Well, I recently got MY hands on Intel's internal roadmap. Apparently, Intel are going to continue with socket 478, and will release the.5-nanometer "Andre 3000"-processor sometime in the fourth quarter of 2008 (codename: MelindaSaysBillGotMicrosoftDick). It'll be running at 1 Terahertz and having a L2-cache around 1 GB. AND, it'll be compatible with the i865 chipset. So, if you're smart you'll forget about AMD and by a cheap i865 mobo now, and you'll STILL be able to run Longhorn on it in 2006. Amazing! BTW, the Andre 3000 will scale perfectly, and have a fabulous green UV light reactive casing. Also, this chick was recently fired by AMD.
Notice that they haven't revealed the power consumption? A plasma screen is brighter than a regular LCD, and need stronger fans, so they use up much more power then a CRT. This sucker would probably need 1000 W -- as much power as an industrial vacuum cleaner. Imagine having that running in your home four hours every day!
Jean-Philippe Courtois (CEO, Microsoft Europe):
Trouble in Brussels.
Bill Gates:
Oh, no -- what kind of trouble?
Courtois:
Monsieur Monti vraiment croit en concurrence loyale et ne compromettra pas.
Gates:
What?
Courtois:
Monsieur Monti vraiment croit en concurrence loyale et ne compromettra pas.
Gates:
I don't understand what you're saying.
Courtois (slightly irritated, with an exaggerated American accent):
Mario is a real hard-ass.
Gates:
Well, what the hell does that mean?
Courtois:
I don't know -- general counsel Brad Smith just told me to say that there was trouble in Brussels, that's all -- I didn't expect a kind of European Commission.
(JARRING CHORD)
(The door flies open and competition Commissioner Mario Monti of the European Union enters, flanked by two junior commissioners. One of them is wearing a pair of goggles -- Biggles-style.)
Mario Monti: NOBODY defies the European Commission!
Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise...
Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency...
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to fair competition...
Our four... no...
Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...
are such elements as fear, surprise...
Wait, I'll come in again...
Then please give us a test case to prove Opera 6 has a bug that was fixed by setting a -30 margin, or kindly shut up! I'll bet that you can't provide a test case, because there is no such bug that I'm aware of. In actual fact, Opera 6 handles the page served to IE6 without any problems -- just like Opera 7. If you had bothered to read Opera's report carefully you would have known this, because the author addresses this issue (scroll down to the second screenshot, that shows the page served to IE6 perfectly rendered in Opera 6).
BTW, why do the moderators give Mitreya's BS posts high scores, when he is wrong -- even by his own admissions?
This is the man that wrote the report. He knows what he's talking about. Mitreya clearly doesn't, by his own admissions! I can't believe you gave him "+5 Insightful". Morons.
"If you read the article you would see that Opera is perfectly capable of rendering the page that MSN sends to IE. If you change Opera to identify itself as IE, no problem.
The problem here is that if you've set Opera to the report the true user-agent, MSN sends a page with a broken CSS file that tells the browser to render the content so that the page becomes unreadable."
I agree that this is most likely a deliberate attempt to discredit Opera. However, you appear not to have
read the report that carefully yourself: "MSN looks for 'Opera' in the User-Agent string and on purpose send Opera 7 a style sheet which distort pages. [...] Opera 7 handles the HTML pages sent to it similar to other browser, including Microsoft's own MSIE. That is, when you feed the page meant for Opera 7 to MSIE 6 it shows the same distortions as Opera 7 [and] Opera 6 handles the pages sent to MSIE 6 just fine."
And this is Opera's default UA-string:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.0 [en]
This is actually how it looks when you "identify as MSIE6" in Opera! As you can see the UA-string looks nothing like the one found in MSIE6. "Opera" is in fact always present in the UA-string -- no matter what you choose to identify as. This is what Microsoft has exploited. Some Opera users work around this by using Proxomitron, to make the UA-string look exactly like the one in IE.
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"Europe refers to it as Football, it isn't universally referred to as Football. It is universally known as Soccer, even in countries where it is primarily known as Football."
Are you drunk? I have to ask, because that didn't make much sense.
First of all, several languages are spoken in Europe, and many of them are official languages in other parts of the world. For example, it's called "le football" in French, which is the official language in 28 countries and five continents. It's called "futebol" in Portuguese, which is the official language Portugal, Brazil and seven other countries in the world. It's called "fútbol" in Spanish, which is the official language in 21 countries -- including Diego Maradona's Argentina.
The only places in the world where it's predominantly referred to as "soccer" is in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where it's also known as "football". ("Soccer" is an abbreviation of "association *football*".) And when people all over the world learn English as a second language they are usually taught British English, where -- as we all know -- the game is usually called "Football" (the term "soccer" is also used, but less often). Also, FIFA (the international governing body of football) consistently refers to it as "football".
True, Opera doesn't render your page exactly as Mozilla does, but it doesn't necessarily mean, "Opera doesn't render my page properly" -- even if it passed the validator with flying colors. It could also mean, "Oh, shit! I'm an idiot. I write sloppy code." It certainly does in this case. W3C's validation service isn't 2001's HAL. It doesn't find all the errors.
"Funny, it seems like most people who posted to this story that commented disagree. THere are several comments about Opera not working, and, just in case you were wondering, I -have- used Opera, and it renders pages horribly."
That's funny, when I read through all of the comments, I find no one - apart from you - claiming, "Opera [doesn't] support all the latest HTML/XHTML standards" and "it [doesn't have a working] rendering engine". (Geez, what a load of bullcrap!) In fact, the number of favourable comments on Opera outweighs the negative by 11 to 5 on my count (with 6 marked as neutral); and many of the negative comments relate to older versions of Opera.
I stand by with what I said earlier: Properly coded pages render just as perfect in Opera 6.01 as they do in Mozilla 0.9.9 and IE 6. Anyone, claiming the opposite, is a lying sack of shit. I know, since I use Opera every day and often compare its performance to other browsers.
"Opera will be a good browser when it supports all the latest HTML/XHTML standards and CSS. Until my (100% properly coded and W3C validated) websites render as perfectly in Opera as they do in Mozilla and IE, Opera can't really be classified as 'the best browser out there.'"
I'd say that you're either a lying sack of shit, or someone who don't know what they're talking about. (Take your pick!)
Opera supports HTML 4.01, XHTML, XML, CSS1 and most of CSS2; and has for a long time. Opera 6 also support PNG, Unicode, ECMA-262 2ed (that's "JavaScript 1.3" to you, idiot), and most of ECMA-262 3ed, plus some JScript-methods in IE-mode. However, Opera does not support DOM fully just yet. They're working on it though.
I like Google; it weeds out most of the spam -- unlike AltaVista. It isn't perfect, though. I once searched for prostate milking, after reading this. The search results were quite interesting: It brought up hundreds of, apparently fake, headlines ("Located here! Prostate Milking") and domain names ("childhood-disease.accurate-health.com/prostate-m ilking.html"); it in fact still does, even though a month has passed since. Many of the links don't work, but some redirect you to other sites (this one amazingly owned by Novartis, a supposedly "respectable" biotechnology company). Question: How do they do this?
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So there's pretty much no reason to go AMD.
Notice that they haven't revealed the power consumption? A plasma screen is brighter than a regular LCD, and need stronger fans, so they use up much more power then a CRT. This sucker would probably need 1000 W -- as much power as an industrial vacuum cleaner. Imagine having that running in your home four hours every day!
Trouble in Brussels.
Bill Gates:
Oh, no -- what kind of trouble?
Courtois:
Monsieur Monti vraiment croit en concurrence loyale et ne compromettra pas.
Gates:
What?
Courtois:
Monsieur Monti vraiment croit en concurrence loyale et ne compromettra pas.
Gates:
I don't understand what you're saying.
Courtois (slightly irritated, with an exaggerated American accent):
Mario is a real hard-ass.
Gates:
Well, what the hell does that mean?
Courtois:
I don't know -- general counsel Brad Smith just told me to say that there was trouble in Brussels, that's all -- I didn't expect a kind of European Commission.
(JARRING CHORD)
(The door flies open and competition Commissioner Mario Monti of the European Union enters, flanked by two junior commissioners. One of them is wearing a pair of goggles -- Biggles-style.)
Mario Monti:
NOBODY defies the European Commission! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to fair competition... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... Wait, I'll come in again...
BTW, why do the moderators give Mitreya's BS posts high scores, when he is wrong -- even by his own admissions?
This is the man that wrote the report. He knows what he's talking about. Mitreya clearly doesn't, by his own admissions! I can't believe you gave him "+5 Insightful". Morons.
First of all, several languages are spoken in Europe, and many of them are official languages in other parts of the world. For example, it's called "le football" in French, which is the official language in 28 countries and five continents. It's called "futebol" in Portuguese, which is the official language Portugal, Brazil and seven other countries in the world. It's called "fútbol" in Spanish, which is the official language in 21 countries -- including Diego Maradona's Argentina.
The only places in the world where it's predominantly referred to as "soccer" is in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where it's also known as "football". ("Soccer" is an abbreviation of "association *football*".) And when people all over the world learn English as a second language they are usually taught British English, where -- as we all know -- the game is usually called "Football" (the term "soccer" is also used, but less often). Also, FIFA (the international governing body of football) consistently refers to it as "football".
True, Opera doesn't render your page exactly as Mozilla does, but it doesn't necessarily mean, "Opera doesn't render my page properly" -- even if it passed the validator with flying colors. It could also mean, "Oh, shit! I'm an idiot. I write sloppy code." It certainly does in this case. W3C's validation service isn't 2001's HAL. It doesn't find all the errors.
BTW, I won't help you. Haw-haw!
I stand by with what I said earlier: Properly coded pages render just as perfect in Opera 6.01 as they do in Mozilla 0.9.9 and IE 6. Anyone, claiming the opposite, is a lying sack of shit. I know, since I use Opera every day and often compare its performance to other browsers.
I'd say that you're either a lying sack of shit, or someone who don't know what they're talking about. (Take your pick!)
Opera supports HTML 4.01, XHTML, XML, CSS1 and most of CSS2; and has for a long time. Opera 6 also support PNG, Unicode, ECMA-262 2ed (that's "JavaScript 1.3" to you, idiot), and most of ECMA-262 3ed, plus some JScript-methods in IE-mode. However, Opera does not support DOM fully just yet. They're working on it though.I like Google; it weeds out most of the spam -- unlike AltaVista. It isn't perfect, though. I once searched for prostate milking, after reading this. The search results were quite interesting: It brought up hundreds of, apparently fake, headlines ("Located here! Prostate Milking") and domain names ("childhood-disease.accurate-health.com/prostate-m ilking.html"); it in fact still does, even though a month has passed since. Many of the links don't work, but some redirect you to other sites (this one amazingly owned by Novartis, a supposedly "respectable" biotechnology company). Question: How do they do this?