200FPS gives you breathing room, so you still have a decent framerate when you're surrounded by monsters with 16xAA and AF on. Also, in some games (such as Quake 3), the physics engine operates differently at different framerates, so there are some jumps you can only make if you're at >150FPS.
Tailgating, speeding, not quite coming to a complete stop at a stop sign
The second two I can understand. But why the fuck would anyone in their right mind ever tailgate? It's a) dangerous, b) annoying, and c) doesn't get you there any faster. So what's the point?
Just because it's possible for cell phones to cause harm doesn't mean they always will. They're banned just to be on the safe side, because there are situations where they could cause problems. That and because a cell phone in the air can see many different cell towers at once, which confuses the cell network and causes bad things.
From what I've heard, it's a problem with Slashdot's noncompliant HTML, not a Firefox problem. However, since/. seems unwilling to actually do anything about it (apparently the editors don't use the actual site enough to care), the Mozilla people are trying to work around it.
You talk about him as if he actually cracked CSS. He didn't, he just distributed DeCSS. I'm sure someone in the hacker community will crack Blu-Ray, but I don't think DVD Jon has a better chance than anyone else.
256MB is the minimum. You can upgrade it when you buy it (or buy a third-party upgrade and save $$$), but you don't have to if you don't want to. Aren't you glad Apple gives you the choice?
It's quite usable by touch if all you want to do is navigate throughout a playlist/album. Obviously, if you want to browse your whole collection and select an artist, you'll have to see the screen.
The wired remote might be useful for you too (although the cord is about 50x too long).
No, they haven't. That page offers "Game source code for version 1.17 of Quake III Arena. Generally used by mod developers. This does not include any engine source (i.e. rendering, network, etc.)." That's nothing like the full source available for Quake I and II.
I didn't RTFA, but I'll just guess that it lays the groundwork for building a computer, sometime in the next century that will be able to completely emulate [read: upload] a human personality/consciousness into an environment where they think they are still alive.
SATA is the speed of the bus from the hard drive, not the actual drive. You'd currently need a RAID cluster of drives to fill the SATA bus.
And hard drive speed does matter, a huge amount. Unless you have a crapload of RAM and everything you use is cached, 90% of the time you spend waiting for programs to start up or large files to be read is waiting for the HD to read the data. A faster HD can make a computer feel much snappier than a slow one.
The problem with Mozilla is that you then only see your GMail status while browsing; if someone sends you an email while you're using OpenOffice or whatever, you won't see it. It makes more sense to put a notifier in the system tray (which they've done) or in the Linux notification area. What I'd like to see is an API released for 3rd-party notifiers so that they don't have to do all the inefficient screen-scraping that currently goes on.
Yeah, I understand that it's animated, but it also takes eons to load because it's 184KB. The equivalent PNG is 20KB. A true-color GIF takes a lot more effort, space, and CPU time than a true-color PNG, and that's why I said it's a hack.
The point is that it's not possible to do that in a GIF without animation, so anything >256 colors would have to be animated. I think it's fair to call that a hack.
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You already can. Get an MB with onboard video and attach a triple-head Matrox Parhelia.
200FPS gives you breathing room, so you still have a decent framerate when you're surrounded by monsters with 16xAA and AF on. Also, in some games (such as Quake 3), the physics engine operates differently at different framerates, so there are some jumps you can only make if you're at >150FPS.
The second two I can understand. But why the fuck would anyone in their right mind ever tailgate? It's a) dangerous, b) annoying, and c) doesn't get you there any faster. So what's the point?
Noise-canceling headphones wouldn't help you with people talking; they only work well with constant drones like the roar of the engines.
Just because it's possible for cell phones to cause harm doesn't mean they always will. They're banned just to be on the safe side, because there are situations where they could cause problems. That and because a cell phone in the air can see many different cell towers at once, which confuses the cell network and causes bad things.
I wish Apple at least offered a multi-button mouse as an option, but I can understand why they still stick with one button as the default.
And, judging by the credibility he's lost, it seems they've been screwing Colin.
It doesn't seem to crash 0.9.3 on Win2k3.
I'd say it's extremely likely that's a linky bug, not a Firefox bug.
From what I've heard, it's a problem with Slashdot's noncompliant HTML, not a Firefox problem. However, since /. seems unwilling to actually do anything about it (apparently the editors don't use the actual site enough to care), the Mozilla people are trying to work around it.
You talk about him as if he actually cracked CSS. He didn't, he just distributed DeCSS. I'm sure someone in the hacker community will crack Blu-Ray, but I don't think DVD Jon has a better chance than anyone else.
Huh? What problems have you seen that aren't fixed by a 30-minute reimaging/reinstall?
256MB is the minimum. You can upgrade it when you buy it (or buy a third-party upgrade and save $$$), but you don't have to if you don't want to. Aren't you glad Apple gives you the choice?
The wired remote might be useful for you too (although the cord is about 50x too long).
No, they haven't. That page offers "Game source code for version 1.17 of Quake III Arena. Generally used by mod developers. This does not include any engine source (i.e. rendering, network, etc.)." That's nothing like the full source available for Quake I and II.
You guessed wrong.
And hard drive speed does matter, a huge amount. Unless you have a crapload of RAM and everything you use is cached, 90% of the time you spend waiting for programs to start up or large files to be read is waiting for the HD to read the data. A faster HD can make a computer feel much snappier than a slow one.
The problem with Mozilla is that you then only see your GMail status while browsing; if someone sends you an email while you're using OpenOffice or whatever, you won't see it. It makes more sense to put a notifier in the system tray (which they've done) or in the Linux notification area. What I'd like to see is an API released for 3rd-party notifiers so that they don't have to do all the inefficient screen-scraping that currently goes on.
No one said anything about using your account. The bots-makers could create a couple dozen accounts of their own to store whatever they're storing.
Yeah, I understand that it's animated, but it also takes eons to load because it's 184KB. The equivalent PNG is 20KB. A true-color GIF takes a lot more effort, space, and CPU time than a true-color PNG, and that's why I said it's a hack.
There are Windows programs that do effectively the same thing as the above method.
Maybe because it's a stress test; which by its very nature has to have a shitload of people.
The point is that it's not possible to do that in a GIF without animation, so anything >256 colors would have to be animated. I think it's fair to call that a hack.
Huh? In what way is IE support for PNG worse than for GIF?
And that's not a "gross hack"? It takes eons to load and is 9 times the size of the equivilent PNG.