It's not about racing in this case. It's about waiting from half a second to several before the UI can show me the tab I clicked on. And it's when the browser memory cannot have been swapped in a continuous using pattern.
Firefox javascript and pages rendering is fast enough for me. It's the UI that now feels slow, nowadays. I don't know if it's because of its intense javascript usage, but it is definitely slow. I am not an heavy tabs user, as I rarely have more than 10 of these opened simultaneously, but with Firefox, even the last nightly builds or beta, tab switching is indeed slow, which makes tabs less useful.
The worst part of this stuff is that I have been using Firefox since the 0.7 version and I tested many nightly builds since. I have seen its progressive improvements, and now I've noticed its degenerescence.
To me, it's so annoying that it became an usability concern. Why should I use a browser that is slow to my own concerns? I won't until the Mozilla team fix up the mess they created. Firefox is surely mainstream, now, but Firefox devs should not forget their original supporters. Firefox used to be streamlined and most functionalities Firefox missed were in extensions.
Yeah, and it's exactly why The Firefox developpers should move their featureful asses. Chrome extensions are on the way. Firefox guys should cut the slow crap out.
This stuff looks nice, but how about doing experiments which do not require my cores to go both to 100%? I mean it's a damn Athlon 64 X2, a ball moving around should not require this... So far, this website has only shown me that javascript can use my computer cpu fully. Yeah, great. How about a low cpu requirement demonstration? THAT would impress me.
First there is the cell which is not developer friendly, even with the original SDK, then you have no hardware acceleration in this Linux environment.
There is no way you could have good looking games on it. I can only see half baked ports of existing Linux games so far.
It's well known that PS3 Linux was only a tax workaround for Sony, it was not intended to be a real development environment.
It really feels like Apple's iPhone store is being weakened by its own bureaucratic approach. Sure, it's great to have virus-free apps, but how about choice, diversity and freedom? The content validation works pretty easily for music, but apps are not the same business at all. If you've got to re-certify your stuff each time it's updated, to renew your damn certificate, how can you focus on doing good software? I do not give a rat ass to open source stuff on my phone, but it could be an interesting approach to make it at least possible on iPhone. How about a common certificate for multiple developers and non obligatorily checked releases?
I do totally agree. MMS are a solution to a problem we do not have anymore. Even my already oldish N95 can send a mail with a full resolution (5 megapixels) picture in it, and my unlimited data plan too. We are in an era of integration. I can put my picture on facebook from my phone to share it with as many friends I want or send it to only one friend by mail. Same goes for videos.
MMS was good enough for low res photographs but pricey.
Yeah and did you really compare Opera Mini 4 and iPhone's Safari? I use Opera Mini on a daily basis on my S60 because it's less crash-prone than any other browser on it and I am forced to admit it's the least bad browser on this platform. I thought that the one column rendering stuff on it was good enough until I had a look at the same websites on an iPod Touch. The fonts look amazing, the text always fits the width of the screen and the navigator works well on ajax-only websites. Opera Mini feels like it's the browser that all phones with a small screen should have, but not the new phones.
Sure the iPhone has less functions than my N95 which can make my computer go wirelessly on the internet wherever I am, but its browser is just f***ing amazing. Apple did bad on the extensibility part but that was not the point of the iPhone. The point is that you have an ipod, an easy to use phone and the web minus flash on the same device. I like my phone but it feels like a poor hack...
Are you kidding?
There were litteraly dozens of great third party games and not only the best selling ones. Look at Street Fighter 2, SNES had the best Arcade conversions, and what about Square/Enix and others RPGs? Platform/action games, such as, you know, Castlevania IV which is insanely good. Or maybe International Superstar Soccer, for soccer fans. Maybe we could have a look at Civilization, Sim City, Toy Story.
Dude, there are so many amazing third party games that were awesome.
Spend hours tagging? Did you try to rip a disc with iTunes recently? My girlfriend did so in front of me and it just works. It takes less than 15 minutes. You do not have to retag the files unless you've just pulled an obscure disc which also cannot be on the iTunes store.
Dude, even when I rip with foobar2000 or EAC, I almost never get a non freedb supported disc. So far, I did run such a problem only twice on almost 700 rips so far, including classical, obscure electronic and regional stuff.
It's not FUD, it's annoyance and it's not only speed, it's also about the garbage collector performance which is really bad for an embedded engine, according to my own experience.
The worst part is that I really like the python language; I just dislike the qualities you find in it. Do not sell python as the ZOMG best scripting engine in da world. Lua and javascript are faster, nice and really portable too. You only see python but there is a world out there of great interpreters. Python currently only has its clean syntax for him. Move on and look around. There are so many great languages AND great portable interpreters.
Yeah, people are so intelligent that they have been buying DRMed files for years on iTunes while CDs exist for a similar price.
And Then they are again so intelligent that some pay premium to strip the DRM from their old iTunes tracks instead of downloading these from another source.
It's not a Rosetta stone, just a low performance swiss army knife missing some blades. I won't make my C++ code automagically communicate with my java code, neither will it allow my legacy software to interconnect efficiently with other software.
It is not the Grail, just an embeddable scripting engine like many others.
I am so much waiting for the day when DRM will be so annoying that people will use OCR on their Kindles or whatever devices to circumvent those shitty DRMs.
As far as I can remember, I never had such issues on Windows 2000. But I have only this for non Microsoft programs. Ctrl+Alt+F was for Firefox 0.x, Ctrl+Alt+M for Eudora and whatever shortcut for these other oldish programs.
So it's pretty pointless in the short term, it's correcting something that does not need to. There are already error correction mechanisms built into audio and data CDs. It can only reduce the defect rate on production.
By the way, yeah, this defect rate really exists and I've already bought defective discs, mostly PC games. I had to crack Commandos and Sim City 3000 to use these games because of this, and some of my audio CDs had already small perceptible defects when I bought them.
I really hope that you know that cdparanoia is a pile of crap with most CD drives, as it does not support cached drives while about every drive is cached nowadays. It's a known bug and the only workaround so far is to use a cdparaoia wrapper such as Ruby Ripper. Yeah, it's a known bug and nobody cares because it's not flashy enough to make it worth correcting.
This is total bullshit. TTS is fine to read a small text, but it does not guess intonations. With a real voice actor, there is an added value, an interpretation, but automated TTS is just like asking to your 10 year old little brother to read the text. It may be practical but it's artistically zero and will damage the text.
Yeah, totally Parisian. Most Parisian drivers seem not to have noticed that the car is definitely not the way to travel fast in Paris by day. By day, there is public transportation everywhere and even bus is faster than car (they have special lanes).
Their own stupidity makes them aggressive.
Post disclaimer: I am as French as you can be and have been living for a year in Paris.
No retailer gives you a decent price for used games. They'll buy it from you for $5 and then sell it to someone else for $45.
Well, maybe if they're selling it on eBay... You might be able to get a halfway decent price on there.
Dude, where I live, you get something like 60% of the initial price for recent games. I've already sold shitty games bought for 45 euros, to get 30 euros. Older games are not the same matter, of course. What on hell is the name of the franchise who rip off people so much (so that I know when I come back to live in Austin, TX)?
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It's not about racing in this case. It's about waiting from half a second to several before the UI can show me the tab I clicked on. And it's when the browser memory cannot have been swapped in a continuous using pattern.
Firefox javascript and pages rendering is fast enough for me. It's the UI that now feels slow, nowadays. I don't know if it's because of its intense javascript usage, but it is definitely slow. I am not an heavy tabs user, as I rarely have more than 10 of these opened simultaneously, but with Firefox, even the last nightly builds or beta, tab switching is indeed slow, which makes tabs less useful.
The worst part of this stuff is that I have been using Firefox since the 0.7 version and I tested many nightly builds since. I have seen its progressive improvements, and now I've noticed its degenerescence.
To me, it's so annoying that it became an usability concern. Why should I use a browser that is slow to my own concerns? I won't until the Mozilla team fix up the mess they created.
Firefox is surely mainstream, now, but Firefox devs should not forget their original supporters. Firefox used to be streamlined and most functionalities Firefox missed were in extensions.
Firefox needs desperately UI performances improvements.
BURN THE WITCH!
I said Firefox, you know, the browser that feels slower than IE8, Chrome and Opera...
Yeah, and it's exactly why The Firefox developpers should move their featureful asses. Chrome extensions are on the way. Firefox guys should cut the slow crap out.
Usable but slow.
This stuff looks nice, but how about doing experiments which do not require my cores to go both to 100%? I mean it's a damn Athlon 64 X2, a ball moving around should not require this...
So far, this website has only shown me that javascript can use my computer cpu fully. Yeah, great. How about a low cpu requirement demonstration? THAT would impress me.
First there is the cell which is not developer friendly, even with the original SDK, then you have no hardware acceleration in this Linux environment. There is no way you could have good looking games on it. I can only see half baked ports of existing Linux games so far.
It's well known that PS3 Linux was only a tax workaround for Sony, it was not intended to be a real development environment.
Thanks AC for this insightless bullshit. I do not own an iPhone.
It really feels like Apple's iPhone store is being weakened by its own bureaucratic approach. Sure, it's great to have virus-free apps, but how about choice, diversity and freedom? The content validation works pretty easily for music, but apps are not the same business at all. If you've got to re-certify your stuff each time it's updated, to renew your damn certificate, how can you focus on doing good software?
I do not give a rat ass to open source stuff on my phone, but it could be an interesting approach to make it at least possible on iPhone. How about a common certificate for multiple developers and non obligatorily checked releases?
I do totally agree. MMS are a solution to a problem we do not have anymore. Even my already oldish N95 can send a mail with a full resolution (5 megapixels) picture in it, and my unlimited data plan too. We are in an era of integration. I can put my picture on facebook from my phone to share it with as many friends I want or send it to only one friend by mail. Same goes for videos.
MMS was good enough for low res photographs but pricey.
Yeah and did you really compare Opera Mini 4 and iPhone's Safari? I use Opera Mini on a daily basis on my S60 because it's less crash-prone than any other browser on it and I am forced to admit it's the least bad browser on this platform. I thought that the one column rendering stuff on it was good enough until I had a look at the same websites on an iPod Touch. The fonts look amazing, the text always fits the width of the screen and the navigator works well on ajax-only websites. Opera Mini feels like it's the browser that all phones with a small screen should have, but not the new phones.
Sure the iPhone has less functions than my N95 which can make my computer go wirelessly on the internet wherever I am, but its browser is just f***ing amazing. Apple did bad on the extensibility part but that was not the point of the iPhone. The point is that you have an ipod, an easy to use phone and the web minus flash on the same device.
I like my phone but it feels like a poor hack...
Are you kidding?
There were litteraly dozens of great third party games and not only the best selling ones. Look at Street Fighter 2, SNES had the best Arcade conversions, and what about Square/Enix and others RPGs? Platform/action games, such as, you know, Castlevania IV which is insanely good. Or maybe International Superstar Soccer, for soccer fans. Maybe we could have a look at Civilization, Sim City, Toy Story.
Dude, there are so many amazing third party games that were awesome.
Spend hours tagging? Did you try to rip a disc with iTunes recently? My girlfriend did so in front of me and it just works. It takes less than 15 minutes. You do not have to retag the files unless you've just pulled an obscure disc which also cannot be on the iTunes store.
Dude, even when I rip with foobar2000 or EAC, I almost never get a non freedb supported disc. So far, I did run such a problem only twice on almost 700 rips so far, including classical, obscure electronic and regional stuff.
It's not FUD, it's annoyance and it's not only speed, it's also about the garbage collector performance which is really bad for an embedded engine, according to my own experience.
The worst part is that I really like the python language; I just dislike the qualities you find in it. Do not sell python as the ZOMG best scripting engine in da world. Lua and javascript are faster, nice and really portable too. You only see python but there is a world out there of great interpreters. Python currently only has its clean syntax for him.
Move on and look around. There are so many great languages AND great portable interpreters.
Yeah, people are so intelligent that they have been buying DRMed files for years on iTunes while CDs exist for a similar price.
And Then they are again so intelligent that some pay premium to strip the DRM from their old iTunes tracks instead of downloading these from another source.
Yeah, people are not completely stupid...
It's not a Rosetta stone, just a low performance swiss army knife missing some blades. I won't make my C++ code automagically communicate with my java code, neither will it allow my legacy software to interconnect efficiently with other software.
It is not the Grail, just an embeddable scripting engine like many others.
I am so much waiting for the day when DRM will be so annoying that people will use OCR on their Kindles or whatever devices to circumvent those shitty DRMs.
As far as I can remember, I never had such issues on Windows 2000. But I have only this for non Microsoft programs. Ctrl+Alt+F was for Firefox 0.x, Ctrl+Alt+M for Eudora and whatever shortcut for these other oldish programs.
So it's pretty pointless in the short term, it's correcting something that does not need to. There are already error correction mechanisms built into audio and data CDs. It can only reduce the defect rate on production.
By the way, yeah, this defect rate really exists and I've already bought defective discs, mostly PC games. I had to crack Commandos and Sim City 3000 to use these games because of this, and some of my audio CDs had already small perceptible defects when I bought them.
I really hope that you know that cdparanoia is a pile of crap with most CD drives, as it does not support cached drives while about every drive is cached nowadays. It's a known bug and the only workaround so far is to use a cdparaoia wrapper such as Ruby Ripper.
Yeah, it's a known bug and nobody cares because it's not flashy enough to make it worth correcting.
You know, you've just exactly put the finger on what would make TTS royalties relevant.
This is total bullshit. TTS is fine to read a small text, but it does not guess intonations. With a real voice actor, there is an added value, an interpretation, but automated TTS is just like asking to your 10 year old little brother to read the text. It may be practical but it's artistically zero and will damage the text.
Yeah, totally Parisian. Most Parisian drivers seem not to have noticed that the car is definitely not the way to travel fast in Paris by day. By day, there is public transportation everywhere and even bus is faster than car (they have special lanes).
Their own stupidity makes them aggressive.
Post disclaimer: I am as French as you can be and have been living for a year in Paris.
No retailer gives you a decent price for used games. They'll buy it from you for $5 and then sell it to someone else for $45.
Well, maybe if they're selling it on eBay... You might be able to get a halfway decent price on there.
Dude, where I live, you get something like 60% of the initial price for recent games. I've already sold shitty games bought for 45 euros, to get 30 euros. Older games are not the same matter, of course. What on hell is the name of the franchise who rip off people so much (so that I know when I come back to live in Austin, TX)?
I guess that people who play those FPS:
1) don't give a shit about the price
2) finish the game ASAP to sell it back and buy the next one.