Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

I find the reminder about new replies made during the time I was typing, quite useful here.

Frans - what is the nature of the work involved - transferring the database or locking each and every thread or something else? In other words what help would you need?

Perhaps one thing we should do as individuals would be to take a quick scan through the data base and check off the subjects which would be worth reanimating and do this over a period of time. If we suddenly had 30 new threads we would struggle to serve them all with our present level of membership.

Did you ever try Opera v12.16 Portable?

With somewhere over 40 tabs open I only use about 620-680mb with the portable version (which is the only v12,0 I have on this machine).

The main point of my posts in this thread was exactly to emphasise that to presuppose empricism in everything is presupposing too much. Surely you didn't miss this point.

Good quote, but I derive something totally different from it. There are many things that don't go away (and are thus real according to Philip Dick's definition) but about which people differ greatly. For example meaning of life. Is there one? What is it? Some people are greatly bothered by the question, others feel nothing.

Then there are some who have the answer, whether you acknowledge it or not.

Instead I'm giving you the chance to conjure up your own metaphysics that you think would work for you.

Solely to stress the browser, or for other legitimate every day reasons???

“Awesome” would be my choice, but I still need a shortcut to toggle it off/on like in Opera 11.64, to save space when not using it. Otherwise, it is already significantly better than the Bookmarks Bar in Opera 11.64. Note that the Quick Access Bar has already been renamed back to the “Bookmarks Bar” in Opera 19-20.

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Otherwise, it is already significantly better than the Bookmarks Bar in Opera 11.64.

Off the top of my mind, I can think of a few ways in which it's better than the bookmarks bar in Opera 11.64:

- no (visible) access keys
- no ability to open all in folder without right-click
- no images only
- no text only
(-no text under image)
- no ability to put the toolbar on the bottom

Sarcasm aside, you can sort things in folders now, but I'm not at all convinced that's a desired feature—at least not without a lock feature.

I'm glad it's working for you, but it's not better by any stretch of the imagination. It's nowhere near old Opera, let alone Firefox. It's (minutely) better than the bookmarks bar in Chromium.

I somewhat avoided this particular trouble by creating my own interface. I created my own toolbar, menus, and keyboard shortcuts files and moved them from one version to next as I upgraded. This way I could keep pretty much the same custom interface across versions.

Pop and Hip-Hop are notorious for running everything through Autotune to such an extent that the singer's voice no longer sounds human. I forgot who the singer was, but a co-worker decided to torture me by playing some songs and there were so many filters applied that singer sounded robotic.

Part of me wishes for the open codec to become more popular. But do we really need surround at 128 kBit/s today!? I'm afraid that news articles like these will suggest to content providers that such castrated sound is acceptable.

There has never been a Pentium II without MMX

I pretty much stopped listening to anything years ago, except occasionally on the phone, so I didn't pay much attention to audio players. Since old habits tend to stick I'm still kinda partial to xmms

I felt like praising the team for doing something right.

I used Opera since version 7, and it indeed kept changing the UI even then for no good reason. When I got accustomed to the theme being blue, it was turned black in Opera 10.

Versions 1.1 released

5 December, 2013

After more than two years of development, we have released Opus 1.1. This includes:

• new analysis code and tuning that significantly improves encoding quality, especially for variable-bitrate (VBR),
  
• automatic detection of speech or music to decide which encoding mode to use,
  surround with good quality at 128 kbps for 5.1 and usable down to 48 kbps, and


• speed improvements on all architectures, especially ARM, where decoding uses around 40% less CPU and encoding uses around 30% less CPU.

These improvements are explained in more details in Monty's demo (updated from the 1.1 beta demo).