The NT line has traditionally been for business, not for home use. 9x is completely stuffed from a local security perspective. Businesses need security locally. Home users don't. That's why 9x was such a good home OS.
The NT model isn't necessarily better. While local security was vastly improved, security for remote suffered, as it opens ports to the outside world by default that aren't needed, screaming for attention from malicious crackers. How do you think Sasser worked?
Indeed, and I think this is a good approach. Having programs as users makes more sense than the broken record that *nix users keep spouting about having everyone run as limited user.
For the love of all that is holy, stop claiming/insinuating W3Schools is a source of web statistics on par with the others! Unlike the other mentioned sites, it does not gather statistics from many sites, but only its own, and is therefore irrelevant.
20 seconds after GRUB and you think it's not bloated? Considering you're running this on fast hardware, it sounds like it could be shorter. Hell, my 10 year old PC running Windows 95 boots in only 15 seconds from the BIOS passing control to the MBR.
Yes, I know it's an old OS, and Linux is a recent kernel that can do more, but considering the big gap in performance, Linux could be faster.
While I agree with you that it is a horrible idea, I cannot condemn anyone for wanting to turn the tables on I.E.; it really has been a long time coming.
Why not? They're doing the same thing we hate about sites that refuse to acknowledge alternative web browsers that aren't IE or Firefox (and sometimes Safari).
IE is evil, but that does not justify the means. The better solution is not bothering to cater to IE's bugs. Users will see that the website doesn't display well, and as usual, they will blame the browser (rightfully for once).
It's a horrible idea. Websites should never discriminate against web browsers, even those strange ones from Redmond. The web is supposed to be open to everyone.
Firefox 2 will run on it. So will SeaMonkey and K-Meleon.
Firefox 2 only recently got its support dropped, while SeaMonkey and K-Meleon will still be supported on Win9x until the end of 2009 or so (6 months after the release of Thunderbird 3).
Quite often he has not only been inept, he actually has been proactively so and even displayed proudness of it.
Damn straight. I saw part of his return to Texas on TV. During his speech, he said "I have never listened to an opinion poll.", which to me translated as "I didn't listen to people; I did what I wanted.".
The Acid3 test is a nasty hack that's not really relevant when it comes to web standards. They really had to dig for little rendering bugs in the rendering engines. Plus, it tests for CSS3, which isn't even a standard yet!
In other words, Acid3 is unimportant. It'd be much better to improve overall CSS2.1 support. It's too bad that publications only understand automatic tests that anyone can take.
Maybe you'd like SeaMonkey? It's based on the same rendering engine, but has meat on its bones, is maintained by people who know what they're doing, and doesn't go for flashy features (though I dread 2.0 will have the awesomebar...). Many popular extensions support it, as well, like Adblock Plus and NoScript.
Or maybe even K-Meleon, if you're on Windows, though it has far less extension support. Adblock Plus is available for it, though.
How many times does one have to repeat it before they get it?
THE ACID3 TEST IS NOT RELEVANT!
Acid2 is very relevant, and IE8 does pass it. But Acid3 is more about unimportant, little bugs in the current rendering engines that not all of them share. Plus CSS3, as said below, which isn't even a standard yet.
Why does this have to be ingrained into the file system? Why can't it just be as simple as not allowing non-system processes to write to system directories like C:\Windows?
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The NT line has traditionally been for business, not for home use. 9x is completely stuffed from a local security perspective. Businesses need security locally. Home users don't. That's why 9x was such a good home OS.
The NT model isn't necessarily better. While local security was vastly improved, security for remote suffered, as it opens ports to the outside world by default that aren't needed, screaming for attention from malicious crackers. How do you think Sasser worked?
But not your security. Another reason for people to stop hailing Steam. It's bad DRM, for crying out loud!
Indeed, and I think this is a good approach. Having programs as users makes more sense than the broken record that *nix users keep spouting about having everyone run as limited user.
It's basically saying that you shouldn't do bad things to other people, because you wouldn't like them to do that to you. Isn't this obvious?
Because life is precious?
Because they haven't done anything to deserve punishment? That's why they're called innocent.
I thought we put people into prison to punish people for their crimes, not because of costs.
For the love of all that is holy, stop claiming/insinuating W3Schools is a source of web statistics on par with the others! Unlike the other mentioned sites, it does not gather statistics from many sites, but only its own, and is therefore irrelevant.
20 seconds after GRUB and you think it's not bloated? Considering you're running this on fast hardware, it sounds like it could be shorter. Hell, my 10 year old PC running Windows 95 boots in only 15 seconds from the BIOS passing control to the MBR.
Yes, I know it's an old OS, and Linux is a recent kernel that can do more, but considering the big gap in performance, Linux could be faster.
Why not? They're doing the same thing we hate about sites that refuse to acknowledge alternative web browsers that aren't IE or Firefox (and sometimes Safari).
IE is evil, but that does not justify the means. The better solution is not bothering to cater to IE's bugs. Users will see that the website doesn't display well, and as usual, they will blame the browser (rightfully for once).
It's a horrible idea. Websites should never discriminate against web browsers, even those strange ones from Redmond. The web is supposed to be open to everyone.
That's true, but there are also other things to consider.
No one will use a web browser that breaks a lot of pages. I guess they must have decided that enough pages use innerHTML to warrant inclusion.
There's also the fact that JavaScript is also used by the XUL applications that run on top of the Gecko framework. innerHTML might be useful to some.
Firefox 2 will run on it. So will SeaMonkey and K-Meleon.
Firefox 2 only recently got its support dropped, while SeaMonkey and K-Meleon will still be supported on Win9x until the end of 2009 or so (6 months after the release of Thunderbird 3).
W3Schools lists the stats for their site only. It's not representative of world-wide market share at all.
Damn straight. I saw part of his return to Texas on TV. During his speech, he said "I have never listened to an opinion poll.", which to me translated as "I didn't listen to people; I did what I wanted.".
Game Arts is only a developer. They develop video games. They don't design them.
Nintendo designed Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and UbiSoft is designing this new TMNT game.
Acid3 isn't relevant! Read my two previous posts to know why.
The Acid3 test is a nasty hack that's not really relevant when it comes to web standards. They really had to dig for little rendering bugs in the rendering engines. Plus, it tests for CSS3, which isn't even a standard yet!
In other words, Acid3 is unimportant. It'd be much better to improve overall CSS2.1 support. It's too bad that publications only understand automatic tests that anyone can take.
Maybe you'd like SeaMonkey? It's based on the same rendering engine, but has meat on its bones, is maintained by people who know what they're doing, and doesn't go for flashy features (though I dread 2.0 will have the awesomebar...). Many popular extensions support it, as well, like Adblock Plus and NoScript.
Or maybe even K-Meleon, if you're on Windows, though it has far less extension support. Adblock Plus is available for it, though.
How many times does one have to repeat it before they get it?
THE ACID3 TEST IS NOT RELEVANT!
Acid2 is very relevant, and IE8 does pass it. But Acid3 is more about unimportant, little bugs in the current rendering engines that not all of them share. Plus CSS3, as said below, which isn't even a standard yet.
Why does this have to be ingrained into the file system? Why can't it just be as simple as not allowing non-system processes to write to system directories like C:\Windows?
An unpatched Windows 9x machine isn't actually that bad, security-wise, so I would only propose Windows 2000 and XP machines.
You may be looking for the shop that sells pairs of glasses.
You forgot to append "Sherlock" to the title.
It's been a long time since I saw Google ads that were text ads. It's almost all images or Flash now.
And they say people don't RTFA...