The thing is that the best ATX case designs do a pretty job of system cooling. But one thing that is really helping cooling issue is the wide availability of less obstructive cabling, which really goes a long way to keep ATX cases cool; rounded ATA-100/133 IDE cables, rounded floppy disk cables, thin Serial ATA cables and modular power cable connections from the power supply are actually good trends.
The new trend is towards dramatically smaller system case designs such the XPC design pioneered by Shuttle Computer, which use a combination of heat pipe cooling and careful location of cooling fans to keep the components inside that small case decently cool.
I think the big problem is that you have to crank up the volume quite a bit with those bud-style earphones to get something approaching decent sound quality. Small wonder why hearing loss problems are increasing.
The new in-ear portable headphones don't need to crank the volume so high for decent sound quality, hence these actually may not contribute so much so hearing loss.
Moore--who was much of the creative genius behind some of the best Star Trek episodes in The Next Generation and Deep Space 9 series--SHOULD have been at the creative helm of Enterprise, which could have made that show a great experience. As such, Moore ended up taking an somewhat-remembered science fiction show from 1978 and turned it into one of the best shows on TV, period.
...Is how faster the main web server for the web site transmits the information to your computer.
We're hitting the point that many web sites are reaching their bandwidth limits depending on the web host, and going from 1.5 mbps ADSL to 20 mbps fiber connections won't improve things much, sad to say.:-(
...The mandate of low-sulfur motor fuels (e.g., under 15 parts per million sulfur compounds) starting Summer 2006 in the USA will actually have a HUGE benefit for automakers in the USA.
Why? Because by removing sulfur compounds (which can corrode engine components from the intake system to the exhaust piping system like sulfuric acid), we can finally see in the USA the application of these new technologies:
1. Direct fuel injection of gasoline into combustion chamber combined with lean-burn (e.g., air to fuel ratio of 30:1 or higher) on a large scale. This allows extermely precise fuel delivery, and with the use of low sulfur gasoline we can apply a new generation of highly advanced catalytic converters that remove the increased NOx output from lean-burn operation very easily. The result is 10-15% improvement in fuel economy over current gasoline-fuelled engines.
2. The arrival of homogeneous charged compression ignition (HCCI) for production applications in motor vehicles. Fuelled by gasoline, it promises diesel-like fuel economy without the exhaust emission issues that plague diesel engines; this means 30-38% better fuel economy compared to today's gasoline engines!:-)
3. The arrival of truly clean-burning turbodiesel engines. With low-sulfur diesel fuel, we can apply common-rail pressurized direct fuel injection for extremely precise fuel delivery and apply a new generation of diesel exhaust catalytic converters that double at diesel particulate traps. Already, I've read that BMW has succeeded in getting their turbodiesel engines to meet the world's toughest auto diesel engine exhaust standard (the California Air Resources Board 2007 standard) using these new technologies and low-sulfur diesel fuel. Imagine switching every SUV, light pickup truck and minivan to clean turbodiesel power--it will improve the fuel economy of these classes of vehicles 30-35% or more compared to the gasoline engines used now.
You really have to wonder is AG Spitzer working on behalf on Apple Computer to stop the RIAA from trying to impose tiered-level pricing of music downloads on the iTunes Music Store....
I have to disagree. If Joss Whedon uses the storyline George Peréz did when Wonder Woman was revived in 1986 then I can see a surprisingly good movie. Given that Whedon has seen what happened to Aeon Flux, Catwoman, and Elektra movies and given Whedon's own experience with strong female characters in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, it will have strong character development, that's to be sure.
I think the biggest reason why Joss Whedon is letting go of the Firefly franchise is what I said in the subject line above.
Whedon--well aware of the mediocre responses to the Elektra, Catwoman and Aeon Flux movies--wants to make sure that the script for the Wonder Woman movie (which he'll also direct, I believe) is of high quality and be done well in general. After all, Whedon has been well-lauded for his work on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, a good example of a properly-written and produced strong female protagonist character.
...Then I think sales of Blu-Ray/HD-DVD sales will be fairly strong.
Don't forget sales are picking up of 1080p rear-projection TV's, and I expect most Blu-Ray/HD-DVD players to sport circuitry to down-convert to the 720p format used by earlier-generation DLP, LCD and LCOS rear projection TV's. Even down-converted to 720p, the picture quality will still be quite a bit better than the 480p, since the line resolution count will be 50% higher.
But at 1080p resolution, you're talking 2¼ times the resolution of current progressive-scan DVD output--the resulting sharp pictures is breathtaking to see.
... the big question is why haven't people patched?
Actually, if you install Windows XP Home/Professional SP2, the setup gives LOTS of warnings about having Automatic Updates active. I run Automatic Updates in Warning mode so as soon as the updates are available I can download and install the updates quickly.
I think the biggest problem for the record labels is that there are only a small number of artists that can fill a full album with decent songs.
As such, I believe it's time for the record labels to start changing their business model to better accommodate single-song sales. Something like US$1.09 for a single new song, US$0.89 for older songs, US$9.99 for a full new album and US$7.99 for a full older album for all downloadable music sites would work for a start, since without the cost of actual packaging the distribution cost is quite low.
Yeah, but does anyone actually buy porn on a disc anymore?
The answer is a surprising yes. Why? Because a lot of the more famous adult movies from the 1970's and 1980's are being remastered (thanks to dramatic reduction in computers used to "clean up" old film stock) and are coming out on DVD format. I do know that the first three Taboo movies were released on DVD with much-cleaned up video and audio in recent years.
Nowadays, with most porno movies being shot using "prosumer" versions of MiniDV camcorders with their resonably high resolution, they can easily transfer the footage via IEEE-1394 or USB 2.0 cable to a high-end desktop computer to do things like editing, cleaning up the video, adding the soundtrack, and even creating the menu system all at the same time, and then "burn" a master on a dual-layer recordable DVD disc that will be used by the disc pressing company to create copies.
Mind you, the reason why BBC Radio can program like this is the fact the British government imposes some pretty stiff mandatory user fees to support the BBC (about US$209.50 per year based on today's exchange rate between the US dollar and the Britsh pound). Can you imagine what kind of riot we'd have in the USA if we have to support PBS with a US$10/month per TV set fee?
That would be great if you didn't have to update all your themes and extensions and/or wait for updated themes and extensions just to support Firefox 1.5. You'd think everyone would be more timely on this.
I'm sure many of you have read Alvin Toffler's book The Third Wave, one of his best books.
One particular chapter of that book was extraordinarily prophetic--"De-masssifying the Media." In that chapter, Toffler wrote that as communications technologies improve, the age of a few companies completely dominating the dissemination of what you read in newspapers/periodicals, what you hear on radio and sound recordings, and what you see on TV and the movies will come to an end. Since the publication of The Third Wave in 1979, look at what has happened:
1. Videocassette recorders (and increasingly digital video recorders) have pretty much made the idea of prime time meaningless, since recorders allow you to time-shift TV programming to whatever time later you want to watch the program. As a result, instead of wondering what people were saying about all the latest plot revelations in Lost, you can play back your VCR or DVR recording and find out yourself.:-)
2. Pre-recorded home videos--especially since the arrival of the DVD in 1997--has substantially altered movie theater patronage. Except for a few "event" films (e.g., The Lord of the Rings movies) and high-quality screening rooms with THX-certified sound systems and Kodak-certified projectors, who wants to fight the exorbitant price of tickets, the exorbitant price of concessions and the annoyance of other audience members when you can enjoy the movie in peace at home?
3. The development of cheap and powerful desktop computers plus cheaper printing press operations has made it possible to print more magazines for a niche audience, hence the reduction of influence of the major newsmagazines. Look at the magazine stands of any major bookstore nowadays--most of these magazines couldn't exist without today's computer and cheap printing press technology.
4. The rise of proprietary online services in the 1980's and the arrival of the public Internet in the early 1990's has really caused a major revolution in the dissemination of information. We can now disseminate information at breathtaking speeds that makes the major media outlets--even newspapers--look ultra slow in comparison. Also, the public Internet has begun to offer services that could SERIOUSLY cut into newspaper revenue; Craigslist and eBay are doing major end-runs around newspaper classified ads in a big way already, and several Realtor companies have begun to put their public listings of homes for sale online, also a major blow to newspapers.
5. The rise of high-quality cheap camcorders using the MiniDV format has been a huge boon for small-time filmmakers. Why do you think film festivals are discovering many surprisingly talented filmmakers that use these "cheap" equipment to make very good films? And the small-time filmmaker will soon get access to low-cost high-definition camcorders that (in my humble opinion!) by 2008-2009 could equal the US$150,000 digital cameras used by George Lucas for the second and third Star Wars trilogy films. In the long run, this could hurt the power of the major studios because the smaller filmmakers will incur far less overhead costs in terms of production.
All these changes have seriously buffetted the mainstream media, especially in the last ten years. In the case of newspapers, they have to recognize this and start changing their format to recognize that newspapers can be use to write longer, more thoughtful stories. Also, the powerful watchdog capability of users on the Internet from both political Right and Left will start forcing newspapers to write stories that cover both sides of the arguement equally.
So instead of having to install a bank of hard drives just for single 120-minute movie in uncompressed digital format, you can reduce it all to a single HVD disc plus protective caddy weighing at most 5-6 ounces. This could drastically cut the cost of digital theater projection, since all you need is a small player connected by a high-data rate cable to the digital projector itself. You also have the major advantage of drastically reducing media duplication and shipping costs, too.
Actually, the EPA mandate for low-sulfur (15 parts per million or lower) diesel fuel starts in Summer 2006, along with the same mandate for gasoline.
This is actually a good idea because removing the sulfur compounds from diesel fuel allows for the use for high-precision pressurized common-rail direct fuel injection into the combustion chamber and the use of a new generation of catalytic converters that double as diesel particulate traps. I've read that BMW has actually gotten their 2.0-liter I-4 and 3.0-liter I-6 turbodiesel engines to meet the 2007 California Air Resources Board diesel emission standard for automobiles using low-sulfur diesel fuel, a truly remarkable achievement considering the difficulties in reducing diesel emissions. This could pave the way for BMW to offer their highly-regarded 3.0-liter turbodiesel engine on the 3-Series and 5-Series vehicles along with the X3 and X5 "crossover" SUV's in all 50 states starting in the 2007 model year.
If the idea of growing certain types of algae that can be used to make biodiesel fuel on a large scale actually pans out, we could see gigantic ponds of these algae being grown almost anywhere there is lots of desert with nearby access to water. We could see enough biodiesel fuel made to fuel every diesel-powered truck and automobile in Europe from ponds based in northern Africa along the Mediterranean coastline.
The best thing about biodiesel fuel is that unlike oil-based diesel fuel, biodiesel fuel can be refined to combust extremely cleanly with no fried food smell and no diesel particulates, either!:-)
Actually, hard drives have gotten faster thanks to the following:
1. Common usage of 7200 rpm drives. With 7200 rpm speeds, data is written and read faster off the drive.
2. 8 to 16 MB hard drive memory cache. With the memory cache that big many hard drive access operations are quite a bit faster.
3. Faster interfaces. The arrival of ATA-100/133 IDE and Serial ATA interfaces have substantially increased data transfer rates in and out of the drive.
I expect within the next few years we'll see the following:
1. Hard drive spindle speeds on IDE/Serial ATA drives will exceed 10,000 rpm commonly but with the same noise level and power usage as today's 7200 rpm drives.
2. Hard disk memory cache will reach 32 to 64 MB.
3. Most drives will switch to the Serial ATA-II interface with data transfer rate performance double that of current Serial ATA drives; further down the road, we could see a third-generation Serial ATA interface that sport double the data transfer rate of Serial ATA-II drives.
By 2010, we could finally see the breakthrough that will lead to non-volatile high-speed solid state storage that will rival hard drives in storage capacity but with data transfer rates far faster than any hard drive--think of it as essentially the equivalent of running a RAM drive but with true non-volatile storage. Unlike today's flash memory, these new solid-state storage devices can be written to trillions of times.
I'm not sure if the November 29, 2005 release is a good idea, though. Don't forget that many people who contribute to the Mozilla Foundation and outside testers will be on vacation this coming week for the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA and I want at least everyone back doing proper final testing before we see the final product.
Actually, the main reason why I am expecting within the first two weeks in December for final release is that this coming week is Thanksgiving holiday week in the USA, and a lot of testers might be out on vacation. I hope the Mozilla Foundation folks account for this and aim for a early December release.
Those successes are largely due to the evangelists themselves, but also in no minor part to it being a vastly useful product.
Actually, the best thing I like about Firefox is the fact most websites will now display the pages correctly with this web browser, unlike pre-Mozilla 1.7 versions and older Netscape 4.x versions. I'm all for the improvements that Firefox 1.5 will offer!:-)
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The thing is that the best ATX case designs do a pretty job of system cooling. But one thing that is really helping cooling issue is the wide availability of less obstructive cabling, which really goes a long way to keep ATX cases cool; rounded ATA-100/133 IDE cables, rounded floppy disk cables, thin Serial ATA cables and modular power cable connections from the power supply are actually good trends.
The new trend is towards dramatically smaller system case designs such the XPC design pioneered by Shuttle Computer, which use a combination of heat pipe cooling and careful location of cooling fans to keep the components inside that small case decently cool.
I think the big problem is that you have to crank up the volume quite a bit with those bud-style earphones to get something approaching decent sound quality. Small wonder why hearing loss problems are increasing.
The new in-ear portable headphones don't need to crank the volume so high for decent sound quality, hence these actually may not contribute so much so hearing loss.
...Sorely misses one Ronald D. Moore.
Moore--who was much of the creative genius behind some of the best Star Trek episodes in The Next Generation and Deep Space 9 series--SHOULD have been at the creative helm of Enterprise, which could have made that show a great experience. As such, Moore ended up taking an somewhat-remembered science fiction show from 1978 and turned it into one of the best shows on TV, period.
...Is how faster the main web server for the web site transmits the information to your computer.
:-(
We're hitting the point that many web sites are reaching their bandwidth limits depending on the web host, and going from 1.5 mbps ADSL to 20 mbps fiber connections won't improve things much, sad to say.
...The mandate of low-sulfur motor fuels (e.g., under 15 parts per million sulfur compounds) starting Summer 2006 in the USA will actually have a HUGE benefit for automakers in the USA.
:-)
Why? Because by removing sulfur compounds (which can corrode engine components from the intake system to the exhaust piping system like sulfuric acid), we can finally see in the USA the application of these new technologies:
1. Direct fuel injection of gasoline into combustion chamber combined with lean-burn (e.g., air to fuel ratio of 30:1 or higher) on a large scale. This allows extermely precise fuel delivery, and with the use of low sulfur gasoline we can apply a new generation of highly advanced catalytic converters that remove the increased NOx output from lean-burn operation very easily. The result is 10-15% improvement in fuel economy over current gasoline-fuelled engines.
2. The arrival of homogeneous charged compression ignition (HCCI) for production applications in motor vehicles. Fuelled by gasoline, it promises diesel-like fuel economy without the exhaust emission issues that plague diesel engines; this means 30-38% better fuel economy compared to today's gasoline engines!
3. The arrival of truly clean-burning turbodiesel engines. With low-sulfur diesel fuel, we can apply common-rail pressurized direct fuel injection for extremely precise fuel delivery and apply a new generation of diesel exhaust catalytic converters that double at diesel particulate traps. Already, I've read that BMW has succeeded in getting their turbodiesel engines to meet the world's toughest auto diesel engine exhaust standard (the California Air Resources Board 2007 standard) using these new technologies and low-sulfur diesel fuel. Imagine switching every SUV, light pickup truck and minivan to clean turbodiesel power--it will improve the fuel economy of these classes of vehicles 30-35% or more compared to the gasoline engines used now.
You really have to wonder is AG Spitzer working on behalf on Apple Computer to stop the RIAA from trying to impose tiered-level pricing of music downloads on the iTunes Music Store....
No one wants to see a wonder woman movie.
I have to disagree. If Joss Whedon uses the storyline George Peréz did when Wonder Woman was revived in 1986 then I can see a surprisingly good movie. Given that Whedon has seen what happened to Aeon Flux, Catwoman, and Elektra movies and given Whedon's own experience with strong female characters in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, it will have strong character development, that's to be sure.
I've heard Samsung makes excellent hard disk drives but trying to find one retail is not exactly easy to do. :-(
I think the biggest reason why Joss Whedon is letting go of the Firefly franchise is what I said in the subject line above.
Whedon--well aware of the mediocre responses to the Elektra, Catwoman and Aeon Flux movies--wants to make sure that the script for the Wonder Woman movie (which he'll also direct, I believe) is of high quality and be done well in general. After all, Whedon has been well-lauded for his work on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, a good example of a properly-written and produced strong female protagonist character.
...Then I think sales of Blu-Ray/HD-DVD sales will be fairly strong.
Don't forget sales are picking up of 1080p rear-projection TV's, and I expect most Blu-Ray/HD-DVD players to sport circuitry to down-convert to the 720p format used by earlier-generation DLP, LCD and LCOS rear projection TV's. Even down-converted to 720p, the picture quality will still be quite a bit better than the 480p, since the line resolution count will be 50% higher.
But at 1080p resolution, you're talking 2¼ times the resolution of current progressive-scan DVD output--the resulting sharp pictures is breathtaking to see.
... the big question is why haven't people patched?
Actually, if you install Windows XP Home/Professional SP2, the setup gives LOTS of warnings about having Automatic Updates active. I run Automatic Updates in Warning mode so as soon as the updates are available I can download and install the updates quickly.
I think the biggest problem for the record labels is that there are only a small number of artists that can fill a full album with decent songs.
As such, I believe it's time for the record labels to start changing their business model to better accommodate single-song sales. Something like US$1.09 for a single new song, US$0.89 for older songs, US$9.99 for a full new album and US$7.99 for a full older album for all downloadable music sites would work for a start, since without the cost of actual packaging the distribution cost is quite low.
Yeah, but does anyone actually buy porn on a disc anymore?
The answer is a surprising yes. Why? Because a lot of the more famous adult movies from the 1970's and 1980's are being remastered (thanks to dramatic reduction in computers used to "clean up" old film stock) and are coming out on DVD format. I do know that the first three Taboo movies were released on DVD with much-cleaned up video and audio in recent years.
Nowadays, with most porno movies being shot using "prosumer" versions of MiniDV camcorders with their resonably high resolution, they can easily transfer the footage via IEEE-1394 or USB 2.0 cable to a high-end desktop computer to do things like editing, cleaning up the video, adding the soundtrack, and even creating the menu system all at the same time, and then "burn" a master on a dual-layer recordable DVD disc that will be used by the disc pressing company to create copies.
I should add this is US$209.50 per year per TV! A multiple TV set household in the UK will pay a pretty stiff level of licence fee, to say the least.
Mind you, the reason why BBC Radio can program like this is the fact the British government imposes some pretty stiff mandatory user fees to support the BBC (about US$209.50 per year based on today's exchange rate between the US dollar and the Britsh pound). Can you imagine what kind of riot we'd have in the USA if we have to support PBS with a US$10/month per TV set fee?
That would be great if you didn't have to update all your themes and extensions and/or wait for updated themes and extensions just to support Firefox 1.5. You'd think everyone would be more timely on this.
I'm sure many of you have read Alvin Toffler's book The Third Wave, one of his best books.
:-)
One particular chapter of that book was extraordinarily prophetic--"De-masssifying the Media." In that chapter, Toffler wrote that as communications technologies improve, the age of a few companies completely dominating the dissemination of what you read in newspapers/periodicals, what you hear on radio and sound recordings, and what you see on TV and the movies will come to an end. Since the publication of The Third Wave in 1979, look at what has happened:
1. Videocassette recorders (and increasingly digital video recorders) have pretty much made the idea of prime time meaningless, since recorders allow you to time-shift TV programming to whatever time later you want to watch the program. As a result, instead of wondering what people were saying about all the latest plot revelations in Lost, you can play back your VCR or DVR recording and find out yourself.
2. Pre-recorded home videos--especially since the arrival of the DVD in 1997--has substantially altered movie theater patronage. Except for a few "event" films (e.g., The Lord of the Rings movies) and high-quality screening rooms with THX-certified sound systems and Kodak-certified projectors, who wants to fight the exorbitant price of tickets, the exorbitant price of concessions and the annoyance of other audience members when you can enjoy the movie in peace at home?
3. The development of cheap and powerful desktop computers plus cheaper printing press operations has made it possible to print more magazines for a niche audience, hence the reduction of influence of the major newsmagazines. Look at the magazine stands of any major bookstore nowadays--most of these magazines couldn't exist without today's computer and cheap printing press technology.
4. The rise of proprietary online services in the 1980's and the arrival of the public Internet in the early 1990's has really caused a major revolution in the dissemination of information. We can now disseminate information at breathtaking speeds that makes the major media outlets--even newspapers--look ultra slow in comparison. Also, the public Internet has begun to offer services that could SERIOUSLY cut into newspaper revenue; Craigslist and eBay are doing major end-runs around newspaper classified ads in a big way already, and several Realtor companies have begun to put their public listings of homes for sale online, also a major blow to newspapers.
5. The rise of high-quality cheap camcorders using the MiniDV format has been a huge boon for small-time filmmakers. Why do you think film festivals are discovering many surprisingly talented filmmakers that use these "cheap" equipment to make very good films? And the small-time filmmaker will soon get access to low-cost high-definition camcorders that (in my humble opinion!) by 2008-2009 could equal the US$150,000 digital cameras used by George Lucas for the second and third Star Wars trilogy films. In the long run, this could hurt the power of the major studios because the smaller filmmakers will incur far less overhead costs in terms of production.
All these changes have seriously buffetted the mainstream media, especially in the last ten years. In the case of newspapers, they have to recognize this and start changing their format to recognize that newspapers can be use to write longer, more thoughtful stories. Also, the powerful watchdog capability of users on the Internet from both political Right and Left will start forcing newspapers to write stories that cover both sides of the arguement equally.
The storage media for digital theater projectors.
So instead of having to install a bank of hard drives just for single 120-minute movie in uncompressed digital format, you can reduce it all to a single HVD disc plus protective caddy weighing at most 5-6 ounces. This could drastically cut the cost of digital theater projection, since all you need is a small player connected by a high-data rate cable to the digital projector itself. You also have the major advantage of drastically reducing media duplication and shipping costs, too.
Actually, the EPA mandate for low-sulfur (15 parts per million or lower) diesel fuel starts in Summer 2006, along with the same mandate for gasoline.
This is actually a good idea because removing the sulfur compounds from diesel fuel allows for the use for high-precision pressurized common-rail direct fuel injection into the combustion chamber and the use of a new generation of catalytic converters that double as diesel particulate traps. I've read that BMW has actually gotten their 2.0-liter I-4 and 3.0-liter I-6 turbodiesel engines to meet the 2007 California Air Resources Board diesel emission standard for automobiles using low-sulfur diesel fuel, a truly remarkable achievement considering the difficulties in reducing diesel emissions. This could pave the way for BMW to offer their highly-regarded 3.0-liter turbodiesel engine on the 3-Series and 5-Series vehicles along with the X3 and X5 "crossover" SUV's in all 50 states starting in the 2007 model year.
If the idea of growing certain types of algae that can be used to make biodiesel fuel on a large scale actually pans out, we could see gigantic ponds of these algae being grown almost anywhere there is lots of desert with nearby access to water. We could see enough biodiesel fuel made to fuel every diesel-powered truck and automobile in Europe from ponds based in northern Africa along the Mediterranean coastline.
:-)
The best thing about biodiesel fuel is that unlike oil-based diesel fuel, biodiesel fuel can be refined to combust extremely cleanly with no fried food smell and no diesel particulates, either!
Actually, hard drives have gotten faster thanks to the following:
1. Common usage of 7200 rpm drives. With 7200 rpm speeds, data is written and read faster off the drive.
2. 8 to 16 MB hard drive memory cache. With the memory cache that big many hard drive access operations are quite a bit faster.
3. Faster interfaces. The arrival of ATA-100/133 IDE and Serial ATA interfaces have substantially increased data transfer rates in and out of the drive.
I expect within the next few years we'll see the following:
1. Hard drive spindle speeds on IDE/Serial ATA drives will exceed 10,000 rpm commonly but with the same noise level and power usage as today's 7200 rpm drives.
2. Hard disk memory cache will reach 32 to 64 MB.
3. Most drives will switch to the Serial ATA-II interface with data transfer rate performance double that of current Serial ATA drives; further down the road, we could see a third-generation Serial ATA interface that sport double the data transfer rate of Serial ATA-II drives.
By 2010, we could finally see the breakthrough that will lead to non-volatile high-speed solid state storage that will rival hard drives in storage capacity but with data transfer rates far faster than any hard drive--think of it as essentially the equivalent of running a RAM drive but with true non-volatile storage. Unlike today's flash memory, these new solid-state storage devices can be written to trillions of times.
I'm not sure if the November 29, 2005 release is a good idea, though. Don't forget that many people who contribute to the Mozilla Foundation and outside testers will be on vacation this coming week for the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA and I want at least everyone back doing proper final testing before we see the final product.
Actually, the main reason why I am expecting within the first two weeks in December for final release is that this coming week is Thanksgiving holiday week in the USA, and a lot of testers might be out on vacation. I hope the Mozilla Foundation folks account for this and aim for a early December release.
Those successes are largely due to the evangelists themselves, but also in no minor part to it being a vastly useful product.
:-)
Actually, the best thing I like about Firefox is the fact most websites will now display the pages correctly with this web browser, unlike pre-Mozilla 1.7 versions and older Netscape 4.x versions. I'm all for the improvements that Firefox 1.5 will offer!
Any news about when will the Mozilla Foundation release the final version? Hopefully, it will be around the first two weeks of December 2005.