To help ensure a great user experience, Microsoft has performed exhaustive testing to determine which SD cards perform well with Windows Phone 7 devices....
Is frying SD cards that don't "perform well" with Windows Phone 7 going to contribute to that great user experience?
But what appears to have fried our card is the fact that any card inserted into a Windows Phone 7 device "will no longer be readable or writable on any other devices such as computers, cameras, printers, and so on" according to documentation on Samsung's site -- including, amazingly, the ability to format the card.
Sounds like the card is being "permanently modified" (and not for the better) to me.
I was using the word "mistake" in the more narrow sense of what is now know to be a mistake, only became to be known as a mistake with the passage of years of time. As opposed to knowing the mistake was made at the instant it happened.
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But your point it taken. A wider interpretation of the word mistake can take into account the full timeline of an event or action.
IE6 is estimated to have roughly 16% of browser market share, and due to mistakes in the past it may never truly die."
I do not think they were "mistakes" in the past. On the contrary, they were conscious decisions on Microsoft's part to make IE6 incompatible, thus making developers write pages for IE6 (~runs better on IE6~). It was Microsoft's attempt to kill non-Microsoft web standards.
Every discussion about IPv4 address exhaustion prompts comments about whether Apple (or MIT, or UCB, or whoever) needs all of those addresses
I notice how the biggest offender, Hewlett-Packard, is not mentioned. Why does HP need those/8 blocks that they've been inheriting over the years? Surely a technological company would know how to use NAT......
... to prevent them from switching to free and open software.
Microsoft, in its recent press efforts, has shown it is very concerned about free and open software. So now Microsoft is trying to disguise itself as a free and open software vendor. A crack dealer will give away free samples to obtain and retain a customer......
I really don't understand why people keep repeating this nonsense. Opera's JavaScript engine works fine. Opera's JS problems were before version 7, because it couldn't handle dynamic content. That was fixed with verison 7, and there are no major problems these days.
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Instead of wondering why people keep repeating the same issues over and over, perhaps it would be a better approach if Opera were to fix the issues. I had these problems on all of the 10.x versions, up to and including 10.60. It has been a problem long since version 7.
If a site isn't working it's highly unlikely to be because of Opera's JavaScript engine. It's more likely to be browser sniffing, and if you mask as Firefox these sites will start working.
That's a second problem which I didn't mention, lack of support of Opera by many web sites.
. However, Opera has always been confined to a relatively small user-base because of one critical thing -- lack of extensions.
The reason Opera has never built up a large userbase is that it did not work on many sites that were important to perspective users. The Opera javascript engine, while fast, does not work with a lot of websites.
The Apple unit is decent, but it's so focused on TV rental that it makes it difficult to work with an existing library of media; between the transcoding,
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Apple needs to support more of the non-Apple open codecs, e.g. FLAC for audio. There are too many websites offer high-quality audio (96/24 resolution) in FLAC. Apple is trying to get the web to conform to Apple's desires, instead of Apple supporting what is already out there on the web.
People are used to microsoft. Its a recognised brand name - irrelevant of how good/bad it is.
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Hopefully (and based upon current events, they are not) the people running IT in the great State of Minnesota are more aware of the pitfalls of partnering with Microsoft.
... is that people, like this Jon Honeyball guy, who do not have a clue about computer security, are telling people how computer security should be done.
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As many others here have mentioned, computer security is multi-level. Per-computer firewalls have as much of a place in security plans as do network edge firewalls.
Maybe the next thing than Mr. Honeyball will be advocating is that PC programs and operating systems do not need to be secure because the network is protected by a firewall.
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Even if that were possible, this would be too blatant a bug to have slipped through QA.
This is Microsoft QA we are talking about here..... Vista slipped through that QA.
To help ensure a great user experience, Microsoft has performed exhaustive testing to determine which SD cards perform well with Windows Phone 7 devices....
Is frying SD cards that don't "perform well" with Windows Phone 7 going to contribute to that great user experience?
All your SD cards are belong to Microsoft.
But what appears to have fried our card is the fact that any card inserted into a Windows Phone 7 device "will no longer be readable or writable on any other devices such as computers, cameras, printers, and so on" according to documentation on Samsung's site -- including, amazingly, the ability to format the card.
Sounds like the card is being "permanently modified" (and not for the better) to me.
With visionaries like this working in Microsoft research, it is no wonder why Microsoft keeps missing the next big technology wave.
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But your point it taken. A wider interpretation of the word mistake can take into account the full timeline of an event or action.
IE6 is estimated to have roughly 16% of browser market share, and due to mistakes in the past it may never truly die."
I do not think they were "mistakes" in the past. On the contrary, they were conscious decisions on Microsoft's part to make IE6 incompatible, thus making developers write pages for IE6 (~runs better on IE6~). It was Microsoft's attempt to kill non-Microsoft web standards.
Now Microsoft is haunted by their own strategy.
Every discussion about IPv4 address exhaustion prompts comments about whether Apple (or MIT, or UCB, or whoever) needs all of those addresses
I notice how the biggest offender, Hewlett-Packard, is not mentioned. Why does HP need those /8 blocks that they've been inheriting over the years? Surely a technological company would know how to use NAT......
Microsoft, in its recent press efforts, has shown it is very concerned about free and open software. So now Microsoft is trying to disguise itself as a free and open software vendor. A crack dealer will give away free samples to obtain and retain a customer......
His presentation.
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Instead of wondering why people keep repeating the same issues over and over, perhaps it would be a better approach if Opera were to fix the issues. I had these problems on all of the 10.x versions, up to and including 10.60. It has been a problem long since version 7.
If a site isn't working it's highly unlikely to be because of Opera's JavaScript engine. It's more likely to be browser sniffing, and if you mask as Firefox these sites will start working.
That's a second problem which I didn't mention, lack of support of Opera by many web sites.
I've submitted them all via the Opera support areas. I'm not about to waste any more time on it.
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However, Opera has always been confined to a relatively small user-base because of one critical thing -- lack of extensions.
The reason Opera has never built up a large userbase is that it did not work on many sites that were important to perspective users. The Opera javascript engine, while fast, does not work with a lot of websites.
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I did not say that Apple supports only their own proprietary standards, that statement is your mis-reading of what I wrote.
What I did say was, "Apple needs to support more of the non-Apple open codecs".
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Be afraid, be very afraid.
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Questions that need to be answered:
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Apple needs to support more of the non-Apple open codecs, e.g. FLAC for audio. There are too many websites offer high-quality audio (96/24 resolution) in FLAC. Apple is trying to get the web to conform to Apple's desires, instead of Apple supporting what is already out there on the web.
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Hopefully (and based upon current events, they are not) the people running IT in the great State of Minnesota are more aware of the pitfalls of partnering with Microsoft.
To be honest, I was expecting my post to be marked "funny". I meant it tongue in cheek.
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Very true. Look how 3M Corporation stole the name Scotch® Tape, or how Chesebrough-Ponds stole the name Q-Tips®.
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As many others here have mentioned, computer security is multi-level. Per-computer firewalls have as much of a place in security plans as do network edge firewalls.
Maybe the next thing than Mr. Honeyball will be advocating is that PC programs and operating systems do not need to be secure because the network is protected by a firewall.
... in the same way that all the flavors of GNU/Linux have spoiled that platform.
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Just more of the usual Microsoft FUD.
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It is a very different academic world in which to live.
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." Thomas Babington Macaulay
If that is what you think this is about, you do not understand the concept.