If you're using existing framework, not much, except that users with ActiveX disabled (corporate security issues mainly) will be able to use your page, while they currently aren't.
For the framework devs or the guys who prefer to roll out their own system/architecture on the other hand, the code paths will be noticeably simplified.
That's very simple: because when they unveiled the Optimus design as an art concept a year ago the response was overwhelming, geeks everywhere got mad and started frothing at the very idea of owning that think and being able to type on it.
They started doing hardware design because people were damn interrested in owning a physical version of their conceptual design, and they thought "well, if it can work why not doing it?".
They're more than likely doing it in partnership with a HW maker too (I think they said it'd be the path they'd take when they said that they had started working on a "real" implementation of the optimus), not on their own.
It does, I'm using Windows 2000 pro and I did the test with some very heavy pages (a pair of Fark image threads) that bumped the memory used by FF to over 500Mb and increasing (i killed the tabs before it was completely loaded), and Firefox did get back to around 150Mb of ram consumption (which is more or less how I set it) as soon as the offending tabs were closed.
I think you should probably be very careful with the FF extensions, that's often where the worst issues lie, Adblock is a repeated and known offender for example. Extensions come at a price, and ram consumption going through the roof sometimes is part of the package
(oh, and about closing firefox and then killing it, give the poor guy some time to properly free all it's resources, you shouldn't kill it unless it takes more than 20-30s to close)
For the tab dragging&dropping, you may want to check the Super DragAndGo and TabMix Plus extensions (I don't even remember how tab dragging&dropping works in out-of-the-box Firefox though, I never use it without plugging a dozen extensions in)
I'd suggest switching to Firefox 1.5, which does free the tab's memory (unless it's within the set cache size and stuff), and actually remembering to set the cache size.
XMLHttpRequest becomes a full-fledged independant object in IE7, which means that you won't have to instantiate an ActiveX object for MSIE (which was the only "modern" browser not presenting an XMLHttpRequest object), and that you, if we one day manage to end IE6, will be able to scrape the ActiveX code path.
The keyboard is in production. The first lot is set to arrive on May 15.
Retail price of Optimus mini three is $100 (subject to change after April 2).
The keyboard will be available for pre-order this week.
It should also be noted that Art.Lebedev is a well known art studio, and that it works and has worked with many world-class industries and corporations. Definitely not the kind of guys who'd bet the (well established) respectability of their name and studio with vaporware they didn't need in the first place
Or the Tab Sidebar one which has more or less the same goal, but loads the thumbnails in the sidebar instead of creating a new tab with the thumbnails (it's basically a tab bar with thumbnails)
That's only to be expected, but I'd wager quite a lot of people would be ready to pay $300-$400 for the full Optimus (and i'll admit that i'd probably be one of them:/)
The thing is that you wouldn't have to find a new song you like every month.
$4/mo is a trivial sum for most people, and it probably is for you too if you have time to waste on/., and these $4 not only means that you can try&trash pretty much everything that comes around, but it also means that if you happen to find a nice band you can get their whole discography without paying anything more.
Think about it this way: most full albums are above $16, this means that you only have to get an album every 6 months to break even, and I'm not even talking about classical music box sets that go for $150/set or more (such as the recent Deutsche Grammophon Bernstein - Mahler 3box 16 CDs set).
Sure, gold was so unimportant to the ruling class that, rather than decorate their buildings with, say, wood, they instead conquered village after village so that their subjects would pan tiny flakes of gold out of rivers to eventually have enough gold to decorate buildings and icons. That's much more effecient than just throwing some paint on wood or stone. Gold was so unimportant, so valueless, that they choose to depict the *gods* in gold. The most powerful beings in the world were depicted in a worthless metal. Why didn't they just use lead? It's easy to find, all over the place, easy to melt and work with? Why didn't they just use stone? That's much easier than panning tiny flakes out of rivers.
Duh, how about "Gold is easy to work, shines, is pretty, and is overall a fucking much better decoration -- especially for a solar god that's supposed to shine upon his subject -- than wood or lead"?
See, gold looks nice, it shines, it has a warm color, it brightly reflects light. Wood doesn't shine nor reflect lights even when painted (when you take into account that they didn't have chrome paint in that time), neither do most stones, and lead is fucking butt-ugly looking. Gold is imputrescible to boot, which means that the decorations you create on day 1 will look just as cool on day 24865 if you remember to dust them from time to time, and it can be reused if some decoration is broken or is considered unhip.
You are clearly unable to think logically. The conquering Aztecs and, Incas, and Mayas were bloodthirsty, power-hungry despots, just like every other empire in human history.
Did I ever said anything else? Nay, I said that during the conquest of center and south america by the spaniards, the natives were not fighting for more land, more possessions, gold, or whatever increase of power you may think of, they were fighting to protect themselves.
So did Joe Spaniard.
In this case, Joe Spaniard was a conquistadore, hardly someone trying to defend himself against invaders...
Native Americans are not hippies.
Then again, I never as much as implied this, the only thing I say, and I stand by it, is that your assertion of gold being
[...] one of the most precious commodities [In every part of the world and throughout time]
Spaniards fought for the gold, not Mexicas. The spanish were led by their thirst for blood and gold (see the legend of El Dorado). For both center and south america natives alike, gold and silver had no intrisic value, they were only used for ornementation, to embellish palaces and temples or create jewelry.
The fact that gold had was highly valued in Europe and that conquistadores slaughtered thousands of natives and ended two multi-century empires (and what was probably one of the most stunning and beautiful cities of that time, Mexico-Tenochtitlan) because of their greed and craving for gold doesn't mean that it had much value for the natives. It didn't.
Remember, the spaniards fought for conquest and possessions, the natives mainly fought for their lives, their soil, their traditions, their cities and their families.
In every part of the world (that gold is avaiable), and throughout time, gold has been one of the most precious commodities
Yeah, gold was such a precious metal for the Mayas and Aztecs/Mexicas... oh, wait, gold had a near-nonexistant value for them and what the most precious commodity was jade (which used to go by the name of chalchihuitl in nahualt)...
I guess you're wrong and don't know shit about human history, but please don't let that trouble you.
I think you could extend that to "if you want security you must never run any executable file that didn't come with your OS outside of a VM sandbox".
Anything that can be executed is a security threat. Random executables received from mails with "3bl4rg3 yu0r p3n1s" more than others, but few softwares actually have a bug/issue count of 0.
Server admins usually don't execute the files attached to the random mails they receive from unknown sources on the servers.
In fact, server admins (or knowledgeable IT guys un general) don't execute the files attached to the mail they receive unless they need to execute them, and it comes from a trusted source, and the AV didn't find anything when scanning the file.
And the truly paranoids execute said files in virtual instances (e.g. a junk VMWare session that'll be trashed immediately after that)
Issue is tha it's SOE we're talking about, they've been angering their player base and overall destroying the user's experience ever since they took control of EQ instead of letting Verant in charge, I don't see that changing any time soon...
You will use the <br> tag, poetry is one of the few legit uses of this element (notice how I said that it should almost never be used, not absolutely never
Marking up address fields is also considered a legit use of the <br> tag btw
You'll probably be delighted to learn that the graphics work perfectly in Opera 9 TP1 though, probably means that the Google guys are also Technology Preview fascists as well Gecko fascists.
Now instead of pushing for the update of that sucky Adobe plugin, how about helping with the native SVG implementation of Safari that's being worked on atm?
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If you're using existing framework, not much, except that users with ActiveX disabled (corporate security issues mainly) will be able to use your page, while they currently aren't.
For the framework devs or the guys who prefer to roll out their own system/architecture on the other hand, the code paths will be noticeably simplified.
That's very simple: because when they unveiled the Optimus design as an art concept a year ago the response was overwhelming, geeks everywhere got mad and started frothing at the very idea of owning that think and being able to type on it.
They started doing hardware design because people were damn interrested in owning a physical version of their conceptual design, and they thought "well, if it can work why not doing it?".
They're more than likely doing it in partnership with a HW maker too (I think they said it'd be the path they'd take when they said that they had started working on a "real" implementation of the optimus), not on their own.
It does, I'm using Windows 2000 pro and I did the test with some very heavy pages (a pair of Fark image threads) that bumped the memory used by FF to over 500Mb and increasing (i killed the tabs before it was completely loaded), and Firefox did get back to around 150Mb of ram consumption (which is more or less how I set it) as soon as the offending tabs were closed.
I think you should probably be very careful with the FF extensions, that's often where the worst issues lie, Adblock is a repeated and known offender for example. Extensions come at a price, and ram consumption going through the roof sometimes is part of the package
(oh, and about closing firefox and then killing it, give the poor guy some time to properly free all it's resources, you shouldn't kill it unless it takes more than 20-30s to close)
For the tab dragging&dropping, you may want to check the Super DragAndGo and TabMix Plus extensions (I don't even remember how tab dragging&dropping works in out-of-the-box Firefox though, I never use it without plugging a dozen extensions in)
I'd suggest switching to Firefox 1.5, which does free the tab's memory (unless it's within the set cache size and stuff), and actually remembering to set the cache size.
Not exactly, the copy of the omniweb feature would be Tab Sidebar (which is the exact duplicate of the Omniweb implementation)
XMLHttpRequest becomes a full-fledged independant object in IE7, which means that you won't have to instantiate an ActiveX object for MSIE (which was the only "modern" browser not presenting an XMLHttpRequest object), and that you, if we one day manage to end IE6, will be able to scrape the ActiveX code path.
From the Art.Lebedev website:
It should also be noted that Art.Lebedev is a well known art studio, and that it works and has worked with many world-class industries and corporations. Definitely not the kind of guys who'd bet the (well established) respectability of their name and studio with vaporware they didn't need in the first place
Or the Tab Sidebar one which has more or less the same goal, but loads the thumbnails in the sidebar instead of creating a new tab with the thumbnails (it's basically a tab bar with thumbnails)
That's only to be expected, but I'd wager quite a lot of people would be ready to pay $300-$400 for the full Optimus (and i'll admit that i'd probably be one of them :/)
The thing is that you wouldn't have to find a new song you like every month.
$4/mo is a trivial sum for most people, and it probably is for you too if you have time to waste on /., and these $4 not only means that you can try&trash pretty much everything that comes around, but it also means that if you happen to find a nice band you can get their whole discography without paying anything more.
Think about it this way: most full albums are above $16, this means that you only have to get an album every 6 months to break even, and I'm not even talking about classical music box sets that go for $150/set or more (such as the recent Deutsche Grammophon Bernstein - Mahler 3box 16 CDs set).
Duh, how about "Gold is easy to work, shines, is pretty, and is overall a fucking much better decoration -- especially for a solar god that's supposed to shine upon his subject -- than wood or lead"?
See, gold looks nice, it shines, it has a warm color, it brightly reflects light. Wood doesn't shine nor reflect lights even when painted (when you take into account that they didn't have chrome paint in that time), neither do most stones, and lead is fucking butt-ugly looking. Gold is imputrescible to boot, which means that the decorations you create on day 1 will look just as cool on day 24865 if you remember to dust them from time to time, and it can be reused if some decoration is broken or is considered unhip.
Did I ever said anything else? Nay, I said that during the conquest of center and south america by the spaniards, the natives were not fighting for more land, more possessions, gold, or whatever increase of power you may think of, they were fighting to protect themselves.
In this case, Joe Spaniard was a conquistadore, hardly someone trying to defend himself against invaders...
Then again, I never as much as implied this, the only thing I say, and I stand by it, is that your assertion of gold being
is bullshit.
Spaniards fought for the gold, not Mexicas. The spanish were led by their thirst for blood and gold (see the legend of El Dorado). For both center and south america natives alike, gold and silver had no intrisic value, they were only used for ornementation, to embellish palaces and temples or create jewelry.
The fact that gold had was highly valued in Europe and that conquistadores slaughtered thousands of natives and ended two multi-century empires (and what was probably one of the most stunning and beautiful cities of that time, Mexico-Tenochtitlan) because of their greed and craving for gold doesn't mean that it had much value for the natives. It didn't.
Remember, the spaniards fought for conquest and possessions, the natives mainly fought for their lives, their soil, their traditions, their cities and their families.
Yeah, gold was such a precious metal for the Mayas and Aztecs/Mexicas... oh, wait, gold had a near-nonexistant value for them and what the most precious commodity was jade (which used to go by the name of chalchihuitl in nahualt)...
I guess you're wrong and don't know shit about human history, but please don't let that trouble you.
Yes, me thinks corporations should have the rights to own slaves, and anyone should be able to become a slave by will or force.
Bright future ahead
How about running them in a VMWare session on a standalone machine separated from any kind of network that gets wiped after every run then?
I think you could extend that to "if you want security you must never run any executable file that didn't come with your OS outside of a VM sandbox".
Anything that can be executed is a security threat. Random executables received from mails with "3bl4rg3 yu0r p3n1s" more than others, but few softwares actually have a bug/issue count of 0.
Server admins usually don't execute the files attached to the random mails they receive from unknown sources on the servers.
In fact, server admins (or knowledgeable IT guys un general) don't execute the files attached to the mail they receive unless they need to execute them, and it comes from a trusted source, and the AV didn't find anything when scanning the file.
And the truly paranoids execute said files in virtual instances (e.g. a junk VMWare session that'll be trashed immediately after that)
Well, it's expensive stuff for tools & dummies, so i guess it qualifies.
I'd strongly suggest you to reflect upon the following words: "Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 'Smithfield core'"
Issue is tha it's SOE we're talking about, they've been angering their player base and overall destroying the user's experience ever since they took control of EQ instead of letting Verant in charge, I don't see that changing any time soon...
You will use the <br> tag, poetry is one of the few legit uses of this element (notice how I said that it should almost never be used, not absolutely never
Marking up address fields is also considered a legit use of the <br> tag btw
Looks like it is indeed eh. BTW, I think that the nightly safari builds support SVG as well, just so you know.
You'll probably be delighted to learn that the graphics work perfectly in Opera 9 TP1 though, probably means that the Google guys are also Technology Preview fascists as well Gecko fascists.
Now instead of pushing for the update of that sucky Adobe plugin, how about helping with the native SVG implementation of Safari that's being worked on atm?
hit F5, the graphics are hella slow and sometimes don't load at first.