I remember some time back when this issue was brought up, someone from SGI said that there was nothing SGI specific in their drivers that they couldn't open source.
Oh please, I didn't do any out-of-class revision for my GCSEs yet I did better than 95% of my year. My notes are simply not understandable beyond about a month of taking them, and my homework was always a quick rush job a few hours before it had to be in.
The ability to get good grades at high school is little more than the ability to act like a parrot.
That conformity comment reminds me about an editorial I read in a newspaper once.
A kid in a test had the question:
Which of these is the odd one out:
The Earth
The Moon
The Sun
A lemon
They used pictures as well. The kid chose the earth. He was marked wrong. When he was asked why he chose the earth he said "because it was the only thing that wasn't yellow." Wrong according to the answers but perfectly fine reasoning from looking at the pictures considering he was only in primary school.
"I mean, seriously. How incompetent are the IT losers working at the school district that they've been hacked several times? Why don't they take a more progressive approach like - gosh, I dunno - making the punishment a 2000 word report on exactly how you broke in and suggestions on how to fix the hole?"
Unfortunately, such action is considered sensible. Seeing as common sense in schools these days is sadly lacking amongst students and teachers alike, I doubt that would happen.
It could, but the only playable game that uses it is a leaked Q3Test, and you needed 4x FSAA enabled to use it. In modern games it simply wouldn't be playable except at 640x480 16bpp.
Konqueror is indeed nice, but its CSS support is not as good as Mozilla's. A few CSS items it seems not to support are:
margin-(whatever)
border-style
These either aren't supported or don't work correctly. Also, it's table handling seems to have a few bugs and it doesn't seem to support fully justified text. Support for alpha channels in PNGs would be nice too.
Read my text again. I *PRAISE* the Mozilla project
You do? Let me see... Their only saving grace was Mozilla, which amounts to them taking the generous work of a lot of other people and sticking their "Netscape" badge of dishonor on it
That really looks like you are claiming Netscape are just taking other peoples' code and sticking their name on it, which is rather far from the truth.
Next time, please re-read what was written before bashing... Especially over something that was never said to begin with.
Oh dear, another clueless idiot bashing the Mozilla project for no good reason. Oh well, someone has to dispell the myths...
Did you know that the vast majority of the code in Mozilla was written by somebody with an @netscape.com address? If you did, then you're just slagging off Netscape for no good reason. If you didn't, you are a clueless moron who should not be making such comments as you did.
Now, let's also not forget that Netscape have generously given us so much free code. Thanks to Mozilla now also being under the GPL (Or soon will be), a lot of open source projects will be able to benefit (Nautilus or Galeon anyone?).
Next time, please operate the strange device known as your brain before posting.
It's a shame as well, since I have no hope of getting broadband anything until at least 2002. What's a real bitch is the LPBs also tend to be the dedicated players who would be damn good even over a slow dialup, which tends to lead to me dying a lot.
There's a thought, was the concept of dying a lot thought about much before video games? After all, I can't imagine people saying "damn, I died again" in the 60s, unless they were experimenting with drugs, which I guess most people were;)
If I pick up a recipe leaflet, it's free to me. If a friend gives me a copy of Linux, it's free to me. Neither are free to whoever made it, but that's not the point.
Linux is free, in the same way that picking up a recipe leaflet in a supermarket is free. If you start assuming time is a cost, then nothing is free and virtually every company in the world will be open to lawsuits.
Now, back to the point; the installer asks if you want to send a notification of a change of e-mail address. Nowhere do you give it permission to send out a ringing endorsement of the product. Also, the responce seems to indicate that the users wanted to invite you to try MSN Explorer. This is false in at least some cases, which sounds like pretty clear-cut fraud to me.
I'll agree with you that WinIE seems rather broken. I discovered that when I first got into stylesheets. You'd think "font-size: smaller" would result in a smaller than normal font size. Microsoft disagrees.
As far as Netscape 4 goes, I can't say I'm surprised it looks goofy, I avoid it as much as possible. Thankfully, with Mozilla now speeding up considerably and the new Modern skin looking absolutely beautiful, I can for the most part.
I don't think you have too much to worry about regarding development of the khtml library, the mozilla QT port seems mostly a Corel pet project ATM.
We don't need to get rid of IE (It has some damn nice features, shame it still doesn't support some things like DOM properly), we just need to convince MS to sort out the standards compliance issues.
With MacIE being very standards compliant, maybe it's a sign of things to come with IE6 (Remember MS have been working on it for some time, after all, they can't have put that many resources into IE5.5).
I am aware of that, but last time I checked, Mozilla was more standards compliant than Konqueror. IIRC it supports more of CSS2 and (This part could be wrong) it has better DOM support.
OK, I'll give it the fact that it's beta software, but its rendering engine isn't as complete as Mozilla's (yet).
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No, it's full of yuppies.
I remember some time back when this issue was brought up, someone from SGI said that there was nothing SGI specific in their drivers that they couldn't open source.
Considering PowerVR have already created hardware T&L for their chips that Sega use in their arcade machines, I wouldn't say it's impossible...
It never ceases to amaze me how some people can be completely devoid of the ability to detect humour.
The problem with Konqueror is that its standards compliance leaves a lot to be desired, especially its DOM support.
Oh please, I didn't do any out-of-class revision for my GCSEs yet I did better than 95% of my year. My notes are simply not understandable beyond about a month of taking them, and my homework was always a quick rush job a few hours before it had to be in.
The ability to get good grades at high school is little more than the ability to act like a parrot.
That conformity comment reminds me about an editorial I read in a newspaper once.
A kid in a test had the question:
Which of these is the odd one out:
The Earth
The Moon
The Sun
A lemon
They used pictures as well. The kid chose the earth. He was marked wrong. When he was asked why he chose the earth he said "because it was the only thing that wasn't yellow." Wrong according to the answers but perfectly fine reasoning from looking at the pictures considering he was only in primary school.
If I was in charge of the school I went to there probably would be som common sense. Let's see:
A kid put another kid in hospital. Punishment: Detention for a week.
A kid dyed his hair blue. Punishment: Suspension until the dye was removed.
That is just one of the reasons I lack faith in today's schools.
"I mean, seriously. How incompetent are the IT losers working at the school district that they've been hacked several times? Why don't they take a more progressive approach like - gosh, I dunno - making the punishment a 2000 word report on exactly how you broke in and suggestions on how to fix the hole?"
Unfortunately, such action is considered sensible. Seeing as common sense in schools these days is sadly lacking amongst students and teachers alike, I doubt that would happen.
It could, but the only playable game that uses it is a leaked Q3Test, and you needed 4x FSAA enabled to use it. In modern games it simply wouldn't be playable except at 640x480 16bpp.
Don't say anything unless you know what you're talking about.
*All* 2.4 kernels are 'stable'.
So, just because it's not Netscape any more, we should be perfectly happy? Hmm...
Err...which part of HTML4 doesn't Netscape 6 support?
Vote for who you want. The person with the most votes gets in.
Al Gore would disagree. After all, he did win the popular vote by how many?
Its a little skewed by the electoral college system, but still its only out by a few %.
So it's not how many vote for you, it's who vote for you eh?
Personally, I reckong the RIP bill came from watching a little to much Star Trek:
"Guilty until proven innocent?!"
"Of course, brining the innocent to trial wouldn't be fair!"
Konqueror is indeed nice, but its CSS support is not as good as Mozilla's. A few CSS items it seems not to support are:
margin-(whatever)
border-style
These either aren't supported or don't work correctly. Also, it's table handling seems to have a few bugs and it doesn't seem to support fully justified text. Support for alpha channels in PNGs would be nice too.
Read my text again. I *PRAISE* the Mozilla project
You do? Let me see...
Their only saving grace was Mozilla, which amounts to them taking the generous work of a lot of other people and sticking their "Netscape" badge of dishonor on it
That really looks like you are claiming Netscape are just taking other peoples' code and sticking their name on it, which is rather far from the truth.
Next time, please re-read what was written before bashing... Especially over something that was never said to begin with.
Take a look at the quote, it was said.
Oh dear, another clueless idiot bashing the Mozilla project for no good reason. Oh well, someone has to dispell the myths...
Did you know that the vast majority of the code in Mozilla was written by somebody with an @netscape.com address? If you did, then you're just slagging off Netscape for no good reason. If you didn't, you are a clueless moron who should not be making such comments as you did.
Now, let's also not forget that Netscape have generously given us so much free code. Thanks to Mozilla now also being under the GPL (Or soon will be), a lot of open source projects will be able to benefit (Nautilus or Galeon anyone?).
Next time, please operate the strange device known as your brain before posting.
It's a shame as well, since I have no hope of getting broadband anything until at least 2002. What's a real bitch is the LPBs also tend to be the dedicated players who would be damn good even over a slow dialup, which tends to lead to me dying a lot.
;)
There's a thought, was the concept of dying a lot thought about much before video games? After all, I can't imagine people saying "damn, I died again" in the 60s, unless they were experimenting with drugs, which I guess most people were
That would be because the UK patent has expired.
If I pick up a recipe leaflet, it's free to me. If a friend gives me a copy of Linux, it's free to me. Neither are free to whoever made it, but that's not the point.
Linux is free, in the same way that picking up a recipe leaflet in a supermarket is free. If you start assuming time is a cost, then nothing is free and virtually every company in the world will be open to lawsuits.
Now, back to the point; the installer asks if you want to send a notification of a change of e-mail address. Nowhere do you give it permission to send out a ringing endorsement of the product. Also, the responce seems to indicate that the users wanted to invite you to try MSN Explorer. This is false in at least some cases, which sounds like pretty clear-cut fraud to me.
I'll agree with you that WinIE seems rather broken. I discovered that when I first got into stylesheets. You'd think "font-size: smaller" would result in a smaller than normal font size. Microsoft disagrees.
As far as Netscape 4 goes, I can't say I'm surprised it looks goofy, I avoid it as much as possible. Thankfully, with Mozilla now speeding up considerably and the new Modern skin looking absolutely beautiful, I can for the most part.
I don't think you have too much to worry about regarding development of the khtml library, the mozilla QT port seems mostly a Corel pet project ATM.
We don't need to get rid of IE (It has some damn nice features, shame it still doesn't support some things like DOM properly), we just need to convince MS to sort out the standards compliance issues.
With MacIE being very standards compliant, maybe it's a sign of things to come with IE6 (Remember MS have been working on it for some time, after all, they can't have put that many resources into IE5.5).
I am aware of that, but last time I checked, Mozilla was more standards compliant than Konqueror. IIRC it supports more of CSS2 and (This part could be wrong) it has better DOM support.
OK, I'll give it the fact that it's beta software, but its rendering engine isn't as complete as Mozilla's (yet).