No, but saying things like that helps divide the gap. So it ends up being us and them. Then we both just wage war becacuse they're the enemy, and not because we're trying to change something.
Also, they will probably never win this guy over. But they could have put-off 100 other people who were still deciding where they stand.
If you want to fight for a cause, you don't call people names and act like they are some evil enemy.
I used to have a casio databank watch. One time I had a play with one of those cool plasma ball things where you put you hands all over the glass ball, and see all the pretty, arcing patterns. Next time I looked at my watch, eveything had been reset. I was not a happy chappy being only being 12yo or something, and having friends numbers on there which I had never written down.
Spose it could have been worse. I could have been playing with the liquid nitrogen in the exibit nextdoor...
Hell, for $600 you can get a good PDA. And if you get a Vx or M505, or one of similar size, you can have it in you pocket with you.
I never were a watch anymore. I have a program called PocketWatch+ on my Vx...Wana know the time? Hold down the date button, turns on, shows time. Release it, turns back off.
As long as the nano tubes can transfer the heat to the other material as fast at they absorb the light. I guess so. Otherwise I don't see how that would work.
BTW. I know nothing about physics so I'm probably wrong.
comparing GIFs to JPGs? That's treading close to apples and oranges territory.
GIFs have much better compression deppending on what your doing.
If your just talking about photographs. Then yes, JPGs are better 99% of the time. If your talking about images in general, then your comparing apples to oranges.
If they dropped the Ogg part it sounds OK. Vorbis for the long name, and.VRB for the file name. 'Vee are bee' doesn't sound too bad. Or maybe.VBS (hmmm... I'm sure if seen that somewhere before, maybe skip that one).
Yes.. but the Segway requires no effort to go faster. Walking, running, and bikeing all require alot more effort to go at the max speed. I think that will make a big difference....Look at cars.
Why not base it on general UI guidelines (taking a few good ideas from other OSs of course), and forget about all those UI dissasters that you just listed? That's what really need to be done to create a good UI.
I agree, for the average Joe, an eBook is too much dicking around anyway. Then you have content control, serial numbers, passwords, and even licence agreements for f's sake, aswell....It's just a fucken book! Not even most techno geeks can be fucked with that most of the time, let alone you average Joe.
The only books that I have ever read on my Palm where ones that where avalible for free. And it's not so much the fact that they were free, but the fact that I knew I'd never have to dick about with them, just to read them. And with all the various formats and readers. If the book was no longer usable. I didn't care too much becasue it was free.
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Anyone know much about eBook formats? Do any of them use a sensible/flexible format like XML? Are there plans to make a eBook format based in XML or XHTML?
It would make the most sence to me to create a format based on XML that used gzip (or some other open sourse compression). Sure, you won't be able to drop it straight into you desktop PC browser without un-compressing it first/doing something to it first. But it seems much better than all the other fomats I've seen.
Just like books didn't put an end to theater, and film didn't put an end to books, and television didn't kill film, and the internet hasn't killed any of the above, digital books will NOT replace the hard copy
Your comparing the wrong thing. CD's have killed the cassete tape, MP3 players are begging to kill portable CD players. Cellphones with more capabilities are killing pagers etc.
Of course, the difference is greater between a eBook and a real book. And will never replace it totaly, but not in the way that you described it.
I don't think it works like that. I just tried it. I went to a busy mall, with my iBook (I though that might help, since macs are supposed to be sexy), and 5 100 CD spindals. Everytime someone walked by, I pronounced clearly and loudly "I'm going to burn a CD" as I placed the CD into the drive...they just looked at me like I was some sorta freak!?
Then some old guy must have though I was giving them away and he took a few spindals. Me being a skinny geek--was powerless to stop him. Then the mall security gards asked me to leave.
Yeah... I discovered that a few moments after I posted. Silly me.
Since the/. editors have posted every point release of Mozilla on the front page. Why on earth decide to stop this trend at 1.0? I would have thought if people where complaining that much about all the Mozilla articals, that they would have atleast done one last one.. Esspecialy since it's 1.0....The version that they've been building up for over the last few years!
But then again, they could just be waiting for the proper, 1.0 release....Which they probably are. I'll just shut up now.
I'm still puzzeled by the fact that Mozilla RC1 has been released. But I have yet to find an artical about it. Maybe that guy got his time machine working after all.
sure, if you're used to a P4 1.6ghz or something, you will find the iBook slow.
if you're putting 640mb in that thing, you should really have bought a powerbook. there's only so much that RAM can do when you still have a G3.
But the thing is. My old PII 233 feels more responsive than my 600Mhz iBook. The iBook has more power to do 3D stuff, movies etc than my old 233. But the general use of the system feels so much slower.
I don't get you comment about 640MBs of RAM. A G3 could make good use of 640MBs RAM under OS 9. The problem is not the hardware. It's the software.
I don't see how I'm supposed to take a rant seriously from someone who obviously didn't even bother to go to a local retail store and try out the machine first.
Yeah....But I played around with one at the store before I bought my iBook. It played DVD's nicly, the animation was smooth, still a few slow things like scrolling etc, But I guessed that they would improve. I could even open up photoshop under classic and use it. But I never expect it to start paging out, just when running IE and BBEdit (with 20 files open). I was totaly caught out by that one. And the extra 256 RAM didn't give me the performace boost I was hopping for.
Mac OS X on a G3 isn't "painfully slow," but it isn't a speed demon (haha) so to speak, either. Mac OS X on a G4 rocks all over, and anyone who thinks otherwise might want to install an OS X native browser and stop whining. =)
I have installed on my 600Mhz (G3) iBook, with 384MBs RAM the following browsers:
Internet Explorer 5.1
Mozilla 0.9.9
OmniWen 4.1
Opera 5
Navigator/Chimera 0.2.0
Every single one of these browers feels slugish. 2 are OS X native. None of them can even scroll properly.
But on my 1.4ghz AMD 512 RAM, and my old PII 233, 128RAM, both running win2000. Opera, Mozilla, Netscape and IE can all scroll fast, smoothly, and without any delay.
IE for OS X may be a slow app, but a big part of the problem is clearly OS X.
It's not too much of me to ask that I can do something basic like scroll on my G3. I don't expect it to be a speed demon, or a 3D workstation. I just want to scroll down the f'n page, and open menus etc, without feeling like I'm using win95 on a 486.
It's possable to get all these GUI bugs fixed. But it's a case of Apple getting their priorities straight. They seem to think that being able to see a minimised quicktime movie play in the dock is more important that basic GUI functions like scrolling and re-sizing windows.
However I'm not sure myself I'd like to go cruising down a highway at 75mph with a tank of compressed hydrogen sitting 2 feet behind me. But a hydrogen powered car sure sounds more fun than a battery or solar powered one.
But you feel safe with a tank of fammable liquid 2 feet behind you?...That can pour down in to the car, and all over you if your in a crash?
I don't think he was talking about people who have no option but to drive a car. I think he was talking about people who could quite easly, with a bit more effort, walk, catch public transport, or get a lift with a workmate etc. But instead still decide to drive a big SUV to work everyday etc.
Yes, IE 6 for PC dosen't have some of the nice features like the download manager. But it's better for standards compliance. The idea that IE 5 for mac is the most standards complient web-browser is correct...a couple of years ago.
I've doing a couple of new sites with heavy CSS recently. IE6 for PC, and Mozilla seem to get it right. But IE5 for Mac keeps letting me down.
As for crashing. I've found IE 5, both under OS 9, and OS X to be worse than IE 6 for PC and Mozilla. OmniWeb is great. But the fact that it dosn't support CSS that well at the moment means I still use IE oftern. I'm downloading Chimera at this very moment. So I'll see how that goes.
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Ah, great.. now look what you've made me do. I should really have left for work by now. Instread I'm reading user friendly backwards.
Also, they will probably never win this guy over. But they could have put-off 100 other people who were still deciding where they stand.
If you want to fight for a cause, you don't call people names and act like they are some evil enemy.
I used to have a casio databank watch. One time I had a play with one of those cool plasma ball things where you put you hands all over the glass ball, and see all the pretty, arcing patterns.
Next time I looked at my watch, eveything had been reset. I was not a happy chappy being only being 12yo or something, and having friends numbers on there which I had never written down.
Spose it could have been worse. I could have been playing with the liquid nitrogen in the exibit nextdoor...
I never were a watch anymore. I have a program called PocketWatch+ on my Vx...Wana know the time? Hold down the date button, turns on, shows time. Release it, turns back off.
Or should I say: As long as the material can absorb the heat as fast as the nano-tube can absorb the light/dish out the heat.
BTW. I know nothing about physics so I'm probably wrong.
GIFs have much better compression deppending on what your doing.
If your just talking about photographs. Then yes, JPGs are better 99% of the time. If your talking about images in general, then your comparing apples to oranges.
If they dropped the Ogg part it sounds OK. Vorbis for the long name, and .VRB for the file name. 'Vee are bee' doesn't sound too bad. Or maybe .VBS (hmmm... I'm sure if seen that somewhere before, maybe skip that one).
Yes.. but the Segway requires no effort to go faster. Walking, running, and bikeing all require alot more effort to go at the max speed. I think that will make a big difference....Look at cars.
Why not base it on general UI guidelines (taking a few good ideas from other OSs of course), and forget about all those UI dissasters that you just listed? That's what really need to be done to create a good UI.
What if the hacker sent the admin an e-mail EULA?
I agree, for the average Joe, an eBook is too much dicking around anyway. Then you have content control, serial numbers, passwords, and even licence agreements for f's sake, aswell....It's just a fucken book! Not even most techno geeks can be fucked with that most of the time, let alone you average Joe.
The only books that I have ever read on my Palm where ones that where avalible for free. And it's not so much the fact that they were free, but the fact that I knew I'd never have to dick about with them, just to read them. And with all the various formats and readers. If the book was no longer usable. I didn't care too much becasue it was free.
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Anyone know much about eBook formats? Do any of them use a sensible/flexible format like XML? Are there plans to make a eBook format based in XML or XHTML?
It would make the most sence to me to create a format based on XML that used gzip (or some other open sourse compression). Sure, you won't be able to drop it straight into you desktop PC browser without un-compressing it first/doing something to it first. But it seems much better than all the other fomats I've seen.
Your comparing the wrong thing. CD's have killed the cassete tape, MP3 players are begging to kill portable CD players. Cellphones with more capabilities are killing pagers etc.
Of course, the difference is greater between a eBook and a real book. And will never replace it totaly, but not in the way that you described it.
Then some old guy must have though I was giving them away and he took a few spindals. Me being a skinny geek--was powerless to stop him. Then the mall security gards asked me to leave.
That artical's full of crap.
Shouldn't we be encouraging burning CDs then? ;)
Since the /. editors have posted every point release of Mozilla on the front page. Why on earth decide to stop this trend at 1.0? I would have thought if people where complaining that much about all the Mozilla articals, that they would have atleast done one last one.. Esspecialy since it's 1.0....The version that they've been building up for over the last few years!
But then again, they could just be waiting for the proper, 1.0 release....Which they probably are. I'll just shut up now.
I'm still puzzeled by the fact that Mozilla RC1 has been released. But I have yet to find an artical about it. Maybe that guy got his time machine working after all.
if you're putting 640mb in that thing, you should really have bought a powerbook. there's only so much that RAM can do when you still have a G3.
But the thing is. My old PII 233 feels more responsive than my 600Mhz iBook. The iBook has more power to do 3D stuff, movies etc than my old 233. But the general use of the system feels so much slower.
I don't get you comment about 640MBs of RAM. A G3 could make good use of 640MBs RAM under OS 9. The problem is not the hardware. It's the software.
Yeah....But I played around with one at the store before I bought my iBook. It played DVD's nicly, the animation was smooth, still a few slow things like scrolling etc, But I guessed that they would improve. I could even open up photoshop under classic and use it. But I never expect it to start paging out, just when running IE and BBEdit (with 20 files open). I was totaly caught out by that one. And the extra 256 RAM didn't give me the performace boost I was hopping for.
I have installed on my 600Mhz (G3) iBook, with 384MBs RAM the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 5.1
- Mozilla 0.9.9
- OmniWen 4.1
- Opera 5
- Navigator/Chimera 0.2.0
Every single one of these browers feels slugish. 2 are OS X native. None of them can even scroll properly.But on my 1.4ghz AMD 512 RAM, and my old PII 233, 128RAM, both running win2000. Opera, Mozilla, Netscape and IE can all scroll fast, smoothly, and without any delay.
IE for OS X may be a slow app, but a big part of the problem is clearly OS X.
It's not too much of me to ask that I can do something basic like scroll on my G3. I don't expect it to be a speed demon, or a 3D workstation. I just want to scroll down the f'n page, and open menus etc, without feeling like I'm using win95 on a 486.
It's possable to get all these GUI bugs fixed. But it's a case of Apple getting their priorities straight. They seem to think that being able to see a minimised quicktime movie play in the dock is more important that basic GUI functions like scrolling and re-sizing windows.
Good interface? Did I miss a checkbox or something when I intsalled OS X?
But you feel safe with a tank of fammable liquid 2 feet behind you?...That can pour down in to the car, and all over you if your in a crash?
I don't think he was talking about people who have no option but to drive a car. I think he was talking about people who could quite easly, with a bit more effort, walk, catch public transport, or get a lift with a workmate etc. But instead still decide to drive a big SUV to work everyday etc.
I've doing a couple of new sites with heavy CSS recently. IE6 for PC, and Mozilla seem to get it right. But IE5 for Mac keeps letting me down.
As for crashing. I've found IE 5, both under OS 9, and OS X to be worse than IE 6 for PC and Mozilla. OmniWeb is great. But the fact that it dosn't support CSS that well at the moment means I still use IE oftern. I'm downloading Chimera at this very moment. So I'll see how that goes.
The thing that bugs me is: Why /.? Why not www.riaa.com, www.microsoft.com etc?