He's completely right on what accelerators are - and have been for the past two decades. Why should he be expected to know about the latest marketing buzzword from minisoft's Newspeak department?
Recently I had to test a webapp for compatibility and decided I'd check the speed at the same time - while every other browser (including IE7) took one and a half minutes to get to a given page from a cold start, Opera was the one browser that really stood out from the crowd - it took over 4 minutes.
This is the first step toward Nintendo putting together a direct App Store rival
This is the first step toward Nintendo nickel-and-diming DSi owners with more money than sense, selling them inferior clones of the homebrew software people have been running on the DS for years.
Linux boots slowly? Well yes, I suppose it does almost take half a minute to get to the login screen on my 630MHz laptop, and a horrifically slow EIGHT SECONDS to load the desktop and firefox!
Obviously I must run out and buy Windows Vista ASAP for its incredibly fast load times~
If you're seriously comparing this to murdering someone... as opposed to, say, shooting them with a water pistol, you are seriously fucked in the head.
I've got a 1st-gen eeePC that does some sort of hibernation thing and then resumes from the saved image instead of doing a normal POST. From power button to loading the OS takes about 0.8 seconds.
On the other hand I've got an IBM desktop with similar specs (albeit 7 years older), which just sits there dumb for a full minute before it does anything.
ACID 2 is a rendering test. ACID 3 tests far, far more than that. Please take the two minutes to read up on what you're whining about before you speak.
TraceMonkey is great! It's the first time I've ever experienced a browser window vanishing into thin air (repeatably, at that) even if I haven't touched it for 5 minutes!
I would like to know whether what I am suggesting is a very bad thing.
Yes. For one thing, KHTML regularly wipes the floor with every other engine out there in CSS3 support. Firefox 3.1 is just now catching up to what Konqueror 4.0 could do over a year ago, and if Arora/Midori are anything to go by, Webkit has been removing features.
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But I don't run transcoding on my workstation anyway. Why? Because all the I/O continuosly flushes out my disk buffers for other processes.
Which is exactly the reason why posix_fadvise(2) exists.
If (strawman) then {meaningless conclusion}.
Replace "software patents" with "handguns", "bittorrent clients" or "$minor_feature_in_desktop_environment_X" to suit the invalid point being pushed.
That was the AI? Gee, and I thought they just did that because I used them as handy cornering guides as I ram into them from the side at 200mph.
He's completely right on what accelerators are - and have been for the past two decades. Why should he be expected to know about the latest marketing buzzword from minisoft's Newspeak department?
That's nice.
Recently I had to test a webapp for compatibility and decided I'd check the speed at the same time - while every other browser (including IE7) took one and a half minutes to get to a given page from a cold start, Opera was the one browser that really stood out from the crowd - it took over 4 minutes.
This is the first step toward Nintendo putting together a direct App Store rival
This is the first step toward Nintendo nickel-and-diming DSi owners with more money than sense, selling them inferior clones of the homebrew software people have been running on the DS for years.
UltraSparc T2 + Cell SPUs...
All they need now is a language suitable for such a sick practical joke. I suggest this.
Just because IBM shouts louder than Sun about their commitment to open source doesn't make it a fact.
Where were you for the past five years of the SCO trial? Where was Sun?
Next you'll be telling us that castrating MNG support in Firefox was "for the good of the web".
Just don't use the third-party manufacturing for x86 chips.
Instead use it to crank out huge quantities of cheap, high-speed ARM chips for netbooks, and bury the crippled Atom platform.
Those aren't series tubes, they're parallel tubes
When has Microsoft ever had such a motto? Or any part of it, for that matter?
Linux boots slowly? Well yes, I suppose it does almost take half a minute to get to the login screen on my 630MHz laptop, and a horrifically slow EIGHT SECONDS to load the desktop and firefox!
Obviously I must run out and buy Windows Vista ASAP for its incredibly fast load times~
If you're seriously comparing this to murdering someone... as opposed to, say, shooting them with a water pistol, you are seriously fucked in the head.
How is Windows Genuine Advantage not illegal?
It really depends a lot on your hardware.
I've got a 1st-gen eeePC that does some sort of hibernation thing and then resumes from the saved image instead of doing a normal POST. From power button to loading the OS takes about 0.8 seconds.
On the other hand I've got an IBM desktop with similar specs (albeit 7 years older), which just sits there dumb for a full minute before it does anything.
If you count EA as representative of the entire industry, then that comparison is apt.
With the way they act all high and mighty, it seems a few of them still haven't descended.
ACID 2 is a rendering test. ACID 3 tests far, far more than that. Please take the two minutes to read up on what you're whining about before you speak.
TraceMonkey is great! It's the first time I've ever experienced a browser window vanishing into thin air (repeatably, at that) even if I haven't touched it for 5 minutes!
That "BOOM" is the sound of it hitting him in the face... and bouncing right off
Without a hardware redesign to emulate FAT (which would probably also violate M$'s patents), they're pretty much stuck here.
Or they could use UDF.
I'd say some of them deserve constant physical attack, too. With a cluebat.
I would like to know whether what I am suggesting is a very bad thing.
Yes. For one thing, KHTML regularly wipes the floor with every other engine out there in CSS3 support. Firefox 3.1 is just now catching up to what Konqueror 4.0 could do over a year ago, and if Arora/Midori are anything to go by, Webkit has been removing features.
The sarcasm went way over your head there.