If you feed, say, IE 4 a complex page with CSS, it generally will render it OK (an OK implentation of the standards). Netscape 4, however, will crash and burn. No exceptions.
The fact that many organizations "standardized" on Netscape 4 just makes things worse...
What does a web browser do today that is so different to what was being done by Netscape 4.x? Nothing much, as far as I can see. Rendering HTML is something that Gecko can do quite well, but not all that much faster (as far as I can tell) than 4.x. In most cases, 4.x is perfectly "good enough" for me.
This guy is full of shit and has no idea of what he is talking about.
Some of the better parts:
- He claims that The mozilla project and everything Netscape >4 is pointless and that Netscape 4 "just works". We all know that Netscape 4 is an awful, crashy, buggy, standards-breaking piece of crap that set the Internet back years.
- He claims that Windows XP was a complete rewrite. Windows XP is NT 5.1 -- (check with ver if you want) Windows 2000 with the PlaySkool OS look.
Coincidentally (or perhaps not) PalmOS is so unbelievably easy to use that anyone can pick the device up and go.
Do we really NEED multitasking and fast processors in a device that you are going to pick up, fiddle with for 30 seconds (to say, look up an address or check a detail)?
Additionally, the slow processor and simplicity brings another benefit -- my Palm m105 (sorry, I'm a poor student) gets ~2 weeks battey life on a pair of alkaline AAA batteries.
Any human being with a working set of eyes can view a 100 year old photographic print.
In a 100 years, what are the chances of us still using JPEG?
Additionally, like photographs and records and the like nowadays, these historical records stored on the CD-Rs with their poor lifespan will likely end up in a box in someone's attic. Twenty years later, if there is still computer equipment to read it, noone will be able to because the media will have become unreadable long ago.
On a mostly unrelated note, colour resolution is a function of your video card; I can drive my crappy old VGA monitor to 640x480x60hz, 16.7 million colours.
Because I'm still watching "normal" TV channels (broadcast in 4x3, 480i), I prefer to have a TV that won't cut the top and bottom off the picture, nor will stretch it out horizontally making everything look "fat".
Uh.. you know that 16:9 TV's display 4:3 content at a 4:3 aspect ratio with bars at the sides, right?
It's an interesting world we live in when people believe they need more than 2,560,000 bytes of RAM for most purposes.
What for, exactly? It's an ultra-portable computer; you are not rendering 3D graphics on it. At best you are running some sort of embedded application, whose memory requirements (IMHO) should be FAR under 64mb.
Simpler? I fail to see how eliminating something like say, PS/2 ports and replacing everything with USB mice/keyboards makes things simpler.
USB is a much more complex protocol than PS/2.. PS/2 is specialized for only one purpose and is natively supported by EVERYTHING.
If your computer breaks and need to boot with a rescue disk, USB complicates things far more than necessary.
Also, (and this is a real life scenario), RS-232 and parellel ports make GREAT simple interfaces.
A Computer Engineering class, for example, can built a simple device and interface it to the serial/parallel port. Since there is no raw access to the USB port, this would be impossible.
Sorry, but Opera beat Konqueror ages ago on this. Opera was the first to do that (years ago), it was the first to do tabbed browsing as well (from the beginning).
"If you're still using these computers in 2000 you mas as well right now, begin walking around with your thumb and finger making the shape of an L on your forehead."
You might find it interesting that WP 5.1 WAS ported to UNIX.. unfortunately, it is not available anymore and would probably require a fair bit of modification to get running on anything modern (back to the source code issue).
There were several versions of the graphical WordPerfect available for Linux.. google and you will find a guide to getting them running on a modern distro.
Unfortunately, only the very crippled personal version is available for free, and since Corel killed all their Linux stuff, you can't get it anymore.
Well, you'd need a very fast processor to compress MPEG2 in real-time, and the quality would be poor.
Also, it is damned near impossible to edit MPEG2 -- because of the way the files are structured, or something (you'd have to ask someone who knows more about MPEG compression).
Of course, I could have just set up my server to accept mail on another port, but that would have been a pain for me - local change on every client, instead of one SMTP fix.
Actually, that wouldn't work -- other SMTP servers have no way of knowing which port your SMTP server will be on, so it is hardwired to port 25. You wouldn't be able to receive any e-mail.
This is kind of off-topic, but Bell Sympatico was running ads for their DSL service promoting this, basically. A group of musicians entering some sort of chat room and jamming over the Internet.
Of course, it was completely laughable -- there's no way you could reliably send and receive that much data and the lag would make it impossible to play simultaneously..
The thing is, your local computer store will likely not be able to provide you with an identically configured PC in a year or two.
I don't know how large the company you work for is, but in many cases they buy from big names like Dell or IBM because they can get huge quantities of standard configuration machines (just image the hard drive and go), and don't have to worry about not being able to get another of those same machines in a year when they need more.
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If you feed, say, IE 4 a complex page with CSS, it generally will render it OK (an OK implentation of the standards). Netscape 4, however, will crash and burn. No exceptions.
The fact that many organizations "standardized" on Netscape 4 just makes things worse...
This is a joke, right?
Please tell me it is a joke.
This guy is full of shit and has no idea of what he is talking about.
Some of the better parts:
- He claims that The mozilla project and everything Netscape >4 is pointless and that Netscape 4 "just works". We all know that Netscape 4 is an awful, crashy, buggy, standards-breaking piece of crap that set the Internet back years.
- He claims that Windows XP was a complete rewrite. Windows XP is NT 5.1 -- (check with ver if you want) Windows 2000 with the PlaySkool OS look.
Most of the time, maybe the occasional game of Solitare while I'm waiting for a bus and things like that.
If I wanted to only keep address I would just get a paper addressbook, I think..
Do we really NEED multitasking and fast processors in a device that you are going to pick up, fiddle with for 30 seconds (to say, look up an address or check a detail)?
Additionally, the slow processor and simplicity brings another benefit -- my Palm m105 (sorry, I'm a poor student) gets ~2 weeks battey life on a pair of alkaline AAA batteries.
In a 100 years, what are the chances of us still using JPEG?
Additionally, like photographs and records and the like nowadays, these historical records stored on the CD-Rs with their poor lifespan will likely end up in a box in someone's attic. Twenty years later, if there is still computer equipment to read it, noone will be able to because the media will have become unreadable long ago.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/sound-setup.html
On a mostly unrelated note, colour resolution is a function of your video card; I can drive my crappy old VGA monitor to 640x480x60hz, 16.7 million colours.
Uh.. you know that 16:9 TV's display 4:3 content at a 4:3 aspect ratio with bars at the sides, right?
What for, exactly? It's an ultra-portable computer; you are not rendering 3D graphics on it. At best you are running some sort of embedded application, whose memory requirements (IMHO) should be FAR under 64mb.
USB is a much more complex protocol than PS/2.. PS/2 is specialized for only one purpose and is natively supported by EVERYTHING.
If your computer breaks and need to boot with a rescue disk, USB complicates things far more than necessary.
Also, (and this is a real life scenario), RS-232 and parellel ports make GREAT simple interfaces.
A Computer Engineering class, for example, can built a simple device and interface it to the serial/parallel port. Since there is no raw access to the USB port, this would be impossible.
Sorry, but Opera beat Konqueror ages ago on this. Opera was the first to do that (years ago), it was the first to do tabbed browsing as well (from the beginning).
The Mindstorm line of stuff was really awesome.. what happened? Poor sales?
There were several versions of the graphical WordPerfect available for Linux.. google and you will find a guide to getting them running on a modern distro.
Unfortunately, only the very crippled personal version is available for free, and since Corel killed all their Linux stuff, you can't get it anymore.
Also, it is damned near impossible to edit MPEG2 -- because of the way the files are structured, or something (you'd have to ask someone who knows more about MPEG compression).
It would seem to help explain why there is a huge mirror site (Planetmirror) based out of .au..
Actually, that wouldn't work -- other SMTP servers have no way of knowing which port your SMTP server will be on, so it is hardwired to port 25. You wouldn't be able to receive any e-mail.
Now my problem is to get it to work for my antenna AND my C-BAND satellite...
Any idea if there is a better interface for controlling which songs play, yet?
Before, IIRC it could only shuffle through a bunch of files in a directory.
Telstra, the national ISP, charges less/not at all (can't remember) for bandwidth that is used WITHIN the country and not to the rest of the world.
So somehow, they are doing it.
Of course, it was completely laughable -- there's no way you could reliably send and receive that much data and the lag would make it impossible to play simultaneously..
I do know that IBM can do this, I've seen it (in the local schools.. hundreds and hundreds of 300GL's.. and they're not getting any newer..).
I don't know how large the company you work for is, but in many cases they buy from big names like Dell or IBM because they can get huge quantities of standard configuration machines (just image the hard drive and go), and don't have to worry about not being able to get another of those same machines in a year when they need more.