It comes to my mind that, censorship needs not always be the "hard" type as employed by the Chinese government.
By choosing what information to release and withhold, you can create a "soft" type censorship. Which, BTW, may be more useful since the censored has a more difficult time realizing that they're being censored.
I think the poster has got the wrong way around - you should support standards, and push the vendors to support the standards properly.
Of course, you need adhere to the standards as well, if you want to maximize compatibility.
I'm not saying vendors should not implement any non-standard function, that's anti-innovation. But while implementing new functions, it should not break the standard, and if it must, it's better to go the standard way (say, W3C) and provide fallbacks.
However, these only apply to things so large like the web, used by so many people. For smaller things it's another matter then.
Guess who gives the supervisors the authority to judge your work? The supervisors of the supervisors. And then who gives the supervisors of the supervisors the authority to judge the supervisors' work?
One thing to note is that, not having a PhD doesn't mean that you're not an expert in a particular area, either. And people who're among the most knowledgeable in their particular area might not have received any formal education or training in that field at all.
Can't believe the parent is modded "insightful", I would think of an analogy...
No, I can't think of any right now, but saying that one'll *surely* succeed because he has succeeded before, not to mention that ignoring many of his failures, requires a leap of faith.
That sounds like slogan and chant but doesn't seemt to be quite logical to me. Pardon my poor mind.
Umm... I have a simple analogy but think it's a poor one: If a students have gotten 100 marks in all his previous examinations, does it automatically guarantee he'll get 100 marks next time?
The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork.
I suppose it means the new dots can be applied to many things but they still need another light or electricity source? Anyway, I'm not sure about others but I'm not yet ready to have everything in my home shines. : )
I'm not sure if LED "emits" heat but AFAIK, it does "produce" heat, and that's why LED torches need heatsinks because the performance of LED is negatively related to the its temperature.
4) How about (re?)designing Windows so that the entire "Documents and Settings" folder can be copied, thus retaining all Outlook/Outlook express settings and data without having to do stupid import stuff? It's way retarded that you can't just copy over the "Documents and Settings" folder and have *any* confidence of having effectively grabbed all the users' data..
Good one indeed, I'm not sure about other OS, but Windows and program for Windows store their settings everywhere. It's a daunting task to backup or transfer a user's configuration and data completely.
Now you get soemthing in the registry, something under "\Documents and Settings", something under "\WINDOWS", something under "\Program Files"...
While it's not all MS's fault, I think maybe they could have done something more to make it better.
That's because the "myriad" collection of alternatives account for 1% of their userbase.
If you remember long enough, there was a time when one company tried to make its client compatible with a rival company's IM service, and the rival company keeps changing its codes daily to fend it off.
I don't have much experience except for some light usage of WebCT back then, but the user interface was poor, it's complicated and not initiative.
Personally I think it would be a better act for the educational sector to come up with an open source alternative themselves. They can even make it student projects to expand on modules.
Or they can just expand on a CRM system like Drupal.
Really, Palm 2005 is just now catching up to the Clie from two years ago.
Right on, except that I think "CLIE" should be spelt in all caps. (in fact, it's not "E", but just too lazy to figure out how to type that accent anyway)
Hats off to the submitted for the "Most Misleading Summary" award of the week.
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I think the parent is right, Palm has tried too long to push Palm Desktop, which was clearly a dead-end for business users.
To Palm's credit, it tried to redeem itself with by offering better Outlook conduits and built-in apps that work better with Outlook. It also added Exchange support in Treo.
But it was "too late, too little".
Based on my limited experience, with regard to the UI, Palm is indeed easier to use than WM/PPC, which many tout as one of Palm's strength. However, the greatest strength is also the greatest weakness of Palm, once you want to do something a bit more complicate, you'll find it's not supported by the built-in apps.
Actually it weas the Yahoo! engineers pretending Google engineers doing it so to make you think Google engineers did it while it was actually Yahoo! engineerings disguising as Google engineers but inside they're actually Yahoo! engineers with Google engineers outlook.
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Encouraging that one more browser can now pass the test maybe, and no doubt more and more will follow suit, when will the Browser pass the test?
I thought such practices were not originated in the Asia...?
"...H5N1 influenza virus, which originated in Asia, could hit the U.S. this fall..."
Could "discovered" better fit for the word "originated" here?
It comes to my mind that, censorship needs not always be the "hard" type as employed by the Chinese government.
By choosing what information to release and withhold, you can create a "soft" type censorship. Which, BTW, may be more useful since the censored has a more difficult time realizing that they're being censored.
As if the US is all good and no evil?
I think the poster has got the wrong way around - you should support standards, and push the vendors to support the standards properly.
Of course, you need adhere to the standards as well, if you want to maximize compatibility.
I'm not saying vendors should not implement any non-standard function, that's anti-innovation. But while implementing new functions, it should not break the standard, and if it must, it's better to go the standard way (say, W3C) and provide fallbacks.
However, these only apply to things so large like the web, used by so many people. For smaller things it's another matter then.
Guess who gives the supervisors the authority to judge your work? The supervisors of the supervisors. And then who gives the supervisors of the supervisors the authority to judge the supervisors' work?
One thing to note is that, not having a PhD doesn't mean that you're not an expert in a particular area, either. And people who're among the most knowledgeable in their particular area might not have received any formal education or training in that field at all.
It's all discourse afterall.
Except that you can't actually put a corporation into jail.
You've made an assumption that Microsoft WILL be able to continue that trend forever, which I remain doubtful of that.
The fall, while may not be apparent yet, could be much faster than you expect.
Can't believe the parent is modded "insightful", I would think of an analogy...
No, I can't think of any right now, but saying that one'll *surely* succeed because he has succeeded before, not to mention that ignoring many of his failures, requires a leap of faith.
That sounds like slogan and chant but doesn't seemt to be quite logical to me. Pardon my poor mind.
Umm... I have a simple analogy but think it's a poor one: If a students have gotten 100 marks in all his previous examinations, does it automatically guarantee he'll get 100 marks next time?
I suppose it means the new dots can be applied to many things but they still need another light or electricity source? Anyway, I'm not sure about others but I'm not yet ready to have everything in my home shines. : )
I think it's the initial procurement cost, high brightness LED are much more expensive than traditional bulbs.
I'm not sure if LED "emits" heat but AFAIK, it does "produce" heat, and that's why LED torches need heatsinks because the performance of LED is negatively related to the its temperature.
Or it's something else?
Good one indeed, I'm not sure about other OS, but Windows and program for Windows store their settings everywhere. It's a daunting task to backup or transfer a user's configuration and data completely.
Now you get soemthing in the registry, something under "\Documents and Settings", something under "\WINDOWS", something under "\Program Files"...
While it's not all MS's fault, I think maybe they could have done something more to make it better.
By no means the market leaders want to make it a closed system in the sense of military standard.
That's because the "myriad" collection of alternatives account for 1% of their userbase.
If you remember long enough, there was a time when one company tried to make its client compatible with a rival company's IM service, and the rival company keeps changing its codes daily to fend it off.
I don't have much experience except for some light usage of WebCT back then, but the user interface was poor, it's complicated and not initiative.
Personally I think it would be a better act for the educational sector to come up with an open source alternative themselves. They can even make it student projects to expand on modules.
Or they can just expand on a CRM system like Drupal.
Does Garnet do Unicode? If not, is POL going to get it? It's an encoding mess to use Chinese on Palm OS.
Right on, except that I think "CLIE" should be spelt in all caps. (in fact, it's not "E", but just too lazy to figure out how to type that accent anyway)
OTOH, this maybe a bit more refreshing.
Hats off to the submitted for the "Most Misleading Summary" award of the week.
I think the parent is right, Palm has tried too long to push Palm Desktop, which was clearly a dead-end for business users.
To Palm's credit, it tried to redeem itself with by offering better Outlook conduits and built-in apps that work better with Outlook. It also added Exchange support in Treo.
But it was "too late, too little".
Based on my limited experience, with regard to the UI, Palm is indeed easier to use than WM/PPC, which many tout as one of Palm's strength. However, the greatest strength is also the greatest weakness of Palm, once you want to do something a bit more complicate, you'll find it's not supported by the built-in apps.
FYI, there is a similar project called KeePass.
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
"to be burned."
Onto a CD-R.
Actually it weas the Yahoo! engineers pretending Google engineers doing it so to make you think Google engineers did it while it was actually Yahoo! engineerings disguising as Google engineers but inside they're actually Yahoo! engineers with Google engineers outlook.