[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[AEF]

On Jan 18, 1:42 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <v4adnax7iuzG8cnWnZ2dnUVZ_j2dn... at giganews.com>,
>         "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> writes:
>
>
>
> > Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> >> In article <4b53ca5d$0$273$14726... at news.sunsite.dk>,
> >>        Arne Vajhøj <a... at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> >>> On 14-01-2010 08:07, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> >>>> In article<4b4e8718$0$282$14726... at news.sunsite.dk>,
> >>>>        Arne Vajhøj<a... at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
> >>>>> On 13-01-2010 21:31, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >>>>>> In article<4b4e7946$0$279$14726... at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=<a... at vajhoej.dk>   writes:
> >>>>>>> On 13-01-2010 08:50, AEF wrote:
[...]
> >> Most of the standards I have seen are all or nothing.  If you ignore
> >> parts of the standard then you are just as non-compliant as if you
> >> used none of it.
>
> >> bill
>
> > And just what is the payoff for "standards compliance"?  If your system
> > does what you need and want, how much extra would you pay to make it
> > "standards compliant".  $0.00?  I thought so!
>
> Which was my point, exactly.  Being standard compliant doesn't pay
> the mortgage.  Reaching customers does.  Considering all the non-
> standard stuff that DEC has pushed thru the years, it is really
> funny to see everyone here screaming "Standards are a must!"
>
> bill
>
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> Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
> billg... at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
> University of Scranton   |
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Bill,

Yeah, let's just jettison standards for weights and measures while
were at it.

If you can make more money by lying and ripping people off, why not?

If you can make more money by breaking the law and getting away with
it, why not?

Then there were the music radio turntable speed wars of the 1960s (was
it 1960s? -- add a big wide circa to that).

And the game show fraud episode.

Nah, we don't need no stinking standards!

OTOH, Jet Blue's website used to be just a big blue US. I had no idea
what to do to work it! A friend at work showed me to move your mouse
pointer across where various cities would be and the city names would
pop up, at which time you would click. . . . (!) . . . That's why I
used priceline.com at the time. (Still do, but recently I went to Jet
Blue and bought some tickets as their website is now much easier to
work.)

Well, I must not be the only one who was flummoxed by this as their
website is no longer like that.

Never saw the point of having to move your mouse pointer over every
square millimeter of screen to be sure you don't miss anything.

Also, there's the attempt to introduce differen names for binary and
decimal prefixes for bytes. There would be megabyte and mebibyte.

You think I'm kidding! Go to

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Good luck with that one! (Though at some point they will differ enough
to be a problem.)

AEF