Most ISPs only ever provided a watered down version of Usenet anyway. In which retention was limited in many cases to less then a week and in which bandwidth on file downloads was much less then your line speed. I know first hand that this was the case with Comcast and Verizion FIOS. The reality is that Usenet was ever only good from pay Usenet services before this and it will continue to be the case after this.
Java is an out of data language because it's bloated in memory usage and CPU usage in comparison to cleaner C# or C++ for application development. Flash has totally destroyed it's market share with applets and about the only thing left for Java is the fact that a lot of enterprises still have applications that depend on Java. It's gonna take 20 years but I don't see Java not dying a very slow and painful death.
Hey, if you want them to hold the president accountable then maybe you should elect more of them to office. They need a 2/3rds majority to do much of anything. Otherwise we still have this thing called checks and balances.
I don't mind Javascript 2, that's all well and good but stock Javascript needs to be standardized across the board. It's good that IE8 is finally going to be standards compliant for rendering but they all really need to sit down and figure out how to standardize JS. The irony on this one is that MS came out with some really good extra JS features back in the day so you have these features that the IE team pioneered but then it was added as a stock feature but differently. Libraries like Prototype.js and Mootools are nice but I still want a standard JS setup.
A lot of the comments I'm seeing assume that Murdoch somehow lost money on the deal. In reality after he bought MySpace: "On August 8, 2006, search engine Google signed a $900 million deal to provide a Google search facility and advertising on MySpace."
And I'm sure that's not the only way MySpace has made Murdoch even richer.
Can someone please explain to me why you people are posting saying "don't do this".
The entire essence of slashdot is to fuck around with technology. Saying "you shouldn't tinker" is the opposite of what we are about.
I say go for it! Rip apart the browser and mess with it to your hearts content - cause that's the only way you'll ever figure stuff out.
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Personally, I've been using the betas of Firefox 3 as main because I couldn't stand Firefox 2. This RC1 release is heaven. You guys think this release is buggy when really there's just a few bugs to fix and most of them on foreign versions or very specific cases equally in windows, linux, and mac based on the ratio of installs.
A Network admins know that the common man or woman doesn't know their computers from their asses. It's like the saying goes, PEBKAC.
The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is king because Linux software isn't even there yet when it comes to quality. Whenever you have new hardware you probably can't even use linux because the drivers haven't come out yet or are beta and/or a bitch to install.
Linux continues to be dogged down by too many deal breakers for so many people. You can have Linux be good for 15 / 20 uses and even throws in 5 - 10 new ones but the few you got left might include deal breakers for so many people. This is the challenge the open source community will need to overcome before it ever wins this war. It will eventually win though. We're only 15 years into a networked world. 60 years from now software companies will only make money from custom code.
What has changed since beta5? Grannies might not be interested, but geeks are... Basically the Mozilla foundation keeps track of so called "blocker" bugs which essentially means that they are blocking release. In the past month they took care of approx 250 blockers which essentially means that for the past month they've been coding this browser to be built like a rock. It's not always a visual thing but just as important.
I've been running this build now for 4 days straight going to countless sites that use every which plugins for movies and flash and javascript and so far considering it hasn't crashed on me in windows I'd say it's pretty solid.
Although I am running a Q6600 with 4GB. But Beta 5 used to crash on me every 2 hours.
Now to business, Firebug Official for FF3 Please:)
While the purists are going to argue that valid markup defines the quality of the code on a given website the reality of the real world always tends to rear it's ugly head and debunk that fantasy.
In the real world us web developers have to deal with interoperability on many different levels. We have to make sure the layout looks the same on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari with Windows XP & Vista, OSX, and Linux using the same code base. Most of this however has a lot to do with how talented your CSS developer is. And unfortunately for you kiddies, any less isn't perfect.
So to spell it out for those that don't know, here's the real difference between WYSIWYG and pure text: In a WYSIWYG editor you tend to do everything the same way every time you do it. That means that all your links, images, and code snippets come from the same code base and therefore have all the same pitfalls and good points. Unfortunatly the wonderful world of DOM doesn't work that way. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and objects like Flash, Quicktime, and Java have very specific ways that they interact with each other and the browser and so what you generally find is that the reason you code by hand is not for the specific reason of coding by hand but simply put you really can not build good, quality websites with WYSIWYG editors. At some point you will most assuredly find yourself digging in the HTML.
Finally, on the topic of validating your markup. The Markup validaters that are out there are only good as tools of the trade and shouldn't be used as the end-all be-all certification of quality markup. They are tools that should be used by a web developer to run through and make sure they can be as close to valid as possible but I am willing to bet that out of the top 100 sites on the internet, the front page of all of them will produce Markup validation errors. The reason is simple: The validation rules are so restrictive that there is no point even worrying about them. It would be impossible to make a working website by being totally loyal to the markup rules.
Especially with the validator's stupidity in treating & signs in the href attribute of my a elements as the beginning of an entity which it's not!/rant >.>
Any self respecting web developer that is any good already knows this. The editor though is essentially all preference. He could have said Notepad.
I personally use Dreamweaver but only because I like it's project management. Never find myself in design view ever. Especially since with PHP Dreamweaver has no idea what to display.
It's clear that this is simply the next logic step in this discipline known as "Science". What a lot of people forget to understand about hardware technology and it's relationship to the Internet is that the Internet is simply allowing applications to develop very rapidly on a global level in any possible nook and cranny of human interaction on every level in anything. This will continue to accelerate as memory, cpu, space, and bandwidth capacities continue to double every 12-18 months with no real end in sight for at least one decade.
Thinking about how the Internet has changed the world in the past 15 years and how it will continue to do so in the next 50 years.
It's the natural tendency to use tools that speed up your work and therefore make you much more productive in your specific field. Naturally you gravitate towards things that help you stay at the top of the field.
It's like a great cultural revolution in every possible field every couple months/years as software gets better.
This is one of the reasons I'm voting for Obama in Tuesday's PA primary, -He's for net neutrality so that becomes assured for another 4 years at least and would give the internet time to become even more dependent on the concept. There's a certain threshold with internet where network neutrality needs to be maintained for a long enough period to which the public gets educated enough on the concept that they won't accept an un-neutral internet. -Advocates copyright reform. -Advocates patent reform.
Also, Hillary wants to censor videogame sales further which screams "Nanny state" to me.
Generally speaking I don't really think the above issues are prime but I do think that it's about time with the Health care issues and voting for any Republican right now would most assuredly put the United States on a path towards losing our super power status. It won't really drive us down it's just that we're so stagnant that we're just gonna be watching the European Union and China pass us by and new emerging technologies.
A lot of people view the Democrats as simply instigators of a Socialist agenda but the idea is that the United States is so rich and so filled with money that it just makes sense to provide the ability to heal anyone in the country without them having to pay out of their pocket. It's a simple investment in the human capital of this country. Sure you'll be paying more taxes but the reward will come from the increased productivity of the population thereby driving up GDP.
Thanks for the very opinionated analysis on how apparently Bill Gates is now ordering the US government but the fact of the matter is this request was good for both parties, good for science, and good for the industry.
I fully expected this to eventually come about. There's a huge chunk of commerce in the US done through the Internet which drains a lot of possible Tax Revenue from the states when before people would just go to the local electronics store.
I don't believe it's right to tax us this way however, nor do I think it's truly enforceable at this time since tax rates in various states are so complicated and if this actually passes it will be a big precedent for other states and local governments the follow suit, further complicating the situation.
It will be interesting to watch this play out. Sadly, the American people are gonna have to start paying taxes from somewhere. We have a huge debt and a lot of immediate things the government simply needs to take care of.
Until Intel can show us Crysis in all it's GPU raping glory running on it's chipset in 1600x1200 with all settings to Ultra High Nvidia and ATI will still be kings of high end graphics.
Then again, if all Intel wants to do is create a sub standard alternative to those high end cards just to run Vista Aero and *nix Beryl then they have already succeeded.
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Most ISPs only ever provided a watered down version of Usenet anyway. In which retention was limited in many cases to less then a week and in which bandwidth on file downloads was much less then your line speed. I know first hand that this was the case with Comcast and Verizion FIOS. The reality is that Usenet was ever only good from pay Usenet services before this and it will continue to be the case after this.
George Carlin would have been proud!
Ok so how many asteroids do we need to crash into Mars to give it some greenhouse gases and an atmosphere similar to Earth's?
Java is an out of data language because it's bloated in memory usage and CPU usage in comparison to cleaner C# or C++ for application development. Flash has totally destroyed it's market share with applets and about the only thing left for Java is the fact that a lot of enterprises still have applications that depend on Java. It's gonna take 20 years but I don't see Java not dying a very slow and painful death.
Hey, if you want them to hold the president accountable then maybe you should elect more of them to office. They need a 2/3rds majority to do much of anything. Otherwise we still have this thing called checks and balances.
I don't mind Javascript 2, that's all well and good but stock Javascript needs to be standardized across the board. It's good that IE8 is finally going to be standards compliant for rendering but they all really need to sit down and figure out how to standardize JS. The irony on this one is that MS came out with some really good extra JS features back in the day so you have these features that the IE team pioneered but then it was added as a stock feature but differently. Libraries like Prototype.js and Mootools are nice but I still want a standard JS setup.
A lot of the comments I'm seeing assume that Murdoch somehow lost money on the deal. In reality after he bought MySpace: "On August 8, 2006, search engine Google signed a $900 million deal to provide a Google search facility and advertising on MySpace."
And I'm sure that's not the only way MySpace has made Murdoch even richer.
Can someone please explain to me why you people are posting saying "don't do this".
The entire essence of slashdot is to fuck around with technology. Saying "you shouldn't tinker" is the opposite of what we are about.
I say go for it! Rip apart the browser and mess with it to your hearts content - cause that's the only way you'll ever figure stuff out.
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The following plugins are working for me now,
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4
Firebug 1.1.0b12
Google Pagerank Status 0.9.8
StatusbarEX 0.2.11
Web Developer 1.1.6
Personally, I've been using the betas of Firefox 3 as main because I couldn't stand Firefox 2. This RC1 release is heaven. You guys think this release is buggy when really there's just a few bugs to fix and most of them on foreign versions or very specific cases equally in windows, linux, and mac based on the ratio of installs.
No dude lol... just plain no.
A Network admins know that the common man or woman doesn't know their computers from their asses. It's like the saying goes, PEBKAC.
The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is king because Linux software isn't even there yet when it comes to quality. Whenever you have new hardware you probably can't even use linux because the drivers haven't come out yet or are beta and/or a bitch to install.
Linux continues to be dogged down by too many deal breakers for so many people. You can have Linux be good for 15 / 20 uses and even throws in 5 - 10 new ones but the few you got left might include deal breakers for so many people. This is the challenge the open source community will need to overcome before it ever wins this war. It will eventually win though. We're only 15 years into a networked world. 60 years from now software companies will only make money from custom code.
It would be known very fast if a major browser was opening weird sockets to unknown IP addresses. Paranoid much?
I've been running this build now for 4 days straight going to countless sites that use every which plugins for movies and flash and javascript and so far considering it hasn't crashed on me in windows I'd say it's pretty solid.
:)
Although I am running a Q6600 with 4GB. But Beta 5 used to crash on me every 2 hours.
Now to business,
Firebug Official for FF3 Please
Fine, so lets ingrain driving before language!
Baby cars!
FOX isn't the most popular cable news channel because they are somehow better then the other networks.
The polarity of American politics right vs left.
FOX represents the right while NBC, CBS, and CNN represent the left.
So with the right you have no choice and with the left you have a choice. No wonder they are the most watched cable news channel.
An & sign in a link to a URL isn't a syntax error and treating it as such would nullify all GET parameters after the first one.
;)
The above example alone debunks your entire argument so try again
While the purists are going to argue that valid markup defines the quality of the code on a given website the reality of the real world always tends to rear it's ugly head and debunk that fantasy.
/rant >.>
In the real world us web developers have to deal with interoperability on many different levels. We have to make sure the layout looks the same on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari with Windows XP & Vista, OSX, and Linux using the same code base. Most of this however has a lot to do with how talented your CSS developer is. And unfortunately for you kiddies, any less isn't perfect.
So to spell it out for those that don't know, here's the real difference between WYSIWYG and pure text:
In a WYSIWYG editor you tend to do everything the same way every time you do it. That means that all your links, images, and code snippets come from the same code base and therefore have all the same pitfalls and good points. Unfortunatly the wonderful world of DOM doesn't work that way. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and objects like Flash, Quicktime, and Java have very specific ways that they interact with each other and the browser and so what you generally find is that the reason you code by hand is not for the specific reason of coding by hand but simply put you really can not build good, quality websites with WYSIWYG editors. At some point you will most assuredly find yourself digging in the HTML.
Finally, on the topic of validating your markup. The Markup validaters that are out there are only good as tools of the trade and shouldn't be used as the end-all be-all certification of quality markup. They are tools that should be used by a web developer to run through and make sure they can be as close to valid as possible but I am willing to bet that out of the top 100 sites on the internet, the front page of all of them will produce Markup validation errors. The reason is simple: The validation rules are so restrictive that there is no point even worrying about them. It would be impossible to make a working website by being totally loyal to the markup rules.
Especially with the validator's stupidity in treating & signs in the href attribute of my a elements as the beginning of an entity which it's not!
Any self respecting web developer that is any good already knows this. The editor though is essentially all preference. He could have said Notepad.
I personally use Dreamweaver but only because I like it's project management. Never find myself in design view ever. Especially since with PHP Dreamweaver has no idea what to display.
It's clear that this is simply the next logic step in this discipline known as "Science". What a lot of people forget to understand about hardware technology and it's relationship to the Internet is that the Internet is simply allowing applications to develop very rapidly on a global level in any possible nook and cranny of human interaction on every level in anything. This will continue to accelerate as memory, cpu, space, and bandwidth capacities continue to double every 12-18 months with no real end in sight for at least one decade.
Thinking about how the Internet has changed the world in the past 15 years and how it will continue to do so in the next 50 years.
It's the natural tendency to use tools that speed up your work and therefore make you much more productive in your specific field. Naturally you gravitate towards things that help you stay at the top of the field.
It's like a great cultural revolution in every possible field every couple months/years as software gets better.
This is one of the reasons I'm voting for Obama in Tuesday's PA primary,
-He's for net neutrality so that becomes assured for another 4 years at least and would give the internet time to become even more dependent on the concept. There's a certain threshold with internet where network neutrality needs to be maintained for a long enough period to which the public gets educated enough on the concept that they won't accept an un-neutral internet.
-Advocates copyright reform.
-Advocates patent reform.
among other things... http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
Also, Hillary wants to censor videogame sales further which screams "Nanny state" to me.
Generally speaking I don't really think the above issues are prime but I do think that it's about time with the Health care issues and voting for any Republican right now would most assuredly put the United States on a path towards losing our super power status. It won't really drive us down it's just that we're so stagnant that we're just gonna be watching the European Union and China pass us by and new emerging technologies.
A lot of people view the Democrats as simply instigators of a Socialist agenda but the idea is that the United States is so rich and so filled with money that it just makes sense to provide the ability to heal anyone in the country without them having to pay out of their pocket. It's a simple investment in the human capital of this country. Sure you'll be paying more taxes but the reward will come from the increased productivity of the population thereby driving up GDP.
Actually Suprnova did come back but under new management.
Thanks for the very opinionated analysis on how apparently Bill Gates is now ordering the US government but the fact of the matter is this request was good for both parties, good for science, and good for the industry.
Now get off my lawn!
I fully expected this to eventually come about. There's a huge chunk of commerce in the US done through the Internet which drains a lot of possible Tax Revenue from the states when before people would just go to the local electronics store.
I don't believe it's right to tax us this way however, nor do I think it's truly enforceable at this time since tax rates in various states are so complicated and if this actually passes it will be a big precedent for other states and local governments the follow suit, further complicating the situation.
It will be interesting to watch this play out. Sadly, the American people are gonna have to start paying taxes from somewhere. We have a huge debt and a lot of immediate things the government simply needs to take care of.
Until Intel can show us Crysis in all it's GPU raping glory running on it's chipset in 1600x1200 with all settings to Ultra High Nvidia and ATI will still be kings of high end graphics. Then again, if all Intel wants to do is create a sub standard alternative to those high end cards just to run Vista Aero and *nix Beryl then they have already succeeded.
Um... they forgot one other thing that happens to work for Hamas: A complete lack of any hope for the future.