What about the numbers backing up your claims ? I'm enclined to believe you, however I find a little ironic that you're bashing the parent for not providing numbers while you failed too to provide any.
Don't forget that Netscape as a corporation developping browsers doesn't exist anymore. Netscape is now only a brand. Actually, the development of Netscape 8 has been outsourced to Mercurial Communications.
I really find appalling this way of thinking.
I won't comment on the "data of people using Windows should be CORRUPTED, that will teach them !" argument. I don't think there is a need to.
However, I'd just like to ask you something: What are the most common ways for virus to spread nowadays ? Usually, they are:
- holes in mail readers
- trojans delivered by mail ("click on the nice picture")
- trojans on the internet ("play this nice game"!)
Of course, there are famous virus that spread trough holes in Windows, but they are less common than the brood I've previously cited.
Now tell me one thing: why using linux should reduce the risks of having holes in your mail reader ?
And more importantly, why using linux should prevent your documents from being corrupted by some kind of trojan ? Don't forget that most of the important data on a personal computer is user writable.
Actyally, I've personally been surprised by the amount of attention I got from the MATLAB developpers by just posting on the MATLAB newsgroups.
Even if I've never personally bought a MATLAB license by myself.
Some things that annoy me with Aqua:
- Click to focus:
If you click on an unfocused window, it will *only* focus it. That means that if you want to click on the "OK" button of an unfocused window, you will have to click twice: once to focus the window and once to push the button.
- Double click to minimize:
Double clicking on a window title to minimize the window isn't a bad idea. However, there is a particular implementation of this behaviour that is troublesome: let's say I want to close a window (clicking on the red rounded button). As Aqua buttons are round shaped and rather small, it might happen that I miss the button and click outside. However, if I quickly click *inside* the button afterwards, the OSX windows manager will register this as a double click, and minimize the window.
I still think these annoyances are quite small compared to the other benefits of a OSX desktop (Exposé and such). But they still annoy me.
I'd expect that the single player will have lots of shooting at shadows and the multiplayer will be a camper's paradise. So it'll be different to previous Quake games whatever happens.
Quake was also a very dark game. Quake2 and 3 were brighter, though.
What is interesting here is that FillFactory designs CMOS-APS detectors instead of the more traditional CCD imagers.
APS stands for Active Pixel Sensor: basically the main difference with CCD's is that you get the line and row selection transistors, and an amplification transistor built in every pixel. That means you don't have to transfer the charge from pixel to pixel over the whole matrix as in CCDs: you can directly address the detector matrix as you would do on RAM.
The main drawback is that these selection and amplification units take room on the silicium, and therefore prevent the whole surface of a pixel to be sensitive to light. This is what is called the fill factor : the amount of a pixel which is effectively capturing light.
FillFactory (now owned by Cypress Semiconductors) have promising patents related to increasing the fill factor - hence their name.
If the capacity is kind of "low" by holographic memory standards, it might be because this medium doesn't use any other kind of multiplexing beside spatial multiplexing.
Basically, what we have here is a disc with several "holographic bits", scattered across the disc just like a regular compact disc. The main difference here is that when you read an holographic bit with the reconstruction beam, you get a full page of data (here, a 1024x1024 image - hence 1 Mbit).
What is interesting with holographic memory is that when you use thick layers of holographic materials you can also multiplex the data using the angle of the reconstruction beam, or its wavelength. That means that you can hit the same area on the disc with the reconstruction beam at a different angle, and get a different page of data. Or use a different laser beam, and get again another page of data.
Of course, this process seriously complexifies the hardware that must be used to read an hoographic medium, but it is the key to reach tremendous densities with the holographic technique.
This isn't as much the amount of platforms supported that slows down debian than the number of packages in the distribution.
Check out what Steve Langasek has to say about platform porting:
The four most common porting problems for software are endianness (differs
between i386/amd64 and powerpc), word size (differs between i386/powerpc and
amd64), char signedness (differs between i386/amd64 and powerpc), and use of
non-PIC code in shared libs (which is a problem on *all* non-i386
platforms). A fifth, less significant portability issue involves
arm-specific weirdness with floating point handling, which affects only a
handful of packages that try to do their own direct manipulation of floats.
So which portability problems are the ones that we waste time fixing code
for?
I agree with you for Ravenholm, I found this part of the game to be one of the best.
However, don't you find the behaviour of Dr. Mossman to be one of the most over used clichés of every action movie ?
Well, I really thought that in most the part of HL2, I was blazing through the whole game without a real goal.
What also bothered me a great deal is the game linearity: while almost every FPS is greatly linear, HL2 is one of the few which attempted to render outdoor environment and an urban war. However, the later stage of the game seems to be "get under that rock, over than bulding, to this ladder, to this wooden board to progress". I thought even Serious Sam 2 had more liberty in this respect than HL2.
1- Being a "P4/1.8ghz/512mb" doesn't say much about the performance of the disks.
2- 10 seconds to wait for launching the office suite is not much. If you can not stand waiting 10 seconds, you're just being impatient.
FreeBSD has two binary mecanisms: one for the base system (security updates) provided through freebsd-update, and the package system which is an alternative to compiling the ports by yourself. The packages usually lag the ports by a few weeks.
I get failures all the times with PC floppies.
However, for some reason, almost all my 3" floppies for my Amstrad computer still work. I believe the quality of fabrication matters...
I don't think the increase will be anywhere near linear. Just look at how quick google climbed to the top spot after a "critical mass" of googlers had been reached.
Of course, the analogy is quite flawed: you have to download the browser, etc. But I think that in 3 years, the percentage of gecko users will be quite a bit more than 10%.
Well, actually, I think Mozilla (or actually Firefox) is on the verge on gaining the critical intertia that will allow it to continue gaining users.
Mozilla supporters - mostly tech-savy people, or mozilla contributors - have been praising Mozilla for years, and it seems this effort has actually paid off. We now have 'fanboys' of the software. Just look at the forums out there ! There are a lot of people who don't understand much about how Mozilla/Firefox works or even the web in general, but are praising Firefox without end.
Firefox is cool. Firefox is trendy. For whatever reason. And actually, this was just the move that we needed.
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What about the numbers backing up your claims ? I'm enclined to believe you, however I find a little ironic that you're bashing the parent for not providing numbers while you failed too to provide any.
Don't forget that Netscape as a corporation developping browsers doesn't exist anymore. Netscape is now only a brand. Actually, the development of Netscape 8 has been outsourced to Mercurial Communications.
I really find appalling this way of thinking.
I won't comment on the "data of people using Windows should be CORRUPTED, that will teach them !" argument. I don't think there is a need to.
However, I'd just like to ask you something: What are the most common ways for virus to spread nowadays ? Usually, they are:
- holes in mail readers
- trojans delivered by mail ("click on the nice picture")
- trojans on the internet ("play this nice game"!)
Of course, there are famous virus that spread trough holes in Windows, but they are less common than the brood I've previously cited.
Now tell me one thing: why using linux should reduce the risks of having holes in your mail reader ?
And more importantly, why using linux should prevent your documents from being corrupted by some kind of trojan ? Don't forget that most of the important data on a personal computer is user writable.
Hopefully you've got that BURN-PROOF technology.
Actyally, I've personally been surprised by the amount of attention I got from the MATLAB developpers by just posting on the MATLAB newsgroups.
Even if I've never personally bought a MATLAB license by myself.
I think it's pretty arrogant to think that "we'll always come up with a solution later. We're clever enough".
and emule is "just another" edonkey clone...
I don't see how Aqua get's in your way.
Some things that annoy me with Aqua:
- Click to focus:
If you click on an unfocused window, it will *only* focus it. That means that if you want to click on the "OK" button of an unfocused window, you will have to click twice: once to focus the window and once to push the button.
- Double click to minimize:
Double clicking on a window title to minimize the window isn't a bad idea. However, there is a particular implementation of this behaviour that is troublesome: let's say I want to close a window (clicking on the red rounded button). As Aqua buttons are round shaped and rather small, it might happen that I miss the button and click outside. However, if I quickly click *inside* the button afterwards, the OSX windows manager will register this as a double click, and minimize the window.
I still think these annoyances are quite small compared to the other benefits of a OSX desktop (Exposé and such). But they still annoy me.
I'd expect that the single player will have lots of shooting at shadows and the multiplayer will be a camper's paradise. So it'll be different to previous Quake games whatever happens.
Quake was also a very dark game. Quake2 and 3 were brighter, though.
What is interesting here is that FillFactory designs CMOS-APS detectors instead of the more traditional CCD imagers.
APS stands for Active Pixel Sensor: basically the main difference with CCD's is that you get the line and row selection transistors, and an amplification transistor built in every pixel. That means you don't have to transfer the charge from pixel to pixel over the whole matrix as in CCDs: you can directly address the detector matrix as you would do on RAM.
The main drawback is that these selection and amplification units take room on the silicium, and therefore prevent the whole surface of a pixel to be sensitive to light. This is what is called the fill factor : the amount of a pixel which is effectively capturing light.
FillFactory (now owned by Cypress Semiconductors) have promising patents related to increasing the fill factor - hence their name.
If the capacity is kind of "low" by holographic memory standards, it might be because this medium doesn't use any other kind of multiplexing beside spatial multiplexing.
Basically, what we have here is a disc with several "holographic bits", scattered across the disc just like a regular compact disc. The main difference here is that when you read an holographic bit with the reconstruction beam, you get a full page of data (here, a 1024x1024 image - hence 1 Mbit).
What is interesting with holographic memory is that when you use thick layers of holographic materials you can also multiplex the data using the angle of the reconstruction beam, or its wavelength. That means that you can hit the same area on the disc with the reconstruction beam at a different angle, and get a different page of data. Or use a different laser beam, and get again another page of data.
Of course, this process seriously complexifies the hardware that must be used to read an hoographic medium, but it is the key to reach tremendous densities with the holographic technique.
This isn't as much the amount of platforms supported that slows down debian than the number of packages in the distribution.
Check out what Steve Langasek has to say about platform porting:
The four most common porting problems for software are endianness (differs between i386/amd64 and powerpc), word size (differs between i386/powerpc and amd64), char signedness (differs between i386/amd64 and powerpc), and use of non-PIC code in shared libs (which is a problem on *all* non-i386 platforms). A fifth, less significant portability issue involves arm-specific weirdness with floating point handling, which affects only a handful of packages that try to do their own direct manipulation of floats.
So which portability problems are the ones that we waste time fixing code for?
I agree with you for Ravenholm, I found this part of the game to be one of the best.
However, don't you find the behaviour of Dr. Mossman to be one of the most over used clichés of every action movie ?
I've played all the way through, and I'm disappointed.
The game is really good, but it felt short on my expectations. Maybe they were too high...
Well, I really thought that in most the part of HL2, I was blazing through the whole game without a real goal. What also bothered me a great deal is the game linearity: while almost every FPS is greatly linear, HL2 is one of the few which attempted to render outdoor environment and an urban war. However, the later stage of the game seems to be "get under that rock, over than bulding, to this ladder, to this wooden board to progress". I thought even Serious Sam 2 had more liberty in this respect than HL2.
Superb quote.
Now I believe you don't care about HTML standard too...
1- Being a "P4/1.8ghz/512mb" doesn't say much about the performance of the disks.
2- 10 seconds to wait for launching the office suite is not much. If you can not stand waiting 10 seconds, you're just being impatient.
FreeBSD has two binary mecanisms: one for the base system (security updates) provided through freebsd-update, and the package system which is an alternative to compiling the ports by yourself. The packages usually lag the ports by a few weeks.
I get failures all the times with PC floppies.
However, for some reason, almost all my 3" floppies for my Amstrad computer still work. I believe the quality of fabrication matters...
What if I need to load an external driver for my SATA / SCSI controller during the installation of Windows 2000 / XP ?
You've got PCI slots in that 486SX/33 ? That is not that common.
I don't think the increase will be anywhere near linear. Just look at how quick google climbed to the top spot after a "critical mass" of googlers had been reached.
Of course, the analogy is quite flawed: you have to download the browser, etc. But I think that in 3 years, the percentage of gecko users will be quite a bit more than 10%.
Well, actually, I think Mozilla (or actually Firefox) is on the verge on gaining the critical intertia that will allow it to continue gaining users.
Mozilla supporters - mostly tech-savy people, or mozilla contributors - have been praising Mozilla for years, and it seems this effort has actually paid off. We now have 'fanboys' of the software. Just look at the forums out there ! There are a lot of people who don't understand much about how Mozilla/Firefox works or even the web in general, but are praising Firefox without end.
Firefox is cool. Firefox is trendy. For whatever reason. And actually, this was just the move that we needed.
Of couse, we can all agree that Fire(bird|fox |badger|emu) is a much better name.
I think you forget about the very big Infogrames.