We dropped support for IE6 last year and I can honestly say it has made our life so much easier. We were spending a large portion of our time trying to get our pages working in IE6 for what turned out to be 8% of our clients (and it was dropping), so we force them to an "upgrade page" that links to the IE7 page on microsoft's site. We haven't gotten a single complaint about it either, which is just icing on the cake.
Uh, no. I know what I've given up. Also, they don't know my most intimate thoughts, or angriest words, because I'm not an emo teen, and I don't post those things ANYWHERE.
Whether you like it or not, it's an opinion. It may be your opinion, but that doesn't make it a fact. It's a fact that Apple is litigating with their patent portfolio, however, it's NOT a fact that they both A) chose to litigate for the sole purpose of "beating Android into submission", and B) they decided to not make a superior product instead.
Well you might have a case if the ISP were going to hire you, but they aren't. You are their customer, and they have the right to refuse service to anyone for almost any reason that doesn't discriminate by race, sex, or religion.
That would be because you aren't a lawyer. The constitution rarely, if ever, dictates what a private corporation may/can/must do regarding their own customers. In addition, they aren't enforcing the law, they aren't billing you for your copyright infringement fine, or sending you to jail, they are just refusing to do business with you. Perhaps next you'll want to make it so that banks have to hire employees with multiple felony charges pending as well?
Yes, because thier constitution says "shalt not throttle thee internet tubes", or were you referring to the section that guarantees the right to steal other people's digital work and not to be questioned about it?
As noted in that article, most of those complaints were fixed, or addressed already. Additionally, they used WPF instead of the more mature WinForms and/or the newer Silverlight that didn't have many of these issues.
You could have fooled me. I regularly use VB.NET/C#/Javascript/HTML all in the same project. All different languages, all working together just fine. Perhaps it's not the languages but the coding practices that cause problems, but I suspect that any shop with the same poor coding practices will have the same or similar issues even if they managed to write everything in one language.
Lol, not much of a web programmer are you? Which web game, or are you trying to hide behind an obscure reference to one out of the million web games and I'm supposed to guess which one you are referring to?
Typically, blocking the IP doesn't help (much). The sheer number of requests clogs the connection anyway even if you ignore them. You have to contact your ISP (and possibly thier ISP) to block the IP.
For a protest, that would be like having the police put up a 5 block perimeter, and possibly refusing to let people fly into the aforementioned city even. You can't effectively do that in many cases either.
The number of videos encoded in Real's format was tiny to begin with, and none (virtually none) that were professionally done. There is quite a difference. I would venture to say that the majority of people out there have at least 1 H.264 video now, whether it be from a bluray, a downloaded video, a home made movie from a video camera, or a cell phone clip. That's magnitudes higher penetration that real ever was.
Actually, royalties are paid per device, but there is a cap and it's so low that most broadcasters, production house, even software companies hit it. Currently, you do not pay any royalty for releasing a "commercial" video on the web, but the editor (or video camera) that you shot it with does.
I would suggest that the sheer number of videos already encoded in H.264, and the number of devices that support it already is a significant advantage. WebM still doesn't have the same quality as H.264 given the same bandwidth either. Therefore, I would say the only real advantage that WebM has is that it is mostly/sort of/maybe royalty free, which isn't much of an advantage when the royalty is less than $.001 per device.
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Sorry, I can't even begin to tell you how wrong that is. I can definately tell the difference at a much further distance on a smaller TV, but then again, perhaps it's because I'm not buying the $199 walmart special.
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We dropped support for IE6 last year and I can honestly say it has made our life so much easier. We were spending a large portion of our time trying to get our pages working in IE6 for what turned out to be 8% of our clients (and it was dropping), so we force them to an "upgrade page" that links to the IE7 page on microsoft's site. We haven't gotten a single complaint about it either, which is just icing on the cake.
LOL @ The bandwidth cap.
Perhaps you should look for a job at a company that doesn't already have bafoon managers?
Uh, no. I know what I've given up. Also, they don't know my most intimate thoughts, or angriest words, because I'm not an emo teen, and I don't post those things ANYWHERE.
Whether you like it or not, it's an opinion. It may be your opinion, but that doesn't make it a fact. It's a fact that Apple is litigating with their patent portfolio, however, it's NOT a fact that they both A) chose to litigate for the sole purpose of "beating Android into submission", and B) they decided to not make a superior product instead.
Go back to trolling.
I'll grant you the right to post by hiding behind the Anonymous Coward tag like the coward you are.
Well you might have a case if the ISP were going to hire you, but they aren't. You are their customer, and they have the right to refuse service to anyone for almost any reason that doesn't discriminate by race, sex, or religion.
That would be because you aren't a lawyer. The constitution rarely, if ever, dictates what a private corporation may/can/must do regarding their own customers. In addition, they aren't enforcing the law, they aren't billing you for your copyright infringement fine, or sending you to jail, they are just refusing to do business with you. Perhaps next you'll want to make it so that banks have to hire employees with multiple felony charges pending as well?
Yes, because thier constitution says "shalt not throttle thee internet tubes", or were you referring to the section that guarantees the right to steal other people's digital work and not to be questioned about it?
As noted in that article, most of those complaints were fixed, or addressed already. Additionally, they used WPF instead of the more mature WinForms and/or the newer Silverlight that didn't have many of these issues.
You could have fooled me. I regularly use VB.NET/C#/Javascript/HTML all in the same project. All different languages, all working together just fine. Perhaps it's not the languages but the coding practices that cause problems, but I suspect that any shop with the same poor coding practices will have the same or similar issues even if they managed to write everything in one language.
Lol, not much of a web programmer are you? Which web game, or are you trying to hide behind an obscure reference to one out of the million web games and I'm supposed to guess which one you are referring to?
There really isn't a whole lot that flash can do that HTML5+Javascript can't. Perhaps you need to look at it better.
Incorrect, the probability that they were pulled out of an ass is 100%. The probability that it was his own ass is more like 85%.
Typically, blocking the IP doesn't help (much). The sheer number of requests clogs the connection anyway even if you ignore them. You have to contact your ISP (and possibly thier ISP) to block the IP.
For a protest, that would be like having the police put up a 5 block perimeter, and possibly refusing to let people fly into the aforementioned city even. You can't effectively do that in many cases either.
If standing in front of a building in protest in a way which prevents entry is free speech
No, it isn't, and that is illegal too.
The number of videos encoded in Real's format was tiny to begin with, and none (virtually none) that were professionally done. There is quite a difference. I would venture to say that the majority of people out there have at least 1 H.264 video now, whether it be from a bluray, a downloaded video, a home made movie from a video camera, or a cell phone clip. That's magnitudes higher penetration that real ever was.
Actually, royalties are paid per device, but there is a cap and it's so low that most broadcasters, production house, even software companies hit it. Currently, you do not pay any royalty for releasing a "commercial" video on the web, but the editor (or video camera) that you shot it with does.
I would suggest that the sheer number of videos already encoded in H.264, and the number of devices that support it already is a significant advantage. WebM still doesn't have the same quality as H.264 given the same bandwidth either. Therefore, I would say the only real advantage that WebM has is that it is mostly/sort of/maybe royalty free, which isn't much of an advantage when the royalty is less than $.001 per device.
Sorry, I can't even begin to tell you how wrong that is. I can definately tell the difference at a much further distance on a smaller TV, but then again, perhaps it's because I'm not buying the $199 walmart special.
Yes.
We do.
Odd, what kind of app is it that I can't create?
Thousands of bucks? Come back from fairytale land. A developers license is $99. I have one, do you?
Umm.. no. You've described a netbook or notebook.
I know plenty of androids who can't run arbitrary code.. If by arbitrary code you mean the latest OS update.