I'm running Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 3 under Windows 98 (original release with all Microsoft patches installed).
I have to say that the Mozilla developers really need to take a bow for four long years of hard work and taking a lot of abuse. It is now an impressively fast browser with pretty accurate page rendering; one really nice thing is that the Mail and Newsgroups module has finally got rid of a lot of the quirks that made the Messenger module in Netscape Communicator 4.x releases a major pain to use.
Now, I hope Netscape ships Netscape 7.0 in three versions: 1) Base install, which is the web browser and Mail/Newsgroup reader module only; 2) Standard install, which adds JRE 1.4 and Flash 6.0 to the Base install; and 3) Complete install, which adds AIM, ICQ and RealOne to the Standard install.
Not only did it explain how to set up various plugin programs to work with Mozilla 1.0 RC builds, but also has a lot of great explanations on other aspects of Mozilla 1.0. Whoever runs this page is a genius.
Right now, Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 3 looks really good!:-)
Well, except for one little problem: some web-based messaging systems using Jelsoft's vBulletin doesn't display correctly.:-( I'm a fan of old Disney animated movies and a regular visitor to Disneysites.com, a major discussion board for Disney fans. Unfortunately, the way Mozilla 1.0 RC2 and RC3 formats bBulletin pages causes NO display of bulletin board messages (it just displays top and bottom banner ads on the page only). I checked this against IE 6.0 and IE 6 displays all pages on Disneysites.com's vBulletin BBS correctly.
Looks like I'll report the bug to Bugzilla and also contact the Disneysites.com webmaster about the problem. They'll have to know, especially when Netscape 7.0 and the next version of the AOL software is released.
Actually, AOL should provide a version of Netscape 7 that only has the following components: the Mozilla browser itself, the JRE 1.4 and Flash 6.0. Let the end user download all the other plugins as their own option. That way, the download is only at most 15-18 MB, not that 30 MB monster.
I'm using Mozilla 1.0 RC2 and it is a very nice browser indeed.:-)
30 megabyte download?! That's way too big for my own good taste even if you have broadband. I'd rather AOL provide the standard Mozilla 1.0.0 browser (when that's released) and let end users pick and choose their own plugins.
Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2 is very nice, but when you add in all that AOL bloatware, no thanks.
Another notorious example of power line problems was what happened to Auckland, New Zealand a couple of years ago when during a heat wave they lost all the power transmission lines going into the city.
Another naval design that became a disaster waiting to happen was the Quebec class Soviet submarines built in the early 1950's.
Imagine a closed-cycle internal combustion engine with a big oxygen tank nearby--one oxygen leak and if a fire breaks out the result would be a horrible disaster. In fact, that's exactly what happened in (I believe) 1956 when a large number of submarine crew was killed by fire onboard such a sub, and there would have been much more deaths had not the captain got the sub surfaced and managed to get a number of crewmen off the sub.
While everyone is harping on Internet Explorer problems, I have to openly (pun intended) ask this question: how will we see bug and/or security fixes for Mozilla 1.0 when that is released very soon? Will it be in the form of patch files? Or do we have to download the whole browser all over again?
On my 1998 Honda Civic HX CVT coupe, if I leave my lights on after removing the car key the car buzzer goes off in a very annoying fashion. That's why I've never had my car lose battery power due to lights being left on after I leave my car.:-)
While everyone is talking about how complicated BMW's iDrive system works, I think if you want a car that has lots of electronic controls try a Toyota Prius.
I've driven the Prius and many of the instrument functions are electronic, especially if the Prius has the GPS navigation system installed. Even the radio in many ways works through the LCD touch screen on the dash. Fortunately though, the climate control system uses conventional controls.
I think what IBM may be seriously considering is putting up some serious amounts of money to beccome the co-developer of Java with Sun or even outright buy the technology from Sun.
I mean, look at what IBM has done with Java--not only have they produced some great applications written in Java for mainframe and AS/400 systems, but also has proven that IBM's own Java Development Kits are way better than anything Sun has done.
With IBM being at the helm of Java, it could convince Microsoft to support a pure Java implementation again. Despite the fallout over OS/2 I think Microsoft would rather deal with IBM than Sun with their big ego upper management (Scott McNealy and Bill Joy).
Right now, the Athlon XP 2100+ running at 1,733 MHz roughly equals the overall performance of the Pentium 4 "Northwood" running at 2,200 MHz. This feat demonstrates just how superior the CPU and FPU core of the Athlon is right now.
And don't think AMD is standing still either; the upcoming Thoroughbred CPU core will be made on the 0.13 micron process, which means much lower operating temperatures and also allows the true CPU clock speed of the Athlon to go way past 2,000 MHz. Don't be surprised that we'll see an 2800+ version of the Athlon XP CPU by late this fall--a 3000+ variant could be available as early as the end of this year.
But it was also the smartest move that AMD ever made, too.
It was the NexGen technology that formed the basis for the world-beating Athlon CPU, a CPU that in many ways is vastly superior to Intel's offerings.
I mean, AMD managed to do with 1,733 MHz clock speed in terms of performance what Intel needed 2,200 MHz clock speed to pull off--that is a sign of a very efficient CPU core design. With the arrival of the 0.13 micron process Thoroughbred CPU's later this spring, AMD again will demonstrate its amazing technological prowness in CPU design.
I am impressed that AMD had the smarts to develop what amount to a from-scratch CPU core using the original NexGen technology to address the major limitations of the Intel Pentium III CPU.
Look at what was done:
1. More generous CPU memory cache and more efficient access to that memory.
2. The use of the EV6 CPU bus, which was much more efficient than any Intel did at the time.
3. A VASTLY superior FPU core compared to the Intel CPU's.
I am pretty impressed by the results: the AMD Athlon XP 2100+ running at 1,733 MHz CPU clock speed is roughly equal to an Intel Pentium 4 running at 2,200 MHz CPU in terms of overall performance. That indicates AMD has produced an amazingly efficient CPU core, to say the least.
I for one can't wait for the even faster Thoroughbred Athlons that will probably take the performance to 2800+ levels as early as the end of this year.
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I think all the recent self-heating mechanisms have relied on the reaction between calcium oxide (also called quick lime) and a water-based solution.
Actually, the Japanese had such can since the middle 1980's for cans of sake so the sake can be pre-warmed. I've seen them and they do work quite well.
I think if Sergei P. Korolev had lived past early 1966, he would have have the people skills to get the N-1 rocket to actually work correctly in the first place.
Very likely, the N-1 would be flying successfully by the middle of 1968 at latest, and I wouldn't have been surprised if the Russians were well on its way to a moon mission by the late summer of 1969.
Personally, I think unless the theater screen have things like THX sound certification and the new Kodak projector certification, not to mention more comfortable seats with better sightlines, the theatergoing experience is not exactly going to be popular--not when evening shows are hitting the US$10 per person ticket price. Now you know why Syufy Enterprises built the Century 25 Union Landing complex in Union City, CA and the Century 20 Great Mall 20 complex in Milpitas, CA, with more coming over the next few years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Now, I'm hoping that Syufy will close and completely remodel the Century 16 Mountain View complex is that too becomes THX-certified.:-)
Personally, I think it'll be some time before AOL delivers a client program for their service that uses a web browser derived from Mozilla 1.0 code--at least for Windows users. The reason is that given that Internet Explorer has been tightly integrated into Windows since Windows 98, putting on another browser may end up causing customer confusion, to say the least.
However, that could be different if the final settlement in the US v. Microsoft case requires a Plain Jane version of Windows XP. In that case an AOL client that uses Mozilla 1.0 code makes way more sense.
In my personal opinion, the most likely place that AOL may try to use Mozilla 1.0 code as part of the AOL client program is on the Macintosh, where Apple at least since the late 1990's has offered the choice of Netscape and Internet Explorer as your default web browser. I wouldn't be surprised that AOL cuts a deal with Apple that on new Macs if you install the AOL client the web browser based on Mozilla 1.0.x code becomes the default web browser for the whole system.
I think the lessons of history point out this very important fact: the strongest civilizations endure because they wield the most effective military power.
I mean, look at the Roman Empire during its heyday--they had a military that was essentially second to none. The foreign hordes that invaded Europe from the east after 300 AD had the advantage of better tactics (e.g., superior mobility through cavalry) that was able to move around the Roman legions. A little later, the Mongol Empire with its very effective horse-mounted soldiers and superior siege hardware borrowed from the Chinese were able to do some amazing military feats such as wiping out all of Baghdad in one day--and this was back in the 1200's!
In short, the USA has endured because our country is lucky enough to be protected by two oceans, which meant minimal worries about foreign invasion; that meant our industrial base could grow without being wiped out by a war on a regular basis. (BTW, the Civil War didn't really threaten our industrial base since most of heavy industry was in the North at the time.) By the time a foreign power could really threaten the USA (e.g., the Soviet Union), we had a strong enough industrial base that we could manufacture the military strength necessary to deter foreign aggression.
I think the reason why this report was drawn up is this: the existance of the B61-11 bunker buster bomb.
Essentially, is a B61 gravity-dropped nuclear bomb in the 45-50 kT yield variant that is designed to explode after it penetrates deep into the ground. Such a weapon will easily destroy most bunker complexes, even those built deept into mountainsides. We do know that Saddam Hussein has built a whole bunch of such bunkers, and Osama bin Laden--who was trained as a construction engineer himself--has probably built similar bunkers in the mountains of Afghanistan.
You're forgetting that many online users do not default to the MSN home page due to the choice of ISP they use.
Remember, EarthLink/Mindspring users (that includes me) default to http://start.earthlink.net; AOL users default to http://www.aol.com; and other ISP's use their own selection of start pages.
Anyway, experienced 'Net users will choose their own choice of start pages or even start on a blank page (a pretty popular option for very experienced users).
If it was a comet that exploded over Tunguska, I think way, way more people would have seen the comet trail heading towards Earth before it exploded.
The light meteor theory makes way more sense, since there was no visible signs from astronomers of such a small meteor heading our way back in 1908. Besides, the speed of the that meteor relative to Earth when it finally hit the Earth's atmosphere was probably around 40,000 mph, and the friction of the atmosphere at that speed is way higher than the temperatures encountered on the heat shield of the Apollo Command Module when it re-entered the atmosphere at 25,000 mph after a Moon mission.
It's no small wonder why the meteor exploded, given the high atmospheric friction of its entry.
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I'm running Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 3 under Windows 98 (original release with all Microsoft patches installed).
I have to say that the Mozilla developers really need to take a bow for four long years of hard work and taking a lot of abuse. It is now an impressively fast browser with pretty accurate page rendering; one really nice thing is that the Mail and Newsgroups module has finally got rid of a lot of the quirks that made the Messenger module in Netscape Communicator 4.x releases a major pain to use.
Now, I hope Netscape ships Netscape 7.0 in three versions: 1) Base install, which is the web browser and Mail/Newsgroup reader module only; 2) Standard install, which adds JRE 1.4 and Flash 6.0 to the Base install; and 3) Complete install, which adds AIM, ICQ and RealOne to the Standard install.
I'll say this: mozdev.org is great!
Not only did it explain how to set up various plugin programs to work with Mozilla 1.0 RC builds, but also has a lot of great explanations on other aspects of Mozilla 1.0. Whoever runs this page is a genius.
Right now, Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 3 looks really good! :-)
:-( I'm a fan of old Disney animated movies and a regular visitor to Disneysites.com, a major discussion board for Disney fans. Unfortunately, the way Mozilla 1.0 RC2 and RC3 formats bBulletin pages causes NO display of bulletin board messages (it just displays top and bottom banner ads on the page only). I checked this against IE 6.0 and IE 6 displays all pages on Disneysites.com's vBulletin BBS correctly.
Well, except for one little problem: some web-based messaging systems using Jelsoft's vBulletin doesn't display correctly.
Looks like I'll report the bug to Bugzilla and also contact the Disneysites.com webmaster about the problem. They'll have to know, especially when Netscape 7.0 and the next version of the AOL software is released.
Actually, AOL should provide a version of Netscape 7 that only has the following components: the Mozilla browser itself, the JRE 1.4 and Flash 6.0. Let the end user download all the other plugins as their own option. That way, the download is only at most 15-18 MB, not that 30 MB monster.
:-)
I'm using Mozilla 1.0 RC2 and it is a very nice browser indeed.
I think I'll skip out on Netscape 7.0.
30 megabyte download?! That's way too big for my own good taste even if you have broadband. I'd rather AOL provide the standard Mozilla 1.0.0 browser (when that's released) and let end users pick and choose their own plugins.
Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2 is very nice, but when you add in all that AOL bloatware, no thanks.
Another notorious example of power line problems was what happened to Auckland, New Zealand a couple of years ago when during a heat wave they lost all the power transmission lines going into the city.
Another naval design that became a disaster waiting to happen was the Quebec class Soviet submarines built in the early 1950's.
Imagine a closed-cycle internal combustion engine with a big oxygen tank nearby--one oxygen leak and if a fire breaks out the result would be a horrible disaster. In fact, that's exactly what happened in (I believe) 1956 when a large number of submarine crew was killed by fire onboard such a sub, and there would have been much more deaths had not the captain got the sub surfaced and managed to get a number of crewmen off the sub.
Ah, er--
That has got to be one of the most interesting posts I've read in a long time. But yet, in a way it does make sense.
While everyone is harping on Internet Explorer problems, I have to openly (pun intended) ask this question: how will we see bug and/or security fixes for Mozilla 1.0 when that is released very soon? Will it be in the form of patch files? Or do we have to download the whole browser all over again?
On my 1998 Honda Civic HX CVT coupe, if I leave my lights on after removing the car key the car buzzer goes off in a very annoying fashion. That's why I've never had my car lose battery power due to lights being left on after I leave my car. :-)
Folks,
While everyone is talking about how complicated BMW's iDrive system works, I think if you want a car that has lots of electronic controls try a Toyota Prius.
I've driven the Prius and many of the instrument functions are electronic, especially if the Prius has the GPS navigation system installed. Even the radio in many ways works through the LCD touch screen on the dash. Fortunately though, the climate control system uses conventional controls.
I think what IBM may be seriously considering is putting up some serious amounts of money to beccome the co-developer of Java with Sun or even outright buy the technology from Sun.
I mean, look at what IBM has done with Java--not only have they produced some great applications written in Java for mainframe and AS/400 systems, but also has proven that IBM's own Java Development Kits are way better than anything Sun has done.
With IBM being at the helm of Java, it could convince Microsoft to support a pure Java implementation again. Despite the fallout over OS/2 I think Microsoft would rather deal with IBM than Sun with their big ego upper management (Scott McNealy and Bill Joy).
Whoopee. (sigh)
Right now, the Athlon XP 2100+ running at 1,733 MHz roughly equals the overall performance of the Pentium 4 "Northwood" running at 2,200 MHz. This feat demonstrates just how superior the CPU and FPU core of the Athlon is right now.
And don't think AMD is standing still either; the upcoming Thoroughbred CPU core will be made on the 0.13 micron process, which means much lower operating temperatures and also allows the true CPU clock speed of the Athlon to go way past 2,000 MHz. Don't be surprised that we'll see an 2800+ version of the Athlon XP CPU by late this fall--a 3000+ variant could be available as early as the end of this year.
Actually, the Athlon CPU is a combination of NexGen, DEC Alpha and AMD's earlier K5 technologies.
What resulted is one very amazing CPU.
But it was also the smartest move that AMD ever made, too.
It was the NexGen technology that formed the basis for the world-beating Athlon CPU, a CPU that in many ways is vastly superior to Intel's offerings.
I mean, AMD managed to do with 1,733 MHz clock speed in terms of performance what Intel needed 2,200 MHz clock speed to pull off--that is a sign of a very efficient CPU core design. With the arrival of the 0.13 micron process Thoroughbred CPU's later this spring, AMD again will demonstrate its amazing technological prowness in CPU design.
I am impressed that AMD had the smarts to develop what amount to a from-scratch CPU core using the original NexGen technology to address the major limitations of the Intel Pentium III CPU.
Look at what was done:
1. More generous CPU memory cache and more efficient access to that memory.
2. The use of the EV6 CPU bus, which was much more efficient than any Intel did at the time.
3. A VASTLY superior FPU core compared to the Intel CPU's.
I am pretty impressed by the results: the AMD Athlon XP 2100+ running at 1,733 MHz CPU clock speed is roughly equal to an Intel Pentium 4 running at 2,200 MHz CPU in terms of overall performance. That indicates AMD has produced an amazingly efficient CPU core, to say the least.
I for one can't wait for the even faster Thoroughbred Athlons that will probably take the performance to 2800+ levels as early as the end of this year.
I think all the recent self-heating mechanisms have relied on the reaction between calcium oxide (also called quick lime) and a water-based solution.
Actually, the Japanese had such can since the middle 1980's for cans of sake so the sake can be pre-warmed. I've seen them and they do work quite well.
I think if Sergei P. Korolev had lived past early 1966, he would have have the people skills to get the N-1 rocket to actually work correctly in the first place.
Very likely, the N-1 would be flying successfully by the middle of 1968 at latest, and I wouldn't have been surprised if the Russians were well on its way to a moon mission by the late summer of 1969.
Personally, I think unless the theater screen have things like THX sound certification and the new Kodak projector certification, not to mention more comfortable seats with better sightlines, the theatergoing experience is not exactly going to be popular--not when evening shows are hitting the US$10 per person ticket price. Now you know why Syufy Enterprises built the Century 25 Union Landing complex in Union City, CA and the Century 20 Great Mall 20 complex in Milpitas, CA, with more coming over the next few years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
:-)
Now, I'm hoping that Syufy will close and completely remodel the Century 16 Mountain View complex is that too becomes THX-certified.
Personally, I think it'll be some time before AOL delivers a client program for their service that uses a web browser derived from Mozilla 1.0 code--at least for Windows users. The reason is that given that Internet Explorer has been tightly integrated into Windows since Windows 98, putting on another browser may end up causing customer confusion, to say the least.
However, that could be different if the final settlement in the US v. Microsoft case requires a Plain Jane version of Windows XP. In that case an AOL client that uses Mozilla 1.0 code makes way more sense.
In my personal opinion, the most likely place that AOL may try to use Mozilla 1.0 code as part of the AOL client program is on the Macintosh, where Apple at least since the late 1990's has offered the choice of Netscape and Internet Explorer as your default web browser. I wouldn't be surprised that AOL cuts a deal with Apple that on new Macs if you install the AOL client the web browser based on Mozilla 1.0.x code becomes the default web browser for the whole system.
I think the lessons of history point out this very important fact: the strongest civilizations endure because they wield the most effective military power.
I mean, look at the Roman Empire during its heyday--they had a military that was essentially second to none. The foreign hordes that invaded Europe from the east after 300 AD had the advantage of better tactics (e.g., superior mobility through cavalry) that was able to move around the Roman legions. A little later, the Mongol Empire with its very effective horse-mounted soldiers and superior siege hardware borrowed from the Chinese were able to do some amazing military feats such as wiping out all of Baghdad in one day--and this was back in the 1200's!
In short, the USA has endured because our country is lucky enough to be protected by two oceans, which meant minimal worries about foreign invasion; that meant our industrial base could grow without being wiped out by a war on a regular basis. (BTW, the Civil War didn't really threaten our industrial base since most of heavy industry was in the North at the time.) By the time a foreign power could really threaten the USA (e.g., the Soviet Union), we had a strong enough industrial base that we could manufacture the military strength necessary to deter foreign aggression.
I think the reason why this report was drawn up is this: the existance of the B61-11 bunker buster bomb.
Essentially, is a B61 gravity-dropped nuclear bomb in the 45-50 kT yield variant that is designed to explode after it penetrates deep into the ground. Such a weapon will easily destroy most bunker complexes, even those built deept into mountainsides. We do know that Saddam Hussein has built a whole bunch of such bunkers, and Osama bin Laden--who was trained as a construction engineer himself--has probably built similar bunkers in the mountains of Afghanistan.
I respectfully disagree. :-)
You're forgetting that many online users do not default to the MSN home page due to the choice of ISP they use.
Remember, EarthLink/Mindspring users (that includes me) default to http://start.earthlink.net; AOL users default to http://www.aol.com; and other ISP's use their own selection of start pages.
Anyway, experienced 'Net users will choose their own choice of start pages or even start on a blank page (a pretty popular option for very experienced users).
Actually, I like History Channel myself.
:-(
The changes to the Enterprise series shows that too many TV producers for the major over-air networks are dumbing down their shows unneccessarily.
If it was a comet that exploded over Tunguska, I think way, way more people would have seen the comet trail heading towards Earth before it exploded.
The light meteor theory makes way more sense, since there was no visible signs from astronomers of such a small meteor heading our way back in 1908. Besides, the speed of the that meteor relative to Earth when it finally hit the Earth's atmosphere was probably around 40,000 mph, and the friction of the atmosphere at that speed is way higher than the temperatures encountered on the heat shield of the Apollo Command Module when it re-entered the atmosphere at 25,000 mph after a Moon mission.
It's no small wonder why the meteor exploded, given the high atmospheric friction of its entry.