If Opera had actually put it into a production version, or a version directly in line for release, rather than just a Labs version, they'd be getting the hype too. It's up to Opera to get around to it.
I remember Mosaic on the Mac in late 1994. It didn't have JPEG support built-in, it would instead call up a helper application every time to open a separate window to display the JPEG. Goddamn pain in the arse.
MUSTELASBURG, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Monday (Neues Deutschland) - Microsoft and Trabant have unveiled a complete new software system for car drivers. The "Sink" platform, introduced at the Mustelasburg auto show, will be available in over 12 Trabant vehicles this year.
The agreement is part of a constant quest by Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, for fresh vistas beyond the office supply market it dominates. Trabant, meanwhile, hopes that new technology will help it solve the problem of dwindling market share even in its home German market. "The market potential is absolutely enormous," said Markus Fields, Trabant's president for the DDR.
The Trabant Langeshorn promises to be "an experience like no other." Microsoft is bringing its expertise to bear on all aspects of the new Trabant Langeshorn:
Improved compatibility with the original motor-tricycle version of the Trabant, while maintaining at least its level of crash safety. Not that the Trabant Langeshorn crashes.
The two cylinders of the two-stroke engine will be doubled in size, shortening the 0 to 100 km/h time to three hours and forty minutes, half what it was in previous models.
A colouring agent ("Aero") will be added to the exhaust, to accurately recreate the vapour trail of the twenty-first century flying car those people in the West are supposed to have by now.
The phenolic reinforced plastic body will be doubled in thickness for added crash protection. Not that the Trabant Langeshorn crashes.
Other "Aero" enhancements in the Trabant Langeshorn include pink alloy wheels, a musical horn playing Die Internationale and a metre-high spoiler.
"The thrust of our new model of car is to make it more attractive to Trabant owners," said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. "Any Trabant driver knows Ferrari owners are just losers with penis-size issues and that their market share is insignificant. Ferrari just keeps proving over and over that it can't come out with a popularly priced Trabant-like model."
Microsoft expected its marketing muscle to go far in this new market battle. "Just imagine the joy a Ferrari mechanic will feel when they finally get to work on a market leader with industry muscle behind it like the Trabant."
That's actually true for a lot of people, I can't give an scientific estimate but anecdotally a large proportion of the people that I talk to that criticise shooting heroin into their eyeball admit to having never actually used it when queried (some obviously had, and their complaints were valid). It's become socially cool on tech sites and such to bag out shooting heroin into your eyeball without having a shred of experience to back you up, so their test, if conducted properly, could actually yield some interesting results. Of course, it'd be far more interesting if a neutral party conducted similar tests.
You can stare at the specifications for something and make your decision based on that, or you can try using it and see how it works out in reality. A little experience may alter your perspective slighty, not enough to exonerate shooting heroin into your eyeball but enough to notice that only the people with problems speak up in most cases.
The whole thing is a media-fueled "let's you and him fight." The thing we at Wikipedia are most interested by is that the Knols are free content by default (CC-BY 3.0). That's a significant difference from about.com.
Yep. The reason for Windows support in open source software is so that, come hardware crunch time, you can easily slide the OS out from underneath and triple the performance and look like a star. All OSS must support Windows purely so sysadmins can pull this trick.
Or if you want to do any recording. Try playing with Audacity - motherboard sound frequently isn't up to letting you record a track while playing back another.
It's more than a little annoying that a 1998 PCI sound card beats 2008 motherboard sound hardware.
What's your extension load? I've been running FF3 since January, as Minefield nightlies, on XP and Linux, and haven't seen anything of the sort.
Followup to smash hit Vista already in production.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Redmond, Friday (UNN Technofear) - With Vista(tm) just out the door, Microsoft is drawing up plans to deliver its followup, codenamed Windows 7, by the end of 2009. That would be a much faster turn-around than Vista, which shipped more than five years after Windows XP.
Vista's uptake has been stupendous, with copies flying off the shelves and midnight queues on release day turning into major street riots, with police deploying water cannons and rubber bullets, to rival the release scenes for the PlayStation 3. It is expected to give a significant boost to the computer hardware industry, per the Mended Windows Theory of economics. But Windows 7 aims even higher.
"We have a radical vision for Windows 7," says Ben Dover, corporate vice-marketer for development. "It's definitely the one to wait for. You should avoid buying any other operating system or even looking at them until you see Windows 7... Except Vista, of course. That's pretty good. But Windows 7 is just so amazing. Wow(tm)! It's the most fantastic thing ever. Incredible. Mac OS 10.4 can't possibly hold a candle to it."
So what will be the coolest new feature in Windows 7? According to Dover, that's still being worked out. "We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe it's hypervisors, or a new user interface paradigm for consumers, or rotating cubes like in XGL, or WinFS, which is definitely due to ship with Windows NT 4 in 1994. Or whatever Apple puts in Mac OS 10.6, really. Hell, I dunno. What's really shiny?"
The much-derided Digital Rights Management system in Vista will be worked over. "We'll be including user-downloadable 'tilt bits,' which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content."
Independent blogger Wiki Jelliffe was incontinent in his praise. "I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will surely go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, that will be all fixed with $NEXT_VERSION. And theyâ(TM)ll finally be ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF. Also there will be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. Itâ(TM)ll be awesome! I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION."
When analysts asked whether GNU/Linux systems with graphic sophistication comparable to Vista Aero that run on present hardware could possibly be a factor, Mr Ballmer started shouting something about "DEVELOPERS!" while black-suited security officers with red, yellow, green and blue lapel pins rapidly escorted the press from the room.
NO ORLEANS, Friday (UNN) - The Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA) was signed by Governor Bobby Jindal yesterday. The bill will allow local school boards to approve supplemental classroom materials specifically for the critique of controversial alleged "scientific" theories.
"The Act is intended to foster critical thinking," said Gov. Jindal. "We want the state Board of Education to assist teachers in promoting open and objective discussion of scientific theories including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning."
"Next, we'll work on classroom resources concerning the debates on the position of the Earth in the universe, whether Newton got it right, whether Democritus or Aristotle was correct about matter, and whether, in fact, the liver is the most important organ in the body. Then we'll get onto whether the 'periodic table' is just a Liberal conspiracy or fire, earth, air and water are a better fit for reality, and, of course, a critical examination of whether the so-called Holocaust happened or was a put-up job by the Jesus-killers."
Some have worried that the United States will fall behind in education, science and engineering and hence economic achievement. But the new bill comes in the wake of the vast successes of Faith-Based Mortgage Lending and its beneficial effects on the US housing market. "The replacement of the US dollar with rocks and small twigs as a more trusted and widely-accepted medium of exchange is merely a temporary blip," said Ben Bernanke, director of the Federal Reserve. "The hordes of Europeans flocking to New York for the cheap shopping and laughing as they give the bums Euro notes or pound coins are merely an optical illusion. The Faith-Based Security employed by the Transport Security Administration should deal with it conclusively."
Gov. Jindal looks at the move as an opportunity. "Louisiana will make America proud again. After the success of No Orleans' Faith-Based Levees in 2006, we'll impress the world again with our Penis Rocket To The Moon project. Or we would, except that we'll be advocating critical discussion of the Intelligent Stork theory of reproduction."
"My personal opinion is that it will come in the form of drastic economic and research decline as the older (and currently poorer) nations start to evolve to fill the gaps a US withdrawal from the field will create."
Some say this has already happened. Have you noticed how the US dollar has been replaced by rocks and small twigs as a more trustworthy and widely-accepted medium of exchange? Or how New York is filled with Europeans spending their depleted-uranium pounds and euros?
I forwarded both your messages to the wine-users mailing list. Let's see if people start thinking about how to make Wine on Windows a usable product:-D
CodeWeavers are serious about Crossover Games, and of course all that stuff that's implemented properly will end up back in winehq.org Wine. (A lotta stuff doesn't make it back in 'cos CX happily uses kludges to get stuff working now that aren't considered the right-enough thing for winehq.)
And D3D10 for Wine is under initial construction (stubs for all functions, implementing the basic VM)... imagine the Wine for XP market with that.
I'm eagerly awaiting the day a popular game runs with an 0.5fps advantage on Wine compared to XP. That day, every obsessive gamer in the world installs Linux.
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Very in the US. It was constructed specifically to form a large and profitable patent thicket.
If Opera had actually put it into a production version, or a version directly in line for release, rather than just a Labs version, they'd be getting the hype too. It's up to Opera to get around to it.
Those are labs builds. Opera has no release build or planned release build (like this Firefox release) with the feature in.
I remember Mosaic on the Mac in late 1994. It didn't have JPEG support built-in, it would instead call up a helper application every time to open a separate window to display the JPEG. Goddamn pain in the arse.
It's non-free in the US. VLC is written in France.
#7 website and showing no signs of decreasing in popularity.
The main barrier to more good video content on the site is backed-up disk for Commons, so we can make the upload limit bigger than 20MB.
We're also considering auto-transcoders for upload.
The bitstream format is fixed, so encoder and decoder can be (and are) improved independently.
Not yet, not until it's way further developed. But both Wikimedia and WHATWG are watching it closely.
MUSTELASBURG, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Monday (Neues Deutschland) - Microsoft and Trabant have unveiled a complete new software system for car drivers. The "Sink" platform, introduced at the Mustelasburg auto show, will be available in over 12 Trabant vehicles this year.
The agreement is part of a constant quest by Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, for fresh vistas beyond the office supply market it dominates. Trabant, meanwhile, hopes that new technology will help it solve the problem of dwindling market share even in its home German market. "The market potential is absolutely enormous," said Markus Fields, Trabant's president for the DDR.
The Trabant Langeshorn promises to be "an experience like no other." Microsoft is bringing its expertise to bear on all aspects of the new Trabant Langeshorn:
"The thrust of our new model of car is to make it more attractive to Trabant owners," said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. "Any Trabant driver knows Ferrari owners are just losers with penis-size issues and that their market share is insignificant. Ferrari just keeps proving over and over that it can't come out with a popularly priced Trabant-like model."
Microsoft expected its marketing muscle to go far in this new market battle. "Just imagine the joy a Ferrari mechanic will feel when they finally get to work on a market leader with industry muscle behind it like the Trabant."
That's actually true for a lot of people, I can't give an scientific estimate but anecdotally a large proportion of the people that I talk to that criticise shooting heroin into their eyeball admit to having never actually used it when queried (some obviously had, and their complaints were valid). It's become socially cool on tech sites and such to bag out shooting heroin into your eyeball without having a shred of experience to back you up, so their test, if conducted properly, could actually yield some interesting results. Of course, it'd be far more interesting if a neutral party conducted similar tests.
You can stare at the specifications for something and make your decision based on that, or you can try using it and see how it works out in reality. A little experience may alter your perspective slighty, not enough to exonerate shooting heroin into your eyeball but enough to notice that only the people with problems speak up in most cases.
If you were talking about a Unix running KDE 3.5.9, those numbers would be 256MB, 384MB and 512MB.
The movie of Fight Club was arguably better than the novel, and even the author agrees.
The whole thing is a media-fueled "let's you and him fight." The thing we at Wikipedia are most interested by is that the Knols are free content by default (CC-BY 3.0). That's a significant difference from about.com.
Extensions still leak like hell. Much of the leakage work in FF3 was to recover leaked memory from extensions.
Yep. The reason for Windows support in open source software is so that, come hardware crunch time, you can easily slide the OS out from underneath and triple the performance and look like a star. All OSS must support Windows purely so sysadmins can pull this trick.
DRM!
Or if you want to do any recording. Try playing with Audacity - motherboard sound frequently isn't up to letting you record a track while playing back another.
It's more than a little annoying that a 1998 PCI sound card beats 2008 motherboard sound hardware.
What's your extension load? I've been running FF3 since January, as Minefield nightlies, on XP and Linux, and haven't seen anything of the sort.
SAN FRANCISCO, Redmond, Friday (UNN Technofear) - With Vista(tm) just out the door, Microsoft is drawing up plans to deliver its followup, codenamed Windows 7, by the end of 2009. That would be a much faster turn-around than Vista, which shipped more than five years after Windows XP.
Vista's uptake has been stupendous, with copies flying off the shelves and midnight queues on release day turning into major street riots, with police deploying water cannons and rubber bullets, to rival the release scenes for the PlayStation 3. It is expected to give a significant boost to the computer hardware industry, per the Mended Windows Theory of economics. But Windows 7 aims even higher.
"We have a radical vision for Windows 7," says Ben Dover, corporate vice-marketer for development. "It's definitely the one to wait for. You should avoid buying any other operating system or even looking at them until you see Windows 7 ... Except Vista, of course. That's pretty good. But Windows 7 is just so amazing. Wow(tm)! It's the most fantastic thing ever. Incredible. Mac OS 10.4 can't possibly hold a candle to it."
So what will be the coolest new feature in Windows 7? According to Dover, that's still being worked out. "We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe it's hypervisors, or a new user interface paradigm for consumers, or rotating cubes like in XGL, or WinFS, which is definitely due to ship with Windows NT 4 in 1994. Or whatever Apple puts in Mac OS 10.6, really. Hell, I dunno. What's really shiny?"
The much-derided Digital Rights Management system in Vista will be worked over. "We'll be including user-downloadable 'tilt bits,' which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content."
Independent blogger Wiki Jelliffe was incontinent in his praise. "I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will surely go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, that will be all fixed with $NEXT_VERSION. And theyâ(TM)ll finally be ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF. Also there will be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. Itâ(TM)ll be awesome! I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION."
When analysts asked whether GNU/Linux systems with graphic sophistication comparable to Vista Aero that run on present hardware could possibly be a factor, Mr Ballmer started shouting something about "DEVELOPERS!" while black-suited security officers with red, yellow, green and blue lapel pins rapidly escorted the press from the room.
Apple, Inc. shares were up 5% in early trading.
NO ORLEANS, Friday (UNN) - The Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA) was signed by Governor Bobby Jindal yesterday. The bill will allow local school boards to approve supplemental classroom materials specifically for the critique of controversial alleged "scientific" theories.
"The Act is intended to foster critical thinking," said Gov. Jindal. "We want the state Board of Education to assist teachers in promoting open and objective discussion of scientific theories including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning."
"Next, we'll work on classroom resources concerning the debates on the position of the Earth in the universe, whether Newton got it right, whether Democritus or Aristotle was correct about matter, and whether, in fact, the liver is the most important organ in the body. Then we'll get onto whether the 'periodic table' is just a Liberal conspiracy or fire, earth, air and water are a better fit for reality, and, of course, a critical examination of whether the so-called Holocaust happened or was a put-up job by the Jesus-killers."
Some have worried that the United States will fall behind in education, science and engineering and hence economic achievement. But the new bill comes in the wake of the vast successes of Faith-Based Mortgage Lending and its beneficial effects on the US housing market. "The replacement of the US dollar with rocks and small twigs as a more trusted and widely-accepted medium of exchange is merely a temporary blip," said Ben Bernanke, director of the Federal Reserve. "The hordes of Europeans flocking to New York for the cheap shopping and laughing as they give the bums Euro notes or pound coins are merely an optical illusion. The Faith-Based Security employed by the Transport Security Administration should deal with it conclusively."
Gov. Jindal looks at the move as an opportunity. "Louisiana will make America proud again. After the success of No Orleans' Faith-Based Levees in 2006, we'll impress the world again with our Penis Rocket To The Moon project. Or we would, except that we'll be advocating critical discussion of the Intelligent Stork theory of reproduction."
I have blatantly stolen your paragraph. Pity you're anonymous.
"My personal opinion is that it will come in the form of drastic economic and research decline as the older (and currently poorer) nations start to evolve to fill the gaps a US withdrawal from the field will create."
Some say this has already happened. Have you noticed how the US dollar has been replaced by rocks and small twigs as a more trustworthy and widely-accepted medium of exchange? Or how New York is filled with Europeans spending their depleted-uranium pounds and euros?
to firmly pursue its freedom of action in this regard, for the sake of humanity. And not just so we can 0wnz0r you, honest.
(European idea of amusement: visit New York for the cheap shopping, give the bums Euro notes or pound-sterling coins.)
I forwarded both your messages to the wine-users mailing list. Let's see if people start thinking about how to make Wine on Windows a usable product :-D
CodeWeavers are serious about Crossover Games, and of course all that stuff that's implemented properly will end up back in winehq.org Wine. (A lotta stuff doesn't make it back in 'cos CX happily uses kludges to get stuff working now that aren't considered the right-enough thing for winehq.)
And D3D10 for Wine is under initial construction (stubs for all functions, implementing the basic VM) ... imagine the Wine for XP market with that.
I'm eagerly awaiting the day a popular game runs with an 0.5fps advantage on Wine compared to XP. That day, every obsessive gamer in the world installs Linux.