... This is a ridiculously huge blunder for such a huge company and they've pointed fingers at piracy before...
Finally, someone talking about the main point. Exactly. This has nothing to do with piracy at all; along with any damage caused. They fucked up, plain and simple.
The tone of their response to the leak just sounds like posturing, by a management that may be looking to either impose some hair-brained DRM scheme, or more than likely *hang on to their jobs*. Ridiculous.
It's this new breed of management that is turning the PC gaming platform to shit and FUD. Piracy is like the new "the dog ate my homework" for the 21st century.
You sound like a back-end programmer that is bitter his crappy HTML table-generator doesn't cut it anymore.
1. It's W3C not WC3. 2. Why should a non-geek care about W3C standards? They can still code in any broken HTML they feel like if the browser displays it properly. The only reason they'd care is if they're trying to pass it off as professional or paid work. In which case they should work to the quality their client requires or stop lying about their skills
All UI programming is complicated and tricky, this is well known. As languages become more and more abstracted from the nitty-gritty details of interacting with the OS, they become more and more focused on abstract concepts such as objects and their interactions. HTML defines objects (nodes, their attributes, types), CSS and JS define how they interact. If you are so narrow-minded in regards to the tools you use to define or implement your solution then I'm afraid you don't have a very bright future in this field.
Try your hand at some real UI programming for local applications for a while and you'll realise that HTML/CSS/JS is really the UI toolkit you wish you always had. See how long it takes you to write a UI engine to achieve custom behaviour it would have taken an hour or two to achieve using HTML/CSS/JS.
Bullshit. Those people that Microsoft employ already had degrees / education in the field they work in.
You think that if Microsoft wasn't around they'd suddenly lose all interest in their industries? You think that computers aren't a commodity? Someone or something would _have_ to fill the space. And that something and those companies would provide jobs.
The only way that argument holds is if the size of the industry was completely dependant on Microsoft, and that if they were not here people would simply do without computers. A ridiculous idea.
Microsoft don't make any wild innovations, whether they have great products or not. They don't provide anything irreplacable to the industry at all. If they disappeared tomorrow I fail to see any huge change in the nature of the industry, apart from the practical issues of an abandoned platform. Actually I can see a lot of good, healthy change coming from it, as long as it happened slow enough.
Actually no, it's simple really. English is the language spoken in England, and however it evolves there. "English" is pretty accurate on its own. Nothing can change that fact...It's right there in the word! Other dialects? great! But when it comes to nitpicking about the definition of "English", there's no argument.
If you want a copy of any information that you post on facebook, keep a copy on your own computer. Facebook provides a free service, and if they don't think there's any value in you being able to take that data out, then that's their perogative.
I don't know where you are but in the UK there's this thing called the Data Protection Act[wikipedia.org] So at least here it's not their perogative as to if you get to take your data out. The most they can charge you for it is £10.
I would pitch Acid 3 compliance in this manner: This web browser is 100% compliant with the proper web rendering standards. The more compliant your web browser is, the less likely your web browser will break. You can take that to the bank. You spend less time with a broken browser, and more time enjoying a cold one.
Except, you know, Opera isn't 100% compliant with CSS 2 or 2.1, and Acid 3 doesn't test for 100% compliance.
Well if you kill Tomboy there'll be no Gnote. So it makes no sense to consider Gnote an alternative to Tomboy.
All that Tomboy and Gnote users will be left with are these developers which have clearly demonstrated their lack of software design skills, leadership, or vision.
Which indeed hurts everyone because it means one less high quality Unix/Linux desktop app.
At work it sometimes takes me an hour to get in. Yes, it's because the network is crap even though we've got money falling out of our asses. (I guess IT doesn't get any, or they're too lazy to improve things)
Either way, there's your anecdotal evidence. Just as useful as your's. GP was talking about a work environment, which usually means a network.
I always use Dreamweaver, but almost (almost) never use its WYSIWYG feature. The only time I do is to preview a layout quick to make sure the spacing is right. Otherwise, I just stick with it for syntax highlighting and Sites/FTP for putting it up on the server. Try Aptana Studio. It's really come along nicely. If you're not using the WYSIWYG part of Dreamweaver then maybe you want to consider switching. It has way more features, is most certainly the Javascript king, and since it runs on eclipse (you can get standalone or as an eclipse plugin, standalone probably the way to go if you don't have eclipse already) you can use the eclipse plugins as well, so SFTP/FTP, subversion, or any other strange protocol that eclipse happens to have plugins for are also available.
In-fact, any other random functionality that eclipse happens to have plugins for also become available to you. It's really useful in work environments because then both designers and developers standardise on Eclipse, designers only using different plugins.
Regulation for the sake of regulation... The whole point is that you're supposed to regulate monopolies. Duh.
Seems the EU knows how to use the stick to punish American software companies, but hasn't figured out how to use the carrot to get European companies to go up against Microsoft. Let me get this straight...So you're saying that before the EU punish illegal business activity they should learn to force their own companies into competing with the foreign abusive monopoly illegally leveraging their position to squash competition? Boy you're a smart one.
What a load of bull. I hope I never have to use an application you've written. Talk about think-of-the-children mentality, I suggest you start by defining what a "user" is.
You don't need divx to use stage6, just flash. And yes, it is better than Youtube. Well, until it starts attracting the Youtube crowd, then it'll be just be a Youtube with better features.
Nobody takes any of the serious chatter serious For someone with such a huge stick up their ass, I find it funny that you have such an obvious grammar mistake in the very same post. One that even an 8 year old would have no trouble pointing out.
Frankly, if you're not a moron, or some attention whoring pre-schooler, I don't see why people would care about it. If you lack the capacity to find a single reason why anyone, anywhere that isn't a "moron, or some attention whoring pre-schooler" may find value in a site such a Facebook, I'm afraid you're the moron.
Not like the "friends" you have online map to anything realistic in the "real world." You sound suspiciously like you're talking about yourself here. You need to get some friends buddy. The image I get of you from your flamebait doesn't anger me, it just makes me pity you.
Wow, I was wondering why such a troll was at 2. Then I realised I had the stupid good karma bonus on. When ignorant people get a karma bonus per default/. settings something is up. I'm definitely not leaving that on.
How do you figure? Do you really believe that or are you just plain ignorant? The same reasons you don't hire the hobbyist to head your IT department, he's not qualified. I won't even waste my time trying to explain to you why they're not qualified.
How is it 'good discrimination'? How is it 'good' that our culture is that fixated on image? I never once said anything about such a topic in my post, heck I didn't even mention culture, image, or even the word "good". I just suggested you use better examples. I actually thought it was a decent post. Also I'd like to say that it's really easy to ask such vague questions, try expressing some of your own thoughts on the subject and people might be more willing to explore such a topic.
Its the pretty people that face the obstacles. But those are the same obstacles us pasty geeks (male and female) with no fashion sense run into when we try to get jobs that favour the beautiful people. How often do you see a pasty geek hosting a restaurant? Anchoring a news team? Modeling swimwear?
I'm not saying its right, and I agree it should be changed, but its a bigger problem than just the 'geeks reject women'. Its that discrimination still occurs at all levels and between all segments of society. You seem to be suggesting that there's something inherently wrong with all types of discrimination. There isn't. Not by a long shot. And if you didn't mean to imply that then next time choose some better examples, because not one of them was a form of bad discrimination.
No, guys. Things should be usable in a natural state. You should be comfortable with something as soon as you start using it. The problem with this statement is that there are over 6 and a half billion "You"'s in the world, and we're not all the same. So if you follow this philosophy and never try to adapt to anything initially unnatural to _you_ (0.000000000000015?) you'll miss out on a lot of potentially useful(and superior) things. Not to mention that some things aren't intended to feel natural immediately, especially when we're talking about improvements over standard interfaces.
Shows what you know. For your information they're blocking every browser...well at least every browser I try just sits there trying to connect. Maybe they're disciminating on something equaly as retarded as the UA string...like race? Are there any mexicans here? then we'll know for sure.
I'm a genius.
But seriously...all you slashdotters step off and let me view the goddamn page before these cheapasses' servers run out of bandwidth.
There is just no right answer to "Does this dress make me look fat?" If you say yes, you are being mean. She is mad, and you are in the doghouse. If you say no, you are lying to her. She is mad, and you are in the doghouse. You might as well go for the real zinger and tell her "It's not the dress."
This is one of the situations where you don't have to lie and you're just being a lazy ass. Be articulate. Instead of being all negative try to also be positive. "Hmm, it would look better with a different belt", try to identify what you don't like about it. Be honest, get your honest opinion across, but try to spend more than 2 seconds forming an opinion or you'll be "in the doghouse". Delicacy in this case is not lying. Delicacy in this case is showing awareness of another person's feelings whilst getting the/your truth across. There are cases where delicacy means lying, but this isn't one of them by a long shot.
To really "know" your favorite languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript) is quite rare. Lots of us can get some minor thing half-way working on one browser. Writing solid code is not at all a trivial task; very few people can manage. Not even Google always gets it right. Knowing HTML, CSS, and Javascript has nothing to do with knowing exactly the way they're implemented on every browser under the sun. Writing solid code IS trivial but it's not all going to work in any browser. The typical process is writing solid code missing about 20% of the useful features the language provides and then wrestling with it to get it working in all browsers, kind of like stretching skin over a drum. And then breaking it and putting it back together with gum and spit, and giving this version to IE. The resulting code which works in all browsers is not "solid code"....it's superfluous backwards code that happens to please all the browsers you have tested in.
I just wanted to point out that knowing the languages has nothing to do with having it work as intended in even a single browser. I don't think you can say code isn't solid just because a browser doesn't understand the language the code is written in.
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... This is a ridiculously huge blunder for such a huge company and they've pointed fingers at piracy before ...
Finally, someone talking about the main point. Exactly. This has nothing to do with piracy at all; along with any damage caused. They fucked up, plain and simple.
The tone of their response to the leak just sounds like posturing, by a management that may be looking to either impose some hair-brained DRM scheme, or more than likely *hang on to their jobs*. Ridiculous.
It's this new breed of management that is turning the PC gaming platform to shit and FUD.
Piracy is like the new "the dog ate my homework" for the 21st century.
You sound like a back-end programmer that is bitter his crappy HTML table-generator doesn't cut it anymore.
1. It's W3C not WC3.
2. Why should a non-geek care about W3C standards? They can still code in any broken HTML they feel like if the browser displays it properly. The only reason they'd care is if they're trying to pass it off as professional or paid work. In which case they should work to the quality their client requires or stop lying about their skills
All UI programming is complicated and tricky, this is well known. As languages become more and more abstracted from the nitty-gritty details of interacting with the OS, they become more and more focused on abstract concepts such as objects and their interactions. HTML defines objects (nodes, their attributes, types), CSS and JS define how they interact. If you are so narrow-minded in regards to the tools you use to define or implement your solution then I'm afraid you don't have a very bright future in this field.
Try your hand at some real UI programming for local applications for a while and you'll realise that HTML/CSS/JS is really the UI toolkit you wish you always had. See how long it takes you to write a UI engine to achieve custom behaviour it would have taken an hour or two to achieve using HTML/CSS/JS.
Bullshit. Those people that Microsoft employ already had degrees / education in the field they work in.
You think that if Microsoft wasn't around they'd suddenly lose all interest in their industries? You think that computers aren't a commodity? Someone or something would _have_ to fill the space. And that something and those companies would provide jobs.
The only way that argument holds is if the size of the industry was completely dependant on Microsoft, and that if they were not here people would simply do without computers. A ridiculous idea.
Microsoft don't make any wild innovations, whether they have great products or not. They don't provide anything irreplacable to the industry at all. If they disappeared tomorrow I fail to see any huge change in the nature of the industry, apart from the practical issues of an abandoned platform. Actually I can see a lot of good, healthy change coming from it, as long as it happened slow enough.
Nothing...because it's not a country, it's a kingdom. British and Irish is the most coverage you're going to get.
Actually no, it's simple really. English is the language spoken in England, and however it evolves there. "English" is pretty accurate on its own. Nothing can change that fact...It's right there in the word!
Other dialects? great! But when it comes to nitpicking about the definition of "English", there's no argument.
If you want a copy of any information that you post on facebook, keep a copy on your own computer. Facebook provides a free service, and if they don't think there's any value in you being able to take that data out, then that's their perogative.
I don't know where you are but in the UK there's this thing called the Data Protection Act[wikipedia.org]
So at least here it's not their perogative as to if you get to take your data out. The most they can charge you for it is £10.
I would pitch Acid 3 compliance in this manner: This web browser is 100% compliant with the proper web rendering standards. The more compliant your web browser is, the less likely your web browser will break. You can take that to the bank. You spend less time with a broken browser, and more time enjoying a cold one.
Except, you know, Opera isn't 100% compliant with CSS 2 or 2.1, and Acid 3 doesn't test for 100% compliance.
Well if you kill Tomboy there'll be no Gnote. So it makes no sense to consider Gnote an alternative to Tomboy.
All that Tomboy and Gnote users will be left with are these developers which have clearly demonstrated their lack of software design skills, leadership, or vision. Which indeed hurts everyone because it means one less high quality Unix/Linux desktop app.
At work it sometimes takes me an hour to get in. Yes, it's because the network is crap even though we've got money falling out of our asses. (I guess IT doesn't get any, or they're too lazy to improve things)
Either way, there's your anecdotal evidence. Just as useful as your's. GP was talking about a work environment, which usually means a network.
They didn't quite make it to 4 though did they. I guess 3 must have been "FAIL!" this time.
Not really. This guy obviously weighed the flak he would take and the paycheck from Microsoft before he made his decision.
He knew this would happen so I don't see why we shouldn't give him all the flak Microsoft deserve.
In-fact, any other random functionality that eclipse happens to have plugins for also become available to you. It's really useful in work environments because then both designers and developers standardise on Eclipse, designers only using different plugins.
The only thing I find moronic here is the insinuation that a child, which is the result of a rape, is somehow predestined to become evil.
What a load of bull. I hope I never have to use an application you've written. Talk about think-of-the-children mentality, I suggest you start by defining what a "user" is.
You don't need divx to use stage6, just flash. And yes, it is better than Youtube. Well, until it starts attracting the Youtube crowd, then it'll be just be a Youtube with better features.
Frankly, if you're not a moron, or some attention whoring pre-schooler, I don't see why people would care about it. If you lack the capacity to find a single reason why anyone, anywhere that isn't a "moron, or some attention whoring pre-schooler" may find value in a site such a Facebook, I'm afraid you're the moron.
Not like the "friends" you have online map to anything realistic in the "real world." You sound suspiciously like you're talking about yourself here. You need to get some friends buddy. The image I get of you from your flamebait doesn't anger me, it just makes me pity you.
Wow, I was wondering why such a troll was at 2. Then I realised I had the stupid good karma bonus on. When ignorant people get a karma bonus per default /. settings something is up. I'm definitely not leaving that on.
How is it 'good discrimination'? How is it 'good' that our culture is that fixated on image? I never once said anything about such a topic in my post, heck I didn't even mention culture, image, or even the word "good". I just suggested you use better examples. I actually thought it was a decent post. Also I'd like to say that it's really easy to ask such vague questions, try expressing some of your own thoughts on the subject and people might be more willing to explore such a topic.
I'm not saying its right, and I agree it should be changed, but its a bigger problem than just the 'geeks reject women'. Its that discrimination still occurs at all levels and between all segments of society. You seem to be suggesting that there's something inherently wrong with all types of discrimination. There isn't. Not by a long shot. And if you didn't mean to imply that then next time choose some better examples, because not one of them was a form of bad discrimination.
Those were instead of tabs? I thought it was just python. *Zing*
Shows what you know. For your information they're blocking every browser...well at least every browser I try just sits there trying to connect. Maybe they're disciminating on something equaly as retarded as the UA string...like race? Are there any mexicans here? then we'll know for sure.
I'm a genius.
But seriously...all you slashdotters step off and let me view the goddamn page before these cheapasses' servers run out of bandwidth.
This is one of the situations where you don't have to lie and you're just being a lazy ass. Be articulate. Instead of being all negative try to also be positive. "Hmm, it would look better with a different belt", try to identify what you don't like about it. Be honest, get your honest opinion across, but try to spend more than 2 seconds forming an opinion or you'll be "in the doghouse". Delicacy in this case is not lying. Delicacy in this case is showing awareness of another person's feelings whilst getting the/your truth across. There are cases where delicacy means lying, but this isn't one of them by a long shot.
I just wanted to point out that knowing the languages has nothing to do with having it work as intended in even a single browser. I don't think you can say code isn't solid just because a browser doesn't understand the language the code is written in.