I found this information regarding the Acid 3 test on a Webkit developer's site (http://webkit.org/blog/158/the-acid-3-test/)
As much as I hate to debunk any article bashing IE, here is the information from the article:
If you run Acid 3 on the shipping versions of current browsers (Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, IE7), you'll see that they all score quite low. For example Safari 3 scores a 39/100. This percentage score is a bit misleading however. The situation with all four browser engines really isn't that bad.
You can think of the Acid 3 test as consisting of 100 individual test suites. In order for a browser engine to claim one of these precious 100 points, it has to pass a whole battery of tests around a specific standard. In other words it's like the browser is being asked to take 100 separate exams and score an A+ on each test in order to get any credit at all.
The reality is that all of the browsers are doing much better than their scores would have you believe, since the engines are often passing a majority of the subtests and experiencing minor failures that cost them the point for that section.
How is the parent comment flamebait? Did the mod even rtfa? They explicitly state later in the article that the police target anti-social behavior, which I think any self-respecting nerd, geek, dweeb or dork would find bothersome.
All the opportunity is there because that's where all the people in the region are. It has nothing to do with the level of taxation in Mass., whatever it may be.
Libertarianism isn't right-wing in the traditional sense as you assert it is. It's very socially liberal but fiscally conservative. It's good at alienating both major parties: It emphasizes the individual freedoms that national-level Republicans hate and the fiscal conservatism that originally just Democrats hated but is now hated by both major parties.
If one reflects on what government programs were once voluntary, but are now compulsory, an increasing loss of individual rights can be seen. It's illegal to not send a child to school, a tariff based tax system (effectively consumption based) has been replaced for the most part with an income tax, and of late the Patriot Act has removed many of the essential rights to free speech that were present.
At the demos of Aperature that were given at this year MacWorld, they continually even showed how far they could take it, and showcased its ability to work with Photoshop for the more detailed image editting tasks. I got the impression it was supposed to be like iPhoto for a professional photographer: something to manage your photos and create nice layouts.
Did you expect a complete solution right out of the gate? Of course there is alot of unknown hardware, XP has been running on iMacs for like a week now, tops. You can't play games now, but this is clearly a step in the direction of playing games. I think Homer Simpson could best describe how I understand your opinion:
"You tried your best, and you failed miserabley. The lesson is 'never try' "
Please quote the portion of the parent post that mentioned the Bush administration, hence eliciting your reply. I don't understand why a discussion of Micrsoft vs. the EU all of a sudden necessitates pointing out that the Bush Administration is corrupt. I'm not saying that I disagree with you, but the bashing seems quite unnecessary and out of context, and just makes you look silly.
Your argument about him taking money out of the economy doesn't hold water. Wealth is not a finite thing. It's not like there is some limited amount of resources to go around, and if he has x amount then the economy has whatever-x. That is the old world school of economics. Also, by giving that money to charities, who in turn will spend it hiring workers, buying supplies, paying rent, etc., he is in effect placing it back into the economy into a segment that benefits everyone but has a hard time obtaining funds. Being against him is fine, but please at least try and make an argument that makes sense.
Saturday, November 5th at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. Tickets are available by phone, at any ticket master outlet, or on the web at ticketmaster.com
I still have a parallel port printer, and my palm pilot still plugs into my serial port, and both my keyboard and mouse are still ps/2. They all work perfectly, and have for some time. Granted, most of the newer devices I buy are USB, but there is something to be said for legacy support. My printer still works great, my palm pilot still keeps my schedule, and the nice keyboard and mouse that I bought will wear out rather than becoming useless due to incompatability with a new machine. It's a similar question to wondering why video cards still come with VGA and DVI, since so many people have flat panels now.
At the time that HP began to sell the IPod, it was a brilliant move on the part of Apple, because their distribution network was not as robust as HP's at the time. It was only during the deal that Apple began letting anyone that wanted to sell Ipods, and not just their approved retails like CompUSA or the Apple Store. HP was able to sell them at places like Fry's and Circuit City. I know that only reason that I have an HP Ipod is that when my father went looking to buy me one last christmas, there seemed to be a large number of HP ipods from various retailers.
Most young kids today couldn't care less about doom because a lot of them weren't around when the game was actually cool.
Based on that rational, every movie released would be Finding Nemo. Plenty of movies about adult things based on events that happened in the past sell plenty well. The movie Nixon, for example. It would of been alot more applicable almost any time between watergate and when it was released, but it still sold relatively well (read: wasn't a total flop.
I'm sure that the developers at the Mozilla Foundation will be pleased to hear that the various projects which they have spent countless hours toiling over are not actual applications by your standards.
According to my grandfather, who got his master's in classical studies, the placement of a preceding number to indicate a lower value is an invention of the 1700's, and the romans always just wrote VIIII to represent 9, for example. Furthermore the letters Y and W did not exist. Y is known in French as "Greek I" and W was simply written as two v's, also known in french as "Double V" rather than double u.
Ah, but you are incorrect. The state of California won a court case in which that exact situation occured, and they demanded their share of the income tax. I'm having trouble digging it up at the moment, but I remeber distinctly hearing Rush Limbaugh ranting about it, as well as discussing it recently in an accounting class I took.
As a US citizen, I find a complaint about "only 3000 a year" to be damn ridiculous. As another reply hinted at, get a job. Guess how much the gov't gives me. 2000? 1000? Try zero. And on top of that, I pay income tax, pay into a social security program that most likely won't be there when I retire, and pay for a myriad state run programs such as Workman's Comp, Unemployment Insurance, Paid Family leave, etc. So while you are sitting there with your 3000 handout from the government, I'm going to continue to pull 19 and 20 hour days trying to cram in work, school and studying. I think any US citizen that's put themselves through college can relate to this.
I reiterate my prior statement, as it would be cool, and not completely out of the question, for IBM to optimize specific portions of the kernel for specifc SPUs. And I would also like to rephrase part of my prior statement to read "GNU/Linux" for those that enjoy being picky.
It should be interesting what modifications, if any, IBM may have made in porting Linux to the cell, since my understanding is that it has many specialized sub-processors (cells). It should be at least as good as Linux for PPC though, no?
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How is the parent comment flamebait? Did the mod even rtfa? They explicitly state later in the article that the police target anti-social behavior, which I think any self-respecting nerd, geek, dweeb or dork would find bothersome.
All the opportunity is there because that's where all the people in the region are. It has nothing to do with the level of taxation in Mass., whatever it may be.
Libertarianism isn't right-wing in the traditional sense as you assert it is. It's very socially liberal but fiscally conservative. It's good at alienating both major parties: It emphasizes the individual freedoms that national-level Republicans hate and the fiscal conservatism that originally just Democrats hated but is now hated by both major parties.
If one reflects on what government programs were once voluntary, but are now compulsory, an increasing loss of individual rights can be seen. It's illegal to not send a child to school, a tariff based tax system (effectively consumption based) has been replaced for the most part with an income tax, and of late the Patriot Act has removed many of the essential rights to free speech that were present.
At the demos of Aperature that were given at this year MacWorld, they continually even showed how far they could take it, and showcased its ability to work with Photoshop for the more detailed image editting tasks. I got the impression it was supposed to be like iPhoto for a professional photographer: something to manage your photos and create nice layouts.
Howard Hughes, is that you?
I think by go to best buy you mean log onto IRC or usenet, by release day you mean a week before RTM.
Real geeks don't pay for MS software.
Did you expect a complete solution right out of the gate? Of course there is alot of unknown hardware, XP has been running on iMacs for like a week now, tops. You can't play games now, but this is clearly a step in the direction of playing games.
I think Homer Simpson could best describe how I understand your opinion:
"You tried your best, and you failed miserabley. The lesson is 'never try' "
Please quote the portion of the parent post that mentioned the Bush administration, hence eliciting your reply. I don't understand why a discussion of Micrsoft vs. the EU all of a sudden necessitates pointing out that the Bush Administration is corrupt. I'm not saying that I disagree with you, but the bashing seems quite unnecessary and out of context, and just makes you look silly.
Your argument about him taking money out of the economy doesn't hold water. Wealth is not a finite thing. It's not like there is some limited amount of resources to go around, and if he has x amount then the economy has whatever-x. That is the old world school of economics. Also, by giving that money to charities, who in turn will spend it hiring workers, buying supplies, paying rent, etc., he is in effect placing it back into the economy into a segment that benefits everyone but has a hard time obtaining funds. Being against him is fine, but please at least try and make an argument that makes sense.
Saturday, November 5th at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. Tickets are available by phone, at any ticket master outlet, or on the web at ticketmaster.com
I still have a parallel port printer, and my palm pilot still plugs into my serial port, and both my keyboard and mouse are still ps/2. They all work perfectly, and have for some time. Granted, most of the newer devices I buy are USB, but there is something to be said for legacy support. My printer still works great, my palm pilot still keeps my schedule, and the nice keyboard and mouse that I bought will wear out rather than becoming useless due to incompatability with a new machine. It's a similar question to wondering why video cards still come with VGA and DVI, since so many people have flat panels now.
At the time that HP began to sell the IPod, it was a brilliant move on the part of Apple, because their distribution network was not as robust as HP's at the time. It was only during the deal that Apple began letting anyone that wanted to sell Ipods, and not just their approved retails like CompUSA or the Apple Store. HP was able to sell them at places like Fry's and Circuit City. I know that only reason that I have an HP Ipod is that when my father went looking to buy me one last christmas, there seemed to be a large number of HP ipods from various retailers.
What I find interesting is that a similar reply to yours by an AC got modded as a troll.
Most young kids today couldn't care less about doom because a lot of them weren't around when the game was actually cool.
Based on that rational, every movie released would be Finding Nemo. Plenty of movies about adult things based on events that happened in the past sell plenty well. The movie Nixon, for example. It would of been alot more applicable almost any time between watergate and when it was released, but it still sold relatively well (read: wasn't a total flop.
It's called supply and demand. Price the videos and higher and nobody will buy them.
I'm sure that the developers at the Mozilla Foundation will be pleased to hear that the various projects which they have spent countless hours toiling over are not actual applications by your standards.
According to my grandfather, who got his master's in classical studies, the placement of a preceding number to indicate a lower value is an invention of the 1700's, and the romans always just wrote VIIII to represent 9, for example. Furthermore the letters Y and W did not exist. Y is known in French as "Greek I" and W was simply written as two v's, also known in french as "Double V" rather than double u.
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Ah, but you are incorrect. The state of California won a court case in which that exact situation occured, and they demanded their share of the income tax. I'm having trouble digging it up at the moment, but I remeber distinctly hearing Rush Limbaugh ranting about it, as well as discussing it recently in an accounting class I took.
As a US citizen, I find a complaint about "only 3000 a year" to be damn ridiculous. As another reply hinted at, get a job. Guess how much the gov't gives me. 2000? 1000? Try zero. And on top of that, I pay income tax, pay into a social security program that most likely won't be there when I retire, and pay for a myriad state run programs such as Workman's Comp, Unemployment Insurance, Paid Family leave, etc. So while you are sitting there with your 3000 handout from the government, I'm going to continue to pull 19 and 20 hour days trying to cram in work, school and studying. I think any US citizen that's put themselves through college can relate to this.
Thank you, that is all.
I am interested in what you say. Please elaborate/clearify.
The flights hijacked were domestic flights, so no passport was needed.
I reiterate my prior statement, as it would be cool, and not completely out of the question, for IBM to optimize specific portions of the kernel for specifc SPUs. And I would also like to rephrase part of my prior statement to read "GNU/Linux" for those that enjoy being picky.
It should be interesting what modifications, if any, IBM may have made in porting Linux to the cell, since my understanding is that it has many specialized sub-processors (cells). It should be at least as good as Linux for PPC though, no?