Chrome is very responsive, but come on, IE 7 is slow as hell ! Try to use about:blank as the start page, and you'll see that it takes around 2-3 seconds to start, with a message saying that it starts to connect ! Its Javascript engine is super slow, so using GMail is a PITA. As a developer, I have encountered nasty bugs in IE (like authentication problems, that need to reset the preferences !), so I don't trust this browser.
I didn't test IE8, since I never install MS betas anymore. Having tested a few of their hard-to-remove products was enough for me.
Anyway, I agree that Firefox gets worse and worse, not because of the memory isolation (who cares ?), but because it's slow to start. Anyway, the plugins definitely make it the best browser experience !
Chrome is very fast and nice, but if you wait for AdBlock, it's like waiting for TV channels to stop ads.
Frankly, you should stop using speed as a reason to use a browser. The main point now is TRUST. I trust in Firefox+AdBlock+NoScript more than any other browser.
What slows down a page rendering is the refresh frequency of the page.
In a browser, the page is loaded packets by packets, and is rendered every few milliseconds.
When the browser displays the page like a crazy, the display will be very smooth and you'll get a nice impression of loading, but the page will take longer to display, since it'll probably have been redisplayed around 10 times (for a one second loading).
On the contrary, if you refresh only a few times, the final page will appear faster, but you'll get the impression that your browser is stuck while loading.
IIRC, Safari is aggressively avoiding to refresh the page as it's loaded, thus in the benchmarks, it's very fast, but the navigation experience is pretty poor IMHO.
And what about Javascript ? Frankly, GMail is super slow on IE7, not because of page loading, but because any Javascript in IE is super slow. In TFA, there is no site with Javascript !
Suppose that you go to a shop to buy a TV. There are a lot of different brands, but the shop only shows you the (most expensive) Sony ones, and hide the other brands (probably because of the smaller margins). What kind of television will you buy ?
Now, suppose that after 10000 hours, your television will explode, because it's poorly manufactured, but it's written in your contract that you cannot sue the company after the warranty period.
Sorry, but you are wrong when you say that the problem is between the chair and the keyboard.
It's probably true for 99% of people, but not in my case. I'm a developer. I just installed dotNet 3.5 SP1, and it broke entirely my Visual Studio running on Vista, and I can assure you that I'm an advanced user, and I don't install any malware. After a few hours of work, I discovered that my problem is some obscure registry permissions, that Vista f**ed badly. I'm currently applying an obscure subinacl command. This is the second time I had such problems on Vista (and on 2 different computers !).
So please, stop saying that the error always comes from the user, in my case it's due to the OS !
No, they didn't spend millions, since copying a CD only costs a few cents. Of course, Microsoft counts the donated software at the full market price, but they just provide cheap copies.
Microsoft is just counting on the fact that they are the first ones, but we'll see if this strategy will continue to work once everybody will be more fluent with computers.
Two of my beloved 80Gb Seagate died 6 months ago. Luckily, I was able to retrieve their data before they were unreadable on a 320Gb Seagate. The 80Gb were 5 years old. The 320Gb is 1 year old. Now, the 320Gb is dying, by doing some noisy clicks, and the symptoms are that it's impossible to copy files larger than 500Mb, it locks XP and I get BSOD. Luckily, I was able to retrieve the data, because the clicks disappear if I keep the drive powered on for a night (and no, it's not an option for me to keep my computer powered on 24/7).
The lesson I retained is to use disks from different companies.
My questions: 1) It seems all Seagate firmwares have problems (my ST3320620AS 320Gb uses 3.AAJ firmware). Does Seagate intend to patch all their firmwares ? Should I wait for a patch or send it as RMA ? 2) These problems seem pretty common. Why not communicate about them more openly ? 3) I have several dead Seagate now. How can I continue to believe in Seagate ?
I ran a slow scan of SeaTools and it reported no error. I think I can retrieve the data with a DOS tool, since the disk can be read without problem in DOS. Time to backup all my disk, using Ultimate Boot CD.
Oh, and I had 2 other Seagate 80 Gb that died at the same exact moment 6 months ago:-(
Not very new, since Sudoku became popular when Wayne Gould wrote a program to generate puzzles, graded by difficulty.
I guess most of the paper puzzles can be generated this way (like crosswords...).
The difficulty largely lies into the entertainment's metrics. The authors seem to have used humans to test their games, so I doubt that creating a game from scratch could be done entirely automatically.
If they increase the storage, it means that the traffic will explode. Who will pay for the bandwidth ? This year, it was 6 millions of dollars, but with videos, at least 10 times this amount will be needed. Does this mean that ads will appear ?
I think that Microsoft only recently converted to agile methods, when Jim Allchin realized that Vista would never finish if they didn't use agile methods.
The problem is their large legacy trunk code (millions of lines without any unit test), and the fact that they have to be compatible with some old bugs, thus maintaining some very old code.
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Chrome is very responsive, but come on, IE 7 is slow as hell !
Try to use about:blank as the start page, and you'll see that it takes around 2-3 seconds to start, with a message saying that it starts to connect !
Its Javascript engine is super slow, so using GMail is a PITA. As a developer, I have encountered nasty bugs in IE (like authentication problems, that need to reset the preferences !), so I don't trust this browser.
I didn't test IE8, since I never install MS betas anymore. Having tested a few of their hard-to-remove products was enough for me.
Anyway, I agree that Firefox gets worse and worse, not because of the memory isolation (who cares ?), but because it's slow to start.
Anyway, the plugins definitely make it the best browser experience !
Chrome is very fast and nice, but if you wait for AdBlock, it's like waiting for TV channels to stop ads.
Frankly, you should stop using speed as a reason to use a browser.
The main point now is TRUST.
I trust in Firefox+AdBlock+NoScript more than any other browser.
Here are some more, sorted by last release date:
http://www.freedrweb.com/livecd
(Dr Web, February 2009)
http://dnl-eu3.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/RescueDisk/
(Kaspersky December 2008)
http://www.f-secure.com/linux-weblog/2008/11/
(FSecure November 2008)
http://free-av.de/en/tools/12/avira_antivir_rescue_system.html
(Avira, ???)
http://www.mwti.net/products/mwav/mwav.asp
(MicroWorld, ???)
Yes, every site uses Javascript, but only to track users or fix browsers bugs.
Instead, take a site like GMail, which relies heavily on Javascript, and just open it with IE.
IE is very slow on large pages, when you use JS to manipulate the DOM.
What slows down a page rendering is the refresh frequency of the page.
In a browser, the page is loaded packets by packets, and is rendered every few milliseconds.
When the browser displays the page like a crazy, the display will be very smooth and you'll get a nice impression of loading, but the page will take longer to display, since it'll probably have been redisplayed around 10 times (for a one second loading).
On the contrary, if you refresh only a few times, the final page will appear faster, but you'll get the impression that your browser is stuck while loading.
IIRC, Safari is aggressively avoiding to refresh the page as it's loaded, thus in the benchmarks, it's very fast, but the navigation experience is pretty poor IMHO.
And what about Javascript ?
Frankly, GMail is super slow on IE7, not because of page loading, but because any Javascript in IE is super slow.
In TFA, there is no site with Javascript !
You are wrong.
Top warez sites are never connected to P2P networks.
And you have to pay to access to such sites.
Also, it seems that the site was a huge archive, since most of the warez sites only handle a couple of months of releases.
BTW, shutting down a server won't change anything, since there are a lot of servers around the world, and they are not connected to each others.
On the same site, Knight's tour solver. 19th IOCCC. Best Small Program
http://nanochess.110mb.com/knight.html
Why stop at flops ?
Itanium easily qualifies itself as a mega-flop !
Suppose that you go to a shop to buy a TV.
There are a lot of different brands, but the shop only shows you the (most expensive) Sony ones, and hide the other brands (probably because of the smaller margins).
What kind of television will you buy ?
Now, suppose that after 10000 hours, your television will explode, because it's poorly manufactured, but it's written in your contract that you cannot sue the company after the warranty period.
Sorry, but you are wrong when you say that the problem is between the chair and the keyboard.
It's probably true for 99% of people, but not in my case.
I'm a developer.
I just installed dotNet 3.5 SP1, and it broke entirely my Visual Studio running on Vista, and I can assure you that I'm an advanced user, and I don't install any malware.
After a few hours of work, I discovered that my problem is some obscure registry permissions, that Vista f**ed badly. I'm currently applying an obscure subinacl command.
This is the second time I had such problems on Vista (and on 2 different computers !).
So please, stop saying that the error always comes from the user, in my case it's due to the OS !
No, they didn't spend millions, since copying a CD only costs a few cents.
Of course, Microsoft counts the donated software at the full market price, but they just provide cheap copies.
Microsoft is just counting on the fact that they are the first ones, but we'll see if this strategy will continue to work once everybody will be more fluent with computers.
Imagine 1.6 million UAC popups opening when you run a single program...
complaint or compliant ?
That's an interesting lapsus !
Is it me or does it bother anyone else that an institution like the White House doesn't have a dedicated IT staff?
How can you trust an IT staff that have lost emails during Bush's presidency ?
Who cares about water ?
Just discover petroleum on another planet, and there will be a tough competition to get there !
Thank you for your insider informations !
2008 has been a bad year for me.
Two of my beloved 80Gb Seagate died 6 months ago.
Luckily, I was able to retrieve their data before they were unreadable on a 320Gb Seagate. The 80Gb were 5 years old. The 320Gb is 1 year old.
Now, the 320Gb is dying, by doing some noisy clicks, and the symptoms are that it's impossible to copy files larger than 500Mb, it locks XP and I get BSOD.
Luckily, I was able to retrieve the data, because the clicks disappear if I keep the drive powered on for a night (and no, it's not an option for me to keep my computer powered on 24/7).
The lesson I retained is to use disks from different companies.
My questions:
1) It seems all Seagate firmwares have problems (my ST3320620AS 320Gb uses 3.AAJ firmware). Does Seagate intend to patch all their firmwares ?
Should I wait for a patch or send it as RMA ?
2) These problems seem pretty common. Why not communicate about them more openly ?
3) I have several dead Seagate now. How can I continue to believe in Seagate ?
The problem seems related to the firmware.
Mine is revision: 3.AAJ
It seems we can retrieve the data with Ubuntu, but any write will probably fail.
I ran a slow scan of SeaTools and it reported no error.
I think I can retrieve the data with a DOS tool, since the disk can be read without problem in DOS.
Time to backup all my disk, using Ultimate Boot CD.
Oh, and I had 2 other Seagate 80 Gb that died at the same exact moment 6 months ago :-(
I also have a ST3320620 AS, and it's failing since a few days. Talk about coincidence.
The drive seems to stop when reading some of the sectors on the disk.
I have no backup of the files, so right now, I'm pretty pissed.
I doubt that the first thing that you do when you get a computer is to create a Facebook page, or am I too old-fashion ?
So I guess she was computer literate from the beginning, but I guess also that she is one of the people who never say no.
She doesn't know how to access Internet with Ubuntu but she has a Facebook account ?
Did I miss something ?
In that case, how did she buy this computer ?
I guess she ordered it online, so she has access to the Internet.
Not very new, since Sudoku became popular when Wayne Gould wrote a program to generate puzzles, graded by difficulty.
I guess most of the paper puzzles can be generated this way (like crosswords...).
The difficulty largely lies into the entertainment's metrics.
The authors seem to have used humans to test their games, so I doubt that creating a game from scratch could be done entirely automatically.
If they increase the storage, it means that the traffic will explode.
Who will pay for the bandwidth ?
This year, it was 6 millions of dollars, but with videos, at least 10 times this amount will be needed.
Does this mean that ads will appear ?
I think that Microsoft only recently converted to agile methods, when Jim Allchin realized that Vista would never finish if they didn't use agile methods.
The problem is their large legacy trunk code (millions of lines without any unit test), and the fact that they have to be compatible with some old bugs, thus maintaining some very old code.