It would be nice if there was a direct link to something that Opera renders differently and another link that shows that what it is doing is also wrong.
It does look like a nice design, and we are all waiting for the smaller process size to bring AMD's high end performance back up to Intel level, but I am not quite sure that Bulldozer will be "outstanding."
AMD seems to have decided that the FPU takes up too much space for the 16+ core future that they are planning, so each pair of cores shares a single "fatter" FPU than their current design (where each core has its own "thinner" FPU.)
Bulldozer will destroy the i7 for Integer work. Mark my words on that. It looks like it will be able to top out at 12 integer (64-bit) operations per core per clock cycle if your loops are unrolled-for-parallelism.
And I can say 100% without hyperbole, opera is the black sheep in the family when it comes to standards support. It's good, just not the same as the others, and gives different renderings where the others are uniform. Which means in the end, it's just painful to bother supporting it.
Are you sure it isnt because all those others are non-standard but copying from one-another (you know, because they are open source)?
It would be nice if there was a direct link to something that Opera renders differently and another link that shows that what it is doing is also wrong.
So far every time I have investigated this, the page in question was browser sniffing...
I don't know about you, but if free speech is going to be regulated by company or government, I would rather have the government, who I can vote to change, do it, rather than a company that I have no control over.
You have no control over what company you do business with? Really?
If, as you say, you have a vote in government practices, then why the rush to regulate the internet with the government? Can't you pull that card out at any time?
Tell me. When was the last time the FCC relaxed regulations. Name a single instance.
The difference is that the FCC hits *every* corporation with the *same* control over your speech. Sure, maybe Comcast will fuck with your Netflix.. but not every provider has an incentive to fuck with Netflix.
Comcasts "power" over you just doesnt hold a candle to the good intentions of the historically accurate "think of the children" oppression that the FCC already forces upon us.
The FCC? FUCK NO. I'd rather than nobody regulated it than give them power over it. Seriously its fucking insane to give it to the FCC. Its Fucking Insane.
I'd say it's far more ignorant to think that simply because they start with content-as-in-format they will not then proceed to eventually move to also work with content-as-in-opinions.
What part of history has shown that government, once given one set of reigns, does not move to eventual control of the whole wagon train?
The FCC has already proven, with the other industries that it regulates, that they will simply regulate "content" - no sex stuff before dark - no vulgar language - etc.. etc..
That is *literally* what they are doing with their broadcasting regulation, both television and radio. THATS WHAT THE FCC DOES.
Need examples? Look at the FCC's history with regards to every other industry that it regulates, where it imposes restrictions on speech and expression in all of them. Yes. ALL OF THEM
Corporations like the FCC in some ways. It makes sure that only those with really deep pockets are able to afford license to the good spectrum, thus erecting a barrier to entry in the radio and TV fields.
..and eventually everything will be wireless.. right? Isnt that the trend?
Sure, the infrastructure isnt quite there yet... but the telecom's have already got a claim to the locations needed (cell towers) to provide their own version of things, even if its still kinda crappy and expensive..
Wanting the FCC involved in the "Net Neutrality" is like wanting Mel Gibson to manage your Hanukkah lights.
The 64-bit operating systems can't run Windows 3.1 games at all without some sort of virtual machine emulating a 32-bit CPU.
You've got your facts all jumbled up somewhere. 64-bit OS's can run 32-bit applications just fine. It is 16-bit applications that they can't run, and 32-bit Windows XP can't run most of them either (no DOS compatibility) so you end up running DOSBOX or some other vitual machine, not "Windows XP mode"
The UN isn't a world government. They have absolutely zero power.
..and by zero power you mean that the most high tech armies in the world fights for it, and is backed by multiple nuclear arsenals, and that decisions made on its floors can effect everyone on the planet... sure..
Why do you think that medical bills are likely to be $20,000 under any other system than the current one?
This line of thinking is part of the problem. This idea that the $20,000 is the fair market value is wrong, unless by market you mean the tragedy of the commons insurance system that we currently have in America.
How can we be sure that the black holes were not created? String theory posits that there exist physical dimensions outside of our 4 dimensional universe
But the theory is that they are so small that "moving through them" is not something that would cause things to "disappear" into them, but rather, that the position and momentum within them merely manifests itself as physical properties (charge, mass, spin,...)
I like what Germany does (perhaps other European countries too) with drinks, slap a deposit on it and any place that sells it must take it back and refund said deposit.
America does that for many drinks, and not just ones that come in plastic bottles. Glass and Aluminum are also targeted.
We did not enact this for the recycling benefits.. we enacted it to stop the bulk of non-biodegradable littering.
At the rate trash is produced, we have more than enough land to bury it.
My recycling beliefs are such that anything that can be recycled for a profit will be recycled by the free market, without my help, and the stuff that can't be recycled for a profit shouldn't be recycled.
Recycling stuff just for the sake of recycling is stupid. Recycling stuff that can be profitably recycled in smart.
I mean think about it.. suppose its the 1960's and you figured that at some point in the future that it would be smart is recycle plastic. Would you support wasting money on stupidly recycling it with 1960's technology or would you be for storing it someplace (like a landfill) until technology caught up?
We are approaching the point where recycling plastic is Smart, and when it becomes Really Smart then landfills will start being dug up (especially older ones, where all the biodegradable stuff is gone) just for the profit potential (plastics, metals...)
The difference is the dimensionality of the units..
Energy = Work
Power = Rate at which Work is performed
The GP mentioned "1 kilowatt" which is equal to 1000 Joules per Second, aka 1.34 HorsePower.
In the end, costs are based on the number of Joules used. On your electric bill that is listed in the units Kilowatt Hours, and 1 kWh = 3600000 Joules (3.6 megajoules)
In the movie Back To The Future, they needed a power source that produced 1.21 gigawatts, but no actual timeframe was given for how long this power needed to be sustained.
is anyone in the western world (or russia/china etc..) seriously worried that Iran would attack someone once they got a few nukes?
You mean besides all of the above?
Even if you find it hard to believe that Americans are worried about it.. what do you suppose the Israelis think?
The Iranian leaders are people that Believe, and names military exercises accordingly (mock conflicts with Israel are named "Great Prophet" and so forth)
Make no mistake.. that nut ball Ayatollah wants to destroy Israel more than anything. He answers to his God and thats what his God wants.
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Let me repeat myself.
It would be nice if there was a direct link to something that Opera renders differently and another link that shows that what it is doing is also wrong.
It does look like a nice design, and we are all waiting for the smaller process size to bring AMD's high end performance back up to Intel level, but I am not quite sure that Bulldozer will be "outstanding."
AMD seems to have decided that the FPU takes up too much space for the 16+ core future that they are planning, so each pair of cores shares a single "fatter" FPU than their current design (where each core has its own "thinner" FPU.)
Bulldozer will destroy the i7 for Integer work. Mark my words on that. It looks like it will be able to top out at 12 integer (64-bit) operations per core per clock cycle if your loops are unrolled-for-parallelism.
I agree that Opera is probably the safest browser of "The Big 5" .. but it would still be nice if they started sandboxing tabs in their own processes.
In many respects, Opera requires fewer extensions for the same functionality. Mouse gestures? Built in. Greasemonkey? Built in. etc..
I sympathize with the AdBlock Plus crowd, but not the NoScript crowd.
And I can say 100% without hyperbole, opera is the black sheep in the family when it comes to standards support. It's good, just not the same as the others, and gives different renderings where the others are uniform. Which means in the end, it's just painful to bother supporting it.
Are you sure it isnt because all those others are non-standard but copying from one-another (you know, because they are open source)?
It would be nice if there was a direct link to something that Opera renders differently and another link that shows that what it is doing is also wrong.
So far every time I have investigated this, the page in question was browser sniffing...
I don't know about you, but if free speech is going to be regulated by company or government, I would rather have the government, who I can vote to change, do it, rather than a company that I have no control over.
You have no control over what company you do business with? Really?
If, as you say, you have a vote in government practices, then why the rush to regulate the internet with the government? Can't you pull that card out at any time?
Tell me. When was the last time the FCC relaxed regulations. Name a single instance.
All of the Republican Presidents named ran up huge deficits, while claiming to be "fiscal conservatives."
Presidents don't run up deficits. Congress does.
Would you like to do a fair analysis, or just harp on bullshit fallacies that makes your side look good?
The difference is that the FCC hits *every* corporation with the *same* control over your speech. Sure, maybe Comcast will fuck with your Netflix.. but not every provider has an incentive to fuck with Netflix.
Comcasts "power" over you just doesnt hold a candle to the good intentions of the historically accurate "think of the children" oppression that the FCC already forces upon us.
The FCC? FUCK NO. I'd rather than nobody regulated it than give them power over it. Seriously its fucking insane to give it to the FCC. Its Fucking Insane.
I'd say it's far more ignorant to think that simply because they start with content-as-in-format they will not then proceed to eventually move to also work with content-as-in-opinions.
What part of history has shown that government, once given one set of reigns, does not move to eventual control of the whole wagon train?
The FCC has already proven, with the other industries that it regulates, that they will simply regulate "content" - no sex stuff before dark - no vulgar language - etc.. etc..
That is *literally* what they are doing with their broadcasting regulation, both television and radio. THATS WHAT THE FCC DOES.
Need examples? Look at the FCC's history with regards to every other industry that it regulates, where it imposes restrictions on speech and expression in all of them. Yes. ALL OF THEM
Corporations like the FCC in some ways. It makes sure that only those with really deep pockets are able to afford license to the good spectrum, thus erecting a barrier to entry in the radio and TV fields.
Sure, the infrastructure isnt quite there yet... but the telecom's have already got a claim to the locations needed (cell towers) to provide their own version of things, even if its still kinda crappy and expensive..
Wanting the FCC involved in the "Net Neutrality" is like wanting Mel Gibson to manage your Hanukkah lights.
The 64-bit operating systems can't run Windows 3.1 games at all without some sort of virtual machine emulating a 32-bit CPU.
You've got your facts all jumbled up somewhere. 64-bit OS's can run 32-bit applications just fine. It is 16-bit applications that they can't run, and 32-bit Windows XP can't run most of them either (no DOS compatibility) so you end up running DOSBOX or some other vitual machine, not "Windows XP mode"
Why are you scared of the FCC?
Because the FCC was, and always will be, evil.
You young people dont remember. When I was growing up.. before this whole web shit...
The FCC was considered bad by hacks all over America because the FCC created and continues to create regulations that restrict FREE FUCKING SPEECH.
PERIOD.
For example, FCC v. Pacifica (1978)
Now you young folks idolize this organization that is against the very thing that you are fighting for. Its fucking crazy.
The reason they are cooled Cool Explosions is because they are.. well... COOL!!
This is slashdot. FX gives us a chubby.
Why would anyone buy the Professional edition of windows for a gaming machine, or even a home machine? Is the XP virtual box that important to you?
The UN isn't a world government. They have absolutely zero power.
is zero power a euphemism for ice-cold power?
Look at how they tried to force on us poor standards like .wav
You shouldnt lead off with a great standard.
What is a better uncompressed standard? Really. Lets hear it.
IMHO, the truth is ChromeOS has Microsoft scared.
Thats funny, considering that Google says it days are numbered, that Android is their focus because it does everything ChromeOS does, and more.
Prior to this sub-thread, I didnt have any facts on the matter. Now I do. You are one stupid son of a bitch.
The funny part is that you think everyone else is stupid.
Why do you think that medical bills are likely to be $20,000 under any other system than the current one?
This line of thinking is part of the problem. This idea that the $20,000 is the fair market value is wrong, unless by market you mean the tragedy of the commons insurance system that we currently have in America.
How can we be sure that the black holes were not created? String theory posits that there exist physical dimensions outside of our 4 dimensional universe
But the theory is that they are so small that "moving through them" is not something that would cause things to "disappear" into them, but rather, that the position and momentum within them merely manifests itself as physical properties (charge, mass, spin, ...)
I like what Germany does (perhaps other European countries too) with drinks, slap a deposit on it and any place that sells it must take it back and refund said deposit.
America does that for many drinks, and not just ones that come in plastic bottles. Glass and Aluminum are also targeted.
.. we enacted it to stop the bulk of non-biodegradable littering.
We did not enact this for the recycling benefits
I dont understand this aversion to landfills.
At the rate trash is produced, we have more than enough land to bury it.
My recycling beliefs are such that anything that can be recycled for a profit will be recycled by the free market, without my help, and the stuff that can't be recycled for a profit shouldn't be recycled.
Recycling stuff just for the sake of recycling is stupid. Recycling stuff that can be profitably recycled in smart.
I mean think about it.. suppose its the 1960's and you figured that at some point in the future that it would be smart is recycle plastic. Would you support wasting money on stupidly recycling it with 1960's technology or would you be for storing it someplace (like a landfill) until technology caught up?
We are approaching the point where recycling plastic is Smart, and when it becomes Really Smart then landfills will start being dug up (especially older ones, where all the biodegradable stuff is gone) just for the profit potential (plastics, metals...)
...and just to be fully clear...
The difference is the dimensionality of the units..
Energy = Work
Power = Rate at which Work is performed
The GP mentioned "1 kilowatt" which is equal to 1000 Joules per Second, aka 1.34 HorsePower.
In the end, costs are based on the number of Joules used. On your electric bill that is listed in the units Kilowatt Hours, and 1 kWh = 3600000 Joules (3.6 megajoules)
In the movie Back To The Future, they needed a power source that produced 1.21 gigawatts, but no actual timeframe was given for how long this power needed to be sustained.
is anyone in the western world (or russia/china etc..) seriously worried that Iran would attack someone once they got a few nukes?
You mean besides all of the above?
Even if you find it hard to believe that Americans are worried about it.. what do you suppose the Israelis think?
The Iranian leaders are people that Believe, and names military exercises accordingly (mock conflicts with Israel are named "Great Prophet" and so forth)
Make no mistake.. that nut ball Ayatollah wants to destroy Israel more than anything. He answers to his God and thats what his God wants.