Mozilla has really come along way. Ive been using the nightly builds for the past 3 months (upgrading daily, missed very few builds) and the quality of Mozilla is really improving.
IE has really come a long way. Ive been using the final release builds for the past 3 years (upgrading semi-annually, missed very few upgrades) and the quality of IE is really improving.
Its not perfect, it might just crash on you, but it does it, and does it well
I agree. Netscape does crash on you, and it does it well. Better than any browser I have used. Long live open source.
Ok, for accelerated games, you wouldn't have to pass that much data over the AGP bus. The data rate may remain the same, but you still have to draw many more pixels per frame. If you get 60 fps on a 1600x1200 (1.92 Mpixel) display then on a 9 Mpixel display you will probably end up with 13 fps.
On the other hand, not all of the stuff that appears on the screen are games. Any non-accelerated fullscreen app will most likely suffer.
PNG is better and patent free but people continue to use GIF. Even though Ogg is better it may just dissapear under the shadow of MP3 and all the media that the format is getting.
What is the big deal anyways. As long as I can get an MP3 encoder/decoder for free then I am happy. Hard drive space isn't an issue, and I don't think that an increase in audio quality by a few percent is enough for me to switch from MP3.
Slashdotters are the type of people that would be anti-GIF because it isn't "Free". The funny thing is that Slashdot uses GIF images and not PNG... I wonder why.
Several posters mentioned that the radeon wouldn't be placed in the cube because of the heat that it generates. A review on sharkyextreme mentions that the Radeon runs no hotter than 116.6F (including fan?) where as a Voodoo5 runs at 160.0F. That is still fairly hot, but it might not be an issue for a case that is specifically designed to convect heat. I am convinced that such a case can convect heat just as well or better than your typical PC case.
I often wonder if Netscape 6 will live up to the hype that it has built up. Seems like everyone is saying that it will be the greatest piece of software ever created just because it is open sourced and the competition isn't.
They had the better browser back in the days but it doesn't mean that they will be #1 when they reenter the race. They might be up there again, but probably not for a while.
For PC browsers, IE has improved a lot ever since Netscape took a vacation to work on their tan. I really don't care if Gecko can render a page twice as fast because under normal conditions this may save you a whole 0.2 seconds. This 0.2s saved can now be put to use by your do_nothing_while_I_download_the_rest_of_the_page process. The average user isn't gonna give a shit over hardcore HTML rendering, CXNESFDK compliance, Pokemon-Style-Sheets (actually, anything pokemon is a go), or any other nerd technology.
Netscape owns the non-PC browser market but you never see people bitching that they didn't deliver a worthwhile update in the past couple years. Microsoft may have tried to monopolize the browser market on the PC but at least they are able to provide the users with support, improvements, and tight integration with the OS. Despite doing this, they still get dumped on because they are Microsoft.
As far as I know, the number of successful open source projects (relative to the number out there) is very small. It would be nice to see Netscape succeed but we can't just assume that they will. This can give open source a bad name if this high profile project doesn't live up to the hype. So maybe we should just lay off until we are sure that it doesn't suck.
Netscape can be a good example of an open source project just as easily as it can be a bad one.
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...but what happens when these things become clogged with dust?
IE has really come a long way. Ive been using the final release builds for the past 3 years (upgrading semi-annually, missed very few upgrades) and the quality of IE is really improving.
Its not perfect, it might just crash on you, but it does it, and does it well
I agree. Netscape does crash on you, and it does it well. Better than any browser I have used. Long live open source.
I'm am glad to hear that Mr. Bergeron's vagina did not become irritated.
On the other hand, not all of the stuff that appears on the screen are games. Any non-accelerated fullscreen app will most likely suffer.
You don't want to be pushing that through the system at 60 fps. So none of that "but can you play quake on it" stuff.
What is the big deal anyways. As long as I can get an MP3 encoder/decoder for free then I am happy. Hard drive space isn't an issue, and I don't think that an increase in audio quality by a few percent is enough for me to switch from MP3.
Slashdotters are the type of people that would be anti-GIF because it isn't "Free". The funny thing is that Slashdot uses GIF images and not PNG... I wonder why.
Sounds like the invention of open source...
- Management figures out if they open source their project it will suck ass like netscape and will not make them money.
- programmers figure out that no one will pay for them to code if someone will do it for free
This has the potential to destroy civilization as we know it.
Several posters mentioned that the radeon wouldn't be placed in the cube because of the heat that it generates. A review on sharkyextreme mentions that the Radeon runs no hotter than 116.6F (including fan?) where as a Voodoo5 runs at 160.0F. That is still fairly hot, but it might not be an issue for a case that is specifically designed to convect heat. I am convinced that such a case can convect heat just as well or better than your typical PC case.
The day that AI becomes smart enough to filter porn is that day that it realizes that it likes it and refuses to filter it.
To most geeks the programming interface is the user interface and the user interface is just for weenies.
Apparently linux couldn't run on this without a custom hack either. Actually if you think about it, linux is all about custom hacks.
Hackers found their way into greenglow's systems and found this Top Secret Document which contains the results of their anti-gravity simulations.
I often wonder if Netscape 6 will live up to the hype that it has built up. Seems like everyone is saying that it will be the greatest piece of software ever created just because it is open sourced and the competition isn't.
They had the better browser back in the days but it doesn't mean that they will be #1 when they reenter the race. They might be up there again, but probably not for a while.
For PC browsers, IE has improved a lot ever since Netscape took a vacation to work on their tan. I really don't care if Gecko can render a page twice as fast because under normal conditions this may save you a whole 0.2 seconds. This 0.2s saved can now be put to use by your do_nothing_while_I_download_the_rest_of_the_page process. The average user isn't gonna give a shit over hardcore HTML rendering, CXNESFDK compliance, Pokemon-Style-Sheets (actually, anything pokemon is a go), or any other nerd technology.
Netscape owns the non-PC browser market but you never see people bitching that they didn't deliver a worthwhile update in the past couple years. Microsoft may have tried to monopolize the browser market on the PC but at least they are able to provide the users with support, improvements, and tight integration with the OS. Despite doing this, they still get dumped on because they are Microsoft.
As far as I know, the number of successful open source projects (relative to the number out there) is very small. It would be nice to see Netscape succeed but we can't just assume that they will. This can give open source a bad name if this high profile project doesn't live up to the hype. So maybe we should just lay off until we are sure that it doesn't suck.
Netscape can be a good example of an open source project just as easily as it can be a bad one.
Steve Jobs = Founder and CEO of Pixar
I think that explains it.
Check out this Mac Plus (circa 1980s) running at 1 GHz.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schrier/plus.html
I will always remember that AMD was the first to require 1000 MHz to do what the G4 can do in 500 MHz.
As for Intel, I already forgot who they are.
With 8 computers and 10% chance of failure the chance of at least one failure is...
P(fail) = 0.10
P(no_fail) = 1.00 - P(fail) = 0.90
P(no_fail_8) = 0.90^8 = 0.43
P(at_least_1_fail_8) = 1.00 - 0.43 = 0.57
So 57% chance you will get some sort of failure. There is a 53% chance that this calculation is right because thats what I got in stats.
This does seem large for a failure rate but then again a 10% chance of failure sounds like a computer running Windows, not Linux.
A failure rate of 1 per year per computer will result in a 2.2% chance of at least one failing in a day.