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Kristopher Kubicki of AnandTech got to play with a W2100z.
<URL:http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2255>
| When Sun made their first announcement that they were going to embrace
| AMD's x86_64 push for practical desktop 64-bit computing, we were
| excited. Then we started hearing details about Solaris 10, Looking
| Glass, Sun Java Desktop System and countless other new technologies to
| catapult Sun back into the workstation market, even if they weren't
| going to use those incredible SPARC processors exclusively anymore.
| When Sun approached us for an opportunity to check out their newest
| dual Opteron 250 based performance workstation, we had to oblige!

John
groenveld@acm.org

John D Groenveld wrote:
> Kristopher Kubicki of AnandTech got to play with a W2100z.
> <URL:http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2255>
> | When Sun made their first announcement that they were going to embrace
> | AMD's x86_64 push for practical desktop 64-bit computing, we were
> | excited. Then we started hearing details about Solaris 10, Looking
> | Glass, Sun Java Desktop System and countless other new technologies to
> | catapult Sun back into the workstation market, even if they weren't
> | going to use those incredible SPARC processors exclusively anymore.
> | When Sun approached us for an opportunity to check out their newest
> | dual Opteron 250 based performance workstation, we had to oblige!
>
> John
> groenveld@acm.org

Do you need to have quite so many flashing images all over the place? I
think there must be at least 7 on the one page.

I gave up trying to read your article, as I was fed up with the
animations. I'm sure I can turn them off in my browser, but I (along
with many others), just ignore web sites that just want my attention all
over the place.

Perhaps you will post it as text, and I'll read it, but I cant be
bothered to read your web site.

David Kirkby.

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, David Kirkby wrote:

> Do you need to have quite so many flashing images all over the place? I
> think there must be at least 7 on the one page.

To be fair, John didn't write the review he referenced, and (AFAIK)
is not affiliated with the web site that carries it (the review).
But yes, the animations ARE annoying!

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On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:04:41 +0000, Rich Teer wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, David Kirkby wrote:
>
>> Do you need to have quite so many flashing images all over the place? I
>> think there must be at least 7 on the one page.
>
> To be fair, John didn't write the review he referenced, and (AFAIK)
> is not affiliated with the web site that carries it (the review).
> But yes, the animations ARE annoying!

I see no flashing images or animations. But then I have not installed any
of Macromedia's crap nor will I :-)

You could also have clicked on the "Print this article" link after the
first page of text.

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:04:41 +0000, Rich Teer wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, David Kirkby wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Do you need to have quite so many flashing images all over the place? I
>>>think there must be at least 7 on the one page.
>>
>>To be fair, John didn't write the review he referenced, and (AFAIK)
>>is not affiliated with the web site that carries it (the review).
>>But yes, the animations ARE annoying!
>
>
> I see no flashing images or animations. But then I have not installed any
> of Macromedia's crap nor will I :-)

Flash does have its uses - but one of them is not to litter up a web
site in the way that was done there.

> You could also have clicked on the "Print this article" link after the
> first page of text.

I never got as far as finding that - I decided the site was too
annoying, and left.

Once again, I'm sorry I incorrectly assumed the original poster was
connected with the web site.

Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

> But yes, the animations ARE annoying!

Animations? I haven't seen any of those in ages.

Of course I use privoxy. :-)

I do see static checkerboard boxes instead of ads, and blank fields
labeled with:
"Privoxy blocked
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N2465....z=160x600;ord=.
See why or go there anyway."


http://www.privoxy.org

tim

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 02:15:48 +0000, David Kirkby wrote:

> I never got as far as finding that - I decided the site was too
> annoying, and left.

That is actually a reasonably good site to find out about new hardware
despite the annoying ads.

BTW, I have *never* seen a useful application of Flash. Information which
cannot be presented in HTML and JPEG is hardly useful.

>
> BTW, I have *never* seen a useful application of Flash. Information which
> cannot be presented in HTML and JPEG is hardly useful.
>

Just viewed the following through Firefox 1.7.3 with flash plugin
running on S9. IMHO it enhances the presentation of the information.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html...GUIDE_GRAPHIC/

Just my 10c worth ...
AT

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:49:55 +1100, Andrew Tyson wrote:

>>
>> BTW, I have *never* seen a useful application of Flash. Information which
>> cannot be presented in HTML and JPEG is hardly useful.
>>
>
> Just viewed the following through Firefox 1.7.3 with flash plugin

Firefox has yet to reach version 1.0 let alone 1.7.3. Perhaps you meant
that you used Mozilla.

> running on S9. IMHO it enhances the presentation of the information.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html...GUIDE_GRAPHIC/

Well, some of us prefer pretty graphics and some prefer numbers :-)

> Just my 10c worth ...

We are entitled to our opinions and Usenet is a legitimate place to
express them. No need to spend a dime.

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, David Kirkby wrote:
>
>
>>Do you need to have quite so many flashing images all over the place? I
>>think there must be at least 7 on the one page.
>
>
> To be fair, John didn't write the review he referenced, and (AFAIK)
> is not affiliated with the web site that carries it (the review).

I applogise to John then.

The web master of they site wants shooting. It was almost as annoying as
yesterday when I wanted to find some data on the population in England.
I found a UK govenment web site having data only in the propietry format
of a US company (Excell).

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBAS....asp?vlnk=8618



> But yes, the animations ARE annoying!

I'm glad I'm not the only one. The odd little animation I find
acceptable, but that was well OTT.