Why do they even call it 'internet' explorer? It really is just a 'web' explorer isn't it?
Why do they even call it Firefox? Where's the fox on fire?
Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
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Re: Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
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The only good open source SQL RDBMS I'm aware of is Postgres. The moment Postgres has the feature range of SQL Server (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), supports the same HA features without hassle, and is generally even half as easy to manage, I'll switch. Meanwhile, life's too short for me to want to become a "real" DBA.
After googling all the acronyms, I would like to know what features you believe SSIS, SSRS, SSAS and HA give you can not get from Postgres with drop in replacements. Except maybe for that everything is already integrated and "just works". What I'm asking is if you can specify some elements of the stack you mentioned, that is hard to replicated or unique to SQL Server?
Well first, integrated and "just works" are pretty high on the importance scale. Searching for PG clustering gets me a wiki with a matrix of different solutions, with apparently the main suggestion being DRBD. So just to start off, I've got to evaluate a number of third party products or start quizzing community members to figure out which is the most likely to survive or put me in a good position.
They might not be "hard to replicate" or unique, but having great options in-box, that are extremely simple to configure - that's worth a ton. If I was running a large-scale operation and SQL Server was costing me millions a year, things might be different.
Re: Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
#173I still don't forgive Microsoft for being absolutely massive tools in the past. As such, they have a higher bar to jump over if they want me to acknowledge that they have created a "modern" browser. They have to make a browser that beats every other browser in it's standards compliance, stability and performance. They have to create the greatest browser that has ever been and ever will be. And only then will I even c…
Thank you for putting into words exactly how I've felt lately. It's not just Microsoft's past that's turned me off them - patent trolling Android manufacturers and other recent activities have basically solidified in my head that I will not choose Microsoft if I have a choice. I'd be willing to put the past behind me if they Just Stopped with all of this crap.
They will not stop, they have always been like this.
There's a reason seasoned nerds do not like Microsoft and it is not just because the nerds are raging Linux fanboys. It is because of actual experience dealing with MS over a couple of decades.
Sometimes MS comes out with something good but at a point (usually within 3 years) marketing will take over and run it into the ground.
Re: Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
#174I still don't forgive Microsoft for being absolutely massive tools in the past. As such, they have a higher bar to jump over if they want me to acknowledge that they have created a "modern" browser. They have to make a browser that beats every other browser in it's standards compliance, stability and performance. They have to create the greatest browser that has ever been and ever will be. And only then will I even c…
I know, how dare they not always follow convention and go out and create things like xml requests/ajax, etc.
Re: Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only good open source SQL RDBMS I'm aware of is Postgres. The moment Postgres has the feature range of SQL Server (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), supports the same HA features without hassle, and is generally even half as easy to manage, I'll switch. Meanwhile, life's too short for me to want to become a "real" DBA.
SQL Server has some extra tools, as you've pointed out. You can probably find open source tools equally as powerful (and, by definition, more flexible) to perform those tasks. Granted, you may have to invest some time finding and learning those tools - but really, that's just life. Sometimes it's worth putting in the effort [1]. I've found that the main difference is how you work as a developer. If you're happy using…
Yes one thing that always amused me at microsoft was how often they would talk about how much better their tooling experience is. It's not. Being able to go into roo or ror or whatever else and generate huge amounts of scaffolding and get tons of upfront work down with out only a few keystrokes beats the socks off of an obtuse and clunky sql and ide interface where some portions work well and some portions look like remnants of the early nineties.
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You're incorrect. And technically speaking the browser wasn't integrated with the OS (and never was), it was the rendering engine (shdocvw.dll and mshtml.dll). The Windows UI featured HTML elements that the OS rendered via this. The rendering engine is not itself connected to any TCP/IP stack, so remote exploits are impossible. But ofcource if you went to web sites with malicious HTML you could get ownzored because o…
> ...But ofcource if you went to web sites with malicious HTML you could get ownzored because of bugs in the rendering engine. It's funny, when the Windows source code was leaked (opened?) in 2004[1], folks soon discovered a vulnerability in the BMP renderer[2]. [1] http://slashdot.org/story/04/02/12/2114228/windows-2000-wind... [2] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1009067
I doubt it had anything to do with the source leak. Most security bugs these days are found via automated means - fuzzing, fault injection, etc.
But OTOH these bugs become useful in other ways. I believe there was an ios jailbreak method where you simply visit a website on your iphone (jailbreak.me? .com?) and your device is rooted/jailbroken due to a bug in Safari's PDF renderer.
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There was lots of cool .NET stuff to see at BUILD 2013, not sure what you mean.
There was no cool stuff. They fixed a load of stuff, threw new versions out and spun it as marketing. It's not cool if you have to pay for it at a rapidly growing pace.
Visual Studio does have quite a few improvements, specially in what concerns debugging asynchronous code and DirectX.
Unity is now a first class citizen for development of games on Windows.
Windows 8.1 brings quite a few new APIs, better interaction with .NET projections.
JIT, GC and ASP.NET improvements.
The message is, they could have thrown a RSS Reader attitude to .NET, instead they are paying developers to fix those issues.
As for paying for stuff, welcome to the commercial world. Microsoft is not the only vendor selling developer tools, although it looks like that when reading HN.
With MSDN subscriptions you get lots of those things for "free" for the timeframe the subscription is valid.
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Modern ones. Checking for "Mozilla" is one (admittedly not very good) way to check if you're dealing with a browser or with some other kind of user agent, such as a search engine bot or something like that.
I think all the search engines do Mozilla too though. From my server logs: cgore.com:80 218.94.63.53 - - [02/Jul/2013:16:40:57 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 3708 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; + http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
Ironically, probably because servers were returning broken pages, because user agent strings are overloaded.
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> I still don't forgive Microsoft for being absolutely massive tools in the past. As a person who seems to defend Microsoft quite often on HN, I can't shake the feeling that if they get to first place in anything, they'll become massive tools once again. I like seeing them as the underdog, it forces Microsoft to be kinder and more free, but I think innovation and progress would be seriously hindered (once again) if t…
Take, for instance, SQL Server. It's become quite an interesting and capable platform over the last decade. It used to be that Microsoft took the stance that hardware improvements were the customer's benefit, so they'd license per socket, full stop. They used to mock Oracle with their licensing depending on what kind of CPU and how powerful it was. Latest SQL Server? Yep, you pay depending on the CPU vendor (AMD or I…
I thought it was interesting when Microsoft bought Skype. Skype built their whole backend on postgresql and were one of the major contributors to the clustering and hot failover features as well as putting up some nice management utilities. that's why o think the Skype purchase was so strategic. they not only got cross platform messaging with video and phone, they got the primary developers who were adding top end features to an open source project.
Re: Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
#180The problem with Internet Explorer is fragmentation and length of life for versions. IE11 could be the greatest browser in the entire world, and it wouldn't matter until people are able to use it on Windows XP/7.
Well, IE10 which shipped with Windows 8 eventually made its' way to Windows 7. And from what I've read, IE11 will also make it to Windows 7.
Support for XP is ending on April 8th, 2014 at Microsoft. So there's no chance at all that IE11 will be ported on XP.