IE runs on Windows, and Windows is running on most of the world's desktop computers. So if IE owns 80% of the marketshare on an OS that sits on 80% of the world's desktops, then that's a win for them.
I believe your "get a clue" comment was slightly hypocritical.
Mozilla is working on these problems, and they're not worried about release dates:-P
Which could be Mozilla's downfall: By the time a decent version is released, IE7 will be out and will continue dominance.
In all seriousness, IE will most likely remain the dominant browser for some time to come. Why? Because it already does what most people need (and more). Why would the average user bother to download some other browser and readapt to a different interface when what they're using right now is fine? Do you think they really care if the product their using is open-source or not?
Mozilla will most likely remain a niche browser that will never "hit it big" in the Win32 OSes.
NS6, on the other hand, has brand-recognition for many users. These users had NS installed by their ISPs and now see that version 6.0 is out, compared to their 4.7. So they'd download it (assuming they already haven't jumped ship to IE).
I commend Mozilla's efforts, but I feel that it's too little, too late. IE has won, IE will remain dominant.
Many cities already have broadband that aren't listed in that very limited census (i.e., Fort McMurray(sp) and several others.
You just have a weird "rural" definition, because the government itself defines Urban like I do (see previous link to their "Facts" page which shows rural pop of 500,000).
The government isn't getting the revenues all to themselves. The Gov't is paying for the network to be laid, at which point Bell takes over and makes the money.
The government thinks it's a necessity for everyone in Alberta to have broadband access, so they're paying to have the entire province wired with it. They don't plan to make money off of it.
If you didn't pay income tax in 1999, you could go to the Alberta Gov't website, fill in a form, then they send you a Tax Rebate form, you fill it out, then send it in.
Pay more attention to the news.:P
I didn't pay income tax in 1999, yet I'm getting the money because I followed instructions posted in the newspaper.
It is everyone over 16 that gets it, regardless if you paid or not.
I think you misunderstood. Farmers generally don't need broadband, they already have internet access with dialup modems. They can do all of the above mentioned things with a dialup, can't they?
You forget that Red Deer, Lethbridge, and other "smaller" cities aren't included in that 1.8M figure, and they already have broadband.
If you did your research, you'd realize that the plan is for towns with 10000 people or less. How many of those are there?
And I know farmers can use the internet, but they don't need broadband. They already have dialup access. MOST people don't need broadband...
This about when rural areas first got paved roads. I doubt many people had cars(after all, there were no roads, so no cars), and yet it made a profound difference not only in their communities, but to the nation as a whole(not that I'm saying good changes, by the way). All of a sudden, a farmer could feed more than people within 20km of his house - he could feed people 200-300kms away!
Road technology doesn't change, though. 10 years from now, the "broadband" network they're building will be like using a 14.4 today.
Odd how this comes right before an election, isn't it?
And everyone 16 or over will receive $150 no-questions-asked from the government late this month, and another $150 next April to "offset high energy costs".
Gotta love budget surpluses.
(Ignore the first post,/. messed up formatting it and I was silly and forgot to preview:P)
What a waste of taxpayers dollars! $300M to give broadband access to farmers living out in the sticks? There is, at most, about 400,000 people living in Rural Alberta. Most of these people don't even have dialup modems because they simply do not need nor want them, so why are we spending taxpayer dollars to wire them with broadband? So they can download the Farmer's Almanac for the day in under 1 second?
As an Alberta resident (Calgary, to be specific), I find it outrageous to spend $750 PER PERSON in Rural Alberta to lay down the network for broadband. That's about $3000 per rural family, from hard-earned Tax Dollars that should have gone to health care.
I'm not denying that there is the odd person who is a Quake III addict in the rural areas, but does that person's needs require $300M to fix?
There is a reason that no broadband company would bother with equiping the area with broadband, they'd almost certainly lose lots of money off of it...
Then you also have to worry about drivers every 3 months(random period), about OS updates every year, and game patches every other week for the first 2 months of it's existence.
How is that bad? You don't prefer to update games that have bugs, or to boost your FPS by having better hardware support?
Either way, consoles are moving in that direction. The Xbox comes with an 8GB harddrive and is broadband-enabled...
The Z-Buffer is all well and good, but it doesn't fully stop from rendering images that aren't visible. The ATi Radeon has "HyperZ" which only renders visible objects, and the boost can be upwards of 50% FPS when it's enabled. The Kyro uses the PowerVR chipset as well, and it gets more performance out of less MHz than the competition (although it's still weak...).
It mentions that Office 2000 can be run under WINE, but it only specifically mentions Word 2000 and Excel 2000. What about Outlook, Power Point, and Access, etc? Do those work as well?
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Intel has announced that the dual-processor Pentium 4's won't be available until Q2 2001: They will come. Just not when it debuts.
I believe your "get a clue" comment was slightly hypocritical.
Which could be Mozilla's downfall: By the time a decent version is released, IE7 will be out and will continue dominance.
In all seriousness, IE will most likely remain the dominant browser for some time to come. Why? Because it already does what most people need (and more). Why would the average user bother to download some other browser and readapt to a different interface when what they're using right now is fine? Do you think they really care if the product their using is open-source or not?
Mozilla will most likely remain a niche browser that will never "hit it big" in the Win32 OSes.
NS6, on the other hand, has brand-recognition for many users. These users had NS installed by their ISPs and now see that version 6.0 is out, compared to their 4.7. So they'd download it (assuming they already haven't jumped ship to IE).
I commend Mozilla's efforts, but I feel that it's too little, too late. IE has won, IE will remain dominant.
Many cities already have broadband that aren't listed in that very limited census (i.e., Fort McMurray(sp) and several others. You just have a weird "rural" definition, because the government itself defines Urban like I do (see previous link to their "Facts" page which shows rural pop of 500,000).
You mean these numbers on the Alberta Government's homepage that say the rural population is only 500,000? (Scroll down to the 'Alberta Facts' box).
The PCI bus is simply too limited to do anything like that to begin with. I can't believe this rumor was even posted...
Now which advances faster?
Where do you get your statics from...? Other posts here say ~500,000 rural people only, quite close to what I have said.
The government thinks it's a necessity for everyone in Alberta to have broadband access, so they're paying to have the entire province wired with it. They don't plan to make money off of it.
If you didn't pay income tax in 1999, you could go to the Alberta Gov't website, fill in a form, then they send you a Tax Rebate form, you fill it out, then send it in. Pay more attention to the news. :P
I didn't pay income tax in 1999, yet I'm getting the money because I followed instructions posted in the newspaper.
It is everyone over 16 that gets it, regardless if you paid or not.
I think you misunderstood. Farmers generally don't need broadband, they already have internet access with dialup modems. They can do all of the above mentioned things with a dialup, can't they?
Quite the opposite... Calgary is very white-collar, due to the oil business.
You forget that Red Deer, Lethbridge, and other "smaller" cities aren't included in that 1.8M figure, and they already have broadband. If you did your research, you'd realize that the plan is for towns with 10000 people or less. How many of those are there? And I know farmers can use the internet, but they don't need broadband. They already have dialup access. MOST people don't need broadband...
Odd how this comes right before an election, isn't it? And everyone 16 or over will receive $150 no-questions-asked from the government late this month, and another $150 next April to "offset high energy costs". Gotta love budget surpluses.
What a waste of taxpayers dollars! $300M to give broadband access to farmers living out in the sticks? There is, at most, about 400,000 people living in Rural Alberta. Most of these people don't even have dialup modems because they simply do not need nor want them, so why are we spending taxpayer dollars to wire them with broadband? So they can download the Farmer's Almanac for the day in under 1 second?
As an Alberta resident (Calgary, to be specific), I find it outrageous to spend $750 PER PERSON in Rural Alberta to lay down the network for broadband. That's about $3000 per rural family, from hard-earned Tax Dollars that should have gone to health care.
I'm not denying that there is the odd person who is a Quake III addict in the rural areas, but does that person's needs require $300M to fix?
There is a reason that no broadband company would bother with equiping the area with broadband, they'd almost certainly lose lots of money off of it...
Then you also have to worry about drivers every 3 months(random period), about OS updates every year, and game patches every other week for the first 2 months of it's existence. How is that bad? You don't prefer to update games that have bugs, or to boost your FPS by having better hardware support? Either way, consoles are moving in that direction. The Xbox comes with an 8GB harddrive and is broadband-enabled...
The Z-Buffer is all well and good, but it doesn't fully stop from rendering images that aren't visible. The ATi Radeon has "HyperZ" which only renders visible objects, and the boost can be upwards of 50% FPS when it's enabled. The Kyro uses the PowerVR chipset as well, and it gets more performance out of less MHz than the competition (although it's still weak...).
It mentions that Office 2000 can be run under WINE, but it only specifically mentions Word 2000 and Excel 2000. What about Outlook, Power Point, and Access, etc? Do those work as well?
I live in Canada, I'd much rather buy a Cyrix. It's cheaper and it reduces heating costs...