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Topic: What's a browser?

Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Subject: What's a browser?
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 11:40

Sorry I'm from the mid 16th century.

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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 11:49

It's a program you use to get on the internet, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera. How's the weather in the Canadian 16th century? Any indians attacks today? LOL

Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 11:58

We're holding our own.

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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 14:47

People honestly don't know what a browser is.

Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 14:58

harmonium.ro wrote:

It's a program you use to get on the internet, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera. How's the weather in the Canadian 16th century? Any indians attacks today? LOL

I have some qualms about saying you use it "to get on the internet." It allows you to view websites.

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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 16:57

Somebody who reads but doesn't buy.

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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 18:25

Vibrationbaby wrote:

Sorry I'm from the mid 16th century.

A person from mid 16th century piloting jet airplanes ...

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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 20:25

It's the last boss in all Super Maario Bros. games...

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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 20:46

Wow . . . and I thought I was computer illiterate.

Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: November 14 2009 at 20:48

Mr ProgFreak wrote:

Vibrationbaby wrote:

Sorry I'm from the mid 16th century.

A person from mid 16th century piloting yet airplanes ...

Did you mean to type 'jet airplanes'? Or did you literally mean to say, "A person from the mid 16th century piloting airplanes, yet . . ."?

Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 01:44

^ jet it is ... sorry about that. A simple spelling mistake, but it's interesting how it would even make sense with "yet". How about "A person from the mid 16th century, yet piloting airplanes ..."

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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 02:06

Mr ProgFreak wrote:

^ jet it is ... sorry about that. A simple spelling mistake, but it's interesting how it would even make sense with "yet". How about "A person from the mid 16th century, yet piloting airplanes ..."

^ That's the one! LOL

Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 02:33

Stop using computers, you're a hazard to everyone on the internet.

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 05:03

At least this answers one question - what Ian saw during the filming of his avatar video:

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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 06:22

Dean wrote:

At least this answers one question - what Ian saw during the filming of his avatar video:

Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 09:30

It's a guy with big bushy eyebrows. Duh.

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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 11:11

harmonium.ro wrote:

Dean wrote:

At least this answers one question - what Ian saw during the filming of his avatar video:

This is the cockpit of a cool plane that I flew back in the mid 16th century with the Svenska Flygvapnet called the The Grippen ( Enlish name Griffon ). Our enemies did not know how advanced our military was at the time and always wondered what hit them. What you see here is an updated 21st century version of the front office of this revolutionary mid 16th century lightweight fighter. The most noticeable upgrade is a direct link to the world's foremost internet source for progressive music, progarchives.com on the multi-dimensional flight data display screen on the right hand side which is normally used for advanced navigation. It normally features a moving map display as well as a multi-sensor display which is sourced by the fighter's powerful multi-mode pulse doppler radar. IThe COMPUTER fed colour can also be displayed on the wide angle head up display ( HUD ) located at the top of the dash in the center of the cockpit image. This is so the pilot can check his PM's or participate in the PA forums while intercepting Migs. He can even write record reviews after the prosecution of the enemy a/c is complete. There is no other combat aircraft in the western inventory that is so equipped. Although a deal with Thailand has just fallen through in addition to Sweden, The Czech Republic, South Africa, and Hungary have selected this highly manoeverable and adaptable multi-role aircraft with built in growth potential as their frontline combat aircraft. It is built with carbon fibre composites which reduce it's infra-red and radar signatures which give it a stealthy aspect in hostile environments including a terrain following capability at low altitude especially useful when overflying residential areas at 10 feet off the deck as demonstrated above.

The addition of the progarchives.com option make it one of the most advanced combat aircraft today.

( actually it looks like the cockpit of the Eurofighter Typhoon )

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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 11:22

^ it's an F-18 ... I'm a bit cross with myself for not putting an image on the HUD - a Smith's HUD was one of the first things I ever learned to program back in 19-Oh-blimey (single bit processor with 1K byte of magnetic-core memory)

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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 12:55

Eurofighter has an all glass multi-functional display. Just checked it out. I'd be lost. CF-101B and F-111C instrumentations were primitive compared to this. No need for TOG ( the other guy ) operating the radar ,weapons and " browser ". This Hornet cockpit is certainly from a first generation F/A-18A.

So Internet Explorer is a browser. Roger that.

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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 12:57

Vibrationbaby wrote:

So Internet Explorer is a browser. Roger that.

And Firefox is a better one.

Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 13:39

Vibrationbaby wrote:

So Internet Explorer is a browser. Roger that.

It's a "web browser" ... it's a software application that you can browse the web with. On a Windows PC you also have the "Explorer", which you can use to browse your computer drives with.

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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 14:19

A Person wrote:

Vibrationbaby wrote:

So Internet Explorer is a browser. Roger that.

And Firefox is a better one.

And Google Chrome better still...

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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 15 2009 at 14:25

It depends on how much you depend on add-ons, I guess. I can't imagine the internet without adblock plus. Chrome has insanely fast javascript and is faster overall, but Firefox uses less memory and is faster than IE.

Posted By: PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn
Date Posted: November 23 2009 at 19:09

TheCaptain wrote:

I have some qualms about saying you use it "to get on the internet." It allows you to view websites.

essentially the idea that its only for Internet is also somewhat inaccurate.

you have a file browser as well, for you M$ users, its windows explorer. wikis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser - disambiguation differentiates between the 2, which is a bit missleading, as for example IE does both.

and on the firefox/chrome debate, firefox wins for me, yes chrome is a bit faster, but having to view all that ads and flash animation annoy me.

if noscript and a few other addons become compatible with chrome I may change my mind

Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 24 2009 at 02:17

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn wrote:

TheCaptain wrote:

I have some qualms about saying you use it "to get on the internet." It allows you to view websites.

That isn't quite true - older versions did, but that was (in computing terms) a long time ago. They are two different programs (IEXPLORE.EXE and EXPLORER.EXE) - if you attempt to browse a file structure with Iexplorer it will launch a copy of Explorer.exe and if you type a URL into Explorer's address bar it will launch a copy of Iexplore.exe.

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Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: November 24 2009 at 06:43

basically correct, Dean - but something I don't really get (under Windows XP)

Windows Explorer options: open every new Explorer instance in an own task (probably not literally translated)
this works fine - one exception though:
I launched IE and browsed a valid directory path - a new Explorer instance was opened - but not a new task resp. PID

when I close IE, the Explorer instance remains opened - however only the main Explorer Shell task is shown Confused

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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 24 2009 at 07:24

Those things above your eyesers? LOL

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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 24 2009 at 10:56

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. My friend set up my piece of crap with all kinds of other little icons and the only one I use is internet explorer.

I have no clue what the other sh*t is for except Word which I don't even know how to use. Beleive it or not I still send hand written personal & business letters and most people are either flattered or say things like " that's cool ".

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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: December 01 2009 at 21:58

Slartibartfast wrote:

Those things above your eyesers? LOL

Only the long ones that are growing out of control....

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