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Yahoo! Mail Superior to Gmail ?
ynotme writes "In his column, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal writes that the new Yahoo! Mail beta provides a superior webmail experience to Gmail. Some quotes: 'The new Yahoo Mail is far superior to Gmail. Yahoo more closely matches the desktop experience most serious email users have come to expect ... Gmail has none of these new, fluid, desktop-like features ... Google's engineers have decreed that familiar email practices are no longer useful, and have substituted approaches they prefer, arrogantly denying users any choice.'"
The new yahoo mail has drag and drop.
TAKE THAT GOOGLE
Does GMail mail let you use an interface like Yahoos? Or do they 'arrogantly' deny us that choice?
Google's engineers have decreed that familiar email practices are no longer useful, and have substituted approaches they prefer, arrogantly denying users any choice.
Well, you could always.. not use Gmail? Isn't that considered a choice?? Or will the arrogant Google engineers come beat you if you use Yahoo mail?
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
...arrogantly denying users any choice.
Well they have the choice to use a different bloody email service for one.
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Touché!
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While my features may not be much to look at under normal conditions, once you take the 1st derivation of my features, I start to become quite the looker. Around the 3rd or 4th derivation, well, all I can say is "move over Brad Pitt!"
The only thing is, since I started trying to integrate myself back to my original look, I keep getting one that's real close, but something's just not fundamentally exactly right about it...
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would prefer VIM...
you're joking right?
....
who in their right mind would give their cell number to google....
they'll use their Google Earth technology to locate my cell phone,
use their Google Images search technology to find out who I am,
then they'll Google ME,
they'll use Google Maps to find directions to me,
then they'll do experiments on me in Google Labs,
then, then,
profit?
ahhh!!!!
google is taking over
You've obviously never gotten an e-mail from your mistress....
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
Google's engineers have decreed that familiar email practices are no longer useful, and have substituted approaches they prefer, arrogantly denying users any choice.
Yea, it's a shame they shook up the whole "search engine result sorting" thing too. Bummer that didn't work out for them.
-brain
The only thing is, since I started trying to integrate myself back to my original look, I keep getting one that's real close, but something's just not fundamentally exactly right about it...
Did you remember to add a constant?
Oh, that's easy! Just do what I do!
Just create a label [mistress] or [love-notes] or [don't-look-here-honey], then you can conveniently log in periodically, check all read, and delete them!
(Just kidding honey, the label I use is junk mail. Though I seem to be getting more and more love letters from King Abdullah Frikahn III, asking if I would be willing to help him transfer his money...)
Linux: The world's best text-adventure game.
Good point. You should save all emails from here until you inevitable demise. Because when the biographers are writing the story of your life, you want to make sure they have easy access to all of your correspondences.
No. "Reported" implies that what's being reported is fact. In this case, it's opinion. Something like "Wall Street Journal says Yahoo Mail superior to Gmail" would be closer to the mark. But really, that's a bit wordy for a headline. The question mark in the title serves the purpose of identifying this as an opinion piece. And your interpretation of this as "biased" is frankly ridiculous.
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"On the other hand, you could write the next "Principia Mathematica" as a response to said first post and it will be modded "-1 Troll" if you don't praise open source in the first few sentences."
If you did write the next Principia Mathematica chances are it would be offtopic.
evil is as evil does
Sorry, no one will believe that here
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No, but the great-grandparent forgot to add a consonant.
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