Re: Mersenne: Re: PNG (good!)

2000-08-11 Thread Robert Deininger
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 10:13 PM, George Woltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, From the August statistics collected by Hitbox on visitors to the GIMPS pages: Version Visitors % 1. MSIE 5.x1,70553.26 2. Netscape 4.x1,17336.63 3. MSIE 4.x2247.00 4. MSIE 5.x

Re: Mersenne: Spam (bad) and PNG (good!)

2000-08-11 Thread Robert Deininger
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 8:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there are still a LOT of folks using Netscape 3 and other such browsers that don't support PNG. I sort of doubt it. The whole GIMPS project is oriented to techie types. Types who like to stay current with the latest technology and

Re: Mersenne: Spam (bad) and PNG (good!)

2000-08-11 Thread Halliday, Ian
At the risk of not being on topic at all, I always thought that PNG is an abbreviation for the nation of Papua New Guinea. I expect page to have images which are jpg or gif. Simply being better doesn't mean it will become either the standard or the most popular. For example, consider VHS v Beta,

Re: Mersenne: Spam (bad) and PNG (good!)

2000-08-11 Thread John R Pierce
I don't even know what PNG is. I sure as heck won't switch browsers to view the trend-of-the-week. 'portable network graphics', a new opensource based graphics format which has the best attributes of JPG and GIF without stepping on the dreaded Unisys Lempel-Ziv patents (GIF uses a LZ

(OTT) Re: Mersenne: Spam (bad) and PNG (good!)

2000-08-11 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 10 Aug 00, at 20:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That leaves, like, the Netscape 3 users. I really doubt that there are that many Netscape 3 users out there. (Doesn't it have the most primitive level of Javascript support and whatnot as well? Hopefully that would have annoyed users into

Re: Mersenne: Spam (bad) and PNG (good!)

2000-08-11 Thread Michael Gebis
Sorry to lengthen an already off-topic thread, but I can't help myself... "Robert" == Robert Deininger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on 11 Aug 2000 03:23:50 -0400 Robert I don't even know what PNG is. I sure as heck won't switch Robert browsers to view the trend-of-the-week.

Mersenne: Athlons on DDR MBs

2000-08-11 Thread Willmore, David (VS Central)
Hello, all. I'm curious if anyone has any preliminary performance figures for Athlon processors on the new crop of DDR MBs. If noone has any data, I guess I'll have to go out and buy one. :) Cheers, David _ Unsubscribe

Re: Mersenne: Athlons on DDR MBs

2000-08-11 Thread Stefan Struiker
"Willmore, David (VS Central)" wrote: Hello, all. I'm curious if anyone has any preliminary performance figures for Athlon processors on the new crop of DDR MBs. If noone has any data, I guess I'll have to go out and buy one. :) DDR MB memory aside, Athlon T-Bird info, smackdowns and