Dude, you completely missed the joke. He's referring to how Intel gives you real numbers (such as "Pentium 4 3.2GHz") and AMD makes up some random number for their processor, to confuse you (such as "Athlon XP 3200", which is something like a 2.2GHz processor).
On a technicality, the answer is "no" - because making a copy is required before you can give it to them (since without giving them the physical medium, it is impossible to provide them with the exact bits you received, merely a copy of them) even if you delete it. First sale DOES NOT cover this (well, unless you can get the law changed, which I reckon would be a good thing).
You do realise that Outlook Web Access actually does rely on some IE only stuff right? Specifically, it uses a non-standard HTTP verb (SUBSCRIBE), they still haven't moved from using the old XMLHTTP ActiveX control to the new XMLHttpRequest (you can probably forgive them for being slow on the uptake there - they probably can't believe it ever took off - nothing Microsoft invents takes off!), and I imagine some of the Javascript is quite funky too (the "You have new e-mail" popup appears OVER other programs).
PLENTY of people have an old Win XP OEM disk that would illegally give them the right to have a XP VM on their Linux distro. I in fact do not know one person over 10 years old that doesn't own SOME kind of Windows license from a previous computer purchase. Fixed that for you. OEM licenses are bound to the PC they were bought with, as that's the condition of them giving you the special price on it.
So actually, getting products to say that they are "compatible with Wine 1.0" is the goal. That is also the reason that they are releasing: it gives vendors a stable branch to work with. But of course you then face an issue - since WINE is not aiming for 100% compatibility, it means that if a product meets the Windows logo guidelines, but does NOT meet the WINE requirements, guess what'll happen?
You guessed it, WINE support gets thrown out the window because it would jeopardize the all-important "Certified for Windows" sticker.
So if WINE really sets a goal of having developers saying "Compatible with WINE 1.0", they need to set a goal of supporting everything with the "Certified for Windows" sticker.
The Windows Installshield way only looks easier, long term it is a nightmare because it doesn't provide for auto updates so everybody gets to reinvent that wheel. Incorrect. InstallShield installers can also package InstallShield Update Manager, which is an app which upgrades all InstallShield based application installations on the system which support it. Most devs are too lazy to write the INI file and tick the box to support it though.
I think he's referring to the fact that any sane client (even Outlook) sends a Text-Only version with the HTML version. It's quite legitimate to send HTML email, and he doesn't say he particularly hates that, just HTML-only email, where no text-only equivalent is included. HTML-only email doesn't violate standards though, it's just a stupid idea - wreaks havoc with such systems as automatic forwarding to mobile phones.
Is there actually an email client that runs Javascript? Even recent versions of Outlook wont (and even can't - Word has no Javascript interpreter!) and I'm sure that Thunderbird wouldn't be that stupid.
No. It's nothing to do with browser-desktop integration. Especially since the browser does not integrate with the desktop (though Explorer will render a single Shell Document Viewer interface on the desktop if Active Desktop is enabled).
Perhaps it's because the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop is a special case, because of the browser-desktop integration?
Nah, that's crazy talk. You're right. It is. If you set Firefox to be your Internet icon (from "Set Program Access and Defaults") Firefox could potentially do exactly the same thing - because the Internet icon is a special case (like My Computer, Recycle Bin, My Network Places, and My Documents).
The same issue could be raised using Windows Explorer (which has no integration with Internet Explorer).
Ah, yes. This I agree with completely (although to be honest it is actually compliant with the spec - IMAP allows you to flag messages deleted, rather than actually deleting them.
When you delete a message in Outlook, follow it with a Purge (the button should appear in the toolbar when you're in an IMAP folder).
It is hard to find contacts (ie, people who've emailed you). Google does this one right. I disagree completely. I hate that GMail clutters up my contacts list with everyone I ever email (even support departments for services I use) and I especially hate that I can't turn it off. If anything, I'd use it as an example of something GMail does completely wrong.
Another point regarding this, since Outlook doesn't really play fair with IMAP standards (and Thunderbird does), I am switching most of these clients to Thunderbird. The only one that is reluctant is the boss and he is still happy using Outlook 97 from an old copy. IMAP seems to work fine for me using Outlook 2003 other than the IMAP server disconnecting it if Outlook doesn't do anything for a while, and since upgrading to Outlook 2007 I don't even have that problem any more. I think it's improved a bit since last you saw it. (No, my ISP doesn't use an Exchange IMAP server).
You can easily replace just the Exchange part, since Microsoft recently (with virtually no fanfare whatsoever) released the Exchange protocol. You can duplicate Exchange in Open Source as much as you like.
So it's neither Microsoft's problem nor fault - the info is there.
Read the title. The article is nothing to do with the 10 year anniversary (though I assume something massive will happen then) - this is about the 100th Patch.
I suppose it's too much to ask for the editors to get the summary right, considering the 100th patch is in August and the 10 year anniversary next year - they aren't the same thing.
My local city council has actually done that before. Sued themselves I mean. They apparently built something without a resource consent, so they took themselves to court, fining themselves $6M for violating the Resource Management Act. Sometimes, The Onion gets it right apparently.
What? My god you're full of crap (I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Twitter, I recognise that rabid "non-free" hatred and insistence on changing the subject line of replies).
This is only because HyperCard actually was able to make some real neat stuff - entire games were able to be made in it. Some people want to play with those still, so someone else decided "hey, let's make a way to run HyperCard stacks". Good on them! Far from being some kind of "non-free" agenda like you believe, it's more just evidence of why we have Open Source - because people just want something, so they up and make it.
And don't go thinking that Open Source software is never abandoned, leaving users of it in the dust (hint: not everyone can just "fix the code" - that requires skills that relatively few people actually have).
They also clearly aren't using iTunes, which says the same... oh wait, iTunes isn't allowed to be used to manufacture biochemical weapons, not power stations. Sorry, my bad.
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Dude, you completely missed the joke. He's referring to how Intel gives you real numbers (such as "Pentium 4 3.2GHz") and AMD makes up some random number for their processor, to confuse you (such as "Athlon XP 3200", which is something like a 2.2GHz processor).
Except that he had a service called "Gmail" before Google had a service called "Gmail".
As such, your entire post is completely irrelevant.
On a technicality, the answer is "no" - because making a copy is required before you can give it to them (since without giving them the physical medium, it is impossible to provide them with the exact bits you received, merely a copy of them) even if you delete it. First sale DOES NOT cover this (well, unless you can get the law changed, which I reckon would be a good thing).
You do realise that Outlook Web Access actually does rely on some IE only stuff right? Specifically, it uses a non-standard HTTP verb (SUBSCRIBE), they still haven't moved from using the old XMLHTTP ActiveX control to the new XMLHttpRequest (you can probably forgive them for being slow on the uptake there - they probably can't believe it ever took off - nothing Microsoft invents takes off!), and I imagine some of the Javascript is quite funky too (the "You have new e-mail" popup appears OVER other programs).
You guessed it, WINE support gets thrown out the window because it would jeopardize the all-important "Certified for Windows" sticker.
So if WINE really sets a goal of having developers saying "Compatible with WINE 1.0", they need to set a goal of supporting everything with the "Certified for Windows" sticker.
I think he's referring to the fact that any sane client (even Outlook) sends a Text-Only version with the HTML version. It's quite legitimate to send HTML email, and he doesn't say he particularly hates that, just HTML-only email, where no text-only equivalent is included. HTML-only email doesn't violate standards though, it's just a stupid idea - wreaks havoc with such systems as automatic forwarding to mobile phones.
Is there actually an email client that runs Javascript? Even recent versions of Outlook wont (and even can't - Word has no Javascript interpreter!) and I'm sure that Thunderbird wouldn't be that stupid.
No. It's nothing to do with browser-desktop integration. Especially since the browser does not integrate with the desktop (though Explorer will render a single Shell Document Viewer interface on the desktop if Active Desktop is enabled).
The browser must do it itself, by writing an Alternate Data Stream (ADS) with the Zone Identifier (3 for Internet) the file came from.
Nah, that's crazy talk. You're right. It is. If you set Firefox to be your Internet icon (from "Set Program Access and Defaults") Firefox could potentially do exactly the same thing - because the Internet icon is a special case (like My Computer, Recycle Bin, My Network Places, and My Documents).
The same issue could be raised using Windows Explorer (which has no integration with Internet Explorer).
Ah, yes. This I agree with completely (although to be honest it is actually compliant with the spec - IMAP allows you to flag messages deleted, rather than actually deleting them.
When you delete a message in Outlook, follow it with a Purge (the button should appear in the toolbar when you're in an IMAP folder).
You can easily replace just the Exchange part, since Microsoft recently (with virtually no fanfare whatsoever) released the Exchange protocol. You can duplicate Exchange in Open Source as much as you like.
So it's neither Microsoft's problem nor fault - the info is there.
Read the title. The article is nothing to do with the 10 year anniversary (though I assume something massive will happen then) - this is about the 100th Patch.
I suppose it's too much to ask for the editors to get the summary right, considering the 100th patch is in August and the 10 year anniversary next year - they aren't the same thing.
WTF? You didn't even read it! It specifically says DHCP, not fucking uPNP (which is a crappy idea anyway!)
It's not consistent with your contrived scenario in any way shape or form. Nor is it evidence that what you propose is true.
My local city council has actually done that before. Sued themselves I mean. They apparently built something without a resource consent, so they took themselves to court, fining themselves $6M for violating the Resource Management Act. Sometimes, The Onion gets it right apparently.
Ack. Apparently TFA doesn't. But Billion themselves do.
You're almost as bad as Twitter. Try RTFA, it explains exactly why it happened, and exactly why it's the router manufacturers fault.
WindizUpdate does not have any updates of any kind released after November 2007, so it's more of a security risk than Windows Update.
What? My god you're full of crap (I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Twitter, I recognise that rabid "non-free" hatred and insistence on changing the subject line of replies).
This is only because HyperCard actually was able to make some real neat stuff - entire games were able to be made in it. Some people want to play with those still, so someone else decided "hey, let's make a way to run HyperCard stacks". Good on them! Far from being some kind of "non-free" agenda like you believe, it's more just evidence of why we have Open Source - because people just want something, so they up and make it.
And don't go thinking that Open Source software is never abandoned, leaving users of it in the dust (hint: not everyone can just "fix the code" - that requires skills that relatively few people actually have).
They also clearly aren't using iTunes, which says the same... oh wait, iTunes isn't allowed to be used to manufacture biochemical weapons, not power stations. Sorry, my bad.