there are a few simple things that would make it feel so much faster....
1) Cache a picture of a blank page instead of mucking about drawing everything from first principles every time. Show this (or whichever part the user has chosen to start up with) FIRST before doing anything else. It doesn't matter if the thing isn't clickable yet, there is plenty of time to get to that stage while the user is moving the mouse. Buffen any clicks the user manages to make before you are ready and they will never notice.
2) Accept and buffer keyboard input while pages are drawing. I get so annoyed that I can't fetch one page and then get a new browser window to open - even Netscape 4 let me do this!
3) Cache the way the mail window looks and restore to that when it's opened (see point 1)
Things like this would give an impression of improved speed with practically no change in the actual code. Hell, you could even take the startup pic away earlier in the loading process and it would make the thing feel faster!
The problem is that the vast majority of them are so tied up in their current contracts that they are unable to escape and start their own record label.
There is one example in the UK where it has been done succesfully, a band called the KLF, one of whom worked as an A&R man for a major label, and therefore had all the right contacts to run their own label.
They had some of the biggest hit singles in 1991 over here, and ended up with so much money they were able delete their back catalogue, quit the business, burn 1 million pounds and still affor to do a lot of other wierd things.
Here in Britain, National Geographic are showing the 'live' exploration time-shifted to peak viewing hours tonight.
I just heard a huge dramatic trailer for the show on my radio, which started just after the newsman announced "...huge disappointment, there was nothing to see.":-)
Haemorroid treatment contains extract of whale liver. The poor bumgrape sufferer who first walked along a beach, found a washed-up whale carcass, and thought to himself 'well, it might just hurt less if I stuffed that bit there up my ass' made more of a leap of faith imho.
The creator of this mentions he's having problems replicating the claustrophobic mazes. In the original 2600 game you could only see a limited square of the maze surrounding your position, the rest was grey - the 1st ever fog effect in a game?
Would some sort of 50ft grey box object carried by the player, but able to pass through the walls do the trick? Is this possible with the Q3 archtecture?
If you reverse the digits of a number and get the original number again, it is palindromic.
The term is more usually used for words or sentences that have the same property of reversibility (spaces are generally ignored), such as "madam, I'm adam".
Did that description of fair use come out of a book on Chinese intellectual property law, or are you falling into the RIAA's trap byquoting something totally irrelevant and assuming it applys in all jurisdictions?
If the/. community objects to this, the solution is clear... we mount an open source bid for the contract, which should (as the product will be free as in beer) be guaranteed to win the contract on price grounds.
Then we just 'do a mozilla' and keep adding wonderful new features but never actually deliver the damn thing:-)
well caught, I heard that it was a requirement on BBC Radio 4 (usually an excellent source), so I assumed it was true.
On futher investigation it seems that Italy, Brazil and Singapore do have mandatory rotation, and here in the UK we only have a requirement that "the lead partner on an audit client to rotate every seven years."
My source for the above is http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.u k/ pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmtreasy/758/758ap15.htm but be warned it's a very very dull read!
actually I haven't, living in the United Kingdom, I don't really follow sports where the Amercians have a 'world series' without letting an other countries play:-)
Thanks to everyone that enlightened me about US accounting practices, I never realised how strange things are over there!
Here in Britain, any company over a certain size is forced by law to change it's accountants every year, which seems to reduce the over-friendly behaviour that seems to have happened in America.
Yes, I got a spam from IBM about 10 minutes before reading this article, here's an extract...
Subject: Your eNews: Reports, product updates, events and more From: IBM UK eNews (info@isource.ibm.com) Welcome to your eNews, the personalised news service on the subjects that matter to you, from IBM... etc.
This mail was sent to an unused address in my company's domain. It seems you can sign any address up to recieve IBM brand spam, using the form here http://www-5.ibm.com/uk/profile/subscribe.html
IBM does no checking to validate that the data collected from the form is accurate, they just spam any address they are given. In my case it seems that some fool at a company with a domain similar to mine made a genuine typo on the form, but this form could easily be used maliciously.
None of the Linux distributors have illegally abused a monopoly, which is why they are not required to stop abusing a monopoly, which is why they are therefore not having the same kind of restrictions put on them. Got it now?
Total control by the government? Where did you get that idea from?
Our TV airwaves are mostly owned by private companies (Granada/Carlton, BsykB etc.) and by our public serice broadcaster, the BBC, which is not goverment run.
Yes, the UK situation should be a good pointer... our Government made an aburdly huge windfall it gained from autioning the '3rd generation' mobile phone frequencies - which indicentally practically bankrupted the entire UK telephone industry - and they ant to sell off the analogue TV frequencies band to the highest bidder.
The change to digital that the Government wants has also been forced by regulation here, not by insisting that digital decoders are needed, but more simply (and arguably more reaonably) by the promise that terrestrial analogue transmitters will be turned off in 2010.
The public reaction to this has been almost entirely negative, it seems that fact that the installed base of analog TVs, and the low sales of digital decoders will force a re-think on the proposed switch off.
The UK public seem to have realised that they are better off with half a dozen good channels than with hundreds of channels of junk.
You can buy a subscription-free digital box to get 15 free channels, but the selection is so awful that I expect sales will be very poor.
until I read this, I always wondered why spammers send mail about crap that is only available in the USA to me, when any fool with half an ounce of intelligence can tell from my address that I'm in the UK. Thanks for clearing this one up,/.!
Noone seems to have spotted that this scheme will cause increased congestion as people try to drive and park round the outskirts of the charging zone.
London's road network has been improved and optimised over the years for the existing traffic flows, and suddenly the traffic will want to go in different direstions to avoid the tolls, messing up the traffic light timing and priorities in the surrounding areas.
There will also be a scramble to get out of the zone before the charges start in the morning, and an extreme reluctance to enter the zone just before the end of the charging time - at 6.25 pm, you have a choice, sit still for 5 minutes or pay £5. People will crawl about to avoid reaching the charging zone before he 6.30 pm end time, making a nightmare scenario for people trying to go home by public transport and private cars alike.
I guess the effects of these issues will be far worse than the original congestion, espeically as they will move traffic problems away from the shopping and business areas inside the zone out into the residential areas just outside.
It already costs £1 for 20 minutes parking in some parts of central London, and this doesn't deter people - quite the opposite, a lot of the motorists you see driving slowly and clogging up the roads are just cruising for an empty parking place.
The problem is that London does not have a good ring-road that lets people drive from one side to the other. This cross town traffic would be unaffected by parking fee increases in the centre.
That's not what I was referring to at all, I mean situations where priority is given to empty roads over full roads in order to discourage drivers from using the road in question.
Oxford Street is a terrible example, btw, you can't legally drive a passenger car down most of it, it's reserved for buses and taxis only, so it's only public transport that the pedestrians are holding up!
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there are a few simple things that would make it feel so much faster....
1) Cache a picture of a blank page instead of mucking about drawing everything from first principles every time. Show this (or whichever part the user has chosen to start up with) FIRST before doing anything else. It doesn't matter if the thing isn't clickable yet, there is plenty of time to get to that stage while the user is moving the mouse. Buffen any clicks the user manages to make before you are ready and they will never notice.
2) Accept and buffer keyboard input while pages are drawing. I get so annoyed that I can't fetch one page and then get a new browser window to open - even Netscape 4 let me do this!
3) Cache the way the mail window looks and restore to that when it's opened (see point 1)
Things like this would give an impression of improved speed with practically no change in the actual code. Hell, you could even take the startup pic away earlier in the loading process and it would make the thing feel faster!
The problem is that the vast majority of them are so tied up in their current contracts that they are unable to escape and start their own record label.
There is one example in the UK where it has been done succesfully, a band called the KLF, one of whom worked as an A&R man for a major label, and therefore had all the right contacts to run their own label.
They had some of the biggest hit singles in 1991 over here, and ended up with so much money they were able delete their back catalogue, quit the business, burn 1 million pounds and still affor to do a lot of other wierd things.
Here in Britain, National Geographic are showing the 'live' exploration time-shifted to peak viewing hours tonight.
:-)
I just heard a huge dramatic trailer for the show on my radio, which started just after the newsman announced "...huge disappointment, there was nothing to see."
Haemorroid treatment contains extract of whale liver. The poor bumgrape sufferer who first walked along a beach, found a washed-up whale carcass, and thought to himself 'well, it might just hurt less if I stuffed that bit there up my ass' made more of a leap of faith imho.
The creator of this mentions he's having problems replicating the claustrophobic mazes. In the original 2600 game you could only see a limited square of the maze surrounding your position, the rest was grey - the 1st ever fog effect in a game?
Would some sort of 50ft grey box object carried by the player, but able to pass through the walls do the trick? Is this possible with the Q3 archtecture?
that's no good, now the pages are upside down AND back to front!
on the other hand, he has his own *rocket company*!
:-)
He's clearly well on the way to 'dying with the most toys', and therefore winning
Ok, so the open source community needs fonts, and a large font manufacturer has a font format it wants to push.
Am I the only one putting two and two together here?
If you reverse the digits of a number and get the original number again, it is palindromic.
The term is more usually used for words or sentences that have the same property of reversibility (spaces are generally ignored), such as "madam, I'm adam".
Did that description of fair use come out of a book on Chinese intellectual property law, or are you falling into the RIAA's trap byquoting something totally irrelevant and assuming it applys in all jurisdictions?
If the /. community objects to this, the solution is clear... we mount an open source bid for the contract, which should (as the product will be free as in beer) be guaranteed to win the contract on price grounds.
:-)
Then we just 'do a mozilla' and keep adding wonderful new features but never actually deliver the damn thing
problem solved!
well caught, I heard that it was a requirement on BBC Radio 4 (usually an excellent source), so I assumed it was true.
u k/ pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmtreasy/758/758ap15.htm but be warned it's a very very dull read!
On futher investigation it seems that Italy, Brazil and Singapore do have mandatory rotation, and here in the UK we only have a requirement that "the lead partner on an audit client to rotate every seven years."
My source for the above is
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.
actually I haven't, living in the United Kingdom, I don't really follow sports where the Amercians have a 'world series' without letting an other countries play :-)
Thanks to everyone that enlightened me about US accounting practices, I never realised how strange things are over there!
Here in Britain, any company over a certain size is forced by law to change it's accountants every year, which seems to reduce the over-friendly behaviour that seems to have happened in America.
...that you never hear of any accounting 'errors' that make the company look less wealthy than it is?
ever recieved spam from IBM?
Yes, I got a spam from IBM about 10 minutes before reading this article, here's an extract...
Subject: Your eNews: Reports, product updates, events and more
From: IBM UK eNews (info@isource.ibm.com)
Welcome to your eNews, the personalised news service on the subjects that matter to you, from IBM... etc.
This mail was sent to an unused address in my company's domain. It seems you can sign any address up to recieve IBM brand spam, using the form here http://www-5.ibm.com/uk/profile/subscribe.html
IBM does no checking to validate that the data collected from the form is accurate, they just spam any address they are given. In my case it seems that some fool at a company with a domain similar to mine made a genuine typo on the form, but this form could easily be used maliciously.
At the risk of feeding the trolls...
None of the Linux distributors have illegally abused a monopoly, which is why they are not required to stop abusing a monopoly, which is why they are therefore not having the same kind of restrictions put on them. Got it now?
Total control by the government? Where did you get that idea from?
Our TV airwaves are mostly owned by private companies (Granada/Carlton, BsykB etc.) and by our public serice broadcaster, the BBC, which is not goverment run.
Yes, the UK situation should be a good pointer... our Government made an aburdly huge windfall it gained from autioning the '3rd generation' mobile phone frequencies - which indicentally practically bankrupted the entire UK telephone industry - and they ant to sell off the analogue TV frequencies band to the highest bidder.
The change to digital that the Government wants has also been forced by regulation here, not by insisting that digital decoders are needed, but more simply (and arguably more reaonably) by the promise that terrestrial analogue transmitters will be turned off in 2010.
The public reaction to this has been almost entirely negative, it seems that fact that the installed base of analog TVs, and the low sales of digital decoders will force a re-think on the proposed switch off.
The UK public seem to have realised that they are better off with half a dozen good channels than with hundreds of channels of junk.
You can buy a subscription-free digital box to get 15 free channels, but the selection is so awful that I expect sales will be very poor.
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I interviewed people for a DTP post that required people with knowledge of Quark Xpress and proofreading ability.
About 70% of the applicants got the name of the package wrong on their CV ('express').
until I read this, I always wondered why spammers send mail about crap that is only available in the USA to me, when any fool with half an ounce of intelligence can tell from my address that I'm in the UK. Thanks for clearing this one up, /.!
Noone seems to have spotted that this scheme will cause increased congestion as people try to drive and park round the outskirts of the charging zone.
London's road network has been improved and optimised over the years for the existing traffic flows, and suddenly the traffic will want to go in different direstions to avoid the tolls, messing up the traffic light timing and priorities in the surrounding areas.
There will also be a scramble to get out of the zone before the charges start in the morning, and an extreme reluctance to enter the zone just before the end of the charging time - at 6.25 pm, you have a choice, sit still for 5 minutes or pay £5. People will crawl about to avoid reaching the charging zone before he 6.30 pm end time, making a nightmare scenario for people trying to go home by public transport and private cars alike.
I guess the effects of these issues will be far worse than the original congestion, espeically as they will move traffic problems away from the shopping and business areas inside the zone out into the residential areas just outside.
It already costs £1 for 20 minutes parking in some parts of central London, and this doesn't deter people - quite the opposite, a lot of the motorists you see driving slowly and clogging up the roads are just cruising for an empty parking place.
The problem is that London does not have a good ring-road that lets people drive from one side to the other. This cross town traffic would be unaffected by parking fee increases in the centre.
That's not what I was referring to at all, I mean situations where priority is given to empty roads over full roads in order to discourage drivers from using the road in question.
Oxford Street is a terrible example, btw, you can't legally drive a passenger car down most of it, it's reserved for buses and taxis only, so it's only public transport that the pedestrians are holding up!