this is old news, and hasn't really been true ever since the release of the K266a chipset. if you don't like VIA, you can go with the nForce chipset or the AMD 760. all three are far, far more reliable than the evil that was released to go along with those old slot athlons.
sure, but what if your client is more concerned with presentation than content? what if they're a band or an ad agency or a shoe company or film producer? different sites have different priorities.
anything you can do with DHTML, cascading style sheets, and iframes Flash can do better, and with a smaller footprint because of the vector-based graphics.
the number-one biggest problem with flash is that it breaks the browser buttons. if a site is designed totally in flash, the user browses around the site for a while, then presses "back" expecting to see the previous thing they looked at but they're sent all the way back to whatever pointed them to the flash site in the first place.
maybe with some heroic javascripting, a flash programmer could could make the "back" button on a browser do their bidding. i don't know. because except for this limitation, it's really ready for prime time.
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this baffles me. maybe it depends on the type of music. i listen to guitar and drum heavy rock and roll, and at 128 kbps, the high-hats cut through my brain like a knife in a totally un-source-like way. and yeah that's with the fgh encoder. at 192, i find it much more difficult to tell it apart from the original, but i wish people would stop arguing in favor of 128 kbps as near-cd-quality cuz it just ain't.
schools, at least where i live, won't take surplus computers. and if you think about it for a sec, you'll realize that this is a smart move. first of all, every new computer (or computer part) is a fountain of potential problems. what's on the hard drive (porn / unlicensed software / viruses / etc etc etc)? who owns the licenses? is this hardware about to crap out? where are the drivers? is it compatible with this other part over here? anybody around here know how to install it? can it support software x? plus, of course, whoever's in charge would have to re-train everyone else on each new system, not to mention spending countless hours trying to get it functionable in the first place.
no, don't curse your schools with surplus hardware!
but they're not weening them off of Mhz! their model numbers are designed to register to the consumer *AS* Mhz equivalents. a 1.4Ghz part will be an Athlon 1600? that's not trying to direct the attention away from Mhz, it's deliberately trying to mislead consumers!
and i'm one of them! bunch of greedy bastards. if there's any industry that would benefit from the total collapse of its infrastructure, it's the music industry. fuck 'em, i swear, all you people out there -- don't feel bad about ripping them off, they're pricks anyway. my band plays 8 times a month, and 90% of the bands are dickwads.
uh, those are the exact graphics from Sid Meier's Civ2 that you see in the isometric view. and for your information, they are sacred. you will therefore burn in hell for criticizing the god of turn-based strategy.
not only a cutoff, but also it was more or less harmless -- like the article said, it could have easily destroyed data, but it didn't. it just sat there reproduced like a bunny in heat. oh and launched a half-hearted attack on bush's website. big frickin deal, right? yeah, this was not so much a malicious attack as a blueprint for one.
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this is old news, and hasn't really been true ever since the release of the K266a chipset. if you don't like VIA, you can go with the nForce chipset or the AMD 760. all three are far, far more reliable than the evil that was released to go along with those old slot athlons.
now now, the canadian government has apologized for bryan adams on several occasions!
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sure, but what if your client is more concerned with presentation than content? what if they're a band or an ad agency or a shoe company or film producer? different sites have different priorities.
anything you can do with DHTML, cascading style sheets, and iframes Flash can do better, and with a smaller footprint because of the vector-based graphics.
the number-one biggest problem with flash is that it breaks the browser buttons. if a site is designed totally in flash, the user browses around the site for a while, then presses "back" expecting to see the previous thing they looked at but they're sent all the way back to whatever pointed them to the flash site in the first place.
maybe with some heroic javascripting, a flash programmer could could make the "back" button on a browser do their bidding. i don't know. because except for this limitation, it's really ready for prime time.
read comments that are this far down the list.
this baffles me. maybe it depends on the type of music. i listen to guitar and drum heavy rock and roll, and at 128 kbps, the high-hats cut through my brain like a knife in a totally un-source-like way. and yeah that's with the fgh encoder. at 192, i find it much more difficult to tell it apart from the original, but i wish people would stop arguing in favor of 128 kbps as near-cd-quality cuz it just ain't.
yep. let's do it.
hey same deal with my band. schin up, yer not alone.
hey nice gun rack.
uhm. no. the public school i went to won't take surplus computers or parts, for exactly the reasons i stated above.
no, don't curse your schools with surplus hardware!
by the way, i OWN two athlons, and i think they're GREAT CHIPS. but this move is low.
but they're not weening them off of Mhz! their model numbers are designed to register to the consumer *AS* Mhz equivalents. a 1.4Ghz part will be an Athlon 1600? that's not trying to direct the attention away from Mhz, it's deliberately trying to mislead consumers!
yep cpuid software will still work. but the bios will never admit the real clock speed =[
sure. because they're both greedy and naive. duh.
and i'm one of them! bunch of greedy bastards. if there's any industry that would benefit from the total collapse of its infrastructure, it's the music industry. fuck 'em, i swear, all you people out there -- don't feel bad about ripping them off, they're pricks anyway. my band plays 8 times a month, and 90% of the bands are dickwads.
i think it might be slashdotted already!
that would certainly be a step backwards in realism!
nah what'd be the point?
uh, those are the exact graphics from Sid Meier's Civ2 that you see in the isometric view. and for your information, they are sacred. you will therefore burn in hell for criticizing the god of turn-based strategy.
no, fool! they're using sid meier's graphics. the graphics look exactly like they did in '96 for Civ2.
http://www.civ3.com
this game looks incredible! god i can't wait
that, and i can't read it on the sh!tter.
interview me!
this internet was not made for you. and you got burned. now go away and let us get back to what we were doing, whaddya say?
not only a cutoff, but also it was more or less harmless -- like the article said, it could have easily destroyed data, but it didn't. it just sat there reproduced like a bunny in heat. oh and launched a half-hearted attack on bush's website. big frickin deal, right? yeah, this was not so much a malicious attack as a blueprint for one.
when he charges the mound.