I think the car analogy is very weak. If a car isn't set up or maintained correctly, you can get killed. If a PC isn't, the worst that can happen is you can lose your data.
but when they make their games available through MS Live (I think that's what it is called), MS will charge for each and every download and pocket every cent. Not that this doesn't detract from the bragging rights or possibly valuble experience that these developers may get in return. From the MS perspective its free money.
I don't remember reading this bit. Can you let me know where you found this information that Microsoft will be charging for these homebrew games?
I swapped to OSX at the start of this year. Not one of your reasons applies to me. I've not used Windows since (excepting fixing my father's computer from time to time) and have no need or intention to use Windows again. Your example were possibly the worst non-examples of why Windows is a monopoly. Actually, your reasons have more or less NOTHING to do with why Windows was considered a monopoly and have more or less nothing to do with Microsoft. Microsoft is the reason Windows was considered a monopoly, not that you can't view the executable files that your mum/dad/friend sent you. What a load of rubbish.
So what is AJAX exactly? I don't think it has been "invented" so much as the related technologies grouped and given a name. They came up with XMLHttpRequest which, as far as I'm aware, is the backbone of what has been named AJAX, and as such one could say they did invent AJAX.
Eh? How is DVD not HD? If a DVD contains HD video, no matter how long the video is, what makes it not HD? Same with a CD - if you can stick HD video on it (all of about 5 minutes worth perhaps), how is that not HD? It's not the medium it's provided on - it's the content, surely?
Can you give us a list of 3rd party modules are uncompliant? I'd like to know for future reference. However, I've yet to come across this while working with either PHP or Ruby On Rails. I had a little problem on very rare occasions when I worked as an ASP developer, with compliance of 3rd party components.
Anyone that claims to be a professional web developer who DOESN'T adhere to W3C standards is, in my opinion, not a professional and if you're hiring those type of developers, good luck.
I have found meeting web standards, developing with CSS rather than tables and writing (hopefully) semantic HTML has made my development process far far more efficient and no slower than the table-based layouts and non-standards compliancy days of old.
No, for anything including trivial requirements and above, meeting web standards is not difficult and takes no more time than writing shoddy HTML. There's no excuse. Sorry.
but I think that anyone publishing content should have an understanding of the medium on which it's being published. I don't mean doing a view source and rendering the page in your head, but people not familiar with <br> really shouln't be putting stuff online and thinking highly of themselves, as the myspacers tend to.
I'm glad you're not the man at the top who decides what goes on the internet or otherwise. Because the internet would absolutely suck.
That is absolutely the best thing about the internet, whether you know about or have any kind of understanding of the medium or not, for free ANYONE can make their voice heard. Whether it's heard by one or a million people, you're still able to say your piece, whatever it might be.
Yes, there are some horrific sites out there that are completely standards incompliant, that are garish, that cause your browser to crash, that takes an hour to load and has horrific Celine Dion music in the background, but does it REALLY matter?
Myspace falls into the above category.. it's not a "homepage builder", it's a community site. It's for people who have no interest in what a <br> tag is but still lets them communicate and let their voice be heard.
So you don't like it, ignore it. It's doing no harm.
Games like Doom, Quake, Far Cry etc. etc. ARE fun though. Just, they're all graphically advanced (for their retrospective years) but despite that, the games are brilliant fun. There were some awful games in the 8 bit years and there are some shocking games now but to say games on the market now are about graphics isn't true and that's something people into their old retro games seem to keep repeating. Not true as far as I'm concerned.
Compatibility with more games. Other than WoW, what popular MMORPG runs on Mac OS X?
Get a console to play games!
Compatibility with more peripherals sold at retail stores.
Possibly, but I'm unaware of any peripheral I need/want that is incompatible with OSX.
Compatibility with web sites that are made exclusively for Microsoft Internet Explorer technology and for which there are no close substitutes.
Any suggestions of what sites those may be? Even as a Windows/PC user, running Firefox exclusively, I never came across any site worth my time that required Internet Explorer.
keyboard shortcuts which are exactly the same as Firefox (coincidence, I think not)
Is that the same kind of keyboard shortcut coincidence as you get in every/99.9% of windows based applications? Ctrl-S for save, Ctrl-O for open, Ctrl-N for new etc. etc. F1 for help and so on?
You're right, I'm sure it absolutely wasn't a coincidence. So is there a problem with this?
I've actually just replaced my desktop PC with a 12" Mac Powerbook. Love it. Few driver issues but nothing I can't get by without. What's more concerning is the number of websites which refuse entry to Macs saying the site requires Windows 98/2000/XP.
But then the net yaroke and the PS2 Linux kit both came out a year or two after the consoles were released. Perhaps Sony will do this with the PSP in their own (insanely slow) time. I'd be surprised if they didn't do this, based on past experience. Shame it's going to be further down the road than now. In the mean time, the crackers will continue doing what they're doing any homebrew software will continue to be released. It's a good scene, shame it doesn't have Sony's stamp of approval on it.
What makes it "the best cms" exactly? I'm not baiting, but would like to know as I'm currently using Joomla for a site and if there's something better, then I'd like to know about it!
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I think the car analogy is very weak. If a car isn't set up or maintained correctly, you can get killed. If a PC isn't, the worst that can happen is you can lose your data.
How did they know it was an ipod? Because this guy told them?
I swapped to OSX at the start of this year. Not one of your reasons applies to me. I've not used Windows since (excepting fixing my father's computer from time to time) and have no need or intention to use Windows again. Your example were possibly the worst non-examples of why Windows is a monopoly. Actually, your reasons have more or less NOTHING to do with why Windows was considered a monopoly and have more or less nothing to do with Microsoft. Microsoft is the reason Windows was considered a monopoly, not that you can't view the executable files that your mum/dad/friend sent you. What a load of rubbish.
So what is AJAX exactly? I don't think it has been "invented" so much as the related technologies grouped and given a name. They came up with XMLHttpRequest which, as far as I'm aware, is the backbone of what has been named AJAX, and as such one could say they did invent AJAX.
Eh? How is DVD not HD? If a DVD contains HD video, no matter how long the video is, what makes it not HD? Same with a CD - if you can stick HD video on it (all of about 5 minutes worth perhaps), how is that not HD? It's not the medium it's provided on - it's the content, surely?
Can you give us a list of 3rd party modules are uncompliant? I'd like to know for future reference. However, I've yet to come across this while working with either PHP or Ruby On Rails. I had a little problem on very rare occasions when I worked as an ASP developer, with compliance of 3rd party components.
Anyone that claims to be a professional web developer who DOESN'T adhere to W3C standards is, in my opinion, not a professional and if you're hiring those type of developers, good luck.
I have found meeting web standards, developing with CSS rather than tables and writing (hopefully) semantic HTML has made my development process far far more efficient and no slower than the table-based layouts and non-standards compliancy days of old.
No, for anything including trivial requirements and above, meeting web standards is not difficult and takes no more time than writing shoddy HTML. There's no excuse. Sorry.
I'm glad you're not the man at the top who decides what goes on the internet or otherwise. Because the internet would absolutely suck.
That is absolutely the best thing about the internet, whether you know about or have any kind of understanding of the medium or not, for free ANYONE can make their voice heard. Whether it's heard by one or a million people, you're still able to say your piece, whatever it might be.
Yes, there are some horrific sites out there that are completely standards incompliant, that are garish, that cause your browser to crash, that takes an hour to load and has horrific Celine Dion music in the background, but does it REALLY matter?
Myspace falls into the above category.. it's not a "homepage builder", it's a community site. It's for people who have no interest in what a <br> tag is but still lets them communicate and let their voice be heard.
So you don't like it, ignore it. It's doing no harm.
Games like Doom, Quake, Far Cry etc. etc. ARE fun though. Just, they're all graphically advanced (for their retrospective years) but despite that, the games are brilliant fun. There were some awful games in the 8 bit years and there are some shocking games now but to say games on the market now are about graphics isn't true and that's something people into their old retro games seem to keep repeating. Not true as far as I'm concerned.
Compatibility with more games. Other than WoW, what popular MMORPG runs on Mac OS X?
Get a console to play games!Compatibility with more peripherals sold at retail stores.
Possibly, but I'm unaware of any peripheral I need/want that is incompatible with OSX.Compatibility with web sites that are made exclusively for Microsoft Internet Explorer technology and for which there are no close substitutes.
Any suggestions of what sites those may be? Even as a Windows/PC user, running Firefox exclusively, I never came across any site worth my time that required Internet Explorer.I paid £300 for my playstation 1 when it first came out. Consoles are no more expensive than they ever were.
Did... did you call me "chicken"?
keyboard shortcuts which are exactly the same as Firefox (coincidence, I think not)
Is that the same kind of keyboard shortcut coincidence as you get in every/99.9% of windows based applications? Ctrl-S for save, Ctrl-O for open, Ctrl-N for new etc. etc. F1 for help and so on?
You're right, I'm sure it absolutely wasn't a coincidence. So is there a problem with this?But there aren't many games for Macs.
I've actually just replaced my desktop PC with a 12" Mac Powerbook. Love it. Few driver issues but nothing I can't get by without. What's more concerning is the number of websites which refuse entry to Macs saying the site requires Windows 98/2000/XP.
Err.. why?
He's a witch! Burn him!
Give the crackers a few more months, and I don't doubt the 2.5 firmware will be cracked too.
But then the net yaroke and the PS2 Linux kit both came out a year or two after the consoles were released. Perhaps Sony will do this with the PSP in their own (insanely slow) time. I'd be surprised if they didn't do this, based on past experience. Shame it's going to be further down the road than now. In the mean time, the crackers will continue doing what they're doing any homebrew software will continue to be released. It's a good scene, shame it doesn't have Sony's stamp of approval on it.
What makes it "the best cms" exactly? I'm not baiting, but would like to know as I'm currently using Joomla for a site and if there's something better, then I'd like to know about it!
YIC! That is MY acronym!
JesusAnyone who uses the word "blogosphere" needs hanging.
I don't know, I never went to Burger King.
Can you say 'apt-get update'? Have some imagination, will you??
No way is this going to happen. Not a chance in hell. What has MS ever opened up after it's become obsolete or unsupported? It's not going to happen.
Next.