Well, to me, all this rendering "better" stuff does not matter anymore. Because I can't live without my extensions.
Any browser that does not offer me *all* my extensions, is not worth those milliseconds of speed improvement, and is doomed to not getting used here, And this includes being able to easily port my self-made ones.
I'm also not trolling, as I really *really* like proper browser implementations. (I was a web application developer [think "AJAX big time, before the term was coined"] for 5 years.) I also like Opera very much and recommend it to everyone. Much cool stuff in Firefox comes from it anyway.
But still... no AdBlock Plus, no Greasemonkey, no configurable smooth scrolling, no gestures, no Firebug, no WebDev toolbar, no ColorPicker (with Palette generator), no TagSifter, no go! Sorry.
1) As soon as the Steam servers go down, this argument goes down with it. ^^ By the way: I can not remember having a Steam login, and I bet it does not exist anymore. But I have HL2 as a Steam game, which came with my old graphics card. So how exactly do I download this again?? (Hint: I can't!)
2) Even if yo don't get the original price, you get some money, and the *other* person can own and play it too!
3) That argument is irrelevant, because it's not about the money. It's about being able to actually *own* a game. You know. To do with it what you please. Not to have an encrypted file on your system that you can only reinstall, when you got a Steam client and a Steam server available. And that still can corrupt.
No. Quake live is a poor excuse for a joke. It can't hold a candle to CPMA.
By the way: There is also High Quality Quake. With the Chili Quake 3 high-def graphics update, based on the EvolutionQ3 engine, with the impressive XreaL renderer, new high-res models and textures.
Nah. At 2500 pixels (not mega! not even kilo!), you only get 6100000*2500*3 = 45.75 GB/min, or (*60) 2.745 TB per minute. ^^
Want a full two-hour movie? Well, then you only need 329.4 TB of space What you say? Full-HD you want? Then 273.21754 petabytes you must have! All your bytes are belong to us!
At a total of only 2500 pixels per image, you can easily write a script to detect what you're searching. Just filter out everything that is "normal". Or scan for a set of pixels that match a criteria.
Automate, people! Automate! That's what your computers were meant to be for!
The point here is the dosage. Which both you and GP conveniently ignored.
And from what I know, the "bad" stuff in most hair products is not only in a dosage that makes it not healthy, but also completely unneeded. Same as most hygienic products.
Toothpaste is the best example. Everything in there, except for some tiny amount of fluoride (which are preventive) and some abrasive particles, is completely useless. These are foaming and wetting agents, flavoring, preservatives, coloring and other additives. You would go just as well, using some marble powder with a drop of fluoride solution and a drop of mint oil. But in fact, you don't even need that. It's just so you don't have to brush your teeth right after eating. Because then, a normal toothbrush and water would suffice totally.
It's not much different with pretty much every hygienic product. If you are a chemist, you are much better off, just mixing the stuff yourself, in the most basic way.:)
Yes, poorer and much emptier. BUT. Nowadays those resources are not as important to survival anymore. Nowadays, you can simply offer services over the Internet. Any service. You can live in the most remote pampas, and still make good money this way.
I always wished, this would happen to poor countries without anything else to sell. But then I learned that whole Africa is full of rich resources. But it hasn't helped them a bit, because there are other forces at work.
To explain this to you, mjasay: Did you stop drinking two bottles of whiskey per day, or do you still do it? ^^
It's a sad day, when you only have to read the headline, to detect an epic failure. Before that, at least it was TFA, which nobody read anyway. ^^ Then it was the TFS, which now nobody reads too. Will we now have to ignore TFH too, and jump straight to the tags?
No. Well. To me it becomes impossible to pour a glass into my mouth, long before I feel a urge to vomit. And it two ways: First the psychological one: Somehow my brain starts to block thoughts about it. And then the motor-related one. ^^
You are right about the brain-cell-killing one. But, well, I'm not too worried, because after my tries, I'm just not into drinking much anymore. 3 well done Mojitos, and I'm happy. 4, and the curve of happiness falls again. Additionally, stupidity is bliss for me. I always come up with so much things that could go wrong, that I don't even start doing things. While dumb people don't think, but act straight away, and therefore often have an advantage.
Hey, he's not my dumbass friend. He's my most beloved cousin. And if anyone knows about drugs, it's him. I'm sure he can detect the percentage of non-cannabis matter in a joint, just by smoking it. ^^ By the way: I have tons of different spices in my kitchen, including oregano. And I know how every single one of them smells and tastes, before and after heating. So I would have detected it too.
I had to google that up, to understand that they both are tequilas.
Thank you, but I'm somehow immune to ever having a memory loss, or vomiting, from alcohol. Believe me. I've tried it. I'm also immune to cannabis. Smoked a large pure joint (no tobacco, because I'm allergic to it) on my first an last time, and what changed was exactly... *nothing*.
Seconded. On Linux, their drivers are completely useless for the 48xx series. From what I heard, hey have only one poor developer who works on them, and is not able to keep up with the pace of the Windows team.
I have done really extensive testing, and came up with the following problems, that still persist in the leaked 8.600 drivers. While the older versions aren't more stable, but missing even more functionality.
- Not compatible to the actual 2.6.29 kernel, because they finally took out a very outdated API, that the driver still used. - "amdxmm.so" crashes X, and has to be moved manually. Of course, then you can't use stuff that needs it, probably causing other crashes. - It's possible for the X server, to fall into an infinite loop, when certain HAL/input events are triggered. (Works fine with the nvidia driver.) - Compositing and Xinerama do still not work at the same time. - Gross color errors: Everything dark seems darker, and everything bright seems brighter. In some movies, a window with a bright white sky in the background, bleeds the white to the whole screen, making it a nearly totally white glow. Everything looks fine with the nVidia driver. - Video playback looks very blocked, because it seems that the ATi driver accelerates that, but does so in a horribly bad way. - Having the VirtualBox kernel modules active causes random crashes in the driver. - The driver still only supports OpenGL 1.4, and nothing above that. - I seem to get random crashes with it, while I can run my system for days, when I use the onboard nVidia chip.
I have bought a Radeon 4850, but can not use it at all on my Linux system (which I'm using 99% of the time), because of this shit. I still have to use my onboard nVidia chip, which is slow, but works like a charm. Simple install, simple config, perfectly stable. with Compiz, Xinerama and everything. In Windows, it runs fine. (From what I can tell, with windows not having a real and actually used logging system.)
So I have lost 120 on that shitty thing, and will never ever buy an ATi card again. I also recommend not to buy ATi to everyone I know.
But yours is the wrong approach. As soon as you look at the visual layout while writing HTML, you do something fundamentally wrong. I write my pages in a semantically and structurally proper way. So they look good in Lynx as they are. Then I add browser-dependend CSS (with server-side detection for older systems).
Works well.
But I will not ever support legacy HTML again. Other types of output, like text-only, voice, or whatever, yes. Outdated code? Only if I have no choice. And then only as a server-side switch.
Netscape 4 & IE 4 = outdated nearly a decade ago. Lynx, Links 2, eLinks = modern. (Partially even with JavaScript support.)
But that's the point. It is not reasonably likely to die, except if the plane is heading for your building. And even then, what is the statistical likeliness that it's actually faulty or even attacking you? I give you a hint:
That comment was not only funny, but wiser than it looks on the surface. Deep down, it raises the question: How old are you all? (And I'm speaking to everyone who answered GP until now.)
You know, you don't have to read news that kdawson thinks may interest you, because he finds them interesting, and because it's also somewhat his site (more than yours). Also, you can filter his stories, and thereby filter his views.
This wasn't that hard, was it?
P.S.: If you really think, that this comment puts me on the side of anybody, you really need to grow up. ^^
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Well, to me, all this rendering "better" stuff does not matter anymore. Because I can't live without my extensions.
Any browser that does not offer me *all* my extensions, is not worth those milliseconds of speed improvement, and is doomed to not getting used here, And this includes being able to easily port my self-made ones.
I'm also not trolling, as I really *really* like proper browser implementations. (I was a web application developer [think "AJAX big time, before the term was coined"] for 5 years.)
I also like Opera very much and recommend it to everyone. Much cool stuff in Firefox comes from it anyway.
But still... no AdBlock Plus, no Greasemonkey, no configurable smooth scrolling, no gestures, no Firebug, no WebDev toolbar, no ColorPicker (with Palette generator), no TagSifter, no go! Sorry.
1) As soon as the Steam servers go down, this argument goes down with it. ^^
By the way: I can not remember having a Steam login, and I bet it does not exist anymore. But I have HL2 as a Steam game, which came with my old graphics card. So how exactly do I download this again?? (Hint: I can't!)
2) Even if yo don't get the original price, you get some money, and the *other* person can own and play it too!
3) That argument is irrelevant, because it's not about the money. It's about being able to actually *own* a game. You know. To do with it what you please. Not to have an encrypted file on your system that you can only reinstall, when you got a Steam client and a Steam server available. And that still can corrupt.
No. Quake live is a poor excuse for a joke. It can't hold a candle to CPMA.
By the way: There is also High Quality Quake. With the Chili Quake 3 high-def graphics update, based on the EvolutionQ3 engine, with the impressive XreaL renderer, new high-res models and textures.
Well, yo momma does! ^^
Just add a few returned Vista discs. And then target AOL headquarters. :D
Nah. At 2500 pixels (not mega! not even kilo!), you only get 6100000*2500*3 = 45.75 GB/min, or (*60) 2.745 TB per minute. ^^
Want a full two-hour movie? Well, then you only need 329.4 TB of space
What you say? Full-HD you want? Then 273.21754 petabytes you must have! All your bytes are belong to us!
At a total of only 2500 pixels per image, you can easily write a script to detect what you're searching. Just filter out everything that is "normal". Or scan for a set of pixels that match a criteria.
Automate, people! Automate! That's what your computers were meant to be for!
The point here is the dosage. Which both you and GP conveniently ignored.
And from what I know, the "bad" stuff in most hair products is not only in a dosage that makes it not healthy, but also completely unneeded.
Same as most hygienic products.
Toothpaste is the best example. Everything in there, except for some tiny amount of fluoride (which are preventive) and some abrasive particles, is completely useless. These are foaming and wetting agents, flavoring, preservatives, coloring and other additives. You would go just as well, using some marble powder with a drop of fluoride solution and a drop of mint oil.
But in fact, you don't even need that. It's just so you don't have to brush your teeth right after eating. Because then, a normal toothbrush and water would suffice totally.
It's not much different with pretty much every hygienic product. If you are a chemist, you are much better off, just mixing the stuff yourself, in the most basic way. :)
Yes, poorer and much emptier. BUT. Nowadays those resources are not as important to survival anymore. Nowadays, you can simply offer services over the Internet. Any service. You can live in the most remote pampas, and still make good money this way.
I always wished, this would happen to poor countries without anything else to sell. But then I learned that whole Africa is full of rich resources. But it hasn't helped them a bit, because there are other forces at work.
To explain this to you, mjasay:
Did you stop drinking two bottles of whiskey per day, or do you still do it? ^^
It's a sad day, when you only have to read the headline, to detect an epic failure.
Before that, at least it was TFA, which nobody read anyway. ^^
Then it was the TFS, which now nobody reads too.
Will we now have to ignore TFH too, and jump straight to the tags?
No. Well. To me it becomes impossible to pour a glass into my mouth, long before I feel a urge to vomit. And it two ways: First the psychological one: Somehow my brain starts to block thoughts about it. And then the motor-related one. ^^
You are right about the brain-cell-killing one. But, well, I'm not too worried, because after my tries, I'm just not into drinking much anymore. 3 well done Mojitos, and I'm happy. 4, and the curve of happiness falls again. Additionally, stupidity is bliss for me. I always come up with so much things that could go wrong, that I don't even start doing things. While dumb people don't think, but act straight away, and therefore often have an advantage.
Hey, he's not my dumbass friend. He's my most beloved cousin. And if anyone knows about drugs, it's him. I'm sure he can detect the percentage of non-cannabis matter in a joint, just by smoking it. ^^
By the way: I have tons of different spices in my kitchen, including oregano. And I know how every single one of them smells and tastes, before and after heating. So I would have detected it too.
Hey, this is no flamebait, moderators. He's perfectly right.
IE6 is a nightmare for web developers, a big fun for every cracker out there, and well... you decide what it is for you personally.
Sometimes I think there should be a way to see who moderates like this, and mark him, as a person, as a flamer. ^^
Also 75% of the word "rape".
Not if it's *that* big sister from BioShock 2. *ewww*
I had to google that up, to understand that they both are tequilas.
Thank you, but I'm somehow immune to ever having a memory loss, or vomiting, from alcohol. Believe me. I've tried it.
I'm also immune to cannabis. Smoked a large pure joint (no tobacco, because I'm allergic to it) on my first an last time, and what changed was exactly... *nothing*.
Yes, I know... It's a gift, but also a curse.
Seconded. On Linux, their drivers are completely useless for the 48xx series. From what I heard, hey have only one poor developer who works on them, and is not able to keep up with the pace of the Windows team.
I have done really extensive testing, and came up with the following problems, that still persist in the leaked 8.600 drivers. While the older versions aren't more stable, but missing even more functionality.
- Not compatible to the actual 2.6.29 kernel, because they finally took out a very outdated API, that the driver still used.
- "amdxmm.so" crashes X, and has to be moved manually. Of course, then you can't use stuff that needs it, probably causing other crashes.
- It's possible for the X server, to fall into an infinite loop, when certain HAL/input events are triggered. (Works fine with the nvidia driver.)
- Compositing and Xinerama do still not work at the same time.
- Gross color errors: Everything dark seems darker, and everything bright seems brighter. In some movies, a window with a bright white sky in the background, bleeds the white to the whole screen, making it a nearly totally white glow. Everything looks fine with the nVidia driver.
- Video playback looks very blocked, because it seems that the ATi driver accelerates that, but does so in a horribly bad way.
- Having the VirtualBox kernel modules active causes random crashes in the driver.
- The driver still only supports OpenGL 1.4, and nothing above that.
- I seem to get random crashes with it, while I can run my system for days, when I use the onboard nVidia chip.
I have bought a Radeon 4850, but can not use it at all on my Linux system (which I'm using 99% of the time), because of this shit. I still have to use my onboard nVidia chip, which is slow, but works like a charm. Simple install, simple config, perfectly stable. with Compiz, Xinerama and everything.
In Windows, it runs fine. (From what I can tell, with windows not having a real and actually used logging system.)
So I have lost 120 on that shitty thing, and will never ever buy an ATi card again. I also recommend not to buy ATi to everyone I know.
So if they existed in reality, the Jedi would look more like Jabba the Hut?
There are things, that you just can't unthink...
Yeah. Somebody forgot to add the "gorillahands" tag.
-- It's like a gorilla arm with jazz hands. (TM)
I'm really happy that I am not forced to actively counteract natural selection. Thank you very much.
But yours is the wrong approach.
As soon as you look at the visual layout while writing HTML, you do something fundamentally wrong.
I write my pages in a semantically and structurally proper way. So they look good in Lynx as they are.
Then I add browser-dependend CSS (with server-side detection for older systems).
Works well.
But I will not ever support legacy HTML again.
Other types of output, like text-only, voice, or whatever, yes.
Outdated code? Only if I have no choice. And then only as a server-side switch.
Netscape 4 & IE 4 = outdated nearly a decade ago.
Lynx, Links 2, eLinks = modern. (Partially even with JavaScript support.)
Oops, it should be:
roughLikelynessOfDeath =
planesFlyingEveryDay
/ planesCrashed(technicalError|humanError|crazyPersonOnBoard)
/ locationsWhereItCanCrash
* ( isCrazyPersonOnBoard ? (crazyness*importantLocationFactor) : 1.0 )
But that's the point. It is not reasonably likely to die, except if the plane is heading for your building. And even then, what is the statistical likeliness that it's actually faulty or even attacking you? I give you a hint:
roughLikelynessOfDeath = ( planesFlyingEveryDay / planesCrashed(technicalError|humanError|crazyPersonOnBoard) ) / ( locationsWhereItCanCrash * ( isCrazyPersonOnBoard ? (crazyness*importantLocationFactor) : 1.0 ) )
Now please create such a formula for cars, and compare the results. ^^
Was that so hard? ^^
(Yes, I know that people expect everything to be free. But hey, if it's worth it, people will pay. [But that is a huge if.])
That comment was not only funny, but wiser than it looks on the surface.
Deep down, it raises the question: How old are you all? (And I'm speaking to everyone who answered GP until now.)
You know, you don't have to read news that kdawson thinks may interest you, because he finds them interesting, and because it's also somewhat his site (more than yours).
Also, you can filter his stories, and thereby filter his views.
This wasn't that hard, was it?
P.S.: If you really think, that this comment puts me on the side of anybody, you really need to grow up. ^^
...is the new TV? (Starts at 1:16 min.)