You're apparently totally uninformed of the existence of WinFX suit of technologies which were built from the ground up for Vista.
No, but you're apparently totally uninformed of the existence of jokes.
I'll save us some posts and continue the series myself here:
Me: No, but you're apparently uninformed that jokes are supposed to be funny.
You: No, but you're apparently uninformed what funny means.
Me: No, but you're apparently having no clue when to stop.
You: No, but you're apparently not bringing yourself to the same standards either.
Me: No, but I have at least something interesting to share.
You: No, you don't, from what I saw so far.
Me: You friggin; #@%*(@*%!!!
You: F*in 2935!$#^*^(#!!!! ... ...
"Every individual person is special and unique, but take lots and lots and lots of people and patterns emerge."
You know that sounds kinda like trying to have the pie and eat it too. Sure sociology gets inaccurate on a person level, but to put that aside, many people hold dear the fact we're friggin' awesome and unique.
We're not. There are at least a bunch of guys like you who have almost your face, some who have almost your manner, or knowledge, fashion preferences or view towards the world. And there's even a good chance someone out there matches a significant combination of those qualities about you.
Thing is there there are plenty of parameters in the Human Equation that permits that we look unique if we don't try hard to prove it otherwise.
Our culture values the desires and rights of one better than those of the many. In surprisingly a lot of cases as well. There's even a sentence that "one man dead is a tragedy, a million people dead is a statistic". And yes people do that every day. For example people die every day in car crashes. This is barely mentioned as a statistic. At the same time the media is capable of following to the minute all details around some celebrity who got flu, and people will watch it. Frequently it doesn't even have to be a celebrity.
If we wouldn't hold so dear to our life or interests, but preferred the community's interests we'd progress a lot faster and be able to do a lot more interesting stuff than we do now...
PS: I know I know.. 20 years in the future, the court will pull this from Google's cache as part of the evidence I'm some sorta sociopath serial killer guy who doesn't cherish human's life.. j.k.
"Was Asimov right in his premise? Are human beings nothing more than complicated animals working through complex, predictable behavior? I wonder how much of what we do on a daily basis is a result of free will when I hear about science like this. Am I just a statistic?"
You're not a statistic, but statistics work because people in the same groups as you think in a similar fashion and do similar stuff. This is why statistics can work with a representative sample versus every single unit from the group they study, and still guess pretty close.
There's nothing scary or new about this, it's been known for ages to the people doing said statistics. As a matter of fact, you gotta be happy about it, because our similar and mutually redundant behaviour ensured our success.
If everyone was truly unique and on his own mind, we'd still not have a common language, let alone civilisation and technology.
Also, of course we're animals, what did you think we're plants or something? We're mammals, but we have larger capacity to learn new shit and more advanced communication. That's it.
Maybe you gotta realize that animals aren't "just animals". They dream, have nightmares, are curious, eager to learn and explore, can get depressed, happy, anxious and so on.
So a human is nothing but an animal, but I don't see where's the problem with that.
"They aren't forced to do anything. If they don't like the laws in Europe, they are free to trade elsewhere."
Oh how nice if you. Now I don't know where you live, but how about this: You'll bend over and be *ssfucked, if not you're still free to trade on other continents.
"The article is written by the typical wank reporter then who did not do his research. Disabling ActiveX **does not** have anything to do with disabling access to the ActiveX() wrapper in javascript."
My, my.. you did your research better even than the IE developers:
Directly from the developer of the feature: "In IE7, XMLHTTP is now also exposed as a native script object. Users and organizations that choose to disable ActiveX controls can still use XMLHTTP based web applications."
Also if you research a bit further you'll see that not every DLL link means ActiveX object is created.
"It's hard to judge a movie by it's trailers, but if Cars turns out to be as awful as it looks, Pixar is going to crash and burn when it's released. Best to sell now while Pixar's reputation is still riding high."
This happens almost before every Pixar feature. Examples.
Finding Nemo? A story about fish? WTF can't they animate stuff with legs anymore, this is going to be so lame, omg Pixar is ruined. Results: critical acclaim and great box office, awards, great public perception.
Incredibles? Omg those are so stylised, nothing creative about it, some story with CG humans. It looks so lame, omg Pixar is ruined. Results: critical acclaim and great box office, awards, great public perception.
Now it's happening to cars. But all those who are trolling on the teaser trailer will be in for a surprise. Pixar isn't randomly greenlighting movie screenplays based on explosion/boob ratio.
I'm sure it's gonna be a great movie and I'm looking forward to it.
Do you see where the $/4 key is, look down and a bit left, you'll see the "E" key, and if you continue in the same direction you'll find the "S" key.
Now with that out of the way, it's spelled MICROSOFT, or MS, not M$.
Misspelling 'Microsoft' and/or 'Windows' in an attempt to look cool has to be one of the most god awful lame stuff to do in a post ever.
Just imagine if tons of Windows fans decided to spell Linux as Linsux, Linsux, Linu$ Torvald$ and what not and imagine how ANNOYING this becomes in time.
As a long time Flash developer I've been following the entire Sparkle/Avalon story and this is how it sums up according to me:
- Microsoft has awaken to "embrace" the web only until recently. Vista, however is a much older strategy to improve the desktop beyond what the web might deliver to keep the people locked in (on an OS level). As you know if Internet starts delivering multiplatform rich applications, the reasons to use Windows become less.
- Technogies like Flash threaten Microsoft's "monopol" on rich GUI-s, and Flash works on all platforms.
- Microsoft tries to convince the public that "Sparkle was never meant to compete with Flash, it's for apps and so on". While this is true, it's also false, because Flash is quickly heading into the applications arena, and Microsoft is quickly heading into the Internet rich GUI-s. Basically they meet in the middle and who survives isn't clear. But keep in mind both Adobe and (ex)Macromedia are totally aware that the Vista technologies are ALSO meant as Flash killer and don't fool yourself with what MS says.
- It's not true Avalon/XAML will work only on Windows Vista. For starters, it'll also work on Windows XP and 2003. Also Microsoft prepares cross-platform version of the technology, with less features, JavaScript support and so on, which has been demonstrated to work on a Mac. The initiative is called WPF/E, or: Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere.
- The Sparkle team has at least 4-5 ex. top (ex)Macromedia Flash employees, Flash gurus and alike. They all come in the team with their Flash habits and it shows in the interface of the program: it's simply MADE so Flash developers will dig it. And I dig it.
- Quartz is for web pages, don't confuse it with Sparkle, the Avalon XAML designer program.
- A weakness of Sparkle will be that it won't be suited for complex cartoons and animations like Flash is. Flash tried to move away from animations and cartoons as well in an attempt to look as a serious application platform, but later Macromedia regretted as they alienated their core audience, and the most creative artists out there. The latest version of Flash proves cartoons and animations ARE important after all, and a good share of the features are aided for artists.
Bah that should be about all important... I leave the conclusions to you.
His IE7 beta was most likely not patched against the WMF exploit. Also don't forget that IE7 is extra secure under Vista (and the XP SP2 release was a compromise from start).
Today Adobe releases the 10-th release of its popular program "Photoshop". The hit feature in this release is that the software maker has forbidden all sort of image manipulation, answering concerns from the scientific community:
"There were numerous reports about photo manipulation in manuscripts from the scientific community. Few years back, when the government asked us to forbid opening images with scanned banknotes in them due to possibility for money conterfeiting, we responded and implemented the appropriate algorithms to comply. With this release, we're just taking the next step."
Among the features unaffected in Photoshop 10 remain zooming in/out and panning.
According to Adobe, Photoshop 10 will be available to purchase at retailers world-wide early next month.
Gimme the juice, how many of their lawyers will defend then and how many of them will sue them. How much will MPAA sue itself for. Will MPAA demand that MPAA get some jail time.
Is there any proof that it was indeed MPAA who ripped the DVD's or was it RIAA kidding with MPAA's computer again? Will MPAA crack and settle outside court? How will this precedent affect future cases?
"They've lost some ground to Firefox et. al.; if they can keep corporate America convinced that IE is "just as good" for what businesses want their browser to do"
While geeks might not wanna confess, IE7 might indeed be just as good for what BUSINESSES want their browsers to do.
And this is tight security, speed (Firefox has to catch up here) and easy installation (i.e. no installation, it's preinstalled).
IE7 is a big step in the right direction, including standards support.
"What IE really needs right now, if it wants to be taken seriously as a platform for AJAX web applications, is..."
Sorry but your list sounds like a random wishlist for what YOU want, so to consider IE a serious platform.
Microsoft instead, decided to listen to the feedback of more than one developers, and if you go to IEBlog you'll see a list of improvements and bugfixes that the majority of the developers need from the browser.
I'd say they're hitting the jackpot with the stuff they fix in beta 2 and for the final release.
And don't get me started on performance. I'm a regular Firefox user, and Firefox is definitely the slower browser, especially when it comes to JavaScript DOM manipulation.
"On a side note, I don't see why this is a big deal. They are likely still going to use a COM object underneath. All this is is a coding shortcut, that no one will be able to use anyway because you're still going to have to support IE6 for the next 3 years at least."
If you RTFA you'll see the benefit is for those organisations that have ActiveX turned off for security reasons (lots of em).
On the IEBlog you have a code snippet showing how you create the native XMLHttpRequest object for Opera, FF and IE7, while fall back to ActiveX for IE6 and earlier.
So there IS benefit. And no, it's not a simple scripting shortcut at all.
It's never been about the general public, Apple's always been special for its owners. And now it's found its true niche: as a betatesting bed for PC processors. Thanks, Apple.
- A PC owner
PS: Pitty for the Centrino II laptops though
PS2: And if gotta be serious, well all chips have flaws, so wtf. It'll work just fine.
Microsoft can see that Google's image of a "goo" company helps it put out features and products that, if came out of Microsoft would be instantly cried against and banned.
If you've ever been in Microsoft's HQ you'll see it's a company like any else, with one exception: people really believe that their work will change the world, for the better or worse.
This inspires, but it's also a lot of stress. Some support from the "public" is never a bad thing, neither for the employees or the business, so this initiative is all for the better.
- a floppy - A4 / Letter paper - USB drive - phone - CD - DVD - HD DVD / Blu Ray - mobile HDD - laptop - backup tape rolls
So instead of just going after the easiest transfer method (USB sticks) and pretending we're doing something that matters, how about just dealing with the actual problem, that people walk around with copies of the data unencrypted?
Many of the modern USB devices support encryption of data. It's enough to be make a policy that you can't copy protected company data without encrypting it with a strong password.
Then losing the medium and someone will ill intents finding it means basically nil.
We're seeing skewed and misinterpreted results from statistics every day.
In this example, noone cared to compare the "on" time for devices with standby mode and those without.
In other words, if you device has no standby mode, you're more likely to just leave it on for the sheer convenience of it, and this wastes a lot more electricity in the end.
Of course summing up the electricity of zillions of households will earn huge numbers for even the most modest device needs, but it's silly to attack a power saving feature as a feature that wastes electricity.
"You can make sites look good without breaking standards. If your requirements break these, then there is a fault in your process."
I'm hard pressed to believe someone who did a lot of good sites will say this. Of course I follow the standards, it's the browsers who don't (accurately). Even Firefox doesn't.
The only way to ensure your site IS working in REALITY, is to code it afer standards, and then becomes that big testing and workaround, to make sure you target browsers don't choke on it (IE invariably being the worst of them all).
There's no magical quality in browsers that were if your CSS and HTML/XHTML passes through the validators and are semantical, that they work in all browsers. But of course my "process" may have some unnoticed fault yours doesn't.
Slashdot Mirror
"You're just choosing the most outlandish interpretation of a vague statement so you can ridicule it."
... err fingers? But anyway:
Using a cliche will leave a bad taste on my
You must be new here.
PS: See he also got modded 5, Insightful
You're apparently totally uninformed of the existence of WinFX suit of technologies which were built from the ground up for Vista.
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...
No, but you're apparently totally uninformed of the existence of jokes.
I'll save us some posts and continue the series myself here:
Me: No, but you're apparently uninformed that jokes are supposed to be funny.
You: No, but you're apparently uninformed what funny means.
Me: No, but you're apparently having no clue when to stop.
You: No, but you're apparently not bringing yourself to the same standards either.
Me: No, but I have at least something interesting to share.
You: No, you don't, from what I saw so far.
Me: You friggin; #@%*(@*%!!!
You: F*in 2935!$#^*^(#!!!!
"Every individual person is special and unique, but take lots and lots and lots of people and patterns emerge."
You know that sounds kinda like trying to have the pie and eat it too. Sure sociology gets inaccurate on a person level, but to put that aside, many people hold dear the fact we're friggin' awesome and unique.
We're not. There are at least a bunch of guys like you who have almost your face, some who have almost your manner, or knowledge, fashion preferences or view towards the world. And there's even a good chance someone out there matches a significant combination of those qualities about you.
Thing is there there are plenty of parameters in the Human Equation that permits that we look unique if we don't try hard to prove it otherwise.
Our culture values the desires and rights of one better than those of the many. In surprisingly a lot of cases as well. There's even a sentence that "one man dead is a tragedy, a million people dead is a statistic". And yes people do that every day. For example people die every day in car crashes. This is barely mentioned as a statistic. At the same time the media is capable of following to the minute all details around some celebrity who got flu, and people will watch it. Frequently it doesn't even have to be a celebrity.
If we wouldn't hold so dear to our life or interests, but preferred the community's interests we'd progress a lot faster and be able to do a lot more interesting stuff than we do now...
PS: I know I know.. 20 years in the future, the court will pull this from Google's cache as part of the evidence I'm some sorta sociopath serial killer guy who doesn't cherish human's life.. j.k.
"Was Asimov right in his premise? Are human beings nothing more than complicated animals working through complex, predictable behavior? I wonder how much of what we do on a daily basis is a result of free will when I hear about science like this. Am I just a statistic?"
You're not a statistic, but statistics work because people in the same groups as you think in a similar fashion and do similar stuff. This is why statistics can work with a representative sample versus every single unit from the group they study, and still guess pretty close.
There's nothing scary or new about this, it's been known for ages to the people doing said statistics.
As a matter of fact, you gotta be happy about it, because our similar and mutually redundant behaviour ensured our success.
If everyone was truly unique and on his own mind, we'd still not have a common language, let alone civilisation and technology.
Also, of course we're animals, what did you think we're plants or something? We're mammals, but we have larger capacity to learn new shit and more advanced communication. That's it.
Maybe you gotta realize that animals aren't "just animals". They dream, have nightmares, are curious, eager to learn and explore, can get depressed, happy, anxious and so on.
So a human is nothing but an animal, but I don't see where's the problem with that.
Among the top 15 attributes used in the [script] tag are the following:
. html
"langauge"
"langugage"
"languaje"
Link to that page in the stats:
http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/scripting
I just have no comment to this.
"They aren't forced to do anything. If they don't like the laws in Europe, they are free to trade elsewhere."
Oh how nice if you. Now I don't know where you live, but how about this: You'll bend over and be *ssfucked, if not you're still free to trade on other continents.
It's not forcing you or anything.
Just keep saying to yourself: "It's only a Slashdot comment...."
"The article is written by the typical wank reporter then who did not do his research. Disabling ActiveX **does not** have anything to do with disabling access to the ActiveX() wrapper in javascript."
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My, my.. you did your research better even than the IE developers:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/23/51639
Directly from the developer of the feature: "In IE7, XMLHTTP is now also exposed as a native script object. Users and organizations that choose to disable ActiveX controls can still use XMLHTTP based web applications."
Also if you research a bit further you'll see that not every DLL link means ActiveX object is created.
"It's hard to judge a movie by it's trailers, but if Cars turns out to be as awful as it looks, Pixar is going to crash and burn when it's released. Best to sell now while Pixar's reputation is still riding high."
This happens almost before every Pixar feature. Examples.
Finding Nemo? A story about fish? WTF can't they animate stuff with legs anymore, this is going to be so lame, omg Pixar is ruined. Results: critical acclaim and great box office, awards, great public perception.
Incredibles? Omg those are so stylised, nothing creative about it, some story with CG humans. It looks so lame, omg Pixar is ruined. Results: critical acclaim and great box office, awards, great public perception.
Now it's happening to cars. But all those who are trolling on the teaser trailer will be in for a surprise. Pixar isn't randomly greenlighting movie screenplays based on explosion/boob ratio.
I'm sure it's gonna be a great movie and I'm looking forward to it.
"At the rate they're going, all Vista is going to be is 8 more butt-ugly skins for WMP, IE7, and a shinier theme for the UI"
You're apparently totally uninformed of the existence of WinFX suit of technologies which were built from the ground up for Vista.
"Anything M$ does"
Dude I hate to nitpick, but damn.
Do you see where the $/4 key is, look down and a bit left, you'll see the "E" key, and if you continue in the same direction you'll find the "S" key.
Now with that out of the way, it's spelled MICROSOFT, or MS, not M$.
Misspelling 'Microsoft' and/or 'Windows' in an attempt to look cool has to be one of the most god awful lame stuff to do in a post ever.
Just imagine if tons of Windows fans decided to spell Linux as Linsux, Linsux, Linu$ Torvald$ and what not and imagine how ANNOYING this becomes in time.
As a long time Flash developer I've been following the entire Sparkle/Avalon story and this is how it sums up according to me:
- Microsoft has awaken to "embrace" the web only until recently. Vista, however is a much older strategy to improve the desktop beyond what the web might deliver to keep the people locked in (on an OS level). As you know if Internet starts delivering multiplatform rich applications, the reasons to use Windows become less.
- Technogies like Flash threaten Microsoft's "monopol" on rich GUI-s, and Flash works on all platforms.
- Microsoft tries to convince the public that "Sparkle was never meant to compete with Flash, it's for apps and so on". While this is true, it's also false, because Flash is quickly heading into the applications arena, and Microsoft is quickly heading into the Internet rich GUI-s. Basically they meet in the middle and who survives isn't clear. But keep in mind both Adobe and (ex)Macromedia are totally aware that the Vista technologies are ALSO meant as Flash killer and don't fool yourself with what MS says.
- It's not true Avalon/XAML will work only on Windows Vista. For starters, it'll also work on Windows XP and 2003. Also Microsoft prepares cross-platform version of the technology, with less features, JavaScript support and so on, which has been demonstrated to work on a Mac. The initiative is called WPF/E, or: Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere.
- The Sparkle team has at least 4-5 ex. top (ex)Macromedia Flash employees, Flash gurus and alike. They all come in the team with their Flash habits and it shows in the interface of the program: it's simply MADE so Flash developers will dig it. And I dig it.
- Quartz is for web pages, don't confuse it with Sparkle, the Avalon XAML designer program.
- A weakness of Sparkle will be that it won't be suited for complex cartoons and animations like Flash is. Flash tried to move away from animations and cartoons as well in an attempt to look as a serious application platform, but later Macromedia regretted as they alienated their core audience, and the most creative artists out there. The latest version of Flash proves cartoons and animations ARE important after all, and a good share of the features are aided for artists.
Bah that should be about all important... I leave the conclusions to you.
"Riiiiight."
His IE7 beta was most likely not patched against the WMF exploit. Also don't forget that IE7 is extra secure under Vista (and the XP SP2 release was a compromise from start).
Today Adobe releases the 10-th release of its popular program "Photoshop". The hit feature in this release is that the software maker has forbidden all sort of image manipulation, answering concerns from the scientific community:
"There were numerous reports about photo manipulation in manuscripts from the scientific community. Few years back, when the government asked us to forbid opening images with scanned banknotes in them due to possibility for money conterfeiting, we responded and implemented the appropriate algorithms to comply. With this release, we're just taking the next step."
Among the features unaffected in Photoshop 10 remain zooming in/out and panning.
According to Adobe, Photoshop 10 will be available to purchase at retailers world-wide early next month.
So ok they made illegal DVD rips, then what?
Gimme the juice, how many of their lawyers will defend then and how many of them will sue them. How much will MPAA sue itself for. Will MPAA demand that MPAA get some jail time.
Is there any proof that it was indeed MPAA who ripped the DVD's or was it RIAA kidding with MPAA's computer again? Will MPAA crack and settle outside court? How will this precedent affect future cases?
So many questions...
"They've lost some ground to Firefox et. al.; if they can keep corporate America convinced that IE is "just as good" for what businesses want their browser to do"
While geeks might not wanna confess, IE7 might indeed be just as good for what BUSINESSES want their browsers to do.
And this is tight security, speed (Firefox has to catch up here) and easy installation (i.e. no installation, it's preinstalled).
IE7 is a big step in the right direction, including standards support.
"What IE really needs right now, if it wants to be taken seriously as a platform for AJAX web applications, is..."
Sorry but your list sounds like a random wishlist for what YOU want, so to consider IE a serious platform.
Microsoft instead, decided to listen to the feedback of more than one developers, and if you go to IEBlog you'll see a list of improvements and bugfixes that the majority of the developers need from the browser.
I'd say they're hitting the jackpot with the stuff they fix in beta 2 and for the final release.
And don't get me started on performance. I'm a regular Firefox user, and Firefox is definitely the slower browser, especially when it comes to JavaScript DOM manipulation.
"On a side note, I don't see why this is a big deal. They are likely still going to use a COM object underneath. All this is is a coding shortcut, that no one will be able to use anyway because you're still going to have to support IE6 for the next 3 years at least."
If you RTFA you'll see the benefit is for those organisations that have ActiveX turned off for security reasons (lots of em).
On the IEBlog you have a code snippet showing how you create the native XMLHttpRequest object for Opera, FF and IE7, while fall back to ActiveX for IE6 and earlier.
So there IS benefit. And no, it's not a simple scripting shortcut at all.
It's never been about the general public, Apple's always been special for its owners.
And now it's found its true niche: as a betatesting bed for PC processors. Thanks, Apple.
- A PC owner
PS: Pitty for the Centrino II laptops though
PS2: And if gotta be serious, well all chips have flaws, so wtf. It'll work just fine.
Microsoft can see that Google's image of a "goo" company helps it put out features and products that, if came out of Microsoft would be instantly cried against and banned.
If you've ever been in Microsoft's HQ you'll see it's a company like any else, with one exception: people really believe that their work will change the world, for the better or worse.
This inspires, but it's also a lot of stress. Some support from the "public" is never a bad thing, neither for the employees or the business, so this initiative is all for the better.
I can't care if my data is stolen from:
- a floppy
- A4 / Letter paper
- USB drive
- phone
- CD
- DVD
- HD DVD / Blu Ray
- mobile HDD
- laptop
- backup tape rolls
So instead of just going after the easiest transfer method (USB sticks) and pretending we're doing something that matters, how about just dealing with the actual problem, that people walk around with copies of the data unencrypted?
Many of the modern USB devices support encryption of data. It's enough to be make a policy that you can't copy protected company data without encrypting it with a strong password.
Then losing the medium and someone will ill intents finding it means basically nil.
"I wonder how big and clunky Internet Explorer would be if it wasn't tied into the Operating System."
Around 10 MB in size and still faster than Firefox.
PS. I'm a Firefox user.
We're seeing skewed and misinterpreted results from statistics every day.
In this example, noone cared to compare the "on" time for devices with standby mode and those without.
In other words, if you device has no standby mode, you're more likely to just leave it on for the sheer convenience of it, and this wastes a lot more electricity in the end.
Of course summing up the electricity of zillions of households will earn huge numbers for even the most modest device needs, but it's silly to attack a power saving feature as a feature that wastes electricity.
"A robot dog is a pile of parts running a program."
So is a real dog, except the program is more complex.
"You can make sites look good without breaking standards. If your requirements break these, then there is a fault in your process."
I'm hard pressed to believe someone who did a lot of good sites will say this.
Of course I follow the standards, it's the browsers who don't (accurately). Even Firefox doesn't.
The only way to ensure your site IS working in REALITY, is to code it afer standards, and then becomes that big testing and workaround, to make sure you target browsers don't choke on it (IE invariably being the worst of them all).
There's no magical quality in browsers that were if your CSS and HTML/XHTML passes through the validators and are semantical, that they work in all browsers. But of course my "process" may have some unnoticed fault yours doesn't.