>So we create minimalistic browsers that can be extended via extensions and plugins. Mozilla was extensible via extensions (and plugins, but those don't count, because IE and NN had those a bajillion years ago) before FF was a gleam in what's-his-name's eye
>Drumheller (the city/town in which the Royal Tyrell Museum resides) would probably be the best place for a kid to grow up
Except for the part where it is in Alberta, the Texas of the North.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Tyrell (only went there twice as a kid, it's a fair drive from Montana), and Canada is pretty cool, but Alberta in general is only suitable for visiting (sorry, I'm just more of a BC/Washington coastal type of guy).
>Alberta is also known for its Oilsands, one of Canada's sources for oil nowawdays, and if I had to venture a guess, its because we had lots and lots of dinosaurs.
Oil isn't dinosaurs. Oil is mostly marine in origin and mostly from single cell algae. As far as age, Alberta does have plenty of Cretaceous-origin oil (from the Cretaceous Seaway/Western Interior Seaway - the flood plains that bordered it were responsible for today's spectacular dino fossil beds), but there is also a lot of Mississippian and Devonian oil.
>Would this be a fundamental flaw of the TOR network? Depends on your point of view. It is certainly a well known issue. And there are other issues as well:
I don't see how changing from one thing into another is "chameleon-like behavior". I have never heard of a chameleon turning into a skink, or anything else for that matter
Vorbis has smaller file sizes for the same quality or better quality for the same file size (q1 (~80kbps) is easily comparable to 128kbps MP3). Vorbis also supports up to 255 channels with official channel ordering specs up to 8 channels (7.1), while MP3 only supports mono and stereo.
Your right, of course, about what happened last time, but it is worth noting that in a few places, that money was well spent. Lincoln County, MT a poor county in a poor state has fiber just about everywhere. My step-mom's place is something like 3-4 miles from power lines, but less than a mile from fiber, which means she could get DSL if she wanted. Now, most people out there beyond the power lines aren't interested in DSL, but the fact that fiber is present at all in Lincoln County is wonderful. The local telco is actually a Co-Op, which explains why they didn't take the money and run like the big companies did.
I saw a couple of others before making mine, but they had irrelevant and/or inappropriate days (e.g. "Steak and a BJ day", which has nothing to do with geeks in any way I can see).
So, if I'm using a browser that supports WebM, I still need it to support H.264 if I'm browsing a site that has videos encoded in H.264. Is this correct?
Yes, of course.
what is really the big deal about html5 vs playing video with a plug in?
<video> is semantic - it has a specific meaning, unlike object or embed, which could be anything. Then there are the attributes and the DOM interface that go with the <video> tag, which allow direct control and integration with the page. Plugin-based systems are just a big black box sitting in the midst of all this native web content, with minimal interaction between the two. <video> makes video a native, interactive, first class citizen of the web.
well, we'll see what happens as time goes on. It could stop growing next month, after all. And even if it grew at something like it's current rate for a year, it wouldn't be as large as FF.
Minefield is a permanent name for alpha versions of FF. Just like Debian Sid. If I knew which time period you where thinking of, I might be able to figure out which code name it got and which release it ended up as (or will end up as). Personally, I only run Minefield, and likewise the trunk version of Mozilla.
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My experience is that it runs better on Linux than on Windows...
Also, what the heck happened to D2? It's like I'm back in the early Aughts.
>So we create minimalistic browsers that can be extended via extensions and plugins.
Mozilla was extensible via extensions (and plugins, but those don't count, because IE and NN had those a bajillion years ago) before FF was a gleam in what's-his-name's eye
Except for the part where it is in Alberta, the Texas of the North.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Tyrell (only went there twice as a kid, it's a fair drive from Montana), and Canada is pretty cool, but Alberta in general is only suitable for visiting (sorry, I'm just more of a BC/Washington coastal type of guy).
Oil isn't dinosaurs. Oil is mostly marine in origin and mostly from single cell algae. As far as age, Alberta does have plenty of Cretaceous-origin oil (from the Cretaceous Seaway/Western Interior Seaway - the flood plains that bordered it were responsible for today's spectacular dino fossil beds), but there is also a lot of Mississippian and Devonian oil.
>gravity gun
all well and good, but when it comes to hand held gravity guns, I prefer the Xeelee Starbreaker
You oughta be lepton for saying such a thing.
>Would this be a fundamental flaw of the TOR network?
Depends on your point of view. It is certainly a well known issue. And there are other issues as well:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ?action=recall&rev=554#AnonymityandSecurity
I don't see how changing from one thing into another is "chameleon-like behavior". I have never heard of a chameleon turning into a skink, or anything else for that matter
Oh, ok. That makes more sense.
>braces
What?
IE9 will have Canvas
Vorbis has smaller file sizes for the same quality or better quality for the same file size (q1 (~80kbps) is easily comparable to 128kbps MP3).
Vorbis also supports up to 255 channels with official channel ordering specs up to 8 channels (7.1), while MP3 only supports mono and stereo.
Your right, of course, about what happened last time, but it is worth noting that in a few places, that money was well spent. Lincoln County, MT a poor county in a poor state has fiber just about everywhere. My step-mom's place is something like 3-4 miles from power lines, but less than a mile from fiber, which means she could get DSL if she wanted. Now, most people out there beyond the power lines aren't interested in DSL, but the fact that fiber is present at all in Lincoln County is wonderful. The local telco is actually a Co-Op, which explains why they didn't take the money and run like the big companies did.
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=nrt3u596ooihfcbb6h2qoudhh8%40group.calendar.google.com
I saw a couple of others before making mine, but they had irrelevant and/or inappropriate days (e.g. "Steak and a BJ day", which has nothing to do with geeks in any way I can see).
I have a google calendar full of geek holidays to make sure I don't forget things like this
I like it
"To make a box big enough to hold the world from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Carl Sagan
As long as it works with the video tag, it is fine
Paragraphs next time, please.
Yes, of course.
<video> is semantic - it has a specific meaning, unlike object or embed, which could be anything. Then there are the attributes and the DOM interface that go with the <video> tag, which allow direct control and integration with the page. Plugin-based systems are just a big black box sitting in the midst of all this native web content, with minimal interaction between the two. <video> makes video a native, interactive, first class citizen of the web.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html
The video decoding could still be handled with an external process, BTW. Nothing in the spec prevents that.
>offer plug-ins (using NPAPI or ActiveX; they are effectively equivalent in this scenario)
all they where saying was that you could use other codecs via plugins with object and embed.
They said that only h.264 would work with the video tag. Now h.264 and WebM will work with the video tag.
It doesn't really matter if it is free of hidden patents: Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer 9 have all announced support.
and Mozilla had extensions since at least 0.9
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/news.html#p197
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/releases/1.0.6.html#extensions
I knew it
I think Presto is Opera's engine
well, we'll see what happens as time goes on. It could stop growing next month, after all. And even if it grew at something like it's current rate for a year, it wouldn't be as large as FF.
Minefield is a permanent name for alpha versions of FF. Just like Debian Sid.
If I knew which time period you where thinking of, I might be able to figure out which code name it got and which release it ended up as (or will end up as). Personally, I only run Minefield, and likewise the trunk version of Mozilla.