When I say platform-specific I mean it uses each OSes toolkit. This could be a strong point, but it means they're out of sync on the releases, and they run into the same problems Netscape had, that of repeated effort.
As for whether people want the "platform" or not, well, that's a matter still up for debate.
Your site doesn't validate, uses crap like the FONT tag, has very poor indenting in the javascript and uses very out of date tags. Despite all this, you still have the nerve to use it as an example of how to write a web site? Hmm...
Sorry, it is. OK, so it has decent CSS support (Well, CSS1 anyway). However, its DOM support is at least as bad Netscape4's CSS support is. DOM today is what CSS was back in 1998, somewhat used, but not to the extent that it could be, mainly because of legacy browsers.
Also, they compare rewriting the rendering engine to writing Mozilla. Hello, they're producing a non-embeddable, platform-specific web browser. Mozilla.org produced a platform. Take a look at Komodo if you don't believe me. Sorry, but it's apples and oranges.
And this "fastest browser on earth" crap is getting annoying. Anybody can create a fast browser, but both Mozilla and IE can do far more than Opera can, and I can't help but wonder how DOM compliant this new Opera will be. Will it be up to Mozilla's or even IE's capabilities? I doubt it to be honest.
Well, I'm in the UK so things might be different. Every single phone that's free with a contract has vibrate, and I'm fairly certain the pre-pay ones all have vibrate now.
Hospitals can be overcrowded at the best of times. If there's an accident and about 20 injured come pouring in, they're likely to call in as many doctors as they can.
One minute can mean the difference between life and death. Imagine this:
1) Cinema's phone rings. Somebody answers. They take the message (Can take a good 30 secs or so). They then relay the message to the usher who then needs to find the person in the cinema who then needs to get out and to their car. Person is lucky they weren't engaged.
2) Person's phone rings (Vibrates). They see it's work from caller ID. Automatically, they get up and start moving out. They get the message as they're heading out of the cinema. By the time they hang-up, they're well on their way to their car.
"No. They can leave a message. You do realize that people died while their friends were in movies before cell phones were around, don't you? If you're really that nervous that something might happen to your child or parent, perhaps you should be with them. Or perhaps you shouldn't feel so bad about being unavailable for an hour or so while you eat or watch a movie."
What makes you so important to decide what is and isn't acceptable?
I wonder if that sort of attitude was around at the time telephones were invented?
"Who needs a telephone? If someone needs to contact you in an emergency, they'll just send a runner to where you happen to be."
Mobile phones are very useful because they are exactly what they claim to be. What if there was a problem at the restaurant and they decided to go elsewhere? It would be a pain phoning back and forth to let people know where they were.
I haven't seen a new phone without vibrate in a long time. The reasons people don't use it are:
1) They're arseholes who like annoying people with their ringtone. 2) They don't have vibration. There's a lot of old phones without vibrate functions still out there. 3) They can't keep their phone in their pocket. This is typically because of things like women wearing clothes that don't have pockets or won't use them. 4) They don't know how to switch between ring-tone and vibrate.
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Actually, it's a somewhat different story to what appeared to be going on.
3dfx knew the Voodoo2 wouldn't be king forever. They were working on Rampage as its successor. Unfortunately, it fell to feature creep and kept getting delayed.
When 3dfx bought STB they pulled engineers off Rampage to design Banshee. Banshee went through so many respins it was silly, hence the huge delay. By now, Rampage had fallen even further behind, so much so they needed to go back to the drawing board. The huge exodus of engineers that had recently occured didn't help either.
In order to keep chips moving, 3dfx die shrinked the Banshee, put the TMU it lost from the Voodoo2 back on, increased the clock and called it the Voodoo3. The Voodoo5 started out as the Voodoo3 4000 to combat the TNT2 ultra, but then 3dfx learned about the GeForce and added the T-buffer to produce the Voodoo5.
Rampage taped out around late November-early December 2000. They even got the OpenGL drivers up to playing Quake3 (There are screenshots floating around). Unfortunately, by then it was too late. It's a shame, because I hear their "texture computer" was quite interesting.
Woah there, Nintendo do not lose money on the Gamecube hardware. In fact, they stated their ultimate goal is to get it down to £99 and they will still be at least breaking even on it.
AOL no longer has that deal with MS. It expired last year IIRC and they couldn't negotiate a new deal. MS wanted AOL to drop Real and go with WMP, but AOL refused.
It was never proven Tony Martin knew the youth was fleeing. For all he knew, the guy could have been looking for another way around, getting his mate who had a gun (None of them did, but Tony didn't know that).
I also loved the youths' attitude: "Oh, we weren't burglers, we were just casing the joint." Yeah.
Firstly, anything Transgaming release to the ReWind tree can be freely incorporated into the WineHQ tree, but Transgaming aren't going to do it.
The main reason Transgaming won't go with the LGPL tree is because the DLLs aren't abstracted out enough and Transgaming would need to LGPL too much of their stuff (And the code to deal with copy protection, which they don't have the rights to). They do give stuff back, but they obviously want to keep some stuff to themselves because they want something to derive revenue from.
Well, a search on "buffer overflow" produces 2 results, two of which are "possible" (as in unvconfirmed), the other says one file is prone to buffer overflows, although I didn't look at its severity.
I did do a search for "security", but most of them were benign or audits, I didn't bother to identify the rest.
Mozilla doesn't rely on the Mail/News component at all. You don't have to install it, but if you do, it comes as little surprise it'll make heavy use of the base Mozilla code.
The problem is "normal" users usually use what they're given. When my mother first started using her laptop for accessing the internet, I'd have given her Mozilla if 1.0 was out when she started using it. After some coaching, I could see her handling it well.
Extending a standard is nowhere near as bad as actually breaking it. Unfortunately, IE does both in places, but it's nowhere near as bad as the Netscape/IE 4.x days.
Put simply, a modern society cannot operate without laws and a way to enforce them. I am an atheist yet I do more for the good of society than many religious people.
Oh please, the date when the US started caring about terrorism outside its borsers is 11/9/01. The UKs been dealing with terrorism for a lot longer than that.
Seeing as this "missing hardware" is still emulated over the "industry standard port", there's no real need to have the hardware emulation in ring 0, you can just as easily do it outside of ring 0 and pump the data of the port.
Yes, you are indeed right. The thing is, the "guilty until proven innocent" method is a direct violation of the Human Rights Act, which is law in the UK, and is one of those "unmutable" laws. Thus, you could theoretically get the law struck down using the human rights argument.
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When I say platform-specific I mean it uses each OSes toolkit. This could be a strong point, but it means they're out of sync on the releases, and they run into the same problems Netscape had, that of repeated effort.
As for whether people want the "platform" or not, well, that's a matter still up for debate.
Your site doesn't validate, uses crap like the FONT tag, has very poor indenting in the javascript and uses very out of date tags. Despite all this, you still have the nerve to use it as an example of how to write a web site? Hmm...
"Our old engine wasn't that bad," Tetzchner said.
Sorry, it is. OK, so it has decent CSS support (Well, CSS1 anyway). However, its DOM support is at least as bad Netscape4's CSS support is. DOM today is what CSS was back in 1998, somewhat used, but not to the extent that it could be, mainly because of legacy browsers.
Also, they compare rewriting the rendering engine to writing Mozilla. Hello, they're producing a non-embeddable, platform-specific web browser. Mozilla.org produced a platform. Take a look at Komodo if you don't believe me. Sorry, but it's apples and oranges.
And this "fastest browser on earth" crap is getting annoying. Anybody can create a fast browser, but both Mozilla and IE can do far more than Opera can, and I can't help but wonder how DOM compliant this new Opera will be. Will it be up to Mozilla's or even IE's capabilities? I doubt it to be honest.
Well, I'm in the UK so things might be different. Every single phone that's free with a contract has vibrate, and I'm fairly certain the pre-pay ones all have vibrate now.
Hospitals can be overcrowded at the best of times. If there's an accident and about 20 injured come pouring in, they're likely to call in as many doctors as they can.
One minute can mean the difference between life and death. Imagine this:
1) Cinema's phone rings. Somebody answers. They take the message (Can take a good 30 secs or so). They then relay the message to the usher who then needs to find the person in the cinema who then needs to get out and to their car. Person is lucky they weren't engaged.
2) Person's phone rings (Vibrates). They see it's work from caller ID. Automatically, they get up and start moving out. They get the message as they're heading out of the cinema. By the time they hang-up, they're well on their way to their car.
"No. They can leave a message. You do realize that people died while their friends were in movies before cell phones were around, don't you? If you're really that nervous that something might happen to your child or parent, perhaps you should be with them. Or perhaps you shouldn't feel so bad about being unavailable for an hour or so while you eat or watch a movie."
What makes you so important to decide what is and isn't acceptable?
I wonder if that sort of attitude was around at the time telephones were invented?
"Who needs a telephone? If someone needs to contact you in an emergency, they'll just send a runner to where you happen to be."
Mobile phones are very useful because they are exactly what they claim to be. What if there was a problem at the restaurant and they decided to go elsewhere? It would be a pain phoning back and forth to let people know where they were.
I haven't seen a new phone without vibrate in a long time. The reasons people don't use it are:
1) They're arseholes who like annoying people with their ringtone.
2) They don't have vibration. There's a lot of old phones without vibrate functions still out there.
3) They can't keep their phone in their pocket. This is typically because of things like women wearing clothes that don't have pockets or won't use them.
4) They don't know how to switch between ring-tone and vibrate.
Actually, it's a somewhat different story to what appeared to be going on.
3dfx knew the Voodoo2 wouldn't be king forever. They were working on Rampage as its successor. Unfortunately, it fell to feature creep and kept getting delayed.
When 3dfx bought STB they pulled engineers off Rampage to design Banshee. Banshee went through so many respins it was silly, hence the huge delay. By now, Rampage had fallen even further behind, so much so they needed to go back to the drawing board. The huge exodus of engineers that had recently occured didn't help either.
In order to keep chips moving, 3dfx die shrinked the Banshee, put the TMU it lost from the Voodoo2 back on, increased the clock and called it the Voodoo3. The Voodoo5 started out as the Voodoo3 4000 to combat the TNT2 ultra, but then 3dfx learned about the GeForce and added the T-buffer to produce the Voodoo5.
Rampage taped out around late November-early December 2000. They even got the OpenGL drivers up to playing Quake3 (There are screenshots floating around). Unfortunately, by then it was too late. It's a shame, because I hear their "texture computer" was quite interesting.
Woah there, Nintendo do not lose money on the Gamecube hardware. In fact, they stated their ultimate goal is to get it down to £99 and they will still be at least breaking even on it.
Quake ONE engine. For God's sake, I really wish people would get their facts straight.
AOL no longer has that deal with MS. It expired last year IIRC and they couldn't negotiate a new deal. MS wanted AOL to drop Real and go with WMP, but AOL refused.
It was never proven Tony Martin knew the youth was fleeing. For all he knew, the guy could have been looking for another way around, getting his mate who had a gun (None of them did, but Tony didn't know that).
I also loved the youths' attitude: "Oh, we weren't burglers, we were just casing the joint." Yeah.
Firstly, anything Transgaming release to the ReWind tree can be freely incorporated into the WineHQ tree, but Transgaming aren't going to do it.
The main reason Transgaming won't go with the LGPL tree is because the DLLs aren't abstracted out enough and Transgaming would need to LGPL too much of their stuff (And the code to deal with copy protection, which they don't have the rights to). They do give stuff back, but they obviously want to keep some stuff to themselves because they want something to derive revenue from.
Well, a search on "buffer overflow" produces 2 results, two of which are "possible" (as in unvconfirmed), the other says one file is prone to buffer overflows, although I didn't look at its severity.
I did do a search for "security", but most of them were benign or audits, I didn't bother to identify the rest.
Mozilla doesn't rely on the Mail/News component at all. You don't have to install it, but if you do, it comes as little surprise it'll make heavy use of the base Mozilla code.
The problem is "normal" users usually use what they're given. When my mother first started using her laptop for accessing the internet, I'd have given her Mozilla if 1.0 was out when she started using it. After some coaching, I could see her handling it well.
Extending a standard is nowhere near as bad as actually breaking it. Unfortunately, IE does both in places, but it's nowhere near as bad as the Netscape/IE 4.x days.
Err...barely keeping up? Go look at the reviews for the Radeon 9700.
Alas, most of the world has to deal with "which of these options is the lesser of two evils" problem at some point in their lives.
Put simply, a modern society cannot operate without laws and a way to enforce them. I am an atheist yet I do more for the good of society than many religious people.
Oh please, the date when the US started caring about terrorism outside its borsers is 11/9/01. The UKs been dealing with terrorism for a lot longer than that.
Seeing as this "missing hardware" is still emulated over the "industry standard port", there's no real need to have the hardware emulation in ring 0, you can just as easily do it outside of ring 0 and pump the data of the port.
Yes, you are indeed right. The thing is, the "guilty until proven innocent" method is a direct violation of the Human Rights Act, which is law in the UK, and is one of those "unmutable" laws. Thus, you could theoretically get the law struck down using the human rights argument.