You do know h264 is not an Apple proprietry format? The iTunes Store movies/videos are saved as h264 files and are once again protected with Fairplay and won't play on any other hardware than your iPods and on authorised machines running iTunes.
"Which console manufacture makes a portable device that can play AAC? Sony"
See my first point.
"Which console manufacturer sucks at marketing which is why they haven't trounced everyone else with their technologically superior products? Sony."
So now you're implying Apple sucks at marketing!?
Or are you trying to say Sony has failed to trounce MS/Nintendo because of marketing and not the MASSIVE price tag of the PS3 and MASSIVE shortages of hardware? Let us not forget the PSX was inferior to the N64 but Sony certainly won that round. the PS2 was technologically inferior to the xbox and gamecube but again Sony definitely won that round too. Sony didn't win those rounds by technologically superior hardware.
Aye totally - it's posibly good business sense - but it may well end up being like the beginning of the DS: which was a very slow burner for the first few months but has since been a phenominal success. *crosses fingers*
Will that be too late then? I doubt it personally; especially with Zelda at launch and Metroid, SSB & Mario not far behind but it is sounding all too familiar to the launch of the Cube (which I know wasn't a failure but could have been so much more...). I hope the online stuff comes quickly and is done well (even better than the DS i.e. one friend code for the system rather than one per game) and is adopted by 3rd parties who also make use of the innovate control method rather than adapting their games to work on the Wii-mote.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a problem per se but the system I was planning to buy on launch (console + extra controller + Red Steel + Zelda) is a fair bit more expensive than I was expecting. And with the Wii-mote + nunchuck being so expensive: the day SSB comes out will be expensive for me too. I'm just not *as* interested as I once was (I've still put in a pre-order though ;) felt a strange thing to do at my age...)