I was actually thinking mp4 would become the next baseline standard on the web, especially since it uses H.264 as the video codec by default. But until WMP actually includes support for it it will continue to just float around. Maybe Microsoft has been slow about it because it directly competes with wmv and doesn't lock people in?
Reminds me that one of the important points on Flash 9 was improving performance on Linux and other platforms. Flash is a very CPU hungry plugin anyway, but everything helps.
Hm. The page being slashdotted is not out of the question. Also with how the page does all the tests all one by one over a relatively long period of time weird things are probably much more likely to happen.
My computer and connection are slow. So Acid3 causes Epiphany to ask me if I want to stop a unresponsive script every time I run it at around test 3 I think. It even happens occasionally on slashdot's scripts.
Actually, Epiphany should have botten 50/100 as it uses the same rendering engine as Firefox 2. Plus, I get 50/100 when I go to the page with 2.20.3. Maybe you stop the script before it finishes, thus lowering your score?
If, hypothetically, IE8 is in some way better than Firefox on Windows, Firefox will have adapt to compete. This will help Firefox on Ubuntu, because Firefox is competing with IE in the marketplace, even if it is not competing on your OS of choice. In general I agree with you. But whenever someone says something about adapt and compete against Microsoft, I tend to cringe. In most other cases, the market shift would be something reasonable like 30%-70%. This leaves you with a good chance to make a comeback even if you make a stupid mistake (like Communicator) once or twice. In the Microsoft case, it becomes something so slanted that resources become a limiting factor when people switch away. Much like open source Flash development basically stops when the Adobe version finally releases.
If web developers on Windows switch to IE exclusively again....*shutter*
I am willing to believe these diseases may be passed on genetically. But with those percentages, the doctor was saying indirectly that a majority of the population has this disease. At what point does having the disease mean you're normal?
I said alltray worked pretty well when preload seemed to do nothing. They are different programs, but they can be used to achieve similar effects. I did not say they were the same.
I'm guessing you tried doing something silly like loading your whole/bin and/usr/src/bin to alltray and were give massive errors? For MOST linux users, the load times of only a few programs are the real pet peeves; and that is where alltray makes sense.
Sure, alltray moves the load to RAM, but at the cost of entire applications. The point of preload is that it just caches the most commonly used files. Sure, preload caches the commonly used files, but what if your openoffice usage is just low enough to be below the threshold to be cached? The program takes a long time load and there is nothing you can do about it with preload...In fact, you have no idea what is preloaded and what isn't.
I've grown skeptical of depression when a doctor told me that half of people have it passed on from the genes. If one of your parents have it, there is a 50% chance it is passed on. It's higher of both parents have it.
I never had any luck with preload the times I tried it (a year or two ago?). Nowadays I use alltray for preloading often used apps that are a bit chunky such as Firefox or Openoffice. Openoffice also has a built in preload feature...but you can use alltray anyway for the same effect.
Arg! Not enough substantial info to crunch my teeth into! A very important thing to note is 8GB is the size of an XBox 360 DVD. Therefore 8GB is more than fairly decent game storage.
On ebay, an 8GB Sony USB flash stick can be bought for about $30. The average cost of N64 cartridges are 25 dollars according to Wikipedia. So yeah, cartridges would actually be very feasible. It's even more feasable when you realize that Xbox 360 games average at about 4.5GB in size.
BUT third party games would jump by 10 to 20 dollars just like they did in the N64 days.
You're pretty close, but your argument is a bit slanted pro Microsoft. The reason why the quality of early Blu-ray discs suffered was not because of lack of VC1. It was because studios were using MPEG-2...the exact same codec as used by good old DVDs. Bluray also supports MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) which is actually modern and comparable to VC1.
The stigma of addons is that they split the console base into the haves and the have nots. If you develop game requiring the addon, you are limiting your audience and therefor limiting your profits.
But the HD-DVD addon wasn't used for games so I agree with you that it was not a bad thing.
Call me uneducated, but cars running on air sound much less like marketing hype to me than electric cars.
1. Unlike an electric car, you do not have an expensive, heavy battery that you have to figure out how to recycle when it is dead.
2. The internals of the car are likely much simpler than with an electric car.
3. No exploding batterys / hydrogen. This is just compressed air. If there is a hole in the tank, it leak air. The tank is designed to fail gracefully.
4. It's likely much easier to outfit a gas station to dispence air than hydrogen.
5. You can fill it at home if you want.
For a laptop that is.1 inch thinner than a regular Macbook Pro and is on average is about half an inch thicker than a Macbook Air, I fail to see how this Thinkpad is really compairable to the Macbook Air to begin with. It's like saying, "Haha, my Van can seat more than your compact car!!!" Holy crap people, regular Macbook Pros are famous for having about that much thickness and having that many ports for years.
True that! I like to think of the slashdot crowd as the "anti-herd". We're still a herd, just in another direction. When it comes down to it, I think a lot of it comes from a "root for your team" type thought pattern. Although on average, slashdot users do have much more rounded OS experience than the general Windows using populace, so make sure to set your expectations appropriately between the two.
First of all, the thickness of this ThinkPad is ~.9 inches versus the MacBook Pro's 1 inch. The Macbook Air is ~.7 inches at it's thickest point. The Macbook Pro has the ports that people are complaining about missing in the Macbook Air.
I think if/when Apple finally releases a 13" Macbook Pro, we'll actually have two similar things to compare. It's been one of the gaping holes in their product linup since the end of the Powerbook line.
Brain storming time! Hm...maybe the tapering makes it easier to clasp the computer with one hand without fear of dropping it? That is the closest to utility that I can think of so far. It does make it a horrible cup holder though because of the slope. I find the round dell button on the top of many laptops works great for that.
When I compared the photo's of Leveno's and Apple's computers, Apple's was the one that just by looking at it, advertised "I'm thin, look at me!!!" which is great advertising. I wouldn't have known that Leveno is going to be competing in this size sector without someone actually stating it. In the end, Leveno's computer looks more like Macbook Pro thin to me. So, what is the difference between a regular macbook which has the extra ports and this Leveno computer? Is the Leveno actually appreciably thinner than a Macbook pro?
I'm pretty sure he wants to "cut" a file and paste it somewhere else to move it in the Finder. At present, you can only copy and paste a file. I never got into doing things that way, but Windows users do it all the time.
I just don't see it happening any time soon. The problem is, with Mac OS X in this state is a boon for switchers. Things are just familiar enough to get people to switch to Mac OS X without them having to grate their brains too much. During windowshade's absence, Expose has done a fairly good job filling that space in many Mac users' hearts.
Actually...with my lack of mod points I think it's most people didn't detect the sarcasm. 1: Linux is the side generally thought of as fractioned and 2: the number 1 suite is MSOffice. I think I had an off day...I'll use this lesson to hone my skills for my next post. I suppose I could have used a sarcasm tag.
There is a VERY real benefit of open source code in this case. People compiling the kernel is not uncommon. With the tools accompanying the kernel you can skip compiling the offensive parts with out touching any code. You can't do that with something closed source.
if Microsoft doesn't do something about these software fractions, there is no way they will ever become number one in office suites. Windows ME, Windows 2000? Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger? Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works? Rover, Clippy? People will become so confused they will evenutally just switch to Linux in frustration and disgust. Two days later they have a brain hemorrhage an die.
I do believe I remember someone saying on slashdot.jp yesterday something about 5 min of walking = 1 hour of battery time for a standard cell phone. So I would say probably.
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I was actually thinking mp4 would become the next baseline standard on the web, especially since it uses H.264 as the video codec by default. But until WMP actually includes support for it it will continue to just float around. Maybe Microsoft has been slow about it because it directly competes with wmv and doesn't lock people in?
Reminds me that one of the important points on Flash 9 was improving performance on Linux and other platforms. Flash is a very CPU hungry plugin anyway, but everything helps.
Hm. The page being slashdotted is not out of the question. Also with how the page does all the tests all one by one over a relatively long period of time weird things are probably much more likely to happen.
My computer and connection are slow. So Acid3 causes Epiphany to ask me if I want to stop a unresponsive script every time I run it at around test 3 I think. It even happens occasionally on slashdot's scripts.
Actually, Epiphany should have botten 50/100 as it uses the same rendering engine as Firefox 2. Plus, I get 50/100 when I go to the page with 2.20.3. Maybe you stop the script before it finishes, thus lowering your score?
I think you're talking about that "I don't care as long as it's not HIM" voting?
If web developers on Windows switch to IE exclusively again....*shutter*
I am willing to believe these diseases may be passed on genetically. But with those percentages, the doctor was saying indirectly that a majority of the population has this disease. At what point does having the disease mean you're normal?
I'm guessing you tried doing something silly like loading your whole
I've grown skeptical of depression when a doctor told me that half of people have it passed on from the genes. If one of your parents have it, there is a 50% chance it is passed on. It's higher of both parents have it.
Something sounded very fishey there...
I never had any luck with preload the times I tried it (a year or two ago?). Nowadays I use alltray for preloading often used apps that are a bit chunky such as Firefox or Openoffice. Openoffice also has a built in preload feature...but you can use alltray anyway for the same effect.
I can't wait until we see kimchi commercialized in this new form. Maybe it will be something like instant ramen noodle is to us now?
Arg! Not enough substantial info to crunch my teeth into! A very important thing to note is 8GB is the size of an XBox 360 DVD. Therefore 8GB is more than fairly decent game storage.
On ebay, an 8GB Sony USB flash stick can be bought for about $30. The average cost of N64 cartridges are 25 dollars according to Wikipedia. So yeah, cartridges would actually be very feasible. It's even more feasable when you realize that Xbox 360 games average at about 4.5GB in size.
BUT third party games would jump by 10 to 20 dollars just like they did in the N64 days.
You're pretty close, but your argument is a bit slanted pro Microsoft. The reason why the quality of early Blu-ray discs suffered was not because of lack of VC1. It was because studios were using MPEG-2...the exact same codec as used by good old DVDs. Bluray also supports MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) which is actually modern and comparable to VC1.
The stigma of addons is that they split the console base into the haves and the have nots. If you develop game requiring the addon, you are limiting your audience and therefor limiting your profits.
But the HD-DVD addon wasn't used for games so I agree with you that it was not a bad thing.
Call me uneducated, but cars running on air sound much less like marketing hype to me than electric cars. 1. Unlike an electric car, you do not have an expensive, heavy battery that you have to figure out how to recycle when it is dead. 2. The internals of the car are likely much simpler than with an electric car. 3. No exploding batterys / hydrogen. This is just compressed air. If there is a hole in the tank, it leak air. The tank is designed to fail gracefully. 4. It's likely much easier to outfit a gas station to dispence air than hydrogen. 5. You can fill it at home if you want.
For a laptop that is .1 inch thinner than a regular Macbook Pro and is on average is about half an inch thicker than a Macbook Air, I fail to see how this Thinkpad is really compairable to the Macbook Air to begin with. It's like saying, "Haha, my Van can seat more than your compact car!!!" Holy crap people, regular Macbook Pros are famous for having about that much thickness and having that many ports for years.
True that! I like to think of the slashdot crowd as the "anti-herd". We're still a herd, just in another direction. When it comes down to it, I think a lot of it comes from a "root for your team" type thought pattern. Although on average, slashdot users do have much more rounded OS experience than the general Windows using populace, so make sure to set your expectations appropriately between the two.
First of all, the thickness of this ThinkPad is ~.9 inches versus the MacBook Pro's 1 inch. The Macbook Air is ~.7 inches at it's thickest point. The Macbook Pro has the ports that people are complaining about missing in the Macbook Air.
I think if/when Apple finally releases a 13" Macbook Pro, we'll actually have two similar things to compare. It's been one of the gaping holes in their product linup since the end of the Powerbook line.
Brain storming time! Hm...maybe the tapering makes it easier to clasp the computer with one hand without fear of dropping it? That is the closest to utility that I can think of so far. It does make it a horrible cup holder though because of the slope. I find the round dell button on the top of many laptops works great for that.
When I compared the photo's of Leveno's and Apple's computers, Apple's was the one that just by looking at it, advertised "I'm thin, look at me!!!" which is great advertising. I wouldn't have known that Leveno is going to be competing in this size sector without someone actually stating it. In the end, Leveno's computer looks more like Macbook Pro thin to me. So, what is the difference between a regular macbook which has the extra ports and this Leveno computer? Is the Leveno actually appreciably thinner than a Macbook pro?
I'm pretty sure he wants to "cut" a file and paste it somewhere else to move it in the Finder. At present, you can only copy and paste a file. I never got into doing things that way, but Windows users do it all the time.
I just don't see it happening any time soon. The problem is, with Mac OS X in this state is a boon for switchers. Things are just familiar enough to get people to switch to Mac OS X without them having to grate their brains too much. During windowshade's absence, Expose has done a fairly good job filling that space in many Mac users' hearts.
Actually...with my lack of mod points I think it's most people didn't detect the sarcasm. 1: Linux is the side generally thought of as fractioned and 2: the number 1 suite is MSOffice. I think I had an off day...I'll use this lesson to hone my skills for my next post. I suppose I could have used a sarcasm tag.
There is a VERY real benefit of open source code in this case. People compiling the kernel is not uncommon. With the tools accompanying the kernel you can skip compiling the offensive parts with out touching any code. You can't do that with something closed source.
if Microsoft doesn't do something about these software fractions, there is no way they will ever become number one in office suites. Windows ME, Windows 2000? Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger? Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works? Rover, Clippy? People will become so confused they will evenutally just switch to Linux in frustration and disgust. Two days later they have a brain hemorrhage an die.
I do believe I remember someone saying on slashdot.jp yesterday something about 5 min of walking = 1 hour of battery time for a standard cell phone. So I would say probably.