Here in Auckland, NZ, we just fire a text message to the parking meter's 4 digit shortcode. $2 comes off the mobile balance, and parking paid. Granted, there needs to be a nearby parking meter so you can get the validation code from it, but they're not more than maybe 20 metres away in most places. You can still pay by cash or Visa if you want to.
Microsoft could just implement it properly, like Sudo under Ubuntu. There is no reason that any program ever should pop up in front of what I am doing, let alone dim the whole screen to completely kill my train of thought. UAC should wait in the background until dealt with, it can draw attention to itself in the task bar, in the same way an MSN chat window would.
That sounds familiar... oh that's right, you just described UAC. In the event something requires your approval from a program which you are not currently focused on, the UAC window does exactly that - stay in the taskbar flashing occasionally. If it's something you were working with, then it stands to reason that it expects you to reply immediately since it's a direct result of something you did.
The dimming of the screen by the way is a security feature - it does this because the UAC dialog is actually rendered on a completely different "desktop" (think tty) than your user session, so userspace nasties can't sniff the password from it or auto-click "Yes" for you.
Really, how hard is it to go to iTunes (or Amazon, or Lala, or eMusic, or whatever other online shop you want to go to) and purchase an MP3 of the hot new song?
Impossible, actually. Since anything new is not available in my country on iTunes because the recording industry isn't willing to license it, and all of the other sites mentioned insist they are not wiling do deal with me because I'm not in the USA.
So, yes, it actually is difficult to purchase music, so long as Americans believe that Earth ends at the San Francisco beaches.
Won't work. An email server can't check SPF records for email from its own domain, since it also receives client connections, and therefore it'd need every single client PC to be in the SPF record.
What you could do is have a frontend SMTP server and a backend one which clients connect to, and configure the backend server to reject email from its own domain if it comes from the frontend server.
I think you'll find what really happens is that a lot of governments subsidise drugs to hide the real price from citizens. I know ours does. When they decide to STOP subsidising something, you usually end up looking at an $80 a month prescription.
Personally, I use 64 bit IE. Not only do I not have Flash installed in the browser, the browser isn't capable of running 99% of malware (because who compiles their "toolbars" in 64 bit?)
Huh. I'm not going to try it myself (on the off chance it does break something), but I'll take your word for it. The base point still stands though - if you refer to WebKit separately from Safari, you need to treat Trident separately from Internet Explorer.
obviously those who can read digg, facebook, and youtube at work are vastly more productive then the geezers you have at your joint running IE6:-)
Try telling our management that - they've firewalled all those sites.
But apart from that, I'm not bothering to respond to the rest of your comment, because apparently you read about three words in then started spouting crap off without regard to relevance to the comment you're replying to. Congrats!
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 67.68% -- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6: 27.21% Firefox: 22.47%
And that's even after they changed their system to now weight countries to prevent the numbers being skewed by one large country moving in one direction.
Delude yourself all you like, the figures are not what you want them to be - they are what they are. Demons how happy I'll be when that "IE6" figure goes down or disappears entirely.
No you didn't. The App Store license is a massive document which is covered by an NDA, which only members of the iPhone developer program have access to. You saw the App Store end-user terms and conditions.
No, they're saying that if you are running a non-IE browser, they won't pop up the box as you've already made a conscious decision to not use IE - so it's a waste of time showing it to you.
That's also why they say that "this [ballot box] is unlikely to result in anybody switching to Internet Explorer".
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Here in Auckland, NZ, we just fire a text message to the parking meter's 4 digit shortcode. $2 comes off the mobile balance, and parking paid. Granted, there needs to be a nearby parking meter so you can get the validation code from it, but they're not more than maybe 20 metres away in most places. You can still pay by cash or Visa if you want to.
Sure, that's what he claims - but there's no evidence to prove or disprove that claim. Ergo, you cannot make that assertion.
Yes, but only if all I want to listen to is hip-hop crap.
Microsoft could just implement it properly, like Sudo under Ubuntu. There is no reason that any program ever should pop up in front of what I am doing, let alone dim the whole screen to completely kill my train of thought. UAC should wait in the background until dealt with, it can draw attention to itself in the task bar, in the same way an MSN chat window would.
That sounds familiar... oh that's right, you just described UAC. In the event something requires your approval from a program which you are not currently focused on, the UAC window does exactly that - stay in the taskbar flashing occasionally. If it's something you were working with, then it stands to reason that it expects you to reply immediately since it's a direct result of something you did.
The dimming of the screen by the way is a security feature - it does this because the UAC dialog is actually rendered on a completely different "desktop" (think tty) than your user session, so userspace nasties can't sniff the password from it or auto-click "Yes" for you.
Really, how hard is it to go to iTunes (or Amazon, or Lala, or eMusic, or whatever other online shop you want to go to) and purchase an MP3 of the hot new song?
Impossible, actually. Since anything new is not available in my country on iTunes because the recording industry isn't willing to license it, and all of the other sites mentioned insist they are not wiling do deal with me because I'm not in the USA.
So, yes, it actually is difficult to purchase music, so long as Americans believe that Earth ends at the San Francisco beaches.
Open license customers can get any blasted media they want. We can download DOS if we want to.
Richard Stallman did not kickstart the whole thing because he wanted stuff at zero cost, but to help the fellow man!>
Unless you are Richard Stallman, you cannot make that assertion.
Really? Every time I've seen experts comment on Wikipedia, they've been edited because you aren't allowed to cite anything written by yourself.
Won't work. An email server can't check SPF records for email from its own domain, since it also receives client connections, and therefore it'd need every single client PC to be in the SPF record.
What you could do is have a frontend SMTP server and a backend one which clients connect to, and configure the backend server to reject email from its own domain if it comes from the frontend server.
Not if the Department of Internal Affairs destroys NZ internet first!
I think you'll find what really happens is that a lot of governments subsidise drugs to hide the real price from citizens. I know ours does. When they decide to STOP subsidising something, you usually end up looking at an $80 a month prescription.
Personally, I use 64 bit IE. Not only do I not have Flash installed in the browser, the browser isn't capable of running 99% of malware (because who compiles their "toolbars" in 64 bit?)
Any reasonable split tunnel VPN program does exactly the opposite - prioritises the VPN DNS settings over the internet.
Not saying the setup Comcast has is good, just saying.
It could be worse. In Google Chrome, it claims "Safari can't open the page..."
(Also, Firefox is not licensed under the GPL, so why would it be mentioned again?)
That's wonderful, but completely irrelevant. We're arguing the technical state of Internet Explorer as opposed to Safari, not how much more it sucks.
Huh. I'm not going to try it myself (on the off chance it does break something), but I'll take your word for it. The base point still stands though - if you refer to WebKit separately from Safari, you need to treat Trident separately from Internet Explorer.
Sounds like what I need after a day here at work.
Or Vodka. Absinthe maybe?
No, no he didn't.
WHOOOOOOOSH!
obviously those who can read digg, facebook, and youtube at work are vastly more productive then the geezers you have at your joint running IE6 :-)
Try telling our management that - they've firewalled all those sites.
But apart from that, I'm not bothering to respond to the rest of your comment, because apparently you read about three words in then started spouting crap off without regard to relevance to the comment you're replying to. Congrats!
Try dragging iexplore.exe to the recycle bin. What you describe would be the same as dragging a Safari alias to the trash.
Wrong again. Firefox is nowhere near the most popular browser as anything else will tell you.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0 (the most accurate resource around, since Google won't release stats).
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 67.68%
-- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6: 27.21%
Firefox: 22.47%
And that's even after they changed their system to now weight countries to prevent the numbers being skewed by one large country moving in one direction.
Delude yourself all you like, the figures are not what you want them to be - they are what they are. Demons how happy I'll be when that "IE6" figure goes down or disappears entirely.
Actually, self-signing requires a valid certificate from Apple too. $99. So no, it's all distribution - even to yourself - that requires you pay them.
I read your post three times, and I have only one thing to say:
What? It's interesting that Apple hasn't done what itself? Whatever it is, why would MS do it?
No you didn't. The App Store license is a massive document which is covered by an NDA, which only members of the iPhone developer program have access to. You saw the App Store end-user terms and conditions.
No, they're saying that if you are running a non-IE browser, they won't pop up the box as you've already made a conscious decision to not use IE - so it's a waste of time showing it to you.
That's also why they say that "this [ballot box] is unlikely to result in anybody switching to Internet Explorer".
It sort of makes sense really.