As someone with quite a lot of experience with web applications development and, more pertinently, cross-browser JavaScript and CSS work, I would like to know what you think is "damn good" about IE.
I'm genuinely curious because this seems to be a popular sentiment among Slashdot posters and yet I'm completely bewildered by it.
I personally find its extreme noncompliance with standards (many of which have been around for half a decade now) and many apparently deliberate incompatibilities a nightmare to anyone who would like to see browsers do more than what they have been for the last five years.
I'm guessing that a lot of people are comparing IE on Windows to Netscape 4.x on Linux. I completely understand people being disgusted with Netscape 4.x's stability, unwieldiness, and general bugginess on Linux, but this can't be the only explanantion.
So how do you explain all those "letterbox" tvs I've been seeing in high-end a/v stores for, like, the last decade? Isn't the HDTV on Jay Leno a 16:9 CRT?
I don't doubt that they are at least more difficult to make, but aren't they widely available nonetheless?
I'm curious about this issue with CRTs; please elaborate if you could.
I think you also have to reboot in order for SpeedStep to step down. Am I wrong or is that another one of the things Intel always conveniently leaves out when talking about their mobile cpus?
I'd say Stormix wasn't exactly your typical "marginal distro." Stormix, aside from Corel (which has its own set of issues), was about the most novice friendly Debian distro available - it was perfect for people who wanted to stay away from Redhat's bugs and packaging system, Suse's bloat, Mandrake's over-coddling, etc. - but were intimidated by other Debian distros.
I'm sorry to see Stormix go because it was the one Debian distro that I could recommend to Windows users for switching to Linux. To me, Sotrmix was friendly enough to let people learn Linux on Debian to start with, rather than switching after taking the time to learn the idiosyncracies of other distros.
As a mechanical engineer, I'm well familiar with the effects of a detachment from reality observable in proponents of both sides of the environment/costs issue - believe me when I say I agree that misinformed environmentalists are a major problem.
However, it's also plain to see that something needs to be done to spell out the problems that are our future if a lot isn't done about our energy consumption.
For example, we've got an arms race on the road with people thinking they are unsafe or uncool if they don't have a 6,000lb, 9mpg, SUV with bumpers that hit cars in the roof! It's as if the ability to conspicuously consume is the measure of individual status in America. Why is this? it's because nobody they respect is saying "what the fuck are you doing?" Everybody just says "whoa, that behomoth's got gold trim and costs $60,000 - the owner must be ludicrously rich which is the only thing that is admirable in this country."
The public has demonstrated that they don't care about the environment unless they are forced to. I guess what I'm trying to say is that, although it sucks that Californians can't depend on having their electricity right now, at least maybe there's some kind of chance that they'll be touched enough by the consequences of overconsumption to be able to recognize the pertinence of at least their more personal environmental responsibilities.
You seem to know what went wrong: Saturn. They made an expensive system that was hard to develop for. But then they came out with Dreamcast - they'd learned their lesson - they went from wrong to right. Have you played Dreamcast recently? Sega's the company which *does* understand the gamer (example = broadband adapter + awesome Quake port).
What you've identified as wrong with Sega 5 years ago is now identifiable with Sony - PS2, out for a year in Japan, still has crappy games, is expensive, and is hard to develop for.
What's sad is that the issue of whether or not console makers "understand the gamer" may not be relevant anymore - these days it seems that all that matters is whether or not a company is big enough (from selling things like TVs and monopoly operating systems) to acquire a monopoly by wiping out their competitors through advertising and bullying of retailers. If such was not the case, then we wouldn't be seing shows on CNN about how "emotional" the Saturn2 is.
Let's pray for Nintendo GameCube (GameCube = spiritual Dreamcast2, on account of ease of development for and dearth of preliminary superhype for).
In my experience, Quicktime is definitely the best.
Windows Media's performance is lousy and also buggy except when used with Microsoft everything.
Realtime, although impressively consistent across platforms, was expensive with horrible sound quality (when I used it a year ago). Quicktime impressed me in every area - its sound quality (audio compression technology) is on par with Windows Media, its video (how much it falls apart when bandwidth fluctuates) is on par with RealMedia, and it doesn't require NT server.
By the way, the Windows Media player for Apple is such a buggy joke that Windows Media should really be considered a single-platform format.
Isn't saying Dreamcast's graphics were designed by NEC/PowerVR the same as saying the PS2's were designed by Toshiba? PS2's "emotion engine" is MANUFACTURED by Toshiba just as Dreamcast's are MANUFACTURED by NEC/PowerVR.
According to my sources, DC's design took place in the U.S. at the hands of a Sega + 3DFX team.
From "Dreamcast Dossier" at gamespot.com: "Rumors about Sega's new machine started flying in 1997. First it was known as Dural, then Black Belt, then Katana (a name rumored to still be used on some internal components), and finally Dreamcast. It began full speed ahead when it was announced that Sega had teamed up with 3dfx to create a graphics chipset that would drive its next system. That system became known as the Black Belt and was developed in America by SegaSoft."
Don't worry; Dreamcast will continue to be the best console available at least until intro of Xbox:
There are many awesome games in pipeline for next year which have been developed way too far to be canceled.
Meanwhile, after being out for a year in Japan, PS2 continues to have lousy games. My friend didn't buy a DC for a year b/c he was waiting for PS2; then he bought PS2, was underwhelmed, and finally got Dreamcast.
If you haven't already, check out (at gamespot.com or something) some of the games that will be coming out over the next few months (ie Metropolis Street Racer, Sonic Adventure 2, Shenmue2).
Ignore the hype and play games. Enjoy Dreamcast's aa and hidden surface removal which presently result in better looking graphics than available on PS2. Enjoy broadband while playing UT (coming out soon) on machine largely designed by 3DFX.
Dreamcast is still outselling PS2. When Xbox comes out - forget PS2. Despite PS9 commercials, Sony is the company that's really sweating.
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Actually, you pretty much have it exactly backwards:
Search engines would still ignore it (you really think porn sites haven't thought of that and that search engines haven't thought of porn sites thinking of that?) - search engines look at style definitions just as they look at plain html
CSS would be providing the "hide" function not the "retrieve" function. He's using <font>'s color attribute to hide the code. If he hadn't set this value equal to the bgcolor value, then the code wouldn't have been hidden (bgcolor default = white, foreground color default = black). If he'd used CSS instead, then the CSS would have been hiding the code.
For those of you who didn't already know it, Sega offers an add-on VGA out (640X480) for the Dreamcast (http://www.sega.com/pc/segastore/SegaProduct.jhtm l?PRODID=257).
Does anybody happen to know whether or not it would work with an old 21" Sun monitor (fixed frequency, sync-on-green, Trinitron)?
There seem to be zillions of these kinds of monitors out there that no one knows what to do with.
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I'm genuinely curious because this seems to be a popular sentiment among Slashdot posters and yet I'm completely bewildered by it.
I personally find its extreme noncompliance with standards (many of which have been around for half a decade now) and many apparently deliberate incompatibilities a nightmare to anyone who would like to see browsers do more than what they have been for the last five years.
I'm guessing that a lot of people are comparing IE on Windows to Netscape 4.x on Linux. I completely understand people being disgusted with Netscape 4.x's stability, unwieldiness, and general bugginess on Linux, but this can't be the only explanantion.
Please inform me.
No EMI/RFI shielding. If I was him I'd line the whole thing with copper mesh (EMI) and/or shielded sound absorption material (RFI).
I don't doubt that they are at least more difficult to make, but aren't they widely available nonetheless?
I'm curious about this issue with CRTs; please elaborate if you could.
Will someone please explain why there are so many snide remarks about Jon Katz?
Matrox is coming out with a new card this March. You know they've been up to something.
Why would Transmeta want to underclock their chips down to 300Mhz to save 1/2 watt?
I think you also have to reboot in order for SpeedStep to step down. Am I wrong or is that another one of the things Intel always conveniently leaves out when talking about their mobile cpus?
Same thing happened when XBox was announced to have AMD cpu
I'm sorry to see Stormix go because it was the one Debian distro that I could recommend to Windows users for switching to Linux. To me, Sotrmix was friendly enough to let people learn Linux on Debian to start with, rather than switching after taking the time to learn the idiosyncracies of other distros.
However, it's also plain to see that something needs to be done to spell out the problems that are our future if a lot isn't done about our energy consumption.
For example, we've got an arms race on the road with people thinking they are unsafe or uncool if they don't have a 6,000lb, 9mpg, SUV with bumpers that hit cars in the roof! It's as if the ability to conspicuously consume is the measure of individual status in America. Why is this? it's because nobody they respect is saying "what the fuck are you doing?" Everybody just says "whoa, that behomoth's got gold trim and costs $60,000 - the owner must be ludicrously rich which is the only thing that is admirable in this country."
The public has demonstrated that they don't care about the environment unless they are forced to. I guess what I'm trying to say is that, although it sucks that Californians can't depend on having their electricity right now, at least maybe there's some kind of chance that they'll be touched enough by the consequences of overconsumption to be able to recognize the pertinence of at least their more personal environmental responsibilities.
What you've identified as wrong with Sega 5 years ago is now identifiable with Sony - PS2, out for a year in Japan, still has crappy games, is expensive, and is hard to develop for.
What's sad is that the issue of whether or not console makers "understand the gamer" may not be relevant anymore - these days it seems that all that matters is whether or not a company is big enough (from selling things like TVs and monopoly operating systems) to acquire a monopoly by wiping out their competitors through advertising and bullying of retailers. If such was not the case, then we wouldn't be seing shows on CNN about how "emotional" the Saturn2 is.
Let's pray for Nintendo GameCube (GameCube = spiritual Dreamcast2, on account of ease of development for and dearth of preliminary superhype for).
Windows Media's performance is lousy and also buggy except when used with Microsoft everything.
Realtime, although impressively consistent across platforms, was expensive with horrible sound quality (when I used it a year ago).
Quicktime impressed me in every area - its sound quality (audio compression technology) is on par with Windows Media, its video (how much it falls apart when bandwidth fluctuates) is on par with RealMedia, and it doesn't require NT server.
By the way, the Windows Media player for Apple is such a buggy joke that Windows Media should really be considered a single-platform format.
According to my sources, DC's design took place in the U.S. at the hands of a Sega + 3DFX team.
From "Dreamcast Dossier" at gamespot.com:
"Rumors about Sega's new machine started flying in 1997. First it was known as Dural, then Black Belt, then Katana (a name rumored to still be used on some internal components), and finally Dreamcast. It began full speed ahead when it was announced that Sega had teamed up with 3dfx to create a graphics chipset that would drive its next system. That system became known as the Black Belt and was developed in America by SegaSoft."
Don't worry; Dreamcast will continue to be the best console available at least until intro of Xbox: There are many awesome games in pipeline for next year which have been developed way too far to be canceled. Meanwhile, after being out for a year in Japan, PS2 continues to have lousy games. My friend didn't buy a DC for a year b/c he was waiting for PS2; then he bought PS2, was underwhelmed, and finally got Dreamcast. If you haven't already, check out (at gamespot.com or something) some of the games that will be coming out over the next few months (ie Metropolis Street Racer, Sonic Adventure 2, Shenmue2). Ignore the hype and play games. Enjoy Dreamcast's aa and hidden surface removal which presently result in better looking graphics than available on PS2. Enjoy broadband while playing UT (coming out soon) on machine largely designed by 3DFX. Dreamcast is still outselling PS2. When Xbox comes out - forget PS2. Despite PS9 commercials, Sony is the company that's really sweating.
- Search engines would still ignore it (you really think porn sites haven't thought of that and that search engines haven't thought of porn sites thinking of that?) - search engines look at style definitions just as they look at plain html
- CSS would be providing the "hide" function not the "retrieve" function. He's using <font>'s color attribute to hide the code. If he hadn't set this value equal to the bgcolor value, then the code wouldn't have been hidden (bgcolor default = white, foreground color default = black). If he'd used CSS instead, then the CSS would have been hiding the code.
But thanks for playing.Does anybody happen to know whether or not it would work with an old 21" Sun monitor (fixed frequency, sync-on-green, Trinitron)?
There seem to be zillions of these kinds of monitors out there that no one knows what to do with.