I started to test my sites in Opera. And as good of a program it is, in terms of features (has some great features, like you said), it still dosn't support CSS 2 properly compared to IE and Mozilla.
If Opera had a user base in the double digits, I might do a but more research, and try to work around the problems. But it doesn't, so it just isn't worth it.
Also, as far a s I'm concerned, it's not IE and Netscape, it's IE and Mozilla. In terms of HTML 4 and CSS 2, Mozilla hasn't let me down yet. Does everything just the way it's descibed in the W3C standards. IMHO, Mozilla doesn't have far to go, to being on par with IE. And infact, it beats IE on alot of things (standards support, handy features etc) already.
I'd don't have a problem with IE breaking support for HTML 3.2, since it's supposed to be supporting HTML 4.
Also. I don't have a problem with IE dropping the EMBED tag.
But what it do have a problem with is the way they are dropping it. These things need to be gradualy worked out. Not dropped without telling anyone in advanced, giving noone time to prepare for it (1-2 years IMHO). It's just a cheap way to try and damage Quicktime as far as I can see it.
MS still alow non-closed <P> tags in IE6. That's not alowed in HTML 4. But it makes sence to still alow it for now while people start to support it HTML 4 better.
The alternative to EMBED isn't as easy as slapping another closing tag on the end. So one would think that it would be phased out over 1-3 years. But no, MS have whacked it out, just like that.
BTW, that 'Microsoft Asks Slashdot To Remove Readers' Posts' artical is 1.18MBs! Even if a new system didn't make that much differnt to the users, it could take a bit of a load of the server.
Yeah I know, not all/. articals are that big, but there still quite a few. And plenty on slightly smaller ones around.
Yes!, that's also annoyed me quite a few times, esspecialy when you'r doing a search.
Also. I think/. needs a better way to archive old articals. It's really hard to follow a/. artical when it's been flatened. And also, it all ends up on one page. Visit the Microsoft Asks Slashdot To Remove Readers' Posts artical, and see how long it takes to load. Then try to make sence out if it.
Can't/. store each post on it' own, like an Everything2.com node, and an artical page that links them all up? It would open up quite a few new doors in terms of being about to find/sort stuff, and customising the layout, even after it's archived.
Acctualy, 'real time' has nothing to do with FPS.
real time, means that it is happening at the same speed as in real life. FPS is a mesument of how many frames is displayed per second. But you already knew that.
I think what you meant is that 2.5 FPS isn't considered fast enough to trick you into seeing motion. Minumum is 12FPS.
So it is real time, but the FPS just isn't fast enough to trick your brain into thinking that it is real motion.
One of the things I've notices, is that there are soooo many different eBook formats, I have 3 different readers on my palm at the moment. And I feel it's only going to increase.
So why dosn't someone make a format with something that we all know, is open, and will do the job just fine?... HTML
A limited version of HTML that is, alow tags like: <I> <B> <A> <P> <BR> <OL>/<UL> <H1> <H2> <HR> <BLOCKQUOTE>(when the screens get a big bigger).
That would give you everything you need to format a novel. And maybe add <TABLE> and CSS1 for techincal documents etc. And then have some form of compression maybe (most e-book do, don't they?).
You could also read it on your PC, no special program needed.
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Really? I think it looks f'n great. In an arty, retro appliance, modern sculpture way. The inside/wood paneling isn't that nice though.
But I can definitly see why someone would think it's ugly.
True.. I guess it depends if you want to test the actual CPU speed, or real world speed, since alot of progs don't use altivec. But I guess that will change.
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And don't even get me started on fonts, default locations for open/save dialogs, etc.
Oh shit yes... I can't say how many little things there are about winXX the piss me off so much, that never get fixed.
It's the little things that count, casue when your using a computer, you end up doing these little things so many times, they become a big pain in the ass. Of course, app programmers do share a little of the blame for this to.
That's why I ended up liking Mac OS so much when I was using Macs. And it's also why I'm holding off my opinion on OS X, since they still have a lots of little things to fix up.
...Almost all the CPU intensive work done today is digital video and audio...
Where did 3D modeling an animation go to?
There are quite a few different parts to that.
Real time calulation of 3d environments
Real time calulation of partical systems and animation
Rendering
We used 450Mhz iMacs. And although they where good for video editing, they where slow with the 3D modeling. They where also unrealible. But that's more to do with a prog (lightwave) and OS 9, with it's lack of memory protection etc.
BTW, I think NewTek Lightwave is more of a better benchmark test. It's dosn't use the altivec unit (AFAIK), and the app is pretty much exactly the same across platform (they made their own GUI). Photoshop does differ from the PC to Mac.
Do some scene rendering benchmarks using lightwave, with a PC and Mac, and I'd be more willing to belive the results are fair.
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Well, why don't you unplug you monitor, take the cover off. And lick around some of the more beefier looking components.
Never heard of capacitors?
...Filmed in New Zealand. Annakin shows up with Jar Jar Binks on a 4 wheel motorbike.
Annakin starts to whistle to Jar Jar, and yell phrases like "get in behind ya mungrle!" "steady! steady!" "good boy!", as Jar Jar runs around, hearding the sheep into a spaceship.
[RANT TYPE="not well thought out"] Well, it seems to be a new language, made by some corporation. Which means they intend to make money off it. That can only be bad for developers.
How did HTML and CSS get started? Was it a company like this? or an orginization?
Anyway, they haven't made a good impression on me so far, with there.PDF's (.PDFs are NOT a web document! All I want to do is read it. Not print the danm thing out) and their annoying 'web installer', which seems to be all the rav these days (what happens when I disconnect? Will it resume? Who knows, they didn't bother telling me). And as someone else said, they seem to like TM's and patents.[/RANT]
What newer browser would you recommend, for someone who is running SPARC Solaris on a ss10/612 ?
I'd recommend complaining.
I have no idea what a SPARC Solaris on a ss10/612 looks like, or how old it is etc.
But. If it's a case of modern tech, but not much support. Complain. Complain, complain, complain. And then complain some more.
If no-one had complained about IE lacking CSS support etc... Chances are, MS wouldn't have bothered with it too much.
Then agian, if it's old tech. I'd just accept it. People can't wait around for other people forever.
The only reason PNG started to gain significant acceptance was legal pressure from the GIF format's owners...
BUZZZT. Hardly. There are many reasons why PNG started to gain acceptance. Not in all my life have I heard anyone at work (web-design) decide to use PNG instead of GIF becasue of the legal reasons.
Ping has loss-less compression, like a GIF, but can be either 8bit or full 24/32bit. It also supports a full 8bit alpha channel, and gama levels feature, which keeps the image looking the same across all platforms.
The reason it has started to gain acceptance. Is cause browsers have started to support PNG. Some still have a bit to go *cough*IE*cough*. But once all the major browers support it properly. I think PNG will take off.
I don't see this happening. Ogg Vorbis (like MP3) doesn't support DRM, which is the new "must-have" for music playing. Support will most likely remain "unofficial" for a long time.
PDAs have tiny screens and no keyboards -- the interface is too cumbersome.
At the moment PDAs have small screen. But that may change. You don't need a big device to make a big hologram (that the future I think). PDAs DO have keyboards. You obviously haven't only seen a couple of PDAs. Also, you can get ad-on keyboards.
You can't talk to your voice-enabled PDA during a meeting or on a busy bus so don't expect the interface to ever improve.
Why? What makes you say that? Never heard of filters and directional microphones? I have a 20 year old dictaphone that can do this.
PDAs appeal to techno-geeks and power-hungry professionals, but they don't appeal to the average Joe who still prefers pen and paper.
Do a survey on that? Cellphones where only for yuppies, business men a few years ago. Now everyone has them.
PDAs aren't powerful enough to do what a PC does.
Sure, that the moment, a PDA can't do 3D modeling and video editing. But It can easily do the the more common tasks, like word processing, MP3s, PIM, surfing the web etc...
PDAs aren't expandable.
Yes they are. Go to palm.com, and handspring.com and se for yourself.
Portable computers break down more and are more expensive to fix when it happens.
My Vx has never had a hardware failure, and has only needed a hard reset once, when I installed a doggy program. I has been more reliable that ANY desktop OS i have ever used or any desktop computer/laptop.
Most home users who want a low-cost entry point to the web will opt for the much-more-powerful console gaming system.
Not everyone will want a gaming console. Not everyone is a young male.
Dropping PC prices will continue to put pressure on the bottom end of the market, making the PC an attractive purchase.
The only problem with this, is that some people, like me, go to sites that use pop-up windows for things other than addverts.
Sure, you can add a the domain to a type of ignore list. But that's a pain. Quite often, I only visit a site once. So it's not worth it.
I think there needs to be an option that dissallows window.open when it is run automaticly. Not when the user clicks a link or button to start a function.
That would get rid of the pop-up adds, bit still alow pop-up windows to be used for sites that need them.
The article didn't say that this is a magical sound. That will make you want to buy what ever is making the sound. It didn't say it works subconciously or anything like that.
It probably works the same way a 150db alarm would get you attention. But without being as loud.
Advertising already uses this... Flashy lights, loud sounds etc. A chusshing sound probably won't work any better.
But sometimes, loud noises and flashing lights aren't appropriate. Hench the chussh.
You don't have tigers leap at you everyday (unless you work in a zoo etc..).
But you brain will recognise what is happening. And you'll react automaticly.
You don't usaly place you had on scualting hot surfaces everyday. But your body recognises that.
We call these things 'instincts'. I guess this sound must invoke a similar reaction. Maybe it sounds like it could be a predator in a bush or something.
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If Opera had a user base in the double digits, I might do a but more research, and try to work around the problems. But it doesn't, so it just isn't worth it.
Also, as far a s I'm concerned, it's not IE and Netscape, it's IE and Mozilla. In terms of HTML 4 and CSS 2, Mozilla hasn't let me down yet. Does everything just the way it's descibed in the W3C standards. IMHO, Mozilla doesn't have far to go, to being on par with IE. And infact, it beats IE on alot of things (standards support, handy features etc) already.
Also. I don't have a problem with IE dropping the EMBED tag.
But what it do have a problem with is the way they are dropping it. These things need to be gradualy worked out. Not dropped without telling anyone in advanced, giving noone time to prepare for it (1-2 years IMHO). It's just a cheap way to try and damage Quicktime as far as I can see it.
MS still alow non-closed <P> tags in IE6. That's not alowed in HTML 4. But it makes sence to still alow it for now while people start to support it HTML 4 better.
The alternative to EMBED isn't as easy as slapping another closing tag on the end. So one would think that it would be phased out over 1-3 years. But no, MS have whacked it out, just like that.
How does the CD-ROM/burner/player tell the bizcards apart from the others? The barcode or number in the center?
I'm not sure if this is a stupid question. But if you cut a 3" or 6" CD into the same shape, would it work the same?
Yeah I know, not all /. articals are that big, but there still quite a few. And plenty on slightly smaller ones around.
Also. I think /. needs a better way to archive old articals. It's really hard to follow a /. artical when it's been flatened. And also, it all ends up on one page. Visit the Microsoft Asks Slashdot To Remove Readers' Posts artical, and see how long it takes to load. Then try to make sence out if it.
Can't /. store each post on it' own, like an Everything2.com node, and an artical page that links them all up? It would open up quite a few new doors in terms of being about to find/sort stuff, and customising the layout, even after it's archived.
Or one could say something like: "Guess you could say we strumed the banjo a bit to hard. Ha Ha Ha!" for a few points...
I think what you meant is that 2.5 FPS isn't considered fast enough to trick you into seeing motion. Minumum is 12FPS.
So it is real time, but the FPS just isn't fast enough to trick your brain into thinking that it is real motion.
A bit off-topic but:
One of the things I've notices, is that there are soooo many different eBook formats, I have 3 different readers on my palm at the moment. And I feel it's only going to increase.
So why dosn't someone make a format with something that we all know, is open, and will do the job just fine?... HTML
A limited version of HTML that is, alow tags like: <I> <B> <A> <P> <BR> <OL>/<UL> <H1> <H2> <HR> <BLOCKQUOTE>(when the screens get a big bigger).
That would give you everything you need to format a novel. And maybe add <TABLE> and CSS1 for techincal documents etc. And then have some form of compression maybe (most e-book do, don't they?).
You could also read it on your PC, no special program needed.
But I can definitly see why someone would think it's ugly.
No, it is possible, if your XML document had really long-worded tags. And consisted of mostly tags and not much actual data.
True.. I guess it depends if you want to test the actual CPU speed, or real world speed, since alot of progs don't use altivec. But I guess that will change.
Oh shit yes... I can't say how many little things there are about winXX the piss me off so much, that never get fixed.
It's the little things that count, casue when your using a computer, you end up doing these little things so many times, they become a big pain in the ass. Of course, app programmers do share a little of the blame for this to.
That's why I ended up liking Mac OS so much when I was using Macs. And it's also why I'm holding off my opinion on OS X, since they still have a lots of little things to fix up.
Where did 3D modeling an animation go to? There are quite a few different parts to that.
We used 450Mhz iMacs. And although they where good for video editing, they where slow with the 3D modeling. They where also unrealible. But that's more to do with a prog (lightwave) and OS 9, with it's lack of memory protection etc.
BTW, I think NewTek Lightwave is more of a better benchmark test. It's dosn't use the altivec unit (AFAIK), and the app is pretty much exactly the same across platform (they made their own GUI). Photoshop does differ from the PC to Mac.
Do some scene rendering benchmarks using lightwave, with a PC and Mac, and I'd be more willing to belive the results are fair.
Well, why don't you unplug you monitor, take the cover off. And lick around some of the more beefier looking components.
Never heard of capacitors?
Annakin starts to whistle to Jar Jar, and yell phrases like "get in behind ya mungrle!" "steady! steady!" "good boy!", as Jar Jar runs around, hearding the sheep into a spaceship.
How did HTML and CSS get started? Was it a company like this? or an orginization?
Anyway, they haven't made a good impression on me so far, with there .PDF's (.PDFs are NOT a web document! All I want to do is read it. Not print the danm thing out) and their annoying 'web installer', which seems to be all the rav these days (what happens when I disconnect? Will it resume? Who knows, they didn't bother telling me). And as someone else said, they seem to like TM's and patents.[/RANT]
I'd recommend complaining.
I have no idea what a SPARC Solaris on a ss10/612 looks like, or how old it is etc.
But. If it's a case of modern tech, but not much support. Complain. Complain, complain, complain.
And then complain some more.
If no-one had complained about IE lacking CSS support etc... Chances are, MS wouldn't have bothered with it too much.
Then agian, if it's old tech. I'd just accept it. People can't wait around for other people forever.
BUZZZT. Hardly. There are many reasons why PNG started to gain acceptance. Not in all my life have I heard anyone at work (web-design) decide to use PNG instead of GIF becasue of the legal reasons.
Ping has loss-less compression, like a GIF, but can be either 8bit or full 24/32bit. It also supports a full 8bit alpha channel, and gama levels feature, which keeps the image looking the same across all platforms.
The reason it has started to gain acceptance. Is cause browsers have started to support PNG. Some still have a bit to go *cough*IE*cough*. But once all the major browers support it properly. I think PNG will take off.
There's alot of gradients in there, so they won't compress very well.
The main title is 56kb. A .jpg could half that size, and still look just as good.
Can someone please explain what DRM is?
At the moment PDAs have small screen. But that may change. You don't need a big device to make a big hologram (that the future I think). PDAs DO have keyboards. You obviously haven't only seen a couple of PDAs. Also, you can get ad-on keyboards.
You can't talk to your voice-enabled PDA during a meeting or on a busy bus so don't expect the interface to ever improve.
Why? What makes you say that? Never heard of filters and directional microphones? I have a 20 year old dictaphone that can do this.
PDAs appeal to techno-geeks and power-hungry professionals, but they don't appeal to the average Joe who still prefers pen and paper.
Do a survey on that? Cellphones where only for yuppies, business men a few years ago. Now everyone has them.
PDAs aren't powerful enough to do what a PC does.
Sure, that the moment, a PDA can't do 3D modeling and video editing. But It can easily do the the more common tasks, like word processing, MP3s, PIM, surfing the web etc...
PDAs aren't expandable.
Yes they are. Go to palm.com, and handspring.com and se for yourself.
Portable computers break down more and are more expensive to fix when it happens.
My Vx has never had a hardware failure, and has only needed a hard reset once, when I installed a doggy program. I has been more reliable that ANY desktop OS i have ever used or any desktop computer/laptop.
Most home users who want a low-cost entry point to the web will opt for the much-more-powerful console gaming system.
Not everyone will want a gaming console. Not everyone is a young male.
Dropping PC prices will continue to put pressure on the bottom end of the market, making the PC an attractive purchase.
Not sure how that fits in here
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "noAccess");
The only problem with this, is that some people, like me, go to sites that use pop-up windows for things other than addverts.
Sure, you can add a the domain to a type of ignore list. But that's a pain. Quite often, I only visit a site once. So it's not worth it.
I think there needs to be an option that dissallows window.open when it is run automaticly. Not when the user clicks a link or button to start a function.
That would get rid of the pop-up adds, bit still alow pop-up windows to be used for sites that need them.
It probably works the same way a 150db alarm would get you attention. But without being as loud.
Advertising already uses this... Flashy lights, loud sounds etc. A chusshing sound probably won't work any better.
But sometimes, loud noises and flashing lights aren't appropriate. Hench the chussh.
But you brain will recognise what is happening. And you'll react automaticly.
You don't usaly place you had on scualting hot surfaces everyday. But your body recognises that.
We call these things 'instincts'. I guess this sound must invoke a similar reaction. Maybe it sounds like it could be a predator in a bush or something.