Pixel errors only really matter when you are aligning two pixmaps, etc. If the majority of the elements are done with vector graphics it won't matter so much, and for the pixmap elements they will be nice square boxes.
Plus, some things are noticably choppier (web browswer scrolling). This may be the case now, but as soon as we get webbrowsers that render with vector based libraries like cairo it will be butter. Furthermore the insane amounts of memory browsers spend today with huge pixmaps cached for each tab will be cut down drastically when all they have to store is the actual information, not the rendering of it.
"This doesn't require OpenGL, a 2D compositing desktop does it fine." For pixellated fonts, you are right. Cairo though is a vector backend, and while you don't need GL to run it, it makes it extremely fast. So imagine being able to zoom into any window and not get any pixellation in anything--it's just like zooming in on an SVG. Now granted, not everything has moved to cairo/similar tech yet--gecko isn't for instance. But as soon as everything is, the only pixellation you will see is on the occassional stray pixmap (albeit on the web it is a little more than occassional).
Your card was likely missing a few GL extensions necessary for rendering vector graphics in openGL onto openGL textures. Or it could have been a million other things.
You got it wrong. "Rendezvous" means "show up." That's it. It can be used to say "show up" for a meeting, but the whole significance of it with regard to ZeroConf is that everything "shows up" automatically to everything else.
Blame both. They are both acting in concert. However, don't think Google's relation with the US is somehow different--they censor here at the bequest of our Government (I'm refering to DMCA takedowns of cached pages).
"It might be a good thing if they had sources other than the hateful lies of the Islamists"
You mean like the loving truths of the Christians? Sorry, it is just odd that you said "Islamists"--that is a big category that encompasses almost every viewer we are talking about here!
"It would be cheaper to employ people to do it, but they don't for the simple reason that you can't get the mathematicians/physicists in the UK."
Actually they can, it would just be extremely expensive because they are in such limited supply. So I don't know where the "it would be cheaper to employ people to do it" is coming from in your comment.
Ok, so according to you it should be: Customer sees on ATI's page that card has capability. Customer buys card. Doesn't have capability. Capability isn't listed on page. Weeks or months later, at ATI's discretion a notice is buried on their website somewhere.
According to most reasonable people it should be: Customer sees on ATI's page that card has capability. Customer buys card. Doesn't have capability. Customer visits website. Clicks on card. Sees notice at the top of the screen about the mistake. Under that notice, you have the newly updated profile of the product.
Just making the correction alone looks like you are trying to fool your customers and if you can't see that, you are the fool.
"in china it just may be a place to see. so page rank probably has more to do wiht it than google altering the image rank." I think there is a bit more to it than that. It is more along the lines of "in China, you wouldn't dare make a webpage with pictures of the massacre, so the pages Google spiders don't have any of those types of pictures." Again, in this case it still wouldn't be Google censoring their results, but it isn't as cut and dry as "in china it just may be a place to see."
If you are saying "all your points are right, except that c) doubles the costs..." I don't see how you can make that claim given the "Whereas an experienced programmer can write equivalent functionality in 1/10 the time." Now, if you aren't accepting that as true, at least say so.
One word about your advice: don't accept any investments from people without being very careful. If you accept from people making less than $250,000 a year (I believe, it may be more) you open yourself up to liabilities if you ever try and go public.
Actually they had better be careful. With bullshit lawsuits in the US they could be exposing themselves to liability. AOL was sued by its army of volunteer support and they lost, and Origin was sued for its volunteer support (councilors in Ultima Online) and they lost as well. One of the key factors was that they provided some compensation (free game time in the case of UO). However, I think another key thing was that they had shifts and hours.. which obviously isn't the case here, but the whole thing was so stupid that Apple should still tread lightly.
When I click that link (Firefox 1.5), I get a window popping up asking me where to save retreive.cgi to. Is something wrong with their mimetype handling.
"We need to get people into office that are going to think past their next election and do something for WE THE PEOPLE instead of ME THE PUBLIC FIGURE." These people get in all the time, and then immediately get voted out after doing exactly what you want them to do. Remember a large share of voters fall for multi-level marketing schemes.
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Pixel errors only really matter when you are aligning two pixmaps, etc. If the majority of the elements are done with vector graphics it won't matter so much, and for the pixmap elements they will be nice square boxes.
Nope, you is wrong. It was Quake III. Still impressive in my book.
Plus, some things are noticably choppier (web browswer scrolling). This may be the case now, but as soon as we get webbrowsers that render with vector based libraries like cairo it will be butter. Furthermore the insane amounts of memory browsers spend today with huge pixmaps cached for each tab will be cut down drastically when all they have to store is the actual information, not the rendering of it.
I don't know... the UI in You've Got Mail wasn't so overblown.
"This doesn't require OpenGL, a 2D compositing desktop does it fine." For pixellated fonts, you are right. Cairo though is a vector backend, and while you don't need GL to run it, it makes it extremely fast. So imagine being able to zoom into any window and not get any pixellation in anything--it's just like zooming in on an SVG. Now granted, not everything has moved to cairo/similar tech yet--gecko isn't for instance. But as soon as everything is, the only pixellation you will see is on the occassional stray pixmap (albeit on the web it is a little more than occassional).
Or brightening one single color component of one single pixel...
Your card was likely missing a few GL extensions necessary for rendering vector graphics in openGL onto openGL textures. Or it could have been a million other things.
You got it wrong. "Rendezvous" means "show up." That's it. It can be used to say "show up" for a meeting, but the whole significance of it with regard to ZeroConf is that everything "shows up" automatically to everything else.
What? Oracle tells you answers to queries. Excel excels at spreadsheets. Firefox... christ have you ever even been to china? Those things browse webs.
Yeah, because Adobe Photoshop isn't gonna care about Ekiga Photoshop.
Blame both. They are both acting in concert. However, don't think Google's relation with the US is somehow different--they censor here at the bequest of our Government (I'm refering to DMCA takedowns of cached pages).
"It might be a good thing if they had sources other than the hateful lies of the Islamists"
You mean like the loving truths of the Christians? Sorry, it is just odd that you said "Islamists"--that is a big category that encompasses almost every viewer we are talking about here!
And if you weren't not Sony or their DRM, he'd fuck you.
Hopefully this stuff brings us back to sword fights ala Dune.
Ok, so according to you it should be: Customer sees on ATI's page that card has capability. Customer buys card. Doesn't have capability. Capability isn't listed on page. Weeks or months later, at ATI's discretion a notice is buried on their website somewhere.
According to most reasonable people it should be: Customer sees on ATI's page that card has capability. Customer buys card. Doesn't have capability. Customer visits website. Clicks on card. Sees notice at the top of the screen about the mistake. Under that notice, you have the newly updated profile of the product.
Just making the correction alone looks like you are trying to fool your customers and if you can't see that, you are the fool.
"in china it just may be a place to see. so page rank probably has more to do wiht it than google altering the image rank." I think there is a bit more to it than that. It is more along the lines of "in China, you wouldn't dare make a webpage with pictures of the massacre, so the pages Google spiders don't have any of those types of pictures." Again, in this case it still wouldn't be Google censoring their results, but it isn't as cut and dry as "in china it just may be a place to see."
If you are saying "all your points are right, except that c) doubles the costs..." I don't see how you can make that claim given the "Whereas an experienced programmer can write equivalent functionality in 1/10 the time." Now, if you aren't accepting that as true, at least say so.
Whoa, talk about hidden premises...
One word about your advice: don't accept any investments from people without being very careful. If you accept from people making less than $250,000 a year (I believe, it may be more) you open yourself up to liabilities if you ever try and go public.
Actually they had better be careful. With bullshit lawsuits in the US they could be exposing themselves to liability. AOL was sued by its army of volunteer support and they lost, and Origin was sued for its volunteer support (councilors in Ultima Online) and they lost as well. One of the key factors was that they provided some compensation (free game time in the case of UO). However, I think another key thing was that they had shifts and hours.. which obviously isn't the case here, but the whole thing was so stupid that Apple should still tread lightly.
When I click that link (Firefox 1.5), I get a window popping up asking me where to save retreive.cgi to. Is something wrong with their mimetype handling.
"We need to get people into office that are going to think past their next election and do something for WE THE PEOPLE instead of ME THE PUBLIC FIGURE." These people get in all the time, and then immediately get voted out after doing exactly what you want them to do. Remember a large share of voters fall for multi-level marketing schemes.
Which also explains why Opera doesn't have an "extensions" user base anywhere near approaching Firefox's.
Imagine DDoSes if a large number of users had 100mb synchronis connections.