But that's the lovely nature of Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation can concentrate on building a better *browser* while leaving the API open to developers who want a little more from Firefox via Extensions.
I think plain, vanilla FF is a wonderful browser. The Extensions I use just make it better....for me. I don't expect my roommate or my girlfriend to run the same extensions I do, or even run any.
I've had to wait a couple of times to have movies shipped, usually they ended up coming from a non-local shipping facility (there's one in Duluth, which is just north of Atlanta, which is my locality), but never more than one business day, and only a handful of times.
I've been a Netflix subscriber for nearly two years now, and I've never experienced this "throttling" you speak of. I turn movies around typically within 2-3 days of receiving them, and almost always receive the promised one day turn around time. I can have around 30 discs sent and returned in one bill cycle.
Anyone serious about either audio or gaming adds a dedicated sound card. And a good one (ie. audigy2 or better). Your onboard 8-channel sound is a minimal solution, and offers very little hardware acceleration, making it subpar for gaming. (What gamer wants 5-10% of the cpu's attention to be stuck on doing audio, when a good sound blaster can drop that to 0-3%) Also of consideration is audio quality; as a basic rule-of-thumb, onboard audio is going to be built using lower quality DAC's and other components. The signal-to-noise ratio isn't going to be stellar, and is thus not suitable for serious audio enthusiasts.
You obviously haven't been keeping up with onboard sound tech. SoundStorm provides full hardware acceleration (and dolby digital encoding in real time) in 5.1 surroud, and even provides optical out. Even your basic RealTek chip will please anyone but the most picky audiophile. All of this and you don't even lose many, if any at all, cpu cycles since there are DSP's involved.
Also, Creative's drivers are notorious for sucking unnecessary CPU time, so your 0-3% estimate is way off.
We're not living in a society with no honor. We're living in a society that preys upon naivity, and rightly so.
If you take in other's personal property, and you do nothing to secure that property, then you are negligent and not deserving of trust until you prove you are no longer negligent.
Maybe if you can suspend your disbelief long enough to realize that in the Universe BSG is set on, they had only found 12 (possibly 13) hospitable planets in all their travels. It could stand to reason that water in this universe is as rare outside of those planets as naturally occurring plutonium is here;p
And if you really want to think about it, we have.
We regularly bring people back from the brink of death. We have motorized transportation, we can feed millions of people with a comparitively small amount of raw material. We can fly through the air in relative safety. We have harnessed the power of the building blocks of all matter, for good or ill.
Humanity has performed many miracles. We have many miracles yet to perform still.
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Why does it have to be an 'or' statement?
Macromedia Flash is the name of the design tool.
Macromedia Flash Player is the browser plugin.
But that's the lovely nature of Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation can concentrate on building a better *browser* while leaving the API open to developers who want a little more from Firefox via Extensions.
I think plain, vanilla FF is a wonderful browser. The Extensions I use just make it better....for me. I don't expect my roommate or my girlfriend to run the same extensions I do, or even run any.
Can someone post a transcript please?
I've had to wait a couple of times to have movies shipped, usually they ended up coming from a non-local shipping facility (there's one in Duluth, which is just north of Atlanta, which is my locality), but never more than one business day, and only a handful of times.
I've been a Netflix subscriber for nearly two years now, and I've never experienced this "throttling" you speak of. I turn movies around typically within 2-3 days of receiving them, and almost always receive the promised one day turn around time. I can have around 30 discs sent and returned in one bill cycle.
Hey, I'm just going by what I've seen in the previews for it, heh. IMO, almost anything with Seth Green is golden.
Lessee.
On Fox. House. Bones. Both on Tuesday nights.
On the WB. Supernatural. Smallville (which has finally gotten good again after last seasons jumping over the shark and into a pile of crap).
On NBC. Four Kings (coming soon). My Name Is Earl.
There's lots of good TV, you just have to be willing to give it a chance.
Pay with a target visa or target guest card, where they're financially responsible if they get duped or not, then come back and tell me I'm lying.
Every purchase made at a large retailer (Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc) I have to show my ID...
*unless* I run the transaction as a debit transaction, using my PIN for authorization.
Because they've been granted common carrier status, just like the telephone companies.
I don't think my home computer can be granted that status.
Nah, dude, it's just gas.
Quick question..why aren't you using yast? It should take care of all the problems you're describing.
You obviously haven't been keeping up with onboard sound tech. SoundStorm provides full hardware acceleration (and dolby digital encoding in real time) in 5.1 surroud, and even provides optical out. Even your basic RealTek chip will please anyone but the most picky audiophile. All of this and you don't even lose many, if any at all, cpu cycles since there are DSP's involved.
Also, Creative's drivers are notorious for sucking unnecessary CPU time, so your 0-3% estimate is way off.
I have no problem doing that, after installing TBE. (and probably before, but I refuse to even disable this extension)
That doesn't help rural areas who still depend on independant radio operators for emergency communication in a crisis.
Nothing prevents them from buying US WoW discs, registering accounts and playing on US servers.
We're not living in a society with no honor. We're living in a society that preys upon naivity, and rightly so.
If you take in other's personal property, and you do nothing to secure that property, then you are negligent and not deserving of trust until you prove you are no longer negligent.
Okay, then.
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Or, in other words, Science Fiction? o nose, the horror!
Sure, but we have the facilities to do so and we're not being hounded by a race intent on our imminent demise.
-1, Pedantic.
Maybe if you can suspend your disbelief long enough to realize that in the Universe BSG is set on, they had only found 12 (possibly 13) hospitable planets in all their travels. It could stand to reason that water in this universe is as rare outside of those planets as naturally occurring plutonium is here ;p
And if you really want to think about it, we have.
We regularly bring people back from the brink of death. We have motorized transportation, we can feed millions of people with a comparitively small amount of raw material. We can fly through the air in relative safety. We have harnessed the power of the building blocks of all matter, for good or ill.
Humanity has performed many miracles. We have many miracles yet to perform still.
uh, the link you gave was posted on slashdot 1-2 days ago. search is down, so I can't give you a link though :(