It means Google will now take responsibility for the product working well. That's all it means.
Sorry if this comes off cynical, but I'm a firm believer that companies like Google leave their products in beta for a long period of time so they don't have to defend quality and reliability. If something isn't working well, it's beta, what did you expect? The thing is, Google has shown us excellent products over the years so they are a bit overly conservative I think.
Precisely. No one should be writing tests for which version of XmlHttpRequest to instance before every instantiation, you use a common function (or framework) to pass you a reference... or wrap the whole HTTP call in helper functions. The fact that IE 7 will have a more attractive version of XmlHttp available really only has significance within the scope of these helper functions and libraries.
The new HttlpXML implementation should go in, because it's better than the ActiveX equivalent, but your daily grunt code will not care.
It could be done. You don't have to make something cryptic to get it right, as Ubuntu has proven.
Simply ask Grandma to provide a password for "System Maintenance" when she activates Windows on her shiny new Dell. Then prompt for this Administrator password when needed instead of causing the task to fail. No more "You must be an administrator..." errors.
I honestly believe that the great majority of the world's Internet users have no idea how to properly browse or read e-mail.
How sad and true. People do not protect themselves because they don't see what we see. It's important to us because we are close to it. My wife has absolutely no patience to think about why it's a good idea to use her computer like this and a bad idea to use her computer like that. All I can do is make it hard for her to blow herself up, but she still keeps trying.
People keep forgetting that Ajax ties you to client-side Javascript. The browser is a terrible platform on which to deliver applications! JS development is far worse than coding on the server. Consider:
* You can (almost) never debug your JS code
* No strong typing... no compiler to catch even the simplest of mistakes and typos
* Rich use of JS performs very poorly
* Service packs and hot fixes break things all the time (XP SP1 introduced random characters into our rendered DHTML, MS had no clue why. More recently MSXML 4 now crashes making web calls to our servers, we use alternate MSXML versions just fine and machines that are not fully patched work fine on XML 4.0)
* Browser incompatabilities
* Timing issues
Net sum: use Ajax to perform occasional tricks, or to overcome a particularly meddlesome usability issue that is promoted by today's least-common-denominator browser UI controls. But for your sanity, make sure you are still writing a server-side application.
They can release content in a proprietary format (that our laws protect), and license the technology to use that format to the media device manufacturers. Underground users will almost always find a way around the proprietary blocks but mainstream meadia usage (TV, radio, film, professional production work) will always be a big, slow moving target for **AA.
If you haven't already, go out now (yes now) and do a search for independent music. Take the time to download some free MP3s and give a few a listen. You can find some really terrific music out there, and if you are going to pay for it put the money directly in the hands of the musicians.
Without GarageBand.com I would never have found Retrograde, Stara Zagora, 5 Day Star, Coping with Ignorance, Zach Ziskin, Copper, Rantings of Eva, the list goes on and on. These groups put out professionally produced, rich and interesting music that meets or exceeds expectations of every person I've introduced them to.
I've seen some people take a LOT of heat for commenting on the story and not having read the article./. readership can be very hostile in that way. Who am I kidding, it can get hostile out here in every way! I'm a fan of the information, but not the flames.
I read/. because I invariably stumble across a reference to something I have to go look up, and come away better for it. It comes at a price, that I willingly pay, which is to dot my i's and cross my t's before piping up. Failure to do so may lead to a brutal verbal lashing by some 117-lb pasty boy from Wisconsin.
Granted, we all have our pet peeves and buttons that get pushed. But something about the distanced safety of the Net seems to bring it out in this crowd. Maybe we are just perfectionists. Elitists. Information snobs. Our standards are high and we simply can't tolerate "stupidity" of any kind.
When I post anything out here I try to remember two things: 1) everything I do and say can come back to haunt me in the future, and 2) the person to whom I am writing is a human being.
I read the Wikipedia article but didn't get something. If the engine only works at a minimum speed, how will we get a craft up to that speed? (1) Tow it or (2) give it two types of engines?
Given that statement I don't understand how the Wine guys get anything to work. It all just seems too huge. At least the Windows developers get access to source code and comments which would have described the intent of a piece of code, the Wine guys have to do a lot of intelligent guessing. They must be really terrific developers, hats off to those boys!
You are certainly right about commercial applications needing to have form and function, but Microsoft is not *starting* to learn this. They have been pouring gallons of money into usability research for a long time. The Windows 95 User Interface Guidelines specification went on for pages and pages about how many pixels apart radio buttons should be, and how controls should relate visually. Even the Windows 3.1 applications had continuity between apps that were part of the system (button placement, dialog size, etc.) This was all the fruit of countless hours of research.
We used to conduct video-recorded usability studies at one company I worked. We recorded the user's responses to everything they saw while using our application for the first time. They were encouraged to think out loud and describe everything that came to mind. We later used this information to tailor the UI. It was expensive but it made a lot of sense, and our application was definitely the favorite in our market.
I'm not saying Microsoft wrote the book on usability studies, but I believe they definitely did their homework. Some companies even hire full time visual designers (we did, I thought that was a little over-kill). These are things the average programmer doesn't think about unless it's in the application spec. This explains the diversity in UI quality and continuity in non-commercial efforts.
Maybe this will help. I found that most of what they say is buried in between filler words and phrases. Just remove the following words or phrases from anything spoken in "teen":
like - you have to remove this word a lot. It's used to hold their place in the conversation while they think of something else to say. "Like" is the new "Um". Remove.
dog - changes nothing about the tenor of the message. remove.
and everything - appended to a sentence to assure the listener that the topic at hand is much deeper than the speaker made it sound. remove it.
or whatever - indicates lack of conviction about the subject. delete.
You are right, of course, but whatever punishment is associate with this crime should be a sufficient deterrent. If not, law makers should be open to the idea of a plan to gradually up the ante until the law has teeth.
If the law on this changes based on an individual's ability to pay the settlement, I hope the change still allows for large crippling settlements for those companies who can pay them. The idea of the fine was a "deterrent / punishment", after all.
It's *REALLY* hard to feel sorry for the spammers.
Maybe. If the ISP wanted to really set a precendent, I bet they could vindictively garnish his wages just to keep him in a pinch. Even if they incurred high expenses to keep up with his earnings and keep re-filing garnishment suits to make sure the pain threshhold was high, it might be worth it in the long run as a deterrent to other spammers, thus preventing other future losses.
Makes you wonder if other spammers feel like the water is getting any hotter. I know that someone out there is smart enough to circumvent just about anything, but you have to believe most spammers are fairly unsophisticated joes who are just getting away with it for now. My hope is that it becomes too risky and expensive for spammers to operate and they just look for other ways leech.
The TV (television) already does just that. It sits in everyone's living room or bedroom, uses radiated energy to project images and sounds, and hypnotizes the feeble by sending constant messages about what we should and shouldn't want.
The twist is that it teaches its *viewers* not to take responsibility for their actions.
Don't the Amish pretty much stick to themselves? They sure wouldn't need 3 languages.
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You know, they probably paid big bucks to some slick advertising company to come up with that four-note stuccato mess that any 3-year-old autistic could have pounded out on a toy xylophone.
Yeah, it's just sick how cheap this hardware has gotten! I haven't looked at DVD writer prices in soooo long. Now you can get the NEC model from TFA (actually the next model up) for $38. You can pick one up for the price of a video game.
ActiveX pollutes your registry, slowing everything else down. It also creates versioning nightmares. Also, I believe most of the malicious AX controls in EI are silently installed.
See, with Mozilla at least you have the choice of what level of fuckitude you are willing to put on yourself.
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I'm so glad you owned up to that. I thought I was just missing the boat when I had a hard time getting Samba to bend to my will.
Sometimes even when your software works just fine, you may not realize what you are asking it to do.
It means Google will now take responsibility for the product working well. That's all it means.
Sorry if this comes off cynical, but I'm a firm believer that companies like Google leave their products in beta for a long period of time so they don't have to defend quality and reliability. If something isn't working well, it's beta, what did you expect? The thing is, Google has shown us excellent products over the years so they are a bit overly conservative I think.
Precisely. No one should be writing tests for which version of XmlHttpRequest to instance before every instantiation, you use a common function (or framework) to pass you a reference... or wrap the whole HTTP call in helper functions. The fact that IE 7 will have a more attractive version of XmlHttp available really only has significance within the scope of these helper functions and libraries.
The new HttlpXML implementation should go in, because it's better than the ActiveX equivalent, but your daily grunt code will not care.
It could be done. You don't have to make something cryptic to get it right, as Ubuntu has proven.
Simply ask Grandma to provide a password for "System Maintenance" when she activates Windows on her shiny new Dell. Then prompt for this Administrator password when needed instead of causing the task to fail. No more "You must be an administrator..." errors.
How sad and true. People do not protect themselves because they don't see what we see. It's important to us because we are close to it. My wife has absolutely no patience to think about why it's a good idea to use her computer like this and a bad idea to use her computer like that. All I can do is make it hard for her to blow herself up, but she still keeps trying.
Sure keeps us busy, doesn't it?
Keep your AJAX light and simple.
People keep forgetting that Ajax ties you to client-side Javascript. The browser is a terrible platform on which to deliver applications! JS development is far worse than coding on the server. Consider:
* You can (almost) never debug your JS code
* No strong typing... no compiler to catch even the simplest of mistakes and typos
* Rich use of JS performs very poorly
* Service packs and hot fixes break things all the time (XP SP1 introduced random characters into our rendered DHTML, MS had no clue why. More recently MSXML 4 now crashes making web calls to our servers, we use alternate MSXML versions just fine and machines that are not fully patched work fine on XML 4.0)
* Browser incompatabilities
* Timing issues
Net sum: use Ajax to perform occasional tricks, or to overcome a particularly meddlesome usability issue that is promoted by today's least-common-denominator browser UI controls. But for your sanity, make sure you are still writing a server-side application.
They can release content in a proprietary format (that our laws protect), and license the technology to use that format to the media device manufacturers. Underground users will almost always find a way around the proprietary blocks but mainstream meadia usage (TV, radio, film, professional production work) will always be a big, slow moving target for **AA.
If you haven't already, go out now (yes now) and do a search for independent music. Take the time to download some free MP3s and give a few a listen. You can find some really terrific music out there, and if you are going to pay for it put the money directly in the hands of the musicians.
Without GarageBand.com I would never have found Retrograde, Stara Zagora, 5 Day Star, Coping with Ignorance, Zach Ziskin, Copper, Rantings of Eva, the list goes on and on. These groups put out professionally produced, rich and interesting music that meets or exceeds expectations of every person I've introduced them to.
I've seen some people take a LOT of heat for commenting on the story and not having read the article. /. readership can be very hostile in that way. Who am I kidding, it can get hostile out here in every way! I'm a fan of the information, but not the flames.
/. because I invariably stumble across a reference to something I have to go look up, and come away better for it. It comes at a price, that I willingly pay, which is to dot my i's and cross my t's before piping up. Failure to do so may lead to a brutal verbal lashing by some 117-lb pasty boy from Wisconsin.
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Granted, we all have our pet peeves and buttons that get pushed. But something about the distanced safety of the Net seems to bring it out in this crowd. Maybe we are just perfectionists. Elitists. Information snobs. Our standards are high and we simply can't tolerate "stupidity" of any kind.
When I post anything out here I try to remember two things: 1) everything I do and say can come back to haunt me in the future, and 2) the person to whom I am writing is a human being.
You mean other than the fact that you would smell like arm pit for the remainder of the day?
I read the Wikipedia article but didn't get something. If the engine only works at a minimum speed, how will we get a craft up to that speed? (1) Tow it or (2) give it two types of engines?
Given that statement I don't understand how the Wine guys get anything to work. It all just seems too huge. At least the Windows developers get access to source code and comments which would have described the intent of a piece of code, the Wine guys have to do a lot of intelligent guessing. They must be really terrific developers, hats off to those boys!
You are certainly right about commercial applications needing to have form and function, but Microsoft is not *starting* to learn this. They have been pouring gallons of money into usability research for a long time. The Windows 95 User Interface Guidelines specification went on for pages and pages about how many pixels apart radio buttons should be, and how controls should relate visually. Even the Windows 3.1 applications had continuity between apps that were part of the system (button placement, dialog size, etc.) This was all the fruit of countless hours of research.
We used to conduct video-recorded usability studies at one company I worked. We recorded the user's responses to everything they saw while using our application for the first time. They were encouraged to think out loud and describe everything that came to mind. We later used this information to tailor the UI. It was expensive but it made a lot of sense, and our application was definitely the favorite in our market.
I'm not saying Microsoft wrote the book on usability studies, but I believe they definitely did their homework. Some companies even hire full time visual designers (we did, I thought that was a little over-kill). These are things the average programmer doesn't think about unless it's in the application spec. This explains the diversity in UI quality and continuity in non-commercial efforts.
Why would you even bother rounding if you didn't know whether the result was going up or down?
It should be much clearer now.
You are right, of course, but whatever punishment is associate with this crime should be a sufficient deterrent. If not, law makers should be open to the idea of a plan to gradually up the ante until the law has teeth.
If the law on this changes based on an individual's ability to pay the settlement, I hope the change still allows for large crippling settlements for those companies who can pay them. The idea of the fine was a "deterrent / punishment", after all.
It's *REALLY* hard to feel sorry for the spammers.
Maybe. If the ISP wanted to really set a precendent, I bet they could vindictively garnish his wages just to keep him in a pinch. Even if they incurred high expenses to keep up with his earnings and keep re-filing garnishment suits to make sure the pain threshhold was high, it might be worth it in the long run as a deterrent to other spammers, thus preventing other future losses.
Makes you wonder if other spammers feel like the water is getting any hotter. I know that someone out there is smart enough to circumvent just about anything, but you have to believe most spammers are fairly unsophisticated joes who are just getting away with it for now. My hope is that it becomes too risky and expensive for spammers to operate and they just look for other ways leech.
The TV (television) already does just that. It sits in everyone's living room or bedroom, uses radiated energy to project images and sounds, and hypnotizes the feeble by sending constant messages about what we should and shouldn't want.
The twist is that it teaches its *viewers* not to take responsibility for their actions.
You can keep track of your enemies too!
Seriously I personally find "smart phones" unusable today, so enriching them with wads of data other than music doesn't make sense yet.
Mumbling to myself.... Looking for Aunt Millie's phone number. Ok, press Menu (beep). Now Contacts (beep). Ok, now Search (beep). Alright, Millie is "6" (beep), wait, "4" "4" "4" (beep)(beep)(beep), wait, "5" "5" "5" (beep)(beep)(beep), wait....
For data entry, phones suck.
Try Dylan? For fun I checked Dice.com to see how many job postings are listed for different languages.
Most of the C++ jobs required someone with Java or C# skills too. Draw your own conclusions.
I wasn't very scientific in my search but this guy put a lot of work into it.
Don't the Amish pretty much stick to themselves? They sure wouldn't need 3 languages.
You know, they probably paid big bucks to some slick advertising company to come up with that four-note stuccato mess that any 3-year-old autistic could have pounded out on a toy xylophone.
Is that like how every govenmental budget cut reduces my taxes?
Yeah, it's just sick how cheap this hardware has gotten! I haven't looked at DVD writer prices in soooo long. Now you can get the NEC model from TFA (actually the next model up) for $38. You can pick one up for the price of a video game.
ActiveX pollutes your registry, slowing everything else down. It also creates versioning nightmares. Also, I believe most of the malicious AX controls in EI are silently installed.
See, with Mozilla at least you have the choice of what level of fuckitude you are willing to put on yourself.