In the modern age, is it really necessary to have a separate debating / decision-making class? It would be technically feasible for anyone who was interested in or concerned about a particular issue to have a say in how it was dealt with. Let the factions and disagreements form around particular problems, then be dissolved once the matter is closed so that new ones can form around the next issue at hand.
This is the Apple way: you buy one of their devices, you're locked into their crappy services. The GP's point stands. If you don't like this kind of lock-in, don't buy Apple.
MS are about to release a new OS version, so they are clearly doing what they always do in these situations and unleashing their horde of tame Slashbots with mod points.
Well, not all yet. Just IE8, Chrome and IIRC Safari 4. FF is just embarking on this road. Opera may already have started a project like this for all we know.
I always found XP's compatibility mode pretty good for old games. The only ones I couldn't get to run were those which only targeted specific, long-forgotten graphics cards.
Strict compliance seems to be a new Microsoft strategy: look at their dogged adherence to CSS 2.1 standards in IE8, including adding a formidable number of new CSS tests to the W3C test suite. It's hard not to suspect that they're up to something, but I don't think anyone has quite nailed what it is yet. With ODF, at least, it seems they are obliged to follow the spec to the letter.
Microsoft's strict compliance probably a good thing if it forces other developers to bring their apps more into line with the specs (although it will be interesting to see how OO copes with legacy documents while sticking to the spec).
Actually it's true. The last batch of updates on my XP laptop included IE8. I have updates set to notify me before installing, but if I was using the default settings I would have had IE8 thrust upon me without so much as a buy-or-leave. (I declined, as it happens - I have IE8 on my other machine, so might as well keep a native IE7 for test purposes.)
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In the modern age, is it really necessary to have a separate debating / decision-making class? It would be technically feasible for anyone who was interested in or concerned about a particular issue to have a say in how it was dealt with. Let the factions and disagreements form around particular problems, then be dissolved once the matter is closed so that new ones can form around the next issue at hand.
Not enough of you voted Geshel.
That, also, is Quite Funny
IIUC Your advice doesn't apply to macs, which use their own version of Java.
DNS is obsolete and everyone should be using Bonjour by now.
TQF!
Depends on what you're doing instead of sleeping.
No doubt they will treat a Zune Phone like the original XBox
What proportion of them will explode?
Facebook?
This is the Apple way: you buy one of their devices, you're locked into their crappy services. The GP's point stands. If you don't like this kind of lock-in, don't buy Apple.
Why can't you just use a thin client like everyone else?
What strange reality do you inhabit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MM0VO3slK8
go look up "bootstrapping"
It's aimed at people who don't do much with their computer. The rest of us are hopefully smart enough to turn all the missing stuff back on.
But MS have been criticised about this feature for a long, long time. They have clearly decided to keep it in W7.
MS are about to release a new OS version, so they are clearly doing what they always do in these situations and unleashing their horde of tame Slashbots with mod points.
On the other hand, I don't really know what I'm talking about.
I admire your candour, but that's not the way to get that oh-so-important +5 Informative
You can make 'My xxx' point at any location you like, even on a network drive - it doesn't have to be inside your profile folder.
Well, not all yet. Just IE8, Chrome and IIRC Safari 4. FF is just embarking on this road. Opera may already have started a project like this for all we know.
Probably not, but they could make it hack at your neck with the CD tray.
I always found XP's compatibility mode pretty good for old games. The only ones I couldn't get to run were those which only targeted specific, long-forgotten graphics cards.
Strict compliance seems to be a new Microsoft strategy: look at their dogged adherence to CSS 2.1 standards in IE8, including adding a formidable number of new CSS tests to the W3C test suite. It's hard not to suspect that they're up to something, but I don't think anyone has quite nailed what it is yet. With ODF, at least, it seems they are obliged to follow the spec to the letter.
Microsoft's strict compliance probably a good thing if it forces other developers to bring their apps more into line with the specs (although it will be interesting to see how OO copes with legacy documents while sticking to the spec).
but a picture is worth a thousand words
Depends on the picture. Unless your site is flickr, can you honestly say that most of the image tags don't deserve an empty alt attribute?
want to talk about efficiency? a website that is down loads the fastest of all!
Nah. The average web pages is likely to load in a much shorter time than it takes an unresponsive server to time out.
I meant what I wrote. "By your leave" seemed rather old-fashioned.
Actually it's true. The last batch of updates on my XP laptop included IE8. I have updates set to notify me before installing, but if I was using the default settings I would have had IE8 thrust upon me without so much as a buy-or-leave. (I declined, as it happens - I have IE8 on my other machine, so might as well keep a native IE7 for test purposes.)
The humour in this has not gone unnoticed by me, but you're also right. A website that doesn't work is Lynx is not really a website at all.
Just a mote?! Must be microscopic sharks...