Answers

karmcity:

A hilarious graphic made by Microsoft showing that their IE9 browser, slated for a late 2010 release, is slower than today’s competing browsers.

I really don’t understand why Microsoft would think to publish this — unless they’re trying to highlight how much more work they have to do.

Actually, I bet they’re trying to communicate how much faster Internet Explorer is becoming compared to previous iterations. This is a classic example of the bubble Microsoft employees live in. They think consumers care about relative speed increases. In reality, consumers want whatever the fastest is and nothing else matters.

The graph also says, “Look how bad IE8 is compared to today’s browsers! You really have no reason to use IE today.”

A hilarious graphic made by Microsoft showing that their IE9 browser, slated for a late 2010 release, is slower than today’s competing browsers.

I really don’t understand why Microsoft would think to publish this — unless they’re trying to highlight how much more work they have to do.

Actually, I bet they’re trying to communicate how much faster Internet Explorer is becoming compared to previous iterations. This is a classic example of the bubble Microsoft employees live in. They think consumers care about relative speed increases. In reality, consumers want whatever the fastest is and nothing else matters.

The graph also says, “Look how bad IE8 is compared to today’s browsers! You really have no reason to use IE today.”

November 12

catbird:

Anyone out have eyes good enough to make out what this says?

West Pitfall, Texas? (random guess)

November 11

allisonweiss:

Today I buckled down and started to learn CSS for real. I’ve been barely scraping by (via dashboardconfessional) with a basic knowledge of text attributes (or whatever), but now I’m finally learning how to build things.

I honestly feel like my life has changed.

Thinking about getting this mug to commemorate the occasion.

Get it in two-tone: http://www.marco.org/93489908

November 5

boringloser:

Program Kudos: JDiskReport 1.3.1

Mike Greiner helped me out with a pretty nasty computer problem today, and it was all thanks to a pretty sweet program that I think you should all give a run if you use a mac. I was down to 12 GB of free space on my PowerMac with no idea where a bunch of gigabytes were being used. Found some hidden folders like “Volumes” using up tons of space and NUKED ‘EM. I felt like a little Tron guy running around in my hardrive blowing up files.

I also got rid of all my LiveType LiveFont files because, who the fuck uses those anymore? Not me.

Be careful. /Volumes is where external disks are mounted.

October 29

Tonight???

dawnowar:

Folks with kids are rushing off for trick or treating. I’m all WTF cause it’s not freakin’ Halloween.

Welcome to Columbus, where trick-or-treating is always held on a Tuesday or Thursday before October 31, and always in a timespan that mostly happens before it actually gets dark outside.

October 27

peterwknox:

Dominos advertised a $12.99 special; they showed up with a 20oz instead of a 2 liter and a $26 bill instead of $16. Not pleased.

Yes, but in their defense:

You live in New York.
You ordered from Domino’s.

Therefore, I have no pity for the mishaps that resulted from this tragic error in judgment.

October 26

marc:

Apparently the Toyota Prius is faster than I realized.

Wow. Trust me, it’s really not.

October 23

A Visit to the Apple Store

marc:

I’ll be interested see reviews of the new Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station. (The Apple Store Short Pump doesn’t have any yet.) Apple claims:

Improvements in antenna design give you up to 50 percent better Wi-Fi performance and up to 25 percent better range than with the previous-generation AirPort Extreme Base Station.

I’m not geeky enough to understand all the technology behind Wi-Fi. We have the dual-antenna AirPort Extreme Base Station that was the current model until this new one was announced. It’s very peppy for both LAN and and Internet stuff. I have a hard time understanding how the new device gets 50 percent better performance on the same 802.11n standard. If that’s true, wow. I know it has something to do with triple antennas (antennae?), but I still don’t really get it. Maybe my geekier friends will explain.

The big difference is that it has three antennas and radios instead of two, and (like the two-antenna version) can use them all simultaneously.

WiFi has 14 “channels” that APs can broadcast on, but it’s more like 14 different sliding-windows over a three-channel-wide space — there’s only enough space in the band for three channels (1, 7, and 14) without any overlapping. Usually, overlapping another channel isn’t a problem, but the interference and radio congestion does reduce performance and speed.

Triple-radio APs can effectively broadcast simultaneously over the entire block of WiFi frequencies in parallel. Not only does this increase potential throughput, but it increases the likelihood that client devices at long ranges will be able to pick up at least one of the signals. It’s great if you’re the only one using WiFi in the area. It’s not so great otherwise.

+

This is a test

scotth:

Tumblr appears to be stripping my Markdown headings of their HTML tags in the Dashboard. Why? I don’t know.

It always has. The Dashboard only allows a subset of tags to maintain security and consistent appearance. Currently it’s:

a, b, em, br, br, p, strong, i, ul, ol, li, 
blockquote, del, strike, code, pre, sub, sup

Tags are occasionally added to the list and styled appropriately in the Dashboard. Maybe the H-tags should be there.

+

dstrelau:

Paper Towel Dispenser, Bathroom, Clif Dogs

If you meant Crif Dogs, I put that there, and it was one of the first Tumblr stickers.