"The problem is that many sites seem to block Opera on purpose for some reason. "
Block for some reason? Put on your tin foil hat folks, it's a conspiracy.
Duh, Generally they serve code that was probably written before Opera had support for the features. You probably know that as well, so why don't you just be honest and say that they are serving pages coded for older versions of Opera.
With that out of the way. You miss the point. It is pretty much irrelevant to potential users why the page fails in Opera. The fact remains it fails in Opera. Hence why I switched.
Now since it works in Firefox, worked in Opera spoofing Firefox (via Proxomitron) it follows that if Opera spent a small amount of time building a Firefox spoof/emulation mode it could handle more pages.
This is what I refer to when I stated spending more time on handling incompatible pages.
But it is too late now IMO. Everyone I convinced to give Opera a try has gone Firefox, including myself.
There is less and less reason to use Opera over a free/open fully featured firefox that handles more pages.
"Who needs a proxy tool? Hit F12 and pick one of the alternative user-agent strings."
Almost all browser sniffing ignores Operas spoof light and queries to find out it is in fact Opera.
"With all due respect, you really haven't got a clue how hard this is until you try and do it yourself. It's not a case of handling HTML"
If clues were shoes... Well shoeless Joe. I never said this was a solution to every page. But for my browsing I never use IE. Firefox now handles every page I visit. Opera doesn't.
Here is an example where real spoofing would work, but Opera doesn't do real spoofing. The server code can easily check that it is Opera.
www.dpreview.com Works great in Firefox. The cascading menus on the side work, as well as other features work.
Menus don't cascade and features dont work in Opera, no matter which user agaent you spoof with F12.
Now use a proxy spoofer with Opera and all the features work again.
Please verify what people say before you start your rants...
Opera is the slickest browser out there. The interface is great and the features have lots of little subtle twists that make them much better than plugins in Firefox.
Opera also has killer caching that provides instant forward/back ( I mean INSTANT ) through recently visted pages.
But I recently switched to Firefox. So my bet is Opera is toast.
Why did I switch? Compatability. More pages take Mox/FF into account. Like my Bank and Gmail for 2 that are important to me.
Talk to an Opera Zealot or Opera developer and the answer has always been the same. The site is serving bad pages to Opera. And this is generally true. Using a proxy tool to spoof firefox in Opera many of the pages did indeed work, but this is a clumsy solution. Unfortunately the Opera line remains the same. Users should fight to change the bad pages.
Where in my view a true firefox emulation/spoofing mode would go a long way to making Opera more workable.
But I have finally conluded that this is not going to happen. And that Firefox is finally there with the features and compatability intersection that makes it my current browser choice. It is compatible enough, and has features enough.
Opera is now Toast for me.
RIP Opera. I really wish they could have made more effort to handle errant pages than simply telling users to change the world. I will miss the Opera way.
MSN search says Evil is google and Firefox
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Shennanigans on Microsoft? http://www.marketingshift.com/
I have voted for candidates that I knew would not be in contention in the past but these were in cases where the two potential winners had little real difference between them. Neither outcome would drastically change the country.
But in the current US election, I wouldn't throw my left leaning vote to a Nader and actually help the party I least like to see in Power win.
In this case I would look at it as voting against the worst case scenario, rather than closest to my political ideals.
I absolutely believe the current Rebublican agenda is the worse Case scenario. So my number one concern would be voting to stop that. The most effective way to do that is to vote for Kerry.
If the rebublican agenda was softened in some future election I would feel more free to vote for some left leaning candidate that was unable to win. In this case I wouldn't be quite so worried that I might be helping the rebublicans win.
The real division is not the war in Iraq IMO. Either winner will have little choice but to mop up in a very similar manner. Differences only likely to be subtleties.
The real decision factor is wether you want an increasing influence of the church in government, or not.
4 more years of Bush. is 4 more years of "Faith based initiatives". More anti-gay, anti-choice rhetoric, more creationism, less evolution.
This election definitely marks a turning point between secular democracy and theocratic democracy.
Just my opinion but America seems to moving further away from being a secular democracy.
How can America be competetive in Biological sciences (any science) if these groups succeed in destroying even Scientific Method in America.
ID == Creationism. This is backdooring religion into the Curriculum.
This is the divisive issue in America today. It is religious society vs secular society. It seems that Secular society is on the wane and religious is on the rise. Somewhere Osama is smiling because this is certainly the outcome he wants for the world.
If you pick some average shmoe and hit them with a controversial topic, I wouldn't be surprised to get a conservative response. So what if you do, you need everyone to agree with you or there is no freedom?
Next you talk about speaking out loud in public cafe and getting dirty looks. Oh no! Dirty looks. Did you ever consider that just maybe you are obnoxious in real life.
Or perhaps your controversial views are hate mongering and that doesn't go down well.
Why don't you cite some examples, because my views are quite liberal and I never get dirty looks in Canada for voicing them. Practically everyone I meet is very open minded. I don't see folks freaking out so much about gay marriage or things like that here in Ottawa. I wouldn't imagine it being more of an issue in Vancouver.
I fought to get us onto wiki largely because we had no real source of work info that was easily accessible. So I started a wiki using Twiki. We use Twiki and I love it. Sure it could be better. But it does the job and fills a huge void for us.
I started the Wiki in mid August it had 237 views. 1600 views in September and will probably crack 2000 views this month. Not bad for an internal work site that only 90 people know about.
Well it is not so much that we (Canadians) got stronger dollar, but more that GW Bush, is destroying the American economy and weakening the US greenback.
So I guess that I have one thing to thank GW for. Cheaper hi-tech toys...
Slashdot will become extinct if they keep posting this mindless dreck.
I posit that AI out there can already write articles better than this dreck. So perhaps Dreck writing should already be extinct, but here we yet again see more dreck on/.
About the time we have code writing AI, we will have passed Vinge Singularity and all professions will be extinct.
I have to wonder if the author ever worked on anything other than web pages. Or very simple coding issues.
I work in telecom with a university educated work force (including PHDs and Masters degrees) and these folks have a tough time building quality systems given the constantly changing requirements , competitive demands and huge complexity of the systems.
Complexity is only increasing as we go forward. In almost any field you now have much larger programming teams working on more complex problems.
This is as Naive as when the thought high level laguages (moving from assembly) Cobol, Visual Basic, OOP, 4GL, 5GL etc... would eliminate programming as a profession.
As the tools became more powerfull, the problem space became more complex. If anything there has been a push beyond the toolsets and coding today is more difficult than it has been in the past, rather than simpler.
Programming large scale complex systems is so difficult now that hardly any groups out there consider it manageable.
If there is any profession where we currently can't easily get a handle on, it is programming in the large. Once you have AI that can handle this, what couldn't it do?
Is it really oursourcing or are you just bidding on contract work? North America is a pretty free trade zone. I am sure you could find someone in the USA getting CDN contracts as well.
With our dollar running at near 80% you don't save very much money by "outsourcing" to Canada.
I have personally experienced the wave of Indian contractors come in to learn and then go back to India with full time positions. Whille my company continues to downsize ( 70% gone and counting).
Working in India they get less than 50% of our wages. So this is real outsourcing IMO.
Frankly most outsourcing has a dismal track record at my company, the only reason they to do it is cost.
If you are saving next to no money (as in "outsourcing" to Canada) there is little reason to do it.
Opera did pioneer many browser features. I have been a long time Opera convert and fan (I think I started with 3.5). Every once in a while I would try Mozilla or lately firefox.
Finally with the PR release, I am now using Firefox near exclusively.
Firefox with the PR release is now more stable than Opera for me. Firefox, due to its open plug in architecture now outstrips Opera in features.
Due to Mozilla/Netscape heritage, Firefox is better supported on the pages I visit.
I do miss some aspects of Opera. It is slicker, the tabbed browsing still works better than TBE in firefox. And I love operas instant back/forward on cached pages.
But Opera is missing the support and some plugins I can't live without like flash block.
I can't see anything but dwindling market share going forward now. I no longer mention Opera as an alternate to IE. I just tell them about Firefox.
It was on a canadian TV program. Probably marketplace. They had on a biodiesel advocate who drove his jetta down to the USA to get the bio-D.
They ran his car through an emissions test once on regular and once on Bio. The results were not statistically different ( many categories where higher on Bio).
No I don't work for Exxon. But I do hate Diesel in any form. I cycle on the roads a lot and I would much rather get stuck behind a Honda Civic (most are LEV or ULEV these days) than even the most in tune VW diesel. Diesel sucks.
Gas burns a heck of a lot cleaner. Yeah more greenhouse gases, but more breathable than the crap that comes out even the modern "clean" diesels.
I recently bought some DVD's for backup, foolishly I purchased Kodaks. They turned out to be VDSPSAB DVD-R (Interaxia AG). This is the worst no name crap disk on the planet. Kodak is happy to have their name on them though.
Kodak has long since sold it's soul and I won't touch a Kodak product with a 10 foot pole.
It won't be hard, since they make nothing but crap these days anyway.
I read luminous landscape since the time before he tried a DSLR. So I remember all those stories, he always had a size qualifier in their with the cameras. Didn't I mention he once quoted 24MP as the point of equality before actually looking at the results first hand.
I have no problem with someone adjusting their views when new evidence becomes available. You will also note I provided multiple links, not just LL. There are many more such comparisons. From dozens of comparisons and from what I have seen the breakover point is around 8MP vs 35mm.
By 11MP you will be hard pressed to find anyone credible saying 35mm is still better, but you will find many working pros saying 35mm can't touch 1DS in prints and that was the old 1Ds.
The real question is not wether this new 1Ds with 16MP is better than 35mm, it is wether it is beating Medium Format.
I have seen a number of comaparisons of the original 1Ds with 11MPs and not in one of them did film prevail. In the luminous Landscape link below he also mentions that doing direct prints would give no benefit to film. Which is the film luddites refuge. I remember Mr Riechmann, before he went digital, figuring it would take 24MP before digital caught up. Like many old pros he changed his tune when he got a DSLR in his hands.
Some of the comparisons(these are the 11MP comparions, not new 16MP which is better in every way):
Test with Imacon scanner 35mm vs 11mp 1ds: But what can be clearly seen is that the 1Ds' image is significantly higher resolution than that of the the scan. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/c ameras/ 1ds/1ds-field.shtml
Test with 4800dpi scanner 35mm vs 11mp 1ds: All the way through, we clearly see more details in the 1Ds pictures. http://www.photographical.net/canon_1ds _35mm.html
My opinion after doing these comparisons is that the Canon 1Ds 11mp DSLR exceeds 4000dpi 35mm film scan quality by a considerable amount. In fact, in most photographic situations 1Ds image quality is competitive with *medium format http://www.sphoto.com/techinfo/dslrvsfilm. htm
I like it fine, but I was wondering if someone could suggest a really lightweight Wiki to use as PIM (Personal info Manager) on my Windows PC.
I really like the ease of updating and changing the info flow of wiki (well Twiki so far), and would like a PIM that worked like this. Don't care about collaboration features, this is for personal use.
This is a major boon. For those too lazy to read. It is 100% free and open for anyone to implement. Adobe is also providing a free converter.
This provides a common RAW format for cameras. This is not a png or jpg replacement, but a RAW replacement.
There are a number of third party RAW converters on the market right now. Many have limited camera support. You can bet they will quickly moving to support DNG. Which will instantly open up their usage to almost all current cameras.
With DNG support and Adobes converter you will soon be able to open just about any RAW image with any converter.
Even without camera output this is a benefit. As you can get one converter to support all your cameras.
You can archive all your RAWs as DNG and not have to worry that you kept all the software that came with the camera that generated the original RAW.
Camera support would be even better, but that may be slow as the manufactures may suffer "Not Invented Here" syndrome, or see value adds to their own format quirks.
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Hey Yeah. Gmail is working now. A step in the right direction.
"The problem is that many sites seem to block Opera on purpose for some reason. "
Block for some reason? Put on your tin foil hat folks, it's a conspiracy.
Duh, Generally they serve code that was probably written before Opera had support for the features. You probably know that as well, so why don't you just be honest and say that they are serving pages coded for older versions of Opera.
With that out of the way. You miss the point. It is pretty much irrelevant to potential users why the page fails in Opera. The fact remains it fails in Opera. Hence why I switched.
Now since it works in Firefox, worked in Opera spoofing Firefox (via Proxomitron) it follows that if Opera spent a small amount of time building a Firefox spoof/emulation mode it could handle more pages.
This is what I refer to when I stated spending more time on handling incompatible pages.
But it is too late now IMO. Everyone I convinced to give Opera a try has gone Firefox, including myself.
There is less and less reason to use Opera over a free/open fully featured firefox that handles more pages.
"Who needs a proxy tool? Hit F12 and pick one of the alternative user-agent strings."
Almost all browser sniffing ignores Operas spoof light and queries to find out it is in fact Opera.
"With all due respect, you really haven't got a clue how hard this is until you try and do it yourself. It's not a case of handling HTML"
If clues were shoes... Well shoeless Joe. I never said this was a solution to every page. But for my browsing I never use IE. Firefox now handles every page I visit. Opera doesn't.
Here is an example where real spoofing would work, but Opera doesn't do real spoofing. The server code can easily check that it is Opera.
www.dpreview.com
Works great in Firefox. The cascading menus on the side work, as well as other features work.
Menus don't cascade and features dont work in Opera, no matter which user agaent you spoof with F12.
Now use a proxy spoofer with Opera and all the features work again.
Please verify what people say before you start your rants...
I have been using Opera for about 4 years now.
Opera is the slickest browser out there. The interface is great and the features have lots of little subtle twists that make them much better than plugins in Firefox.
Opera also has killer caching that provides instant forward/back ( I mean INSTANT ) through recently visted pages.
But I recently switched to Firefox. So my bet is Opera is toast.
Why did I switch? Compatability. More pages take Mox/FF into account. Like my Bank and Gmail for 2 that are important to me.
Talk to an Opera Zealot or Opera developer and the answer has always been the same. The site is serving bad pages to Opera. And this is generally true. Using a proxy tool to spoof firefox in Opera many of the pages did indeed work, but this is a clumsy solution. Unfortunately the Opera line remains the same. Users should fight to change the bad pages.
Where in my view a true firefox emulation/spoofing mode would go a long way to making Opera more workable.
But I have finally conluded that this is not going to happen. And that Firefox is finally there with the features and compatability intersection that makes it my current browser choice. It is compatible enough, and has features enough.
Opera is now Toast for me.
RIP Opera. I really wish they could have made more effort to handle errant pages than simply telling users to change the world. I will miss the Opera way.
Shennanigans on Microsoft?
http://www.marketingshift.com/
more evil than satan
#1 Google
more evil than god
#2 firefox
#3 google
I have voted for candidates that I knew would not be in contention in the past but these were in cases where the two potential winners had little real difference between them. Neither outcome would drastically change the country.
But in the current US election, I wouldn't throw my left leaning vote to a Nader and actually help the party I least like to see in Power win.
In this case I would look at it as voting against the worst case scenario, rather than closest to my political ideals.
I absolutely believe the current Rebublican agenda is the worse Case scenario. So my number one concern would be voting to stop that. The most effective way to do that is to vote for Kerry.
If the rebublican agenda was softened in some future election I would feel more free to vote for some left leaning candidate that was unable to win. In this case I wouldn't be quite so worried that I might be helping the rebublicans win.
The real division is not the war in Iraq IMO. Either winner will have little choice but to mop up in a very similar manner. Differences only likely to be subtleties.
The real decision factor is wether you want an increasing influence of the church in government, or not.
4 more years of Bush. is 4 more years of "Faith based initiatives". More anti-gay, anti-choice rhetoric, more creationism, less evolution.
This election definitely marks a turning point between secular democracy and theocratic democracy.
Just my opinion but America seems to moving further away from being a secular democracy.
It is like America is entering a new dark age.
How can America be competetive in Biological sciences (any science) if these groups succeed in destroying even Scientific Method in America.
ID == Creationism. This is backdooring religion into the Curriculum.
This is the divisive issue in America today. It is religious society vs secular society. It seems that Secular society is on the wane and religious is on the rise. Somewhere Osama is smiling because this is certainly the outcome he wants for the world.
Sounds more like you are an obnoxious ass. You will likely find your welcome the same everywhere you go.
If you pick some average shmoe and hit them with a controversial topic, I wouldn't be surprised to get a conservative response. So what if you do, you need everyone to agree with you or there is no freedom?
Next you talk about speaking out loud in public cafe and getting dirty looks. Oh no! Dirty looks. Did you ever consider that just maybe you are obnoxious in real life.
Or perhaps your controversial views are hate mongering and that doesn't go down well.
Why don't you cite some examples, because my views are quite liberal and I never get dirty looks in Canada for voicing them. Practically everyone I meet is very open minded. I don't see folks freaking out so much about gay marriage or things like that here in Ottawa. I wouldn't imagine it being more of an issue in Vancouver.
I fought to get us onto wiki largely because we had no real source of work info that was easily accessible. So I started a wiki using Twiki. We use Twiki and I love it. Sure it could be better. But it does the job and fills a huge void for us.
I started the Wiki in mid August it had 237 views. 1600 views in September and will probably crack 2000 views this month. Not bad for an internal work site that only 90 people know about.
Wiki Rocks. I consider it Agile documentation.
Well it is not so much that we (Canadians) got stronger dollar, but more that GW Bush, is destroying the American economy and weakening the US greenback.
So I guess that I have one thing to thank GW for. Cheaper hi-tech toys...
http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/content.html#DESKWIN
Also open source and nice features. Configurable hot keys + gui.
Using it right now. Have CNTR 1,2,3 for intant access to my windows and CNTR J, K for next, prev.
Slashdot will become extinct if they keep posting this mindless dreck.
/.
I posit that AI out there can already write articles better than this dreck. So perhaps Dreck writing should already be extinct, but here we yet again see more dreck on
About the time we have code writing AI, we will have passed Vinge Singularity and all professions will be extinct.
I have to wonder if the author ever worked on anything other than web pages. Or very simple coding issues.
I work in telecom with a university educated work force (including PHDs and Masters degrees) and these folks have a tough time building quality systems given the constantly changing requirements , competitive demands and huge complexity of the systems.
Complexity is only increasing as we go forward. In almost any field you now have much larger programming teams working on more complex problems.
This is as Naive as when the thought high level laguages (moving from assembly) Cobol, Visual Basic, OOP, 4GL, 5GL etc... would eliminate programming as a profession.
As the tools became more powerfull, the problem space became more complex. If anything there has been a push beyond the toolsets and coding today is more difficult than it has been in the past, rather than simpler.
Programming large scale complex systems is so difficult now that hardly any groups out there consider it manageable.
If there is any profession where we currently can't easily get a handle on, it is programming in the large. Once you have AI that can handle this, what couldn't it do?
Is it really oursourcing or are you just bidding on contract work? North America is a pretty free trade zone. I am sure you could find someone in the USA getting CDN contracts as well.
With our dollar running at near 80% you don't save very much money by "outsourcing" to Canada.
I have personally experienced the wave of Indian contractors come in to learn and then go back to India with full time positions. Whille my company continues to downsize ( 70% gone and counting).
Working in India they get less than 50% of our wages. So this is real outsourcing IMO.
Frankly most outsourcing has a dismal track record at my company, the only reason they to do it is cost.
If you are saving next to no money (as in "outsourcing" to Canada) there is little reason to do it.
Do you work in the Industry? I have been a Software Engineer working in telecom for the last 10 years.
We are doing a lot of outsourcing to India and China and there are a lot of unemployed former engineers around now.
The situation is no different from the USA IMO.
Opera did pioneer many browser features. I have been a long time Opera convert and fan (I think I started with 3.5). Every once in a while I would try Mozilla or lately firefox.
Finally with the PR release, I am now using Firefox near exclusively.
Firefox with the PR release is now more stable than Opera for me. Firefox, due to its open plug in architecture now outstrips Opera in features.
Due to Mozilla/Netscape heritage, Firefox is better supported on the pages I visit.
I do miss some aspects of Opera. It is slicker, the tabbed browsing still works better than TBE in firefox. And I love operas instant back/forward on cached pages.
But Opera is missing the support and some plugins I can't live without like flash block.
I can't see anything but dwindling market share going forward now. I no longer mention Opera as an alternate to IE. I just tell them about Firefox.
It was on a canadian TV program. Probably marketplace. They had on a biodiesel advocate who drove his jetta down to the USA to get the bio-D.
They ran his car through an emissions test once on regular and once on Bio. The results were not statistically different ( many categories where higher on Bio).
No I don't work for Exxon. But I do hate Diesel in any form. I cycle on the roads a lot and I would much rather get stuck behind a Honda Civic (most are LEV or ULEV these days) than even the most in tune VW diesel. Diesel sucks.
Gas burns a heck of a lot cleaner. Yeah more greenhouse gases, but more breathable than the crap that comes out even the modern "clean" diesels.
When you show me a ULEV diesel, I am in.
I saw a real world test and bio-diesel didn't produce less emissions.
Seriously?
I recently bought some DVD's for backup, foolishly I purchased Kodaks. They turned out to be VDSPSAB DVD-R (Interaxia AG). This is the worst no name crap disk on the planet. Kodak is happy to have their name on them though.
Kodak has long since sold it's soul and I won't touch a Kodak product with a 10 foot pole.
It won't be hard, since they make nothing but crap these days anyway.
Goodbye kodak.
I read luminous landscape since the time before he tried a DSLR. So I remember all those stories, he always had a size qualifier in their with the cameras. Didn't I mention he once quoted 24MP as the point of equality before actually looking at the results first hand.
I have no problem with someone adjusting their views when new evidence becomes available. You will also note I provided multiple links, not just LL. There are many more such comparisons. From dozens of comparisons and from what I have seen the breakover point is around 8MP vs 35mm.
By 11MP you will be hard pressed to find anyone credible saying 35mm is still better, but you will find many working pros saying 35mm can't touch 1DS in prints and that was the old 1Ds.
The real question is not wether this new 1Ds with 16MP is better than 35mm, it is wether it is beating Medium Format.
Seems interesting I will give it a look.
I have seen a number of comaparisons of the original 1Ds with 11MPs and not in one of them did film prevail. In the luminous Landscape link below he also mentions that doing direct prints would give no benefit to film. Which is the film luddites refuge. I remember Mr Riechmann, before he went digital, figuring it would take 24MP before digital caught up. Like many old pros he changed his tune when he got a DSLR in his hands.
c ameras/ 1ds/1ds-field.shtml
s _35mm.html
. htm
Some of the comparisons(these are the 11MP comparions, not new 16MP which is better in every way):
Test with Imacon scanner 35mm vs 11mp 1ds:
But what can be clearly seen is that the 1Ds' image is significantly higher resolution than that of the the scan.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/
Test with 4800dpi scanner 35mm vs 11mp 1ds:
All the way through, we clearly see more details in the 1Ds pictures.
http://www.photographical.net/canon_1d
My opinion after doing these comparisons is that the Canon 1Ds 11mp DSLR exceeds 4000dpi 35mm film scan quality by a considerable amount. In fact, in most photographic situations 1Ds image quality is competitive with *medium format
http://www.sphoto.com/techinfo/dslrvsfilm
We use Twiki at work.
I like it fine, but I was wondering if someone could suggest a really lightweight Wiki to use as PIM (Personal info Manager) on my Windows PC.
I really like the ease of updating and changing the info flow of wiki (well Twiki so far), and would like a PIM that worked like this. Don't care about collaboration features, this is for personal use.
This is a major boon. For those too lazy to read. It is 100% free and open for anyone to implement. Adobe is also providing a free converter.
This provides a common RAW format for cameras. This is not a png or jpg replacement, but a RAW replacement.
There are a number of third party RAW converters on the market right now. Many have limited camera support. You can bet they will quickly moving to support DNG. Which will instantly open up their usage to almost all current cameras.
With DNG support and Adobes converter you will soon be able to open just about any RAW image with any converter.
Even without camera output this is a benefit. As you can get one converter to support all your cameras.
You can archive all your RAWs as DNG and not have to worry that you kept all the software that came with the camera that generated the original RAW.
Camera support would be even better, but that may be slow as the manufactures may suffer "Not Invented Here" syndrome, or see value adds to their own format quirks.