I disagree.
I also run Windows as my primary OS; IE is by far the slowest browser I've used. For raw speed, nothing right now beats Opera. Although supposedly it sticks to the standards to most, a lot of pages dont look perfect in it.
Mozilla is definitely getting MUCH better. I'm actually using it right now: much faster than IE6.0 in just about everything.
These are my experiences; your mileage may vary.
As an aside, does Slashdot use http/1.1 compression? One of my favorite game news sites now uses it, and everything loads perceptibly faster...
Chuck D spoke today at a conference I went to called "Music to Whose Ears" put on by the law journal. He was the keynote speaker, and raised a few good points in the measly 20 minutes they gave him:
Unlike when CDs came out, the "new" media is in the hands of the consumers, not the record companies. That means that the companies don't have the consumers by the nose: no more paying $18 for a CD that costs The Internet allows music to be globally produced and globally heard. Instead of having 5% of the music out there being heard, the other 95% has a better chance, due to the fact that it costs very little to produce and promote music on the Internet. MP3.com is free. In the Record Company's world, to promote a CD costs millions, including thousands for magazine ads, radio play, and the like. So, with the Internet, there are fewer barriers, which enables more music to be produced and heard.
Chuck D says Napster is a Good Thing. For the past decade or so, the record company's have been forcing consumers to pay large amounts of money, often without giving them a chance to hear it first. Not all CDs are in the little listening kiosks. With this new media, you can actually listen to the music and decide whether to consciously support the artist with your money or not.
The record companies cannot be allowed to win. The jacking of the consumer cannot be allowed to go on. Instead, the Internet will force them to come up with new paradigms of selling, and force the courts to come up with new paradigms of copyright protection. Maybe record companies will become what they should have been all along, collectively owned by the artists with profit sharing, instead of management getting the big bucks at the expense of artists.
Chuck D had a lot more to say (and said a lot more) but I think this is the gist of it. It was an incredible little talk, but I wish they'd given him more than 20 minutes. All in all, Chuck D showed the knowledge and insight that made PE so far ahead of its time.
...I don't think breaking up Microsoft is necessarily the "right" thing to do.
Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, Windows is a decent operating system. Microsoft did NOT get to where it's at solely through muscling its competitors or engaging in anti-trust practices, although that HAS played a part.
No matter how buggy anyone claims Windows is (and I have to agree, it isn't nearly bug-free) the fact remains that:
1) It's a whole lot easier to set up and use "out of the box" than Linux. This fact has little to do with anti-trust practices (except driver support and that's just nitpicking)
2)Microsoft's office suite is damn good. Some may argue that it's "good" because of anti-competitive integration with the operating system, but regardless, objectively, it is a feature-rich, fast, and easy-to-use suite. Nobody I know has ever had a problem learning Word.
3)Breaking up Microsoft will have little effect on its day-to-day business. Sure, the overhead will increase, but I don't think it'll help foster competition. It shouldn't be allowed to unfairly push manufacturers, but breaking it up will have no effect on all this.
4)Microsoft shouldn't be punished for having a better product. Netscape (which helped initiate the litigation) complains about IE, and although I agree it shouldn't be forcibly packaged without alternatives by OEMs, the fact remains that today IE is way better than Navigator. Shell integration aside, IE crashes on me less often than Navigator.
To sum it up, the case seems like punishment for Microsoft for being too successful.
And one more note: why open up the Windows source code? How is that going to foster competition? Perhaps forcible documentation of everything in Windows is a good idea, but making them release source code sounds like an over-envangelized idea from/.ers. It ain't a realistic solution.
You're absolutely wrong. I don't know about theory, but at the college I go to (UC Berkeley) our bandwidth was capped because of, well, too much bandwidth usage, and this bandwidth usage was by Napster. From late Fall semester 99 to Early February 2000, the number of new ethernet accounts went up a small percentage. However, the dorms were overloading the entire university's bandwidth by February, so the cause is something other than "normal internet usage." Firewalling/banning Napster has to do with extreme bandwidth usage, not copyrights.
Sharp and Voquette together have a solution that transfers MP3s to MDs. Still, the data is probably just being converted to audio then re-compressed via ATRAC. I have a Sharp MDMS722, and to be honest, the loss of quality (as long as you use a QUALITY sound card and QUALITY cables) in analog recording mp3s to MD is usually not noticeable. sk
Hey, don't get TOO excited. The drivers aren't 100% optimized (and no AGP texturing...boo) so, according to the FAQ, you can't run Quake3 with them although Quake2 should work fun. Still, it's a good start, and hopefully when (if) XFree84 4 comes out, I'll be able to play Q3 with a TNT2...yum.
The Riva TNT is not currently supported in 3d under Linux. Supposedly, by the time Q3A or TNT2 is actually released, nVidia will have full drivers for Linux.
Uh...GL slower on Linux? NO way. On my Voodoo2 I get something like 5-6 fps faster on Linux than on Windows....using the MiniGL from Q2 of course. If I was using the MesaGL Linux vs full ICD Windows, I'm pretty sure MesaGL would whoop on 3dfx's ICD.
Slashdot Mirror
YOU FUCKER.
I miss you on slashdot silly boi.
I disagree. I also run Windows as my primary OS; IE is by far the slowest browser I've used. For raw speed, nothing right now beats Opera. Although supposedly it sticks to the standards to most, a lot of pages dont look perfect in it. Mozilla is definitely getting MUCH better. I'm actually using it right now: much faster than IE6.0 in just about everything. These are my experiences; your mileage may vary. As an aside, does Slashdot use http/1.1 compression? One of my favorite game news sites now uses it, and everything loads perceptibly faster...
By the way, that's not an old persian proverb, its a saying of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad (so I guess its an old Arab proverb).
Chuck D had a lot more to say (and said a lot more) but I think this is the gist of it. It was an incredible little talk, but I wish they'd given him more than 20 minutes. All in all, Chuck D showed the knowledge and insight that made PE so far ahead of its time.
Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, Windows is a decent operating system. Microsoft did NOT get to where it's at solely through muscling its competitors or engaging in anti-trust practices, although that HAS played a part.
No matter how buggy anyone claims Windows is (and I have to agree, it isn't nearly bug-free) the fact remains that:
1) It's a whole lot easier to set up and use "out of the box" than Linux. This fact has little to do with anti-trust practices (except driver support and that's just nitpicking)
2)Microsoft's office suite is damn good. Some may argue that it's "good" because of anti-competitive integration with the operating system, but regardless, objectively, it is a feature-rich, fast, and easy-to-use suite. Nobody I know has ever had a problem learning Word.
3)Breaking up Microsoft will have little effect on its day-to-day business. Sure, the overhead will increase, but I don't think it'll help foster competition. It shouldn't be allowed to unfairly push manufacturers, but breaking it up will have no effect on all this.
4)Microsoft shouldn't be punished for having a better product. Netscape (which helped initiate the litigation) complains about IE, and although I agree it shouldn't be forcibly packaged without alternatives by OEMs, the fact remains that today IE is way better than Navigator. Shell integration aside, IE crashes on me less often than Navigator.
To sum it up, the case seems like punishment for Microsoft for being too successful.
And one more note: why open up the Windows source code? How is that going to foster competition? Perhaps forcible documentation of everything in Windows is a good idea, but making them release source code sounds like an over-envangelized idea from
You're absolutely wrong. I don't know about theory, but at the college I go to (UC Berkeley) our bandwidth was capped because of, well, too much bandwidth usage, and this bandwidth usage was by Napster. From late Fall semester 99 to Early February 2000, the number of new ethernet accounts went up a small percentage. However, the dorms were overloading the entire university's bandwidth by February, so the cause is something other than "normal internet usage." Firewalling/banning Napster has to do with extreme bandwidth usage, not copyrights.
Sharp and Voquette together have a solution that transfers MP3s to MDs. Still, the data is probably just being converted to audio then re-compressed via ATRAC. I have a Sharp MDMS722, and to be honest, the loss of quality (as long as you use a QUALITY sound card and QUALITY cables) in analog recording mp3s to MD is usually not noticeable. sk
Hey, don't get TOO excited. The drivers aren't 100% optimized (and no AGP texturing...boo) so, according to the FAQ, you can't run Quake3 with them although Quake2 should work fun. Still, it's a good start, and hopefully when (if) XFree84 4 comes out, I'll be able to play Q3 with a TNT2...yum.
doozy
The Riva TNT is not currently supported in 3d under Linux. Supposedly, by the time Q3A or TNT2 is actually released, nVidia will have full drivers for Linux.
doozy
Uh...GL slower on Linux? NO way. On my Voodoo2 I get something like 5-6 fps faster on Linux than on Windows....using the MiniGL from Q2 of course. If I was using the MesaGL Linux vs full ICD Windows, I'm pretty sure MesaGL would whoop on 3dfx's ICD.