I like AMD for Hypertranspart, and Intel need to go there too sooner or later, but elegance isn't going to get AMD the win in the mass market; only performance can do that (and performance per dollar at that).
Sadly (for reasons of competition), I'm afraid that Intel may remain on top unless they run into problems with 45nm and AMD can sneak up on them by things going better than smooth.
As somewhat of an aside, maybe AMD could make some gains on features, so I still think they should implement a next generation PadLock (VIAs Crypto-Engine-On-CPU). I'd like for both AMD and Intel to go there together (compatible implementations), but one is better than none.
I think most here knew that this was always going to be a stupid vanity platform, almost as stupid as water-cooled memory modules. Now, the only thing more sad and stupid than a vanity platform, is one where the vanity isn't even there.
This should have ended as abandoned concept art in a drawer.
(PS. My current gaming rig is AMD X2-based, but if they don't have the performance/$ then they won't get in on the next upgrade)
>I can't believe anyone didn't realise this was humour within the first couple of seconds.
That was probably your reaction to a story about a guy patenting entertaining a cat with a laser pointer too.
The reason this is good satire is the reason people let themselves "fall for it"; it stretches the truth just a few mm beyond the insanity we see from the guys you mentioned all the time.
And tomorrow, this "obvious humor" will be the obvious truth.
"So, I know you drink water. There are a lot of sources of water in the world. But this water right here, it's special. See, you get ANY other kind of water... well, I make no promises, but accidents happen you know? Think of your family. Maybe you buy THIS water instead, no accidents, yes?"
I'm not sure where you got the impression that it'd be forced on you. I'm saying this is a fundemental function that should be built in. Which it is now, AFAIK.
(In Opera I can select "Start up from last session", "Startup clean", "Start up from saved sessions", or startup with a startup dialog where I can chose what to do every time (also pops up on unclean shutdown, like a crash)).
The problem is that basically the only real market share out there for grabs, is people who don't know anything more than "I click in the internet icon". If you give them the bare-bones, they'll go back to IE7.
The solution would seem to be to have official plugins shipped with the browser installer, which power users could deactivate (during installation) or replace.
Though personally I feel some things should just be built in (remembering tabs on restart for instance)
They could remove the "[No]" which doesn't seem to be too useful. What, I'm going to suddenly change my mind after n irritations? Seems like a less likely event than someone initially wanting to answer "Never ask again". Just make it "Yes", "No (for this site)" and "Never ask again, thank you." Problem solved.
Presumably, they're not [only] caching files, they're caching already processed data structures (parsed documentss). You disk cache only knows files. If you want to be fast when going to the previous page for instance, that is what you have to do.
Gotta be one of the Infinity Engine games. I began a new BG1 char not long ago, with the intention of taking him all the way through the series. I love them.
I wouldn't say that. Speaking for myself, my spoken English is absolutely atrocious (never have much of a reason to practice it), but I do believe Scandinavians are good at understanding both written and spoken English, so if you're touristing here making yourself understood isn't much of a problem. There is an age barrier here; some eldery never learned English -- my grandmother for instance hardly knows a word.
There's always the Mastering Swedish if you want to pick some of it up:-)
Also, some say alcohol helps. This is probably why the Finns are beter at English?
Words are overloaded all the time, get used to it. What really gets me about the PC crap around rape is that so many seem to rate it worse than murder. Maybe the word SHOULD be "diminished" so people get some perspective on life.
I guess you "correct" people who use the word "kill" outside of the meaning of literally taking a life too? Wouldn't want to "diminish" the meaning of "kill".
Well, of course. The Adobe png-writer is renowned for sucking, but it's gotten a bit better I think. It was really horrible the first few versions, which I'm sure have more people dismiss the PNG format than any other factor.
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KDE is more Microsoft Windowsy. HTH. HAND.
Only problem then is that as it currently stands, Intel is, allegedly, ahead in the process game: "Intel to hit 65nm-45nm cross-over in 2008"
I like AMD for Hypertranspart, and Intel need to go there too sooner or later, but elegance isn't going to get AMD the win in the mass market; only performance can do that (and performance per dollar at that).
Sadly (for reasons of competition), I'm afraid that Intel may remain on top unless they run into problems with 45nm and AMD can sneak up on them by things going better than smooth.
As somewhat of an aside, maybe AMD could make some gains on features, so I still think they should implement a next generation PadLock (VIAs Crypto-Engine-On-CPU). I'd like for both AMD and Intel to go there together (compatible implementations), but one is better than none.
Once you've PadLock'ed, you can't go back.
I think most here knew that this was always going to be a stupid vanity platform, almost as stupid as water-cooled memory modules. Now, the only thing more sad and stupid than a vanity platform, is one where the vanity isn't even there.
This should have ended as abandoned concept art in a drawer.
(PS. My current gaming rig is AMD X2-based, but if they don't have the performance/$ then they won't get in on the next upgrade)
When Colbert was on Conan and talked about his D&D and Tolkien past... hilarious.
I see he's tagged as "Dr. Stephen Colbert" in the credits, anyone know what his subject is?
>I can't believe anyone didn't realise this was humour within the first couple of seconds.
That was probably your reaction to a story about a guy patenting entertaining a cat with a laser pointer too.
The reason this is good satire is the reason people let themselves "fall for it"; it stretches the truth just a few mm beyond the insanity we see from the guys you mentioned all the time.
And tomorrow, this "obvious humor" will be the obvious truth.
... somewhere an MPAA director is going "Hey, why didn't I think of that?"
>What if a band wants to promote their music by, for example, setting up free downloads of selected tracks after a concert?
How is $(Random RIAA Member) going to make money off that?!
Don't be such an idiot.
:-p
First of all, it's the only way to be sure! Secondly, it should produce a nice glass "mirror" to land on. Problem solved.
"So, I know you drink water. There are a lot of sources of water in the world. But this water right here, it's special. See, you get ANY other kind of water... well, I make no promises, but accidents happen you know? Think of your family. Maybe you buy THIS water instead, no accidents, yes?"
Time to set the password prompt to "NO SYSTEM DISK OR DISK ERROR" and make sure echo is off :-\
So he's a known copyright-infringer?
You can't bookmark pages either. In 2006 you can't bookmark pages!
I don't see how MS can lose.
I played Skool Daze, but never figured out what you were supposed to do.
If only we had had Wikipedia back in 1985.
I'm not sure where you got the impression that it'd be forced on you. I'm saying this is a fundemental function that should be built in. Which it is now, AFAIK.
(In Opera I can select "Start up from last session", "Startup clean", "Start up from saved sessions", or startup with a startup dialog where I can chose what to do every time (also pops up on unclean shutdown, like a crash)).
The problem is that basically the only real market share out there for grabs, is people who don't know anything more than "I click in the internet icon". If you give them the bare-bones, they'll go back to IE7.
The solution would seem to be to have official plugins shipped with the browser installer, which power users could deactivate (during installation) or replace.
Though personally I feel some things should just be built in (remembering tabs on restart for instance)
Opera features a specific view (Menu "Window->Closed") into the closed windows history. Very handy.
They could remove the "[No]" which doesn't seem to be too useful. What, I'm going to suddenly change my mind after n irritations? Seems like a less likely event than someone initially wanting to answer "Never ask again". Just make it "Yes", "No (for this site)" and "Never ask again, thank you." Problem solved.
Presumably, they're not [only] caching files, they're caching already processed data structures (parsed documentss). You disk cache only knows files. If you want to be fast when going to the previous page for instance, that is what you have to do.
Gotta be one of the Infinity Engine games. I began a new BG1 char not long ago, with the intention of taking him all the way through the series. I love them.
I wouldn't say that. Speaking for myself, my spoken English is absolutely atrocious (never have much of a reason to practice it), but I do believe Scandinavians are good at understanding both written and spoken English, so if you're touristing here making yourself understood isn't much of a problem. There is an age barrier here; some eldery never learned English -- my grandmother for instance hardly knows a word.
There's always the Mastering Swedish if you want to pick some of it up :-)
Also, some say alcohol helps. This is probably why the Finns are beter at English?
Words are overloaded all the time, get used to it. What really gets me about the PC crap around rape is that so many seem to rate it worse than murder. Maybe the word SHOULD be "diminished" so people get some perspective on life.
I guess you "correct" people who use the word "kill" outside of the meaning of literally taking a life too? Wouldn't want to "diminish" the meaning of "kill".
Ah, yes. The NES version which was famously RAPED by Nintendo's stupid censorship rules.
Almost makes me not want to support Nintendo, still.
Well, of course. The Adobe png-writer is renowned for sucking, but it's gotten a bit better I think. It was really horrible the first few versions, which I'm sure have more people dismiss the PNG format than any other factor.
Evidence? Except for 1x1 images and the like, you're wrong. And you shouldnt' be using 1x1 images anyhow so...
Before sending any examples, make sure you're comparing same-depth images and have used pngout.
I once, as a demonstration, took a review off HardOCP and converted/recompressed all their GIFs into PNG, and saved several hundreds of kilobytes.
Still webmasters continue to use GIF because of ignorance.
Are Microsoft still nuking everything in their path, or do they play nice with the MBR now?
I think we're beyond blaming incompetence if they don't play nice...