1. Its Fast, load time, render time everything is very very very quick and responsive.
2. Small and elegant, the download is only 3.5MB which includes e-mail/newsgroup support. I admit that Firefox has been reduced now (DL is 4.7MB) however to get the same functionality you need to get a few more plug-ins. Not to mention an entire separate e-mail client. I'm not sure what IE's download size is now, but I recall installing it a long while ago and it was pushing 70MB IIRC, and I remember asking myself, wtf is in this that it needs to be this big?
3. Intuitive, From the smallest of things they (Opera software) has paid close attention to little headaches that people just live with and remove them. Create a new window in your browser, bet you have to move your mouse and click on the URL text box to start typing... not me (this feature btw, originally sold me on Opera) ctrl-n and just start typing.
4. Innovative, most of the features you see in Firefox and upcomming in IE were pioneered in Opera (tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, etc..)
5. They don't belive in software patents. All those features your enjoying in #4 may not be there if 5 didn't exist.
Opera is just a good company, personally I put them in the same place in my heart as Google. Both build great products (multiple in the case of Google), give away as much as they can afford to (obviously with Business/Marketing in mind) and keep coming up with great ideas.
So their stocks went down 5%, whoop de doo, they are making cash hand over fist with all this PR for this game, just think of all the people teetering as on wether or not to buy the game, then all this excitement comes out about it, possible fear that they may remove the game from store shelves.... I bet the game sold like crazy.
ROMs can be very cheap. If they get to 8Gbit and then put it in a multichip stack to get to 4 or 8 GByte capacities, it could possibly give the movies on DVD industry a run for its money. The bad side of that is that we've been benefiting heavily from the demand that that industry has created is responsible for providing cheap RO and later WO and RW DVD drives for our PCs. The movie industry would love this format because the WO and RW versions would always be way more expensive than the RO version. The cost equation of copying would change dramatically.
Same sentence as above, just replace ROM with DVD and DVD with VHS.
If he does decide to swim to Newfoundland, I hope he doesn't decide to swim into the harbor here in St. John's, being the most easterly harbor and all..
Alternativly he could swim to St. John NB, and into the Bay of Fundy. Get close enough to Lepreau and the Nuclear station there, so he could get that extra atom for extra engery!
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why are there diehard fans of the opera browser?
I'll tell you why.
1. Its Fast, load time, render time everything is very very very quick and responsive.
2. Small and elegant, the download is only 3.5MB which includes e-mail/newsgroup support. I admit that Firefox has been reduced now (DL is 4.7MB) however to get the same functionality you need to get a few more plug-ins. Not to mention an entire separate e-mail client. I'm not sure what IE's download size is now, but I recall installing it a long while ago and it was pushing 70MB IIRC, and I remember asking myself, wtf is in this that it needs to be this big?
3. Intuitive, From the smallest of things they (Opera software) has paid close attention to little headaches that people just live with and remove them. Create a new window in your browser, bet you have to move your mouse and click on the URL text box to start typing... not me (this feature btw, originally sold me on Opera) ctrl-n and just start typing.
4. Innovative, most of the features you see in Firefox and upcomming in IE were pioneered in Opera (tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, etc..)
5. They don't belive in software patents. All those features your enjoying in #4 may not be there if 5 didn't exist.
Opera is just a good company, personally I put them in the same place in my heart as Google. Both build great products (multiple in the case of Google), give away as much as they can afford to (obviously with Business/Marketing in mind) and keep coming up with great ideas.
I second that, and throw in a vote for Pong myself.
why did the end of the demo finish at Country Kitchen Buffet?
I, for one, think that the less makeshift hacksaws we are forced use on multi-billion-dollar equipment, the better.
I, for one, think that the less makeshift hacksaws we are forced make with multi-billion-dollar equipment, the better.
Yes, but where is it located at
Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Exactly!
So their stocks went down 5%, whoop de doo, they are making cash hand over fist with all this PR for this game, just think of all the people teetering as on wether or not to buy the game, then all this excitement comes out about it, possible fear that they may remove the game from store shelves.... I bet the game sold like crazy.
And if you ever wanted a reason to quit: http://www.peta.org/
and join these guys! http://mtd.com/tasty/ (They originally owned Peta.org)
Dude, no thanks, we already have one Ron Perlman.
Haven't you heard? Duke is going to be the Photon's shipping game, the hardware is ready they are just waiting on the game ;)
8. Cost. If you expect an Apple box to cost significantly less with a different processor, you're smoking crack.
Besides, if your smoking crack, you should be able to afford one of the new Apple boxes anyway.
There are workarounds, but you won't like them.
Use Windows? (ducks)
ROMs can be very cheap. If they get to 8Gbit and then put it in a multichip stack to get to 4 or 8 GByte capacities, it could possibly give the movies on DVD industry a run for its money. The bad side of that is that we've been benefiting heavily from the demand that that industry has created is responsible for providing cheap RO and later WO and RW DVD drives for our PCs. The movie industry would love this format because the WO and RW versions would always be way more expensive than the RO version. The cost equation of copying would change dramatically.
Same sentence as above, just replace ROM with DVD and DVD with VHS.
Tut tut! my friend, here is a picture of the finished unit.
I think what was intended, was that we will be satisfied with the *knowledge* that this is the last one. That then will make up for the other two.
1. Hardware
2. Software
3. Get Married/Girlfriend
Well I went for #2..... sigh..
Yeah here ya go.
If he does decide to swim to Newfoundland, I hope he doesn't decide to swim into the harbor here in St. John's, being the most easterly harbor and all..
Alternativly he could swim to St. John NB, and into the Bay of Fundy. Get close enough to Lepreau and the Nuclear station there, so he could get that extra atom for extra engery!
No, you got that incorrect, its actually Gleen Day, and 50 Cert. They are the knock off bands silly!
Anyone have the cache of these?
Exactly, the engine isn't the bottleneck, its the systems.
God, why can't I moderate this as "Depressing". Brother you are sooo right.
Because someone would copy it and call it Banana OS?
No no no, Bananna OS would never work, you have to stick to non peeled roundish fruits, the next would be Mango OS.
It was intended as a joke, not really expecting someone to analize it, or even try it. Laugh it up folks, relax its Sunday! :)
It was intended as a joke, not really expecting someone to analize it, or even try it.
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