If I had the figure of a muscle-bound warrior I'd be out partying at clubs and getting girls, not playing WoW. The point of online games is to experience a different reality.
Next step: if you don't actually know how to fight, your character can't either.
But we're moving to this, want it or not. Wii adds active physical motion to games. If you can't sit up from your chair, you may indeed incapacitate your character in the game as a result.
We'll always have games where you're an alien worm or a cartoon duck, but don't deny us the coolness factor of more realistic experiences in games.
The only problem I can see is with scam sites, where they might put content in the HTML, then remove/add to it with Javascript so the crawler sees something different than the end-user does. I think they already do this with CSS, either by hiding sections or by making the text the same color as the background. Does anyone know how Google deals with CSS that does this?
Google has a bot that understands CSS and JavaScript, based roughly on the Mozilla source code (wondered why they hire so many Firefox developers?). They won't use it for indexing your site's content, but they run it in parallel to their old "Lynx"-style bot, to detect black hat SEO and scams which abuse CSS/JS.
If you're using document.write, you're writing directly into the document stream, which only works in text/html, not an XHTML MIME type, because there's no way to guarantee the document will continue to be valid.
In this day and age, document.write should never be used, in favor of the more verbose but more future-proof document.createElement and document.createTextNode notation.
element.innerHTML works even on XHTML MIME documents however (Firefox, Opera etc), and there's no significant hurdle to support document.write either.
To support progressive rendering (which some yet don't but future releases are planned to), browsers *must* start processing a document before they know it's valid. So they hit this issue one way or another. If they find a document is not valid in the middle of displaying a page, they can always stop processing, flush all buffers and declare the XML not well formed. Simple as that.
And yes, that means they won't use a typical XML DOM parser, which validates and preparses the whole tree in advance.
There's something wrong when Firefox renders something incorrectly that IE gets right. Particularly for a 9 year old standard
That's not so annoying as Firefox being the only browser (among IE/opera/safari/konqueror) to get the border-collapse model for tables wrong. Half of the collapsed border (yes.. the half of it), will flow outside the container, while the other half displays inside the container.
Nop, that's not the correct box model at all, *for collapsed border* on tables.
Just because there is a reason why doesn't really address the much lower consumer expectations of those who buy windows.
Can you define "much lower expectations"? We're talking about installing Windows on a possibly unsupported/untested configuration. Noone expects your laptop with preinstalled Vista by the manifacturer to hang.
What happens if you try to install OSX on a random self-assembled hardware? Oh yea, it won't even install, license restrictions. Hurray for the much higher expectations.
Since porn etc searches make up a considerable % of Google's searches it probably makes Google the largest porn portal site by far. "Feeling Lucky isn't called that for nothing!
Actually I remember google starting as the search engine of choice for people looking up code samples/tutorials and warez.
I guess porn was in this number too.
It's indicative of how a product becomes popular, by picking on the lowest possible common denominators and growing from there. I guess warez and porn are those denominators.
Your brickheaded literalism is indicative of the company you keep, and the OS you prefer. It's not the PC that's beige; it's you.
I can't believe that you spinned all this b.s. into a pathetic plead about how superior Mac users are, in defense of chat and game programs making the top 20 "sysadmin" programs on a Mac.
Don't think too low of us, I swear, we can chat and play games too! Is that supposed to be shocking to anyone?
Man.. it's too bad that although many of the Mac users are supposed historians, zoologists, psychologists, you don't recognize all the tired snobbish cliches you've been littering me with in the last few posts.
"I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."
This kinda sounds as if Jobs made it up. He also happens to be the best liar in the world.
So don't force what doesn't come naturally. You'll be much happier if you stick to an OS that suits your personality. And you'll be doing the rest of us a favor, too; you leave Macs to Mac users, and we'll leave beige to you.
Good job. The logical progression after failing to convert the audience into your little elite club, is to claim "you are not worthy of possessing a Mac" and further engage in your delusions of superiority.
BTW, I really find your opinion of the plain beige PC-s amusing. Do you think shiny white boosts your IQ?
In this case, I've a Futurama quote for you:
Dwight: "Put this flame sticker on the back side. It makes the ship go faster..." Hermes: "And what is your scientific explanation for this?" Dwight: "... I'm twelve?"
The idea that the browser isn't feature-complete unless you install 20 add-ons is certain to scare some people away.
Especially if people are being told that "must have" extensions for Firefox include rainbow colored tabs, "more neat than actually useful" (quoting TFA) popup page previews, and weather forecast gadgets.
Another 4-5 of those "must haves" are strictly for developers (ex. FireBug/WebDev toolbar - I have those, my grandma doesn't need them).
Are you surprised? Shiny title on a worthless article? What a shock.
More often than not, I enter something I'm looking for and it finds the correct article 95% of the time, with the spelling corrected and the missing words inserted. Of course, I have a vague idea of how what I'm looking for is spelled in the first place, perhaps I'm helping the search engine, but really so far I'm really not disappointed with it.
"Wikia is not the "company" behind Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation, is what's behind Wikipedia. Wikia is a totally separate for-profit company that is run by Jimbo Wales."
Your requirements for a news service are too stringent: they at least got the names kinda matching kinda nice. Plus maybe they meant behind Wikipedia in a more physical and sarcastic manner.
Plus, they seem to be in the middle of some sort of reorganization there, every article is from a new, different department. It must be hell to do this AND still run the site without interruption.
I want to applaud the Slashdot team for their professionalism: guys, we're behind you.
I've been using Vista on 3 very different pcs for quite some time now, a desktop, a new laptop and an 18 month old laptop, and I've yet to have any problems with putting any of them into sleep mode and then waking them up again. Now I may have been exceptionally lucky, but I doubt it. Vista FUD is already getting old.
This is the difference between anecdotal evidence and sampling all your customers. Noone is claiming Vista's sleep modes don't work anywhere, in fact, you can bet they were tested and confirmed working on lots of hardware.
For your new laptop, also the hardware vendor tested and it and confirmed it working before shipping laptops with Vista preinstalled. Vista's not locked to a few preselected hardware configs (as is Apple for example), so it's normal to find hardware not working fine with it.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't the case. Sleep modes are really complex beasts, and require perfect cooperation from all hardware devices and their drivers, or your PC will wake up in an non-equivalent and very likely unstable state.
you are totally right... I see the error of my ways... can I have a quarter to buy a real computer?
I'd blink on it, but I'm a curious fella, and simply gotta know: what the heck do you mean with the whole "can I have a quarter to buy a computer" anyway?
I'm not even considering jumping ship to Vista until the first SP is out (XP works beautifully for me).
Exactly the same. Especially since IE7 is more or less the same for me as a webdev, I can test all of my stuff on XP.
And we gotta realize: early adotpers always get stuffed with higher prices and lower quality. It's just the way things are, even if the product is developed under most stringent quality requirements, a bunch of undetected defects will be known soon after a wide launch.
The only thing that bothers me here is that on many consumer offers, companies FORCE you to get OEM Vista with a new PC. This early after launch, and with so many known flaws, how could you possibly require your customers to buy Vista PC when XP is much better right now?!
Do you have such experiences yourself? How easy it is to get a "downgrade" and in which hardware vendors it's easiest to do so?
Have you even read the freaking list? It's obviously a top-20 list for [Mac] sysadmins.
All 3 of 'em?
What kinda sysadmin needs graphical concept drawing software or chat software on the systems he manages, how about screencast video maker? What kinda sysadmin needs "SketchFighter 4000 Alpha"? The alternative for this on Windows would be putting Minesweeper and Solitaire in the top 20 for sysadmins.
Furthermore, wtf is a Mac sysadmin anyway? OSX is a system for consumers and the occasional designer.
Do you have a crack team of sysadmins managing your iPod?
Who else thinks that BootCamp being in the top 20 best OSX products is kinda silly?
On Windows (or even Linux) you don't see "top 10 best products" list that often, if at all, simply because they are too many to just list a "top 20 best".
Computers have moved to a point where different people use them for wildly different purposes. As such, you simply can't have "top X products" for an entire OS. If on Mac it's not the same, it's that much sadder.
They'll never understand: people don't switch to your favorite platform simply because it's kinda viable and it could do it, if given a chance, and you blink on a few things.
The market is overcrowded, the competition is fierce, and it has rock-solid and lightning-fast support, stability, compatibility, replacement commodity parts/hardware.
Apple has nice looking hardware, OS built to target end consumers, and Steve Jobs shouting how they're best in the world. It's not enough, people.
Let's put it another way: if there was an anti-sun with an anti-solar system, exactly like Earth but with every particle the inverse of our Earth, they would be exactly the same. (Even when they eventually met and obliterated each other -- matter blows up antimatter just as well as antimatter blows up matter.)
Good news everyone! We're off to the other side of the universe to collect positrons!
I'm certain that hard drives will slowly go away to be replaced with Flash ram devices. As the price drops it will happen.
Let me correct the mistakes in your statement up there:
I [want] that hard drives [to] slowly go away to be replaced with Flash ram devices. Price drops [should] happen.
Just because Flash is better in your opinion than hard drives doesn't meant that prices will magically drop (a hundred times?) to replace hard drives.
Flying cars are also much better and have much lower latency but alas: it doesn't magically drive them into existence. Also your assumptions on the Flash reliability are also biased, if you used your (current state of the art) Flash stick as a full HDD replacement (booting up, swap files, temp files, and all that jazz) it'd likely fail much sooner as per the manifacturers' estimations themselves.
We're seeing a sound and argumented move towards hybrid drives. This is good. Don't blindly extrapolate trends: it's a mistake too many people do too often.
Would you say that RAM is going away in favor of gigs and gigs of Level 1/2/3 CPU cache? Boy I wish! But it ain't happening.
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If I had the figure of a muscle-bound warrior I'd be out partying at clubs and getting girls, not playing WoW. The point of online games is to experience a different reality.
Next step: if you don't actually know how to fight, your character can't either.
But we're moving to this, want it or not. Wii adds active physical motion to games. If you can't sit up from your chair, you may indeed incapacitate your character in the game as a result.
We'll always have games where you're an alien worm or a cartoon duck, but don't deny us the coolness factor of more realistic experiences in games.
The only problem I can see is with scam sites, where they might put content in the HTML, then remove/add to it with Javascript so the crawler sees something different than the end-user does. I think they already do this with CSS, either by hiding sections or by making the text the same color as the background. Does anyone know how Google deals with CSS that does this?
Google has a bot that understands CSS and JavaScript, based roughly on the Mozilla source code (wondered why they hire so many Firefox developers?). They won't use it for indexing your site's content, but they run it in parallel to their old "Lynx"-style bot, to detect black hat SEO and scams which abuse CSS/JS.
If you're using document.write, you're writing directly into the document stream, which only works in text/html, not an XHTML MIME type, because there's no way to guarantee the document will continue to be valid.
In this day and age, document.write should never be used, in favor of the more verbose but more future-proof document.createElement and document.createTextNode notation.
element.innerHTML works even on XHTML MIME documents however (Firefox, Opera etc), and there's no significant hurdle to support document.write either.
To support progressive rendering (which some yet don't but future releases are planned to), browsers *must* start processing a document before they know it's valid. So they hit this issue one way or another. If they find a document is not valid in the middle of displaying a page, they can always stop processing, flush all buffers and declare the XML not well formed. Simple as that.
And yes, that means they won't use a typical XML DOM parser, which validates and preparses the whole tree in advance.
There's something wrong when Firefox renders something incorrectly that IE gets right. Particularly for a 9 year old standard
That's not so annoying as Firefox being the only browser (among IE/opera/safari/konqueror) to get the border-collapse model for tables wrong. Half of the collapsed border (yes.. the half of it), will flow outside the container, while the other half displays inside the container.
Nop, that's not the correct box model at all, *for collapsed border* on tables.
Just because there is a reason why doesn't really address the much lower consumer expectations of those who buy windows.
Can you define "much lower expectations"? We're talking about installing Windows on a possibly unsupported/untested configuration. Noone expects your laptop with preinstalled Vista by the manifacturer to hang.
What happens if you try to install OSX on a random self-assembled hardware? Oh yea, it won't even install, license restrictions. Hurray for the much higher expectations.
Since porn etc searches make up a considerable % of Google's searches it probably makes Google the largest porn portal site by far. "Feeling Lucky isn't called that for nothing!
Actually I remember google starting as the search engine of choice for people looking up code samples/tutorials and warez.
I guess porn was in this number too.
It's indicative of how a product becomes popular, by picking on the lowest possible common denominators and growing from there. I guess warez and porn are those denominators.
Your brickheaded literalism is indicative of the company you keep, and the OS you prefer. It's not the PC that's beige; it's you.
I can't believe that you spinned all this b.s. into a pathetic plead about how superior Mac users are, in defense of chat and game programs making the top 20 "sysadmin" programs on a Mac.
Don't think too low of us, I swear, we can chat and play games too! Is that supposed to be shocking to anyone?
Man.. it's too bad that although many of the Mac users are supposed historians, zoologists, psychologists, you don't recognize all the tired snobbish cliches you've been littering me with in the last few posts.
"I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."
This kinda sounds as if Jobs made it up. He also happens to be the best liar in the world.
Remember that the Mac was designed by artists [atspace.com], for artists [atspace.com], be they poets [atspace.com], musicians [atspace.com]
That's an odd way to look at it. Do you also prefer poetry/music written by nuclear physicists and aerospace engineers?
So don't force what doesn't come naturally. You'll be much happier if you stick to an OS that suits your personality. And you'll be doing the rest of us a favor, too; you leave Macs to Mac users, and we'll leave beige to you.
Good job. The logical progression after failing to convert the audience into your little elite club, is to claim "you are not worthy of possessing a Mac" and further engage in your delusions of superiority.
BTW, I really find your opinion of the plain beige PC-s amusing. Do you think shiny white boosts your IQ?
In this case, I've a Futurama quote for you:
Dwight: "Put this flame sticker on the back side. It makes the ship go faster..."
Hermes: "And what is your scientific explanation for this?"
Dwight: "... I'm twelve?"
My grandmother is a web developer you insensitive clod!
I'm talking about mine: she's a nuclear fusion rocket scientist.
The idea that the browser isn't feature-complete unless you install 20 add-ons is certain to scare some people away.
Especially if people are being told that "must have" extensions for Firefox include rainbow colored tabs, "more neat than actually useful" (quoting TFA) popup page previews, and weather forecast gadgets.
Another 4-5 of those "must haves" are strictly for developers (ex. FireBug/WebDev toolbar - I have those, my grandma doesn't need them).
Are you surprised? Shiny title on a worthless article? What a shock.
How about you reread the post you replied to, where I addressed how Apple can pull this off (and why it's a non-achievement).
More often than not, I enter something I'm looking for and it finds the correct article 95% of the time, with the spelling corrected and the missing words inserted. Of course, I have a vague idea of how what I'm looking for is spelled in the first place, perhaps I'm helping the search engine, but really so far I'm really not disappointed with it.
Everybody can do a search engine that works with the occasional typo. Real search engines know what I mean when I'm not even close.
"Wikia is not the "company" behind Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation, is what's behind Wikipedia. Wikia is a totally separate for-profit company that is run by Jimbo Wales."
Your requirements for a news service are too stringent: they at least got the names kinda matching kinda nice. Plus maybe they meant behind Wikipedia in a more physical and sarcastic manner.
Plus, they seem to be in the middle of some sort of reorganization there, every article is from a new, different department. It must be hell to do this AND still run the site without interruption.
I want to applaud the Slashdot team for their professionalism: guys, we're behind you.
I've been using Vista on 3 very different pcs for quite some time now, a desktop, a new laptop and an 18 month old laptop, and I've yet to have any problems with putting any of them into sleep mode and then waking them up again. Now I may have been exceptionally lucky, but I doubt it. Vista FUD is already getting old.
This is the difference between anecdotal evidence and sampling all your customers. Noone is claiming Vista's sleep modes don't work anywhere, in fact, you can bet they were tested and confirmed working on lots of hardware.
For your new laptop, also the hardware vendor tested and it and confirmed it working before shipping laptops with Vista preinstalled. Vista's not locked to a few preselected hardware configs (as is Apple for example), so it's normal to find hardware not working fine with it.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't the case. Sleep modes are really complex beasts, and require perfect cooperation from all hardware devices and their drivers, or your PC will wake up in an non-equivalent and very likely unstable state.
"Most of these fixes are due to be included in Windows Vista SP1 -- codenamed Fiji."
What are your sources that Fiji is the codename of Vista SP1 anyway? For what we know, Microsoft confirmed neither of those.
you are totally right... I see the error of my ways... can I have a quarter to buy a real computer?
I'd blink on it, but I'm a curious fella, and simply gotta know: what the heck do you mean with the whole "can I have a quarter to buy a computer" anyway?
I'm not even considering jumping ship to Vista until the first SP is out (XP works beautifully for me).
Exactly the same. Especially since IE7 is more or less the same for me as a webdev, I can test all of my stuff on XP.
And we gotta realize: early adotpers always get stuffed with higher prices and lower quality. It's just the way things are, even if the product is developed under most stringent quality requirements, a bunch of undetected defects will be known soon after a wide launch.
The only thing that bothers me here is that on many consumer offers, companies FORCE you to get OEM Vista with a new PC. This early after launch, and with so many known flaws, how could you possibly require your customers to buy Vista PC when XP is much better right now?!
Do you have such experiences yourself? How easy it is to get a "downgrade" and in which hardware vendors it's easiest to do so?
Have you even read the freaking list? It's obviously a top-20 list for [Mac] sysadmins.
All 3 of 'em?
What kinda sysadmin needs graphical concept drawing software or chat software on the systems he manages, how about screencast video maker? What kinda sysadmin needs "SketchFighter 4000 Alpha"? The alternative for this on Windows would be putting Minesweeper and Solitaire in the top 20 for sysadmins.
Furthermore, wtf is a Mac sysadmin anyway? OSX is a system for consumers and the occasional designer.
Do you have a crack team of sysadmins managing your iPod?
Who else thinks that BootCamp being in the top 20 best OSX products is kinda silly?
On Windows (or even Linux) you don't see "top 10 best products" list that often, if at all, simply because they are too many to just list a "top 20 best".
Computers have moved to a point where different people use them for wildly different purposes. As such, you simply can't have "top X products" for an entire OS. If on Mac it's not the same, it's that much sadder.
They'll never understand: people don't switch to your favorite platform simply because it's kinda viable and it could do it, if given a chance, and you blink on a few things.
The market is overcrowded, the competition is fierce, and it has rock-solid and lightning-fast support, stability, compatibility, replacement commodity parts/hardware.
Apple has nice looking hardware, OS built to target end consumers, and Steve Jobs shouting how they're best in the world. It's not enough, people.
First they ignore you, then laugh at you, then attack you, then you win.
The bad part is that fakes share the same fate, except the last bit.
Let's put it another way: if there was an anti-sun with an anti-solar system, exactly like Earth but with every particle the inverse of our Earth, they would be exactly the same. (Even when they eventually met and obliterated each other -- matter blows up antimatter just as well as antimatter blows up matter.)
Good news everyone! We're off to the other side of the universe to collect positrons!
I'm certain that hard drives will slowly go away to be replaced with Flash ram devices. As the price drops it will happen.
Let me correct the mistakes in your statement up there:
I [want] that hard drives [to] slowly go away to be replaced with Flash ram devices. Price drops [should] happen.
Just because Flash is better in your opinion than hard drives doesn't meant that prices will magically drop (a hundred times?) to replace hard drives.
Flying cars are also much better and have much lower latency but alas: it doesn't magically drive them into existence. Also your assumptions on the Flash reliability are also biased, if you used your (current state of the art) Flash stick as a full HDD replacement (booting up, swap files, temp files, and all that jazz) it'd likely fail much sooner as per the manifacturers' estimations themselves.
We're seeing a sound and argumented move towards hybrid drives. This is good. Don't blindly extrapolate trends: it's a mistake too many people do too often.
Would you say that RAM is going away in favor of gigs and gigs of Level 1/2/3 CPU cache? Boy I wish! But it ain't happening.