Yah but none of those are real life benchmarks, they are javascript tests. To judge my own curiosity I did my own inaccurate benchmark using naked browsers (no extensions) warm booted with yahoo as the homepage, going to different sites in my bookmark bars (all aligned in the same order) and using a timer program.
Firfox consistently loaded through my test at around 11 seconds, Chrome and IE8 each at 15. So that does backup what zdnet is saying. I think my perception of firefox as being slow has more to do with the browser locking up when a tab locks up, and this may occur more in firefox, which would lead me to believe that overall it is slower.
I don't care about benchmarks. I have the most up to date versions of chrome, firefox (previously 3.5b4 I believe), and IE8. Firefox is patently the slowest in nearly every regard.
As for private browsing, firefox signs you out of and closes whatever you are doing and starts a new private browsing session (then when you are done returns to the state you left, although sometimes logs you out of everything). Chrome and IE8 open a new private browsing session, so you can keep one window logged into all your sites and use the private window for your private stuff.
Yes, even slower than IE8. From start up times to rendering pages firefox is by far the slowest. If you don't believe me download IE8, use it for a week, and you'll see for yourself. IE8 sucks for other reasons (crashes more, no plugins, forgets log-ins), and firefox is my main browser, but it is seriously falling behind. It's speed, private browsing, and I would argue even security (no sandbox/protected mode) are subpar compared to the competition. And they really need to fix private browsing, it's pretty sad when an IE feature works better than the open source alternative. As repeated ad-nauseum here firefox is still my main browser due to plugins, but everytime the browser freezes because one tab decides it wants to do something I re-evaluate this decision.
I applaud Bioware for trying different things but it has been 9 years since the last AAA western rpg that I really enjoyed (Mass Effect/Fallout/Oblivion were ok, but no Planescape or BG2). I guess I should be content that they're even making any western rpgs these days.
For me it is the abundance of apps with little information in the package manager. For example, in windows I know what the best (for me) paint program, media player, cd burner, dvd ripper, etc are and maybe things have changed, but when I'm presented with 10 media player programs in the package manager I think to myself, I don't have time to try out every single program for everything I need, screw it. Perhaps if the package manager incorporated overall downloads or user ratings I could see what the top programs are for each category and just install the top two.
If you have a 450w power supply you can run pretty much any mid range and lower card. The HD 4770 uses 80w at max (5w more than the pci-e slot provides, meaning you still have to hook it up to a power supply) which is probably more than the x1650, but lower than most other cards in the same performance range.
If he dies before the series is finished, and they split the last book (written by a different author) into three, then I'm just going to quit reading fantasy series altogether. That's what Tolkien got right, three books and then your done with the main storyline, with maybe a couple books afterwards that tie up loose ends or explore minor characters.
To be honest the movie was pretty good and I had a great time. However, afterwards I couldn't help but feel a little dirty. It's a great action flick, but at the same time pretty much ignores the heart of Star Trek.
AOL was awesome for picking up girls. I probably had more hook ups through AOL than everything else I've tried combined. I haven't used it in probably a decade (I got married), but nearly everyone had a public profile. Search for certain key words within your location, see which were online, and as long as you weren't a douchebag it was relatively easy to get something out of it.
I'm only willing to spend ~$15 a month in MMORPG monthly fees, so that pretty much just leaves WoW (as occasionally my friends will all want to do something in WoW).
So if I do buy a new MMORPG, that gives me a month of play time, which doesn't seem worth it to me. So either all my friends need to move over to the new MMORPG, or it has to be free, or it has to be so good that it justifies an additional $180 per year (+game purchase price, +price of any addons already released).
No one cares (except for a few loudmouths on slashdot) about bloat, and the term is meaningless. Opera has more features (out of the box) than any other browser yet is smaller and often faster.
If MS can include basic cd burning in win7, I don't see why they can't include basic pdf support. The reader couldn't possibly be any worse than acrobat.
Chrome is so much better than firefox it is ridiculous. I just switched 3 days ago and while ads are annoying, at least the whole browser doesn't freeze because one tab is busy, and chrome starts pretty instantly with multiple tabs while firefox starts like it is on life support.
I still havn't figured out a bookmark synchronize situation for chrome. The good thing about IE is you can just set windows live sync to sync the bookmarks folder.
We do know it would be worse because at the time IBM was planning on developing their own proprietary OS to lock everything down. IBM's vision was their BIOS, their OS, their rules. If Gates didn't pull together something (remember Digital Research originally said no to licensing their OS to Gates or IBM, then eventually IBM sold licenses for $250) what would have the IBM clones used? Without MS our choices would either be a $3000 IBM machine or a $3000 Apple machine, or between dozens of competitors all with different incompatible operating systems.
And apple still doesn't make a cheap computer, decades later. The mini starts at $600 where you can get a dell for $279.
Spring water isn't recycled tap water, as far as I know. And the taste depends on the location. Here in CA I can drink the tapwater just fine. On the other hand you would have to be retarded to drink the tapwater in Mesa AZ, unless you like your water to taste like dirt.
"FACT: there has been no decrease in talent, nor has there been a decrease in creativity."
I was going to write a big long diatribe about how wrong this is, but figured it would be more productive to ask what you consider to be recent bands that are creative and have talent (at least within the rock world; I don't care much for hiphop, nu-metal, or emo, which may be my problem).
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First off, so I don't appear to be some new-age loon, I agree with you about homeopathy.
But this statement: "Remedies has been around of thousands of years, we tested it all and the stuff which works was called "medicine"." is flawed, at least within the US. "Medicine" as it is currently practiced by the majority of physicians is all about pharma profits, and has little to do with prescribing the best medicine with the fewest side effects. Read the history and research papers for antidepressants, statins, and ADHD drugs (in the context of pediatrics) and see how much of a joke the whole system is. Companies will do as many studies as it takes, shelve the ones that don't support what they want until they have the minimum required by the FDA (particularly common with antidepressants), hide important side effects (Merck/Vioxx), advertise off-label use without research, etc.
Of course the supplement industry isn't any better, but when multiple research shows that diet, exercise, therapy, or even st. johns wort are just as effective as antidepressants for mild-moderate depression, yet antidepressants remain the most prescribed drug in the US (118 million scripts in 2005 alone), something in the system is horribly broken.
But windows will never run as fast as when you first installed it, and if the time for diagnosis, running and downloading antispyware/malware/rootkit/virus/registry cleaning/defragging/etc exceeds the time to do a fresh install then you might as well do a fresh install.
Like others have said here look at hardrive and memory problems, and if those are not the problem then start doing other diagnosis or just do a reinstall.
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Yah but none of those are real life benchmarks, they are javascript tests. To judge my own curiosity I did my own inaccurate benchmark using naked browsers (no extensions) warm booted with yahoo as the homepage, going to different sites in my bookmark bars (all aligned in the same order) and using a timer program.
Firfox consistently loaded through my test at around 11 seconds, Chrome and IE8 each at 15. So that does backup what zdnet is saying. I think my perception of firefox as being slow has more to do with the browser locking up when a tab locks up, and this may occur more in firefox, which would lead me to believe that overall it is slower.
I don't care about benchmarks. I have the most up to date versions of chrome, firefox (previously 3.5b4 I believe), and IE8. Firefox is patently the slowest in nearly every regard.
As for private browsing, firefox signs you out of and closes whatever you are doing and starts a new private browsing session (then when you are done returns to the state you left, although sometimes logs you out of everything). Chrome and IE8 open a new private browsing session, so you can keep one window logged into all your sites and use the private window for your private stuff.
Yes, even slower than IE8. From start up times to rendering pages firefox is by far the slowest. If you don't believe me download IE8, use it for a week, and you'll see for yourself. IE8 sucks for other reasons (crashes more, no plugins, forgets log-ins), and firefox is my main browser, but it is seriously falling behind. It's speed, private browsing, and I would argue even security (no sandbox/protected mode) are subpar compared to the competition. And they really need to fix private browsing, it's pretty sad when an IE feature works better than the open source alternative. As repeated ad-nauseum here firefox is still my main browser due to plugins, but everytime the browser freezes because one tab decides it wants to do something I re-evaluate this decision.
I applaud Bioware for trying different things but it has been 9 years since the last AAA western rpg that I really enjoyed (Mass Effect/Fallout/Oblivion were ok, but no Planescape or BG2). I guess I should be content that they're even making any western rpgs these days.
Scientology?
For me it is the abundance of apps with little information in the package manager. For example, in windows I know what the best (for me) paint program, media player, cd burner, dvd ripper, etc are and maybe things have changed, but when I'm presented with 10 media player programs in the package manager I think to myself, I don't have time to try out every single program for everything I need, screw it. Perhaps if the package manager incorporated overall downloads or user ratings I could see what the top programs are for each category and just install the top two.
If you have a 450w power supply you can run pretty much any mid range and lower card. The HD 4770 uses 80w at max (5w more than the pci-e slot provides, meaning you still have to hook it up to a power supply) which is probably more than the x1650, but lower than most other cards in the same performance range.
If he dies before the series is finished, and they split the last book (written by a different author) into three, then I'm just going to quit reading fantasy series altogether. That's what Tolkien got right, three books and then your done with the main storyline, with maybe a couple books afterwards that tie up loose ends or explore minor characters.
To be honest the movie was pretty good and I had a great time. However, afterwards I couldn't help but feel a little dirty. It's a great action flick, but at the same time pretty much ignores the heart of Star Trek.
Like Neverwinter Nights 2. That game was barely playable with average gamer hardware but received 9.0+ reviews.
AOL was awesome for picking up girls. I probably had more hook ups through AOL than everything else I've tried combined. I haven't used it in probably a decade (I got married), but nearly everyone had a public profile. Search for certain key words within your location, see which were online, and as long as you weren't a douchebag it was relatively easy to get something out of it.
I'm only willing to spend ~$15 a month in MMORPG monthly fees, so that pretty much just leaves WoW (as occasionally my friends will all want to do something in WoW).
So if I do buy a new MMORPG, that gives me a month of play time, which doesn't seem worth it to me. So either all my friends need to move over to the new MMORPG, or it has to be free, or it has to be so good that it justifies an additional $180 per year (+game purchase price, +price of any addons already released).
No one cares (except for a few loudmouths on slashdot) about bloat, and the term is meaningless. Opera has more features (out of the box) than any other browser yet is smaller and often faster.
If MS can include basic cd burning in win7, I don't see why they can't include basic pdf support. The reader couldn't possibly be any worse than acrobat.
Firefox 3, the most recent beta.
Like Nvidia's are any better. They haven't had flat panel scaling working for I don't know how long.
Chrome is so much better than firefox it is ridiculous. I just switched 3 days ago and while ads are annoying, at least the whole browser doesn't freeze because one tab is busy, and chrome starts pretty instantly with multiple tabs while firefox starts like it is on life support.
I still havn't figured out a bookmark synchronize situation for chrome. The good thing about IE is you can just set windows live sync to sync the bookmarks folder.
We do know it would be worse because at the time IBM was planning on developing their own proprietary OS to lock everything down. IBM's vision was their BIOS, their OS, their rules. If Gates didn't pull together something (remember Digital Research originally said no to licensing their OS to Gates or IBM, then eventually IBM sold licenses for $250) what would have the IBM clones used? Without MS our choices would either be a $3000 IBM machine or a $3000 Apple machine, or between dozens of competitors all with different incompatible operating systems.
And apple still doesn't make a cheap computer, decades later. The mini starts at $600 where you can get a dell for $279.
The music fits the environment perfectly and some of the puzzles are pretty clever. What more do you want for $15?
Spring water isn't recycled tap water, as far as I know. And the taste depends on the location. Here in CA I can drink the tapwater just fine. On the other hand you would have to be retarded to drink the tapwater in Mesa AZ, unless you like your water to taste like dirt.
And then one company makes a product that uses FAT and advertises "does not require additional drivers!" and you're back to square one.
"FACT: there has been no decrease in talent, nor has there been a decrease in creativity."
I was going to write a big long diatribe about how wrong this is, but figured it would be more productive to ask what you consider to be recent bands that are creative and have talent (at least within the rock world; I don't care much for hiphop, nu-metal, or emo, which may be my problem).
Stronger dose placebos cost more:
http://www.walgreens.com/library/finddrug/druginfo.jsp?pdid=1088&particularDrug=Cebocap
Cebocap #3 (a prescription placebo) costs more than Cebocap #1.
First off, so I don't appear to be some new-age loon, I agree with you about homeopathy.
But this statement: "Remedies has been around of thousands of years, we tested it all and the stuff which works was called "medicine"." is flawed, at least within the US. "Medicine" as it is currently practiced by the majority of physicians is all about pharma profits, and has little to do with prescribing the best medicine with the fewest side effects. Read the history and research papers for antidepressants, statins, and ADHD drugs (in the context of pediatrics) and see how much of a joke the whole system is. Companies will do as many studies as it takes, shelve the ones that don't support what they want until they have the minimum required by the FDA (particularly common with antidepressants), hide important side effects (Merck/Vioxx), advertise off-label use without research, etc.
Of course the supplement industry isn't any better, but when multiple research shows that diet, exercise, therapy, or even st. johns wort are just as effective as antidepressants for mild-moderate depression, yet antidepressants remain the most prescribed drug in the US (118 million scripts in 2005 alone), something in the system is horribly broken.
But windows will never run as fast as when you first installed it, and if the time for diagnosis, running and downloading antispyware/malware/rootkit/virus/registry cleaning/defragging/etc exceeds the time to do a fresh install then you might as well do a fresh install.
Like others have said here look at hardrive and memory problems, and if those are not the problem then start doing other diagnosis or just do a reinstall.
Nobody but paranoid computer geeks care about any of that.
It feels like XP and unlike XP it looks modern as well.