I don't know, but I like it. OS X, and the Windows version of Safari, overdoes the AA a bit. Linux obviously varies (I've seen it do better than either, and far worse).
This may be a stupid question, but every other tabbed browser I've used has a hotkey to switch between tabs. Generally, that's ctrl-tab. I can't find anything similar in Safari though, and that is a big deal breaker. Am I just missing something?
It works with far more websites than VideoDownloader, is faster, doesn't rely on an external webserver, and it actually scans the page for media rather than using a predefined set of rules that are dependent on the site. This makes it pretty damn flexible.
It does not make the desktop more responsive. Yes, there are many things you can turn off, and that's decent point. I'm singling out the singling out of the theme service though. There is zero performance difference on my 3 year old computer with the service off. Zero. Zip. It doesn't matter if I'm running resource intensive tasks or not, there's no difference. Alt-tabbing, window moving, start menu opening, menu opening, it's all equally as fast.
I'm willing to sacrifice this meg for a bit of aesthetic happiness (obviously not using the default Fisher Price theme).
For the hell of it, I just disabled the service. Gained about 1MB free memory. Started it back up and lost 3.5, though that settled back down to about 1 to 1.5. If 1MB caused me to sweat, I'd be using Linux without X, and would be posting this with Lynx.
The theme service takes only a few megs of RAM, and a completely negligible or non-existent amount of CPU time; disabling it for performance is akin to buying Monster optical cables for better audio.
Just out of pure curiosity: what stuff? I use gnome because KDE seems incredibly clunky, and hideous (at least by default). I keep hearing about people switching for what are usually unspoken reasons, though.
Aye. They're the same size, shape (outside edge), and weight. The different variations also apparently have the same electromagnetic signature, so a metal detector would read them to be the same. I have never heard anyone complain about them; most of the time people hardly notice the special varieties.
Not only old browsers. Firefox added full, proper gopher support as of version 1.5. Internet Explorer 5.x/6.x had it disabled in a security patch, though a registry hack could undo that; IE 7 no longer seems to support it at all.
These seem like a pretty good middle-road between DSLRs and basic point & shoot cameras. We recently picked up a Canon S3 IS (seemed to be about half the price of a decent DSLR+lens here in Canada, and we found a good deal).
It does allow control of shutter speed, aperture size, white balance, flash synchronization, focus, etc. It's got an LCD viewfinder, good build quality, image stabilization, fast photo capture and startup times, and one is able to buy lens adapters and other accessories for it. It meets almost all of the points raised in the article. The only big downside I can find is that the sensor isn't quite as good as a decent DSLR's. It's fine for most uses, but at higher ISO speeds the noise is far worse. Accessory availability is also reduced, but for most entry-level/casual folks this likely doesn't matter.
You definately don't need a 256MB video card for Aero, and you don't need much of one at all if you're content on using the 2D interface. Vista RC1 works fine* on my laptop with its Geforce Go 7400 with 64 MB VRAM / 192 MB shared RAM. It also works perfectly dandy on my PC with a 128MB Radeon 9800 Pro (though understandably better than the laptop card).
*nVidia's drivers are horrible at the moment, and my laptop's GPU doesn't have official support yet (though an ini hack will force it to work). Aero runs fine, but any 3D app running under it loses a considerable chunk of performance. Open GL apps, while accelerated, are practically unbearable to use.
Stop making this a Republican vs. Democrat thing, asshole. People like you who stand vehemently behind one party, despite whatever they do, are what's ruining America. This is a Constitution vs. Politicians thing, or maybe "the People" vs. Politicians.
If violating the constitution, making it legal to assume people guilty before proven innocent, and cheating elections is not a royal fuck up, then nothing is. And let me say, I don't support the Democrats any more (nor any of the "alternatives").
I never said that it doesn't sound different, or different in a good way. I enjoy the vinyl noise myself. It's just that I don't think there's this exceptional difference between buying vinyl and buying CD as you stated, besides the odd elitism surrounding it.
There are no cases of Dell laptops causing risks to airplanes either, are there? Both varieties of laptops have certain models which use exploding Sony batteries, which is the heart of the issue. Why are the Apple laptops different in this circumstance? Or are you just on the Dell-bashing and/or Apple-loving bandwagon(s)?
While I'm sure you will all find it endlessly fascinating, in the end it really won't get you any closer to the news most people want to know.
I mean, that's not as unhyped as you think it is. It was mostly the people commenting on it and acting like rabid... rabid people, but I'm just saying. They're none of them innocent of some of this.
Check out gaming sites (Kotaku is a good one, or any mainstream one like IGN or Gamespot) for breaking news from Japan tonight - I'm sure they'll be up and reporting the Japanese press conference as it happens. Plus those sites don't pull the sensationalistic "get page impressions at any cost" crap that Joystiq does.
Kotaku was right beside Joystiq with that stupid IBM chip production pre-announcement.
Yeah, these exist. For example, they've found lobe finned fish recently that appear to be precursors to land-based quadrapeds. Of course, with every gap filling fossil you find, there are two more gaps on either end of that one. That is, unless you can somehow find the fossils of every single generation of a species, which is incredibly unlikely.
I get low pings in the game as well, but I still see network-related lag, which was the point of my comment. It's fairly obvious when it's network lag, as your player will suddenly jump a few metres ahead or opponents will do the same. No fancy card can make up for bad netcode.
I have never had my stainless steel speaker connectors tarnish or corrode, let alone do so enough to reduce audio quality. It's all a load of bullshit. Any problems that there ever are can be fixed by merely cleaning the thing, as you said.
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I don't know, but I like it. OS X, and the Windows version of Safari, overdoes the AA a bit. Linux obviously varies (I've seen it do better than either, and far worse).
This may be a stupid question, but every other tabbed browser I've used has a hotkey to switch between tabs. Generally, that's ctrl-tab. I can't find anything similar in Safari though, and that is a big deal breaker. Am I just missing something?
Better: UnPlug.
It works with far more websites than VideoDownloader, is faster, doesn't rely on an external webserver, and it actually scans the page for media rather than using a predefined set of rules that are dependent on the site. This makes it pretty damn flexible.
It does not make the desktop more responsive. Yes, there are many things you can turn off, and that's decent point. I'm singling out the singling out of the theme service though. There is zero performance difference on my 3 year old computer with the service off. Zero. Zip. It doesn't matter if I'm running resource intensive tasks or not, there's no difference. Alt-tabbing, window moving, start menu opening, menu opening, it's all equally as fast.
I'm willing to sacrifice this meg for a bit of aesthetic happiness (obviously not using the default Fisher Price theme).
For the hell of it, I just disabled the service. Gained about 1MB free memory. Started it back up and lost 3.5, though that settled back down to about 1 to 1.5. If 1MB caused me to sweat, I'd be using Linux without X, and would be posting this with Lynx.
The theme service takes only a few megs of RAM, and a completely negligible or non-existent amount of CPU time; disabling it for performance is akin to buying Monster optical cables for better audio.
The first thing I did when I opened this article was Ctrl+F, and searched for Skiing. I salute you.
Just out of pure curiosity: what stuff? I use gnome because KDE seems incredibly clunky, and hideous (at least by default). I keep hearing about people switching for what are usually unspoken reasons, though.
Aye. They're the same size, shape (outside edge), and weight. The different variations also apparently have the same electromagnetic signature, so a metal detector would read them to be the same. I have never heard anyone complain about them; most of the time people hardly notice the special varieties.
Not only old browsers. Firefox added full, proper gopher support as of version 1.5. Internet Explorer 5.x/6.x had it disabled in a security patch, though a registry hack could undo that; IE 7 no longer seems to support it at all.
These seem like a pretty good middle-road between DSLRs and basic point & shoot cameras. We recently picked up a Canon S3 IS (seemed to be about half the price of a decent DSLR+lens here in Canada, and we found a good deal).
It does allow control of shutter speed, aperture size, white balance, flash synchronization, focus, etc. It's got an LCD viewfinder, good build quality, image stabilization, fast photo capture and startup times, and one is able to buy lens adapters and other accessories for it. It meets almost all of the points raised in the article. The only big downside I can find is that the sensor isn't quite as good as a decent DSLR's. It's fine for most uses, but at higher ISO speeds the noise is far worse. Accessory availability is also reduced, but for most entry-level/casual folks this likely doesn't matter.
Exactly. They're completely different statistics. Parent + Mod -> Up
You definately don't need a 256MB video card for Aero, and you don't need much of one at all if you're content on using the 2D interface. Vista RC1 works fine* on my laptop with its Geforce Go 7400 with 64 MB VRAM / 192 MB shared RAM. It also works perfectly dandy on my PC with a 128MB Radeon 9800 Pro (though understandably better than the laptop card).
*nVidia's drivers are horrible at the moment, and my laptop's GPU doesn't have official support yet (though an ini hack will force it to work). Aero runs fine, but any 3D app running under it loses a considerable chunk of performance. Open GL apps, while accelerated, are practically unbearable to use.
Stop making this a Republican vs. Democrat thing, asshole. People like you who stand vehemently behind one party, despite whatever they do, are what's ruining America. This is a Constitution vs. Politicians thing, or maybe "the People" vs. Politicians.
If violating the constitution, making it legal to assume people guilty before proven innocent, and cheating elections is not a royal fuck up, then nothing is. And let me say, I don't support the Democrats any more (nor any of the "alternatives").
I apparently posted that at 6:54 AM. Clearly I shouldn't be posting until I'm well awake. I got a nice modding for it though ;)
I never said that it doesn't sound different, or different in a good way. I enjoy the vinyl noise myself. It's just that I don't think there's this exceptional difference between buying vinyl and buying CD as you stated, besides the odd elitism surrounding it.
Cool factor, cover art, and the attractive scratchy analogue sound. I don't know if that's exactly massive.
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There are no cases of Dell laptops causing risks to airplanes either, are there? Both varieties of laptops have certain models which use exploding Sony batteries, which is the heart of the issue. Why are the Apple laptops different in this circumstance? Or are you just on the Dell-bashing and/or Apple-loving bandwagon(s)?
I mean, that's not as unhyped as you think it is. It was mostly the people commenting on it and acting like rabid... rabid people, but I'm just saying. They're none of them innocent of some of this.
Kotaku was right beside Joystiq with that stupid IBM chip production pre-announcement.
Yeah, these exist. For example, they've found lobe finned fish recently that appear to be precursors to land-based quadrapeds. Of course, with every gap filling fossil you find, there are two more gaps on either end of that one. That is, unless you can somehow find the fossils of every single generation of a species, which is incredibly unlikely.
I get low pings in the game as well, but I still see network-related lag, which was the point of my comment. It's fairly obvious when it's network lag, as your player will suddenly jump a few metres ahead or opponents will do the same. No fancy card can make up for bad netcode.
Are you playing the same BF2 as I'm playing?
I have never had my stainless steel speaker connectors tarnish or corrode, let alone do so enough to reduce audio quality. It's all a load of bullshit. Any problems that there ever are can be fixed by merely cleaning the thing, as you said.