Number One Sign of a Bad Website "Wrong OS"
A student of mine told me about a website, I thought I'd check it out. I clicked a link and was told that I had the "Wrong OS Version." I think my OS version is great actually. Read more [...]
Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?
Technology companies in the United States have succumbed to pressure by authoritarian foreign governments to provide such governments with information about Internet users that has led to the arrest and imprisonment of cyber dissidents, in violation of the corporate responsibility of such companies to protect and uphold human rights. Read more [...]
Running IE 6 and IE 7
IE 7 is far far better at following the standards set for web browsers, but that doesn't help for IE 6. But that isn't the problem, the problem is that IE 7 copies over IE 6. It can install IE 5, IE 5.5, IE 6, or any combination thereof. Read more [...]
Using <object> in Internet Explorer
Also, by limiting what refreshes it cuts down on page load and makes it so the main page never has the refresh blink (that second of white before things load in the browser). The key is the classid: classid="clsid:25336920-03F9-11CF-8FD0-00AA00686F13" To learn more about using the element and making it work in IE read Brad Wrights discussion of the technique. Read more [...]
Secret Shame: why I don't use Yahoo
would like people believe it cares (it doesn't), so its spokesperson reminds us all that Companies doing business in China must comply with Chinese law or its local employees could be faced with civil and criminal penalties. Changing the way American companies do business in China can only be positive— ultimately business won't be lost because the Chinese government wants China to be modern and global. Read more [...]
Ride the Apple Wave
Add to that the fact that many of the tauted "innovations" in Vista are already built into Mac's OS X 10.4, which will be soon be replaced by OS X 10.5 (full of new features for Microsoft to add to the next version of their own OS due out sometime between 2015-2050). Read more [...]
Why Microsoft is Dumb
Microsoft's new operating system is called Vista. When Microsoft puts limits on how many times you can transfer the operating system (only once) from an old computer to a new one, or even outright deny any transfer (for computers shipped with Vista) it rings to me more in the key of greed. Read more [...]
He Works Hard for the Money
So, my new job at Wasser Studios seems to be going well after the first week. I am bound to like my job much more at the end of next week, because that will be the first week I get paid (paychecks are always a week off). Read more [...]
