You should finish rewriting your site around the same time you start seeing articles extolling the latest and greatest language that some too-smart developer dug up from obscurity after becoming bored with the last obscure language they used and got other bored minds excited about.
Then again you could just write it in Sanscrit, a 5000 year old dead language, I'm sure lots of kids coming out of college majored in that.
Someone must remember the Asimov story about the space mechanics sent to check out some satellite and inside they find some kind of metal worm burrowed into the thing.
I'm just curious what exactly everyone is doing (on Windows I understand Firefox has different problems on Mac) that causes Firefox's memory usage to be a problem on a modern box.
I have a gig of RAM, 256 of which goes right to a VMware instance, run Outlook all day long, usually have photoshop open, and work with Firefox all day long. Multiple tabs, plenty of fun little extensions, Flash, the whole package.
So what clues you into Firefox's memory usage? Does your system start running slowly? Or are you opening Task Manager seeing Firefox is using 200megs and getting angry?
Maybe I have better luck because I shutdown nightly.
Like the large majority of Americans first I have to get an HDTV. I won't be doing that anytime soon since I don't have cash laying around to blow on a TV. I suppose I could just go into debt, but that got old when I started paying bills.
Seriously if Sony wants to sell a bunch more PS3's they should bundle it with an HDTV.
It's a serious outlay of cash when you need $500 for PS3, $50 for a game and $500 for a TV to make it worth even having. From everything I've seen PS3 doesn't look any better on an SDTV than some of the latest PS2 games. The controller is even 90% the same. Not many arguments for upgrading without a nice widescreen to enjoy it on.
See the problem with Flash video versus everything else is sites get higher play rates with Flash than with the others. This can then be turned into $$$ by selling pre-rolls.
I speak from experience as well as there being articles written on the subject.
I guess YouTube should have gone with some other format eh? I'm sure they would have made the splash that they did if they had used OGG.
the cheapness that us university students strive on
$900 for a computer, for students, er yeah I guess some of them have that kind of cash. But I don't think they fit the stretched to the max, loans up the wazoo students that you'll encounter in today's universities. Those students still get by on the computer resources made available by the school.
In fact for $400 you could get a laptop from a couple of PC makers.
Saying that any price point is cheap and affordable only makes you look like an ass and makes other people feel bad./Get off my lawn
Another post mentions tracking movement as a good reason for it you can't really use googles for, but I'll go one better.
How about it's great for having more than one person in there and you can point at a spot and keep talking. With googles you'd both have to be wearing them and you'd have to describe to the other person the point you are looking at.
There's another half of that problem. The interface with a PC.
Unless it's dead simple to transfer music you're out of luck. Add in the fact not too many providers are keen to offer cables to hook up your phone to your PC and the problem grows.
Bundle a phone with a dock and software for Mac's and PC's that just works, that's no more expensive than a Nano and you might start gaining market share.
Oh and price, I'm not dropping more than $200 on a gadget. I lose/break my phone, that's $150-200, I lose/break my ipod $150-200, I lose/break my camera $150-200 (and that's a darn good one), I lose this all in one mess? $600 please.
Just quit, I stop and look around and it's been 3 years, taken 5 days off. I to gained the wait etc. There's a constant fear of losing the job and having no future. But it's stupid. This generation is absolutely nuts and so unbalanced.
I want to go back 30 years and see what it was like. 2 weeks vacations are the norm with the family. 9-5 meant 9-5.
If I'm not working or thinking about working I feel like I'm being a failure.
Please tell me I'm not the norm. I'd rather be one screwed up individual than a representative of society.
Yeah but Altavista never had the same mind share as Google. I never heard on a sitcom "Go search for it on AltaVista"
My parents say "Google it." and they're 65 year old retirees.
That's incredible mindshare. Now MS might make a better search engine but to think they'll root out Google in 6 months time is just marketing talk. No one really believes it.
This is what scares the crap out of me. Look at any programmers who are now 50+, most of them have been forced to move on. And while I'd say it is very apparent in the programming field I feel like it happens to everyone across the board.
Fact is younger people can be forced to work longer and harder because they don't have a family, aren't experiencing hyper-tension, can be paid less, etc.
The sad fact is we'll be deemed worthless by the time we're 40 even if you feel invincible now.
I've already seriously started looking at going back to school like another poster suggested for a job that is just as fun but where I will never be considered too old to perform.
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I got off-topic a bit and was focused more on the formats for video and movies than I was for a console. Of course for data that new games might take up you'll want those large discs.
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As far as video clarity goes Blu Ray & HD-DVD are going to fail unless they force studios to stop making DVD's. Read any of the CES coverage and you'll find 1080p plasmas running a Blu Ray/HD movie and the same set running a regular DVD on an upconverting dvd player.
Every one of them says the difference is hardly noticeable, slight bit of extra sharpness to the picture for the HD one. This is NOT the jump from VHS to DVD.
Other than for data storage these two formats are about 7-10 years ahead of when they'd really be needed.
Why they felt the need to try and push another new format on top of DVD is beyond me. Sounds like a pissing match that got out of hand. Where was the guy standing up in the meeting asking "Wait why are we spending time and tons of money on this right at this moment?"
I picked up a used iPaq RX3115, I got a good price, $100, but it works great. I was worried about the battery life because it has a rather small pack, but I watched an entire Battlestar episode and it used up just 33%.
I was looking at Palm but honestly the ones I've used just aren't as good as a Pocket PC.
What would be ideal would be a x50v or x51v Axim from Dell. Reading on VGA must be a dream.
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You should finish rewriting your site around the same time you start seeing articles extolling the latest and greatest language that some too-smart developer dug up from obscurity after becoming bored with the last obscure language they used and got other bored minds excited about.
Then again you could just write it in Sanscrit, a 5000 year old dead language, I'm sure lots of kids coming out of college majored in that.
Someone must remember the Asimov story about the space mechanics sent to check out some satellite and inside they find some kind of metal worm burrowed into the thing.
Metal on Metal grinding? Or have we been found?
I'm just curious what exactly everyone is doing (on Windows I understand Firefox has different problems on Mac) that causes Firefox's memory usage to be a problem on a modern box.
I have a gig of RAM, 256 of which goes right to a VMware instance, run Outlook all day long, usually have photoshop open, and work with Firefox all day long. Multiple tabs, plenty of fun little extensions, Flash, the whole package.
So what clues you into Firefox's memory usage? Does your system start running slowly? Or are you opening Task Manager seeing Firefox is using 200megs and getting angry?
Maybe I have better luck because I shutdown nightly.
Like the large majority of Americans first I have to get an HDTV. I won't be doing that anytime soon since I don't have cash laying around to blow on a TV. I suppose I could just go into debt, but that got old when I started paying bills.
Seriously if Sony wants to sell a bunch more PS3's they should bundle it with an HDTV.
It's a serious outlay of cash when you need $500 for PS3, $50 for a game and $500 for a TV to make it worth even having. From everything I've seen PS3 doesn't look any better on an SDTV than some of the latest PS2 games. The controller is even 90% the same. Not many arguments for upgrading without a nice widescreen to enjoy it on.
What exactly are you saving that RAM for? True love?
I just started feeling nauseas and it's not from eating too many Christmas cookies.
It would be one thing to use the speakers to alert others to danger, but this is just for behavoir modification.
See the problem with Flash video versus everything else is sites get higher play rates with Flash than with the others. This can then be turned into $$$ by selling pre-rolls.
I speak from experience as well as there being articles written on the subject.
I guess YouTube should have gone with some other format eh? I'm sure they would have made the splash that they did if they had used OGG.
the cheapness that us university students strive on
/Get off my lawn
$900 for a computer, for students, er yeah I guess some of them have that kind of cash. But I don't think they fit the stretched to the max, loans up the wazoo students that you'll encounter in today's universities. Those students still get by on the computer resources made available by the school.
In fact for $400 you could get a laptop from a couple of PC makers.
Saying that any price point is cheap and affordable only makes you look like an ass and makes other people feel bad.
Another post mentions tracking movement as a good reason for it you can't really use googles for, but I'll go one better.
How about it's great for having more than one person in there and you can point at a spot and keep talking. With googles you'd both have to be wearing them and you'd have to describe to the other person the point you are looking at.
At least that's what I thought of.
There's another half of that problem. The interface with a PC.
Unless it's dead simple to transfer music you're out of luck. Add in the fact not too many providers are keen to offer cables to hook up your phone to your PC and the problem grows.
Bundle a phone with a dock and software for Mac's and PC's that just works, that's no more expensive than a Nano and you might start gaining market share.
Oh and price, I'm not dropping more than $200 on a gadget. I lose/break my phone, that's $150-200, I lose/break my ipod $150-200, I lose/break my camera $150-200 (and that's a darn good one), I lose this all in one mess? $600 please.
No that was Ghostbusters. They crossed the streams.
Check out the most downloaded mod for Oblivion
DISCLAIMER - I haven't played the game, perhaps teh boobies are that impressive.You run a website don't you?
Just quit, I stop and look around and it's been 3 years, taken 5 days off. I to gained the wait etc. There's a constant fear of losing the job and having no future. But it's stupid. This generation is absolutely nuts and so unbalanced.
I want to go back 30 years and see what it was like. 2 weeks vacations are the norm with the family. 9-5 meant 9-5.
If I'm not working or thinking about working I feel like I'm being a failure.
Please tell me I'm not the norm. I'd rather be one screwed up individual than a representative of society.
It's funny how addiction is often times equated with just drugs and alcohol. Best of luck to you and your friend.
And half jokingly, how about those of us addicted to their jobs. Sounds stupid but I think it happens an awful lot in today's world.
Yeah but Altavista never had the same mind share as Google. I never heard on a sitcom "Go search for it on AltaVista"
My parents say "Google it." and they're 65 year old retirees.
That's incredible mindshare. Now MS might make a better search engine but to think they'll root out Google in 6 months time is just marketing talk. No one really believes it.
Ever hear the expression "I'll sleep on it" ?
I've read several times how not thinking about a problem will lend itself to a solution.
ie Go take a walk, get a cup of coffee, take a nap.
Interesting, or maybe I just need coffee.
Doom 2 co-op by in large my favorite game of all time. X-Wing and TIE fighter.
Metroid (NES)
Dragon Warrior (NES)
JetFighter
Rogue
GoldenEye (N64)
Tetris64 (N64)
Tony Hawk 2(DC)
Warcraft II
Command & Conquer
FFIII (SNES)
If you look through their Design Patterns you'll see that each has an Accessibility section. Very nice addition and often over looked.
We use ninesystems, not sure if you work for them or just use them as well. But they have always been top notch and quite a bit cheaper than Akamai.
Keep up the good work!
Welcome to Slashdot, where we make up crap about Microsoft, then attack them for it.
:)
I'd make the "you must be new here" but your UID says you're already been here for quite some time.
Plus making that joke would make baby Jesus cry.
Judging by the number of users not using HD on their TV's for normal TV broadcasts I'd say quite a lot.
This is what scares the crap out of me. Look at any programmers who are now 50+, most of them have been forced to move on. And while I'd say it is very apparent in the programming field I feel like it happens to everyone across the board.
Fact is younger people can be forced to work longer and harder because they don't have a family, aren't experiencing hyper-tension, can be paid less, etc.
The sad fact is we'll be deemed worthless by the time we're 40 even if you feel invincible now.
I've already seriously started looking at going back to school like another poster suggested for a job that is just as fun but where I will never be considered too old to perform.
I got off-topic a bit and was focused more on the formats for video and movies than I was for a console. Of course for data that new games might take up you'll want those large discs.
As far as video clarity goes Blu Ray & HD-DVD are going to fail unless they force studios to stop making DVD's. Read any of the CES coverage and you'll find 1080p plasmas running a Blu Ray/HD movie and the same set running a regular DVD on an upconverting dvd player.
Every one of them says the difference is hardly noticeable, slight bit of extra sharpness to the picture for the HD one. This is NOT the jump from VHS to DVD.
Other than for data storage these two formats are about 7-10 years ahead of when they'd really be needed.
Why they felt the need to try and push another new format on top of DVD is beyond me. Sounds like a pissing match that got out of hand. Where was the guy standing up in the meeting asking "Wait why are we spending time and tons of money on this right at this moment?"
I picked up a used iPaq RX3115, I got a good price, $100, but it works great. I was worried about the battery life because it has a rather small pack, but I watched an entire Battlestar episode and it used up just 33%.
I was looking at Palm but honestly the ones I've used just aren't as good as a Pocket PC.
What would be ideal would be a x50v or x51v Axim from Dell. Reading on VGA must be a dream.