Ease of Use
Features like Accelerators, Web Slices and Visual Search Suggestions make Internet Explorer 8 easiest to use.
IE 8 is the most clunky of the listed browsers, with overly large tabs, poorly laid out UI, and, non-intuitive customization of toolbars. Why can't I just drag and drop 'commands?'
Web Standards
It's a tie. Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium's CSS 2.1 test cases than any other browser, but Firefox 3 has more support for some evolving standards.
Web Standards support is so much better than in IE 6 and 7, they finally have CSS 2.1 support, while nearly every other browser is adding CSS 3 features all the time.
IE 8 is better because they aren't using modern technology? That's why IE 6 sucked for years, because it was so backwards.
Developer Tools
Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one. There's no need to install tools separately, and it offers better features like JavaScript profiling.
I'm a developer. IE 8's developer tools aren't even enough to debug why a standards complaint page isn't working in IE 8, let alone to use during active development.
"JavaScript profiling" is either not really a feature, or not a useful one. Again, as a developer I only mess with IE 8's developer tools if I need to work around a problem that is being caused by IE 8. As abysmal as developer tools are in IE 8 there is one browser with worse tools: IE 6. (anyone remember the completely unhelpful javascript error message, "Object expected error on line 0?"
Reliability
Only Internet Explorer 8 has both tab isolation and crash recovery features; Firefox and Chrome have one or the other.
While the statement is true, it isn't about reliability. It's about what happens when the browser does something bad. If a browser were reliable it wouldn't need crash recovery. As far as I know no browser offers a way to kill an offending tab. I don't often see a tab 'crash' but will often see one lock up or hang. (generally not the browsers fault, so much as bad javascript) So while tab isolation is a step in the right direction it doesn't contribute much yet. I have yet to have an instance of Firefox crash and not recover on relaunch. IE 8 will sometimes recover ok, but often not.
Customizability
Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many of the customizations you'd want to download for Firefox are already a part of Internet Explorer 8 - right out of the box.
How does IE 8 know which features I want? Just because a product has more features installed (which cannot be easily removed), 'out of the box,' doesn't make it in any way customizable.
Compatibility
Internet Explorer 8 is more compatible with more sites on the Internet than any other browser.
More compatible with more sites? I would like to see some evidence or proof of this claim. As a developer, I write for modern web standards, and that means my web applications/sites work with Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera, with no problems. If need be, I write hacks to make things OK, in IE 6,7, and/or 8.
Performance
Knowing the top speed of a car doesn't tell you how fast you can drive in rush hour. To actually see the difference in page loads between all three browsers, you need slow-motion video. This one's also a tie.
Um, actually you can just run each browser on the same page at the same time and compare speed. Just because there is a bottleneck at the network doesn't mean I want my browser to render slowly once it gets the content. IE 8 does render slower, often visibly slower. And IE 8 is very slow in starting, launching a new tab, exiting, and executing javascript.
Hmmm, I went to http://www.att.com/ and saw the huge iPhone 3GS flash banner smack dab in the middle of the page. Not sure which AT&T website you went to. (or when)
Mock if you will, but when it comes to manipulating and moving massive amounts of data and maintaining the application, nothing beats COBOL.
Except nearly every programming language since. (You did say, "Mock if you will," and I will:-)
Seriously though, most of my distaste for COBOL is due to the Luddites that taught it in school. I suppose I could have felt the same way about Scheme had those profs been as bad as my COBOL instructors.
from the currently available Windows 7 release candidate info page (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/installation-instructions.aspx)
IMPORTANT: The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you'll need to rebuild your test machine using a valid version of Windows before the software expires. You'll need to rebuild your test PC to replace the OS and reinstall all your programs and data.
But this is the first renting service I'm aware of.
I remember seeing quite a few adds for textbook renting services in the last few years.
(http://www.google.com/search?q=rent+textbooks) Chegg.com is the first one that comes to mind. This one seems to be different in that it allows users to rent from each other rather than from the service itself.
I once heard a definition of plagiarism that included failure to cite references to one's own (previous) works. I say that is really dumb. (Myself Discussions on plagiarism. U.S.A. 2 January, 2001.)
I actually like the way glossy screens look. The image is brighter. I've never been able to use a matte display in sunlight, anyway. I don't do professional print work so I don't care about 'color accuracy' As long as stuff looks nice on the screen that's fine by me. I don't have a glossy screen, but those that I've used seem fine in all the settings (lighting) that a matte screen would be fine in. So the article is basically saying that print professionals will need to pay a $50 premium if they want to use Apple computers.
I once saw a review on Amazon of 1 star (out of 5) for a book. The reason for the low rating was because of a trailer shown before the movie based on the book. People just don't know where to comment/rate things.
I found Algorithm Design, by Kleinburg and Tardos to be more accessible than Introduction to Algorithms. It's not as comprehensive as CLRS, but it's an easier read.
More than likely the lack of cooperation is more from the managers and project managers that when told by their programmers that all their SQL queries need to be rewritten to use prepared statements to prevent SQL injection attacks, response was, "Well we haven't had any problems yet. And that would take too long."
His team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no Web experience. Otherwise, the groups were similar in age, gender and education.
So what's this in the summary:
The test had two groups, young people who used the Internet, and older people who had never been online.
Also since when does studying only 24 people (12 variable and 12 control), constitute 'research'.
It looks like they might be onto something worth researching, but haven't IMHO done enough research yet to be releasing findings.
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and the idea of one click purchasing isn't too obvious. You license us a patent and we'll license you a trademark.
If you live in the UK you can say goodbye to those open wireless networks, 'cause it doesn't matter who does the downloading, it's whoever's internet connection that was used. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/08/132210/Digital-Economy-Bill-Passed-In-the-UK
Ease of Use
Features like Accelerators, Web Slices and Visual Search Suggestions make Internet Explorer 8 easiest to use.
IE 8 is the most clunky of the listed browsers, with overly large tabs, poorly laid out UI, and, non-intuitive customization of toolbars. Why can't I just drag and drop 'commands?'
Web Standards
It's a tie. Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium's CSS 2.1 test cases than any other browser, but Firefox 3 has more support for some evolving standards.
Web Standards support is so much better than in IE 6 and 7, they finally have CSS 2.1 support, while nearly every other browser is adding CSS 3 features all the time. IE 8 is better because they aren't using modern technology? That's why IE 6 sucked for years, because it was so backwards.
Developer Tools
Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one. There's no need to install tools separately, and it offers better features like JavaScript profiling.
I'm a developer. IE 8's developer tools aren't even enough to debug why a standards complaint page isn't working in IE 8, let alone to use during active development. "JavaScript profiling" is either not really a feature, or not a useful one. Again, as a developer I only mess with IE 8's developer tools if I need to work around a problem that is being caused by IE 8. As abysmal as developer tools are in IE 8 there is one browser with worse tools: IE 6. (anyone remember the completely unhelpful javascript error message, "Object expected error on line 0?"
Reliability
Only Internet Explorer 8 has both tab isolation and crash recovery features; Firefox and Chrome have one or the other.
While the statement is true, it isn't about reliability. It's about what happens when the browser does something bad. If a browser were reliable it wouldn't need crash recovery. As far as I know no browser offers a way to kill an offending tab. I don't often see a tab 'crash' but will often see one lock up or hang. (generally not the browsers fault, so much as bad javascript) So while tab isolation is a step in the right direction it doesn't contribute much yet. I have yet to have an instance of Firefox crash and not recover on relaunch. IE 8 will sometimes recover ok, but often not.
Customizability
Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many of the customizations you'd want to download for Firefox are already a part of Internet Explorer 8 - right out of the box.
How does IE 8 know which features I want? Just because a product has more features installed (which cannot be easily removed), 'out of the box,' doesn't make it in any way customizable.
Compatibility
Internet Explorer 8 is more compatible with more sites on the Internet than any other browser.
More compatible with more sites? I would like to see some evidence or proof of this claim. As a developer, I write for modern web standards, and that means my web applications/sites work with Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera, with no problems. If need be, I write hacks to make things OK, in IE 6,7, and/or 8.
Performance
Knowing the top speed of a car doesn't tell you how fast you can drive in rush hour. To actually see the difference in page loads between all three browsers, you need slow-motion video. This one's also a tie.
Um, actually you can just run each browser on the same page at the same time and compare speed. Just because there is a bottleneck at the network doesn't mean I want my browser to render slowly once it gets the content. IE 8 does render slower, often visibly slower. And IE 8 is very slow in starting, launching a new tab, exiting, and executing javascript.
Hmmm, I went to http://www.att.com/ and saw the huge iPhone 3GS flash banner smack dab in the middle of the page. Not sure which AT&T website you went to. (or when)
Mock if you will, but when it comes to manipulating and moving massive amounts of data and maintaining the application, nothing beats COBOL.
Except nearly every programming language since. (You did say, "Mock if you will," and I will :-)
Seriously though, most of my distaste for COBOL is due to the Luddites that taught it in school. I suppose I could have felt the same way about Scheme had those profs been as bad as my COBOL instructors.
This story brought to you by, Real Age. I find it funny that the Google ad served up for this story was no other than a Real Age ad.
...there are LOTS of spherical objects to serve as models (apples, oranges, grapes, etc)...
How about the sun and moon? Also, in addition to ships over the horizon, an eclipse gives an idea of the shape of the earth via its shadow.
Dude, he said 20K visitors. There is NO way that an IE6 fan club has that many visitors.
or do they... http://www.saveie6.com/
Not necessarily. Total(ly) Recall that (at least in the movie) ...
Sorry couldn't help myself.
But this is the first renting service I'm aware of.
I remember seeing quite a few adds for textbook renting services in the last few years. (http://www.google.com/search?q=rent+textbooks) Chegg.com is the first one that comes to mind. This one seems to be different in that it allows users to rent from each other rather than from the service itself.
I once heard a definition of plagiarism that included failure to cite references to one's own (previous) works. I say that is really dumb. (Myself Discussions on plagiarism. U.S.A. 2 January, 2001.)
Yes http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/1033204
I actually like the way glossy screens look. The image is brighter. I've never been able to use a matte display in sunlight, anyway. I don't do professional print work so I don't care about 'color accuracy' As long as stuff looks nice on the screen that's fine by me. I don't have a glossy screen, but those that I've used seem fine in all the settings (lighting) that a matte screen would be fine in. So the article is basically saying that print professionals will need to pay a $50 premium if they want to use Apple computers.
I once saw a review on Amazon of 1 star (out of 5) for a book. The reason for the low rating was because of a trailer shown before the movie based on the book. People just don't know where to comment/rate things.
For C.S. books I would have to go with the Abolition of Man.
O'Reilly puts out some very good reference books. Their DHTML book was a huge help when I got started in web development.
I found Algorithm Design, by Kleinburg and Tardos to be more accessible than Introduction to Algorithms. It's not as comprehensive as CLRS, but it's an easier read.
Agreed. This book was a bit annoying at first, but after a bit the unique approach helped immensely and was kind of fun too.
How about periodically storing the latest pertinent info (shipping rates, etc.) on the local end?
It's against the agreement/policy/licenses/contract that developers have to sign before being given access to the web service.
it's against the agreement/policy/licenses/contract that developer's have to sign before being given access to the web service.
Ah, yes I remember the awful Tyco bricks.
More than likely the lack of cooperation is more from the managers and project managers that when told by their programmers that all their SQL queries need to be rewritten to use prepared statements to prevent SQL injection attacks, response was, "Well we haven't had any problems yet. And that would take too long."
"...I was disbelieved, and for lack of a better term I was "hung up on" via the phone..."
His team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no Web experience. Otherwise, the groups were similar in age, gender and education.
So what's this in the summary:
The test had two groups, young people who used the Internet, and older people who had never been online.
Also since when does studying only 24 people (12 variable and 12 control), constitute 'research'. It looks like they might be onto something worth researching, but haven't IMHO done enough research yet to be releasing findings.