I think you need to get a new PC, if actually rendering web-pages causes you a problem. Are you sure it's not your graphics card, or system in general?
It could be both, but the comment was more to compare Gecko to Safari's engine, which is the same as used by Konquerer, as used on the same machine.
Cool, will that mean that some of the idiot web designers will actually start taking non-compatibility complaints seriously? Like those ladened with Javascript that works nowhere else but with IE. Take Expedia.com, where the calendar pop-ups only work with IE or Priston Tale web site where the side menus don't appear if you don't have IE (I already supplied a fix which was ignored) - actually this one should be lumped with the GIS2 web site for excesive use of Flash.
Maybe pigs will fly first?
Just one note Mozilla has one big advantage over Opera and Safari for MS base corportate networks: it supports NTLM.
I use Mozilla for most things, though on my Mac I increasingly use Safari, for the simple reason that I feel that Mozilla's rendering engine needs work. Gecko is slower at rendering pages than the engine powering Safari. Maybe had I a more recent computer I wouldn't notice the difference so much, but for many people this could be a sticking point. Some people I have spoken to still feel Mozilla and Firebird lose out against IE for just this reason. Other than that, I like the browser (Mozilla that is), and I am using the most recent release.
Apple currrently sells Emacs for $799. That's pretty cheap, but I think Apple highly underestimates what the public really wants. Most people want a computer that is expandable, and can accomodate things internally (or at least have the option to).
That is not the impression I get. Most people wouldn't consider opening up their Hi-Fi or DVD player to replace some circuitry in there. For most people this is what open up their computer seems like. Also for many people the next time they will seriously be upgrading their computer will be in the form of replacing their current computer.
If a computer has a Firewire (sustained transfer) connector or USB (burst transfer) Hi-Speed connector, then it has the sort of expandibility that people are comfortable with. I walked into a computer store the other day and was surprised to see the selection of external drives (DVD and HD) and their relatively low cost, when compared to internal drives.
The next market for many people is the portable. They aren't planning on opening up their computer and it has USB, Firewire and PCMCIA. So when it comes to expandibility it has it all. It also means that they can use it where ever they want. Add to this wireless networking and you can do it all. The only issue with portables is that they are generally more expensive, for lesser speced standard features than your desktops, but the margin is closing. Quite honestly I would be curious myself to see some figures on how the sales of portables and home PC compare in general.
Gamers and techies are a different breed in their needs and are more similar to guys wanting to improve on their high peformance car. So of course these people are going to want to be able to do more, but at the same time they also willing to spend time to achieve the knowledge to play with the inards and the technical details.
BTW, If Apple decided to use a CRT in the eMac, then it was of cost. CRT are still cheaper than an LCD of the same specs.
My ISP, Sympatico.ca, blocks all outgoing port 25 requests by default, except those going to its servers. I would imagine that if you could argue a valid need to have it unblocked for you they would do it, but I am just guessing. Although it may be a bit heavy handed, for the majority of most home users this shouldn't cause any problem.
Just a note about this. Sympatico.ca (a DSL provider) uses dynamic addresses for its home users and they are very short term allocations. That is if you reconnect, you are unlikely to get the same IP address. From what I can tell what they did in blocking port 25 makes sense in this scenario (easier to control). Maybe they would have taken a different approach had they been allocating static addresses or very long term dynamic addresses.
Forgive what might seem like an ignorant question, but is it possible to forge a port number?
No. Think of a server listening on a port as waiter waiting next to window. Only requests coming in through that window will be served. Trying to talk to a window where the waiter is not will not be of use, since either there would be no waiter there or the waiter that is there wouldn't understand what you are asking.
Any solution to get round the problem would require hijaking a machine not in the blocked IP range, or the router.
My ISP, Sympatico.ca, blocks all outgoing port 25 requests by default, except those going to its servers. I would imagine that if you could argue a valid need to have it unblocked for you they would do it, but I am just guessing. Although it may be a bit heavy handed, for the majority of most home users this shouldn't cause any problem.
I don't care for Moore - I think he's a pseudo-populist, a self-aggrandizer, a non-documentarian (his films don't explore issues as much as bolster his point of view)
Much of that is probably true. In this instance, what I feel this film has the potential of doing is actually getting people to talk about this. Not only that, but maybe some of the bigger publications.
From what I can tell, since G. W. Bush was elected most of the major US news* publications have avoided any major discussion on this subject and people have been kept in the dark. People have been convinced that talking against the government in unpatriotic. IMO, not defending the 'American way', in peaceful ways, is more unpatriotic than letting your rights and freedoms get trampled over.
Remember your own government (any government, any country), armies, and news agencies, can be accused of being terrorists if they spend their time scaring their populous shitless even when there is real little evidence of a threat. Remember a terrorist organisation is one that imposes terror on a populace in order to have their way. Sure it is a matter of interpretation, but its a label that people are using freely these days.
*from reading Foxnews.com, IMHO, it feels like anything but a news source, so shouldn't even be included amongst the 'news publications'. It feels more like sensationalist propaganda.
For example, both Ghandi and Stalin were 'leftists'.
Though at the same time their left's both differ. Stalin was about absolute rule, whereas Ghandi was not. The different cultural and personal ideals make for a difference in the end result.
In order to appreciate films like this and Final Fantasy, you definetly need a better understanding of spirtual beliefs. The ghost, is the spirit or soul of the machine, in the same way a ghost is the bodyless soul of a person.
Final Fantasy, lends itself to the Gaia Theory, and taking it further to suggest that planets are living enties with their own soul.
Japanese animation has plenty of philosphy in them (not all of them admitedly), and can be very deep, so it takes more to appreciate them than your average american cartoon, which in contrast are very shallow.
I am using Safari on my Mac and it is suffering. I didn't realise this site required the minimum hardware specs for Longhorn? This is why Flash designers need to be taken out and beaten, or at least shown the wisdom of good site design.
One thing worth noting is that a few companies I have worked for would rather spend an extra month reinventing something that already exists, than paying up any license fees. This usually means we are late because something as simple as a list manager and string handlers are being redone. At least, that is the way it is in C/C++. For the company I work for, who develops in Java, we are willing to pay for the big solutions, such as Weblogic (as long as they don't get too greedy), but for the smaller components, such as XML parsers, we use open source. If we were forced to pay for it, I think we would probably find ourselves writing a solution that did the job.
There is so much that makes up a company solution and the ability to avoid doing the foundation work provides them with the ability to concentrate on improving elsewhere.
Also, from my experience, small companies are more likely to use an open source DB, but when the data becomes important to the client too and liability becomes a factor, then they are more likely to want to go for the commercial solution, such as Oracle, DB2 or SQLServer.
Since many cell phones are using Java for the applications and games, I would not be surprised if the next step would be to include support for OpenGL, especially given that Nvidia and ATI are playing part. There are already OpenGL bindings for Java, though the one that is likely to show most evolution, given the backing, is JOGL.
Although I could only find this in regards to Java in the game, you'd be surprised how fast graphics can be in Java if you use the right graphics library. One which I have looked at is OpenGL for Java. It is essentially a Java language wrapper around the native OpenGL libraries. Given that more and more of graphics processing is done by the video card, then the graphics part of Java in this instance, would be as fast as your graphics card.
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Out of the box Swing is amazingly ugly. The people choosing default colors at Sun could well be substituted by a randomizer without a difference in results. I mean, who was the genius who thought purple bars in a menu were cute?
From my experience Apple is more likely to not let you do something, where MS will allow you to do it and then act that it knew what you wanted, even though it is not.
As to the menu bar you will find most users maximizing their windows, on other platforms, so the end effect is the same, ie menu at top.
I don't have any issues with nanotech, as long proper environmental issues are taken into account. Things like PCBs were banned because when they entered the environment could cause problems. This is one reason why some countries are now requiring computer companies to take it open themselves to recycle the computers at the end of their life. The idea is the computer manufacturers will make a better effor to make computers economic, and safer, to recycle if they have to deal with it.
One thing I dislike about Microsoft originated stuff is the belief that they know better than the user. Case in point: you paste a file:// URL into Excel and then ensure the the hyperlink address is 'file://' . Does it stick - no!!! It insists on switching it to the non-URL version. Have they thought that maybe I want a 'file://' type address in there? Because of this trying to publish the Excel document as a web page, with links (they all point to windows SMB shares) becomes difficult.
I just gave up with this and wrote my own Excel independent solution for my users. In the long run over simplification sometimes actually causes more issues than it solves.
I would like to know what country you're referring to, though. Where is this free country? Maybe I'll move there
Either he is thinking of the USA of old or of Utopia. The first no longer exists and the latter only exists in our dreams.
BTW I believe people should realise slogans and titles do no define patriotism, rather it is actions. Sometime the most patriotic thing you can do is act against mis-labels of 'patriotism'.
less likely, because Mr. Jobs has already said people don't want to watch videos on their 3" screen. reading some of the comments here, he may well be right on the money.
True, but the Archos shows that it is handy for images at least, especially those backed up from you camera. At the same time, when I went to China I managed to buy myself a VCD discman. It has no screen, but it came with the necessary cables to jack it into a TV (headphone type jack on one end and three RCA connectors on the other). It is great when I am travelling around and I am in a hotel room and it raining outdoors an I have nothing to do. Surely they could do the same thing? The only catch is you would have to copy your DVDs onto the player - maybe Apple is not ready to tackle this issue yet?
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I think you need to get a new PC, if actually rendering web-pages causes you a problem. Are you sure it's not your graphics card, or system in general?
It could be both, but the comment was more to compare Gecko to Safari's engine, which is the same as used by Konquerer, as used on the same machine.
Cool, will that mean that some of the idiot web designers will actually start taking non-compatibility complaints seriously? Like those ladened with Javascript that works nowhere else but with IE. Take Expedia.com, where the calendar pop-ups only work with IE or Priston Tale web site where the side menus don't appear if you don't have IE (I already supplied a fix which was ignored) - actually this one should be lumped with the GIS2 web site for excesive use of Flash.
Maybe pigs will fly first?
Just one note Mozilla has one big advantage over Opera and Safari for MS base corportate networks: it supports NTLM.
I use Mozilla for most things, though on my Mac I increasingly use Safari, for the simple reason that I feel that Mozilla's rendering engine needs work. Gecko is slower at rendering pages than the engine powering Safari. Maybe had I a more recent computer I wouldn't notice the difference so much, but for many people this could be a sticking point. Some people I have spoken to still feel Mozilla and Firebird lose out against IE for just this reason. Other than that, I like the browser (Mozilla that is), and I am using the most recent release.
Apple currrently sells Emacs for $799. That's pretty cheap, but I think Apple highly underestimates what the public really wants. Most people want a computer that is expandable, and can accomodate things internally (or at least have the option to).
That is not the impression I get. Most people wouldn't consider opening up their Hi-Fi or DVD player to replace some circuitry in there. For most people this is what open up their computer seems like. Also for many people the next time they will seriously be upgrading their computer will be in the form of replacing their current computer.
If a computer has a Firewire (sustained transfer) connector or USB (burst transfer) Hi-Speed connector, then it has the sort of expandibility that people are comfortable with. I walked into a computer store the other day and was surprised to see the selection of external drives (DVD and HD) and their relatively low cost, when compared to internal drives.
The next market for many people is the portable. They aren't planning on opening up their computer and it has USB, Firewire and PCMCIA. So when it comes to expandibility it has it all. It also means that they can use it where ever they want. Add to this wireless networking and you can do it all. The only issue with portables is that they are generally more expensive, for lesser speced standard features than your desktops, but the margin is closing. Quite honestly I would be curious myself to see some figures on how the sales of portables and home PC compare in general.
Gamers and techies are a different breed in their needs and are more similar to guys wanting to improve on their high peformance car. So of course these people are going to want to be able to do more, but at the same time they also willing to spend time to achieve the knowledge to play with the inards and the technical details.
BTW, If Apple decided to use a CRT in the eMac, then it was of cost. CRT are still cheaper than an LCD of the same specs.
My ISP, Sympatico.ca, blocks all outgoing port 25 requests by default, except those going to its servers. I would imagine that if you could argue a valid need to have it unblocked for you they would do it, but I am just guessing. Although it may be a bit heavy handed, for the majority of most home users this shouldn't cause any problem.
Just a note about this. Sympatico.ca (a DSL provider) uses dynamic addresses for its home users and they are very short term allocations. That is if you reconnect, you are unlikely to get the same IP address. From what I can tell what they did in blocking port 25 makes sense in this scenario (easier to control). Maybe they would have taken a different approach had they been allocating static addresses or very long term dynamic addresses.
Forgive what might seem like an ignorant question, but is it possible to forge a port number?
No. Think of a server listening on a port as waiter waiting next to window. Only requests coming in through that window will be served. Trying to talk to a window where the waiter is not will not be of use, since either there would be no waiter there or the waiter that is there wouldn't understand what you are asking.
Any solution to get round the problem would require hijaking a machine not in the blocked IP range, or the router.
My ISP, Sympatico.ca, blocks all outgoing port 25 requests by default, except those going to its servers. I would imagine that if you could argue a valid need to have it unblocked for you they would do it, but I am just guessing. Although it may be a bit heavy handed, for the majority of most home users this shouldn't cause any problem.
I don't care for Moore - I think he's a pseudo-populist, a self-aggrandizer, a non-documentarian (his films don't explore issues as much as bolster his point of view)
Much of that is probably true. In this instance, what I feel this film has the potential of doing is actually getting people to talk about this. Not only that, but maybe some of the bigger publications.
From what I can tell, since G. W. Bush was elected most of the major US news* publications have avoided any major discussion on this subject and people have been kept in the dark. People have been convinced that talking against the government in unpatriotic. IMO, not defending the 'American way', in peaceful ways, is more unpatriotic than letting your rights and freedoms get trampled over.
Remember your own government (any government, any country), armies, and news agencies, can be accused of being terrorists if they spend their time scaring their populous shitless even when there is real little evidence of a threat. Remember a terrorist organisation is one that imposes terror on a populace in order to have their way. Sure it is a matter of interpretation, but its a label that people are using freely these days.
*from reading Foxnews.com, IMHO, it feels like anything but a news source, so shouldn't even be included amongst the 'news publications'. It feels more like sensationalist propaganda.
For example, both Ghandi and Stalin were 'leftists'.
Though at the same time their left's both differ. Stalin was about absolute rule, whereas Ghandi was not. The different cultural and personal ideals make for a difference in the end result.
In order to appreciate films like this and Final Fantasy, you definetly need a better understanding of spirtual beliefs. The ghost, is the spirit or soul of the machine, in the same way a ghost is the bodyless soul of a person.
Final Fantasy, lends itself to the Gaia Theory, and taking it further to suggest that planets are living enties with their own soul.
Japanese animation has plenty of philosphy in them (not all of them admitedly), and can be very deep, so it takes more to appreciate them than your average american cartoon, which in contrast are very shallow.
Adding to this, why does the 'skip intro' always have to be in the flash animaton. How do I skip if I have flash disabled?
I am using Safari on my Mac and it is suffering. I didn't realise this site required the minimum hardware specs for Longhorn? This is why Flash designers need to be taken out and beaten, or at least shown the wisdom of good site design.
Ghost in the Shell has nothing to do with Final Fantasy.
One thing worth noting is that a few companies I have worked for would rather spend an extra month reinventing something that already exists, than paying up any license fees. This usually means we are late because something as simple as a list manager and string handlers are being redone. At least, that is the way it is in C/C++. For the company I work for, who develops in Java, we are willing to pay for the big solutions, such as Weblogic (as long as they don't get too greedy), but for the smaller components, such as XML parsers, we use open source. If we were forced to pay for it, I think we would probably find ourselves writing a solution that did the job.
There is so much that makes up a company solution and the ability to avoid doing the foundation work provides them with the ability to concentrate on improving elsewhere.
Also, from my experience, small companies are more likely to use an open source DB, but when the data becomes important to the client too and liability becomes a factor, then they are more likely to want to go for the commercial solution, such as Oracle, DB2 or SQLServer.
Luckily this is the US, otherwise we would be considering sanctions and maybe even sending UN inspectors.
I know this sounds like a troll, but just think about it for two minutes.
Since many cell phones are using Java for the applications and games, I would not be surprised if the next step would be to include support for OpenGL, especially given that Nvidia and ATI are playing part. There are already OpenGL bindings for Java, though the one that is likely to show most evolution, given the backing, is JOGL.
Although I could only find this in regards to Java in the game, you'd be surprised how fast graphics can be in Java if you use the right graphics library. One which I have looked at is OpenGL for Java. It is essentially a Java language wrapper around the native OpenGL libraries. Given that more and more of graphics processing is done by the video card, then the graphics part of Java in this instance, would be as fast as your graphics card.
Out of the box Swing is amazingly ugly. The people choosing default colors at Sun could well be substituted by a randomizer without a difference in results. I mean, who was the genius who thought purple bars in a menu were cute?
Maybe a case of spending too much time with CDE?
From my experience Apple is more likely to not let you do something, where MS will allow you to do it and then act that it knew what you wanted, even though it is not.
As to the menu bar you will find most users maximizing their windows, on other platforms, so the end effect is the same, ie menu at top.
I don't have any issues with nanotech, as long proper environmental issues are taken into account. Things like PCBs were banned because when they entered the environment could cause problems. This is one reason why some countries are now requiring computer companies to take it open themselves to recycle the computers at the end of their life. The idea is the computer manufacturers will make a better effor to make computers economic, and safer, to recycle if they have to deal with it.
MacOS X - Definetly my OS of choice.
One thing I dislike about Microsoft originated stuff is the belief that they know better than the user. Case in point: you paste a file:// URL into Excel and then ensure the the hyperlink address is 'file://' . Does it stick - no!!! It insists on switching it to the non-URL version. Have they thought that maybe I want a 'file://' type address in there? Because of this trying to publish the Excel document as a web page, with links (they all point to windows SMB shares) becomes difficult.
I just gave up with this and wrote my own Excel independent solution for my users. In the long run over simplification sometimes actually causes more issues than it solves.
Last I heard certain nanotubes were toxic to the environment. Does anyone know whether these suffer from the same issue?
I would like to know what country you're referring to, though. Where is this free country? Maybe I'll move there
Either he is thinking of the USA of old or of Utopia. The first no longer exists and the latter only exists in our dreams.
BTW I believe people should realise slogans and titles do no define patriotism, rather it is actions. Sometime the most patriotic thing you can do is act against mis-labels of 'patriotism'.
less likely, because Mr. Jobs has already said people don't want to watch videos on their 3" screen. reading some of the comments here, he may well be right on the money.
True, but the Archos shows that it is handy for images at least, especially those backed up from you camera. At the same time, when I went to China I managed to buy myself a VCD discman. It has no screen, but it came with the necessary cables to jack it into a TV (headphone type jack on one end and three RCA connectors on the other). It is great when I am travelling around and I am in a hotel room and it raining outdoors an I have nothing to do. Surely they could do the same thing? The only catch is you would have to copy your DVDs onto the player - maybe Apple is not ready to tackle this issue yet?
Now that Archos, Sony and Creative labs have release video 'personal media players', will that mean that Apple will follow next with a video iPod?