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Yet a browser should bring a little more value than just standards support. The point was that IE's support for standards improved a lot over the past releases, but it lacks features in other areas, compared to other browsers. What good is it for having optimal performance and standards support if I have to fallback to other browsers because of annoying ads? It's the only reason I still use Firefox, which is not as performant as IE but it has better support for ad-blocking (thanks to third-parties, but they have no interest in getting this stuff over to IE).
I mean, it's almost a wonder we got a popup-blocker and tabs in IE today, features that are so essential, and yet it took ages for IE to catch up on them. Now, bringing proper ad-block support would make it perfect. I mean, let's face it: The web experience has become so bad because of all that stuff without the ability to block it that ad-blocking has become quite a mandatory feature to get a distraction-free view.
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Since I am using and developing the JavaScript to support browsers on our intranet more than the internet I suppose ad-blocking ability is not that important to me. For the internet I use Chrome - with AdBlock.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's the point here, Nimrod. Making IE better. Javascript, after all, runs in the browser. So making the Javascript engine perform faster & better makes the browser better. All good.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It's good to know that they are improving.
The JavaScript engine in current IE 11 (under Windows 7, 64bit) is significantly slower (greater then ~3 times) in computation (i.e. in calculating hash values) compared to the ones in, like, Firefox or Chrome.
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Maximilien wrote: Don't ask for a raise, have faith, trust your karma!!![^]
And the other shoe drops.
Like a 10 ton anchor.
Well, at least he's not looking like a wannabe heart attack shouting "Karma! Karma! Karma!"
I suspect Nadella is about to experience his own "fate."
Marc
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Yeah trusting in Karma and their own fate has worked real good for them so far.
I think his Karma might be close at hand?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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Finally the Real explanation!
"Ten" is a typo!
It should be "Windows Zen"!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah just wonderfull. I am one of these women, who wont ask for a raise. I am fully aware that I get less than my colleagues who are men even if I do more work. For example the previous month my firm should've had a yearly employee revision where we get a small raise.Except that The Hr told me that I should get each 6 months of work a small raise. Well and what happened? This year we didn't have the annual employee revisions and 8 months passed since my last small raise. I will never go and ask for why, I will just find myself a new job for more money.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Microsoft researchers have figured out a new way to keep data and applications secure in the cloud, by cordoning them off in memory from the underlying infrastructure. Step 1: add sandbox, Step 2: remove sandbox for performance, Step 3: add sandbox
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Kent Sharkey wrote: by cordoning them off in memory from the underlying infrastructure.
Isn't this what you call "write only memory" ? Of course it's secure. By cordoning it off, you can't access it (as in, duh, you need the underlying infrastructure to access the memory.)
I assume something got lost in the "translation".
They use a technique called “shielded execution,” which protects the program and associated data from the platform on which they run, including the cloud provider’s operating system, administrative software, firmware, and other software that supports the application.
I remember when I wanted to "shield" my data, I simply removed the floppy disk from the drive.
Marc
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Go get em boys!
Secure / internet.... pfft.
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Technology may have made many tasks simpler, but it has also increased distractions and shepherded in more ways to procrastinate. You've probably noticed that while you can get many things done faster than ever, you spend a great deal of time doing nothing of worth. Just on the off chance you hadn't noticed
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Kent Sharkey wrote: you spend a great deal of time doing nothing of worth.
Nah, I was doing that before the Internet. The difference is, now I can blog about doing nothing of worth.
Marc
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And... Don't Read The Comments!!!
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Luxury! This is written by a person who has never had to use the phone book section of the municipal library, or the Thomas Cook European rail timetables book.... that's how it were done when I were a lad, but you try telling the kids of today that and they won't believe you.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: you spend a great deal of time doing nothing of worth.
ehem, ehem, mmm... The Lounge?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Demand for Ruby on Rails talent continues at a steady pace, and developers with the skills and knowledge of this language are red-hot in a tight IT job market. "Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that"
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Loss of trust in Internet companies could lead to protectionism and a splintered Internet, they say. "Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent."
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CEO of SpaceX and Tesla suggests super-intelligent machines might one day decide the solution to spam is a world devoid of humans. So... those 'enhancement' emails will save us if we save them?
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What worked in the past may not work in the present. That’s certainly true for how I, and many of my colleagues in the industry, have looked at databases. Schemas deemed harmful?
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There goes my career!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Ah - the tables have turned. (Or - "If you can't join them, beat them"?)
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Here's your coat.
TTFN - Kent
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