Opera is a niche browser, and always has been. The people who like Opera like the fact that it's lightweight, snappy and/or has an unconventional UI. Oh, and it has a decent download manager built-in.
While Mozilla is getting a download manager, you can hardly describe it as lightweight, at least if you don't count just embedding the rendering engine.
I imagine Galeon might appeal to many Opera fans, but in all honesty, I can't see the majority of Opera users switching unless somebody essentially built an Opera-like browser using Gecko as the rendering engine. Even then, some people would still prefer Opera for its lightning fast (If a little dated) rendering engine.
One reason Opera can render faster than Mozilla is because it has a simpler rendering engine. Mozilla has to support DOM1 and a large chunk (if not all) of DOM2. This means pretty much every element can be seen as an object and manipulated as such, such as dynamically setting things like opacity, size, font and even position.
Since Opera is very weak in DOM support, it doesn't have to be so complex, and thus can render faster, but it cannot do many things Mozilla can do. On one hand, it's nice to have a browser that is lightweight and fast, on the other hand it pisses me off as a developer because it holds me back if I want to support Opera.
I personally think the remote assistance is one thing MS got right in XP. I think the invite system is very nice indeed and the fact that it's default off saves clueless people from themeselves (You know the type, the ones who can't be bothered to type a password). Perhaps someone should create a similar system for X (hint hint).
Well, I'm in the UK and I can't say things are much better. There was a big hoo-hah last year with the elections. Apparently turnout was somewhat low due to voter apathy.
Another problem we have is the sheep mentality. The Liberal Democrats got far less seats than they should have because many 'supporters' voted Labour because "we have to make sure the Tories don't get back in power" did the fact that Labour still have a huge majority escape them? They could have safely voted Lib Dem and Labour would still have won easily. However, they wouldn't have such a powerful majority.
The major blocker for PNG is the fact that IE does not support its alpha channel. I originally used PNGs with alpha channels on a web site I made, but then had to replace them when I found out IE didn't support the alpha channel. This was a pain in the arse because the end result looks a tad crappy.
Good point, in fact, nearly everything he mentions can be done quite easily in Evolution using VFolders. The only one I don't think you can do is the custom flags, you'd have to manually add a characteristic of the e-mail to the filter.
Would you care to point to the documentation stating the R8500 has full 3D support? The original Radeon's drivers still have piss-poor T&L support, if any.
Actually, Konqueror 3's rendering engine is a damn site better than Opera's. While Konqueror 2.x's was nothing to write home about, I'm very impressed with how far they've come since then.
While I don't have enough information at hand to answer the first two paragraphs, I would love to see your supporting evidence for the paragraph on the DMCA. I certainly am aware of no EU law in effect that has the scope of the DMCA. Indeed, there is one in the works (Which I am opposing), but it did not come before the DMCA.
Actually, the biggest problem I have with America is they don't give a shit unless they're in the firing line.
Recent example: how many Americans know about the bombing of inner-city Manchester a few years ago? Didn't Bush say something along the lines of "an attack on any of our allies is an attack on America"? If so, why were their "IRA money pots" in Irish bars over in America? They weren't exactly inconspicuous, although they seem to have disappeared post 11/9.
Admittedly, Clinton was in power when Manchester was bombed, but I don't think much has changed. Bush happily backed out of treaties simply because they didn't directly serve American interests, and didn't seem particually interested in British terrorist issues pre 11/9.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate America, although I won't ever enter the country so long as it has laws like the DMCA. I do, however, hate the arrogance America and many of its citizens seem to demonstrate.
Are you by any chance a fan of the Hitch-Hiker's series? I'm reminded of the man who decided the whole world was mad and built a house to keep the world IN, and him OUT. The incident that set him off was finding usage instructions that came with some toothpicks.
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Can't you just install the anti-spyware as another user, run it as that user and set it so that you do not have write access to the anti-spyware's files?
I know you can't do that with Win9x, but you can in NT/2K/XP. It would be a bit of hassle, but there's no way the spyware can access the anti-spyware's files.
Err...you missed his point. He's refering to the fact that Word contains so many features because different people use different features.
For example, it is often said that 99% of people only use 5% of the features. However, each person uses a different 5%. Thus, if you only include 5% of the features, not that many people will want to use your product.
Actually, the GPL and BSD are perfectly safe. Assuming a minor cannot enter into a contract, they have no right to distribute the code by default. Therefore, if they do distribute the code, if its within the licenses requirements you can just turn a blind eye, whereas if it's not, you just get them on standard copyright law.
There was a measurable difference, but it wasn't in the order of a 750MHz Athlon would spank a 1GHz PIII.
The old pre-TBird Athlons were slower at 1GHz than the PIII at the time. This was due to the cache running at 333MHz. When the TBird came out it was significantly faster than the PIII. However, they were pretty comparable, the major difference at the time was price rather than performance.
Back in the 1GHz days, the Athlon and PIII were comparable MHz for MHz. The P4 and Athlon XP are so different that comparing using clock speed simply isn't possible.
While the PR scheme is a bit dodgy, what do you expect them to do? When a customer comes in to a shop and sees "2.2GHz!!!!!!!" for the P4 and "1.667Ghz" for the Athlon XP, which do you think they'll go for? Unless they're one of the clued in types, they'll fall for the larger number.
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Opera is a niche browser, and always has been. The people who like Opera like the fact that it's lightweight, snappy and/or has an unconventional UI. Oh, and it has a decent download manager built-in.
While Mozilla is getting a download manager, you can hardly describe it as lightweight, at least if you don't count just embedding the rendering engine.
I imagine Galeon might appeal to many Opera fans, but in all honesty, I can't see the majority of Opera users switching unless somebody essentially built an Opera-like browser using Gecko as the rendering engine. Even then, some people would still prefer Opera for its lightning fast (If a little dated) rendering engine.
One reason Opera can render faster than Mozilla is because it has a simpler rendering engine. Mozilla has to support DOM1 and a large chunk (if not all) of DOM2. This means pretty much every element can be seen as an object and manipulated as such, such as dynamically setting things like opacity, size, font and even position.
Since Opera is very weak in DOM support, it doesn't have to be so complex, and thus can render faster, but it cannot do many things Mozilla can do. On one hand, it's nice to have a browser that is lightweight and fast, on the other hand it pisses me off as a developer because it holds me back if I want to support Opera.
Amazon works without cookies? It may do for some things, but it would need cookies as soon as you need something persistent, like your shopping cart.
I personally think the remote assistance is one thing MS got right in XP. I think the invite system is very nice indeed and the fact that it's default off saves clueless people from themeselves (You know the type, the ones who can't be bothered to type a password). Perhaps someone should create a similar system for X (hint hint).
Well, I'm in the UK and I can't say things are much better. There was a big hoo-hah last year with the elections. Apparently turnout was somewhat low due to voter apathy.
Another problem we have is the sheep mentality. The Liberal Democrats got far less seats than they should have because many 'supporters' voted Labour because "we have to make sure the Tories don't get back in power" did the fact that Labour still have a huge majority escape them? They could have safely voted Lib Dem and Labour would still have won easily. However, they wouldn't have such a powerful majority.
The major blocker for PNG is the fact that IE does not support its alpha channel. I originally used PNGs with alpha channels on a web site I made, but then had to replace them when I found out IE didn't support the alpha channel. This was a pain in the arse because the end result looks a tad crappy.
Wow, next time I need to tell the time, I can look at http://watch.dwinsper.org instead of going to all the effort to move my arm.
Good point, in fact, nearly everything he mentions can be done quite easily in Evolution using VFolders. The only one I don't think you can do is the custom flags, you'd have to manually add a characteristic of the e-mail to the filter.
You can't use BSD license either, since that would mean the software is free to distribute.
Would you care to point to the documentation stating the R8500 has full 3D support? The original Radeon's drivers still have piss-poor T&L support, if any.
Actually, Konqueror 3's rendering engine is a damn site better than Opera's. While Konqueror 2.x's was nothing to write home about, I'm very impressed with how far they've come since then.
While I don't have enough information at hand to answer the first two paragraphs, I would love to see your supporting evidence for the paragraph on the DMCA. I certainly am aware of no EU law in effect that has the scope of the DMCA. Indeed, there is one in the works (Which I am opposing), but it did not come before the DMCA.
Actually, the biggest problem I have with America is they don't give a shit unless they're in the firing line.
Recent example: how many Americans know about the bombing of inner-city Manchester a few years ago? Didn't Bush say something along the lines of "an attack on any of our allies is an attack on America"? If so, why were their "IRA money pots" in Irish bars over in America? They weren't exactly inconspicuous, although they seem to have disappeared post 11/9.
Admittedly, Clinton was in power when Manchester was bombed, but I don't think much has changed. Bush happily backed out of treaties simply because they didn't directly serve American interests, and didn't seem particually interested in British terrorist issues pre 11/9.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate America, although I won't ever enter the country so long as it has laws like the DMCA. I do, however, hate the arrogance America and many of its citizens seem to demonstrate.
Are you by any chance a fan of the Hitch-Hiker's series? I'm reminded of the man who decided the whole world was mad and built a house to keep the world IN, and him OUT. The incident that set him off was finding usage instructions that came with some toothpicks.
Hmm...that sort of thing works correctly for me. For example, look at http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript /trees/Example/example.htm
It expired ages ago.
But Opera's got awful DOM support. Come on, Konqueror's rendering engine has overtaken Opera's in terms of standards support with the advent of KDE3.
Because each 5% overlaps.
Can't you just install the anti-spyware as another user, run it as that user and set it so that you do not have write access to the anti-spyware's files?
I know you can't do that with Win9x, but you can in NT/2K/XP. It would be a bit of hassle, but there's no way the spyware can access the anti-spyware's files.
Err...you missed his point. He's refering to the fact that Word contains so many features because different people use different features.
For example, it is often said that 99% of people only use 5% of the features. However, each person uses a different 5%. Thus, if you only include 5% of the features, not that many people will want to use your product.
Actually, the GPL and BSD are perfectly safe. Assuming a minor cannot enter into a contract, they have no right to distribute the code by default. Therefore, if they do distribute the code, if its within the licenses requirements you can just turn a blind eye, whereas if it's not, you just get them on standard copyright law.
Actually, it was Picard, who was deriding Q's kangaroo court.
There was a measurable difference, but it wasn't in the order of a 750MHz Athlon would spank a 1GHz PIII.
The old pre-TBird Athlons were slower at 1GHz than the PIII at the time. This was due to the cache running at 333MHz. When the TBird came out it was significantly faster than the PIII. However, they were pretty comparable, the major difference at the time was price rather than performance.
Back in the 1GHz days, the Athlon and PIII were comparable MHz for MHz. The P4 and Athlon XP are so different that comparing using clock speed simply isn't possible.
While the PR scheme is a bit dodgy, what do you expect them to do? When a customer comes in to a shop and sees "2.2GHz!!!!!!!" for the P4 and "1.667Ghz" for the Athlon XP, which do you think they'll go for? Unless they're one of the clued in types, they'll fall for the larger number.
Err...RISC OS managed to do decent AA with an 8MHz ARM processor in 1MB of RAM. Surely a 386 with 2.5x the clock speed isn't that slow.