"That's not a feature that is unique to opera. I know for a fact that IE can do it and I am fairly certain that FF can do it as well. "
Actually having the option is not the same as having a speedy implementation of it. I just tested all three browsers.
I changed IE as you suggested. With firefox I used preferential to change the cache check_doc_frequency to never.
I then ran a series of web pages in each then stepped back and forward with buttons. Results:
Opera seems like you are flipping a static image cache it is that fast. No hesitation absolutely instant.
Both IE and FF have noticiable delay, you can see the items drawn on the screen. In one page they took a long time. Firefox was the slowest and still seemed to be loading. Perhaps the option doesn't work.
This page was quite slow on both. All pages lightning on Opera. http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/c ities/ca n/pages/CAON0512.htm
If I had to guess, I would say opera is caching pre-rendered pages, while the others store files but render when you load the page.
Whatever the reason, my original point remains, Opera is an Order of magnitude faster with cached pages. It is not contest. Once you get used to INSTANT, you can't go back.
I agree. I am an Opera user since way back. It is still my main browser but I use Firefox extensively. Mainly because of Operas poor javascript implementation.
I can't read my Gmail with Opera, My online banking doesnt' work with Opera. I use add suported because if I need a second browser I am not paying for the first.
Fix that (or ignore that) and it is by far the best browser IMO. This is from someone typing on Firefox right now.
Opera even with all features integrated is leaner and faster. None of the features collide, which is a problem I have with some firefox extensions (to try and get Opera functionality).
Opera addiction. Opera seems to be the only browser with true page caching. Hit back 4 times as fast as you can and instantly you will be back 4 pages. No load times and seemingly no render times. It is totally cached. This is like browsing on JOLT. Once you get hooked on the speed it is hard to go back.
To me going to the slower browsers is like going from DSL to dialup. I need my speed.
Flashblock: Absolute must have stops the all singing dancing net, but lets you use it if you must. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Preferential: Lets you change every option, not just the subset that they think you need. Lets me kill gif anims for one thing. http://preferential.mozdev.org/
Tab Browser extentsion: The only current way to get true single window mode. http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabext ensions.html.en
Adblock: Block annoying adds that get by above measures. I leave them alone if the don't blink/anim and flow in my text. One of those and they are gone. For some reason newegg flash adds were escaping flashblock so, I adblocked *newegg*. http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Nuke anything: Sometimes a site will serve ads from the same place as usefull image so I don't want to filter. This lets me knock out anything from the page temporarily. http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozil la/
I have been using opera for a long time and trying to get FF to the same functionality is a pain.
With firefox you will still get situations where it pops up new browsers. Go to your tools, extensions "get new extensions" Chances are you now have two browsers... Why?
The best choice right now is TBE single window mode. Even with this I still get an occaisional extra browser opening on me.
I don't understand the difficulty of adding "force single window mode"...
I have tried but went backed to Tabbed Browsers Extension. As Single Window opens many windows in new browsers and TBE can actually force them all to tabs.
No the only conclusion I was reaching is that AAC and MP3 are not that different.
In my past experience with 128k lame I found it less than wonderfull. That was over a year ago. What are the recomended 128k settings for good results with lame. Perhaps it is better now.
Remember this listening test: http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat128 /result s.html
128k Itunes is not significantly better than mp3.
To my ears (and I am nearly 40) 128k just doesn't cut it for anything but very casual listening. FM radio sounds better than 128k. FM has less high end, but also less annoying artifacts.
Car decks with CD-MP3 players are now common. HD units are catching on. (Like the phatbox) http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplay ers/index.php
But what I think would be great is a car deck that uses a DVD drive, not to play movies but to play MP3s.
One disk can 50+ hours of decent quality music and and a dvd drive is not that expensive anymore.
I keep seeing people saying that Yahoo has better spam filtering?? I have never recieved Spam in my gmail account, but I get lots every day in Yahoo. Granted it is an older account I use to fill in online crap, but filtering, blah. Besides Gmail is still beta.
Yahoo may offer good spam filtering to those who pay, but I get boatloads of spam in my pay account.
By 7 degrees of separation, I thought everyone who wants Gmail would have one by now. Within a day of getting an invite, I had three invites of my own to give out. Within a week of someone I know getting a Gmail, everyone I know who wanted Gmail has it. I invite 3 friends, they each invite three friends and so on... In week they were stretching to find more people to invite.
In 6 months, I suspect Gmail will be better in just about every way. I find yahoo in general has terrible customer service and will be glad to switch completely to the eventual google portal.
Well, it is already incredible tough for an independant to break through, now if you throw in big record money for pay for play it is that much tougher.
You have an almost monopoly, using monopoly money to give it an advantage over smaller competitors.
If practice like this is allowed you move in the direction of having music controlled by a few giant companies that dictate everything about how and what we listen too. Essentially we are already there and this reinforces the position.
My plan this fall for the few shows worth watching is to pick them up on Torrent. I caught the last episodes of Angel and Enterprise this way and decided this was the way to go. I don't even have to remember to record anything. I just pick the episode up when I want to watch.
Eventually I realize there will be a big witch hunt against evil TV downloaders, but I hope by the time the corporations shut it down, that this model will be available from the networks legitimately.
Thought I wonder if the weekly fiction series is doomed. The combination of reality crap, TV downloads and DVD boxed TV seasons all contribute to me watching very much less actual broadcast TV.
I would rather re-watch boxed sets of Farscape, Buffy and B5 than 99.9% of the new content coming out now. What does this mean for the future of fiction TV???
Frankly we are witnessing corporations flex their muscle. We no longer have govt for the people. We have govt for the corporations and they are fast realizing it.
12 year old girls sharing songs is crime worthy of banrupting her family. Corporate CEO cooking the books and pocketing millions; Well that is just buisness as usual. (Enron, Lucent, Nortel....)
I pretty much considered myself in favor of unfettered capitalism most of my life but my views are changing. The biggest change came recently after watching the documentary: "The corporation". It makes me want to be an activist (but I am lazy).
If you are interested: http://www.thecorporation.tv/
So you would prefer crammed in high density populations centers? Yuk. I grew up in smalltown nowhere and can't stand high population density of metropolitan areas.
Any that I have visited all suffer from massive traffic and poeple congestion, poor air quality and high crime. A lot more wretched than subburbia IMO.
Most street bikes are 4 strokes. It is usually competition dirt bikes that use 2 strokes (better power to weight ratio).
But I mostly agree, it still seem they lag cars in emissions. This is my own driving behind them on my bicycle observation. I would much rather be bicycling behind a modern econo-box than any "Hog".
You can pay a couple of Xbox's and go to an MRI clinic But that is one of the sole exceptions. Some of our political parties make noise about this as they don't consider it the Canadian way to be able to pay for better health care. There is always talk about shutting these down.
If you have money and want fast health care you do what wealthy Canadians do. Go to the USA.
Corporations will be the same. I work in Dilbertesque Telecom in Canada. Lots of execs lining their pockets, accounting scandals and office politics. Work will be the same if you work for the same type of organization. The only corporate difference, is you can expect less money in your pocket when all is said and done. On to those differences.
Money:
I definitely make less than my counter parts in the USA. Here is a fictional breakdown that is somewhat representative of buddies (many) who left for the USA.
Location Me(Canada) Buddy (USA) Gross pay 60K CDN 75K US After Tax 40K CDN 56K US
Xbox price $200+15% 149+4% Total XBs: 174 361
There you go. At the end of the day after tax you get paid more than double the amount of Xboxes to work in the USA.
Now onto some other differences:
Health care: It has drastically declined in Canada. Anyone I know who has left in recent years feels they are much better served in the USA. You will wait 6months to get an MRI here. If you work for a company with decent benefits your care will be better in the USA.
Guns: On a per capita basis, I remember hearing ownership is similar, but here it is more hunting rifles and less handguns. There is much less gun violence here, but it is constantly increasing espcially in Toronto.
Religion and Politics: Unlike in the USA they hardly mix. Religion is much more low key in Canada. It is is a more socialist and secular society. Our most right wing political party is probably to the left of the Democrats in the USA.
That is my observation as a Canadian in hi-tech. Come here if you want a change to a more liberal and secular society. But you will have less money and your job will suck just as much.
I generally shift like the wind when buying tech. The best bang for the buck in current reviews is what I look for.
About 3 years ago I bought a Retail ATI 8500. Decent card but, in hindsight, my system crashed quite a bit more than it should have. People were point finger at my Antec 350W PS.
Finally I started getting consistent crashes in a game I wanted to play (NWN). This lead me to an exhaustive diagnostic process that eventually proved my card was at fault.
AT this point my Card was 2.5 years old. I sent it back to ATI. They replaced it with a 9700 Pro free of charge. Now that is what I call customer service. The kind of move that wins customer loyalty. That ATI warranty is worth a premium to me. I fully realize you are not often likely to get that kind of free upgrade, but a nice long warranty with fast replacement is much appreciated.
I realize a lot of people here are complaining about past grief with ATI product, but they have made dramatic strides in the last 2 years. Now releasing drivers monthly. Performance, Image quality and reliability are all top notch.
They lag in Open GL a bit, and moreso on Linux though. So I can see lots of folks here passing them by.
One last point is I like buying my card from the company that also made the chip.
Here is the actual quote: "We would like to reach 50 percent of the market in the short term."
Since there are only really two main players for graphics cards, and they have been gaing share on NV, the goal of 50% doesn't seem unrealistic.
Especially when you consider that so far ATI seems to be leading again on the high end.
As a shareholder who was "Enron-ed" I don't think shareholder votes count for squat. In a democracy the people regularly throw out the incumbents. When is the last time you saw shareholder toss out the, executive or Board of directors of a company?
Besides the original poster didn't say the gov't would be a monopoly, but by acting fast made it more likely a monopoly wouldn't emerge. That is the way I read it.
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"That's not a feature that is unique to opera. I know for a fact that IE can do it and I am fairly certain that FF can do it as well. "
c ities/ca n/pages/CAON0512.htm
Actually having the option is not the same as having a speedy implementation of it. I just tested all three browsers.
I changed IE as you suggested. With firefox I used preferential to change the cache check_doc_frequency to never.
I then ran a series of web pages in each then stepped back and forward with buttons. Results:
Opera seems like you are flipping a static image cache it is that fast. No hesitation absolutely instant.
Both IE and FF have noticiable delay, you can see the items drawn on the screen. In one page they took a long time. Firefox was the slowest and still seemed to be loading. Perhaps the option doesn't work.
This page was quite slow on both. All pages lightning on Opera.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/
If I had to guess, I would say opera is caching pre-rendered pages, while the others store files but render when you load the page.
Whatever the reason, my original point remains, Opera is an Order of magnitude faster with cached pages. It is not contest. Once you get used to INSTANT, you can't go back.
I agree. I am an Opera user since way back. It is still my main browser but I use Firefox extensively. Mainly because of Operas poor javascript implementation.
I can't read my Gmail with Opera, My online banking doesnt' work with Opera. I use add suported because if I need a second browser I am not paying for the first.
Fix that (or ignore that) and it is by far the best browser IMO. This is from someone typing on Firefox right now.
Opera even with all features integrated is leaner and faster. None of the features collide, which is a problem I have with some firefox extensions (to try and get Opera functionality).
Opera addiction. Opera seems to be the only browser with true page caching. Hit back 4 times as fast as you can and instantly you will be back 4 pages. No load times and seemingly no render times. It is totally cached. This is like browsing on JOLT. Once you get hooked on the speed it is hard to go back.
To me going to the slower browsers is like going from DSL to dialup. I need my speed.
Flashblock: Absolute must have stops the all singing dancing net, but lets you use it if you must.
t ensions .html.en
l la/
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Preferential: Lets you change every option, not just the subset that they think you need. Lets me kill gif anims for one thing.
http://preferential.mozdev.org/
Tab Browser extentsion: The only current way to get true single window mode.
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabex
Adblock: Block annoying adds that get by above measures. I leave them alone if the don't blink/anim and flow in my text. One of those and they are gone. For some reason newegg flash adds were escaping flashblock so, I adblocked *newegg*.
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Nuke anything: Sometimes a site will serve ads from the same place as usefull image so I don't want to filter. This lets me knock out anything from the page temporarily.
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozi
I have been using opera for a long time and trying to get FF to the same functionality is a pain.
With firefox you will still get situations where it pops up new browsers. Go to your tools, extensions "get new extensions" Chances are you now have two browsers... Why?
The best choice right now is TBE single window mode. Even with this I still get an occaisional extra browser opening on me.
I don't understand the difficulty of adding "force single window mode"...
I have tried but went backed to Tabbed Browsers Extension. As Single Window opens many windows in new browsers and TBE can actually force them all to tabs.
No the only conclusion I was reaching is that AAC and MP3 are not that different.
In my past experience with 128k lame I found it less than wonderfull. That was over a year ago. What are the recomended 128k settings for good results with lame. Perhaps it is better now.
Remember this listening test:8 /result s.html
http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat12
128k Itunes is not significantly better than mp3.
To my ears (and I am nearly 40) 128k just doesn't cut it for anything but very casual listening. FM radio sounds better than 128k. FM has less high end, but also less annoying artifacts.
Hmmmm...
I read the features and it only says MP3 playback on CD-R/W. Hard to find out about these things if the features are hidden.
From Kenwoods page:
Plays DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, VCD, CD, CD-R/RW and MP3/WMA-Encoded CD-R/RW Disc
Doesn't that look like it only will play MP3 on CDR/W??
Cool. A step in the right direction. Now all they need to do is get rid of the display and other extras and reduce the price...
Car decks with CD-MP3 players are now common.y ers/index.php
HD units are catching on. (Like the phatbox) http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediapla
But what I think would be great is a car deck that uses a DVD drive, not to play movies but to play MP3s.
One disk can 50+ hours of decent quality music and and a dvd drive is not that expensive anymore.
It should be here now...
I keep seeing people saying that Yahoo has better spam filtering?? I have never recieved Spam in my gmail account, but I get lots every day in Yahoo. Granted it is an older account I use to fill in online crap, but filtering, blah. Besides Gmail is still beta.
Yahoo may offer good spam filtering to those who pay, but I get boatloads of spam in my pay account.
By 7 degrees of separation, I thought everyone who wants Gmail would have one by now. Within a day of getting an invite, I had three invites of my own to give out. Within a week of someone I know getting a Gmail, everyone I know who wanted Gmail has it. I invite 3 friends, they each invite three friends and so on... In week they were stretching to find more people to invite.
In 6 months, I suspect Gmail will be better in just about every way. I find yahoo in general has terrible customer service and will be glad to switch completely to the eventual google portal.
Well, it is already incredible tough for an independant to break through, now if you throw in big record money for pay for play it is that much tougher.
You have an almost monopoly, using monopoly money to give it an advantage over smaller competitors.
If practice like this is allowed you move in the direction of having music controlled by a few giant companies that dictate everything about how and what we listen too. Essentially we are already there and this reinforces the position.
My plan this fall for the few shows worth watching is to pick them up on Torrent. I caught the last episodes of Angel and Enterprise this way and decided this was the way to go. I don't even have to remember to record anything. I just pick the episode up when I want to watch.
Eventually I realize there will be a big witch hunt against evil TV downloaders, but I hope by the time the corporations shut it down, that this model will be available from the networks legitimately.
Thought I wonder if the weekly fiction series is doomed. The combination of reality crap, TV downloads and DVD boxed TV seasons all contribute to me watching very much less actual broadcast TV.
I would rather re-watch boxed sets of Farscape, Buffy and B5 than 99.9% of the new content coming out now. What does this mean for the future of fiction TV???
Frankly we are witnessing corporations flex their muscle. We no longer have govt for the people. We have govt for the corporations and they are fast realizing it.
....)
12 year old girls sharing songs is crime worthy of banrupting her family. Corporate CEO cooking the books and pocketing millions; Well that is just buisness as usual. (Enron, Lucent, Nortel
I pretty much considered myself in favor of unfettered capitalism most of my life but my views are changing. The biggest change came recently after watching the documentary: "The corporation". It makes me want to be an activist (but I am lazy).
If you are interested: http://www.thecorporation.tv/
So you would prefer crammed in high density populations centers? Yuk. I grew up in smalltown nowhere and can't stand high population density of metropolitan areas.
Any that I have visited all suffer from massive traffic and poeple congestion, poor air quality and high crime. A lot more wretched than subburbia IMO.
Most street bikes are 4 strokes. It is usually competition dirt bikes that use 2 strokes (better power to weight ratio).
But I mostly agree, it still seem they lag cars in emissions. This is my own driving behind them on my bicycle observation. I would much rather be bicycling behind a modern econo-box than any "Hog".
Generally not responsive at all.
You can pay a couple of Xbox's and go to an MRI clinic But that is one of the sole exceptions. Some of our political parties make noise about this as they don't consider it the Canadian way to be able to pay for better health care. There is always talk about shutting these down.
If you have money and want fast health care you do what wealthy Canadians do. Go to the USA.
You mean you can get less than 2 weeks annual vacation in the USA??
Corporations will be the same. I work in Dilbertesque Telecom in Canada. Lots of execs lining their pockets, accounting scandals and office politics. Work will be the same if you work for the same type of organization. The only corporate difference, is you can expect less money in your pocket when all is said and done. On to those differences.
Money:
I definitely make less than my counter parts in the USA. Here is a fictional breakdown that is somewhat representative of buddies (many) who left for the USA.
Location Me(Canada) Buddy (USA)
Gross pay 60K CDN 75K US
After Tax 40K CDN 56K US
Xbox price $200+15% 149+4%
Total XBs: 174 361
There you go. At the end of the day after tax you get paid more than double the amount of Xboxes to work in the USA.
Now onto some other differences:
Health care:
It has drastically declined in Canada. Anyone I know who has left in recent years feels they are much better served in the USA. You will wait 6months to get an MRI here. If you work for a company with decent benefits your care will be better in the USA.
Guns:
On a per capita basis, I remember hearing ownership is similar, but here it is more hunting rifles and less handguns. There is much less gun violence here, but it is constantly increasing espcially in Toronto.
Religion and Politics:
Unlike in the USA they hardly mix. Religion is much more low key in Canada. It is is a more socialist and secular society. Our most right wing political party is probably to the left of the Democrats in the USA.
That is my observation as a Canadian in hi-tech. Come here if you want a change to a more liberal and secular society. But you will have less money and your job will suck just as much.
Didn't Palm make some vague statements about ongoing support. It seems very unlikely at this point.
I am running Recent Cat 4.4 and they are rock solid for me, as were the 4.1 I was using before.
It is a model small iterations, rather than the one huge dump of changes. I like the current model.
YMMV.
I generally shift like the wind when buying tech. The best bang for the buck in current reviews is what I look for. About 3 years ago I bought a Retail ATI 8500. Decent card but, in hindsight, my system crashed quite a bit more than it should have. People were point finger at my Antec 350W PS. Finally I started getting consistent crashes in a game I wanted to play (NWN). This lead me to an exhaustive diagnostic process that eventually proved my card was at fault. AT this point my Card was 2.5 years old. I sent it back to ATI. They replaced it with a 9700 Pro free of charge. Now that is what I call customer service. The kind of move that wins customer loyalty. That ATI warranty is worth a premium to me. I fully realize you are not often likely to get that kind of free upgrade, but a nice long warranty with fast replacement is much appreciated. I realize a lot of people here are complaining about past grief with ATI product, but they have made dramatic strides in the last 2 years. Now releasing drivers monthly. Performance, Image quality and reliability are all top notch. They lag in Open GL a bit, and moreso on Linux though. So I can see lots of folks here passing them by. One last point is I like buying my card from the company that also made the chip.
Here is the actual quote: "We would like to reach 50 percent of the market in the short term." Since there are only really two main players for graphics cards, and they have been gaing share on NV, the goal of 50% doesn't seem unrealistic. Especially when you consider that so far ATI seems to be leading again on the high end.
As a shareholder who was "Enron-ed" I don't think shareholder votes count for squat. In a democracy the people regularly throw out the incumbents. When is the last time you saw shareholder toss out the, executive or Board of directors of a company?
Besides the original poster didn't say the gov't would be a monopoly, but by acting fast made it more likely a monopoly wouldn't emerge. That is the way I read it.
The government is controlled by democracy and works for the people. So I don't have issue with govt entities in providing public service.