No nature scene, only 1 scene that looks cool to watch. Oh well.

I believe that's because it's a PC-mark, and not a 3D-mark.

I'll give a play by play.

Go to www.microsoft.com/mediaplayer and install media player 9.0. Then go back to the same site, and that's where you'll find the encoder.

Once I did this, the PCMark2004 install worked, and I ran the program. I got a score, but only the main one. There is a score for memory, cpu, and graphics that remain blank. Probably needs the paid for version.

P3 1Ghz
256 MB memory
LT Ti4400 (no oc)

Score: 1369

There are 10 tests, and only 1 of them has a nice scene to watch. It's boxes falling in a room where stairs go down. At first there are many boxes, and they fall fast. But then they slow down.
Then the PCMark2004 logo comes up, and it scrolls, like the verticle lock is messed up. I don't know if it's supposed to do this, or what.

No nature scene, only 1 scene that looks cool to watch. Oh well.

Well, first the install tells me that I need to have Windows Media Player 9.0 installed for these tests to run and where I can go to download it..

Actually it asks for Windows Media Encoder 9. You can find it in the menu below Media Player.

Edit: Is 3406 a fairly good score? (demo version) I don't know how it compares to others. I wish it came out last week so I could have tested it before and after my upgrade.

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Its good to have a new version of pcmark. And I think it was a good time to launch a 2004 product version.
But the news of the release took me by surprise last saturday when I saw the pop-up on www.futuremark.com

Downloading ...

When these people stop getting normal popups, popups will evolve into something that gets around MSIE's blocker. Chances are it will get around Opera's blocker too, so I'll start seeing them again.

Give that man a beer!

That is the truth. What we have here is a popup race.



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Did you remember to jumper the drive as Pimp?

The BIOS sees it a Ho drive.

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Google's bar does work pretty good, though it is for IE. I was using it for awhile until I found Opera, now the only reason IE is still on my computer is because I need it for Windows Update.

With any luck when the pop-up arms race starts new pop-ups will be designed to circumvent IEs blocker specifically, which would mean that others like Opera or Mozilla would be unaffected. I doubt it'll work like that, but it would be nice.

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No offense to anyone, just showing how stupid these PC thugs are.

I like Google's new Pop-up blocker. It's a toolbar for IE (and maybe others) with a built in search window and some other cool features.

I think it's about time we got rid of that vile term... I like to refer to my drives as the Freedom Leader drive and Freedom Supporter drive.

I get all warm inside thinking about it...

This disappoints me too. While 90 million people use the web and get popups, popups will exist. When these people stop getting normal popups, popups will evolve into something that gets around MSIE's blocker. Chances are it will get around Opera's blocker too, so I'll start seeing them again. I'd guess Opera will come up with something pretty quick but I can't be sure.

This is meaningless publicity for MS. It won't help anything, MSIE users won't get any less popups, they'll just get different popups which will probably be worse.

Cheers,
Quboid

IE will be the last major browser to bring some kind of native pop-up blocking to the table, and for some reason c|net thought this was news?

This is news... it probably means the end of pop-up as a major form of advertising! As you pointed out, this pop-up blocking stuff is not new technology... so why do advertisers still use pop-ups? Because IE doesn't (by default) stop them, and 80-90 of people use vanilla IE.

Right now I can enjoy a blissfully ad-free browsing experience thanks to Mozilla Firebird and the Adblock plugin... why? Because I am in such a small minority that most sites don't care. Once IE supports pop-up supression out of the box, EVERY site will notice.

Hence, advertisers will have to move on to even more intrusive, obnoxious and/or difficult to block tactics. Dammit. I know there will be products out to deal with them eventually, but I'm not looking forward to surfing the web in the meantime.

Jeff

IE will be the last major browser to bring some kind of native pop-up blocking to the table, and for some reason c|net thought this was news? It's hardly new technology, it's Microsoft being a year or so behind the curve.

I hate people who only bother to use Microsoft brand stuff..

Well, first the install tells me that I need to have Windows Media Player 9.0 installed for these tests to run and where I can go to download it...(I already have it) Then when running the tests it tells me "cannot run HDD tests on Windows 2000" ??
And to top it off. When the tests are done there is no score viewable.
Guess it's time to toss my computer ....