On top of those major changes, they are pushing Windows at the moment because of the EU Vs. Microsoft thing, where in March Microsoft will have to add the "Choose Your Browser" dialog, and Opera wants 10.5 to be on that list, not 10.1.
Though, Safari actually "looks" slower than Firefox because Firefox starts rendering sooner, whereas Safari waits for the full page then displays. For what it's worth, DL 5Mb/UL 1Mb connection... less than a second difference between them all, but for a lot of people that adds up, it's like a little nagging voice that eventually turns into frustration, especially when a website isn't what you were hoping for.
The actual speed with which the browser GETs and renders a website is probably close to the last reason why Opera is my preferred browser, however, it is the main reason why Chromium is my secondary browser in tandem with the fact that it also starts about as quick as Opera, so I can quickly test something outside of Opera without having to go make coffee while it does so.
Yes, but in this case that's irrelevant... if you have the source to whatever software they are using on these servers, you still wouldn't be able to do anything about it, especially without the DB of licenses, you could tell it to look elsewhere, but it still wouldn't find it. Pretend it's YouTube, and forget about open/proprietary ranting... you could clone the site, and servers, but not the content.
It would be like, editing the source code to your web browser when you can't get online, and "fixing it" by simply removing all the code that tries to connect to the internet. Do you get your soldering iron out when your TV loses it's signal, and try to rewire it to run off AM signals through your power lines?
"I think that the choice of playback software or drivers can also affect fidelity of the sound."
Indeed, pick any two media players that don't use the same decoder, they will both sound slightly different. Plus most default to 16bit, when the media might be 24bit (including mp3), or 32bit for FLAC, and others.
Driver implementation matters as well, I use the same drivers for my audio card for Windows XP (which the drivers were designed for), and Win7, but they both sound different, Win7 is slightly softer sounding, in XP it sounds a bit more over-driven, can't really compare between Linux distros as they almost never use the same drivers, and I usually don't bother to play with it, if it has sound, that's good enough.
I think any "optimized for metal" sound in Linux might be due to a more direct interaction with the hardware, which is great if you have hardware to support it, not if it's generic.
It's true that most Linux disros come with a lot of excess apps, however, they are very rarely running by default, so its just using hard drive space, not much else.
"I really hate having to have one hand on the "stick", and the other trying to set "flight controls" and hit the keys to "look around" when I'm "landing."
I know this has it's own problems, but what if Wikipedia had a "Moderation" mode, normal Wiki is the same, but you can enter Mod-Mode, and vote on each sentence in the article (ie: "Fact", "Untrue", "Citation Needed", "Citation Invalid", etc)
Limited to one vote, per sentence, per edit of sentence, obviously easier to regulate for people with Wiki accounts, not really sure how to track/prevent double voting for non-registered users without tracking IP's and such...
That way, although it still has problems with "common" misconceptions or opinions with an agenda, you could see the "rating" for the information, especially if it does it in an IMDB sort of way (can be grouped by age and sex, but for Wikipedia Location might need to be added)
"Horses have four legs" - 8% of People under 13 Disagree - 95% of People over 13 Agree etc.
Would be interesting anyways, especially if you could read Wikis in a group-mode... "Read this Wiki according to Females, from Italy, over the age of 13", or people able to switch from "True" mode to "Untrue" mode, etc.
I don't use Twitter, but I can imagine all sorts of uses (on top of the ones WizardForce mentioned) such as just a general interest in your town/city (pretending that you can limit the the tweets/twitterers to a location), which could also be good in catastrophes, tweet: "need help" and it shows the location, depending on how accurate it is could be useful/entertaining at a large festival tweet: "check out this ____", or guiding people to a location tweet: "no no no, you took the wrong road", or "still lost" and the other person knows where they are and how to get from A to B...etc...
Other than stuff like that, it has no real use other than just idle curiosity, like twittervision which, is mildly entertaining for a few minutes, yet disgusting at the same time.
That's what they are currently using, which is exactly what I described (I didn't RTFA before posting), I don't really see why they need a "new one" really, perhaps just a smaller version of the same... which should be easily possible considering that one is 9 years old now.
As for protection from firearms, I don't think that's really important because it would be rather hard to have it armoured enough and still be under 10 pounds, and it can't defend itself, so someone could just as easily pick it up, corner it, stand on it, throw a blanked or board on it, flamethrower, etc... it should be tough, but it can't be invincible so may as well make it for less so you don't lose as much when it gets broken/stolen/etc.
Yeah that's the idea, but you could also have smaller guide wheels to help stabilize it (because weight/pendulum based still limits it's drive power, ie: too much throttle it'll just sit there rotating) so it looks like O. and if you used the "launcher" the guide wheels could be spring loaded, so they collapse into the main cylinder but pop-out after it leaves the barrel, which would also be useful for quick 180 degree views (throttle it, flips over but stops because of guide wheels) instead of making it turn 180 degrees, just have a sensor that tells the camera/software to flip the image vertically.
Could probably make them as small as a tear-gas can, so pretty much every soldier could carry one, or one guy could carry 20 of them, it's not like they have to run for hours, or defuse a bomb.
Early/Mid 90's there were RC cars that were moderately popular, where the body height was smaller than the wheel height, so it looked like: O=O (my Google skills failed me) so if it landed upside down, it was exactly the same as right-side up, if it lands on it's edge, you can either have rounded/ball-like rims, or just give it a bit of throttle and it'll right itself again... there's also the tri-wheel designs too... which allows for a larger body size, but roughly the same over-all size, both came in tracked, and wheeled versions.
$79 RC Car $89 Wireless Web Cam with Night Vision & Audio (Link)
Couple hours modding/reinforcing... call it $250
You could also go for a more simplistic design, 2 wheels, basically just a powered axel with wheels... kinda like a small Segway without the handlebars and shit, that way you could even modify some sort of rocket/grenade launcher that was large enough instead of tossing it by hand...
So the point is that the contamination has increased.
Perhaps, but that may not mean that the cocaine industry is increasing, if it was say 40% in 1985, pretend that same 40% is still in circulation, the now 90% contamination may simply be from newer/more bills touching the original 40%... how old is your wallet? When is the last time you bothered to wash it? (especially since most are leather) I bet quite a few people have wallets/purses/etc that are 10 years old, all with "traces" of cocaine in them spreading to new bills put in them.
What about other factors like ATM and cash registers, the bags the money is put in by banks for travel/dispersal, when is the last time they were washed, most of those are (the machines as well) are probably a decade old or more.
I realized (or at least hoped) it was a continuation of the original joke, that's why I didn't say something like "y0u 1d107"' I posted the wikis only so that for anyone who actually did want to know what all this gibberish was about, didn't get lost in some wikimess of the comparison of graphical accelerators and the pros and cons of various bus types.
especially the country that... is...just north of the US especially the country that leads the world in being just north of the US (lol?) especially the country that lays......just north of the US
Slashdot Mirror
On top of those major changes, they are pushing Windows at the moment because of the EU Vs. Microsoft thing, where in March Microsoft will have to add the "Choose Your Browser" dialog, and Opera wants 10.5 to be on that list, not 10.1.
Actually, according to DragonFly, over an average of 5 searches each:
10.5: 538ms
10.1: 625ms
Guess my internal clock is a bit slow, and that's just the GETs, doesn't measure rendering speed.
I can't actually time this, but there is a noticeable difference, granted I only did a single test in each browser... if I had to make up numbers...
Opera 10.5: 0.7 seconds
Opera 10.10: 1.0 seconds
Chromium 4.0: 1.2 seconds
IExplorer8: 1.5 seconds
Safari 4.0: 1.6 seconds
Firefox 3.6 B5: 1.7 seconds
Though, Safari actually "looks" slower than Firefox because Firefox starts rendering sooner, whereas Safari waits for the full page then displays. For what it's worth, DL 5Mb/UL 1Mb connection... less than a second difference between them all, but for a lot of people that adds up, it's like a little nagging voice that eventually turns into frustration, especially when a website isn't what you were hoping for.
The actual speed with which the browser GETs and renders a website is probably close to the last reason why Opera is my preferred browser, however, it is the main reason why Chromium is my secondary browser in tandem with the fact that it also starts about as quick as Opera, so I can quickly test something outside of Opera without having to go make coffee while it does so.
Yes, but in this case that's irrelevant... if you have the source to whatever software they are using on these servers, you still wouldn't be able to do anything about it, especially without the DB of licenses, you could tell it to look elsewhere, but it still wouldn't find it. Pretend it's YouTube, and forget about open/proprietary ranting... you could clone the site, and servers, but not the content.
It would be like, editing the source code to your web browser when you can't get online, and "fixing it" by simply removing all the code that tries to connect to the internet. Do you get your soldering iron out when your TV loses it's signal, and try to rewire it to run off AM signals through your power lines?
I'll try to be more redundant next time...
Or, you could watch GoldenEye.
Also, for those that are not visually impaired, a Satellite View (2.6MB) and an Airplane View (3.5 MB)
"I think that the choice of playback software or drivers can also affect fidelity of the sound."
Indeed, pick any two media players that don't use the same decoder, they will both sound slightly different. Plus most default to 16bit, when the media might be 24bit (including mp3), or 32bit for FLAC, and others.
Driver implementation matters as well, I use the same drivers for my audio card for Windows XP (which the drivers were designed for), and Win7, but they both sound different, Win7 is slightly softer sounding, in XP it sounds a bit more over-driven, can't really compare between Linux distros as they almost never use the same drivers, and I usually don't bother to play with it, if it has sound, that's good enough.
I think any "optimized for metal" sound in Linux might be due to a more direct interaction with the hardware, which is great if you have hardware to support it, not if it's generic.
Simply use Wite-Out, or Liquid Cover-Up, doesn't matter what button, as long as it's white.
They sell an experience.
They sell placation of the buyers ego.
...and a partition in a shares tree...
It's true that most Linux disros come with a lot of excess apps, however, they are very rarely running by default, so its just using hard drive space, not much else.
or a hair on the lens...
Hey, be nice... I'd my city, and accidentally all over the how to what too!
Wouldn't it be: Apple italic I italic I subscript E ...
"I really hate having to have one hand on the "stick", and the other trying to set "flight controls" and hit the keys to "look around" when I'm "landing."
Best code-words for masturbation to porn ever.
I know this has it's own problems, but what if Wikipedia had a "Moderation" mode, normal Wiki is the same, but you can enter Mod-Mode, and vote on each sentence in the article (ie: "Fact", "Untrue", "Citation Needed", "Citation Invalid", etc)
Limited to one vote, per sentence, per edit of sentence, obviously easier to regulate for people with Wiki accounts, not really sure how to track/prevent double voting for non-registered users without tracking IP's and such...
That way, although it still has problems with "common" misconceptions or opinions with an agenda, you could see the "rating" for the information, especially if it does it in an IMDB sort of way (can be grouped by age and sex, but for Wikipedia Location might need to be added)
"Horses have four legs"
- 8% of People under 13 Disagree
- 95% of People over 13 Agree
etc.
Would be interesting anyways, especially if you could read Wikis in a group-mode... "Read this Wiki according to Females, from Italy, over the age of 13", or people able to switch from "True" mode to "Untrue" mode, etc.
I don't use Twitter, but I can imagine all sorts of uses (on top of the ones WizardForce mentioned) such as just a general interest in your town/city (pretending that you can limit the the tweets/twitterers to a location), which could also be good in catastrophes, tweet: "need help" and it shows the location, depending on how accurate it is could be useful/entertaining at a large festival tweet: "check out this ____", or guiding people to a location tweet: "no no no, you took the wrong road", or "still lost" and the other person knows where they are and how to get from A to B...etc...
Other than stuff like that, it has no real use other than just idle curiosity, like twittervision which, is mildly entertaining for a few minutes, yet disgusting at the same time.
GPS Twitter
Twittervision
Twittermap
Could have been one of those... and I'm sure there are others.
Dragon Runner
That's what they are currently using, which is exactly what I described (I didn't RTFA before posting), I don't really see why they need a "new one" really, perhaps just a smaller version of the same... which should be easily possible considering that one is 9 years old now.
As for protection from firearms, I don't think that's really important because it would be rather hard to have it armoured enough and still be under 10 pounds, and it can't defend itself, so someone could just as easily pick it up, corner it, stand on it, throw a blanked or board on it, flamethrower, etc... it should be tough, but it can't be invincible so may as well make it for less so you don't lose as much when it gets broken/stolen/etc.
Yeah that's the idea, but you could also have smaller guide wheels to help stabilize it (because weight/pendulum based still limits it's drive power, ie: too much throttle it'll just sit there rotating) so it looks like
O.
and if you used the "launcher" the guide wheels could be spring loaded, so they collapse into the main cylinder but pop-out after it leaves the barrel, which would also be useful for quick 180 degree views (throttle it, flips over but stops because of guide wheels) instead of making it turn 180 degrees, just have a sensor that tells the camera/software to flip the image vertically.
Could probably make them as small as a tear-gas can, so pretty much every soldier could carry one, or one guy could carry 20 of them, it's not like they have to run for hours, or defuse a bomb.
Early/Mid 90's there were RC cars that were moderately popular, where the body height was smaller than the wheel height, so it looked like:
O=O (my Google skills failed me)
so if it landed upside down, it was exactly the same as right-side up, if it lands on it's edge, you can either have rounded/ball-like rims, or just give it a bit of throttle and it'll right itself again... there's also the tri-wheel designs too... which allows for a larger body size, but roughly the same over-all size, both came in tracked, and wheeled versions.
$79 RC Car
$89 Wireless Web Cam with Night Vision & Audio (Link)
Couple hours modding/reinforcing... call it $250
You could also go for a more simplistic design, 2 wheels, basically just a powered axel with wheels... kinda like a small Segway without the handlebars and shit, that way you could even modify some sort of rocket/grenade launcher that was large enough instead of tossing it by hand...
"...water based car's..."
Like this?
So the point is that the contamination has increased.
Perhaps, but that may not mean that the cocaine industry is increasing, if it was say 40% in 1985, pretend that same 40% is still in circulation, the now 90% contamination may simply be from newer/more bills touching the original 40%... how old is your wallet? When is the last time you bothered to wash it? (especially since most are leather) I bet quite a few people have wallets/purses/etc that are 10 years old, all with "traces" of cocaine in them spreading to new bills put in them.
What about other factors like ATM and cash registers, the bags the money is put in by banks for travel/dispersal, when is the last time they were washed, most of those are (the machines as well) are probably a decade old or more.
I realized (or at least hoped) it was a continuation of the original joke, that's why I didn't say something like "y0u 1d107"' I posted the wikis only so that for anyone who actually did want to know what all this gibberish was about, didn't get lost in some wikimess of the comparison of graphical accelerators and the pros and cons of various bus types.
PCI
EC2
S3
especially the country that... is ...just north of the US ...just north of the US
especially the country that leads the world in being just north of the US (lol?)
especially the country that lays...
Which is it?
With the exceptions of Police Officers, Fire Fighters, and Soldiers.