Actually, I'm a huge fan of the modern theme. It looks kind of snazzy, but more importantly, it makes it so the tabs dont look like giant boxy eyesores. Makes them nice flat smooth rounded tabs.
Both Qute and the new Pinstripe theme use the same ugly giant tabs.
I agree. I was also thinking when he was talking about using a word processor and having it be slow.
Try using Word XP on a pentium 200mmx. See how fast that runs.
Back then we had word 95...which seemed to do almost exactly all the same stuff. And ran about the same speed on a p200mmx as word xp does on a 2.x ghz machine today. So what exactly did they do to word xp to make it take 10 seconds to start, and run as it does on a machine with more than exponentially more processing oomph.
The point of the grandparent was that broadband is in such high demand that they are having to upgrade their systems to handle the load. They are at the end of their leash for supply.
All of this is why the prices wont be going down anytime soon untill there is a bit more extra, a bit more commodity.
The link budget on DBS is fucking tiny. 1-2 db less and BAM, no more signal. That means 1 loser, on his modded radio, anywhere within a few miles, and every dbs user in that range has no more tv. This is illegal thanks to the FCC
Ham radio people have certain bands and they help with emergencies all the time. But what? no FCC to protect the bandwidth space? no more ham radio, lives lost.
All those kids with their nice rc cars..no more fcc, no more RC cars because no one will protect that bandwidth.
Your kids missing in the forest?..luckily they have a FRS radio! oh wait..the fcc was protecting that bandwidth..now all you hear is some guy broadcasting his favorite mp3s. Too bad about your kids tho, at least you have some music. (more likely just static)
Someone to regulate bandwidth is 100% NECCESARY.
Some of the other stuff can be taken out of the hands of the FCC maybe, but not this.
Where to these misinformed people come out of the woodwork ?
Windows XP loads my silicon image driver right from it database, no disk needed. (tho i have sp1)
The only time windows doesnt support sata is on install. Then you have to put in the driver floppy and load the drivers yourself at the beginning of the install process (right when you boot from the xp cd.)
The alternative for people who, like me, dont own a floppy drive and maybe havent had one for years (also like me:) is to slipstream the drivers (plus any service packs and critical updates they want) into the windows xp installation.
Or, a better solution, created by the same person as the site above, is to use his program (its actually just an elaborate batch file that calls certain programs) which creates the entire structure for you if you provide the updates and drivers, and burns you a new bootable xp cd. (given the old one of course). This is what i use for my raid0 setup with silicon image 3112r chip.
I am not sure where they got the 7 minute figure. It takes me 7ish mins to burn a dvd with 8x.
Maybe they are talking about dual layer. which would make sense if not for the fact that it cannot write dual layer discs at 16x...only 2.4x infact.
Either way...22mb/sec should be reachable by anyone with a hdd made wihtin the last few years. Most hdds can do over 40mb/sec sustainable (sequential read, which a dvd is), so only taking half that should not be a problem.
Yeah but the thing is...adblock is just ad filtering software. Having to click on every image to see it is unthinkable for me. Sounds like a collosal PITA. If you dont wanna see any flash on a page, hit ctrl-shift-f...gone, with some kind of block over each flash anim (java applets also).
The whole POINT of adblock is not having to filter every damn image that comes along. You set some good specific blocks (and you can be very precise with regexps) and all you see is every page on the web, blissfully free from advertisments.
But, having to have stuff like mouseover and click to view every damn flash or image on a website is insane. I imagine you are in a very small niche with that request.
Sorry to sound kind of ad hominem, I dont mean to say you are stupid, but I just cant fathom having to do so much WORK just to browse the web. The point of adblock is to do some very nice filters so you never have to see ads that disrupt your peaceful browsing. When I load ESPN for example..I see the menu flash to allow me the browsing, but i also see a bit of space where a few ads might have been. I dont know what they were and frankly I dont even think about it. All I see is ESPN and its relevant content.
Give adblock another try, and fine tune those filters. I'm sure you'll come around:) (then again, some people actually dont liek tabbed browsing..must hate efficiency or simplicity or something:)
I dont get what you're talking about. You can block flash files just as easily as html/jpg file...by any regexp or blob match.
*.website.com/*.swf would block all flash from *.website.com.
There is nothing different about blocking flash and blocking html frames or images.
You dont have a tab letting you play flash because its an ad filter, not some interactive flash player. Dont block something unless you dont want to see it.
Interlacing does also help trick the eye into thinking it is almost 60fps.
If you maybe remember old monitors, they couldnt run 60hz, so you ran at 30hz interlaced. If you had really just ran at 30Hz, it would look like a horrible flickering mess..which it didnt quiite:)
The NTSC framerate was chosen for the power supply thing you mentioned, but interlacing is primarily used to soothe the eye when looking at low refresh stuff.
As pointed out above, definately some errors in this post.
The NTSC standard is not 60Hz refresh. A NTSC tv draws even lines first, then odd lines. Each one of these is called a 'field'. There are 60 fields per second, but they are put together to make a 'frame' There are 30 frames per second. (when they added in sound/colour in there, it got switched down to 29.997 or somethign stupid...bandwidth issues)
Anyways, this even-odd line drawing is called interlacing. It tricks the eye into aaalmost seeing 60 frames per second.
NTSC TV's, unlike monitors/video games, dont have seperate frame/refresh rates, because inside the TV, its all analog circuitry driving the electron beam which is driven directly off of the RF signal to display what it does on the screen. Not like a video game where the computer might be generating 120fps, but the monitor refreshing at 75Hz. In this case, the monitor redraws itself completely(called progressive scan), 75 times a second. When your video game framerate is higher than your monitor refresh you will certainly experiance 'tearing' This is when the frame changes in the middle of a monitor drawing cycle.
Most people who want a nice looking picture will turn on vertical synchronization . This makes it so that no frame changes in the middle of a monitor drawing by limiting the maximum framerate to the monitor refresh rate, and synchronizing the two. Once this is on, it becomes a lot more like NTSC, except not interlaced. One video game 'frame' is served up every monitor 'frame' and it all looks very nice.
The reason a video games looks so shitty at 30fps and TV doesnt is twofold.
1. What the above poster said, that 30fps is an average, and if you are getting 30 average, you are probably sometimes getting more than 30, sometimes getting less...you will really notice the 'less'
2. Video games dont have motion blur. On video cameras/your eyes, moving objects are automatically blured because your eyes dont 'update' all that fast. On video games a distinct frame without motion blur is drawn..each frame could be removed to make a sharp picture. Not so on tv. (oh and i know about some hardware/software inserting some crappy motion blur routines..the fact that you can plainly see it means it looks nothing like the real thing:)
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Why in god's name would you ever close the tab from the context menu when you can just middle click it?
:)
If you dont have a mouse wiht a scroll wheel/middle mouse button I think its time to come out of the dark ages
Don't forget you can also double click the tab-bar to open a new tab.
Just in case your hands arent uh....on the keyboard..
Actually, I'm a huge fan of the modern theme. It looks kind of snazzy, but more importantly, it makes it so the tabs dont look like giant boxy eyesores. Makes them nice flat smooth rounded tabs.
:)
Both Qute and the new Pinstripe theme use the same ugly giant tabs.
I dunno just MHO.
You DO know you can middle click the tabs to close them right?
:)
Why you'd waste extra clicks going thru context menus, im not sure
Maybe theoretically, but the seagates actually have the lowest performance of any of the big manufacturers.
:)
Makes ya wonder
Hahaha you better get modded up for that. Fuckin great.
May the person who invented that word have his eyes poked out by an angry swordfish while swimming.
Sorry to reply to my own post here...
:)
But infact, I just found a 350mb divx, right clicked..ultraedit..
Took about 8-9 seconds(raid0 helps), but ultraedit opened it just fine...I'm now looking at all the hex and ascii, std hex editor.
Give it a shot
I agree. I was also thinking when he was talking about using a word processor and having it be slow.
Try using Word XP on a pentium 200mmx. See how fast that runs.
Back then we had word 95...which seemed to do almost exactly all the same stuff. And ran about the same speed on a p200mmx as word xp does on a 2.x ghz machine today. So what exactly did they do to word xp to make it take 10 seconds to start, and run as it does on a machine with more than exponentially more processing oomph.
Yeah, i agree, ultraedit is a fuckin great editor.
Good for programming, hex editing, text editing.
Great all around...very powerful.
The point of the grandparent was that broadband is in such high demand that they are having to upgrade their systems to handle the load. They are at the end of their leash for supply.
All of this is why the prices wont be going down anytime soon untill there is a bit more extra, a bit more commodity.
Haha, yeah.
I guess the poster hasnt heard of supply and demand.
Exactly right IMHO :)
Come ON you have to be kidding.
You ignored the whole damn point.
The link budget on DBS is fucking tiny. 1-2 db less and BAM, no more signal. That means 1 loser, on his modded radio, anywhere within a few miles, and every dbs user in that range has no more tv. This is illegal thanks to the FCC
Ham radio people have certain bands and they help with emergencies all the time. But what? no FCC to protect the bandwidth space? no more ham radio, lives lost.
All those kids with their nice rc cars..no more fcc, no more RC cars because no one will protect that bandwidth.
Your kids missing in the forest?..luckily they have a FRS radio! oh wait..the fcc was protecting that bandwidth..now all you hear is some guy broadcasting his favorite mp3s. Too bad about your kids tho, at least you have some music. (more likely just static)
Someone to regulate bandwidth is 100% NECCESARY.
Some of the other stuff can be taken out of the hands of the FCC maybe, but not this.
Where to these misinformed people come out of the woodwork ?
Windows XP loads my silicon image driver right from it database, no disk needed. (tho i have sp1)
The only time windows doesnt support sata is on install. Then you have to put in the driver floppy and load the drivers yourself at the beginning of the install process (right when you boot from the xp cd.)
The alternative for people who, like me, dont own a floppy drive and maybe havent had one for years (also like me:) is to slipstream the drivers (plus any service packs and critical updates they want) into the windows xp installation.
Instructions on how to do that are here
Or, a better solution, created by the same person as the site above, is to use his program (its actually just an elaborate batch file that calls certain programs) which creates the entire structure for you if you provide the updates and drivers, and burns you a new bootable xp cd. (given the old one of course). This is what i use for my raid0 setup with silicon image 3112r chip.
Site here
I am not sure where they got the 7 minute figure. It takes me 7ish mins to burn a dvd with 8x.
Maybe they are talking about dual layer. which would make sense if not for the fact that it cannot write dual layer discs at 16x...only 2.4x infact.
Either way...22mb/sec should be reachable by anyone with a hdd made wihtin the last few years. Most hdds can do over 40mb/sec sustainable (sequential read, which a dvd is), so only taking half that should not be a problem.
He was a good slashdotter and so should you be!
Remember folks..dont read the articles, or you'll go blind!
Yeah but the thing is...adblock is just ad filtering software. Having to click on every image to see it is unthinkable for me. Sounds like a collosal PITA. If you dont wanna see any flash on a page, hit ctrl-shift-f...gone, with some kind of block over each flash anim (java applets also).
:) (then again, some people actually dont liek tabbed browsing..must hate efficiency or simplicity or something :)
The whole POINT of adblock is not having to filter every damn image that comes along. You set some good specific blocks (and you can be very precise with regexps) and all you see is every page on the web, blissfully free from advertisments.
But, having to have stuff like mouseover and click to view every damn flash or image on a website is insane. I imagine you are in a very small niche with that request.
Sorry to sound kind of ad hominem, I dont mean to say you are stupid, but I just cant fathom having to do so much WORK just to browse the web. The point of adblock is to do some very nice filters so you never have to see ads that disrupt your peaceful browsing. When I load ESPN for example..I see the menu flash to allow me the browsing, but i also see a bit of space where a few ads might have been. I dont know what they were and frankly I dont even think about it. All I see is ESPN and its relevant content.
Give adblock another try, and fine tune those filters. I'm sure you'll come around
I dont get what you're talking about. You can block flash files just as easily as html/jpg file...by any regexp or blob match.
*.website.com/*.swf would block all flash from *.website.com.
There is nothing different about blocking flash and blocking html frames or images.
You dont have a tab letting you play flash because its an ad filter, not some interactive flash player. Dont block something unless you dont want to see it.
Interlacing does also help trick the eye into thinking it is almost 60fps.
:)
If you maybe remember old monitors, they couldnt run 60hz, so you ran at 30hz interlaced. If you had really just ran at 30Hz, it would look like a horrible flickering mess..which it didnt quiite
The NTSC framerate was chosen for the power supply thing you mentioned, but interlacing is primarily used to soothe the eye when looking at low refresh stuff.
As pointed out above, definately some errors in this post.
:)
The NTSC standard is not 60Hz refresh. A NTSC tv draws even lines first, then odd lines. Each one of these is called a 'field'. There are 60 fields per second, but they are put together to make a 'frame' There are 30 frames per second. (when they added in sound/colour in there, it got switched down to 29.997 or somethign stupid...bandwidth issues)
Anyways, this even-odd line drawing is called interlacing. It tricks the eye into aaalmost seeing 60 frames per second.
NTSC TV's, unlike monitors/video games, dont have seperate frame/refresh rates, because inside the TV, its all analog circuitry driving the electron beam which is driven directly off of the RF signal to display what it does on the screen. Not like a video game where the computer might be generating 120fps, but the monitor refreshing at 75Hz. In this case, the monitor redraws itself completely(called progressive scan), 75 times a second. When your video game framerate is higher than your monitor refresh you will certainly experiance 'tearing' This is when the frame changes in the middle of a monitor drawing cycle.
Most people who want a nice looking picture will turn on vertical synchronization . This makes it so that no frame changes in the middle of a monitor drawing by limiting the maximum framerate to the monitor refresh rate, and synchronizing the two. Once this is on, it becomes a lot more like NTSC, except not interlaced. One video game 'frame' is served up every monitor 'frame' and it all looks very nice.
The reason a video games looks so shitty at 30fps and TV doesnt is twofold.
1. What the above poster said, that 30fps is an average, and if you are getting 30 average, you are probably sometimes getting more than 30, sometimes getting less...you will really notice the 'less'
2. Video games dont have motion blur. On video cameras/your eyes, moving objects are automatically blured because your eyes dont 'update' all that fast. On video games a distinct frame without motion blur is drawn..each frame could be removed to make a sharp picture. Not so on tv. (oh and i know about some hardware/software inserting some crappy motion blur routines..the fact that you can plainly see it means it looks nothing like the real thing
I have noticed that sp1 takes forever to install, and seems to be doing nothing much of the time...
Like hours.
Same with the 1000x updates I've got to install when installing a fresh copy of windows.
All of this prompted me to just make a ghost image of the hdd. Just restore the image and im ready to go.
This guy explains it well HERE
Sorry, the article wouldnt load, I thought it was slashdotted. Explains it fairly well :)
Could someone...enlighten us to some details of the 'vega launcher' and why its special ?