I do suppose Opera has more experience in fitting web pages to small screens. Have they made it better?
I read the announcement quite fast, but in my understanding Nokia is going to do the browser, they are not done it yet. I might have misread it though.
About Operas quality, atleast the S60 version of Opera is quite useless given the terrible (read big and unaliased) fonts and bad layout. Hopefully Nokia makes it right, smaller, better, hopefully subpixel antialiased fonts are needed for a good browsing experience.
ThunderHawk has the font issues right. Unfortunately I haven't been able to play with it so I can't say whether it is any good otherwise.
Yeah, this is old news. Linus talked about it already in January, if not earlier. Just see Linux Magazine http://www.linuxmagazine.com/content/view/59/115/
But it is great that Linus is doing his best to see Linux not being too x86-centric. He should take a look in OS X, it's not as crappy as he thinks:)
It's very sad that the Merced -project sank two very nice processor architechtures, namely Alpha and MIPS. I have no knowledge of pa-risc or itanium, which are also becoming dead because of Merced.
Currently we have a near monoculture in web browsers. If you're not using IE, you're pretty damn weird and you can expect many web pages to not work.
I've not used IE as my primary browser for years (4-5). When I still had Linux I used to use Opera and on my Mac I used first Camino and then Safari.
I have to say that there are very very little of pages that do not work, perhaps we browse on different sites, but I'd say that at least 99% of the pages work. So compability is not really an issue any more on the web. In-house web applications, if done stupidly, may be a different story.
68000 was a 16 bitish implementation of a 32 bit architechture. The address bus was 24 bit, width of the data bus I do not remember. The main thing is that the registers on the chip were 32 bit and the machine code did not radically change with 68020, which was the real 32-bit implementation. There were just some new addressing modes and additional instructions.
You are saying that AmigaOS 1.2 is 16 bit because of the processor. This is silly as the processor was able to run natively 32 bit instructions, sure they were slower than 8 or 16 bit ones but native.
You may remember that it was possible to run AmigaOS 3.x on the Amiga 500 even that contradicts with your statement.
> The question for the reader is, are CD prices rigged? > > The answer is yes.
Well, the price of a product and the costs to make it do not actually have that much to do with each other.
When you think how the two media differ it is quite clear that a CD gives the consumer much higher value than a cassette tape. Therefore he is ready to pay more for it and it is possible to charge him more.
It all comes down to maximising revenue by setting the price right.
60USD, that's not so expensive it is the same that Apple charges for it's luxury item. Those mice seem to have three buttons and a wheel so for some they may be more useful than Apple's piece of soap.
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I read the announcement quite fast, but in my understanding Nokia is going to do the browser, they are not done it yet. I might have misread it though.
About Operas quality, atleast the S60 version of Opera is quite useless given the terrible (read big and unaliased) fonts and bad layout. Hopefully Nokia makes it right, smaller, better, hopefully subpixel antialiased fonts are needed for a good browsing experience.
ThunderHawk has the font issues right. Unfortunately I haven't been able to play with it so I can't say whether it is any good otherwise.
Yeah, this is old news. Linus talked about it already in January, if not earlier. Just see Linux Magazine http://www.linuxmagazine.com/content/view/59/115/ But it is great that Linus is doing his best to see Linux not being too x86-centric. He should take a look in OS X, it's not as crappy as he thinks :)
It's very sad that the Merced -project sank two very nice processor architechtures, namely Alpha and MIPS. I have no knowledge of pa-risc or itanium, which are also becoming dead because of Merced.
I've not used IE as my primary browser for years (4-5). When I still had Linux I used to use Opera and on my Mac I used first Camino and then Safari.
I have to say that there are very very little of pages that do not work, perhaps we browse on different sites, but I'd say that at least 99% of the pages work. So compability is not really an issue any more on the web. In-house web applications, if done stupidly, may be a different story.
Well, AFAIK this is not the trailer that is on Apple.com/trailers, but a new one. So please watch the trailer before flaming.
68000 was a 16 bitish implementation of a 32 bit architechture. The address bus was 24 bit, width of the data bus I do not remember. The main thing is that the registers on the chip were 32 bit and the machine code did not radically change with 68020, which was the real 32-bit implementation. There were just some new addressing modes and additional instructions.
You are saying that AmigaOS 1.2 is 16 bit because of the processor. This is silly as the processor was able to run natively 32 bit instructions, sure they were slower than 8 or 16 bit ones but native.
You may remember that it was possible to run AmigaOS 3.x on the Amiga 500 even that contradicts with your statement.
>I haven't been able to reproduce it on my machine, but even assuming that the original report is completely accurate, it's still not a big deal.
I could not reproduce the thing either, but with C-k and C-y shortcuts I managed to get the input field long enough for the screensaver to crash.
On one hand it is not a big deal, but it certainly is very bad PR and (hopefully) easy to fix.
> The question for the reader is, are CD prices rigged?
>
> The answer is yes.
Well, the price of a product and the costs to make it do not actually have that much to do with each other.
When you think how the two media differ it is quite clear that a CD gives the consumer much higher value than a cassette tape. Therefore he is ready to pay more for it and it is possible to charge him more.
It all comes down to maximising revenue by setting the price right.
60USD, that's not so expensive it is the same that Apple charges for it's luxury item. Those mice seem to have three buttons and a wheel so for some they may be more useful than Apple's piece of soap.