Anyway, I admit I did not read the article, but clearly IE already has the capability to blend PNG images into the background. So I wonder what is so difficult about simply making the alphaImageLoader the default behavior for all 24bit png images. I suppose it is the differnce between hacking in the support or making it fit naturally into IE's rendering engine.
Victory at last!!!
Unless...this is just part of the April 1st pranks? Will I check back here tomorow only to find out that I did not get first post!??? Oh the humanity!
It's a good thing all these quality audio games are comming out. I just got myself a brand new GeSound 6800GT, it gets over 9000 points in AudioMark 05! w00t!
My view on this is that even if it is made painfully easy to pay for and download TV episodes most people are still stuck to watching them on a small computer monitor while sitting in a desk chair.
This is not the situation most people have in mind when watching TV, plus it makes it hard for more than one person to watch comfortably. Now this may be fine for nerds who feel comfortable only while they are alone at their computers, but for most people its awkward.
Clearly this is more the domain of On Demand/Pay per View setups already available in many cable boxes. Which of course would be good for TV companies and bad for nerds as that setup would allow the TV companies more control over its content and make copying harder.
I don't know if I was 'b!tchslapped', er, or even how I'd found out. I just figured the Karam system sucks. After many comments in a row modded Insightful, Funny, or just left alone, it only took one comment modded troll to give me 'bad' karma. Now it seems that my karma is positive again.
The Karma system kinda reminds me of SimCity 2000, where everytime you raised taxes a percentage the citizens would boo you. So after raising it 10 percent and being booed 10 times, lowering it back to 9 would cause them to cheer again. Short memory.
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You're right of course. I guess what I meant was XML parsing is not very fast, compared to relational databases. And currently, unless you are using some kind of XML database, the XML must be parsed into memory every time you want to use it, which is a rather wasteful and repedative spending of computer time.
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point is string parseing is neither easy for the programer or the machine. Compare finding a specific set of data in XML with its variable length branching sets of elements etc. to finding somthing in a SQL database where all data is at fixed offsets. With SQL the computer only needs to know how big each row is, and what row its looking for, then it can skip to (size of row)*(row number) just like that. That's fast. With XML, the whole file has to be parsed first, then once its in memory a faster lookup can be done. I'm not sure how XML databses work, but they look like they would aleiviate this problem.
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They wouldnt, I was merely pointing out that you dont have access to that resource in C.
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They are supposed to be written so people can make programs to read the data without spending hours reading huge cryptic implementation manuals.
You forget that computers do not program themselves yet. People still need to do that and XML is easier for people to read and thus easier for them to make programs to read. When machines can program themselves...we wouldnt be having this conversation.
of course what you linked to could easily be done without XML at all. The xmlhttprequest object is fairly misnamed. A lot of times it is simpler and easier to pass data with a simple GET or POST request and return it as plain old text. XML is usefull only when more complex sets of data need to be passed, and even then, of course, the XML is serialized before being sent to and from the server.
XML just makes it easier to interperte large data sets on either end
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it is inefficiant machine wise because string parsing is an extremly slow and computationaly expensive operation. While perl and friends make it seem easy to the programer, the machine is still truging through the text one character at a time. Try writing an XML parser from scratch in C (no std:string) and see how difficult it is.
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sorry to disagree but its an extremly human-friendly data description language. Free-style is only good for us humans when you are talking about written languages. For representing discrete data, XML is the best out there. Now having said that, you still have to have well designed XML in order for it to be easily read and understood by a human (and by virtue easily interperted by a program written by a human). While its not very fast for machines to parse and it is wordy, I'd glady give up speed and tersness for easily understandable and parseable data, and that my friend is the whole point.
Perhaps cause the girls in question are 9 years old and are more concerned with what color cell phone will best match their mini-skirt so they can look like a 30 year old crack whore in the mall.
Which brings me back to your topic, What is wrong with women?
Wow! When you put it like that it does not sound so bad anymore. I mean like, those hax0rs with c00l names are legaly archiving their warez and DVD's. Then somehow through unknown means, that legal arhive ends up in Azureus and then on my hard disk. So, thats like 50% legal then? Sounds good to me.
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You had a cell? Back in my day all matter and energy in the universe was compressed into a point smaller than those tiny transistors you punk kids use as a sorry excuse for a switch! You can imagine it was pretty tough to program in that cramped enviornment, infact, that thing you people have misnamed the Big Bang was actully Lepton slacking off, he spun left when he was supposed to spin right, the whole thing crashed, that bastard.
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its not like my Karma can get any worse
Now how many people actully botherd to get past the first level? I know I didn't. Somehow it was still great.
Yea I'm sure it sucks when a Romulan Warbird comes out of cloak and OWNS your puny Federation starship.
Oh wait...Stealth Startups? In that case, who gives a shit.
Try doing that on LSD, its crazy...man!
kinda...with the IE specific css filter AlphaImageLoader.
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http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavio
Anyway, I admit I did not read the article, but clearly IE already has the capability to blend PNG images into the background. So I wonder what is so difficult about simply making the alphaImageLoader the default behavior for all 24bit png images. I suppose it is the differnce between hacking in the support or making it fit naturally into IE's rendering engine.
That ain't videogame music. Where's FF6 and Chrono Trigger? And none of that arranged shit either, 100% spc's baby!
Now I'm gonna turn the stereo up to 12 and kill Kefka, it will be ultimate.
I would trade karma points for 1337 hax0r points any day!!! 0wn3d!!1
Victory at last!!! Unless...this is just part of the April 1st pranks? Will I check back here tomorow only to find out that I did not get first post!??? Oh the humanity!
I dont know or care if this is a joke, I want first post!!!
It's a good thing all these quality audio games are comming out. I just got myself a brand new GeSound 6800GT, it gets over 9000 points in AudioMark 05! w00t!
My view on this is that even if it is made painfully easy to pay for and download TV episodes most people are still stuck to watching them on a small computer monitor while sitting in a desk chair.
This is not the situation most people have in mind when watching TV, plus it makes it hard for more than one person to watch comfortably. Now this may be fine for nerds who feel comfortable only while they are alone at their computers, but for most people its awkward.
Clearly this is more the domain of On Demand/Pay per View setups already available in many cable boxes. Which of course would be good for TV companies and bad for nerds as that setup would allow the TV companies more control over its content and make copying harder.
I don't know if I was 'b!tchslapped', er, or even how I'd found out. I just figured the Karam system sucks. After many comments in a row modded Insightful, Funny, or just left alone, it only took one comment modded troll to give me 'bad' karma. Now it seems that my karma is positive again. The Karma system kinda reminds me of SimCity 2000, where everytime you raised taxes a percentage the citizens would boo you. So after raising it 10 percent and being booed 10 times, lowering it back to 9 would cause them to cheer again. Short memory.
You're right of course. I guess what I meant was XML parsing is not very fast, compared to relational databases. And currently, unless you are using some kind of XML database, the XML must be parsed into memory every time you want to use it, which is a rather wasteful and repedative spending of computer time.
point is string parseing is neither easy for the programer or the machine. Compare finding a specific set of data in XML with its variable length branching sets of elements etc. to finding somthing in a SQL database where all data is at fixed offsets. With SQL the computer only needs to know how big each row is, and what row its looking for, then it can skip to (size of row)*(row number) just like that. That's fast. With XML, the whole file has to be parsed first, then once its in memory a faster lookup can be done. I'm not sure how XML databses work, but they look like they would aleiviate this problem.
They wouldnt, I was merely pointing out that you dont have access to that resource in C.
They are supposed to be written so people can make programs to read the data without spending hours reading huge cryptic implementation manuals. You forget that computers do not program themselves yet. People still need to do that and XML is easier for people to read and thus easier for them to make programs to read. When machines can program themselves...we wouldnt be having this conversation.
of course what you linked to could easily be done without XML at all. The xmlhttprequest object is fairly misnamed. A lot of times it is simpler and easier to pass data with a simple GET or POST request and return it as plain old text. XML is usefull only when more complex sets of data need to be passed, and even then, of course, the XML is serialized before being sent to and from the server. XML just makes it easier to interperte large data sets on either end
it is inefficiant machine wise because string parsing is an extremly slow and computationaly expensive operation. While perl and friends make it seem easy to the programer, the machine is still truging through the text one character at a time. Try writing an XML parser from scratch in C (no std:string) and see how difficult it is.
sorry to disagree but its an extremly human-friendly data description language. Free-style is only good for us humans when you are talking about written languages. For representing discrete data, XML is the best out there. Now having said that, you still have to have well designed XML in order for it to be easily read and understood by a human (and by virtue easily interperted by a program written by a human). While its not very fast for machines to parse and it is wordy, I'd glady give up speed and tersness for easily understandable and parseable data, and that my friend is the whole point.
3dfx's SLI used an anoluge link between the two cards. nvidia's SLI is compleatly digital, thus no image degradation.
Same difference
Okay, 9th grade not 9 years old, though for women, the brain is as mature is its gonna get at the age of 9 anyway.
Perhaps cause the girls in question are 9 years old and are more concerned with what color cell phone will best match their mini-skirt so they can look like a 30 year old crack whore in the mall.
Which brings me back to your topic, What is wrong with women?
Wow! When you put it like that it does not sound so bad anymore. I mean like, those hax0rs with c00l names are legaly archiving their warez and DVD's. Then somehow through unknown means, that legal arhive ends up in Azureus and then on my hard disk. So, thats like 50% legal then? Sounds good to me.
You had a cell? Back in my day all matter and energy in the universe was compressed into a point smaller than those tiny transistors you punk kids use as a sorry excuse for a switch! You can imagine it was pretty tough to program in that cramped enviornment, infact, that thing you people have misnamed the Big Bang was actully Lepton slacking off, he spun left when he was supposed to spin right, the whole thing crashed, that bastard.