You can only use your PS2 on PS Home and your XBox 360 on XBox Live. No one publicly complains there either.
The problem with that analogy is that game consoles aren't interchangable. They don't have the same software or the same hardware.
And computer makers are exactly doing what you're saying. If you want a DISCOUNTED Acer Netbook, you have to use it on AT&T Data. If you want an HP DISCOUNTED Netbook, you have to use it on Verizon.
Discounts are promotions. They don't lock you. Plus, you can still use that netbook with other providers after your subscription with your current ISP ends.
Blue countries use the dot. Green countries use the comma. From this map, it looks like aside from the United Kingdom and Ireland, pretty much everyone in Europe use the comma as the decimal separator. That's certainly more than "some".
These "major" releases you are talking about are service packs, right? Service packs are mostly big collections of existing patches, which Windows 2000 still gets. Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP are still supported, so there's no need to go all "it's 2009".
Oh, it's 2009, and there's 2000 in that OS' name, so let's bash it and urge the user to upgrade!
Did you know that Windows XP is from only little more than a year later? And that Windows XP is Windows NT 5.1, while Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0? Doesn't make it seem that ancient!
Not to mention all the libraries that web browsers would have to ship with to enable playback of all the codecs. And unlike image formats, new codecs get developed all the time.
Now, one could suggest to just use the codecs installed on the system itself. But then we go back to the old situation of having to have a ton of codecs installed and having to hunt for codecs we don't know have, which is always a pain in the behind.
But HTML isn't XML, and it doesn't need to be that.
Errors put the browser in "dumb rendering" mode. Rather than a "best effort" approach, browsers should, upon detecting a serious error in the input, drop to "dumb mode" - default font, default colors, etc., after displaying an error message. Much of the incompatibility between browsers comes from inconsistent handling of bad HTML. So there should be a penalty, but not a fatal one, for bad code.
This is not acceptable. Presenting error messages to the user because the author screwed up is hostile.
You give the inconsistent handling of bad HTML as the reason. Did you know that HTML5 defines exactly how a HTML document should be parsed and error recovery algorithms?
No more upper code pages.
...What is this good for? Not to mention that it would break many web pages on the web today.
The "div"/"clear" model of layout was a flop. Horrors of Javascript are needed just to make columns balance. Absolute positioning is overused as a workaround for the limits of "div"/"clear".
Of course the float & clear model is broken... when used to lay-out an entire web page. That's not what it was intended for. You know those images in magazine articles surrounded by text? That's what it's for. Using it for other things is a hack, but there was nothing better that was supported by all web browsers until recently. Now that the display model of inline-block is supported by all major web browsers, we can quit hacking up lay-outs with floats and clears.
HTML needs a 2D layout model that can't accidentally result in overlaps.
You mean CSS. HTML is a mark-up language. CSS3, which is still a draft, has a grid lay-out model.
There's been a quiet move back to tables for layout, but people are embarrassed to admit it.
There will always be some clueless hacks that can't let go of their tables.
What looks fine on a 480x320 screen doesn't look quite so hot in 720p, let alone 1080p.
You forgot that the PSP has a screen resolution almost as big, and the games cost more and are of higher quality. The DS has an even smaller screen resolution, and its games are also more expensive and of bigger quality.
I'm seeing those on almost all of the comments, and it's been that way for more than a week now. But that's not the most annoying glitch. The most annoying one is to have a comment's text pushed to the right side of its comment box, making it very hard to read.
Physical violence is easier for children to understand than psychological violence. While rape does involve a physical act, it's mostly psychological in nature.
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The problem with that analogy is that game consoles aren't interchangable. They don't have the same software or the same hardware.
Discounts are promotions. They don't lock you. Plus, you can still use that netbook with other providers after your subscription with your current ISP ends.
What are you talking about? Look at this map.
Blue countries use the dot. Green countries use the comma. From this map, it looks like aside from the United Kingdom and Ireland, pretty much everyone in Europe use the comma as the decimal separator. That's certainly more than "some".
Europeans don't have that problem; they use a comma.
These "major" releases you are talking about are service packs, right? Service packs are mostly big collections of existing patches, which Windows 2000 still gets. Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP are still supported, so there's no need to go all "it's 2009".
Unfortunately, most people still don't know what a "web browser" is.
Oh, it's 2009, and there's 2000 in that OS' name, so let's bash it and urge the user to upgrade!
Did you know that Windows XP is from only little more than a year later? And that Windows XP is Windows NT 5.1, while Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0? Doesn't make it seem that ancient!
Did you even bother to read the linked PDF that the grandparent posted along with his point?
Blocking that domain also blocks many images. I find it effective enough to only block http://c.fsdn.com/sd/all-minified.js?
It's not just a media player when it also supports live recording and media encoding.
Not to mention all the libraries that web browsers would have to ship with to enable playback of all the codecs. And unlike image formats, new codecs get developed all the time.
Now, one could suggest to just use the codecs installed on the system itself. But then we go back to the old situation of having to have a ton of codecs installed and having to hunt for codecs we don't know have, which is always a pain in the behind.
But HTML isn't XML, and it doesn't need to be that.
This is not acceptable. Presenting error messages to the user because the author screwed up is hostile.
You give the inconsistent handling of bad HTML as the reason. Did you know that HTML5 defines exactly how a HTML document should be parsed and error recovery algorithms?
...What is this good for? Not to mention that it would break many web pages on the web today.
Of course the float & clear model is broken... when used to lay-out an entire web page. That's not what it was intended for. You know those images in magazine articles surrounded by text? That's what it's for. Using it for other things is a hack, but there was nothing better that was supported by all web browsers until recently. Now that the display model of inline-block is supported by all major web browsers, we can quit hacking up lay-outs with floats and clears.
You mean CSS. HTML is a mark-up language. CSS3, which is still a draft, has a grid lay-out model.
There will always be some clueless hacks that can't let go of their tables.
Hell no. HTML5 is exactly what we need to advance the web. A large part of it is common sense of today that's being applied to HTML 4.01.
Your original statement was criticising the default value of the checkbox. At least, that's what it looked like:
So you're criticising the option? Okay, that makes sense.
Read his paragraph again. He's offering to have passwords masked by default for high-risk things like bank accounts. CHECKED = MASK ON
He isn't out-of-date. I have to suffer Java 1.6 at my college. The VM is still slow to start, and the GUI libraries still suck.
Not all geeks use GNU/Linux and play DVDs on their computers.
How are you violating the DMCA? Does it have something to do with decoder library licenses or something?
You forgot that the PSP has a screen resolution almost as big, and the games cost more and are of higher quality. The DS has an even smaller screen resolution, and its games are also more expensive and of bigger quality.
There's more out there than home game consoles.
Don't be a fool (-Level3 servers paragraph).
I'm seeing those on almost all of the comments, and it's been that way for more than a week now. But that's not the most annoying glitch. The most annoying one is to have a comment's text pushed to the right side of its comment box, making it very hard to read.
Sir, you forgot the line numbers.
They already give children mobile phones, which can be traced.
No, it's not fine to recommend OpenDNS.
They must have found the Algol solar system! That planet must be either Palma, Motavia or Dezoris.
Physical violence is easier for children to understand than psychological violence. While rape does involve a physical act, it's mostly psychological in nature.