I tried a lot of times to run Mozilla M14 under Windows 95 on an old 486 I have. It was so slow (2 minutes to render a page), that I switched to IE3 and Netscape 4. I understood that the DX2/66 (16MB RAM) has long ago lost contact with anything resembling technical progress, so I put out a disk of ancient RedHat 5.0 and installed it there (RedHat 6.2's KDE was WAY too heavy for it). Lynx the most modern browser 486ers can use now.
The crippled version of Win2K (I guess that makes it Win1K:-) is not worth anything. I think that the true value of the X-Box is in its being a tweaked and x86 compatible environment with useful and (hopefully) bug-free hardware. I don't think that special Linux porting efforts should even be necessary. Then what we'll get in the end is a nice & clean hardware with REAL operating system running on it. Ideal for Linux gaming, creating graphics and movies, and even being a file/ftp/http server / gateway / proxy and so on when it becomes totally obsolete. And all of it for the cost of half an average PC.
From the point of view of someone who uses Flash in a serm-proffessional way, this is quite cool. Compatibility has always been Flash's week point (and the absence of a normal player for many platforms is proof to that).
SVG will be better since it can be written by hand (i.e. vi). It should also integrate much better into ready HTML documents.
As to the cons, I don't think it'll support such advanced animation options as Flash (embedding other animations). Support for doing layers and transitions is an issue (I din't read the specifications thoroughly though). It's almost certain that no music effects will be supported (Flash 4 supports MP3 soundtracks - it really kicks &ss)
> If not you could use an index.cgi
In most of the cases, CGI files and HTML pages are on different directories on the server (sometimes even on different servers). Using a.cgi instead would recquire lots of time redoing the links (including links from external sites). It's not such a good idea.
1x1 pixel GIFs were originated in the time when Netscape collapsed empty table cells (<tr></tr>). It messed the layout, so something had to be put inside. Transparent or small GIFs were convenient for this. Later on was introduced for forcing a space as a new character, but in some places it was too difficult to get the GIFs out.
The CGI use is also quite common. It is convenient and simple. I used it for a while in a counter (yes, with a cookie). I don't think that blocking such images will be a good idea.
The conflict that we see here is a forerunner of the nearest future's enormous clashes between the Corporate Republic and the Virtual Republic (Civilization: Call To Power's terms). The mighty Time-Warner tries to crush the feeble 2600. However Time-Warner forgets that 2600 does not consist merely of individuals; it is a physical facade which is backed by literally the millions of Internet users out there (and especially./ geeks:-). The Internet expands the people's consciousness accross vast distances and huge cultural differences. Time-Warner is definetly facing an opponent much tougher that they thought it would be. Their only chance is the US's current orientation as a corporate country. We'll se how it helps them.
Is it just me, or every major technological and scientific development during the last 60 years is related to military research? Nuclear power, electronics, Internet, and now, supersonic underwater traveling
Switching to the subject, there is a very serious problem: the supersonic submarine (SSS) will be totally blind. The only scanner type that works underwater, the sonar, uses sound waves, so it is as fast as sound. The vehicle is supersonic, so it will bypass its own signals. Even if it knew what it was running into, there would have been no way of steering it away to safety
Looking at the positive [development] aspects, they could build in-water tunnels (like a pipe that goes INSIDE the ocean). This pipe would not let whales in, and that would also solve the guidance problem.
> Unfortunately IE5 is a standard > It may not comply to some independant organisations' standards...
No, let's face it: in the last years IE has done a pretty good job for supporting standard HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. It has only some minor flaws with HTML (which could be fixed in a day's coding), and though I use CSS quite extensively, I didn't really come accross a feature it didn't support. This is sad, and it's mostly Netscape's fault (NS 4 and standards are two words one can never see in a positive sentence). I'm afraid that the article's got its point. A miracle is necessary for Mozilla to gain market penetration.
I guess Napster should introduce some kind of a moderating system, so such trollz would not be visible to most of the decent beings on the network. This shouldn't be too difficult considering the fact that their network is centralized.
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> Poor bastard who runs Slack on a 486
I tried a lot of times to run Mozilla M14 under Windows 95 on an old 486 I have. It was so slow (2 minutes to render a page), that I switched to IE3 and Netscape 4. I understood that the DX2/66 (16MB RAM) has long ago lost contact with anything resembling technical progress, so I put out a disk of ancient RedHat 5.0 and installed it there (RedHat 6.2's KDE was WAY too heavy for it). Lynx the most modern browser 486ers can use now.
The crippled version of Win2K (I guess that makes it Win1K :-) is not worth anything. I think that the true value of the X-Box is in its being a tweaked and x86 compatible environment with useful and (hopefully) bug-free hardware. I don't think that special Linux porting efforts should even be necessary. Then what we'll get in the end is a nice & clean hardware with REAL operating system running on it. Ideal for Linux gaming, creating graphics and movies, and even being a file/ftp/http server / gateway / proxy and so on when it becomes totally obsolete. And all of it for the cost of half an average PC.
From the point of view of someone who uses Flash in a serm-proffessional way, this is quite cool. Compatibility has always been Flash's week point (and the absence of a normal player for many platforms is proof to that).
SVG will be better since it can be written by hand (i.e. vi). It should also integrate much better into ready HTML documents.
As to the cons, I don't think it'll support such advanced animation options as Flash (embedding other animations). Support for doing layers and transitions is an issue (I din't read the specifications thoroughly though). It's almost certain that no music effects will be supported (Flash 4 supports MP3 soundtracks - it really kicks &ss)
> If not you could use an index.cgi .cgi instead would recquire lots of time redoing the links (including links from external sites). It's not such a good idea.
In most of the cases, CGI files and HTML pages are on different directories on the server (sometimes even on different servers). Using a
1x1 pixel GIFs were originated in the time when Netscape collapsed empty table cells (<tr></tr>). It messed the layout, so something had to be put inside. Transparent or small GIFs were convenient for this. Later on was introduced for forcing a space as a new character, but in some places it was too difficult to get the GIFs out.
The CGI use is also quite common. It is convenient and simple. I used it for a while in a counter (yes, with a cookie). I don't think that blocking such images will be a good idea.
The conflict that we see here is a forerunner of the nearest future's enormous clashes between the Corporate Republic and the Virtual Republic (Civilization: Call To Power's terms). The mighty Time-Warner tries to crush the feeble 2600. However Time-Warner forgets that 2600 does not consist merely of individuals; it is a physical facade which is backed by literally the millions of Internet users out there (and especially ./ geeks :-). The Internet expands the people's consciousness accross vast distances and huge cultural differences. Time-Warner is definetly facing an opponent much tougher that they thought it would be. Their only chance is the US's current orientation as a corporate country. We'll se how it helps them.
Is it just me, or every major technological and scientific development during the last 60 years is related to military research? Nuclear power, electronics, Internet, and now, supersonic underwater traveling
Switching to the subject, there is a very serious problem: the supersonic submarine (SSS) will be totally blind. The only scanner type that works underwater, the sonar, uses sound waves, so it is as fast as sound. The vehicle is supersonic, so it will bypass its own signals. Even if it knew what it was running into, there would have been no way of steering it away to safety
Looking at the positive [development] aspects, they could build in-water tunnels (like a pipe that goes INSIDE the ocean). This pipe would not let whales in, and that would also solve the guidance problem.
> Unfortunately IE5 is a standard
> It may not comply to some independant organisations' standards...
No, let's face it: in the last years IE has done a pretty good job for supporting standard HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. It has only some minor flaws with HTML (which could be fixed in a day's coding), and though I use CSS quite extensively, I didn't really come accross a feature it didn't support. This is sad, and it's mostly Netscape's fault (NS 4 and standards are two words one can never see in a positive sentence). I'm afraid that the article's got its point. A miracle is necessary for Mozilla to gain market penetration.
Wow, that's COOL. I have a few ideas for the further development of StarOffice
I guess Napster should introduce some kind of a moderating system, so such trollz would not be visible to most of the decent beings on the network. This shouldn't be too difficult considering the fact that their network is centralized.