Konqueror is starting to impress me...
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When I first got KDE 2.0-final installed, I posted a semi-nasty comment about Konqueror, because my impression was that it sucked.
However, during a recent reinstall, I was having trouble getting Netscape up and running, so for a couple of days I used Konqueror as my sole web browser. This was the version from KDE-2.0-9 or whatever came before 2.0.1. Man, I was impressed. Not perfect, but it was very fast, and ate MUCH less memory than Netscape. Didn't segfault on me or crash at all, which was a huge improvement over the first version I tried.
Still had some difficulty with plugins, https and the like, but I'm now thinking that this is a viable browser. I can't believe how quickly this thing got stable.
Nice work, Konqueror folks. And I apologize for my previous bitching.
I'm really tired of people complaining about Netscape, complaining about Mozilla, etc. "They shipped too early." "They shipped too late." "How dare they try to make money." Blah blah blah.
All the links to Netscape.com can easily be configured out of Netscape 6. Take a look at the Preferences section. If that doesn't satisfy you, you can go into the chrome and delete those chunks of XML.
You'd rather use Mozilla instead? Fine. Use it. Plenty of people aren't savvy enough to get the nightlies from mozilla.org, and THEY are who Netscape 6 is for.
I'm very concerned that the open source community spends all its time flaming Netscape and Mozilla, and zero time supporting it. If I were a Mozilla developer, I'd probably quit. It just seems too thankless.
Lest we forget, for those of us who run Linux on the desktop, Netscape/Mozilla is the only substantial chance we have for a good browser. Opera, you say? Still in beta. When I've used it in the past, it's been nag-ware. Konqueror? I started trying to use it under KDE2, but it crashes plenty and is missing a lot of features.
I don't see what net benefit there is from all this criticism.
I remember seeing flamewars back in early 1997 about how it was pointless to run at more than 30 FPS because that was "all the human eye can perceive". There were even some people saying that 24 FPS being the maximum reasonable rate since projected film runs at that framerate.
I can't really see how you'd want something higher than a constant 85 Hz, but who knows. Don't forget that game response depends on the framerate as well, and someone running at 100 may conceivably get a crucial advantage over someone running at 85, just because their twitch reactions are 1.7 ms faster.
All I can say is that tastes are constantly refined, and the bar is constantly raised. I'm sure that before stereo sound, no one could conceive of anything better than mono, and the same with the advent of surround, 5.1 surround, etc. So the assertion that we don't need to improve things any further is ludicrous, because we simply don't have the knowledge of how much better things could be.
Of course, this type of thinking is what keeps the marketroids fed...:)
The nice thing about using, say, the A/W/S/D for strafe left, forward, back, strafe right is that it makes logical spatial sense. To move forward, you put your middle finger forward. To move back, you put your middle finger back.
With the Claw, you'd have to do something like pinky=strafe left, forefinger=strafe right, middle finger=forward, ring finger=back. That just doesn't relate as well to the physical world, because moving your middle finger forward and backward is logical, whereas switching from a finger on the left to a finger on the right to move yourself forward and back just doesn't translate as well spatially.
I suppose you could use two of the thumb keys for forward/backward motion...but you wouldn't want to also strafe with the thumb, or you couldn't run backward while strafing left. Then the forward/backward stuff is necessarily separate from the left/right keys...
This all just seems like way too much of a pain in the ass. Plus I ain't interested in unplugging and plugging my keyboard so I can use this wacky thing.
not open source or free OR linux-based, but it'll encode up to 320Kbps, and it can record up to 7x the speed of playback, depending on your machine (don't know whether it'll be much slower to encode at high bit rate or not)...plus it grabs the track name from CDDB. here 'tis...
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When I first got KDE 2.0-final installed, I posted a semi-nasty comment about Konqueror, because my impression was that it sucked.
However, during a recent reinstall, I was having trouble getting Netscape up and running, so for a couple of days I used Konqueror as my sole web browser. This was the version from KDE-2.0-9 or whatever came before 2.0.1. Man, I was impressed. Not perfect, but it was very fast, and ate MUCH less memory than Netscape. Didn't segfault on me or crash at all, which was a huge improvement over the first version I tried.
Still had some difficulty with plugins, https and the like, but I'm now thinking that this is a viable browser. I can't believe how quickly this thing got stable.
Nice work, Konqueror folks. And I apologize for my previous bitching.
I'm really tired of people complaining about Netscape, complaining about Mozilla, etc. "They shipped too early." "They shipped too late." "How dare they try to make money." Blah blah blah.
All the links to Netscape.com can easily be configured out of Netscape 6. Take a look at the Preferences section. If that doesn't satisfy you, you can go into the chrome and delete those chunks of XML.
You'd rather use Mozilla instead? Fine. Use it. Plenty of people aren't savvy enough to get the nightlies from mozilla.org, and THEY are who Netscape 6 is for.
I'm very concerned that the open source community spends all its time flaming Netscape and Mozilla, and zero time supporting it. If I were a Mozilla developer, I'd probably quit. It just seems too thankless.
Lest we forget, for those of us who run Linux on the desktop, Netscape/Mozilla is the only substantial chance we have for a good browser. Opera, you say? Still in beta. When I've used it in the past, it's been nag-ware. Konqueror? I started trying to use it under KDE2, but it crashes plenty and is missing a lot of features.
I don't see what net benefit there is from all this criticism.
I remember seeing flamewars back in early 1997 about how it was pointless to run at more than 30 FPS because that was "all the human eye can perceive". There were even some people saying that 24 FPS being the maximum reasonable rate since projected film runs at that framerate.
:)
I can't really see how you'd want something higher than a constant 85 Hz, but who knows. Don't forget that game response depends on the framerate as well, and someone running at 100 may conceivably get a crucial advantage over someone running at 85, just because their twitch reactions are 1.7 ms faster.
All I can say is that tastes are constantly refined, and the bar is constantly raised. I'm sure that before stereo sound, no one could conceive of anything better than mono, and the same with the advent of surround, 5.1 surround, etc. So the assertion that we don't need to improve things any further is ludicrous, because we simply don't have the knowledge of how much better things could be.
Of course, this type of thinking is what keeps the marketroids fed...
The nice thing about using, say, the A/W/S/D for strafe left, forward, back, strafe right is that it makes logical spatial sense. To move forward, you put your middle finger forward. To move back, you put your middle finger back.
With the Claw, you'd have to do something like pinky=strafe left, forefinger=strafe right, middle finger=forward, ring finger=back. That just doesn't relate as well to the physical world, because moving your middle finger forward and backward is logical, whereas switching from a finger on the left to a finger on the right to move yourself forward and back just doesn't translate as well spatially.
I suppose you could use two of the thumb keys for forward/backward motion...but you wouldn't want to also strafe with the thumb, or you couldn't run backward while strafing left. Then the forward/backward stuff is necessarily separate from the left/right keys...
This all just seems like way too much of a pain in the ass. Plus I ain't interested in unplugging and plugging my keyboard so I can use this wacky thing.
not open source or free OR linux-based, but it'll encode up to 320Kbps, and it can record up to 7x the speed of playback, depending on your machine (don't know whether it'll be much slower to encode at high bit rate or not)...plus it grabs the track name from CDDB. here 'tis...