The site works fine in IE6. It works fine in Firefox. It works fine in Opera (up to and including 9.0 build 8031 AFAIK) Looks like they did a fine job. I can't test it on a Mac but I would assume they accomodated common browsers up to a reasonable point.
/. probably has proper code, and the beta browser probably has a bug. As was said by DavidWide, file a bug report. That's what beta is about, finding the bugs to fix them in the final release.
I get some bugginess in build 8367 but built 8031 seems fine. I'll have to try one of the more up to date builds from labs.opera.com and see how that goes.
What kind of computers are you talking about? Just regular PCs? My company (definately not a multi-billion dollar company so many they were milking Harrahs) bought a thousand Dell desktops a year ago with monitors and service contract for under $500 a piece.
If you are talking about higher end machines than basic desktop workstations I could understand the price being high, but that would also mean that your example does not really apply here. But if your company is buying fairly basic desktops (P4 2.8ghz, 512mb Ram, 60gb HD + 17in Monitors like ours) then it sounds like it was just a badly organized deal.
QXGA is actually higher than the res you mention. I think its 3840x2400. Tiny difference but it supports your point even further. These companies are interested in this port and its extra bandwidth because they are already working on the monitors that wouold make use of it.
Personally I am all for this. 1) backwards compatibility is friendly and 2) I've seen the best HD TV can do and I want better.
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There wasn't much of a changing of hands. Its a Lenovo computer, it was built by what had been IBM's personal computer division. Lenovo gained 10,000 employees when they made the deal with IBM, more then doubling their company's size. I definately see what you are saying about how IBM's management would have been involved in the development of the X41, but that same management is probably still in place to some extent in Lenovo. Perhaps there are quality issues with the Lenovos because they inherited them from IBM.
I can't say why the quality now sucks on the Thinkpad, I just know that it does, and the big change in the quality came with this merger. The first thinkpad I tried that seemed to exhibit this quality problem was the X41. I am hoping it gets improved in time. I'm not going to discount later ThinkPads because of this because no company has given me any adequate reason to feel any kind of brand loyalty.
Perhaps these recent Thinkpads are suffering just because of the merger? Were there dips in quality like this as a result of other large scale computer manufacturer mergers?
Yes, but not me personally. We have a few laptops at our office that are for general use and have been using thinkpads since they came with P166s. As a matter of fact those P166s are still here and running and have had no problems (aside from defective user errors) since we got them. But, then we got a couple of Lenovo Thinkpad X41s and aside from the poor performance for the money the things were built like eMachines. And not even todays eMachines, eMachines circa 1998. Now we have HPs.
Capcom vs SNK 1 and 2, Guilty Gear X, Marvel vs Capcom 1 and 2, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike (still great on DC despite the input flaws), Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Soul Caliber, SFZ3 (IMO, I know a lot of people disliked the balancing + the errors in translation from arcade), the Dark Stalkers collection, Project Justice, Virtua Fighter 3, Power Stone 1 and 2...
So yeah, it had the fighters lined up. For a lot of the DC fanatics, much like the Saturn fanatics (since that had a great turn out for fighters as well), the volume of near perfect arcade translations made the DC amazing. But, I guess that could be attributed to the quality of the arcade/console hardware as well. Naomi 1 and 2 and Atomiswave all being based around the same system making translation to the DC so easy really created a fighting game monster.
I can just see it now. Super 3D Noah's Ark re-released using the latest Unreal engine to provide the most realistic flinging of feed at ornery live stock. Time to put the kids to bed. And by kids I mean baby goats.
What did Windows ME run on, MS Dos 7.1? That was its first handicap. Plus, every file you accessed it stored a copy of for doing "restorations." So, open a 5 gig harddrive image a few times and poof, your HD is full. What do you do? Nothing in any of the ME menus, because even though there was an option to disable this "service" it didn't actually do anything. So then you have to boot up in dos, find the hidden folder, erase it, make an empty file the same name as the folder, hide and protect that, blah blah blah blah blah. Every computer I've used with ME, from a fresh install, would sit completely locked for 30 seconds after the desktop loaded. Stability was a mess. It was, I repeat, a crime against humanity.
It was almost standard 9x crap, except I'd say 98SE and 95 OSR2 were both more stable and useable.
Comparing ME to 2K is just an illustration of how little you have used 2K.
BTW, nice Hitler reference. Haven't seen one around for a while.
I understand where you are coming from. Personally I don't like the idea of that because I'm afraid of how they'd do it. The last mass produced comp I bought was a laptop that came with things like Viewpoint media player, sonic stage, plus a few flavors of spyware and adware, bundled on the system by Dell. And that's a bunch of crap.
I do agree with you as far as my personal preferences go. I want an OS that only comes with the necessary support apps to easily configure the basic settings. Leaving it up to comp manufacturers to stock it with the necessary apps to make basic users happy makes sense, I just don't get the feeling they are capable of doing that well, at least not now. But, in the end, it probably doesn't matter much. If its a windows comp and its got a basic user clicking away in IE checking their Outlook Express, it'll be borked in a month anyway so it doesn't really matter who bundles the stuff.
I agree as far as my own preferences for an OS, but I'd say a lot of people out there buy computers will little experience (you know, the people whom answer the question "What version of windows do you have?" with "Office 2000"), and want certain things to just work. Considering how many non-techies are interested in MP3s and streaming video and everything, I think these are things that are justifiably being integrated more into Windows.
Which is fine to me. Because I'm not going to use Vista:-)
My 2 reasons for doing this were eye contact and the ability to listen and analyze. When I was taking notes I would fold the screen down flat and not take my eyes off of the professor and the board and I believe this led to a better relationship with the professors. A relationship that benefited me greatly.
Also, I did like she said, I took down her words verbatim because it was easy enough to just type what they were saying. But, unlike taking written notes, I could really listen to the content of the class because I didn't have to be constantly trying to figure out what to write down and what not to, since I couldn't write it all down fast enough.
I'm sure there are students that are hurt by laptops but, honestly, I think she'd do just as well to encourage proper classroom use of them.
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I'm more worried about the hardware emulation. Not a lot of PSX games crashed the PS2, but the ones that did often seemed like ones I wanted :-(
With a software emu at least there'd be hope for a patch.
The site works fine in IE6. It works fine in Firefox. It works fine in Opera (up to and including 9.0 build 8031 AFAIK) Looks like they did a fine job. I can't test it on a Mac but I would assume they accomodated common browsers up to a reasonable point.
/. probably has proper code, and the beta browser probably has a bug. As was said by DavidWide, file a bug report. That's what beta is about, finding the bugs to fix them in the final release.
I get some bugginess in build 8367 but built 8031 seems fine. I'll have to try one of the more up to date builds from labs.opera.com and see how that goes.
Vista isn't out yet and XP falls under NT, since its just NT 5.1.
Its teh way of teh slashy.
"News for Nerds. Stuff that matters...after minor alterations."
At the beginning of the first programming class I took in college, the professor asked "Who wants to spend the rest of their life in a cubicle?"
I started to laugh.
More than half the class raised their hand.
They would probably love this place. I switched to pscyhology.
What kind of computers are you talking about? Just regular PCs? My company (definately not a multi-billion dollar company so many they were milking Harrahs) bought a thousand Dell desktops a year ago with monitors and service contract for under $500 a piece.
If you are talking about higher end machines than basic desktop workstations I could understand the price being high, but that would also mean that your example does not really apply here. But if your company is buying fairly basic desktops (P4 2.8ghz, 512mb Ram, 60gb HD + 17in Monitors like ours) then it sounds like it was just a badly organized deal.
I don't think you liked those designs at all and this is your underhanded way of wiping them off the net!
"Final Fantasy Versus XIII"
Ugh. Hopefully not another Ehrgeiz.
My bad, I was actually thinking about QXGA-W, which is the 3840x2400 res I mentioned.
QXGA is actually higher than the res you mention. I think its 3840x2400. Tiny difference but it supports your point even further. These companies are interested in this port and its extra bandwidth because they are already working on the monitors that wouold make use of it.
Personally I am all for this. 1) backwards compatibility is friendly and 2) I've seen the best HD TV can do and I want better.
Ahh the memories. Time to go play some text based Streeet Fighter
There wasn't much of a changing of hands. Its a Lenovo computer, it was built by what had been IBM's personal computer division. Lenovo gained 10,000 employees when they made the deal with IBM, more then doubling their company's size. I definately see what you are saying about how IBM's management would have been involved in the development of the X41, but that same management is probably still in place to some extent in Lenovo. Perhaps there are quality issues with the Lenovos because they inherited them from IBM.
I can't say why the quality now sucks on the Thinkpad, I just know that it does, and the big change in the quality came with this merger. The first thinkpad I tried that seemed to exhibit this quality problem was the X41. I am hoping it gets improved in time. I'm not going to discount later ThinkPads because of this because no company has given me any adequate reason to feel any kind of brand loyalty.
Perhaps these recent Thinkpads are suffering just because of the merger? Were there dips in quality like this as a result of other large scale computer manufacturer mergers?
No. Not right.
Yes, but not me personally. We have a few laptops at our office that are for general use and have been using thinkpads since they came with P166s. As a matter of fact those P166s are still here and running and have had no problems (aside from defective user errors) since we got them. But, then we got a couple of Lenovo Thinkpad X41s and aside from the poor performance for the money the things were built like eMachines. And not even todays eMachines, eMachines circa 1998. Now we have HPs.
Capcom vs SNK 1 and 2, Guilty Gear X, Marvel vs Capcom 1 and 2, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike (still great on DC despite the input flaws), Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Soul Caliber, SFZ3 (IMO, I know a lot of people disliked the balancing + the errors in translation from arcade), the Dark Stalkers collection, Project Justice, Virtua Fighter 3, Power Stone 1 and 2...
So yeah, it had the fighters lined up. For a lot of the DC fanatics, much like the Saturn fanatics (since that had a great turn out for fighters as well), the volume of near perfect arcade translations made the DC amazing. But, I guess that could be attributed to the quality of the arcade/console hardware as well. Naomi 1 and 2 and Atomiswave all being based around the same system making translation to the DC so easy really created a fighting game monster.
Usually that happens after the /. story.
I can just see it now. Super 3D Noah's Ark re-released using the latest Unreal engine to provide the most realistic flinging of feed at ornery live stock. Time to put the kids to bed. And by kids I mean baby goats.
What did Windows ME run on, MS Dos 7.1? That was its first handicap. Plus, every file you accessed it stored a copy of for doing "restorations." So, open a 5 gig harddrive image a few times and poof, your HD is full. What do you do? Nothing in any of the ME menus, because even though there was an option to disable this "service" it didn't actually do anything. So then you have to boot up in dos, find the hidden folder, erase it, make an empty file the same name as the folder, hide and protect that, blah blah blah blah blah. Every computer I've used with ME, from a fresh install, would sit completely locked for 30 seconds after the desktop loaded. Stability was a mess. It was, I repeat, a crime against humanity.
It was almost standard 9x crap, except I'd say 98SE and 95 OSR2 were both more stable and useable.
Comparing ME to 2K is just an illustration of how little you have used 2K.
BTW, nice Hitler reference. Haven't seen one around for a while.
Indeed. Windows ME was a crime against humanity.
I understand where you are coming from. Personally I don't like the idea of that because I'm afraid of how they'd do it. The last mass produced comp I bought was a laptop that came with things like Viewpoint media player, sonic stage, plus a few flavors of spyware and adware, bundled on the system by Dell. And that's a bunch of crap.
I do agree with you as far as my personal preferences go. I want an OS that only comes with the necessary support apps to easily configure the basic settings. Leaving it up to comp manufacturers to stock it with the necessary apps to make basic users happy makes sense, I just don't get the feeling they are capable of doing that well, at least not now. But, in the end, it probably doesn't matter much. If its a windows comp and its got a basic user clicking away in IE checking their Outlook Express, it'll be borked in a month anyway so it doesn't really matter who bundles the stuff.
I agree as far as my own preferences for an OS, but I'd say a lot of people out there buy computers will little experience (you know, the people whom answer the question "What version of windows do you have?" with "Office 2000"), and want certain things to just work. Considering how many non-techies are interested in MP3s and streaming video and everything, I think these are things that are justifiably being integrated more into Windows.
:-)
Which is fine to me. Because I'm not going to use Vista
I used my laptop all through college.
My 2 reasons for doing this were eye contact and the ability to listen and analyze. When I was taking notes I would fold the screen down flat and not take my eyes off of the professor and the board and I believe this led to a better relationship with the professors. A relationship that benefited me greatly.
Also, I did like she said, I took down her words verbatim because it was easy enough to just type what they were saying. But, unlike taking written notes, I could really listen to the content of the class because I didn't have to be constantly trying to figure out what to write down and what not to, since I couldn't write it all down fast enough.
I'm sure there are students that are hurt by laptops but, honestly, I think she'd do just as well to encourage proper classroom use of them.
Its finally coming true.