you cannot rely on a onHashChange event except in IE8, there are hacks to bypass this limit, but they are really ugly, like polling the hash!
This is true - I had to implement a hash frag / backbutton thingy recently, and all the solutions I found to detect a change of state ultimately involved polling, though most dressed it up in event syntax. Then again, in any event-driven code, something somewhere is being polled...
Although I knew about Slashdot years ago, I always just used to click straight through to the article. I only started reading the comments when the AJAX interface appeared; before that I just couldn't hack the number of clicks, especially of the back button, required to navigate them.
How in the world you think we're losing the ability to communicate in written form I don't quite understand.
I think (s)he was referring those stick thingies people used to use to make words appear on... what's it called... that flat white stuff made out of trees..?
While you may be technically correct, scribd is a *very* annoying site that I have removed from my Google results. Hmm, let's wrap the text up in a fancy thingamajiggy that takes ages to load and can't be easily scrolled or resized.
If I understand the verdict correctly, the DMCA did play a part, in that Swedish law requires compliance with applicable copyright laws. And the DMCA takedown notices served against TPB were judged to have been applicable. I would imagine this interpretation of the law will form part of TPB's appeal.
DRM that ties a file to a specific device makes you beholden to the company which supplied it: if you upgrade to a newer Kindle or some other ebook reader in future, you are going to need assistance/permission from Amazon to move your files. This is why Microsoft switching off their PlaysForSure servers was bad news: you could no longer move your files around.
Yep. Of course there would still be a trickle of diehard readers. I have the Guardian in my RSS feeds. But my point was that, should Google stop linking, the drop in readership would be instant and overnight - not gradual as the decline in physical sales has been.
Clearly it isn't option 1). I'm sure their server logs tell them what percentage of their traffic comes from Google. They want their cake and eat it: ie to be paid by Google for the privilege of sending traffic their way.
What about if you think of them as potential customers? They're wandering around your store, they have the goods in their hands already! The analogy falls down here, of course, because you can't make them pay, but that is all the more reason to be nice to them.
So-called piracy is a lot about try-before-you-buy. Given the amount of "content" out there, this is not such a bad thing. We are so used to people having to buy things before they find out if they like them, that I don't think enough energy has yet been put into finding ways to get people to pay once they're sure they do.
Does anyone have any figures on how well nagware works? It's certainly worked on me a few times.
I'm a Brit. To me that way sounds American. My birthday? The Twenty-Ninth of November, my good man, and I'll say yes to that pint of Old Peculier. Cheers!
That's the best bit! But I could almost imagine the less security-conscious Microsoft of days gone by thinking: hm, how can we help developers debug server-side code in-browser? The PHP code example is funny too.
This is certainly the best format when sorting by date is necessary, but DDMMYYYY is closer to how it's usually said: 2nd of April, 2009; not, er, 2009 of April the Second. (And the OP is of course an April Fool trick. Wouldn't be a bad idea for IE to start supporting Firefox extensions, though.)
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you cannot rely on a onHashChange event except in IE8, there are hacks to bypass this limit, but they are really ugly, like polling the hash!
This is true - I had to implement a hash frag / backbutton thingy recently, and all the solutions I found to detect a change of state ultimately involved polling, though most dressed it up in event syntax. Then again, in any event-driven code, something somewhere is being polled...
Although I knew about Slashdot years ago, I always just used to click straight through to the article. I only started reading the comments when the AJAX interface appeared; before that I just couldn't hack the number of clicks, especially of the back button, required to navigate them.
How in the world you think we're losing the ability to communicate in written form I don't quite understand.
I think (s)he was referring those stick thingies people used to use to make words appear on... what's it called... that flat white stuff made out of trees..?
You're not a very smart bot; why'd you hit "Submit"?
Cool! We all know how much more readable fixed-width is, and how much more pleasing it is on the eye, too.
Sounds like cloud computing.
While you may be technically correct, scribd is a *very* annoying site that I have removed from my Google results. Hmm, let's wrap the text up in a fancy thingamajiggy that takes ages to load and can't be easily scrolled or resized.
Didn't they even have space for an extra upper-case 'G'?
The rush to join the Pirate Party would seem less a protest about a miscarriage of justice than a push to change the law.
If I understand the verdict correctly, the DMCA did play a part, in that Swedish law requires compliance with applicable copyright laws. And the DMCA takedown notices served against TPB were judged to have been applicable. I would imagine this interpretation of the law will form part of TPB's appeal.
Can' they make an album, torrent it, then pay the MAFIAA back with the proceeds they would have got had it been sold in shops?
DRM that ties a file to a specific device makes you beholden to the company which supplied it: if you upgrade to a newer Kindle or some other ebook reader in future, you are going to need assistance/permission from Amazon to move your files. This is why Microsoft switching off their PlaysForSure servers was bad news: you could no longer move your files around.
Yep. Of course there would still be a trickle of diehard readers. I have the Guardian in my RSS feeds. But my point was that, should Google stop linking, the drop in readership would be instant and overnight - not gradual as the decline in physical sales has been.
... if the Newspapers just printed short summaries telling people to ask a Town Crier for the complete story.
Force Google to remove your content, and stop spidering it again, then watch as your online readership instantly drops to zero.
Fixed.
Clearly it isn't option 1). I'm sure their server logs tell them what percentage of their traffic comes from Google. They want their cake and eat it: ie to be paid by Google for the privilege of sending traffic their way.
Next thing I know, people are going to start referring to Cascading Style Sheets as "code."
So you have a prejudice against declarative programming languages?
I think the rest of the world decided to adopt "FF" rather than "FX" so that others would know what we're talking about.
Idiot! He's obviously referring to the miniature version of cow-tipping, which is quite popular in Europe.
No way! His work will never be complete.
What about if you think of them as potential customers? They're wandering around your store, they have the goods in their hands already! The analogy falls down here, of course, because you can't make them pay, but that is all the more reason to be nice to them.
So-called piracy is a lot about try-before-you-buy. Given the amount of "content" out there, this is not such a bad thing. We are so used to people having to buy things before they find out if they like them, that I don't think enough energy has yet been put into finding ways to get people to pay once they're sure they do.
Does anyone have any figures on how well nagware works? It's certainly worked on me a few times.
I'm a Brit. To me that way sounds American. My birthday? The Twenty-Ninth of November, my good man, and I'll say yes to that pint of Old Peculier. Cheers!
But does it have server-side code decompiling?
That's the best bit! But I could almost imagine the less security-conscious Microsoft of days gone by thinking: hm, how can we help developers debug server-side code in-browser? The PHP code example is funny too.
This is certainly the best format when sorting by date is necessary, but DDMMYYYY is closer to how it's usually said: 2nd of April, 2009; not, er, 2009 of April the Second. (And the OP is of course an April Fool trick. Wouldn't be a bad idea for IE to start supporting Firefox extensions, though.)